The New York Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. OryiCS SN. We OORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU SYS, ‘advance. Money sent by matt wit! be at the TT eile” Hone Wit Bank ils current tn Nowe York (MR DAILY HERALD, too conts per ompy, $T per annm. Volume X¥V AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OF MUSTO, Fourleeath street.—Itattan Orz- £c4e ALLO 1s MasOHE RA. na. —Un NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Jack Cape. WINTEE GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond sireet.~ Oraxt1o. BOWEBSY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Nicat in Woxnwe © Woaun, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.~ xxtTRat Park. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, No. 62 Broadway.— Seven Sisreus. NEW BOWERY THEATER, sowery.—Onoss or Gour— HABLaguin JACK—¥ OMAN'S LOVE. i ERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and pRARNU YS Aiinaw cn Warte-Livine Oumosrrimay Bo. <13! MINSTRELS, Mechanies' Hall, 472 Broad. waren Songs, Dances, &0.—Jack Canx HOOLEY & CAMPBELL’S MINSTRELS, Nibio's Saloon, THOPIAN SONGS, DANCRS, BURLESQUES, &C.-— CANTERBURY MUSIO HALL, 66% Brosdway.—Ticut Porn, Songs Oanexs, Bunvesques, &0. MELODEON, No. 639 Broadway.—Soncs, Dances, Bux Lusquas, &€ gNew Yoru, Monday, February 18, 1862, MAILS POR HUROPE, York AMecrald — Edition for Europe ‘The Cunard mail steamship Canada, Captain Anderson, vill leave Poston, on Wednesday, for Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close w this eity to-morrow s{lernoon, at & quarter past one and at half-past five by railroad, < op vie Hieeany will be published » the morning. Single copies, in wrap- the New pers, Bix cents. The contents of © tho wows recvived by mail and telegraph tao previous week, and up to the bour the Ecrorass Epraox or tam Hera wilt com) Phe News. The news fromthe South this morning is of a The Southern Con- “8 was proceeding with great vigor in the cauization of their new government. President 3 atrived at Montgomery on Saturday -t, and was received by the people wildest enthusiasm. In a speech ivered on the occasion, he declared at the time for all compromises had passed, that very important character. with the Souther: independence must be maintained, even if war should follow, and that no propositions for a reconstruction of the Union could ever be en- ained. During the course of his journey he ty-five speeches in the same tone, which » everywhere received with enthusiastic ap- plause. President Davis was busily engaged in the construction of his Cabinet, which, it was re- ported, would consist of the following persons:— Secretary of State, Scoretary of War Herachel V. Johnson, Georgia. P, O. Hider, Louisiana. Secretary of Nw S. R. Mallory, Florida. Secretary of Interior, W Porcher Miles, South Carolina, Post Office Department J. H. Hemphill, Texas. Attorney General Jobu A. Elmoré, Alabama. Messrs, Slidell and Toombs will probably be sent as Ambassadors to France and England re- spectively. Mr, Lincoln yesterday remained in Buffalo where he attended divine'service at the Unitarian chureh. in company with ex-President Fillmore. -day he will leave Buffalo at six o’clock A. M., arrive at Albany about three P. M., where due honors will be paid to him by the State au- thorities. To-morrow he will leave Albauy at ten o'clock by the Hudson River Railroad and arrive in this city at three. We learn that while Mr. Lincoln is in this city he will stop at the Astor He The plan of adjustment adopted by the Peace Congress at Washington was, on Saturday, the 6 ct of a lengthy debate in that body. Mr. jdwin, of Connecticut, moved to substitute his sition for a National Convention in lieu of the committee's plan. Mr. Guthrie opposed the motion, the Convention to take immediate action. s considerable difference of opinion re- the meaning of the plan of adjustment as ris the Territorial question—whether it ap- plied to existing territory only, or also to that to, be hereafter sequired. Mr. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, said he should move an amendment so as to excinde future acquisitions of territory from the operations of the compromise. The discussion lasted until three o'clock, when the Convention adjourned till this morning. Mr. Seward's amendment to the Tariff bill ex- tending the time for the payment of duties to three instead of ninety days, leaving the ware- syetem withont alteration, passed the Senate on Saturday by a vote of twenty-five to eighteen. The Conference Committee on the De- eney bill reported that they had come to an greement respecting the amendments. The Chiriqui amendment has been stricken from the amship Africa," Capt. Shannon, from olon the 2d, via Qneenstown on the 3d J at thie port early yesterday morning. inst., ‘The news Is not important. The Jucpendance Belge states it to have been romored on the Paris Bourse that Garibaldi had left Caprera for some destination unknown—ac- cording to some for Montenegro. According to a despatch from Vienna, dated January 50, the Emperor of Austria has decreed @n armnesty for all Hungarian refagees. The despatch states that the amnesty would extend to all Hungarian refugees without exception. The decree would shortly be published, The Schleewig-Holstein question continues to cngrose the attention of the continental Powers. According to advices received from reliable quar- tors at Copenhagen, the great European Powers have urgently requested Denmark to grant con- cessiona to Schleswig-Holsteim, and have hinted that Chey would by no means recognise any \lockade of the German coasts which might be declared by Denmark in consequence of federal execution being despatched to Holstein. We publish this morning several interesting ox- tracts from the Fngtish press, showing the feeling in England relative to the American crisis, and ite probable effect upon the the manufacturing and commercial interests of Great Britain, By this arrival we have particulars of the wreck cf the ship David Brown, before reported, and also an account of the wreck of the ship Black Mon- ster, of Baltimore, for Rio Janeiro, and also the burning of the ship Mary Carson, from Charleston for Liverpool. All hands saved. In regard to the great Bonaparte-Pattorson case, the cause celebre of the day, there are fndications of # profound political meaning in the Emperor permitting the case to go before the civil tribunals of France; for in the event that tho Court decides the legitimacy of Mrs, Patterson's gon, it materi- ally affects the claim of Henry V. to legitimacy, who, it will be remembered, is the son of the un- fortunate Duke de Berri, by a second marringe, while Miss Brown, his legitimate wife, was stil living. The cases are paratiel; and if this view be orrect, which, from the Emperor's sagacity, is probable, the recognition of Mrs, Patterson's claims may be con- sidered very probable. On the Ist inst. the case again came up, pursuant to adjournment. M. Berryer’s reply occupied the court till two o'clock in the afternoon, when, after a short recess, M. Allou commenced his rejoinder. No reports of the speeches bave reached us yet. In the case of the fugitive slave Anderson a final decision was rendered at Hamilton, C. W., on Saturday. The Court sustained the decision of the Canadian Court of Queen’s Bench on the points of law, and Anderson was set free. The Court were unanimously in favor of discharging the prisoner on the ground of technicality in the commitment. The steamship Jamestown, Captain Skinner, which arrived yesterday from Richmond and Nor- folk, brought on freight twenty barrels of shad— the first of the season. The cotton market exhibited no change on Saturday, while the sales embraced about 800 bales, closing on the basis of 11 %¢.a 11 5f¢. for middling uplands. Flour was in somo better request and more active, the market having been favorably influenced by the news from Europe. ‘The purchases were chiefly made for export, Southorn flour was also firmer, with more doing. Wheat was firm- er, but owing to the advance in freights, the market was not active. Corn was also firmer and in fair export do- mand. rork was dull, while salcs embraced mess at $16 95 a $17, and primo at $13. Sugars have boon aotive for some days, aud rather firmer for prime grades. The sales embraced 1,050 bhds. old and new Cuba at steady prices. Coffee was steady, with sales of 600 bags Rio at 11%. a 13%%c., and $0 do, Jamaion at 120 Freights were firmer, especially for Liverpool, to which port wheat was engaged, in bulk and in ship’s bags, at (2d. a 12444.; flour taken at 3s. 734d., bacon at 87s. 6d., tallow at 363. and crude turpeatine at 4s. To London 209 boxes bacon were engaged at 42s. 6d. a 463. The Great Re-Unton Party of the Fu- ture—Reconstraction of the Republic. The effect upon the political vision of Mr. Lincoln, of his progress from Illinois towards the national capital, is one of the most cheer- ing symptoms of the time. It is like the light of the sun, upon one who has just emerged from Egyptian darkness. It augurs well for the future, and for the honesty of purpose with which he is about to undertake the duties of the high position, in which he is soon to be placed. Let the bright light of day continue to break in upon him as he proceeds on his way to Washington—a fresh ray here, another at Philadelphia, and so on, till his eyes are wide open to the actual condition of the na- tion. So long as he remained at Springficld, every avenue to his presence had been blocked up by interested parties, and it was impossible for him to become aware of the true state of feeling in the North, and of the dangers by which the country is surrounded. He had been unable to complete his Cabinet, and evidently had no idea what course would be the wisest to pursue, in view of the exigencies of the period. He departed from Springficld with an invocation of the prayers of his neighbors and friends, that he might be endowed with the strength, sagacity and energy, which will be requisite in his position, Arrived at Indiana- polis, he gave proof of that “little knowledge which is a dangerous thing,” by making a co- ercion speech, which aroused the hopes of fa- natical incendiarists in the North, and was in- terpreted to be an endorsement of General Scott's programme of a military despotism. A. little further on, he moderated his expressions; but still believed, at Cincinnati, that “ nobody was suffering,” and that the clouds were ephemeral, ‘and of no serious import, which were visible in the horizon. Meanwhile, as he journeys onward, the audiences that press around him increase from hundreds to thousands, and from thou- sands to tens of thousands. By the time he has reached Buffalo, popular opinion had begun to sound in his ears with a voice of thunder; and it isa proof of great innate caution and prudence, that he has shown himself alive to its utterances. The Buffalo speech of Mr. Lincoln is of a totally diferent character from those that pre- ceded it. He brings in “matare reflection” to tone down the acerbilics of previous days, and tacitly repudiates the use of aggressive sectional measures. ‘When it is considered,” he says, “that these difficulties are without pre- cedent, and never have been acted on by any individual situated as 1am, it is most proper I should wait and sec the developements, and get all the light possible, so that when I do speak authoritatively, 1 may be as near right as possible.” This declaration was received by the audience before him with tremendous applause; and it encouraged him, with the new light that is bursting upon his mind, and the cer- tainty that he will be compelled to disappoint the wishes of radical abolitionists, to continue: — “When I shall speak authoritatively I hope to say nothing inconsistent with (he constitution, the Union, the rights of all the States, of each State and of each section of the country, and not to disappoint the reasonable expectations of those who have confided to me their votes. In this connection allow me to say that you, as a portion of the great American people, need only to maintuin your composure, stand up to your sober convictions of right, to your obliga- tions to the constitution, and act in secordance with those sober convictions, and the clouds which now arise in the horizon will be dispell- ed, and we shall have a bright and glorious fu- ture, and when this generation has passed away tens of thousands will inhabit this country where only thousands inhabit it now.” Nothing could be more reassuring than these words. They betoken “sober second thought,” and, probably, advices from his friends at Washington, which bode well for the peace and tranquillity of the repub lic. They give importance to, the pre- dictions of our Washington correspon tent. in yesterday’s Hrnatv. That the Wades, Sumners, Fessendens, Hales, Greeleys, Phil- lipses and Gurrisons of the republican party are to be thrown overboard, and that “the country will not be permitted to go to ruin at the behest of the Massachusetts abolitionist school of politicians.” The most desperate ef. forts are being made by republican radicals to force upon the incoming administration, the adoption of a coercive policy. Not only every caucus that is held at Washington has recqntly been a scene of strife; but, under the leader- ship of the Senator from Maine, it appears to be fully resolved on that Mr. Seward and his associates shall be openly denounced as traitors upon the very earliest opportunity. The demo- cratic party is destroyed, and it is only a ques- tion of a few days, how soon its successful rival Shall be split into dozen fragments. The Chi- cago platform is already regarded by those who created it as the fossil of a bygone time, which has served ils purpose; and, ander the auspices of Union-loving patriots of all sections, broad outlines are being formed for new parties, divi- sions and ties, at the basis of which will lie the determination, expressed by Mr Seward, to re- construct the Union, “regardless of past perso- nal aud politicul associations,” with 4 maca% nimity whioh shall cull for the applause of future ages.” As soon as Mr. Lincoln arrives at Washiogton, the great re-Union party of the future, will be- gin to assume definite shape, in its work of re construction, The Peace Conference of the border States will have ended its labors; and, although these can result in no immediate con- stitutional remedy for the evils under which the land is laboring, its compromise proposition: will be received with proper respect, by the people at large, and will serve as a foundation upon which Mr. Seward and his colleagues may build up a future for the Union, brighter than it has ever known before. If an extra session of the new Con- gress, of which a quorum of the House has already been elected, should then be con- vened, such a plan, as Mr, Seward has proba- bly alreudy decided on, for a revision of the federal constitution, would be sure to mect with its sanction, and, under the auspices of Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Missouri, Ken tncky and Delaware as mediators, the way would be paved for the restoration of the Union to its pristine integrity and the dissipa- tion of every cloud that obscures the national sky. Tanaticism will make a last rally, “ pre- vious to its condemnation by the popular voice in such a manner that it can pever raise its head again.” Our Washington correspondent is not wrong in saying that “with the first ray of hope from the North, the Union pulse will begin to beat loud, strong, and with re- newed health, in the seceding States.’ It is the most noteworthy circumstance of the Montgomery Southern Congress, that every one of the ultra fire-eaters has been compelled to assumé a sitbordinate posi- tion. The Yanceys, Rhetts, and Barnwells, who were co noisy a few weeks ago, have been quietly sent into private life. With Mr. Jef- ferson Davis for President and Mr. Alexander Hi. Stephens for Vice President of the new Southern confederacy, the friends of the Union have the surest guarantee that every honorable proffer which the North may make will be care- fully aud maturely considered, and that the Southern people will aid and not oppose the legitimate efforts at reconstruction of Mr. Lin- eoln and his Cabinet. Appearances indicate that a new era is about to dawn upon the coun- try. The position of the new administration, and especially of Mr. Seward, is undoubtedly difficult; but no individual possesses in a higher degree than himself, the sagacity and subtlety to meet its requirements. If he adheres perse- veringly to the course he has apparently marked out for the future, and, if the speech delivered by Mr. Lincola at Buffalo is to be received as indirative of a growing determination to adopt anf abide by conservative Union views, both will make for themselves names among the highest.in the history of the statesmen, patriots and benefaetors of the republic. Tue Arrrovcntna Srreeore iv Evrors— Avstrtan Concxsstons To Venice.—We learn by the Africa that Garibaldi has suddenly dis- appeared from Caprera, and that all trace of his movements has been lost. The supposition that he had gone to Dalmatia has this proba- bility in it, that it is from that quarter, if from any, that ke will commence his operations against Austria. Matters are no doubt so con- certed that he can place himself at once at the head of a large body of Servian and"Hungarian revolutionists, so as not to involve the govern- ment of Victor Emanuel in the first conse- quences of bis acts. Should the movement hold out the promise of a weil combined and popular effort, Count Cavour will decide upon the samo course which he pursued in’ the case of the Marches and Naples — namely, torunall remain- ing risks and invade Venice. The Vienna Cabinet, becoming more and more alarmed as the crisis approaches, but not having the moral courage to decide upon the only step which can avert the dismemberment of the empire, is said lo be about to offer a con- stitution to Venetia, securing its autonomy, and leaving to Italians the government of the territory. It is too late now for such a concession to satisfy the people of Venice. They have but too many precedents before them of Austrian faith- lessness in carrying out compacts extorted from its fears to rely on the permanency of a consti- tution thus offered. Besides, itis appareat to every one but Austrian statesmen that it would be impossible to keep Venice long separated from Italy. A political system like that of Austria, even though modified to meet its exist- ing difficulties, would work under too many disadvantages in such close juxtaposition with the constitutional institutions of the new Italian kingdom. The only shape in which they could possibly co-existin this near relation would be in the form of the confederation proposed by Louis Napoleon. That is now entirely out of the question, and Austria has either to resign herself to the peaceable cession of the Venetian territory, or to have that and her other depen- dencies wrested from her by force. She must be quick, however, in making up her mind on this point, for a few weeks hence it will be too late for her to benefit by the first of these alter- natives. The urgency of the appeal addressed by the Primate of Hungary to his countrymen proves that the threatened movement thero is of a character to awaken the worst fears of the government. Tae Foarnve Siave ANpErsos-—Dacmton IN mun Case. We published yesterday a tele- graphic despatch from Canada to the effect that the Court of Common Pleas had discharged Anderson on o mere technicality, while it sustained the decision of the Canadian Court of Queen’s Bench. Thus is a murderer in the eye of American law set free on a mere technicality in British North America, and the Ashburton treaty becomes a farce. Both the Canadian courts have admitted that sub- stantial justice required the surrender of the prisoner; but to get rid of the obligation of the treaty they fall back on some real or pretended blunder in the form of commitment, They whip the devil round the stump by pandering to British public opinion and the anti-slavery sentiment of the Northern States, to which they desire to be an- nexed, while at the same time they disobey the writ of the Puglish Queen’s Bench, and raise the question of the independence of the Oana- dian judiciary. We trust that our government at Washington will now press the British go- vernment for the surrender of the fugitive. if it were for nothing elee than to test the question whether Canada is independent, as some of her people boast she ts, Dissolution of the Union}—Tne Folly of Coercion, As # corollary to the coercion dicta of re- publican journals in the North, and the fatuous - utterances of representatives of anti-sla er) ultraism in Congress, -ince the last Pres ‘n- tial election, no sentiment has been more freely and axiomatica ly promulgated by poli ~i of the Massachusetts sebool, than that the South cannot exist without the North; that slaveaoit ing institutions are cankered by inher nt ele ments of decay; and that she vital strougth o' the seceding members of the confede acy wil be gone, if they persist in their resolution t withdraw from the Union. They maintain that the manufactures, breadstuffs, and agricultural products of the Kastern and Middle States, ure 80 indispen: able to their brethren South of the Potomac, that men and cattle must starve witn out them, and that, from sheer necessity, the conditions must be acceded to, which intole- rance and fanaticism have laid down as the basis upon which the pillars of the republic should in future rest. “The South cannot do without us,” has been, probably, the substruc ture of a large amount of the theories and de- lusive calculations of Northerners, who have believed, and believe still, that any amount o! wnti-constitutional aggression can be crammed down the throats of confederates who cannot with impunity oppose measures, however odious in themselves, which involve the sucri- fice of indispensable material interests. These calculations of anti-slavery despotism are, however, false. There is no ono point in which the South is inferior to the North, and there are many in which it is supe- rior. “A little learning is a dangerous thing,” in nothing more emphatically than the dotails of political economy; and upon no subject do re- publican writers and speakers appear more superficial. It will be found, uponinquiry, that the North can provide the South with nothing whatever with which they cannot amply provide themselves. The population of the Sonth- ern States, in round numbers, is 12,500,000 That of the North is 19,000,000. If we examine closely, we shall discover, how- ever, that, during the last fifty years, the ag- gregate of emigration to the ngn-slavcholding States has been nearly eight millions, whigh would make up the difference. This immigrant increase has brought with it into the Northern States, not less than a thousand millions of dol- lars, a local gain from which the Greeleys, Phillipses, Sumners, Sewards and Garrisons of the day would predicate a superiority for non- slaveholding over slaveholding institutions although ithas nothing to do with either one or the other. It has been an accidental transfer of capital from one place to another where it could be more advantageously bestowed. It may have been a temporary advantage to the North, but it has been an uncertain indication of pro- gress in the past, and still less is it anysign of the relations which the respective sections will bear to each other in future. A careful study of the last census shows that the South has kept full pace in population with the North within the last twenty years, if their relative ciroum- stances are duly considered, In the event of o final and ultimate dissolu- tion of the Union—of an irrevocable with, drawalof the Southern from the Northern por- tion of the confederacy—it will be found, in the end, that the slaveholding have every ad- vantage over the nonslaveholding States. Their territory, embracing that part of the con- tinent which lies between Mason and Dixon’s line and Mexico, will be vastly greaer than ours, and, in climate, it will proffer advantages to the scttler, infinitely greater than any the free States can offer. It will inclade the coal andiron formations of Missouri, Kentucky, Georgia and Tennessee; the magnificent wheat fields of Vir- ginia—superior to any on thiscontinent; the pa- radise of cereals, around the ridges of the Alle- gheny, and water power, greater than that of all the rest of the Union put together, in the valleys of the Ohio river and the Susquehanna. There is no fruit of the temperate or the torrid zones that the States of the new Southern confederacy will not bring forth in superfluity. Producing cereals, tobacco, rice, sugar, cotton in abundance—they will, with proper enterprise, industry and ener- gy, make of their new republic the garden of the world. It is idle, foolish, absurd and igno- rant, therefore, to prate of the dependence of the South upon the North. Let us take heed that the slaveholding States do not turn the tables on us, and proclaim our subjectign to them. Were civil war to take place; if the violent counsels so recently promulgated by Seward and other republican mouthpieces are to have potency; it is by no means certain that the economical interests of the New England and Central States might not be crushed into powder, by the very elements which they them- selves seek, at the present moment, to reduce to submission, Were a dissolution of the Union to be auc- ceeded by internecine strife, the very first be- ginnings of Southern legislation would be shaped with a view to injure the North, altbough the sentiment of the Southern con- federacy, as expressed up to this period, is of a moderate and friendly character. In the event a coercive policy being adopted, the first pages of their statute books would shut out from Southern ports North- ern manufactures, and the history of the rise and progress of New England fabrics, would find its parallel in Virginia, Delaware and Maryland. Louis XIV., by his edict of Nantes, banished the looms of his proscribed subjects together with themselves. To the ar- rogance of Great Britain, from 1509 to 1815, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, owe the growth of smoky cities, towns and vil- lnges, conjured by New England capital into existence, in places where nought but pasture grounds would be vigible, had it not been for the shortaighted policy of British ministries at the beginning ef this century. War, exclusive legislation, and a very short period of active conflict would accomplish for the South what it most requires—it would make it independent even in manufactures; and, with euch a marine rivalry as the very necessity of the case would induce, it would be in every way the equal of the North, and would probably outstrip us in the race of prosperity. If no result foHows the present attempt to settle our domestic troubles, fifteen States, per- haps, will be outof the Union on the 4th of March next. Six States are already organized as an independent confederation. The ties which connected the Union together have thus not only become weakened; they are virtually Under such circumstances, the pa- language of every good cilizen those who leave the con Nothing can be severed. triotic should be to federation, “go in peace.” _ NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1861. more atrocious than the Gourse which a de- plorable factien would mark out, wrought to frenzy by the exaggerations of sectional emo- tions. If the Southern States—one, six, or all— shall depart from us, what then? The result is sad; but it is incomparably better than to wit- ness the hands of brothers imbrued in each other’s bleod, or to hear rejoicings uttered by one section over the hoped for downfall of the other. The Northern States possess every es- sential of future greatness. Between the Poto- macand the Arctic ocean, there is open for them a pathway of empire, so vast, so grand, that it amaves the imagination to dwell upon it. The South has a different field of enterprise be- fore it; but there is no reason why one part of the country should interfere with the other. Nothing could be more horrible than the at- tempt. Each can benefit and aid its neighbor, but neither can profit by civil conflict—least of all the North. If, therefore, the people of the Slaveholding and non-slaveholding States, are determined to explore the future by different paths; let grateful remembrances of the past remain; but let there be no bickerings and false prognostications of harm, sure to attempt their own fulfilment. Let there be, on the contrary,an alliance defensive and offensive, founded upon mutually advantageous treaties, which shall forever bind the two confederacies together. The bitter end which appears to be so rapidly approaching, will not then be without its con- aolation. Governor Morgan iv Hor Water AGatn.— There seems to be a very lively opposition to Governor Morgan in both branches of the Le- gislature. In the Senate Mr. Colvin has raked up the old affair of the Troy and Schenectady Railway, and given the Governor a very severe roasting. The Assembly was occupied all day Saturday in discussing the question as to what shall be done at Albany with Mr. Lincoln, and in the course of the debate Mr. Bergen pitched into the Governor very severely. It appears that the Legislature appointed a joint committee of eight to make arrangements for the reception. The Governor had things fixed nicely for himself. He intended to steal a march on the Legislature, and, like John M Botts and Captain Tyler, Old Abe and Morgan were to be as “thick as three ina bed.” Lin- coln was to dine en famille with Morgan, sleep in his house, and breakfast there. Weed and the chairmen of the committees were to be asked to supper. The Legislature was re- quested to appropriate sufficient money to pay the hotel bills of the Presidential party, and the committees were to dine with Lincoln's atiachés. This cool proposition was reccived with great indignation, and, we regret to say, no small amount of profauity. The committee defied the Governor, and would see him—not exactly blessed—before they would accede to his proposition. They would give Abraham a legislative dinner, and Morgan might breakfast the old man. No, the Governor was bound to have the dinner or nothing. The commitiee voted down the Governor's programme ; and then came the question as to where the dinner should be given. The committee di- vided, four for one hotel and four for another— a dead lock, which the Governor's emissa- ries made the best use of. It appears, by Saturday’s proceedings, that Morgan will be defeated, and that the President elect will be bored with a dinner with some two hun- dred politicians, all huagry enough to cat him up, and ready to-tear him limb from limb in case they are not all made free of the White House kitchen. Meanwhile, Morgan has come to grief, not only in the matter of the Albany reception, but also with regard to this city, he desiring that Abraham skould hang up his hat at the Metropolitan Hotel, whereas he goes to the Astor, Weed’s favorite hostelrie. It is a great pity about Morgan; but he can console himself with the reflection that if Governors cannot always have their own way, the case is still worse with Presidents. Compared with Uncle Abe’s cross, Morgan’s is of the very lightest description. Lrxcorn AND THE Pansons—We notice in one of the letters descriptive of the very inte- resting tour of the President elect, that he was particularly blessed by an aged clergyman living in the famous Westera Reserve of Ohio. The old gentleman prayed that the Divine bles- sing might attend the new President, and that eventually he might find consolation above This is all very well, but just now we fancy that Mr. Lincoln’s thoughts are of the earth earthy. He is a good deal more troubled about his Cubiuet and the secession question (to say nothing about the tariff, which appears to puzzle bim exceedingly), than the dogmas over which the parsons delight to wrangle. If they can get a direct revelation by means of which Lincoln can settle the national troubles, harmonize his own party, raise money where with to carry on the government and satisfy the office beggars, giving a full mission to everybody, beginning with the Chevalier Webb, the parsoos will be of inestimable value to the new President. Otherwise, they will do well to let him work out his own salvation, Crvaxen, Streers.—While the Corporation are busy tinkering up contracts for cleaning the streets, at a ruinous cost to the taxpayers, a superior power bas stepped in and performed the work gratis. Jupiter Pluvius and Jove the Thunderer took the matter in hand on Saturday night and did it up handsomely, leaving the pavements bright and ehining, as they have not been for many a day, on yesterday morning, and showing as clean a face asanurchin dressed for Sunday school. The unusual thunder storm which visited these parts on that evening has done more than that: it has purified the atmosphere, swept away the murki- neas of our winter skies, and made everything fresh, bracing and epringlike. It is very sel- dom that thunder and lightning form part of the variety of our climate at this season of the year; ‘but it is only in keeping with all the rest of the natural phenomena which marked the past summer—the tornadoes, thunder storms, brilliant meteors, dazzling northern lights, and still more dazzling lights that came not from the north at all. Arrivals and Departures. ARRIVALS, ., Mrs Le. Laren Hai at ei * by a , Mr Maser ADC: Ms "Bettie er , Deli M Hon h a ga og, ade, Cooke, MeOH staaier, loo Went, Le ets ricus, er. bats Tenor Roald, A Parkinson, Mandeleck: 4 of, the Sonth=Mrs_ Toombs, Pere or client Win Rerulh Ches Eeits th the steerage, Ri ip Jaracatown—Mra Prost, M Co: ine, 8 H MoOray, BM Greenwa; We in rit ‘David Finshey James Smith, it inthe ward, Ce y 0 President Fillmore— Arrangements for as Reception im Albany—Hk Journey to New York—The Excitement Along the Route, &., &., &. Bovvaro, Feb. 17, 1868. last evening Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln held separate in the parlors of the American House. The general crowd gathered in the vestibule of tho hotel Wore refused admittance, and only a limited number of ladies and gentlemen were presented. Governor Mor- Athalf-past nine the President their apartments. -~ ng ions Ay The cold, damp weather to-day being unfavorable te out-door movements, the Presidential Party spent most of their time about the hotel. Mr. Fillmore called at ten A. M., with @ carriage, for Mr. Lincoln, and both attensled divine service at the Uni- tarian church. Dr. Hosmer, the pastor, invoked the blessings of heaven upon the incoming administration im most impressive manner in his opening prayer. Maay of the congregation were moved to tears. At the close of the service Mr. Linooln was introduced to the minister ‘snd 4 number of prominent members of the church. From the church the ex-President and President clect rode back to the hotel, and where joined by Mrs. Lincoln, when the party were driven to Mr. Fillmore’s Private residence to partake of a lunch. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln returned to the hotel at two o'clock P, M., and spent the remainder of the day in their rooms, They were called upon by a number of diatin- guished ladies and gentiomen in the course of the after- noon—among the latter the most conspiouous were Hom, G. W. Clinton, A. M. Clapp, F. P. Stevens, A. S. Bennie, Jas. Putnam, D. . Hunt, F. J. Fithian, J. A. Verplanok, N. K, Hail, R. P. Larvin, N. D. Davis, M. Grover, B. Yau Horn, M. C., and P. Dorsheimer. ; ‘The marked courtesy of Mr. Fillmore to the President elect was the subject of general praise to-day. Mr. Lincoin and Mrs, Lincoln produced a decidedly fu-. vorable tmpression upon all that come in contact with them in this city. A distribution of federal offices in this city is freely discussed by politicians. A. M. Clapp and Mayor Alber- ger are mentioned in connection with the Post Office. The extra display of bunting about the Express building was doubtlessly intended for the benefit of the formor. Judge Bakor and Joseph Conder are after the Coliector- ship; Gen. G. A. Scroggs was ‘“Marshally” attentive to the Prosidential party, which may mean something. Maj. Hunter is doing well. He will be able to go ea with the party. Horace Greeley came in this morning from Fria. The members of the press are under many obligations to the General Superintendent of the Western Union Tele- graph Company for courtesies received on the journey from Cincinnati to this city. 4 After dinner Mr. Lincoln went to hear Father Beason, the Indian preacher. There was great curiosity to see him. A benediction was invoked in his behalf, The audience gathered at the door to shake hands with him. Mr, Lincola’s voice was yesterday nearly gone. To-day it is some bettor. John Nicolay, of Minois, has been appointed private secretary during the Presidential term. THE RECEPTION AT UTICA. Unea, Feb. 11, 1861. Tho joint committee of the Legislature, consisting of Messrs. Ferry, Ketcham and Connolly, from the Senate, and Ball, Prendergast acd Ferrey, om the part of the House, reached here at three o'clock this morning after a fatiguing night's ride, and took quarters at Baggs’ Hotel. Messrs. Bergen and Provost, representing the democrats in the House, are both absent, and the committee have placed Mr. McDermott, of Westchester, on tha commit- tee to fill the place of Mr. Provost, and it is expected that Mr. Bergen will meet tho train at Schenectady. ‘The special train bearing Mr. Lincoln, is expected hera at balf-past eleven o'clock to-morrow morning, and as it will stop only five or ten minutes the ceremonies will be brief, ‘The programme fixed by the legislative and citizens” committees, is as follows:—On the train reaching the Gepot a flat car, on which is erected a platform, will be placed behind the Presidout’s car, and Mr. Lincoln will, on stepping upon it, bo first welcomed by Senator Ferry ou the part of the Legislature, and then by Hon. Ward Hunt, as chairman of the Committee of Utica citizen, after which Mayor Grove may say ® word or iwo in behalf of the city authorities. The President elect will occupy the remainder of the tite in replrirg to the committees and in addreszelng the people gathered to hear him. A special train was despatched to Syracuse to day, with ‘he Utica and a portion of tho legislative committees om board, to meet Mr. Lincoln there. A great crowd is expected in town to-morrow. It is Bot yet settled by the™committee, whethor the President Shall dine at the Delavan House, where he aud his suite are to be quartered, or with the Governor, it will be set- ted to-morrow morning, probably in fayor of the Governor, Sergeant-at-Arms Faston, with his sword and sash wilt head the force. Major Scholefield acts as socretary to the committee. ‘The legislative committee have been enjoying the hos- Pitalities of many of the citizens to-day, but are anxious to leave town as soon as possible, @ There is much excitement in railroad circles to-night in regard to the rupning of the special train to-morrow be- tween Syracuse and Utica, Great rivalry exists between the different divisions of the road as to over which the quickest time can be made. Bets are made that the train will make the quickest time on record between Syracuse and Utica, which will be at the rate of more than a mile & minute, D. E. Priest, son of the Assistant Superintendent of thi division, will run the locomotive Major Priest, which draws the train, and if it can be done the quickest time on record will be made. Five locomotives will be sta- tioned, ready to start, between Syracuse and Utica, in case of any accident, It may be a dangerous passage for the Presidential party, it is feared. ‘The weather 45 clearing np and growing cold rapiliy. THE RECEPTION IN ALBANY. Aiasy, Feb. 17, 1961. ‘The programme for the reception of the President elect to-morrow can only be determined by conjectare. Nothing seoms defiuitely settied except (he reception im the Assembly chamber, and even upon that very pretty quarrel. The qvestion is wheth . Lit. tlejohn, Speaker of the House, or Mr. Latham, President. pro tempore of the Senate, shall receive the rail-splitter. The partics have been discussing all the afteruooa, ‘The Assembly mon insist upon Littlejohn, and he seems ahead to-night. After the reception, wi v it fs, Mr. Lincoln wit dine privately at the Delav nd then, by a variation of yesterday's programme, wili hold a levee at Congress Hall or tho Delavan in the evening. ‘Tho indion will be admitted to this lover, as the Prest- dent most start for New York at ten o'clock on Tuesday. ‘The tram starts from Troy, and, carly riser ns he la, be will need all his time ta the merolng. ‘The morning levee for Indice will therefore be oraitted. ‘This may be changed to-night, bu: ie the very latest Governor Morgan is defoated every way, for tho com- mittee will not give Lincoln time even to make a friondiy eal, A Peace Congress held to day settied all these qucstiona by resolving that Mr, Morgen receive the Presitent aad Governor Morgan dive with him at the Delavan. Cassidy, of the Argus, arrived this morning from Waslington. He pronounces the conduct of Meld, Noyes ‘and King in the Peace Congress as exactly what was toto. graphed to the Hxnatn, This has boon the topic oF con- vereation bere to-day. It is asserted that the action of Field and Noyes is to sid ta keoping Seward Crom tho Cabinet, by smashing the Confereuce, and that if they succeed in defeating all comprives they had better not return to New York, or they wi!! be mobbed. THE RUN FROM ALBANY. TRE PRESIDENTIAL JOURNEY FROM ALBANY TO NEW YORK. One of our reporters, by special invitation, on Saturday Inst made @ visit of inspection to tho magnificené car which has been fitted up by the Hudson River Railrond Company for the conveyance of Mr. Lincoln, the Presi- dent elect, and hia suite, to-morrow, from Albany to this city, The car has Just been built, and Atted ap expressly for tho « ccasion, at the car shop of the company, Thirty~ first street, under the anporvision of Mr. Town, euperinten- dent cf thas establishment, who baa displayed great taste inthe ' terral arrangements, which combine comfort, ole-