The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. Our new Minister to Mexico, Hon, Mr. Weiler, of California, bad arrived at the capital, and was RDOS BENNETT to have presented his credentials on the 30th ult. JAMES GO Bacar . Our Havans correspondent, whose letters will ee ea be found elsewhere, mentions the suicide of a OF FULTON AND NASSAU 87S. | merchant, and the probable failure of the oe adwance. matt witt be at the | Noriega & Olme, with liabilities of over four mil- niae Senet Stone but Bonk bie Current in New York lions of dollars, caused by the present disastrous 2S crisis in commercial affairs. DFFIOS N. W. CORNER fame KXVI...cssseseeceeseensen nesses NOs OM ‘The ioe in the North river at Albany gave way va early yesterday morning. Gree Seen to pro- ‘SEMBNTS THIS EVENING. perty ensued by the sudden of water, ae — which carried steamers and canal boats into the NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Linpa of Cuamoumt. streets, and demolished several stores on the piers — DEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street. | and docks. Among the ruins are bridges, pro- mNoouant or Vaan tor Om FANS TREN pellers, towboats, barges, and other vessels lying together in heaps. Accounts of damage by fresh- eta in other localities have also reached us, and will be found clsewhore, A coal dealer named Ward, residing in Pearl street, attempted to commit murder and suicide at the residence of his wife, in avenue A, yesterday. THEATRE FRANCAIS, No, 686 Broadway.—Covuix® © | Ho had been separated from his wife for some P time, but visited her yesterday in the hope of eae Nt ieorei—taviae Gunes | obtaining $150, which she had in her possession. = Failing to obtain the money, he shot at her twice BRYANTS' MINSTRE: ise with a revolver, without effect. Then pleading Fates ae eee penitence, he solicited a private interview with her, y Ys Saioon, | and while in an act of endearment stabbed her eee eras Daxcxs Bokssavas #6 | three times. He then fied, and on reaching the heel ama es or ia aaa shee foot of the stairs shot himself in the abdomen. CANTERBURY MUSIO, HALA oa Details will be found elsewhere. rn mein: A private meeting of the special committee of MBLODEON, No. 69 Broadway.—Sonas, Daxozs, Bus- | 41, Common Council, appointed to make arrange- —— ments to extend the hospitalities of the city to the OO eee Trae tae Fe President elect on his arrival here, took place yes- WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Cxntrat Pann. LAURA KEBNE'S THEATRE, No, 624 Broadway.— ‘SisTERS. Bxvan NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ixcoman—Noout Soupuxe—Wureiaia Hat, hanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- mat, “Ba kc.—S0nnKs At A. Mu 's Lecture NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1861. anily manifest, “have no compromises to | The Drippings of an Inaugural—Is Civil make.” Mr, Lincoln's late Indianapolis speech has dispelled all doubts upon that point. We may therefore safely conclude that this motley Peace Conference at Wash- ington, and all these impracticable com- promises discussed in Congress, will end in amoke. There will be no compromise in ad- vance of Mr. Lincoln’s inauguration, and his first stroke of administrative policy will be the “enforcement of the laws.” He will thus proceed to retake the federal forts, arsenals, kc, seized by the seceded States, and occupied by their troops. Mean- time, the federal government of the seceded States has taken under its charge the questions and difficulties existing between them and the government of the United States relating to the occupation of said forts, arsenals, &.; so that in the attempt, for example, to regain, by arms, possession of Fort Moultrie, Mr. Lin- coln’s administration is threatened with the armed resistance of the six seceded States. Nor is this all; for the Southern States which have not seceded, with hardly an exception, have solemnly pledged themselves, in the con- tingenoy indicated, to agaist the Southern re- public against the fleets and armies of the government of the United States. Thus we perceive that Mr. Lincoln, in the ontset of his journey to the White House, has foreshadowed the experiment of the subjuga- ‘. LBURN" on “Enauisa Roast Busr amp Pivm Puppina." Wow York, Thursday, February 14, 1861, The News. ‘The counting of the electoral votes for President and Vice President took place yesterday at Wash- ington, when Abraham Lincoln was declared Pre- sident and Hannibal Hamlin Vice President of the United States for four years from the 4th of March next. The following is the vote:— Lincoln and Hamlin...... . 180 Breckinridge and Laue. 72 Bell and Evercti 39 Douglas and Johnson... . Z Mr. Lincoln left Cincinnati yesterday morning for Columbus, where he arrived in the afternoon. On his arrival at Columbus he proceeded to the State House. He was welcomed in the House of Representatives by the Licutenant Governor ina Rhort address, to which Mr. Lincoln responded in 8 speech which is given elsewhere. While at Co- Jumbas Mr. Lincoln and family are the guests of Governor Dennison. Affairs at the South still present the same Aapeot. Letters received from Fort Sumter state thatthe South Carolinians have erected an im- pregnable barrier of railroad iron on Cummings’ Point, at a point so near the fortasto enable them to do much mischief. Fort Moultrie has also been much strengthened. Lieut. Gilman, one of the officers in command of Fort Pickens, at Pensacola, arrived at Washington last evening. ‘He states that the Brooklyn had not landed her supplies, Captain Slemmer having notified her commander that he had sufficient for three months. ‘There were twelve hundred troops at Pensacola, eager to attack the fort, and it was apprehended that it would be taken before the Brooklyn’ could throw her troops into it. ‘One of our Washington correspondents gives a list of government vessels lying at the various yards and ports of the country unfit for service. ‘The list is a long one,"And does not speak well for the efficiency of the navy at the present juncture. The Peace Conference made but little progress yesterday. The principal point for consideration now is that relating to the Territories. It was be~ Yieved that Mr. Guthrie's propositions would be adopted by the committee, who will report on Friday. The citizens of New Orleans hoisted the flag of Louisiana on Tuesday, in presence of the members of the Convention, and saluted it with twenty-one guns. The Convention has adjourned until the 4th of March. The festival of Mardigras was cele- brated with great pomp, the weather being de- lightful. The Virginia State Convention, convened to de- cide on the course the Old Dominion shall pur- sue in the present crisis, met at Richmond yester- day. The President of the Convention, on assum- ing the duties of his position, said that Virginia was in fuvor of the Union, but would insist on her rigirts as 9 condition of remaining in it. The police authorities yesterday made a seizure of several thousand cartridges destined for Charleston. The cartridges were marked H. Atcher, Charleston, 8. C., and were to have gone on the sieamer Huntsville, to Savannah. After their seizure by the police, they were conveyed to the Arsenal on Seventh avenue ‘The Tariff bill was under consideration in the Senate yesterday, when Mr. Seward gave notice that he should move to strike out that portion of the bill abolishing the warehousing system. In view of the pressing embarrassments of the Trea- sury Department from lack of means to meet indis- pensable obligations, Mr. Sherman, the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means of the House, reported a bill authorizing the President, in place of any part of the recent loan, to issue coupon bonds of a denomination not exceeding fty dollars, and bearing not exceeding six per centum interest, and running twenty years, and apply such bonds at par to the creditors who may receive them—the entire amount not to exceed that authorized by the recent loan act. ‘The proceedings of our State Legislature yes- day were not of particularinterest. Both houses adjourned early. In the Senate several bills of special bearing only were acted upon. A bill for the prevention of bribery in elections and in the influencing of legislation was reported. In the Assembly vetoes were received from the Governor of the Onondaga Penitentiary bill and a bill autho- rizing the city of Poughkeepsie to borrow money. A number of petitions for the repeal of the Sun- day laws were presented, also petitions for State aid to the suffering people in Kansas. By the arrival of the steamship Tennessee at New Orleans, from Vera Cruz the 8th inst., we learn that the Presidential contest, as far as heard from in various States, terminated in favor of Senor Lerdo de Tejada, formerly a member of Juarez's Cabinet, in various positions of trust and confidence. The President elect is probably the ablest statesman in Mexico, and much good to that unhappy country may be expected from his regime. We have also, by way of Havana, additional items of news from the capital to January 25, and Various quarters of the Mexican republic, The steamer Velasco, which arrived at Havana on the 4th from Vera Croz, brought to that city Don Francisco Pacheco, late Minister to Mexico from Spain; the Papal Nuncio, ana, among other per- sonages, the renowned Miramon himself, who escaped in disguise from Vera Cruz, where he had been staying with the French Consul, Elght bishops who have been exiled by the government. and who were expected in Havana arrived at New Orleans in the Tennessee. The wuthorities in the capital have commenced stripping tie chorches of thoir rich omgments, From the Cathedral alone over @ miMon dollary’ worth have been taken. Zuloaga has set up for himself aga’, and « nomber of chiefs are still in the field, v few forces that they cannot maintain hr ooy length of time. If accounts 1 tho capital be trne, it is Incky that Juarez’s t iso soon, 98 from the strong tide of fuels hod wet ap im, on account of cer- tein h a rey at would expel him he tow ) ‘ppreheuded. ust} tion by force of arms of the whole South, in- cluding a white population of eight millions, almost every man of vphich is a trained rifleman. Pushed to the wall, the South can ex- temporize an efficient army of three hundred thousand men upon a month’s notice. Against such a force, the qualities of which have been indicated at Monterey, Buena Vista, Churu- busco and Chapultepec, what would be the result of Mr. Lincoln’s policy of subjugation? The enlargement of the Southern republic to the nezthern boundary of the border slave and a treaty of peacé withit, under an irrepressible Northern popular reaction, re- cognizing che independence of this Southerd confederacy, or the violent overthrow of Mr. Lincoln, his administration and his party. Such are the strong probabilities, one way or the other, of the ensuing twelve months, a: foreshadowed by the speeches of the President elect on the one side, and by this Southern confederacy and Southern public opinion on the other side. The truth is, that Mr. Lincoln, since his nomination for the Presidency, but more especially since his election, has been 80 completely surrounded by the anti-slavery radicals, fanatics, flunkeys and parasites of his party, that he has been excluded from the wholesome atmosphere of the genuine public opinion of the North, We must, therefore, ad- monish the American people to prepare for the calamities of a civil war, and for the ruinous experiment of a military despotism at Wash- ington. As Anrsric Revo.vtion—Mcwic and THE Drama IN THE MeTRoPorIs—-We have hereto- fore alluded to the very curious revolution in the musical taste of tHe metropolis; a revolution which set up the shrine of negro minstrelsy in Broadway, and left the muse of the lyric drama to starve in Irving place; a revolution which placed New York. operatically speaking, among the smallest of the provincial towns, and ele- vated Brooklyn to the rank of a first class artis- tic metropolis. But in art and social life the same rules which obtain in politics hold good. After revolution comes re¢éisiruction, and we find that work already commenced. It was high time that something should be done, or we might wake up some morning and find that all the fashionable places of amusement had been removed to Brooklyn. Operatically, the man for the crisis was Muzio, the Garibaldi of the coulisses, He ventured upon a grand coup de theatre, and produced an entirely new opera, whereupon the New York Academy again beamed with beauty and basked in the full blaze of metropolitan fashionable society— something so magnificent that ordinary eyes are quite dazzled by its contemplation. While the Academy has been, for the time being, re- stored to its old footing, and the nose of Brook- lyn, so to speak, dislocated, we find another revolution and subsequent reconstruction going on in the theatres. Year after year the theatres of New York have been given up to the French sensation drama, comedies—more or less comic, generally less—and burlesques without wit or point. The standard drama was laid aside, and Shakspere so far tabooed that a manager de- clined a play because its style was too much like the Swan of Avon. This state of things was brought about by the fact that the stage was without actors capable of sustaining grand rites like Homlet, Richard IIL, Iago, Othello, Shylock, Sir Giles Overreach, &c., &c. All our young actors have been spoiled by at- tempting to imitate the muscular Metamora school of acting; and occasionally, when a man of genius did break away from this model, his requisites for the most exigeant of artistic pur- suits were not up to the standard required by the public. Bat the time had come for the revi- val of the classic drama, and an actor of the purely intellectual school came also. Edwin Booth—one of ourselves, an American, born in Baltimore—stands to-day the representative of this school, the inheritor of the mantle of Gar- rick, Edmund Kean and George Frederick Cooke. Young Booth has streamed across the theatrical firmament like a brilaim meteor, and, although only at the outset of ls career, is the lion of the day, His acting has revolutionized the theatre going public. Like his illustrious predecessors, he has recreated a taste for the old plays, and rendered inestima- ble services to the drama. In England, since the days of Edmund Kean, there has been no great tragedian. France has had nothing of terday. The committee agreed to meet Mr. Lin- coln at Albany on Monday next, and to have the pres. which passed the Common Couneil in reference to the subject engrossed. The Mayor attended the meeting by invitation of the com- mittee. The firat anniversary celebration of the Fourth Ward Mission took place at the Cooper Institute last evening. The large hall was densely crowd- ed, and the report showed an expenditure of over $6,500, notwithstanding which the society did not owe a dollar. The meeting was addressed by the President, W. G, Hunt; Rev. Drs. Hoge, Lathrop, Hague and the Superintendent, Rev. W. C. Van Meter. Dodworth’s band was present. ‘The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday afternoon, but did no business worth reporting in the Henatp. The Commissioners have considera- bie difficulty in sending emigrants to South Caro- lina and Georgia, even when they have wealthy ives in those States, owing to the disturbed ical condition of the country. The railroad and steamboat lines refuse to take emigrants to Southern cities, lest they might be obliged to bring them back again. The number of omigrants landed here during the past week was 228, which makes the total since lst of January 2,765. Tho Board have liquidated the small overdraft reported last week, and there is again a balance in their favor amounting to $3,977 76. Judge White, of the Superior Court, yesterday granted an injunction in the street cleaning con- tract case, requiring the Mayor, &c., to show cause, on Tuesday next, why the contract should not be awarded to William H. Williams, who, it is alleged, was the lowest bidder, and restraining them from signing the contract in favor of A. J. Harkley. Beef cattle were in moderate request, in conse- quence of the approach of the Lenten season; but the receipts were not heavy, and prices were with- out material change. Milch cows were quiet. Veal calves were steady, Sheep and lambs were plenty, dull and 25c. a 50c, per head lower. Swine were in moderate supply and demand, at lower rates. varying fram Sige. ta S7Je.. ine cluding all kinds. The total receipts were 3,665 beeves, 84 cows, 361 yeals, 9,494 sheep and lambs, and 5,392 swine. Letters to go forward per steamship Kedar, for Liverpool, will be received at Mr. Cunard’s office until ten o'clock this morning, The cotton market yesterday was without change of moment, while the market closed without spirit. The sales embraced about 2,500 bales, in lots, on the basis of about 114,c. for middling uplands. By late accounts from the Southern ports it would seem that the growers were hurrying their crop to market and selling it as fast as possible, not feeling confidence in the purposes of the incoming government after the 4th of March. At present all goes on smoothly and actively, and might, under wise and conciliatory councils, continue to do eo, and result finally in permanent peace to commercial men, North and South. As unpromising as things look at present, consider that coercion and civil war lead to irreparable ruin. Crop estimates do not, as a general thing, exceed four millions of bales, and some fall materially below that figure. Should this prove true, prices may fluctuate, but will not likely experience any permanent decline. Flour was easier for some grades, but more active, with a fair amount of sales for export. Wheat was lower and more active, including purchases for export. Corn was more active, but at easier rates. Pork was inactive, with small sales of mess at $17 25, and prime at $13. Sugars were in fair de- mand, with sales of 640 bhds. Cuba, part at 4%. a 5c. Coffee was steady, with sales of Rio and Java at rates given in another place. Freights to Liverpool were firm, while engagements were light. The New Southern Republic=Iis Pro- gramme aud Its Parposes, The federative Congress of the seceded States has organized, in their behalf, an inde- pendent provisional government. This govern- ment is in active operation, and its proceed- ings thus far afford very little hope of the re- turn of the seceded States to our Union under any compromise whatsoever emanating from our peacemakers at Washington. But still it is possible that the powerful North, actuated by a prompt and liberal spirit of patriotism, could not only save all the Southefn States we are in danger of losing, but recover all that we have lost. The framers of our federal constitution, aware that time, experience, the developement of the country, of population, of parties, sec- tions and factions, would call for now compro- mises or violent disruption, provided, in two different ways, for amendments to the supreme law of the land. One of these methods is the submission of amendments, by a two-thirds voto of each house of Congress, to the several States for ratification; but this work is connected with the acceptance of said amendments by three- fourths of the States. The other method of amendment is by a national convention to be called by act of Congress, on application for such act by two-thirds of the Legislatures of the several States. But there is a third method—a reserved right of the people of re- dressing governmental grievances—-a mode of redress which may be most fitly explained in that one word of terrific import—revolution. This remedy has been precipitated upon the “cotton States,” and thus they stand this day before us under a revolutionary government, while owr peacemakers at Washington are de- bating between concession and coercion. To all appearances the parties concerned in this new Southern federal organization have no expectation and no desire of a return to the Union. We think, however, that in their adop- bg Of our federal constitution they have left Shey wove ee to treaty of reconciliation. y dicated their ultimatum tn favor of a reconstruction of the { nion and their al- ternative of independence, {f we fefuse the one we must accept the other, or prepare for the kind since Talma. Italy has Salvini, now the finest actor in Rurope, Like Booth, Salvini is still young, and has a handsome face, grace. ful manners, and, the most important requisites for a tragedian, wonderfully expressive eyes. Salvini is even better than Booth in the came style, buéthe two are undoubtedly the finest tragic artists in the world; indeed, the only representatives of the intellectual school—the school of Talma, Kean, Garrick and Cooke, Mr. Booth gives the le to the old proverb as to the honoring of prophets in their own country, He has never been abroad. His style is origi- nal, and he is an actor born, not made, His vigor, intensity, grace and earnestness have breathed new life into the old seventeenth cen- tury drama, and he seems to have inspired the public with his own feeling. So the revolution goes on in the theatres, the opera houses and the social circle, a8 in the Senate, House and the political caneus, Tompora mm rt fantur, nos of To war republlcam party War a Remedy im the Present Orisist Following closely in the footsteps of his Premier, who invokes red “battle” as the means by which the adversaries of republican abolitionism shall be “swept away as moths before the whirlwind,” Mr. Linooln, on his way to the national capital, drops, here and there, choice morsels from his approaching inaugural, and endeavors to prepare the country for an “invasion” of the South, and coercive mea- sures, “to retake forts and other properties” that have been seized on by the seooding States. His spokesmen at Washington declare that the slaveholding members of the confede- ration are “domestio enemies whose treason must come to an end;” against whom “war if necessary” must be declared; and that se- ceders must “take the fate of traitors.” “If the time is coming,” adds Senator Fessenden, “to use force, I am perfectly ready to do it.” And the Springfield (I11.) Journal of last week, in an article inspired by the incoming Presi- dent, if not actually written by his own hand, exclaims,—“The seceding States are in re- bellion against the federal government, and it is the duty of this government to put down rebellion. Away with compromises, Weshould not talk of compromises while the flag of traitors floats over an American fort, and the flag of our country trails in the dust. Until that flagis unfurled over Moultrie, and every other stolen fort, arsenal, custom house, and navy yard—uatil the laws of this government are obeyed, and its authority recognized, let us never talk about compromise. Let the stolen forts, arsenals, and navy yards be re- stored to the rightful owner—tear down your rattlesnake and pelican flag, and run up the ever glorious stars and stripes—disperse your traitorous mobs, and let every man retura to his duty.” . This is the programme of the republican par- ty. Itis the signal for massacre and blood- shed, which has, at last, been boldly tocsined forth by the government which will enter into power on the 4th of March next. Congress is already decreeing that the navy shall be re- inforced with vessele which shall be able to penetrate Southern harbors, and attack South- ern fortresses; the services of the militiq of New York, backed by an appropriation to put thertl oi @ War footing, have been proffered to the administration; the authorities of Massa- chusetis have'voted to mobilize their militia for coercive efforts, under the ¢ai! of Mr. Lin- coln, “outside of tho State;” Pennsylvania avenue is turned into a Champs de Mars; Generals, like Scott, Wool, Sandford and Wightman are sharpening their swords for bloodshed; members of the Cabinet issue in- structions to “shoot down on the spot’ active seceders, and every preparation is being made for sectional hostilities and the inauguration of a military despotism. It is the evident inten- tion of Mr. Lincoln and his advisers that there shall be civil war. Are the sound, sober minded, patriotic citi- zens of the North prepared for the contingency of an internecine strife, which shall bury the prosperity of the country in ruins? Are our commercial, manufacturing, financial and agricultural interests to be sacrificed at the beck of a few fanatical demagogues? It is clear as noonday, that not one out of ten of the voters of the Northern States en- dorse the schemes of personal and pecuniary aggrandizement, which abolitionist leaders have fatuously imagined. They solemnly pro- teat against the syigidal programme, which the Sewards, Lincolns, Wades, Sumners, Kings, Fessendens, Garrisons, Phillipses, and others of the Massachusetts school of abolitionism, have laid down. They shrink aghast from the horrors which must overwhelm the land, if an appeal is made to the bayonet to solve the inter-State problem which the developements of the last few months have created. They see the country upon the verge of a fearful con- flict, and between whom? Natural enemies? Those who must make delenda est Carthago a maxim of political necessity? On the con- trary, where there are no really discordant interests, and the exigencies of national econo- my and growth involve a peaceable instead of a violent transition. There is no fundamen- tal discord between North and South, and rela- tions of the strictest amity are indis, ensable for the welfare of both. Three different methods have been proposed, by which the differences agitating the country may be solved without civil war. The first is that which will be suggested by Mr, Lincoln, in his inaugural—namely, a na- tional convention. A close examination of the requirements of the constitution shows that this idea is impracticable. Months would elapse before even its preliminaries could be settled, even if two-thirds of the States should consent to ask that Congress should call such an assemblage together. The second is the immediate proposal by Congress of such amend- ments ,to the constitution as have been con- tained in the bills of Senators Crittenden ang Bigler. It bas become evident, however, that the decay of parties has thrown leadership at Washington into the hands of the most yenal and corrupt class of individuals that ever held power in any land. A desolate blank of every noble impulse is beheld, at the very source whence sound and healthy legislation should proceed. There is not a shadow of hope that our national representatives, will apply any reuiédy whatever to the political disease under which the Union is laboring. The only re- source left—the last to be recommended, except- ing under the pressure of the dir st evils, such evils as are becoming paramount in their sway at the present hour—is that to be found in REVOLUTION. Six of the States have already withdrawa from the confederacy. Nine more, under the pressure of circumstances they cannot evade, must soon join those that have already gone out. What will the Northern border States; what will the central States resolve upon, in such a contingency? They will not consent to be parties in the coercion schemes of Mr. Lincoln; but will they even remain tranquil spectators of his efforts to embroil the country in civil war? We think not. The line has yet to be drawn between the two future republics into which the old confederation is about to be per- manently divided, and the grave question has yet to be answered with whom New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey will cast their lot. It is certain that between the coercive schemes, civil war, and military despotism, with which Mr. Lincoln and his advisers menace the coun. try, and such a bond of union as is suggested by the Congress that is being held at Montgo- mery, the people will necessarily choose the latter, as soon as they can make their voice heard Revolution at the South—Formation of a Great Southera Republic. The great religious, intellectual, and moral lever, which abolitionist fanatics have been steadily applying, for over thirty years, to ac- complish a dissolution of the Union, has at length produced its legitimate resulta. It has culminated in a formal declaration of inde- pendence, on the part of six States of the Union; and the inevitible end of the proceedings of the Peace Congress at Washington, will be that eight more will have joined them, before the lapse of many weeks. The republican dogms that slavery is the “sum of all villanies;” that it is “a crime,” “a curse,” “a sin;” that the constitution of the United States is a “cove- nant with death and agreement with hell,” could lead to but one inevitable result, namely, that, in the language of Wendell Phillips, “the slaveholding States should be shovelted out of the Union,” and the tie be everlastingly sun- dered which bound together, in one confede- ration, elements -so fundamentally discordant. From the period of the first establishment of an anti-slavery society in England, in 1823, with “the Lord shall spill the blood of those who traffic in the souls of their fellow men” as a standard, the Tappans, Garrisons, Leavitts, Phillipses, Sewards, Wilsons, Lincolns, Love- joys and Van Burens of America, have been indefatigable propagators of the aggressive creed against the South, which Sir Robert Peel foretold, “would be the best investment over made for the overthrow of free institu- tions.” The grave, statesmanlike course purt- sued by the Southern Congress at Mont- gomery, Alabama, demonstrates that the end has at last been attained, and that the period has arrived for paying dearly for the treat of elevating anti-slavery republicanism to power in the country. The Union is dissolved, and it may not, perhaps, be in the power of man to unite its fragments together. No one can peruse with attention the account of the proceedings of the Congress of the six seceding States, without being struck by the statesmanship and diplomatic foresight of those who have guided its counsels. The ground- work of their action has been identical with that of the Colonies, in their declaration of in- dependence from England, in 1776; and, with solemn invocations of the Supreme Head of the Universe, they have started from the same point of the “inalienable rights of man,” to lay the basis of just and equitable revolution. Nothing can be more sound, and conservative, than the programme which they have laid down for the future, and consciousness of strength lends force to the dignity with which they appeal from the wolf-like utterances of Northern coer- cionists, to the good sense of the people at large in tio non-slaveholding States. The new Southern repubiic starts into existence with a population of four uzilions, which wht be in- creased to twelve millions ore the lapse of two months. Its administration will be formed under the auspices of two of the most enlightened politicians of the age—President Davis, who has gained distinction on the battle field, in the Cabinet and in the Senate, and Vice President Stephens, whose subtlety, elo- quence and private virtues, have been the ad- miration of the country for along series of years. Out of Mexico, Cuba, Central America and the northern part of South America, they entertain the hope to carve, in time, an em- pire, based upon slavery as a beneficent do- mestic institution, which will become the richest and most majestic that the world has ever beheld. In the meanwhile, they will possess ihe 66a aad ifon Wealth of Kentucky, Ten- nessee and Missouri; the corn fields, superior to any in the world, of Virginia ; water power, within a limited space, equal to all that is con- tained in the North put together; a line of coast adequate to any requirements of navi- gation; and every eesential of a self-sufficient nation. They are also about to pass tariff laws, with a view to foster and protect South- ern manufactures, which call for the maturest consideration on the part of the central mem- bers of the confederacy. It is indisputable that the interests of the so- called Border States will compel them to be- come apart of the new Southern republic ; but it will be equally for the benefit of the Central States, including New York, to identify themselves with thejr Southern seceding brethren. The new Southern constitution foreshadows legislative enactments which will exclude Northern fabrics and commerce from Southern ports, in order to divert Capital from other uses into«the creation of manufactories, south of Mason and Dixon's line, which may successfully compete with those that have hitherto supplied them with merchandise. Commercial treaties with England and France arc also to be anticipated, as among the first active measures that will be consummated by the Southern confederation. A death blow will thus be struck at Northern trade, unless those who are most immediately concerned in the maintenance of our prosperity, possess the energy and wisdom to avert the shock itis onthe point of receiving. The question has to be settled, whether the people of the Central States of the Union will permit the aggressive fanaticism which has been engen- dered by the Massachusetts school of abolition- ists, to ruin them irrevocably, at a time when five-sixths of the voters of those States depre- cate the incendiarism which has reduced the republic to iis present condition. Between the coercive schemes, civil war, and military des- potism, with which rpublican leaders are menacing the country, ana {uch @ bond of union as is suggested by that new Souther re- public, to those who have not joined it, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey will necessarily choose the latter, if the voice of the people can make itself heard. Itis understood that a primary recommen- dation, in the inaugural message of Mr. Lincoln, will be the assemblage of a Na- tional Convention. Such a body, properly chosen, would speedily bring to a focus the state of popular feeling in the Northern, Cen- tral and border States. We have already had occasion to show, however, that such an assemblage is a mere chimera, and that to convene it is a clear impossibility. Dis- solution of the Union is no longer a vain the- ory; it has become a fact in history. It re mains, however, to be seen what course will be pursued by the remaining members of the confederacy, in the crisis at which the nation has arrived. Under any cireumatances, tho will of the people is that there should be peace, If the inhabitants of the slaveholding and non- slaveholding States are determined to explore the future in different paths, every sensible, sober minded citizen desires that they should do ro in amity. But a problem not yet solved, and whi * ig where the line shall be drawn between the two future republice, and to which of them New York, and the cemainder of the Central States shall belong. Tor Exrraprnon Case in Caxapa—Taw Covrr my 4 Quanpany.—The case of the slave and murderer Anderson terribly distracts and annoys the Canadian government, Canadian judges and Canadian people. The struggle be~ tween treaty obligations on one side and incli- nation on the other is very evident. One Ca- nadian Court (the Queen’s Bench) has already decided that the prisoner ought to be given up. Instead of the Canadian government carrying out that judgment promptly, they retain the acoused still in prion till the case is further complicated by the arrival of a writ of habeas corpus from England. Simultaneously with this event a writ of habeas corpus is issued by the Canadian Court of Common Pleas, witha view to supersede the English writ. The case came up for hearing on Saturday, and after long arguments the Court concluded to reserve the decision till Saturday next. The counsel for Anderson urged the point that the commit- ment was informal; and it is stated that by this side wind and indirection it is intended to got rid of the merits of the case, and also to avoid collieion with the English government. But if the commitment was informal it is very easy for the counsel acting for the State of Missouri to have a new warrant ready and rearrest the criminal, if there be really any disposition im the city of Toronto or on the part of the Cana- dian authorities to fulfil the treaty obligations to which the British government has pledged them. The legal quibbling about the case is truly contemptible. It is a curious feature in it that the Attorney General of the province appeared on Saturday to oppose the discharge of An- derson, whereupon the fanatical anti-slavery, nigger-worshipping journals of Toronto cover him with abuse. One thing is very clear, and that is, that whatever way the courts decide the responsibility will still devolve upon the British government of surrendering Anderson, according to the terms of the Ashburtom treaty. But we presume the calculation of both the English and Canadian authorities is, that the government to be in power at Washington on and after the 4th of March is not very likely to give them any trouble on the subject. But if Missouri should join the Southern confede- racy, a8 she is very likely to do, the British government will probably hear more of the matter. If they should still refuse the surren- der of Anderson they may have reason to regret it. But in our opinion they are far more likely to gratify the new confederacy by an act of justice; for cotton is king, and free trade is the delight of every British heart. A Very sicar DIFFERENCE. —The stockhold- ers of the New York Academy—no longer “the” Academy—can find a good deal of useful infor- mation in the history of the present campaign in this city and Brooklyn, Across the water, on Wednesday of last week, the “Barber of Seville,” an opera which is not quite so new as it was formerly, was given, and the receipts amounted to $1,957, Here,on Monday, a bran new opera by the first composer of the day, with three prime donne, new mise en scene, &o., was produced, and the receipts were only one hundred dollars over those ot the “ Barber” at Brooklyn. The difference is that the stock- holders at Brooklyn pay for their seats, while here the privileged class take all the best pinces, L8AVGF thé rest to the paying pudiio, which prefers the Brooklyn arrangement. In other words, the reserved places in our Acade- my represent the sole margin of profit that the manager can possibly hope for. The Brooklyn people were wise in cutting off the reserved seat humbug. They will always be able to let their theatre readily, not only for the Opera, but for other purposes; while the Irving place house enjoys such an immense amount of aris- tocratic patfonage that it will at no distant day find itself metamorphosed into a conventicle, a market or a military barrack. Forsey Viotatine an Ovrictat, Trvst.—The report of the Committee of Investigation, de- veloping the facts connected with the robbery of the Indian Trust bonds and the illegal ac- ceptances of Mr. ex-Secretary of War Floyd, was presented in the House of Representatives last Tuesday. The document, however, was published the morning of the same day in the Philadelphia newspaper owned by Mr. Forney, who is the Clerk of the House, This is the use which he makes of his position, taking advan- tage of his office to get hold of reports of im- portant sclect committees, and publishing them to the world before the members of Congress have any idea of their contents. This is not only a breach of faith on the part of the Clerk of the House, but it is a gross outrage on thé confidential character of his office. The mat- ter should be investigated, for no man is fit to hold that or any other office’ under Congress who has been unfaithful to the trust reposed him. ‘ ACADEMY OF Mvst0.—The second performance of ‘The Ballo in Maschera”’ drew a crowded house last night, and the performance was eminently satisfactory. The au- dience was more enthusiastic than on Monday, and tho artists seemed to have entirely recovered from the ti- midity incidental to the first representation of #o impor. tant a work. Especial improvement was noticed im Signor Brignoli's performance, and Madame Colson more than verified the triumph which she achieved on Monday. The next performance of the new opera will take plage on Saturday morning, the only matinee of the w On Friday, at the Brooklyn Agade,. bula’’ will be given. y, “La Somaam- ‘Tur Seventy Ron aT Orexasrom.—The first annual oxhibition of the Revonth Re, "emt Bymnaslum will take Place to-night at that institution, N® 28 St, Mark’s piace, when the members of the gallant Seventh wilt give their friends a specimen of their dexterity in Calig- thenic and gymoaetic skill. §, Wallace Cone will deliver an introductory address, and tho National Guard band ‘will discourse musical selections from the The class exercises will consist of feate on the vaclting horse, spclined and pole, dumb bells, parallel bars, double rings, serie! t4, Indian clubs, single bar, la perche fencing and broad sword exercises, The 100 Committee is composed of many of the field, stat line officers of the regiment. veg Boces Exrnas.—Last evening the city was etuntlet with the cry of the nowshoys that Fort Sumter lad beom bombarded and between two and three hundred killed. Tt was goon ascertained by the police that the report wae false and that bogus extras of the Hopress rtp of bad been ieened. About balf-past nine O'clock the polices the Second ward succeeded in finding about six han dred of the # at a polic: about to be delivered to new charge of, and two men in the pation Fine ow East Twas ern Sraske—Tone nme RRR TO Drant.—Shortly after eigit o'clock last night a fire broke Out in & frame atabie in the roar of No, 209 Bast Twelfth street, occupied by Patri Kor rapidly, and econ aovelop rerone of three horaes, w of them wor by” no inaoren valued @ $100, te v , No. 25 Ann street, They wors takon Arrested for exami- ow mas Skilloy, worth avout fro, no doubt, ——————————————— eee