The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1861, Page 6

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A despatch | from Savannah states that Ggvernor Krown, of Georgia, on Thursday seized the sxip Martha J. Ward, the bark Avjuster, and the brig Harold, all belonging to New York. These ves-els wil be de- tained until the arms seized by the New York po- lice are given uv. We continue to chronicle the progress of Mr. Lincoln and suite. The President elect yesterday morning hoisted the Americen flag over Indepen- dence Hall, at Phitadeiphia, amid the cheering of | @ vast concourse of spectators. Subsequently he proceeded to Harrisburg. Along the route the people turned out generally to wel- come the party. At Harrisburg Mr. Lincoln was received by the Pennsylvaria Legislature, and addresses were delivered by the presiding officers of the two houses, and by Mr. Lincoln, The President elect will reach Baltimore to-day. There are some symptoms of a demonstration at Baltimore against Mr. Lincoln, but the police arrangements will prevent any indiguity being offered to him. Mr. Hamlin, the Vice President, reached Washington yesterday. The one hundred and twenty-ninth anniversary of the birthday of Washington was yesterday, in accordance with the recommendation of the House | of Representatives, celebrated as a national holi- | dey, In this city the military display was ex- ceedingly brilliant. The Order of United Ameri- cans celebrated the day appropriately, at Niblo’s, where Hon. Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, delivered an oretion. In the evening the republicans partook of a dinner at the | Astor House, when speeches on the con- | dition of the country were delivered by Mesers. Evarts ena Conkling. At Washington | . there was au unfortunate difliculty. The troops stationed there had been ordered to parade in honor of the day. Several Southern members of the Peace Congress waited on the Pre: aud | stated that if the troops paraded they should regard | it as a menace to the Sout whereupon the | President countermanded the order. This caused | considerable excitement, and a strong pressure | was brought to bear on the President to ‘duce him to revoke the last mentioned order. The y order, ly President was finally induced to revoke th and the parade, which is said to have been attractive, procecded. ‘The Pence Congress at Washingioa yeorday | were engaged a portion of the day in debating the application for adr m ofa delegate froin Kan- sas. The subj ae referred to the on Credent on the various proposition and the Crittenden piun unlikely that the Gut » will share th fate. The repubiican Commissi : solved to agree to nothing but a call for a National Convention, and it is not certain thet they are har- monion on thal pe Committee | commenced voting before it yesterday, as rejected, and it is not | The Congre same Aers appear We publish in to-day"s paper ay inporiant of. cial report on Ub of the secession move. ment Soath, It was cor dito Con. of the Treasury it embraces th lowing points 1.—The inpediments to commer a control of te ports of Mobile, Ubarleston cola and Now Orieens 2.—The control of the commerce of the Mi sippi Valley by requiring the duties © entered at New Orleans for delivery at Bt. Louis, Nashville, Loviavitie and Cincinnati to be paid to the State of 8.—The seizure by Louisiana States moneys, as well » tors in the Mint and Sub-'T and other places. 4 —The seizure of revenne cutters by arrange- | meut between their commanders and the Collev- tors of Mobile, New Orleans and Charleston. The expulsion of the sick and invalid pa- | tients at the United States Hospital at New Or- | lewns, in order to provide accommodations for | Louisiana troops. | lo Congress yesterday the Senate discussed the | amendwent to the Post Route bill providing for | the overiand mail service, and the bill making ap- | propriations for the suppression of Indian hostill- ties in California. The Miscelianeous Appropria- tion bill was token up, and Mr. Gwin renewed the | proposition to carry out the contract respecting | the Chiriqui Isthmus, but no action wes taken on | it. The House was not in session, | Mr. Van Wyck, member of Congress from | Mew York, was assaulted on Timreday night in! Washington by three persone to him unknown. Tle | was wounded with a heavy knife, and wiile des- perately resisting, was knocked down. Resover- ing himself somewhat, he discharged his pistol at bis sasoilants, and believes the rhot to sk effect upon one of them, The party then retreated. Mr. Van Wyck reached his hotel in a weak, but not dangerous condition The upper branch of our State Legislature was all goods isiwun | of all United | of private deposi: | ury at New Orieuns ' | | co | ing yesteraay NEW YORK HERA not in session yesterday. The Assembly met, but transacted no business—a «qfforum not being pre- xent—and adjourned to Monday at seven P. M. ‘The Spanish war steamer Velasco, from Havana, | arrived below at a late hour last night. The mails by the Nova Scotian, at Portland, reached here yesterday morning; wid the arrival of the America at Halifax gives us news from Europe to the evening of the 10th inst., fulty two days lucer. The most important items are the following: — ‘The new Prussian government declares, in regard to Italian affairs, that while adhering, tu a certain extent, to non-intervention, Prussia cannot, against the interests of Germany, advise the ces- jon of Venctia, The cession of the Principality of Monaco to France is an established fact. A line of eteamers is to be at once established between Belgium and the Southern Unised States, the contract in regard to which has becn made be- tween the former country amd the State of Georgia. Im regard to the Anderson extradition : Lord Palmerston has sent an order to the Canadien authorities not to surrender Anderson, His lor.!- ship expressed his doubts whether the habeas cor- pus writ of the Court in England woul! be obeyed. Spain is represented as becoming very wacasy in regard to ihe secession movement. The proxi- mity ofher valuable West Indiin possessions to the seceded States, which she regards a3 so mavy filibuster nurseries, is the cans of her anxiety, Within her own borders rumors of Carlist con- spiracies are rife, and trouble is expected. Strong bodies of Sardinian troops were on their way through Umbria to Gaeta, where the sieg continues, but rather irregularly. It was expect- ed that more regular siege operations would be menced #bout t Oth inet. Syria is again much disturbed. Parties of Druses are in arms, and some frightful seenes have occurred. The Porte protests against the ned French occupation of the country. At latest advices the cotton market at Liver- pool was ts'. Console were quoted at 919, 4 92. The stewi hi» Bienville, Captaia Bulloch, from New Orleans sisi Havana, arrived here yesterday afternoon, with dates from the latier to the 13th, Senor Pacheco had lef. Hayaua on the Velasco, but it appears General Miramon ia still in that city, where apartr ad been takeu for his family, who were «x; ¢te! rom Vera Cruz. The exiled Mexican birhujs had arrived there froia New Oricans. The sugar market was heavy, | with a downward tendency. The Comr is.ioners of Emigration he!d a meet- te consider the annual report, which, however, was nut ready for presentation, In another column will be found a communica- tion from a well-infori..ed correspondent, on the effect of the increu-ed duties on steel proposed by the Morrill tariff. ‘Lhe writer contends that should this measure be carried, it will inflict incaiculable injury on our cutlery and sharp edge tool manu- facturers, as experience has shown that the best. qualities of steel cannot be made in this country. ‘The Corr E.xchacge was closed yesterday, and no trade of monws.t wm breadstuils was transacted. The few sales made were outeide operations, and at figures which did not vary materially from the previous day's prices, Cotton Wus again timer apd active, with sales of 4.000 bales, about 2.600 of which were in transit. The market closed on the busia of 114¢c. a 120. for middling uplanas. In freight the business was light, while rates were ua changed. The Bloody Programme of the Radical A. publicans. Whatever deubi way bave existed before as to the intentions ot ie leaders of the re »ublican party, there cannot be a shadow of doubt now, and the moet skeptical and iacredulous can no longer hesitste in coming to the conclusion that ther policy is war against the Southern States, war no: to bring them back into the confederation, for they are well aware that it never could be attended with any such effect, but war to the knife io exierminate the white race in the South, and set the negro free in | every State from the Ohio tothe Rio Grande. The ideas and designs of a party are best known, not from individuals here and there, but from the declarations of its recognized or- gans. OF all the o:guns of the republican par- ty the iw York 7ri/une stands at the head. It is true it is more immediately and specially the orgun of the radical and uluwa wing of the republicans; but fiom all appearances that is pow the strongest element in the party, and will force the weaker and conservative element with it, just as in che coiton States of the South the secessionisis ab-ocbed and carried with them the Union mea, -v tuat now there is but one party in the six Confederate States. What, then, does the Tribune announce with authority as the programme of the republican party? Here are the brutal and bloody words:—“If war between the sections once be- gins in earnest, it will be of necessity a war to extinguish slavery, a* being the cause of our national disorders in the past, the threatening disiurber of the rational peace in the future, and the cause of ti woe itself. And this war will not be conewcted on the soil of the free States, according to Mr. Seif Davis, bat on that soil where the evil stands which demands re- moval.” “It will be of necessity a war to extinguish slavery.” So that wte: all, it now appears that the repudiation by republican leaders of John Brewn’s method o: overthrowing slavery bad a mental! reservation in it, and the mian- ing was that the horse and cutthroat assassin who headed tue anced raid into Vir- ginia for the ourpose of bindlog a servile in- sucrection was only a little pre nature—a few months abead of the time. What be did was only imprudent as ++ ger ed himself; but so far from being wreme 9) Was Go's work—the prelude to the voge uy -frile which it is de- signed to commence wen toe inauguration of Mr. Lincoln. The Tribune says, “ii war between the see- tions once begins,” then it will be a war for the destruction of slavery, but itis the fnten- ion of the radical republicans that it should begin, and their pln. bringing it on is by an attempt ' ‘» forts under the pretence of po’ +. oral property, and by an attempt to cus » aw. of this confo- deracy in States which uc o # belong to it, to collect trivute by an army and navy from States wh'ch are no longer represented in the Congress of this Union, well knowing that such proceedings wi ~*~. “bly lead to a bloody collision and to «ie ©} \ uc as they did at the time of the first ¥ vd, when an attempt to enforces the law.’ collecting « tax on tea when the colonies were not represented in the Lritish Parliament resulted in a seven years’ struggle and the achievement of their inde- pendence, In no other wey can a war with the cotton States reanlt, ua. © revical republicans know it They do ne desire to bring back the cotton States, ror to reiein the border slave States, for they .ncs at ‘he first shot fired by the federal power anywhere south of Mixon and Dixon's line will be the signal for the secession of all the slave States. Already the States of Virginia, North Ca- rolina, Tennessee and Kentucky have an- LD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1861.—TRIPLE SHEET. nounced this fixed purpose, through their Governors and Legislatures, as wel! as their | representatives in Congress, and there can be | no donbt, therefore, of the result of the opera- | tion of the Force bill now betore Congress, and | of the other coercive measures in preparation. Whut the radical republicans want is to drive out the border slave States, in order that “war between the sections may begin in earnest,” and that elavery, wherever it exists on this continent, may be destroyed at one fell swoop. The persistent refusal to make any compro- mises, to yield any concessions, to ao anything, by word or deed, to conciliate the Southern States, is but the result of a conspiracy to | wage a war of extermination agzinst them. But let not the editers of the Tritun lay the flattering unction to their own souls, or to the souls of their readers, that, this war will be confingif to the South. Far fro it. It will rage at the North, and no State will he free from it. How soon it might be carried into the streets of this city nope cae tell, When the sonflict begins the Southern army, colea lating upon large sympathy and support at the North aguinst the abolitionists, would be sure to march upon the free States, and thus fright- ful scenes of carnage would take place in the very midst of us. That the radical revolutionary republicans desire to keep out the cotton Staves, und force out the border slave States, is further evideat, from the language of the 7 ¢, ia boasting of “the change that has taken place in the wrole tone, aspect and atmosphere of public affairs at Washingtou since the seceders left.” Their policy is “to make a solitude and call it peace.” “THe real interests of the aation,” says the Zribune, “rise to their due place, frow which we jeel them to have been crowded by the vast incubus of slavery. There seems to be now a homogeneousness of representation.” Ti is thus the settled determination of the party to have no negro slavery ia the Uniou— to have ié no longer half slave and half free, but all free. Hence they will not yield un inch, und hence the President clect himself de- clared yeeterday, in his speech ut Puiludelphia, that he would rather die than yield; in other words, be would rather die than carry out the constitution; ang yet the republican presses and orators bave hither- to pretended that their battle with tne seceding States would be for the constitution, not against it. To attempt to destroy sluvery in the Southern States by the sword is to de- | stroy the constitution, which guarantees ihe protection of slave property, But that is a | small matter with those who regard itas “a covenant with .death and an agreement with hell.” “The institution,” says the Tribune, “could be overturned in a day in any State on which the federal power chose to plant an army.” If the federal power at Washington rely upon any such delusion as thut, it will find out its mistake too late; but it shows the hopes and the animus of the party. “The war will be waged,” says their organ, “to crush the eggs of tbe reptile that bas butched the brood of traiters and revolutionists; they seem but the brainless spawn of some malignant in- fluence rushing upon a certain and a frightful doom, as excited animals rush into the destroy- ing flames.” What but ferocity unpuralleled can be expected in a war waged by men with such sentiments as these? If, therefore, the President elect adheres to his plattorm, and a change does not come over the spirit of his dream before the 4th of March, and if he does not announce that change in his inaugural, aud if he does not, witli the advice | of Mr. Seward and the couervative men of the | party, immediately call an extra session of the new Congress, who will be different men from | thoze who are uow ruining the cou try, to adopt a satisfactory adjusuneni for a recon- | struction of the dilapidated Union, there is { every prespect of one of the bioodiest wars ever recorded in the book of time. CeLepratios or Wasnisaron’s Barri All New York was alive yesterday to celebrate the One Hundred and Twenty ninth Anniversary of the natal day of bim who was “first in war first in peace, and firet in the hearts of his ful- low country The people turned out en | masse, the military looked s did, and the city wore a mort brilliant appearance, quite in contrast with the gloom that overshadowed it on Tuesday, when the secoad Washington, as Mr. Lincoln's pai asites call him, passed through Broadway surrounded by armed police. The President elect will do well to ponder over this circumstance, to recollect that he has yet to make his reputation, -and to prove that be is really worthy to sit in the chair of Washington. Now, the commercial metropoli the heart of the Union, has no faith in him, but shows its attachment to the Union by paying marked respect to one who was tried and never found wanting. At Phila | delphia Lincoln declared that he would stand by the doctrines i euleated by the patriots who met in Independence Hall. If be will do so—and we hope that he will—his memory may be honored above that of any President since the Pater Potrie. Lincoln must out the politicians first, however; otherwise he will be ruined. If he intends to be the second Wash- ington be must obey the voice of the people, not the dictutes of party. en.” ARRANG nme Jvaceuration Bat. Our advices from Washington have led us to suspect that the grand ball to eclebrate the in auguration of President Lincoin would be a fizzle; but it appears now that a sufficient num- | ENTS I | of faction and revolution. little patience; but meantime, from a general ber of tickets has been taken to insure its success, The Committee of Managers includes four members of the Cabinet—Messrs. Black, | Dix, Stanton and King; twenty-eight Senators, all from the free States excepting Jounson, of Tennessee ; Powell and Saulsbury ; sixty-five | repreeentatives, including many endorsers of the Helper Book, side by side with Hamilton, of Texae; Winter Davis, of Maryland, and Bou- | ligny, of Louisiana; enerals Scott and | Wool, of the Army; Commodores Stew- art and Smith, of the Navy, and a very large number of “citizens.” This list is cu- rious. Edward Everett, Robert C. Winthrop, Daniel 8. Dickinson, Reverdy Jolson, Horatio Seymour, Marshall 0. Roberts, J, C. G. Ken- nedy, J. 8. Wadsworth, Thurlow Woed and other prominent persons are mixed up with the Chevalier Forney, Dean Richmond, "Bray Dick- inson, George Opdyke, Wheelbarrow Poore, Montgomery Blair, A. M. Clapp, B. B. French, Lewis Clephane and other odd people. 1 would be a splendid sight to ae at this ball all these philosophers joining in a furious galop, or piloting each other through the mazes of the German cotillon. It is a beautiful party alto- gether; #0 let the ball go on. The Presidrnt Elect on Washington's Birthday tn Independence Halt ‘The President elect, at Ppiladel phia, in seve- ral speeebes there delivered, hus aude a de- claration or two calculated to produce a pro found impression upon the public mind In a epeech on the dist he said that he wight be re- quired to “set down his foot firmly” in his administration of the federal goverument, and in a speech on the 22d, the aaniversary of Washington's birthday, and in Independence Hall, Mr. Lincoln, speaking of the im- wortal “Declaration” of 1776, said that the issue involved “was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies trem the mother land,’ but it was that sentiment “which gave liberty, no alone to the people of this country, but I hope to the world, for wll future time, It was thar which gave promise that in due time the weigtits would be lifted from the shoulders of all meo;”” and he furthermore said. that “if this country cannot be saved without giving up that princi- ple, i was about to say L would rather be as- sassinated on this spot than sarrender it.” Now, in these emphatic declarations of Mr. Lincoln, we have not the evidence for a posi- tive interpretation. If by “setting his foot down firmly” he means that it is his purpose firmly to take his position im behalf of a peace- ful policy for the restoration of the Union. he is entirely right; but if he means the policy of a warlike subjugution against all parties repu diating bis executive authority, he is all wronz In his Independence Hall speech, however, hy assures us tha., “in my view ot the present as pectof affairs, there »ved be 20 bloodshed or war, There is no necessity for it 1 am aot in favor of such a course, and I may say in ad- vance that there will be no bloodshed unless i! be foreed upon the government, and thea it will be compelled to act in selt defence.” We are thus encouraged to hope for @ con ciliatory policy on the part of toe incoming 1d- ministration; for these outgivings of Mr. Lin- coln are substantially taose of Mr, Buchanaa’s annoal message, and of his other communica tions to Congress on the same subject. We in fer that, like Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Liacola does not intend to str’ke the first blow in the over: act of war; and, if so. the probabilities are in favor of abe maintenavce of peace, which is now the first and paramount question. But, touching this sentiment or principle of the Declaration of Independence. that “all mea are created equal,” tha’ “they are endowed by their Crestor with certain inalienable mghts, emonvg which are life, hberty and the puravit of happiness,” we are left somewhat in the dack as to the precise meaning of Mr. Lincoln’s pro- testations. ‘The prisciple in question, he says, “gave promite that in due time the weights would be lifted from all men’s shoulders,” and that sooner than part with this priaciple he would part with his life. “All men created equal.” “The weights from all men’s suoulders.”” Does the President elect speak of “men” in the aggregate as @ nation or 9 community aspiring to nationality, or does he refer to man in his individual capacity--white, red, yellow or black? According to the Tlinois campaign speeches of Mr. Lincoln of 1858, he means the individual man, and his interpretation of the great document in question puts the white and the black on the same footing of natural equality. o If this be the true acceptation of Mr. Lincoln’s Independence Hall speech, then his idea that “in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of men,” means nothing more nor | less than the progressive steps of African eman- cipation to the fall consusnmation of the work. But we are not disposed thus to construe the extemporaneous remarks under consideration without further light. We are promised, in the forthcoming inaugural, a deliberate exposition | of Mr. Lincoln’s views ana policy in regard to this revolutionary crisis under which the chip of Sta‘e is drifting before the winds and waves We inust exercise a review of these little offhand speeches of the President elect, we are really encouraged to hope for muck better things yet to come. Tuk Ivartan Power ov Pressia,—An inte- resting debute took place ou the 3d iust. in tae Prussi n Chamber of Deputies on the occasion of the following amendmeat betug proposed by M. Von Vineke:—“That we do not coasider it to be either in the interest of Prussla or of Ger many to pluce obstacles in the way of the con solidation of the unity of lialy.”” This was car ried by a majority of thirteen, Baron Von Schteinitz, in opposing the amend- meat, said that the Prussian goverument bad no reason to impede the developement of italy; but, without underrating the natiocal idea of that movement, the Prussian goverament could not attribute to it such a high significauce, and that, although it did not consider the principle of nou intervention binding, it hid not actively interfered in Italian affairs. He considered that Venctia was, ina military and strategic point of vicw, too imp for Austria, and indirectly for Germany, to aliow of its cession being advised by Prossia, Austria and Sardinia would remain on the defensive, and, through the influcnce of all the great Powers, he believed hostilities would be post- poned, and perhaps entirely averted. The Prussian government would abstain from active interference in Tialy so long as the movements there remained national, without acquiring such dimensions and significance, by reason of their xtending to the federal tercitury of Get y: or involving a claim to any portion thereot, as to render such interteren perative accord ing to the public law of Europe We imay | clearly infer from this that Prussia will impose no check upon the legitimate emancipation ef | Italy under the governimout of Victor Hnianuel. Tux Women ror tHe Untox.—We have re- ceived copies of a memorial to Congress, “pre- | sented by Emma Willard, in the name and by | the authority of the American women,” who | are impelled to address the legislative branch | of the government by “intense anxiety for the | fate of our beloved couatry.” The signers | pray that Congress “will not allow party or sectional prejudices to prevail over a spirit of mutual conciliation.” The “Women’s memorial” in endorsed by a number of highly respectable persons, whose names are invuriably apon petitions, committees, memorials and so on, from saving the country down to giving a charity ball. ‘The “memorial” can do no great good with this expiring Congress, nor will it do any harm, The right of petition is a racred one, and there is no reason why the women should not. ex- ercise it aa well aa the men. But why do they not send directly to Old Abe Lincoln! He is the man of all other men who has this great question in bis hands.” He ean barmonize the country upon the Crittenden plan if he sees fiteo todo As be is « gallant man, and takes the aévice of young ladies about his whiskers, wsys and involve this consequence as regards England and British North America: If on Eoglisbman or a Canadian, having committed murder at bome, escaped into Missouri, or any it is not imp seible that be may pay some | of the thirty-four States of the Union, he could atiention to the views of the better eex upou Dis poticy. At any rate, 1t will dv no harm to try him So let the women send their petitions direct to Abrabum’s bosom, Hayti on THE Cotton Qvesitoy.—A writer in the Anglo-African of this city, “a cullud folks paper, conducted by cullud folks,” as we heve heard it described, gives, ia a long articie in favor of the emigration of our free blacks i, the followme facts:— roduece tn far yeenter abundance than tbe slave f the Unwn all the etapien upoe the cultivation of which they have unit up ro umumense a2 iutlucces fue evi. Cotton, suxir, rice, wbucco, hemp, coffee, ali grow im the utinost profusion m tbs’ ismnd — Cotvon 18 the commercial Kibg; -Outh Carouua rules by forve of its bong her principat staple. she Palmetto siete raises 320 Pounds of Corton (in the Seon) per uere; her piant is a Pury anbuai, wad sequires great care. | Hayti will give for @ack were planted in cotton two crope per year, and 500 pounes W euch Cop Lhe Bame piadl becomes pe repulal, requses but lieve care, and grows to the of several fvet. Cue isianc contatas ab wt 20,600 nykes, Wo tbirds of which ure well adaptee tocoutoa, The Has ven republe gives over Ufteen ucres of tas laud to bead of a family #ho will go there aut newiy seven acres to every riugle man. Pianted in cotton, what wikit bag? Cotion ruwed in the isigut ns been Kuld iv he New York morket wt 1¢ceats per pound, What would be the resuit to cach individual ean be readily eni culated It woule bring to tue head ot & ‘amity ao in- come of about $4,000 aacually. According to this sustement, the cotton lands of Hayti, under tull cultivation, are capable of yielding three or four times as much per au- pum a8 the whole product of our Southern States. Sugar, too, and “rice, tobacco, hemp aod coffee, all grow ia the utmost profusion in the islaud,” aud the istana has wearly a milion inbabitants, black and mixed. How is it, then, ‘bat this prolitic island in all the great staples of the tropics hus so long been running to waste? Woy is it that she exports little or no cottou,, sugar, rice, hemp, coffee or tobacco? fhe answer is very simple and easy. It is pe- cause the better part of the islaud is nader the absolute contro! of its black population; it is because the blacks are their own imasiers; and because, as Curlyle has suggested, “Cuffee, as bis own master, will sot work.’ Nor does President Geffrard’s emigratioa movement wake any bopetul progress. The better class of free blacks woo go t Hayti from the Unued States are apt to revolt at te barbarous habits of, the patives, and, it we ure not mistaken, quite a pumber cot our “free colored Asie cans,” tempted to Huyti by the fice prourises ot the new government avd ot Redpath, have nheady reurued, disgusted with the experi- went of a community “where dere is nothin’ but niggers, aud no Wille folks to keep “em in order.” An icvader like Wiliain the Con- queror, envlaviog the ‘natives of Hayti, and setting them to work, might svon astoawh tue world with fis commercial products; but while Uuffee is Dis own muster there, and cun basic in tbe sun, or snooze in the shade, from day to day, witbout work, Cuffve will still decline to bis original Atrican barbarism, and the island will still run to waste, This iact comprehends the whole philosophy of African slavery, for it is a system which takes cure of Cuffee aad turns hia to goo secount. Lixcotn’s Recertioy is Puinaped OTHER TerseLent Mos —Our neighvors of the City of Brotherly Love are untorwanaie in their attempts at public receptions. tn New York and other large cities great masses of the peo- ple cun turn out on exciting vceasions aod con- duct themselves in an orderly fashion; but in like circumstances in Poiladelpiia, that staid Quaker city, a gathering of the masses gene- rally resolves itself into a mob. When the Ja- panese were there the conduct of the people was disgracelal, and was bardiy excelled by that of the famous rowdies of Buliimore, At the reception of the Prince of Wales things were not much better. During Mr. Lincola’s visit on Thursduy the Philadelphians made a ead blunder of the affair, The confusion in tae streets was more like a Bedlam let loose than un orderly reception of a distinguished person- uge. According to the reports, members of the Dresident’s suite were hauled out of their ear- riages without ceremony, through the biunders of the mapaging committee. for Old Abe was Jeft sitting in au open baroucte ia the cold uotil he was half frozen to death, before the procession could be got to move; acd when he attempted to mabe a speech not a word could be distinguished above the clumorvus cries ot the multirude. Our Philsdeiphia friends, ia short, treated the President elect about as roughly as he was served in Buffalo. [tis very curious that the usually quict aud tame ivbaditants of the Qua- ker City caunot behave themselves deceatly under a little excitement. Canaptan Lawyers IGvoxance or tite Amini- can Coxstiretion anp Laws —The priacipal point urged by Mr. Cameron in favor of the diecharge of Anderson before the Canadian Court of Common Pleas was this:—“The Siate of Missouri asks for rendition of a fugitive slave upon a charge which was murder ouly within a muuicipality of the United States. The law of murder ia Missouri was pot the law of murder in the United States, it was contrary to the constitution.” Nothing can be further from the truth than this. The coustitution of the United Sates ex preesly provides for the rendition of tugitive, sluves, and if any citizen of New York, for ex- ample, should lose his life at the hands of a fugitive slave from Missouri in attempting to capture him, that crime would be clearly inur der in this State avd in every other, for it is the duty of all good citizens to carry ont the constitution, and th. law of murder is the sare in every State. Again, Mr. Freeman urged that “the charge should be first laid in the United States by federal officers, and the evidence does no show that any charge has been laid there against Anderson.” [f Mr. Freeman under- stood our political system a little bet- ter he would have seen that Anderson committed no crime aguinst the federal laws and could not be charged in a federal court. The crime was committed within the jurisdic tion of the State of Missouri, and it clearly comes under the provisions of the Ashburton treaty, by which the federal government, as the general agent of all the States, is authorized to claim certain criminals esenping from any of them tuto the British dominions. tf the fedetal government could only elaim criminals who committed offences within the federal jnrisdic- tion, a caso of that kind would seldom or never occur. For only if the offence was committed on the high seas, or in the forts, arvenals, navy yards or the District of Columbia, would it be in the Tederal jurisdiction, and if Mr. Freeman's point were good for anything it would cut both is within the federal jurisdiction of the Unived States. ‘Truly Canadian counsel, when they undertake to expound Americaa law, ought to make | themselves a little better acquainted with it, and when they prononnee anything to be against the constitution they ought first to take the trouble of reading that very plain and very simple instrument. But there is little chance of making other nations respect the rights ot Southern States till we learn to respect them ourselves. | not be reclaimed, because none of those States Procixss or Ts Sournexn Conrepenacy.— We publish to-day a very interesting account of the progress of the Southern Conte- deracy, inoluding the inauguration of Pre- sident Davis, the utterance of bis sen- timents to the people, and the proceed- ings of the Congress at Montgomery up to the twetita duy. ‘Thus far the Southern Contede- racy hus borne itself calmly and with digaity, constructing its goverhment on an apparently firm buvis, and conducting all its operations with coolness and an evident tendency to wodtrution and peace. Ithas adopted a constita- tion with which nobody, either North or South, appeurs to fing faut. In its presiding officers two men have been chosen—Mr. Davis and Mr. Stephers—who, altbough resolute in character, | are not violent or precipitate. The language ot President Davis,as will be seen by our re- port of hi« aadress, breathes peace anda desire for friendly relations between the governments: and people North and South. In the selection ot # Cabinet, too, much wisdowm has bee dis, played, the extremists and fire-eaters aiviag been carefully exelnded. Even Mr fo subs, the Secretary of State, although considered by maby very violent in his opinions, was in favor of the perpetuation of the Union, provided suf- ficient guarantees were given for the protection of the South, Some such plan as tiat eu- bodied in the Crittenden-Guthrie resolutions, for example, would be satisfactory to him, while Nir. Momminger, of South Carolina, ' | Secretary of the Treasury, represents the Union sentiment of that State, as far as it can be said. to exist at all within its borders. Upon the whole, then, the progress of the Confederated. States of America in the formation of their go- verpment bas been marked by a good deal of firmness, decision and moderation combined, trom which we argue that if a spirit of hos- | tilinxy shoutd arise between the two sections of, the country it will not émanate trom them. Sxrrpom ry Russta—Our readera will recol- leet that at the close of the Crimean war the Emperor of Russia decreed the prospective cwancipation of the serfs, The intermediate period is about expiring, and some of the vfieets of this important movement are de- reribed below:— Sr. Perarsnurs, Jan. 12,1861. | the serf question is the great and ali absorbiog toi here. A friend Of mive Came im from his estate last even!ng, anc says the proprietors are leaving for tho “+ @ cites w tu ther famiies, belteviag that all) who rea wu be masseered. My iriend hus left bia overseer tm t nucipates that the estate will be stripped of. every inoveable thing The time fixed by the iraporial, xoverument for tbe freedom of the seris ts the 19th February (0 8.), the anniversary of the day tho pres % ho.peror ascended the turene, All will be ate er) ities, Owing W the military and the foreign population, citle {t will be seen, by this extract of a letter from Russ'a from a reliable source, that we io this conniry are not alone in our troables with the serviie question. Even imperial go- versments do not escape its consequences. ‘Tue Forvwicatioss or Wasuineroy.-—~We Jearn, from an English paper, that about the ith of last month “General Scott was fortify- ing Washington with increased veal,” ani we presume that our foreign friends im icin. chat by this time the capital isina state of siege ead under martial law. They will be gratified’ to jearn that Washington has not been “fortified,” in the proper sense of the term, and that Gene- ral Scott’s army of orcupation—local militia | avd all—is nothwg more than a precautionary Jorce numbering less than two thousand mew. di there ever has been any reasou to anticipate an attack on the capital, which we seriously doubt, there is none whatever now. The bor- der slave States ure the only fortifications that Washington requires just now, and probebiy the oply ones which that city will ever have. THe Question ov THs Day—Tae Forurs Grow axp Surry ov Corrox.—We call at- tention to a full aod comprehensive article, in another column, on the future growth and supply of cotton. It will -repay the trouble acarefal perusal by those desirous of unc standing the question in all ita bearings. Ie will be seen (hat the attempts hitherto made ix India to rival the United States in its culture have failed, and that the intertropical regions of Africa and other countries promise no better All the facts go to show that t only reliable cotton region to be found in the world is found in the United States. sucess. No Siexs or 4 Compromise between Thur- low Weed and Horace Greeley. Weed has the inside track for the White House kitchen; but Greeley is steong in the rural districts, and | this appears to be understood by “Uid Abe.” | Greeley, therefore, is calmly defiant, while | Weed is only moderately hopeful. Will Wood get into the kitchen? Doubtful. Let the squab- ble go on. Baoxou's Basar 1x Broo —This favorite tenor tukes bis benefit tonight at the Brooklyn Acadomy of Music. Tho ‘Ballo in Maschera’’ wili be given for the second and probably last time om this occasion, In au oition to his claims as a bean garcen and a reliable artist, Signor Brignoli is entitied to a generous support from tho greoklyn public for the liberaitty with which . lst year towarda tho Philharmonic Sovicty, in re i 9 to accept any remuneration for his services at the etwe concert which they gave at the close of their season, { Acapasey or Meste.—The performance of “Tn Ballo in | Magchora”’ last night attracted a full house, the receipts being somewhat in excess over thops of Woonosday, who the Prowidont elect altensted the Opera for the frst timo in hislife, The opera was preceded by » porformesc# apropor to.the day, The national anthem, (The Se.- Spangled Banner,’ was sung by thy whole eomoany, Misses Phillips and Hinkley alternating the solos; am | subsequently the orchestra playel “Hail Colambia’? The audience encored the “Star-Spangled Baunor,’ aad the artists repented the air. The performance of the | opera was then proceeded with. “Tn Ballo in Maschera’? will be dung at the Brooklyn Abatemy to-night, ead ie | ‘will be repeated i Irving pince on Vonday, On Wodues- day Mies Lowlsa Kelloge will make her debut as Gilde, im Tegoletto,"* United States District Court. Roforo Hon, Indge Botts. Fen, 22.—The United Sates va. the Bark Kate—This ver- j fol wae ectzod as being a slayer. The cave war heart | eome time since, The Judge, in an elaborate opinion, | concided by aaying that be was of opinion that the bel- | lant were entitled ty @ sale and condemnation of the | Yemel and cargo, and directed # decree t be entered to that effect, ;