The New York Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1861, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENSETT EDITOR AND PROPRIE "OR. OPPIOE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NaSBAT 34S. TERME cash tn advance. oom cilia’ the conten ‘one tut Bank tile THE DAILY HERALD, noo conte por THE WEEKLY HERALD every by med ewllt tae the current én Wew Vor, $3 per a the European dition coery We Be ae aces Ce paw on Wednesday, af fowr conis per or. ‘annum, VoLONTART CORRESPONDENCE, containing tmportan! | gh Ty EAT DY Famnevdinst Heaveoran 10 Saat ais Larreuus ano Pact ‘sans suut 08. siaicantaied teteenes see MOe 58 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ——— NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broaaway.—) ace Orne. ‘WINTER GARDEN, Rroatway. opposite Bond sirect.— Ommx.Lo—KaTumuine ap Pxrnvciio, hl THEATRE, Bowery.—A Nigut ox Wouoxe oRLD. WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Curruu Pare NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. Wro—Haaiequux Jack—Horsesuon Sosmson rT "8 AMERICAN MUSE! Broadway.—Day and lORSESHOK Rontssoeetvrtne Cumostins, BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, «72 Broad- wey.—Bunteequss, Sones, Danoxs, £0.—Jack Cave, HOOLEY & CAMPBELL’S MINSTRELS, Niblo's Salon, Broadway.—Eruiortan Eoxas, Daxoxs, Bensraves, ‘ko. Tax Moxmens, CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, Bore, Sones Danoxs, Buaixsques, np + a No, 639 Broadway.—Soncs, Daxces, Buz- 4 Broadway.—Tigut Wew York, Friday, February 22, 1861. The News. Mr. Lincoln, the President elect, and suite, left this city yesterday morning, en roufe for the White House. At Jersey City, at Newark, at Trenton, and at all the intermediate points, the populace turned out in crowds to see the Presi- dent. Mr. Lincoln reached Philadelphia at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. The incidents of the journey, together with the address to Mr. Lincoln, and his responses thereto, are chromicled in this morning's paper. The Southern Congress has confirmed President Davis’ Cabinet appointments, as follows :— «+Mr, Toombs, of Georgia. Mr. Memminger, of S.C sc Mr-L. P, Walker, of Ala. The Congress yesterday drafted a resolution di- reoting the Finance Committee to inquire into the expediency of laying an export duty on cotton. The Peace Congress at Washington was en- gaged yesterday in debate. A vote will, it is un- derstood, be taken at one o'clock to-day on the Guthrie adjustment, and should it be defeated the proposition for a National Convention will next be voted on, s In Congress yesterday, the Senate resumed the consideration of the bill providing for the discon- tinuance of the postal service in the seceded States. The Miscellaneous Appropriation bill was also dieeussed. In executive session a large num- ber of appointments were confirmed, principalfy army and navy officers. In the House a report from the special committee, censuring the Secre- tary of the Navy for accepting the resignations of naval officers belonging to seceded States, was presented. Mr. Bocock resumed and concluded *his speech on the Force bill, and the debate on the subject was continued till the expiration of the morning hour. The Washington and Oregon War Debt bill was also disenssed. Considerable business was transacted in our State Legislature yesterday. In the Senate a long debate took place on the concurrent re- solutions relative to the Reciprocity treaty with Canada, calling on Congress for such amendments as will better protect the interests a The annual school appropriation was passed. The bill authorising the Supervisors of New York to raise money by taxation was reported favorably, Other matters, of general as well as local interest, were under con- sideration. In the Assembly the Annual Appro- priation bill was ordered to # third reading. The Capital Punishment bill was again up, and had progress reported, and various other matters of minor importance were gone through with. By the arrival of the Kangaroo at this port and the Nova Scotian at Portland, we have two days later intelligence from Europe, which, however, is not of a very important character, A conference, to be held at Paris, in regard to Syria, has been agreed on between the kuropean Powers, includ- ing Turkey. Lord John Russell's speech on Italian affairs was considered in Paris quite warlike. The siege of Gaeta continued, and there were rumors of an intended surrender. 1,000 scaling ladders have been sent there from Genoa. There has been another change of Ministry in Austria. The famous Titian collection, in possession of the Duke of Marlborough, has been destroyed by fire. Spain continues to be troubled by Carlist con- spiracies. There has been a decline in cotton of one-eighth to one-quarter of a penny on the woek’s sales ending on Friday, the 8th inst. Con- sols were quoted on the evening of the 8th at 91% a 917,. By the arrival of the overland express at Fort Kearny yesterday, we have advices from San Francisco to the afternoon of the 6th instant. The commercial news is important. A panic prevailed mong the dry goods dealers in conseqnence of the failure of Taafe, MoCahill & Co., Solomon H. Bohm & Co, and Thomas Brady. The liabilities of “the first mentioned firm amount to $1,300,000, about half of which is owe at the East. Bohm & Co.'s liabiities amount t6 $580,000. Mr. Brady will, it was thought, be enabled to resume business, ‘Trade generally was very dull. Nothing of im- portance had occurred in the Legislature. The news from Oregon and British Columbia is unim. portant. The Board of Councilmen were in session last evoning, when Mr. Lent offered a preamble and resolution to the effect that the Comptroller re- commends that an application be made to the Legisiature for the restoratien to the Cor- poration of the revenues derived from foreign ing 2 modific tion of the ordinance regulating thé sale of small wares in the streets by pedlars, It scems that lately the police have prevented the pediars from selling in the streets, and if they were entirely prohibited from selling their wares at this period of distress the number of depen- dents upon the city bounty would be multiplied. The paper was referred to the Committee on Or- dinances. The Board concurred to request Hon. Murray Hoffman to prepare & revised edition of a treative upon the estate aud rights of the Cor- Poration, and $2,000 was appropriated for thet purpose. Judge Betts has made an order that the final ar- gument before the Court in the case of the United States against Law and Conover, sureties for ex Postmaster Fowler, shall be heard on Monday morning next. We have five days later news from Port an Prince, up to tho let-inat, ‘The report that Spain had reasserted her claim to 8t. Domingo was stil current, and to this was added a rumor that the Spaniards held the city of 8t. Domingo, and that the People of the North had risen in revolution. The report is probably false, but caused some alarm in Port au Prince. There is no local news of import- ance. j The regular monthly meeting of delegates from the various railroad lines was held yesterday after- noon at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. J. E. Thomp- son, of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, pre- sided, aud Mr. Nathaniel Marsh, of the Eric, acted aa Secretary. The four great Eastern lines were represented. The principal business of the meot- ing was the consideration of the difficulties which have existed between the New York and Boston lines in relation to freight rates on goods for tho West. The Boston line for some time past has been carrying freights at a rate below that of New York, claiming to be entitled to do so on account of the partial employment of steam- boats in transportation, The New York line objected to this, and demanded an increase by the Boston line on account of the more easter- ly situation of its point of commencement. The difficulty was finally adjusted by the latter line consenting to increase its rates ten, eight and five cents beyond that of the regular New York tariff; and the meeting thereupon adjourned tothe third Thursday of March next. The number of inmates under the care of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction at pre- sent is 9,113—an increase of only one for the past week. The number admitted was 1,818, and those discharged, transferred or who died were 1,817. The court martial on Lieut. Barbot, of the Mo- hawk, was occupied yesterday in taking tho evi. dence of Michael Morissey, Corporal of Marines, and Henry Fauber, Captain of the Forecastle. Both men were on the sick list, and had to be brought to the court, which occasioned some de- lay. The evidence on both sides being closed, the accused, on application of his counsel, was allowed till eleven o’clock on Monday next to prepare his defence. The court will meet at eleven o'clock to-day for the despatch of other business. The cotton market yesterday was firmer and more ac tive, the news from the South giving accounts of a falling off in the receipts, especially at New Orleans, while an advaneing tendency in prices brought dut purchasers, including a number of spinners, who bought quite freely. The Liverpool news was not regarded, and the attention of dealers was drawn to tle movements at the South. The transactions, insluding 500 bales sold late in the af ternoon, reached about 4.600 bales, in lols, cloeing on the daais of 112/c. a 117;c. for middling uplands, and at 12: for strict middling do. It was bellevod that cousiderablo quantities were being pledged by plavters to the confederated States, with the view of rais. ing funds, and that Haglish capitalists were on hand to make the necessary advances. Should this prove correct, it will tend to divert considerable quan- tities from the rogular channel of trade, and cause its shipment to Nngland to be made in the moet direct man ner. Flour was firmer and moro active, with sales for export and home use at an improvement of 5c. per bbl. for some grades. Wheat also active and Corn was in better demand, was steady, with » at $15 for prime. Sud&rs were steady, with sales of 600 hhda., 450 boxes and 1¢0 hhde. melado, on terms given elsowbere. Cotte was quiet and sales moderate. Freights were in the main frm, but somewhat irregular, ngagements were moderate. Departure of the Presidemt Klect—The Prospect as Dark as Ever. The President elect has deparied on his way to the federal capital to assume the government ,, of a divided nation; and although we had a great many speeches, and a great deal of fuss and commotion during his visit to the com- mercial metropolis, yet from it all we cannot extract one ray of light thrown upon the disas- ters which are overshadowing the country like a pall. The only indication of anything seri- ously reflecting upon the condition of public effairs is to be found in the remarkable and well timed speech of Mayor Wood, when re- ceiving Mr. Lincoln at the City Hall, and its palpable effect upon the new President. It was perhaps the best speech the Mayor ever made—the briefest and most to the point. It touched to the quick, as was evident from the embarrassment of Mr. Lincoln in the opening sentences of his reply. Vor a moment he had nothing to say, for the simple reason that he does not know what he is going to do when he takes the reins of government in hand, and therefore he resorted to his old slump speaking dodge, and told an anecdote about a ship and her cargo—a misty allegory, without point or purpose. This will not do. It is not what we want in this terrible crisis. The people will not be put off with dodges and anecdotes. The country at this moment is in a fearful plight, with little or no hope in the future to cheer the least despondent minds. Six States have already gone out of the Union, and seven more are making up their minds as to whether they shall follow. In fact, the country is drift- ing to perdition. There are two Congresses sitting in Washington; but one of them isa body of obstinates, and the other a body of fools and fossils. The only intima- tion of a future policy, either for good or evil, comes from Mr. Seward, who is supposed to be the Premier of the new administration. Mr. Seward is a practical and shrewd man, who recognizes the full extent of the peril surrounding us. But he is hampered and obstructed by the rabid politicians of the republican party, who are endeavoring to break up the Cabinet which is now partially con- structed. The first thing the new President goods sold at auction in this city. A resolution directing the Oorporation Counsel to draft and submit a suitable memorial to the Legislature upon the above recommendation was adopted. It Appears that the city, a number of years since, yielded the collection of these revenues to aid in the constraction of the Erie canal, with the under- Standing that on its completion they should re- fume the collection of revenue derived from sales of foreign goods by auction, The average annaal revenue accruing from this source is $120,000, A Fesolution was adopted calling upon the Croton Board for information as to the number of streets paved with Belgian pavement and the cost of the work. The Board accepted on invitation from the First division of the State militia to ro. ceive a marching salute this afternoon in front of the City Hall. A communication was received from the Mayor announcing the death of Cornelius W. Lawrence, and recommending the passage of suitable resolutions, which was ordered on file, Subsequently the Board concurred with tho Alder- men in the adoption of appropriate resolutions, His Honor also sent ina communication suggest should do when he reaches Washiagton is to complete the filling up of his Cabinet. But a matter of far more importance than the selec- tion of his constitutional advisers is to give to the country his own ideas and the measures he intends to propose. Lie will have to take the whole responsibility; and surely never since the early days of the nation’s trials and suifer- ings did a heavier responsibility rest upon any man. Not even had Washington himself o more difficult and important part to play than now falls to the lot of Abraham Lincoln. The country balances upon the verge of chaos. Throughout the length and breadth of the land the throes of dissolution are being felt. Here in New York—from which, like the blood from the heart, throbs the life that sustains and quickens the whole commercial system—overy- thing is stagnant; trade Is paralyzed, merchants are breaking down and mochanics are unem- ployed. The current of commorce is frozen in embodiment in the person of the Chevalier vastly edifying. Here is one about the South:— in open rebellio2 against have bron degraded and demoralized by slavery—of an NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1861 } THE NATIONAL CRISIS. In:portant Report of Mr. Dix Relative to the Secession Movement, ite channely an? yet never at any former pc* | The Force Bill in Congrcss—Its Atroctous | whole of the «ceding States would be resto."ed tiod did all the elements of flourishing trade Object and Purpose Revealed. - to the Union without the shedding of one dro? aud prosperity oxist to the same oxtent asnow.| Tho speech of Mr. Bocock, of Virginia, in| of blocd. But let Congress refuse or neglect There are forty millions worth of merchandise | the Nouse of Representatives, which we pub- | todo this, and let them pass the Force bill, and in the bonded warehouses waiting for a mar-| lished Nesterday, contains a cearching analysis | they dig a bloody grave for democracy, in ket, and nearly forty millions ia specie 1) ing | of the prvisions of the Force bid now before | which will be buried the hopes and liberties of in the banks waiting to be employed. In Begg or swnpncar- ator adegphrgea countless millions of the humai race. everything that oan form the basis of a | sity. vee y t is not un- nation’s prosperity there is abundance. | constitutional and im ponfiict with those seo | Masse — om Prarvona—Fhe dlder in agriculture, mineral prodvists, manu- | tiong.of the fundamental law which limit the | Disraeli, in his “Curiosities of Literature, facturing facilities—yet all ig reduced to } PB'poses for which the aiflitia arc to be used, Ieeroe Sige almost reuked with ee absolute stagnation, and althoug# money | #24 limit the power of the President us com- “Anatomy of Melancholy” in its range # was never so plenty, the national government | mander-in-chief of tho artay @nd navy, and of | Jct, bes givest us some protty fair instances cannot obtain a loam. Government stooks, | the militia when the latter it cwled out to sup. | the working ef diplomacy, and the subfe which wed to be run after at twelve per cent | Press insurrection, butit invests the President | ™cans which diptomatists employ to seoure slf premium, are now hawked about at tem per | With dietaterial powers, and gives him at the | the advantages, real und possible, of their pe- cent discount. What is felt in New York will | #ame tise an unlimited contro¥ of an unlimited | “ition. They wisely provide against every soon be felt all over the country to its remotest | 8my, to be used at his discretiowin the inva- | CoBtingency, and whenever a treaty is to be part, and the wheels of commerce overywhere’ | sion of any sovercign State in the Union. It framed, a despatch written or an act done, will come to a dead lock. is an attempt to subvert the constitation by an | ‘heir great atudy. is to minke it rend both back- Unless the President elect abjures ancedotes | set of Congreas, and to create the ineoming Wart ae Teee with equal gain to thom- and pointless speeches, and adopts some mes- | President a military dictator, 5 7 saga é it * es ea rcorrane we sures at once to settle the present diffieulty—-f ‘The constitution gives the President power | found to —— requently left oper to mis- not a national convention, for that is too slow | to*eall out and to use the militia for the sup- construction, 78, of a: in their own and too barren of pemmanent good; but some | proseion of insurrection in any State on the an; bine ae in Bice acy plan tdat will operate quickly—the wholecoun- | cull'of the Legislatwy of that State, or om the persis ont ‘iets pes es * try wild be gone to rum—utterly destreyed by | call of the Governor if the Legislature stould cial ere * le meanings’ constitute the a crisis, which the fanatical anti-slavery politi- | not bein session, and the reason of the provision. rule rather titan the exception. cians have been lodoring for the last thirty | isassigned—namoly, that’ the constitution gusr- Just as diplomativts construe ead trim every- years to bring about. antees ty every State a republican form of gov- | ‘hipg, and chaage their tactics according to ex- ernment; and the federal power is bound to inter- |) pap foie om pecans beers be , when legally called'upor by the authori- |; aye: the State, rat prevent: its Taek by |* party purpose The card which Mases physical violence. There is only one other |' Greeley published’ in the Tribune of Wednes- case where the President has any constitutional |:4@Y last, in whieh" he defends himsolf from authority to-use the militia, amd! that is in re- | ‘the sepersions cast’ upon him chiefly in refe- pclling invesion in the event‘of foreign war. ,7ence to his share~im the Chicago ptetform, But this new Force bill, in the face ef the arti- ) “#ord# us an instance: of how platforms are \ele of the constitution which limits the powers or en ‘The philosopher of tho Zribune of the President by declaring that what is not ae ; expressly granted rf reserved te the States and | sory in akitebing down the ropaalon ofa, agency in softening down the republican platform at Chi- to the people respectively, authorizes the chief | (#89 Tcertainly did lator long and earnestly in the magistrate to cal out the whole power of the Platform Committee to divsst that platform of all need- — cil neove or irritating features—such as that con- aymy and navy, together with the’ militia, and " volanteers in omy numbers, to invade a State Sarit cmasend sem amr net it sl b. men! BI CBS ‘posits ly ake possibiay an‘ subjagate it, under the pretext of “enforc- ing:the laws of the Union,” not morely without every Territory, whether thiré be or of it3 geing thither. It is-a diplomatic axiom” that every negotia- tion shoul di d at he invitation of ‘the Legialatare-eGovernse | (on See be 20" ConduINE, aad every: treaty: of saeh State, but in express opposition to their What the Southern Congress Intend to Do. CONDITION OF AFFAIRS AY FORT SUMTER Devate om the Ferce Bill in tite House. PROVEEDINGS OF THE PESCE CONGRESS, &, te, he. IMPORTANT ACTION OF THE SOUTHERN QONFEDERACY. Wasurcron, Fev. 21, 1861. Information ‘rvcciyy 1 to-day trom Montgomery indt. cates that the Congreas will regard auy attempt on the past of the United Stater to maintain its-autBority in the Confederate Stata as am ,act of war, whicl will be fol. } lowed by instantezeous' i prisal. The colleetion of the |. revenue aad the reténtisme ‘f the forts it would take as an attempt to hold them iw, subjugation. No Tariff bill has ag-yot'psa 3¢4 the Congress. One will ; undoabtedly be adoptéd’ iva. day or two, differing not essentially in ite character tron \ the present tariff tn foroe im the United States. Id'will' ap, oly to all goods imported from ports north of Witniugtoa , Delaware, and proper ‘Ponds will be exacted ftdan ths-a& ippers from slavehold- ing States continuing in the Unies. to guard against sham transactions. ‘The militia of the sear wil!’ borin voked at once in the ‘event of blockade. Betweem ffvym 14 one hundred pri- vateors are in readiness for the ¢ ‘can, and wilt com- ‘mence operations at a moment's we “ning. It is aot im- Proboble’ that the first victime of” sia 4 retaliatory policy may be the California gold ships and'a he Atlantic ateam- ers. There are over threo hundred’ 9 rts, botween the Capes of Virginia and the Prazos, inue ‘hich they could be carried'with safety. Tho Now Eogiand shippinginterest‘ism Werstood to be clamoroas ’against coercion. Leading Ges 063 men here Tae Caevauier Wsee's Orion of 8 Sovurn.—Dickens, in the very best of his receat works, “Dombey and Son,” introduces a quear character, by name Bunsby. Bunsby is a mazt ner, and is referred to by his friend Cuttle to de- cide a most important point—to wit, the proba« bilities concerning the good ship Son and Heir, which has been some time at sea, and is sup- posed to have been lost. After examining the charts, comparing dates and: stimulating his mental faculties with copious: gtasses of grog, Bunsby declares, first, that his: same is Jack Bunsby; second, that what he says he stands to; third, as to the special matter at issue: “Do I believe this here Son and Heir’s gone down? Mayhap. DoIsay so? Which? ff a skipper stands out by Sen’ George’s: Chanael, making and provision so worded, that, while securing: for the Downs, what's right aheadof him? The the most advantages to its-framers, it should at Goodwins. He isn’t forced’ to rem upon the | authority. The new bill gives himvauthority | 114 sane time present as few unpalatable fea- beri ee cet alone couid furnish’ ya ivateers sutfl- Goodwins, but he may. Tho bearings of | uot merely ghia the laws in aid of tures to the opposite party as possible. All| “a win ected tack een: OE os ud the eourts and a riqnenaiier U conti civil power in a State, but to employ the whole military power"to enforce any order he or his agents may choose to issue, however arbitrary and despotic. A postmaster, for examplo} could embroiPthe whole couatry in civil war in pur- suance of this bill, And furthermors;to cap the climax of the tyranny, all the military force of the load is to be put under the articles of Ben tects <BR A. aT war, and*should any member of the militia Eyerosi10 Measures or TH ConstTitvTionaL make any harsh comment on the measures of | GoveRym=nr iy Mextco—The firmness and Congreso or the proceedings of the Prosident | moderation with which President Juarez and (“speak Cisrespectfully of them”), he is liebleto | his advisers are proceeding in the reorganiza- the tender mercies of » court martial. What | tion of the-central government augur well for more, we should like to know, is necessary to | the futuro of Mexico. Whilst they are carefully the completion of a military despotism? And | avoiding all appearance of vindictivenoss in if such a power is now permitted to be em- | their measures, they aro striking at the root of ployed to crush the people of the Southern | ell fhoseanarohical influences v:bieh have hither- States, how long will it be till its iron heel is | to defeated-the efforta of the liberals to carry planted om the necks of the freemex of the | out the reforms necessary to rostere peace to North? their unhappy country. They have begun by Nothing can better illustrate the follg and | expelling the Pope’s Nuncio, the Spanish and the desperate wickedness of the repubitean | Guatemalen Ministers, the Archbishop of Mexico members of Congress than this bill. It: pro- | and five of- his diocesaus, whe wero the soul ceeds entirely upon: the principles that the | and centrs.of the reactionary party. The next Southern States are. forcign enemy, and that | step, we trust, will be the confiscation of the this observation lays in ‘the pplication on it. That ain’t no part of my duty. Avast there, keep a bright lookout for’ard, and good luck to you.” The novelist proceeds to state that Captain Cattle was im- mensely delighted with Bunsby’s oracular giv- ing out, which has since been immortalized in the familiar expression ef “an opinion as is an opinion.” For our own part we-hed always looked upon Bunsby as an impossible carica- ture; but latterly we have found ‘Lis actual asperities should be carefaity smoothed over, so that a10oss might almost nppear a gain, and thereby the loser be reconcilea to his loss, or the- negotiators won over to mutual concessions, That Massa Greeley is a beliover in this line of policy is evident; for by his own admission he sought to-make the platform offensive to as few and acceptable to as many as ponsible. Paria International Conferencs;whou'the- ding Euro pean Powers did away with privatocrmmg, the United States protested warmly against it, and refused to surrender ite right to cal}: out tho “, tilitia of ‘the seas.” The revolted States now propose & > use for wolf defenc what the federal government«ivem od essen. | tial to its'ov7n national safety and -pretection. . Arrangements, it is said, have been-madeak ‘oady ta California, by-which the Pacific ocean canbe tule 9D care of by privatesra at a few days notice; abould ne cossity” all for it. Philip Cleyton, late Assistant Socrotery of the Trea- sury, received.a despatch late tii# evening: from. Mont- gomory, stating that Mr. Toombs had been eppoinu “d by President Devis Secretary of Stats, end Mr: liommi ger, cf Gouth Carolitm Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. ( ‘lay- tam was alzo informed that he had: been appointed | As- gtant Secretary of the Treasury. Webb, a cellection of whose opinions-would be Jefferson Davis represents a band of pestiferous traitors governinent—of men who ignorant, arrogans, law-despising and God donying people, whoso Hvcs are spent in scenes of violence and who,boast of their reokless disregard of all that elovasce san above the beast. That is “an opinion as is an opinion;” but the difficulty is that Webb, like Bunsdy, is not original in his idea. Garrison, Phillips, Parker, Pilisbury, Sumner and all the abolitionists of the Massachusetts school have vsed the same language for the last thirty years. It is well to know, or at least to believe, that Mr. Lincoln and his Prime Minister, Mr. ADFAIRS AT FORT SGHIBR. Wasuiasron, Bpb. 22, 1361. OMoia! advices were received t> day from Fort Sumt er, bat nothing of special luterest is therein mentioned. It appears, however, that the garrisons ia went of mom >y, but there is xe convenient mears-by which the govgra- Toent can sunply this demand. A member of Congress from Now York. received ' this roorning the following important letser from am office r in. Yert Sumter, dated the 18th inst. After roferri@ g to ome incideatal matters, he says — My desiro is to give you a fow reliable “ Congress has a right to wage war against | overgrown revenues of the church, with a view | (UF situation. From the little pews we seo, it Is app went Seward, do not entertain the opinions of the | tom, Immediately after Mr. Bocock’s speech, | to their eppropriation to charitable and educa- | {unter us rosy maccusate od, carclictee We ‘el Chevalier Webb. They will fortify their Posi- | Mr. Stevens, of Penneylvania, in the course of | tional purposes, after the clorgy are decently | {ceived no zeinforcemente, art _Lnow cf nono tlh at are: tions by keeping in view the fact that the North ; S x e p oe roivfor ements to this. KAR gon ee eee Ho [aot tae North | the debate on the Navy bill, declared that it | provided for. It was the failure of energy in It probiers,and the sttetapt “by a and the South are united by the tles of-kindred, was the design of his party, by means of that | carrying out this programme which caused the rey map will aires fe or sr ant soy a by matrimonial’ alliances and a thousend bonds | yin, to invade ae Southern States and retake | fall of the Comonfort administration. ‘The | "are faprozmiblo, nd ‘cay soeasacea Sa Sp sce a ue sgh Ry ~ babes Ger the forts. The Foroe bill, therefore, is plainly | new government would appear to be sensible lange garrieon, and “abundanb suppl wea bef opinion is that the Chevalior Webb's views will | intended for tho.raising of an army of invasion. | of this from its prcliminsyy measures, and } ‘Ort woud detain o large army, vecoee | it? for be maieeDy changed in the course cf month | Ang if the opinions of the organ of a party be | if it oaly has the firmness to persevere conditions are ‘pot deine adn A Nargo: fom ety et i a ote oe meantime the new Bunsby any evidence of its designs, we have abundant | as it has begun, thore is hope that Visit tated ene parpoe ey — SROMIS ANEP CON. testimony in the ootumns of the New York Tyi- | tranquillity and prosperity are about jo heed 9 25 Jee eat it, and to Presmext Lixconx axp Mayor Wooo—The | 2U%e 88 to the atrocious purpose for which the | to dawawpon a country whieh has never yet, fort, cod Jootly give Ua Teach Aro poate 3 3 speoches delivered at the Cit Halon. the oc- | mvading army is to be pnt in» motion. | since ithas fallen under tha.rule of the Latin | Py? Ae as” oo ay ag ben rapat oe ., ert) One of the editors and proprietors of that jour- | race, hada fair chance of developing Its re- | would aivet us more a M Whout. Tnere} easion of the official reception of the President al; ‘writiner-dvous Washinaton, asks (in. Wednes- anny 58 sad reflection that, whilst.| i dest nostempt ox the part of say goldiors or Ia elect are eminently suggestive and characteris- ys a, amassed pants aed Olmak re Ment ies . mee g . Rae Sea hase coe ie peed tic. The Mayor stated that it became his duty nth ie 7 berry ter tes ating thelr 62} poeaibiity of rouniting. tho soatveres f ragments of oar everybody seo how easy it will be, {{ hostilities } vernment and attaining that unity which was. between tho sections arise, to makathe destruc- | alone.wanting to their welfare, we should Yo, tion of slavery, the issue of the war’, We are in | driftiag back upon the-very ovils from which conflict on the question. If we come to blows | they have had such ditigulty in emancipaiing it will be stilt about slavery. And: what then | thomelves. is inevitable? Why simply this,and nothing more, and nothing less—-a fight ‘e.see whether | 45). new galop, will be given at the Academy this oven. slavery shall goup or go down. The issue | inz, and at Brooklyn on Saty:rday for the benefit of Signor cannot be escaped. The war will be waged to | Brignoli. During next weok.the new opera will te wiih. crush tho eggs of the reptile thet has hatched | ¢r=#n temporarily in eeder to.give the prinaipal. artists tho brood of traitors and revolutioniate.” cme rest, and Mite Icaaisa Kellogg will mako her .dgbut Hore then is boldly avowod. the design of |" Pst” the bid, which is the first overt act of a flendish, City, Tov reite toda viel diabolical conspiracy to send an army into the tng & Steworiginated ou. the seodad Southern States in order to. raise a servile its | poor of the dwelting honse No. 17 Groat “enes strost, surrection and to exterminate the white men of | owned and ocoupiod by J.T. Lord. The firo vas caneed mingo, with all its bloody horrors. This leas | dence. Thore was no brick arch under the grate nor Phillips and the other loading abolitionists. | the builcing will amount to it $y insured for The organ of the radical republicans now. pro- | {image to the turnaure wil amount so abou B50, he claims that such is the design of its party, | ed for $4,100 in the Powery Insuraace Comp: Nor is this a meve brutua fulmen. Thousands upon thousands’ of fanatics can bo found at the North to volunteer their services to the new President to carry out the provisions of the bill. Thus, instead of pro- tecting States “against domestic violence,” which, accordiag to the constitution, is a main design of that instrument, the declared object couniey. Of this Slata.we have wole ind no desire, THE PLACE, CONT Woaaauvcine ‘The Peaco Congress to-day cebawd tion of the ealvation of the Union. Ur. Goodrich, Licwtenant Gover sr of Massachnsstts, acd a prominent member of. the Republican National Committee, addrévaed the CamyeaiW nto the point made by & Virginian, that tke South only@ ed for her constitn- tional rights. Mz. Goodrich.wad over the whele ground of grievance and could no’Gnd.© herein the North had im apy measure withheld fromthe south any of her consti- tutional righto. Thoreforo he could not eee any good reason for compromise 3r.cOu# ossion Mr. Smith, Now Yorkg? concluded his specch com- menced yesterday. Thi ra -y highly spoken of. Tt was agroed to-de7.ta’v gin to vote al one o'clock te- morrow. Tue first question Sosa upon the amendments to the majority report. When? ho report tiself is reached, thom it will be taken oparti@ 6 by article, and amended and discuseed and votudkuF on, when speeches will be listened to five maiantes. Af + the various articles are disposed of the pronaiWeay. ag a wholo will be acted upon, aad from rrceont ayy} \nooe it will ho defeated. Tha qnestion,tlxr .comos on Mr. Baldwin's proposition for a constitutiase | Convention, which, it is believed, will be 9 1. Tf ,, it will not go to Congress for rat}sica tion, but ianmey iately to tho Legislatures of the several Staies for eF - action. Tho speow « to-day aro regarded as indicating a better feeling 2%. | sides than has heretofore beon manifestet. The vite, 9 y:thern men were not #0 impervious, and the moderaee republicans more conciliatory. to tender to the guest of the city aa official wel- come, and thes brought in a graceful and well timed allusion to the distracted condition of the country. The city of New York, he said, was deeply interested in the matter, and looked to Mr. Lincoln for “a restoration of fraternal rela- tions between the States—only to be accom- plished by peaceful and conciliatory means.” It is quite evident that the President elect had received a hint that the Mayor intended to refer to the direct question before the country, but the adroitness with which the allusion was made evidently embarrassed Mr. Lincoln. He de- clared that he was not behind any man in de- votion to the Union, and veferred in an ambigu- ous way to the “commercial greatness” of New York. His figure—comparing the Union to a ship, and the people, with their material inte- rests, to its cargo—was trite in its inception and clumsy in its manner of application. The words did not flow glibly from the new President, and he seemed very glad to arrive at the last sentence, “allow me to come to a close.” Itis to be sincerely hoped that Mr. Lincoln will profit by his metropolitan experi- ences, and will understand that the heart of the country, as well as of New York, beats strongly for the Union, and that the Mayor's suggestion (that the fraternal relations between the States INCE. +x, Fob. 21, 1861. / tho gensral ques- Orme Marrsrs.—Tho (Bello im Maschera,”’ wits Ma- Police Intelligerge, Aitrery Sonemny ov 4 Canck POR $60—Charka Wholp- ley waa brought before Justice Osborno, at the Lower Police Court, yesterday, on a chazge of forging a chock for $409 on the Chemical Bank, under the following etr- comsances.—Franois Tumbeity, Li, D., of the Fifth Ave- nue Motel, deposed that he kept ap sccowst in the Chemi- cak Bank; on the 26th of Dececaber last he drew a check for $100, the filling up of which was executed in his room. 2 TE® ¥# oposition to be yoted on to-morrow by the Hence can only be restored by conciliatory moasures) * by the ar nt further says that he has siceo ‘ethe pits vat of ‘an clti ag the Em- | 0! the Force bill is to creato domestic violence bey “om ade tor a, “porveat tohace boca | COB” neo ix substantially the border State resolutions. s the sentiment o good citizens in the Em- | 5 in, goutt States, destroy their institu- | med by him, and dated Pecémber 29, which proves to | TA vends of the measure say there are usmistakenble oxamiaing said check compiaiesnt tions and the property guaraateed to them by | states thet Ge aitieg up BE handwrit- y uy 10 prisoner. the constitution, and lay waste the ay land Bie ~~ obra hin was so reat ‘at the with fire and sword. And, therefore, it is that | doctor immediately suspected that Whe piey was at the pottom, hence he caused Li om Jefferson Davis is raising an army to defend | The prisoner denied the charge proferredmunsti.i the South, and will probably be in command of 100,000 men by tho #h of: March. hs By ener tan on aupuie a canal the committee, which the oe has published, with ; td oarét at thy Motropaitan tel 183 wae eau i! | fe oteen wn a oe one or ceo mnyorty, theta Now, we submit that this Force bill is not the | mateterme with th 7 way to deal with citizens of the United States, who are not a fozoign enemy. It is not the way to bring baok the seceding States, or pre- Wrpibe mes of tho latter being introduced at the Chemical Bank, fponing members of the Conference ave this evening more vent the border States from following their ox- hopeful. 1 Imtell! ’ Capt. Sem. Whtings of Bampstel Wa, stopping at ample. Instead of adopting this bill, the pro- House Viobard “nd. of Alb: Hi to be voted on in every State. Let Congress ith: ne eee anny Hon. i. A. Poltoa, of Cold Springs; Mr. Owens and J, pire State, be a forgery. \ {EWE ations that it will receive the support of the Com- TW sioncrs from Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, ® Lodo Toland, and from all tho border slave States, witt 4 ho exception of one or two from Virginia ‘The impreasion prevails, however, that the report af Tur Best Puatyvorm Arrex Ari.-—It will be noticed in the speeches of the President and Vice President elect that they have no faith in the Cabinet which is shortly to assume execu- tive powers, in the new Congress, the fossil Peace Convention or the politicians, They put their trust in Divine Providence, and, we presume, take the New Testament for their platform. The doctrine there inoulcated, “peace on earth, good will to men,” is just the very best for the present crisia, Mr. Lincoln and his advisers will find that it will work mach better than the Chicago platform. So let them stick to Divine Providence, and eut the politicians altogether. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, Wasnixoton, Fol, 22, 1861. wr TARurY mr. The Senato’s amendmenite to tho Tariff bith are ouly one hundred ond fifty. They havo so chungod it that ita ort. ginal friends never would recognise it aa the Morrill bi. Tt will undergo @ fearful ordeal in sho House, and the chances are that it will bo killed. It is a very bad Monsure yet, amd ix destined, if adopled, to do much harm. SUPER DOTELAS AND THT REPYLUCAN DAUSIONIET. JIndge Youglss made some emphatic and startling docks rations in the Senate today on the Postal bill. Me Tun Corp Swevtonn vor Greuny & Co— We have noticed among the political features of Lincoln's reception at Albany and New York that he has been surrounded by republicans of Thurlow Weed’s way of thinking. Greeley There is litle prospect, even thongh the Conference, the New York Hotel. adopt the report, that Congress would do anything with F. Raton, of Charteston,S. C.; ©. Yan Heguy re, of Phita. | it The ultra republicans would resort to every exyotient deiphia; Sharles Howlett, of San Fyapoiace: J umes Adama, | to kill it, of Buthio; J. R, De Forrest, of Naw Yee,, and G. W. per course for Congress is to concede to the | my, of San Francisco, wre wopping ‘at ‘the Lafarge Southern States the full measure of their con- . Commodore Agsoaerens,, of fF ‘Uv.ited States Navy; stitutional rights; to adopt immediately the Poskiorhcen of Gonnecticuky A. » Wis ae Severe Crittendon or Bigler resolutions by @ majority | T © Eyles» ot Liverpoo};T T. Big omer and H. & Lodges, of both houses, and sond them to the people von! Ginens tron the Ay vor House. try that plan, and the people, wo pledge, our- | 4: W Gray, of Visginaa, 7s ise Holle, of long Kong; selves, will endorse the resolutions by over- | Beaton: P. Willlama. Jo. , of Mobile, aad 7.8. Hoftren, of wholming majorities—in this Stexe, for in- | ut) Culina, are ¥opping at the Bt. Nicholas Elotel, stance, by not less than 150,000. Thus in ton days the question might be virtually settled, Edwards, of tha United States Army; . B. Roberta, of bitnois; W. Sla#, of Ohio; T. P. Handy, A. Stone and’ J. met the President elect on the railway; but L. Wetherhy @f Cleveland; D. Fraser, of Gunada: J. Park’ | chargett that thon ns ; A 7 4 'Y 4 ‘© Was & body af republicans on the floor after the party reached this city the Spruce | for the basis would be laid Zor embodying those | il, of RA eh a a Hi'shaw of Kon, | Of the Senate who were doing their utinost to bresk mp street philosopher subsided. Weed was con- | campromises in amendments to the constitu- | tucky, oo stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. tho government. They woreas much disunionists, per ee, stantly on hand, and at Grinnell’s breakfast the y tion. The border States would be satisfied, at Colceten ents Dilly as a Rhetts nod Yanceys. His declaration produced ere all of the Sew Bs revolutionary abolitionists of the North and Goont —Part 1—Nos, 1261, 1250, 1201, 12 scabies cd perl mgticnisg om ~ yor 1200, 1957, 1281. 1980, 1286, 1290, 1208, 1 bruvelptapratomnchay ype stripe. Straws show which way the wind the revolutionary fire-caters of the Sonth would in004y, 1807. Part 2—Fluot vw. Parmley eu) phy blows. be Captain Moige, late in command of the fort at Tortu- be put down together, and in ais months the © other cause will be oaiied this term. 694, @rrived here today, and haa been rsipstated