The New York Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. eee OFTLOE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ——eeeee 7 Tedvance. Money rent by mat soll be atthe Hy Ma call wogeonee, Sone fat ures Simas Tat »MUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, e..7 OF MUSIC, Fourteenth stres,—[riviw Orena—!c VorwTo. 1BLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Jaox Oapx. D wr oF EEL ie ws BE, VL WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway.—Ozwrnat Pane. LAUKA KEENE’S THEATSE, No. 6% Broadway.— Bayer SisTSRS. eo NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Wao Srusns Finest —HaRLequin JA0k—MUNERALL x Chatham street.—Tunus Eeas or 4 wous's fee anes Bxcauts—a Kiss it eux Daax. UM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway —Brat pao, au oruse Ov Ar ALL WOUNS-Tuw Dea? ua, Woudn uy Wurrre, ar 3 anp 73 0’oLoux P.M, TANT'G MINSTRELS, Mecksaice’ ee prmLasavas, BOmGS, axons, £0.—J 0K ANTE! F MUSIC 68 Ptashne 7 amie MELODEON, No. 539 Broadway.—sonas, Danozs, Bur- LEsques, AC. * RAND'S HALL, Troy.—Onsworta’s Minsreais or Eraio- FUN SoRGS, Danoma, &0. New York, Wednesday, March 6, 1861. en ‘The News. ‘The numerous despatches from various portions of the country on the subject of President Lin- coin’s Inaugural which we furnish this morning will indicate the manner in which it has been generally reeeived by the country, and the differ- ent lighta in which it is viewed by persons of dif- ferent party predilections, One of our despatches from New Orleans, published in another colomn, -etates that in that city it was considered as con- tradictory, incongruous and ridiculous. Despatches from Montgomery, Alabama, the capital of the new Southern confederacy, say that it ia ‘considered there that war between the North ‘and South is now inevitable. It is said that the Congress of the Confederate States are busily en- gaged in organizing & standing army for the anti- cipated conflict. Tho Cabinct of the new President is given to our readers in another portion of this morning’s issue. It will be found to be the same as that published in the HuxaLD somo days ago. Mr. Crawford, one of the three Commissioners from the Routhern confederacy appointed to nego- tiate with the government of the United States for the transfer of the publio property, arrived in Washington yesterday. He will not announce his aission to the government until the arrival of his colleagues, who are expected in a few days. It is supposed that Mr. Lincoln will decline all confe- rence with these gentlemen. We give this morning, in our telegraphic columns, the outlines of an interesting and some- * hat excited debate which took place in the Vir- ginia State Convention yesterday, on the subject ofthe present national difficulties, in which the views of members on the inaugural of President Lincoln were freely expressed. In the Missouri State Convention yesterday re- solutions were adopted appointing 'a committee to wait on the Commissioner from Georgia and in- form him that Missouri dissented from the posi- tion taken by his State, and very respectfally but emphatically declined to accept the invitation of Gcorgia to share with her the honors and respon- sibilities of secession. ‘A despatch from Raleigh gives us some further returns of the North Carolina election for State Convention. So far as the results have been ob- tained the Unionists are in a large majority. The vote on the question of holding a convention is said to be so close that the official returns will be necessary to decide it. The United States Senate was in extra session yesterday; but no business of importance was transacted beyond the confirmation of President Lincoln's Cabinet. Ex-President Bachansn took bis departure from ‘Washington yesterday for his home at Wheatland. His departure from the national capital was the oocasion of a very flattering ovation on the part of the military and citizens. The Assembly at Albany was in session yeater- day, and considerable business was transacted—a more detailed notice of which will be found in our report and in the letter of our Albany correspon- dent, ‘The Railroad Comm:ttee held their first meeting yesterday to hear objections to the Broa?- way Railroad bill. It was decided to hold meet- ings every evening this wed, ia order to enable all parties to be heard. Up to the hour of going to press we have no tidings ot the screw steamship Australasian, of the Cunard line, now on her eighteenth day out from Liverpool. She is a fast steamer, and made her last trip to this port in less than twelve days. Bome tears are therefore entertained that she has met with an accident, The Bremen, from South- amp(on, is on her fourteenth day out, and will un- doubt 1! 473 Broad- ly arrive here to-night or to-morrow morn- ing, when we may receive some tidings of the Aus- tralasian. The steamship Northern Light, from Aspinwall on the 25th ult., arrived at this port yesterday, bringing specie on freight to the amount of $855,- W756, and 314 passengers. Her advices from San Francisco contain no news, it haying been antici- pated by the pony express. The news from Central and South America by the Nerthera Light is not very important. From New G as comes a rumor that Mosquera had got possession of Bogata; but it requires con- firmation. President Barrios had returycd to Sal- vador, and since his return everythiog was per- fectlygpiet. In Honduras there were sume fears ofa ‘olution, growing out of the government * difficulties with the church. The treaty between the United States and Nicaragua Lad uct been sigued by the government of tne latter, which at- tempta to snub us by saying Nicaragua wants no alliances with a disrupted nawon.” Pon Antonio Varas, who was nominated for the Presideney of Chi declines the honor on the ground that his election might produce re- volution, which would be an injury to his country, whore interests he has at heart. Other importont discoveries of gold in the mining districts a: an- pounced. Bolivia has been qaict since the ecpui- sion of Prosidest Linares, who has goue to © There are voven candidates for the Presidency, and amovgst (hem figures General Belau. It ix said that Ons , oF Pern, paid at least $200,000 in bribes to the Bolivian Ministry to accomplish the overthrow of Linares, his unflinching caemy, and probaby the ablest man in the republic. The new go nt has been officially recogaized by the United States Minister, In consequence of the events in Bolivia, Castilla has abandoned bis ides of am invasion. Pern is qaiet, though murders aod robberies are quite fre- quea) Eourdor is ropresented a» quiet and prosperous, thoogh a renewal of hoouliios with | ted in Consequence of the unwilling recogr Franco's ume. to Peru. We have rows from the oliy of Mexico to Teh nary 19, but re is nothing to add to our former sdvices, which were only two days carlier ** Genorsl Twipge had an enthusiastic reception yosterday trom the people of New Oriewas, Th NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAROH 6, 1961, citizens, military and members of the Convention Joimed im @ procession and marched to his hotel, where 8 speech of welcome was made, to which General Twiggs replied. From Now Oricans it is stated that the United States revenue cutter Dodge was seized on the 2d instant, in Galveston Bay, by the State authorities of Texas, and that the officers in command had tendered their services to the State. At the regular monthly meeting of the New York Historical Society last evening, President Lincoln was eleeted an honorary member, and an interesting paper was read by Dr. Fischell on the “Inquisition in America.’’ Arrangements have been made fer the taking of appropriate action, at the next meeting, in reference te the death of the late Dr. J. W. Francis, A regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors was held yesterday, but in consequence of the ab- sence of some of the members nothing but routine business was transacted, and after a short session the Board adjourned. The new contract for cleaning the streeta of this city went into effect on Thursday last, the ‘28th ult., but there were so many preliminaries to be arranged, and such a formidable array of work- men to be organized, that the contractor did not get his forces fairly in line till the beginning of this week. We are now promised clean streets. Time will tell the result. There are about four hundred miles of streets in the city to be cleaned. Of these, eighty miles down town are to be cleaned every night, and the three hundred and twenty miles of up town streets once a week. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Henry Wilson was convicted of forgery, in having pantity of counterfeit bills on the North River in his possession, and was sent to the State prison for five years and one month. John Wat- son and William Maxwell were also convicted of a similar offence, $77 worth of counterfeit bills of the Hartford Bank and $35 in worthless notes on {the Munson Bank, of Massachusetts, being found upon their persons. They were each sent to the State prison for five years. We chronicle to-day another death by burning— the victim being Madame Vigne, widow of a former proprietor of the Hotel de Paris. On oc- casions of this character a simple and most beneficent rule to observe is at once to throw the sufferer down, when, by speedy rolling or wrap- ping in whatever may be nearest at hand, the flames will frequently be stifled before they have time to ascend to the mouth or hair. Many lives have been saved by following this injunction, but many more have been lost by ignorance, or by not having sufficient presence of mind to remem- ber it in season. No improvement occurred yesterday in cotton, the sales of which were confined to 1,000 bales. There was more activity in breadstufls, owing to the increased do- mand from shippers. Flour was rather easier, but wheat and corn were steady, The inquiry for provisions, hay, hops, rice and whiskey was moderate, Laguayra coffee was purchased to the extent of 3,400 bags at full prices, Sugars were somewhat better. No remarkable changes took place in the market for oiis, naval stores, fish, seeds or tobacco. There was more produce offered for British ports, aad heavier eugagementa of freights were made at former rates. Mr. Lincolm on Coerclon—Has the New Administration a Line of Policy? The republican journals were very fierce in their denunciations of Mr. Buchanan’s last mes- sage to Congress, charging the ex-President with vacillation and inconsistency altogether unhecoming his reeponsible position. The Tri- dune was especially gratified in being able to say that when Mr. Lincoln succeeded to power & new order of men would be called to sail the ship of State, and that she would pursue a per- fectly straight course, without backing or fill- ing or manceuvring in any eccentric manner: How far this promise has been kept may be understood from Mr. Linvoln’s inaugural ad- dress—a very carefully drawn and elaborately finished State paper, with the finger-marks of Mr. Seward from the exordium to the poetical peroration. This address was looked for with the most intense anxiety, es it was presumed that it would indicate the policy of the new administration upon 8 very delicate point—no less a question than that of coercion, about which so much nonsense has been written and spoken ever since hast November. “Coercion,” according to the idea of some people, means actual inva- sion of ihe seceding States and the recapture of the federal property by force of arms. This is impracticable, if not imporsible, It is a matter of doubt whether the regular troops would suffice for any such purpose; and, as we have hitherto shown, the President cannot call for additional forces without special power from Congress. But, we are told, he intends to collect the revenues, and use all the force at his command to enforce the laws. Herein is the whole pith of the address. We quote the paragraphs:— In doing this (executing the Inws of the Union in all the States) there ueed be no bloodshed or violence, and there shail be none, uniess it is forced upon the national authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy ant possers the y and places be longing tothe government, and collect the duties and impowts; but beyond what may be necessary for these olyects there willbe no invagion—no using of force uge inst oF amongst the people any where, Where hoxtitity to the United States shall be so great aba 60 Universal as to prevent competent resident citi- trae “While tha atrict legal right may exist of the t to euforce the exercise of these offices, the 0 wo would De 60 irritating and xo nearly im. pitactowh! withel that T deem it better to forego for the tutne 2 of such offices, ™ ‘is, nole.s repeile* will continue to be furnish «) rts of the Union, tw oticed that in the paragraph pre- cedirg which we have quoted, Mr. Lin- coln declares that no State can lawfully get cut of the Union; that, therefore, the Union re- mains unbroken, and that he will execute the lawa to the extent of his ability. Then he pro- ceeds to state that there need be no bloodshed, but that the federal government will “hold, occupy and possess,” (does that mean retain or retake!) “the property and places” belonging to it. Furthermore, that the revenue is to be collected, but obnoxious officers are not to be forced upon the people of any State, Here is a clear and positive contradiction. It may be held by some politicians of the Mincio school that the Presiden! means to collect the revenue al soa; bnt this i ‘mpossible. We will suppose, for example, that the ship Alliance arrives at CUberleston from Hoevyre, with a cargo of silks, laces, fancy goods, manufactured articles, te, in all, say five hundred packages, consigned io fifty or more persons. In entering the barbor the Alliance is over- hauled by ® ehip-of-war, with a collector on board. The master hus nothing to show but his manifert, which does not partioularize the quality of the articles shipped. It is for the consignees to produce their invoices and bill of lading, pay the duties and receive the gvods, When the consigoees fail appear, the packages are to be sent to the public store, an#,in cave they remain unciaioved duriog a olf at auction on nment. According to maritime low, ai cuties must be collected Within one murine league of the port, and bulk cannot be broken until the vessel bas been re- to Btipy lar acorunt of the gov period, they are gulatly entered within ibe harbor, Should the Executive overria 1) thease provisions, and deciaro thet, ia cage the duties are not paid according to the new regulations, cargoes will be forfetted, a fresh obstacle arises. The machinery for the collection of the revenue is not alone executive. The judiciary has something to do with it. The Secretary of the Treasury cannot forfeit a pair of gloves without legal process to be had before a dis- trict judge and a jury of citizens to be em- pannelled from the district where the con- signees reside. Where would the government find judge or jury in Charleston, Savannah, Mobile or New Orleans? Difficulties no less insurmountable will arise in the Judiciary Department and the postal ser- vice. The constitution and laws are so framed that the President, when the question of arbi- trary authority arises, has no power whatso- ever. Mr. Seward, the chief adviser of the President, isa clear headed man and « tho- roughly well read la - He sees all the obstacles which surround the government. It is only such stupid people as the Cheva- lier Webb and blind fanatics like Greeley, who shut their eyes to the fact that without the conferring by Congress of plenary power upon the President he can do nothing. The regular army is too small for the service required of it already, and the President cannot increase it. Many of the best officers in the united service have resigned, and their entire disorganization is by no means improbable, From these cir- cumstances we can understand why the Presi- dent is so confident that there need be no bloodshed. It is not, therefore, Mr. Lincoln’s fault that he is compelled to retract in one sentence what he has said in another. He takes office at a juncture, to the exigencies of which this government, as it stands, is not equal. The laws guard State rights jealously, and although the statute books do not of course recognise secession, yet they fail to provide any very strong remedy against it, or apy punishment for it. The only resource that Mr. Lincoln has is in an extra session of Congress, and it is by no means probable that the representatives of the people would, in the present state of public opinion, vote to place despotic power in the hands of the Executive. Such an act would only be justifiable in case of foreign invasion. The upshot, of the whele matter is that the new administration cannot coerce the South if they would. They may override the law, and provoke a civil war, but that couse is equivalent to suicide. As wesaid some time ago, Mr. Lincoln is seated upon thorns, and wields only a barren sceptre. He rules a Northern minority, through the cohesive power of the public plunder, but has no place. in the affections of the péople at large. No President or other constitutional ruler ever occupied a position so pitiable. It is not re- markable, then, that his inaugural is weak, vascillating, unsatisfactory and contradictory. If we were disposed to be severe, we might compare the President to the celebrated animal who hesitated between the two bundles of hay, and got neither of them. Even Presidents, however, are entitled to some mercy, and so we rest the case before it has been half opened. Tur Orrice-Sxexine Crown aT Wasmnaron.— We learn by our Washington despatches that nearly all the persons who recently visited that city for the purpose of witnessing the insugura- tion of Mr. Lincoln have left for their respec. tive homes, and yet the federal capital is still swarming with those who rushed there from all quarters of the country in search of office. There has been no dimination in this portionof the transient population of Washington. It is crowded with hungry candidates for all kinds of places under the new government—appli- cants for forcign missions, applicants for con- sulates, applicants for collectorships, postmas- terships, United States marshals and district at- torneys, and all the offices, great and small, in the gift of Mr. Lincoln. We have already published lists of office- seekers who haunt the capital, and we give additional names of these pertina- cious individuals to-day. But we have only given the names of those who es pire to the fat places. If we were to publish all who are hunting after the one hundred thousand appointments as clerks, inspectors of customs, and the multifarious other places un- der the general government, we would have to draw extensively on the census returns, and would probably be compelled 'to print the name ofevery man in the republican party. There are hundreds of office hunters in Washington to-day who, when at home, had not a dollar to live upon, and it isa matter of wonder with their neighbors how they managed to get the means to carry them to Washington atall. We fear it will be with many of these poor fellows as it was with the man in Jackson’s time, who came from one of the then Western States in search of ofice—as the old hero used to tell the story— who first demanded a first class foreign mission, as areward for his political services, then would be content with the modest place of charge d'affaires, and finally came down to a consul ebip, and so on through all the minor grades of public office, all of which the President was gompelled to decline. At length, when his moncy was all gone, and his hopes nearly gone with it, he made a last appeal to Jackson for the post of inspector in the New York Custom House, and upon being informed that this place was not directly in the gift of the President, he vaid, piteously, “General, hav’nt you a pair of old breeches you could give me?” Thus, we are afraid that some of the officeeeckers now in Washington will be praying for a pair of Old Abe's breeches before they get through. A New Vexston or tue Crncaco Prarrora.— A careful perural of Mr. Lincoln’s inaugural demonstrates how completely his mind has be come ssturated with the principles of the Chi- cago platform He talks incessantly about the Union, and was 80 well satiefied with what he was saying, that be closed by declaring that he was loth to step,” but his true intent, or in- «tinct, was, evidently, to present the ideas pro- muigated at Chicago, in the most attractive light. ‘The times are too serious for disguises, as the President will flad before he is many weeks older. Doctrines which were repudiated by a majority of over one million of the people of the United States, in November jast, will not be accepted now, because they have been care fully sugared. ‘ —_———— FaLLactes Mr. Lincors-—One ia that he was elected | a majority of ibe people, and that he bas a right to carry ont a republican policy a the policy of the majority. The otbor is that constitutions are not of any value when they are trampled under foot with impunity by those who are bound to observe them, but who regard ther as “» covenant with death and an agreement with bell,” President Lincoln's Cabinct.—Imponding Conflict. Lrrepressible On the heels of the inaugural, so aaxiously looked fer, and so unsatisfactory, we havethe news of the definite formation of Mr. Linooln’s Cabinet. It confirms the worst fears we have entertained concerning the probable policy of the administration. It is now officially an- nourced as follows:— Secretary of State. Wm. H. Seward, of N. ¥. Secretary of Treasury. Salmon P. Chase, of Oluo. Seoretary of War Simon Cameron, of Pa. Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles, of Coun. Secretary of Interior. Caleb B, Smith, of Ind. Postmaster General. Montgomery Blair, of Md. Attorney General. . . Edward Bates, of Mo. Thus the Seward-Weed slate is completely broken; indeed, it would appear from our Washington despatches, that the admission of Mr. Chase was made a sine qua non of the con- tinuanee of the New York Senator, in the posi- tion of the Secretary of State. Theradical por- tion of the republican party is, of course, ex- ultant. It has succeeded in introducing ele- ments of. discord into the government, which will be powerfully felt and, probably, will ultimately triumph. An irrepressible conflict between the rival factiona has commenced al- ready, and must continue until one or the other.is driven from office. Those who know the character of the respective individuals whom Mr. Lincoln has chosen to be his advisers, can entertain but little doubt which section will succumb. The President has begun his career as Chief Magistrate by committing the error which proved fatal to poor Pierce. Ho labors, however, under disadvantages infinitely greater than those which embarrassed his unfortunate predecessor. The latter, to please everybody in the democratic party, select- ed a Cabinet from all the extremes. By the side of Marcy, whose views were in the main correct, he placed Jefferson Davis, a rest- less, subtle, echeming, Southern radical, Whose more mercurial, enterprising genius, neutralized the efforts of the Secretary of State, and pene- trated every act of the administration. In the same manner, Lincoln has brought Chase and Blair—the one an insatiable, dogged, persevering demagogue, the other a traditional believer in the obsolete theory of newspaper oligarchism— into a proximity.to Mr. Seward, which the latter will not have the moral courage to sustain. His finer craft will be perpetually overruled; and, before many weeks, he will have either lapsed into a practically subservient relation to his colleagues, or be banished on some foreign miasion. The President is vaunted as being a second Jackson in firmness; but his counsels cannot fail to be swayed hither and thither by tHe strife which will encompass him. The best view of the case might be, that Cabinet wrangles, will occupy so much of the time and attention of the administration, that it will have but limited leisure to carry out its coercion theories respecting theSouth. But even this is uncertain. Out of divided counsels, too frequently spring foolish, immature and suici- dal meagures. While the seeds are sown which will destroy the republican party, itis to be feared that the welfare of the nation will also suffer serious detriment, and that, in the rapid progress of events, the grave blunder that has been committed, may be but one step further on towards a disastrous end. Tun New York Pottcs Taxiwne Cane or tHe Wuorr Country.—When the republican party inaugurated the Metropolitan Police Depart- ment of New York they selected the richest part of the whole country for their police dis- trict, in the four counties which it embraced within the boundaries of this State. At that time the party controlled only three or four of the Northern States; but since it has elected the chief magistrate of the country, those limits bave become quite too restricted for the official officiousness of that peculiarly republican in- stitution, the Metropolitan Police. Hence we find, by the admission of Fouche Kennedy him- self, that the Metropolitan Police district has been extended to Baltimore and Charleston, and even further South, and that a regular sys- tem of police espionage is now established throughout most of the Southern cities—the headquarters being in New York, and the New York people being obliged to foot the bills. We publish in another column, a correspon- dence upon this subject between Fouché Ken- nedy, of New York, and Vidocq Kane, of Balti- more, together with some editorial comments of the Baltimore press, from which it would ap- pear that the New York police have taken the whole South, if not the whole country, under their especial care. The cities of the South are swarming with New York policemen, they are drafted into the ranks of the “Southern volun- teers;” and indeed, in every society throughout the entire country, for aught we know, detec- tives are scattered, listening to every man’s conversation and dogging every man’s foot- steps. This contemptible system of espionage, we need hardly say, comprises no part of our democratic form of government ; it is inimical to the spirit of this people; it is dangerous to the existence of individual liberty, and could only be {initiated and fostered by an oppressive and dogmatic faction. The Metropolitan Police were established os- tensibly for the proteotion of the lives aud pro- perties of the citizens of the district who pay for their support. This is the spectal duty of a local police force, and although it was bad enough to find that from the beginning the Metropolitan Police system was but a political partisan machine, established for the further- ance of, party aims, such an outrageous misap- plication of its power 6a Mr. Fouché Keanedy end bis political associates have now assumed \s Something without parallel in the history of any independent country. AmMALOAMATION Promerrep ty CaLtrornta.— A bill introduced into the lower Howe of ihe California Legislature on the S0th of Jaan- ary, to prevent the amalgamation of different racee of men, provides that any while person who sball hereafter be convicted of marrying or otberwise cohabiting with a aeyro, mulatto, Chinese or Todian, shall be punished by fine and imprisonment, or both; and that the fact that a perron beds, boards, cohabits or inter. marries with an individual of any of aatd races, shall be prima facie evidence that such s per «on is not a white citizen, and shali subject him ‘o ali constitutional disabilities imposed oa per- sone of color, And this is done in a free State. What a lesson! One of the evil effects of the ealization of the republican theories about the negro race would be extensive amalgamation end deterioration of the white race. he Cal: fornia Legislature iv wisely providiog, as far ws it con, againat the admixture of races, whied ‘oyed Mexico and the Central Ameri lice, and which will destroy North if “universal emancipation’ of the blacks showd ever be realizes Oovdwariow or Sraius—~The period fixed by the treaty for the ocoupetion ef Syria by the Frenok treeps expired on the 3d of this month. It is probable that by this time the Conference which was to meet at Pariato make arrange. ments for the future government of the province is in session, It is understood that the com- mission of inquiry appointed by the European governments to report to the Conference has adopted a plan, of which the following are the principal features:—It recommends that Pacha, invested with power for life, shall ad- minister the affairs of the province, with the title of Governor General. A fifth of its reve- nues is to go to the Porte, the remainder being employed for internal expenses. A conatitu- tion, to be agreed upon between the Sultan and the Great Powers, isto be given to the province, and its execution is to be watched over by the Consuls General at Beyrout. A Divan, elected by the votes of each district in proportion to the number of inhabitants, is to form a consulting council for the Pacha, and no more Ottoman troops are to be sent into Syria from Constantinople, but are to be re- placed by military forces raised in the province itself. The Lebanon and anti-Leba- non districts are to have at their head a Ca- maicap, dependent on the Pacha, and an Otto- man subject, though, of the Catholic religion, ‘Two Camaicans, one Maronite, and the other Druse, are to be under him to govern the two populations which occupy the mountain, and the government of the mixed villages is to be constituted in such a manner as to have their inhabitants always placed according to their religion, under the direct authority of on> of their own faith. This plan appears calculated to do away with all the difficulties arising out of tho reli- gious feuds of the population and the substi- tution of the authority of the Porte bya fo- reign force. It remains. to be seen whether , France, in the prosecution of the designs im- puted to it, will throw any obstacles in the way of its adoption. Arvarrs iv Cenrra Awmenica—By the Northern Light, which arrived at this port yes- terday, we have news from Central America to the 25th of February. The chief item of in- terest is that announcing the capture of Bogota, the capital of New Granada, by Mosquera, the revolutionary general. Asno particulars of the event or the circumstances immediately leading to it heve been received, we are left to conjecture; but ss Mosquera was previously heard of in the province of Neiva, at the head of six thousand men, the probability is that a battle was fought between these and the forces under Ospina, the President of the re- public. From Nicaragus we learn that Con- gress was still in session, and that the United States treaty had not been ratified, nor was it likely to be. It was said there that, the American Union being in a state of disruption, Nicaragua would prove a match for either the North or the South, and that the Nicaraguans were in want of notreaty alliances. This boast, comingfrom a republic that can muster only four hundred troops, is refreshing. In Chinandega it wasan- ticipated that Gavett, the murderer of Joseph L. White, would be acquittedon the strength of a ples to the effect that the witnesses who saw the murder were all friends of the victim, and that consequently their evidence could not be received. In Honduras the ill feeling be tween the government and the church was un- abated, and fears were entertained of its lead- ing to @ revolution against the President. Affairs in Costa Rica were depressed, owing to the late change in the government and the attempt at revolution which immediately suc- ceeded. A scarcity of money, a feeling of in- security and the prospect of a smal! coffee crop promise bedly for the future. ‘Tar Suanpvers of THe Rerusiican Journals anp Leapers Aqarysr tux Soura.—Long be- fore the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln the re- publicans set afloat stories that Washingtoa was to be attacked and the Capitol seized ia order to prevent the inauguration of Mr. Lia- coln. The effect of this was to excite a milita- ry spirit gll over the North for the purpose of invading the South; and under its influence United States troops were concentrated at Washington, to the great danger of the dis. turbance of the public peace by exciting the South. When the day of inauguration drew nigh another lying story still more horrible was started, with the same object, andin this Fouché Kennedy's police played a distinguish- ed part, It was stated that there was the most indubitable evidence—and tke names of the parties ascertained were known even to Euro- pean fame—that there wae » plot to murder Mr. Lincoln on his way to Washington; and Mr, Lincoln, swallowing the tale, made a precipi- tate flight to Washington in disguise in order to snticipate the assassins. Now the inauguration is over, having paseed off without the slightest disturbance or any attempt to molest Mr. Lia- colp, and the stories concocted for the base purpose of stirring up hosiility to the South are ell found to be without the slightest fona- dation. Having failed in their design, they will necesearily recoil on the 1 Brookirn AcApmry oF Mus first appearance before the Brorkly n pv! of “Rigoletto” last evening er success was more ron than on tho night of her dest, when she was aupported by hosts of friends. The aidieuce received her rather coldiy at Grat, but as the procecded they war awe ito geouine enthusiae t the close oF tho firet, ‘and indeed of every ac 12, whe Was Defure the cortain aod laden with 2s, Ter voles, witch ne we have alrealy stated is hut powerful, was heard to better effect than tn the New York Acetomy, and: bad. beside, the advantage of being fre» from (ue luiluence of the perourness which stteaded ber deout ax ao artist Mise Kellogg bea a good «teal to acquire: but her performance ie marked rn eaten & tty to arr! cellence. Her method is Somewhat thin, its fresunes: afar share of flexibility, enele ‘actorily whatever rhe utters 2 grea! advantage tn bel by much @ tenor etrength to her, mor one of the goms of effective, though it re ‘Yo night the © Poliut Academy, and ‘on Fourteenth @troet Brockiym for the js the last uot of © Rigole tor thas econaic for the firs Mine | be'ng set dowa te the Diils ‘The appearaacs of Madame Co'son , Mus Kellogg ta doudt erowd the house satisfactory operniic ® b peous tistioally, that we have baa to record Tam Aeris’ Tieuntow.—Amother of (bors delight! a) ro. bh cor New York artists c i, took. place Inat night at their rooms in et. A world of beauty an hou crowded Hous Studion, a iacge Lusder ot were throws wing not at easy waich surred enatonally give is wayeot th art doth realize ber the crowd-—and 1 war +o loby-—tbas a elimps umporsibie, an’ many ® One Who wont tO i f the artint tnd t6 by n atody of the living be glowed arvund bim 00 every eho re the ernends to Ritagew brentiet pad 7 whic L——— TS OUR NATIONAL ‘TROUBLES, fateresting Debate im the Virginia Caren- thon on Bir. Lincoln's Inangural—setzure of the Revenue Calter Dodge—Ovation te Gea. Twiggs in Now Orieans—The Hew Posts age Law of the Southern Comfoderacy, de, &e., he. ANTICIPATIONS OF AN ATTACK ON FORE SUMTER. ‘Wastunarow, March 5, 1364. ‘The impression is very general here that an attack is shortly to be’ made en Sumter. In fact, intelligence re once bring om collision. It is pretty cortain that a cot- Iision cannot long be delayed, It is said that President Lincoln declared recently that he would never disgrace himself and dishonor his coun- try, nor weaken ‘his party, as Pierce nad done, by ap- Pointing renegade foreigners cf the red republican order to foreign missions or other honorable offices, Major Andereon, up to the 4th of March, has continued to speak of his condition os safe, and to express the ereen reinforcements bad ‘better not be sent te SEIZURE OF THE CUTTER DODGE. . Naw Onvasss, March 6, 1964. The revenue cutter Dodge was selzed by the autherities of Texas in Galveston bay, on the 2d inst. The officer im Seoerarenh ben raslenen snd wenleryt his services to the ernor. THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION. Ricumonp, March 5, 186%. Mr. Gox, of Ohesterfield, introduced a resolution, ia- structing the Committee on Federal Relations to report, Bates ad aar.n Rian (06 convention of the border slave earliest practicable day; also, to report ea the eubject of the coercion of the seceded ‘States by the government. Mr. Lxsxe, of Goochland, offered a substitute, instruct - ing the committee, ix view of tue ccercive policy indi- cated by the President, and a long list of aggressicas, te report an ordinance for Virginia to reassume all she powers she delegated to the government, and declare her- self independent, and then call a convention of the slave- holding States to determine what new constitution would be necesarry for the protection of their rights in a.cen- federacy of slave States, and such free Sistes ax were bag gpg ‘: cv . BAKVIE, Melia, introduced an amendment im- structing the committee to report in effect that, eel it Js plain iiss itis Mr. Lincoln's purpose te ju country into civil war by his coerctve polloy, Wbieh Virginia will resist; therefore. ne é Resolved, That the ure be requested to make the needful appropriation of means and provide the me- ceesary forces to resist and repel eve:y attempt of the federal authorities to hold, occupy and possess tho pre- perty and places of the United States in any of the se ceded States, or thoxe that may withdraw, or collect duties ou imports in the same, Mr, Gocein read a series of resolutions agatust coeroive Measures for ihe collection of the revenue, &c.; that Virginia would repel such attempts; requesting the ce- operation of the border sisve States in effecting aplan fer uniting with tbe South with the hope of restoring harmouy to the Union, and of reforming the United States on the basis of the conatitution modified to protect the rights of Persons an‘' property in the Territories for all time; thas fn the event of a separation of Virginis from the Ut tue government property in Virgipia ought to be rosa by her, as well for the defence of her citixens and pro- perty in particular locations as for purposer of general defence; that while Virginia remains a member of the Unien she will assume no hostiie attitnde toward the Sorenson, but be prepared to repel any asaaulte mude pon ber, Tho debate exhibited the effect of the Joxugural to rome extent, The Union men, including Mewrs. Cox and gin, urged that seme action was necresary, aa all Vea Bisa previous efforts bad failed. Thoy want the opinion of the border sluve States before determining, but com. template po Union with the North on unequal terms. Mr. Dorntay, of Rockbridge, though regretting Mr. Lincoln's position, thinks the Union men should work all the harder to oppose coercion. ‘There was great excitement in the Convention all day, but ap adjournment was haa wichout taking action. 4 ‘Secossionists are in better spirits THE SOUTHERN CONGRESS, Mowraommny, Ala,, March 5, 1861, ‘The Southern Congress reaszem died to-day. ‘The fiag for the Confederate Statee was upanimonsy: determined upon. The design originated with the com- mittee having the matter ia charge, and was not taken ‘rom any of the models presented. The fag was hoisted over the Capitol at tour o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Mallory bas been confirmet as Secretary of the Navy. ‘The Congress is in secret session to night. RATES OF POSTAGE IN THE CORFEDERATR STATES OF AMISRICA, ‘The following ts @ wir; "ified etatement of the rates a prstege under tho act of Con; ‘Of the Confederate » Biates of America, adypted on the 2ist of February, 186k band - ied agg davane from and aftr aneh Deru a we Post ort m4 bi - Sonne ay, by prociumation, an- RATES OF POSTAGH RETWEEN PLacKs WITHIN TR CONFBUBRATE STATES OF AMBLIVA, Sipzie letters nol ome dh haif Sinrie letters not excestin~ a haif cance in weight:— ¥ distance under 500 intles, 5 cents. mn “ny distance over 600 miles, 19 cents. in adaltiona: sloglo rave for each addit!oaal half ounce or haxe np ny So (wo cents each. in the fo: cares. tho postage to be rarape 0° suninped eavelopes’ mas Advertised letters two conte each. on wal P ea by weight as letters are rated and te be doutle the rates 0 postage on letters, '0 wit:— any dietance under £00 miles, 20 cen‘ for each baif ovuce oF lowe For say dis ance over 59) miles, 20 cents for each hali ounce or less. I all cues to be prepaid by stamps or stamped ow. velopes ee toe og earns ot to regular and boma girte aubgeribers f offtos of publication, and wor Contes vores padie ty weight — Within the State where Published. Wookly poper, 6% cents per quarter, Semi weekiy paper, 18 oc cts per quarter. Tri weekly Paper, 193, cents per quarter Daily paper, o® conte pes quarter. Ip all casee the postage to oo paid quarterly ia ad- vance at the offices oP the subscribers. ‘ vw Wanoud the State wher Published. Weekly paper, 12 cents per quarter, Semi weekly paper, 26 cout« per quarter, ‘Triwoekiy paper, 39 cents per quarter. Daily paper 78 ceota par quarter, To ol! Care tho portage to bo paid quarterly (p advames ft Lhe 0f.008 Of the eubsoribera. On Periodionis Sont to regular aod bene fide subseribers from the office of pablication aad pot exceeding 134 ounces weigh Within (he Stote where Pebtisied Monthly, 8 eats por quarter or L cent for each number Pomi moathly, Geen per querter or 1 cent for each bomber An additional cont eeer member for every naditioaat: ounce, or lese Heyone the Gret 14% cavers PA menthiy or quart Leen ar ounce. fp all exes the po + De pac quarterly tn ademsine Bb Lao ol.ces Of euby * Withou! the Sate whery Mrudhithed, re ght:— Not exceeding 14 oun ® ) Or 2eente Seach nom Moutniy 6 ceate per quer ter fer’ monthly 12 cents per quarter, or 2 cents for cack bum wo cents additional for every edit onal ounce or lew Doyond the first 13; ounces Hi-monthiy or quarterty, 2 eentsan ounce. fee th ont CO be paid q) arteriy in advance breribers: AS SORNT PI MATTER, Lew vaper, pamphir, periorcal and me sealed, hand! ll an engraving, weight, 2 cents for any ais fF each add tonal). ce oF leaw ail coses the postage to be prepaid by stamps or Blumpedt envelopes. a Hie cbvet clerk. Acciter Of the Treveury for tho Post Office Inpartment. Deputy poatmagwere THE MISSOURI CONVENTION. fr Loum, Mardi 6, 1861. vention metat ten o'clock, and was opened mt nercion by the federal govemnmeat be Gneed te writing, and a copy sent to thy Urisident of Unitest states, Reeolaticar were adopted, providing thst a comm! be apprinted to wait on the Comm ssioner from Geo: taken by thas State, and very kindly but omphatically or ne Gon, Dearpbay, Coorm ”