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New York Herald—California Edition. ‘The mail steamship Ariel, Captain Miner, will leave this port to-morrow, at noon, for Aspinwall. ‘Tho mails for California and other parts of the Pacific ‘will close at ten o'clock to-morrow morning. Tho New Yors Waexty Hxxatp—California edition— wontainng the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, with a large quantity of local aud miscellaneous matter, will be published at half-past eight o’clock in the marning. ‘Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six conts, Agents will please send in their ordors as early as pos- sible. The News. ‘The Peace Conference at Washington yesterday adopted the modified Guthrie plan of adjustment, as published in another part of to-day’s paper. The vote stood nine to eight, New York, Kansas, Indiana and Missouri not voting. The Conference ordered that engrossed copies of the adjustment be sent to both houses of Congress, and then adjourned sine die. The Senate ap- pointed Messrs. Crittenden, Bigler, Seward, Thomson and Trumbull a special committee on the Peace Conference adjustment, with instruc- tions to report at one o'clock to-day. The com- mittee were engaged on the subject last night, and will, it is supposed, report a bill by which the plan will be submitted to the people, there being no prospect ef its obtaining a two-thirds vote in cither house @§ Congross. ‘The action of the Peace Congress, saifl the proceedings of the House on the report of the Crisis Committee, to- gether with unmistakeable indications of the con- servatism of the incoming administration, have created a general feeling of satisfaction. The proceedings of Congress yesterday are un- usually important. In the Senate a number of pe- titions relative to the crisis were presented, and peveral private bills were passed. A motion to postpone the consideration of the Army bill and take up the Crittenden adjustment was rejected by a vote of 16 to 27. The Tariff and Patent bills were both passed. The Army Appropriation bill wastben discussed and passed. The adjustment adopted by the Peace Congress was read, and, on motion of Mr. Crittenden, was ordered to be print- ed, and referred to a select committee, with instructions to report at one o'clock to-day. The vote with regard to instructing the committee stood 26 to 21. The Senate then went into execu- tive session, and ordered the correapondence be- tween the governments of Great Britain and the United States, relative to the fugitive slave Ander- fon, tobe printed. This subject will be one among many important questions respecting our relations to foreign countries which will be turned over to the new administration for settlement. In the House yesterday the report of the Select Committee of Thirty-three on the Crisis was taken np, and the voting commenced on the various pro- positions submitted. The question was first taken on Mr. Burch’s Bubstitute, being a joint resolution recommending the calling of a Convention of all the States to nnite upon a plan of adjustment. This was re- jected by a vote of 74 yeas against 100 nays. Mr. Kilgore, of Indiana, here moved to lay the whole subject on the table. This motion was ne- gatived—l4 yeas against 175 nays. The question was then taken on the proposition of Mr. Kellogg, of Minois, to amend the consti- tution by reviving the Missouri Compromise line, probibiting the interference of the fede: si govern- ment with slavery in the slave States, securing the return to their owners of fugitive slaves, and against the reopening of the African slave trade. ‘This was rejected—33 yeas against 158 nays. Mr. Crittenden’s plan of adjustment, proposed by Mr. Clemens, was then rejected—80 yeas against 113 nays. The question on the adoption of the report of the Committee of Thirty-three then came up. Mr. Sherman moved to lay it on the table. This was voted down—66 against 124. The declaratory resolutions of the committee were then adopted, by a vote of 136 yeas against#53 nays. The joint revolution recommended by the com- mittee, providing for an amendment to the consti- tution, so as to prevent any amendment of that instrument except said amendment originate with a slave State, and requiring the assent of all the Btates to make it valid, then came up. Mr. Cor- ‘win moved as a substitute that no amendment shall be made to the constitution which will authorize or give Congress power to abolish or interfere within any State with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or servitude by the laws of said State. This joint resolution, as amended, was rejected—120 yeas against 71 nays—it not receiving the neo essary awo-thirds vote. A motion was made to recon- wider this vote, pending which, amid mucl: confu- pion and excitement, the House adjourned. ‘The Legislature at Albany yesterday transacted considerable business of a varied character; but nothing of particular importance received final action. In the Senate, among the bills introduced ‘wore one for the sale of the Quarantine groands; pne to limit the fare on city railroads to three wenta; one to amend the charter of New York, Bubstituting for the present Board of Councilmen a Board of Assistant Aldermen, and making other phanges; and ene for the creation of a Metropoli- tau Health Commission, similar to the bill bere- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, | 1861. tofore introduced in the lower house. In the As- sembly @ number of reports were made by the standing committees on bills under consideration, after which the Capital Punishment bill was again taken up and discussed till the hour of adjourn- ment, We publish in anothor column a succinct history of the tariff system in this country from the year 1816, which, in connection with the Morrill Tariff bill, will be read with interest, and will show the principles which guided our early statesmen upon the questions of revenue and protection, Letters for Europe will be received at Mr. Cu- naré’s office, Bowling Green, to ten o’clock A. M. to-day, to go forward per steamship Jura, for Liverpool direct. The Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia Steamship Company are now building an iron screw steamer of 3,000 tons and 600 horse power, which is expected to be the finest and fastest vessel of her class on the Atlantic. She will make her first voyage in May next, and be called the City of New York. The steamship Florida, which left this port yes- terday afteruoon for Savannah, had the Georgian State flag streaming from her masthead and the American ensign from her peak. First Lieutenant Jacob Read, of the United States Marine corps, now stationed at the Brook- lyn Marine Barracks, resigned his commission on the 26th inst., and accepted a captain's commis- sion in the Georgian army. Lieutenant Read was boru in Georgia, and received his appointment from that State, which dates March 3, 1847, He has perhaps seen more sea service for the time that he has been in the navy than any other officer, having been nine years at sea. He leaves imme- diately to join his brethren of the Southern Con- federacy. The Naval General Court Martial reassembled at the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday, and the evi- dence of Lieutenant Daniels against Commander Walke was completed. Commodore Armstrong was next examined; but the hour for closing the court arrived before his testimony was ended. The examination will be proceeded with to-day. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday the counsel for James Shepherd, who was convicted of arson in the firsi degree, moved for a new trial, which motion was denied, whereupon Recorder Hoffman proceeded to sentence him to imprison- ment for life at hard labor in the State prison. On the 10th of December, 1858, Recorder Smith, be- fore whom Shepherd was tried and convicted, sen- tenced him to be executed on the 8th of February, 1859, but his counsel brought the case to the Court of Appeals and procured a new trial, and another effort will be made to get another trial. George Richter, a young man, indicted for firing the build- ing No. 381 Pearl street, on the night of the 23d of January, pleaded guilty toan attempt at araon in the second degree, and was sent to the State prison for four years and eight months. Andrew Ryan, a well known receiver of stolen goods, was convicted of receiving two bags of wool stolen from Mr. Boardman, and was remanded for sen- tence. Charles H. Wilson, charged with stealing $100 worth of jewelry, pleaded guilty to anat- tempt at burglary, and was sent to the State pri- son for two years and six months. A motion was argued yesterday in the Supreme Court, General Term, for a new trial in the case of Charles D. Morrissett, convicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of arson, in setting fire to a store in Greenwich street, in which a man named La Rochelle, supposed to have been an accom- plice, was burned to death. The decision is re- served. At the meeting of the Emigration Commission- era yesterday, the veteran President of the Board, Gulian C. Verplanck, was re-elected for the pre- sent year, and Cyrus Curtis was elected Vice Pre- sident, both elections being unanimous. The num- ber of emigrants arrived here during the last week, according to the weekly statement sub- mitted to the Board, was 464, which swells the number since the Ist of January te 3,940. The balance of the commutation fund now in bank to the credit ef the Board is $4,221 82. Beef cattle were active yesterday, and half a cent per pound higher, ranging from 5%. to 9%. for inferior to prime. Cows were quiet. Veais were unchanged. Sheep and lambs were searce and 50c. per head higher, with sales all the way from $350 to $912%4. Swine were also scarce and higher, 534c. a 6c. per pound being the range. The total receipts were 3,233 beeves, 84 cows, 587 veals, 5,425 sheep and lambs, and 4,710 swine. ‘The cotton market yesterday was firmer and more ao- tive, with sales of about 3,000 bales, included in which were 1,200 reported in transit. Prices closed on the basis of 117%e. for middling uplands on the wharf, and 120. for do, in store. The receipts since the the Ist of September last show a decrease of 617,000 bales compared with those for the same time last year. The exports also ex- hibit adecrease. Flour waa leas buoyant and active, while sales to the local trade and for export were mo- derate. Wheat was dull, with the turn of prices in favor of purchasers. Corn was plenty and alsoecasier, with a fair amount of sales. Pork was steady, with sales of mess ‘at $17 25, and of prime at $12 608 $1275. Sugars were about 4c. higher, with sales of about 1,000 hhda. Cuba and 25 a 30 boxes and 212 Lhds. melado, at rates given in another place. Coffee was steady, with limited sales. The defeat of the proposed duty tended to take the starch out of both coffee and tea. Freights were steady, while on- gegemeats were moderate, (mportant from Washington—Final Ac- tion of the Peace Congress. The Peace Convention, which has been in seseion since the fourth day of February, has at last adjourned, but not, however, before ac- complishing the initial object for which it was called ‘oyeiher, It has agreed upon the plan of sett], .ent published in the Heraxp of yes- terday morning, and which we republish this morning ~, ‘*at the people can understand the questivn as it is now presented to them. The first article, which relates to the rights of the people to the Territories, was adopted by a close vote of nine to eight, four States, includ- ing New York, not voting. All the other ar- ticles were agreed to by a vote of sixteen to eight. The proposition in its present amended condition, and as adopted by the Convention, is a compound of the Guthrie and Crittenden plans of adjustment, and embracing many of the best features of each. ‘The first section provides that slavery shall be excluded from all territory north of the pa- rallel of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes of north latitude, while south of that line no change shall be made in the condition of persons held to service or labor. It also pro- vides that there shall be no interference on the part of Congress or the Territorial Legislature with the right to take slaves into such terri- tory. When territory north or south of the prescribed line, and within the boundaries fixed by Congress, shall contain a population equal to that required for a member of Con- grees, it shall be admitted into the Union, with or without involuntary servitude, as its consti- tution may provide. The second section is to the effect that no territory shall be acquired, except by dis- covery, for naval and commercial p. poses, d&te., without the concurrence of @ majority of all the Senators from the slave States and a majority of \hove from the free States. In the case of all territory acquired by treaty a ma- jority of the Senators from each class of States is required as @ part of the two-thirds majority hecessery for ita reification. The third section secures the right of trausit * scarcely be acceptable, as with alaves from any State or Territory to any State or Territory where slavery exists. This right, however, does not inelude that of transit er eae or Territory whioh dissents “a this section Congress is prohibited from interfering with slavery—either to regulate, abolish or control—in any State or Territory in which it is legally recognized. This probibi- tion also applies in the case of the District of Columbia, unless with the consent of Maryland and the owners. The sale of slavesin the Dis- trict of Columbia, or their introduction into it, to be afterwards transferred to other places for sale, is likewise prohibited. The fourth section provides against the mis- construction of that part of the constitution which refers to the delivery of fugitive slaves through due process of law. The fifth is an unconditional prohibition of the African slave trade. The sixth provides that sections one, three and five of this proposition, and the third para- graph of the second section of the first article of the constitution, and the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article thereof, shall not be amended or abolished without the consent of all the States. By the seventh and last section provision is made for compensation in all cases where fu- gitive slaves are rescued by violence. The foregoing form the basis ef seétlement thus presented by the Peace Convumtion, and after its adoption, that body being seized with a strong and laudable desire to finish their work at once, had two copies engrossed be- tween twelve o’clock, the hour of its passage, and two o’clock, and sent one to the President of the Senate and the other to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. These copies were immediately submitted to both houses, and the Senate appointed a special committee to report at one o’olock to-day. What is the next regular movement in this question? It is for Congress to adopt this plan of adjustment by a vote of two-thirds of both houses, in order to give it the required autho- rity, so that it can be presented to the people in accordance with article five of the constitution, which provides that whenever two-thirds of both houses of Congress shall propose amendments to the constitution, they shall be valid when ratified by the Legislatures or Conventions of three-fourths of the States. The country has now reached such a crisis that the conservatives of the republican party have evidently found it necessary to have this question settled with as little delay as possible, in order to save the border States; and now it will require decisive action on the part of Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward to get this measure passed through Congress. But will they do it? We shall see. : The Situation of the Country—The Policy of the Incoming Administration. ‘The definite selection of Mr. Cameron for a place in the Cabinet of Me. Lincoln, settles the question respecting the policy to be adopted by the incoming administration. A conserva- tive programme, conciliatory to the border States, may be considered as having already been inaugurated. Whatever may be the final result of the action, yesterday, of the’ Peace Convention, Mr. Seward has evi- dently decided that the republican altraists, under the leadership of Fessenden, Hale, Wade, Sumner and Grecley, shall be thrown overboard, and that the two or three hundred thousand voices in the North, in favor of coercion and involving the nation in the horrors of civil war, shall be henceforth disregarded. Over a mil- lion Union loving citizens in the States of Vir- ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware, will rally in their places, to the support of the government which will assume the reins of power next week, and a new party will arise out of the ruins of those that will have ceased to exist, from which much good may be augured, if its plansare conceived with prudence, sagacity, and an unflinching, unex- ceptional eye to peace and amity, equally to- wards those States of the confederation that have seceded, as to all others. The tone of the articles which began to ap- pear in the Albany Evening Journal, in Novem- ber last, and the speeches that have since been delivered in the Senate of the United States by Mr. Seward, have rendered it evident, that, from the very beginning of disturbances in the cotton States, the more farsighted statesmen in the republican ranks, have counted upon divisions in the South, to enable them to per- fect a future scheme of action, which contains many excellent with some few dangerous ele- ments. Recognizing that the border non- slaveholding and slaveholding States hold the balance of power in their hands, they have deemed it indispensable to satisfy the claims of the latter, and to yield to all of their demands. Hence they have carefully fostered the Peace Conferences, and have looked to the result of their proceedings for the germ of a settlement, in the course of time of our national difficulties. Should these fail, their policy will not be changed. Whatever is asked for by Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland, Mr. Seward, or rather, Mr. Lincoln’s administration, is prepared, with due show of resistance and a proper coyness of expression, substantially to grant. The recent elections in the Northern slave States have confirmed this determination, and no effort will be wanting to consolidate, in an inde- structible bond of union, the interests of the portions of the confederacy that have remained true to their allegiance. So far this is well, and whether the Critten- den amendments to the constitution, the propo- sition of Mr. Franklin of Pennsylvania, or even the less satisfactory measure of Mr. Adams, to erect New Mexico and Arizona into a State, and thus takedhe question of slavery in the Territories out of the cognizance of the fede- ral government, shall form a basis, from which negotiation shall begin, it will matter little, so long as a result is ultimately arrived at which sball be deemed by the South to be fully and entirely adequate to meet the exigencies of the present crisis. It must be remembered, how- ever, that patchwork will not answer; and when wo hear the professed organs of Mr. Seward declaring how much or how little may be done without a “sacrifice of principle,” it savors strongly of a return to the Chicago platform, and of seeking to accomplish aboli- tionist objects, under a plausible disguise. The scheme of Mr. Adams, which is said to be highly thought of by the faiure Premier, is lauded by him mainly, because ‘no risk is in- curred by it of extending slavery.” If this is the proposition to be presented to the Southern States, it may be reasoned from, but can as it stands, to either Virginis, Maryland or Tennessee, and it will | Fhe Emtorcets of the City im certainly be unsatisfactory to North Carolina. Again, while the most honeyed phrases are poured forth in profusion towards the repre- sentatives and people of the border slave States, a sterner aspect is assumed with regard to those that have withdrawn from the Union. We read ina recent number of the Albany Journal, in an article evidently written by Thurlow Weed, that “the time approaches, thank Heaven, when efforts will be made to reinforce Major Anderson. God grant that the relief may not come too late. To have neglected Fort Sumter so long is alike criminal and cruel. If that strong fortress should be lost, or its de- fenders sacrificed, » fearful responsibility will rest upon the dishonored head of a betrayed nation.” Coercion sentiments could hardly have been expressed more strongly by Mr. Greeley himself. It is the old hue and cry of “ vindicating the dignity of the American flag,” by inaugurating “ battle” as the last resort for the settlement of our inter-State differences. It is a catering to the fanatical passions of the worst school of Massachusetts abolitionists, which, in its effecta, would be as fatal to our national prosperity, as any measures that could be conceived by the anti-“ brainless spawn of some malignant influence” furiates of the Tribune. In addition to this, it is freely de- ciared by the friends and pseudo-confidants of Mr. Seward, that Fort Pickens as well as Fort Sumter is to be reinforced; the harbors of Charleston, New Orleans, and Pensacola block- aded; and the revenue collected at any and every risk. A thrill of hope has vibrated through the public pulse, within the last three days, at the prospect of an unconditional abandopment of coercive plans. The reaction which would arise from disappointment would be terrible. The destinies of the country are now in Mr Seward’s hands. He will be the master spirit of the incoming administration. His behests will, in all probability, be obeyed. The cring- ing crowd of office seekers, will, ere this, have taken their cue from his lips, and will re-echo as oracles every one of his utterances. It is well that the vast interests which are at stake, should have been placed under a man 60 able to control them. But he cannot be too careful in his proceedings. Let him trust to time, and to time alone, for the rebirth of that Union feeling in the seceding States, which is tempora- rily destroyed among their leading men. So many officers in the army and navy; so many Senators, representatives and federal officers, would never have resigned their posta, and sacrificed every prospect under the general government, unless they had felt sure, at the time they did so, that the disseverment was tobe perpetual. To trifle with such @ spirit, would be dangerous in the extreme, Te at- tempt to subdue it, would kindle the flames of civil war within a month; and it would require but a short time longer to engender a feeling of discontent in the border States, which would lead to the overthrow of what conciliation might have accomplished, and cause them to take part with their old and natural allies of the last seventy years. The ceuntry is still on the verge of a precipice, and those who would urge the incoming administration to oppressive measures, or would even induce it to leave the task of conciliation incomplete, are neither true friends, nor disinterested in their desire for the welfare of the land. Ratner RerresHine THAN OTHERWISE.—Our Albany correspondent gives a very touching description of a pathetic scene which occurred in the State Senate on Monday evening. A rural Senator, said to be “ three sheets in the wind,” became very much exercised in his mind as to the whereabouts of two of the fathers who had deserted the chamber. Finally, the Sergeant-at-Arms was sent after them, and they returned to their seats. When interro- gated as to what they had to say for themselves, one of the truants accused the bibulous Sena- tor aforesaid of “gassing,” and of heading a “nonsensical, gassy and factious opposition.” This irate Senator was excused. The other recusant was from this city, a shining light in the Coal Hole of Tammany before its lights were all put out. This patriot made a few fit re- marks. When he saw the rural Senator dis- gracing the august body, “his mind went back to his childhood,” his “heart sunk within him,” and with “feelings of dis- gust and sorrow” he departed. It is quite un- necessary to say that the Senate was dissolved in tears, and excused the New York Senator by a unanimous and lachrymose vote. We pre- sume that the rural Senator will profit by the good advice he received on this interesting oc- casion; but it strikes us that the morals of the country must be frightfully deteriorated when its representatives behave so badly as to shock a graduate of the Coal Hole and Pewter Mug. Tovcry’s Courts Marrtat.—It strikes us as being a little singular that the Secretary of the Navy should have been so prompt in ordering a court martial upon Commander Walke, who brought away from Pensacola the exiled go- vernment employés, and so dilatory in the far more flagrant breach of discipline committed by Armstrong, the Commandant at the War- rington Yard. Walke is tried for disobedience of orders, in not returning to Vera Cruz as directed by the Flag Officer commanding the Home Squadron, and is also charged with the same offence in ignoring the authority of Arm- strong after the latter had handed over the go- vernment property toa mob. That will never do. Let us have fair play for all hands. New Tanives, Sovra axp Norta.—The new protective Tariff bill passed by the Congress at Washington may be good thing for the facto- ries and foundries of Massachusetts and Penn- sylvania, but it is not likely, by any means, to be accepted aa a peace offering by the Southern States. On the other hand, after the lapse of a few months, between this new Northern tariff and the new tariff of the Southern confederacy upon a lower scale of duties, the seceded States may expect something from England and France in the way of direct trade. New York, er would do well to prepare f ine of the kind. eter eee A Test vor Orrice.—In the French Revolu- tion, when the ultras wanted to purge the Ja- cobin clubs of the lukewarm and all who were not up to the mark, the test question put to the members, by order of Couthon, the friend of Robespierre, was: “What have you done to de- serve death, if counter revolution should pre- vail!” If the member interrogated could not point to some deed of this kind he must “walk the plank.” Greeley and the radical revolu- tionary republicans are urging @ similar test for office under the incoming President, in or- der to exclude the moderates and make the new régime us red as possible. Hands ef the Soloms at Albany—' ‘They Give Us « Charter Commision? As wal, we find all manner of bills intro- duced and reported by the committees of both branobes of the State Legislature affecting the rights aud interests of the city of New York. The usual amount of tinkering and patchwork seems to be goiag om amongst the small fry politicians inside and outside of the three tegis- lative bodies at Albany; for we bave three houses—-the third more powerful thaa the other two. lt bas been the custom for several years past for the jobbers, peculators and place seekers of our city, as soom as they are de- feated in their projects here, to resort to Albany, and there crowd through bills whieh, if rightly named, would read, “An act to place John Doe or Richard Roe in office.” Arriving at the State capital, these philoso- phers, whether emanating from Tammany or the republican camp, place themselves under the protection of Thurlow Weed, the king of the third house, and commence at once to work upor the sympathies of the rural members by expatiating upon their sufferings, arising from being “left out in the cold.” By exércising @ great deal of energy ia this line, aided by an application of more substantial reasons, they have succeeded in turning our city affairs upside down, until everything is at loose ends in almost every branch of our city govern- ment, the citizens daily plundered and left at the mercy of the marauding bands that infest the City Hall. If we happen to have an honest official in one department, a desperate aad combined effort is made to defeat all of his attempts to bring order out of chaos; if it can be done in no other way they start for Albany. ‘Thus far during the present session we have eacaped any very serious damage from that quarter; for which let us be thankfal. From various symptoms this quiet is but the lull before the storm; and the last half of the session promises to be fully equal to its illustrious predecessors. There are now a seore or more bills relating to our city, in the shape of amendments to our charter, remo- delling the several courts, &¢., all of which should be summarily disposed of. There is only one bill among them all that is needed or asked for by a majority of the citizens, and that is the bill introduced by Mr. Ar- cularius, to appoint seven Commissioners to prepare acharter to be submitted to the peo- ple for their approval: If the rural members have any compassion upon us, and wish to atone for their past sins and raids upon the rights of New York, they will immediately take hold of that bill, and perfect it by striking out some of the politicians by trade now enumerated there- in, and inserting the names of practical and substantial men, and then pass it at the very earliest moment. A change in our present charter is absolutely necessary for an honest and wholesome govern- ment; but we want no more of the piecemeal patchwork so long prevalent at Albany ; neither do we desire the Legislature to frame and enact a charter; we ask for that privilege ourselves, through a highminded and trustworthy com- mission, such as the Legislature can give us if they will turn a deaf ear to the regular mem- bers of the third house, who are interested in keeping this an open question to feather their own nest. If our lawmakers assembled at Albany wish to earn for themselves a geod name they will not listen to the ap- peals to transfer the Bureau of Assess- ments, City Chamberlain and other fat jobs to the finance department, but give us a responsible commission, and let the citizens of New York take care of these peculators by overhauling the whole structure, razing it to its very foundation, and erecting thereon at least the framework for a more reliable, honest and efficient city government. We could point out several instances where our charter needs remodelling; but it would be impossible to make those changes effectual without an entire new charter—no piecework will answer our present condition. All that is asked from the hands of the Legislature is to be legally enpowered to tear down the present decayed, dilapidated and rotten concern, aud to erect a new one in its place. Will those as- sembled at Albany as lawmakers grant us that much? The Legislature for several years past has been helping those engaged at rob- bing the city treasury to thrast their hands still deeper, and we have been constantly going oa trom bad to worse. For the sake of a change in the programme we trust that this body will do something to help the honest portion of the community to cleanse the Augean stables and inaugurate a new order of things in our city. Tae Way Tae Consrinacy Acainst Lixconn Was Discoveren.—We have at last got a clue to the way the terrible conspiracy to assassi- nate Mr. Lincoln was discovered, and it cer tainly reflects great credit upon our police sys- tem, which we shall not be slow to accord to it. It appears that there were two sets of most effective detectives sent to work upon the mat- ter. Mr. Fouché Kennedy, of New York, at the instance of Thurlow Weed, despatched one band of detective police to Baltimore and the interlying points between that place and Har- risburg, to ferret out the plot, and the Vidooq of Baltimore had another band employed in the same localities, neither chief being aware of the action of the other. If there was any- thing to be discovered this efficient combina- tion of detective talent would be sure to find it out; and so it did; for 1t happened that the de- tectives from New York camp into frequent communion with the detectives froxt Baltimore, and, not knowing one another, each shpposed that he had found a conspirator in the other party, and forthwith commenced to sympathize with the plot and draw his communicative com- panion out, for the purpose of getting informa- tion, as these wise officials are wont to do; and so between them they unravelled, if they did not concoct, the whole terrible conspiracy against the life of Mr. Lincoln, which compelled him to resort to the Scotch cap of the Oame- rons and the long military cloak, in which un dignified disguise he reached the federal capitai with a whole ekin. No sooner did Mr. Fouch’ Kennedy succeed in discovering this awful conspiracy than he turned up at Washington, in search of an office, we suppose, to which he is undoubtedly entitled at the hands of Mr. Lin- coln, whose life he 80 miraculously preserved. But there are more plots agaiust the new President which it may require detective saga city to discover. Mr. Fouché Wee and Mr. Vidocq Greeley have each their detectives at work t discover @ conspiracy against the po- litical existence of Mr. Lincoln, and whichever of the two finds ont the plot-—whether it be gow up by the ultras or the moderates of the par ty—will, of course, be entitled to the spoils. a Tur Tarbune ann Ins “ Haut ov Horrors.” — In reply to our articles charging the Tribune with incsting the North to » revolutiouary war against the South, wil a view to the estublish- ment of the freedom of the negroes by means of a servile insnrrection, and the extermina- tion of the white race, root and branch, the writer says he merely “ drew aside the curtain that reveals the hell of horrors that lies im the path of civil and servile war, and instead of desiring to retract or qualify auything be has said, he rejoices in it,” It is perfectly useless for the writers of the Tribune to tell us that they gloat over tas scenes of carnage in their bloody programme, of which they have given us a glimpse by lift- ing the curtain which separates us from the future. They gloried in the atrocious and treasonable deeds of the horsethief and cat throat John Brown, elevating him to the place of a martyr for the blood he hed shed at Harper’s Werry, and for hie intention to shed it more copiously had his success in his first attempt te incite the slaves to revolt been only equal to bis hopes. All they regretted was that he failed. They are now resisting every effort made by the friends of peace to effect a reconciliation be- tween the two sections, in order that their fiendish programme may be carried ont, that the South may be invaded on a larger scale than John Brown’s raid, and with the authe- rity and power of the federal government, backed up by the arms aud money of the abolition States of the North, Thus they hope to accomplish the destruction of slavery and “the eggs of the viper.” Not one of the republican leaders denies that the policy of the party is coercion and war. Yet the Zribune writers call upoy us to assail Jefferson Davis for threatening to invade the North. Now, he has never threatened to invade the North, dnless war should be waged against the South; and in that event any re- monstrances to him from journals at the North would be idle. Neither Jefferson Davis nor any other man at the South has any idea of im- vading the North, if the North will only let the Southern States alone. The true course, there- fore, for those who desire to avert “the hell of horrors that lies in the path of civil and servile war” is to do allin their power to prevent Northern invasion, under the pretext of re- capturing or reinforcing the forts, or of “en- forcing by the army and navy the laws of the Union” in States that have declared their in- dependence. But the radical republicans will neither agree to concede to the Southern States the rights guaranteed to them by the constitution, nor yet permit them to separate in pedce, because the extinction of slavery in the Southern States, with all the attendant horrors, is the “foregone conclusion” at which they have arrived. If their policy should ua- happily prevail, they will find out when it is wo late that they will utterly fail in their main purpose, that war will desolate the North as well as the South, and that those who instigated it will become its sure victims, by a swift de- struction for which they are not now prepared. PorticaL News and THE Stock Market.— Wall street just now reminds us very much of aman who has been dangerously ill, and is being brought around by nourishing food and cateful attendance. His doctors say that any excitement may throw him back, and that therefore he must be kept as quiet as possible. On the contrary, it sometimes happens that a little ray of hope acts as a stimulant and brings him up. This is the Wall street practice The political doctors shake their heads and say there is no hope, and down go the stocks, some of them almost out of sight, The next day somebody thinks he sees a gleam of light, and the market rallies. Then comes a statement that Lincoln is in favor of concilia- tion, and stocks take another jump up. Again the bulls are horror stricken by the announce- ment that Greeley has breakfasted with Old Abe, and the market becomes sicker'than ever. Lincoln says something pleasant toa South- erner, and the street feels better. So it goes on day after day in the most curious and amusing way. Who can tell what a day may bring forth, especially in Wall street? Out- siders will do well under such circumstances to let stocks alone for the present. Grextxy 1 4 Back Szat.—According to our latest advices from Washington, “ Honest Abe Lincoln” has turned the cold shoulder upon Horace Greeley and his belligerent in- structions, and hae manifested his conservative tendencies by the addition of the conservative Cameron to the conservative Seward in the formation of the incoming Cabinet. It would thus appear that Thurlow Weed has been work- ing up his ‘‘statistics” on the subject of coercion versus conciliation to some purpose, and that his chances for @ full run of the White House down siaire are splendid. Poor Greeley may, perhaps, have to stay out in the cold. Weed and Seward, after all, have caught the white coated philosopher in bis own trap. But the end of the battle is not yet, and “Providence,” says Napoleon, “is on the side of the heaviest artillery.” Rervstican Frvancrertya.—It is estimated by the republicans that the new tariff will pro- dace about five millions additional revenue. One important element has been omitted from this calculation, and that it the cost of the frontier customs service. As many of the duties im- posed by the schedule amount to a positive prohibition, there will be such a*premium for smuggling that it will require an immense re- venue force to protect the boundary line. Most of the heavily taxed foreign articles re- quired for Northern consumption will be re- ceived through the South; for any blockade that may be attempted of its ports will be im- mediately broken through by England and France. Thus, as we have learned by expe- rience on the Canada frontier, the cost of col- lecting the duties under the new tariff along the boundary of the seceding States will be so great that the incoming administration will de- rive but little, ifany, aid from it. Tun New Tanter Bot.—The new Tariff bill 8 looked upon with universal discontent by all classes, with the exception of the millowners of New England and the ironworkers of Penn- sylvania. It is essentially a sectional measure, affording protection to the manufacturers of cotton and woollen good#and of iron and steel, and is decidedly oppressive to the great mass of constuners Its enactment at this time must prove an additional cause of exasperation to the South, not one of the interests of the South- ern States being advanced by ite provisions; and in this respect it cannot be regarded other- wize than untimely in the present condition of the couutry, with the recollection of the mullifi-