The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1861, Page 6

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TWEEDLE TALL, gr —Unsworrn'’s MINSTRELS iN ‘TRIPLE SHEET. | According to our Washington despatches, the reinforcement of Forts Sumter and Pickens has | been decided on by the administration of Pre- | sident Lincoln, and the arrangements for carry- ing out that object are now in active progres: General Scott and the Cabinet secretaries are said to be busy with the plans. We are informed by one of our Washington cor- respondents of very important movements in tho army and navy ordered tv the govermment. All the neval vessels in the Pacific aid the Mediter- ranean are ordered home, to return to Northern ports, and the troops lately under command of Gen, Twiggs, in Texas, numbering twenty-five bundred, and those in New Mexico, are called to the North. No movement has yet been made by the Com- missioners in Washington from the Confederate States towards the negotiations with which they are charged. Mr. Roman, on¢ of the members of the commission, who was erroneously stated yes- terday to have arrived, was still wanting, at a late hour last night, to complete the delegation, and his colleagues will do nothing till he joins them. We publish this morning the roll of a formidable army of patriots who are anxious to serve their country under the auspices of the Lincoln régime. To those who may have supposed that patriotism was on the wane, this list will be a refreshing surprise. To the names of those gentlemen as- | insurance for. | rested on suspicion of causing the fire. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1861.—TRIPLE SHERRY. due on the 20th ult: were not met. The news from Italy is not important. General | Ciatdipi and Admiral Persano had left Gaeta and gone to Messina to assist in the reduction of the fortress. Active measures are being taken by Austria to prevent an attack on Venetia, aad orders have beea issued to arm all vessels in the Austrian navy. ‘The troubles between the government and cler- gy of Honduras have been rapidly taking a dan- gcrous form in that country. The Vicar General | of the Metropolitan diocesa excommunicated the President and members of his govvornment for introducing heresy through the treaty of cession of the Bay Islands, which guarantees liberty of eouscicnce to all non-Catholics, The President has retaliated by stripping the Vicar of his func- tions and banishing him the country, for en- dcavoring to excite rebellion. The incendiary documents of his Reverence are to be forwarded to the Court of Rome, in order thet the matter may be looked into at the proper ecclesiastical headquarters. And so the quarrel stands at pre- sent. The Bay Islands have not been taken pos- session of by Honduras, the government appear- ing to think that they will be more trouble than profit. It is feared that the troub!e with the clergy may bring about a revolution. The weather was much milder yesterday than on ‘Thursday. The New World left Albany on Thurs- day night for this city, and arrived a! her dock at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The Hero ar- rived at Albany at about the same time. The river, commencing at Yonkers, is full of floating ice to Albany, with the exception of some eight or teu places whero it is frozen over. Five men were observed yesterday by our reporter on the ice at Peekskill at work near a vessel which was anchored a short distance from the dock. Several sloops and schooners were sailing between the city and Yonkers, and a short distance above the latter place was a large steamer with ice barge. in tow, and a small steamer towing a schooner. The Oregon, which was driven ashore by the squall on Wednesday night, floated off yesterday. She is reported uninjured. A fire occurred early yesterday morning in the shoe sip of the House of Retuge, on Randal!’s Island, and before the flames could be got under control the entire building was destroyed. The structure burned was the one situated north of the main building. It was three stories in height. | The building, which was the property of the city and State, was fully insured; but the gentleman who had the contract for the work on shocs loses @ considerable amount in stock more than he had One of the Refuge boys was ar- Tho jury in the case of Blumenberg, charged with perjury, were unable to agree, and were dis- charged yesterday by Judge Shipman. We publish in another column the new regula- tions of the Custom House Department of Brazil with reference to ships, merchandise, passengers, crew, &c. They'will be found of great import- ance to our merchants in the South American trade generally. ‘ The market for cotton yesterday was not much af. fected by the nows from Liverpool, in view of the pri- vate telegraphic advices from (he South, reporting that the receipts at New Orleans were declining rapidly. Tho prices of middling uplands here yesterday were 115/c. a 116. per pound, and about 1,300 bales, all told, found buyers. The transactions in flour were light, shippora having purchased with reserve, and the turn of prices wes towards a lower rapge. Wheat was sold freely, bat at easier prices, There was less actiwty in corn, which, however, was firmer, especially new. The demand for provisions was mainly from jobbere. Lard was in most request and was ad. vancipg. Tho cales of sugars were 850 bhds , of all kinds, at former quotations, Some 3,800 bags Rio coffee found buyers at steady figures. ‘Phe au'tion eale of teas ind! cated an xctive and a firmer market for greons. Thore piring to the New York appointments we have appended brief historical sketches. From Texas we have nothing of a positive na- ture later than what we published yesterday morning; but by way of New Orleans there is a rumor to the effect that Fort Brown, in command of Capt. Hill, of the United States Army, had been | surrendered to the Texans, Intelligence was received in Washington last night to the eftcct that, after a full and careful canyass in the Virginia Convention, it was found that the secessionists in that body were in a mi- nority, notwithstanding the fact that they have- received accessions since the delivery of Pre- sident Lincoln’s inaugural. The secession ordi- nance will consequently be voted down in the Convention. The United States Senate met yesterday, and without further debate adopted the resclution to print the usual number of copies of the Inaugural. + resolution for the expulsion of Senator Wig- fall, of Zexas, was introduced: but Mr. W. pot being in his seat, the mover of the resolution said | he would not press it for the present. The Se- nate held an cxecutive session, and then adjdurn- ed to Monday. On the night of the 4th of March the Brooklyn Navy Yard was pat into a state of defence, ali the marines being on duty and under arms during the night, in readiness for action; the whole of the officers and men were on board their respective | vessels—an unusual thing when in port—and all | the guns were kept loaded. These facte ore not | generally Rnown, nor has there been «real | cause assigned for this unusual state of diligonce. Ex-Secretary Floyd comes out with a leugthy letter in relation to the late alleged frauds in the | War Department, and gives a fuil history of the | acceptances given in favor of Messrs. Rusacll, Majors & Waddell. He cites authorities for the was more inquiry for tobacco, and lees for seeds, rice, hops, spices and whiskey, and the latter declined ashade. The freight maiket was rather tame, the rise in rates having checked engagements. There was a meeting at the Corn Exchange in favor of the present site of the Post Office ip this city being made the permancat location, and resolutions were adopted to that effect, The New Administration Responsible to the Country. The election of Mr. Lincoln to the Presi- dency, was the result of thirty years of per- petual agitation, upon the e’av ry question, with the avowed object, in the beginuing, of ruining the country. Sir Robert Peel con- sidered the expenditure of one hundred mil- lions of dollars for the emancipation of the negroes of Jamaica, as a cheap price for sow- ing seeds of mischief upon the American con- tinent which should ultimately undermine our nationa) greatness. Garrison, Phillips, Tap- pan, and others who initiated the abolition movement, have lived to exult over the success of their projects. The active system of prop2- gendism which they inaugurated, for the pose of preaching a crusade against the so. institutions of the Southern States, has driven | seven members of the confederacy out of the republic; and, not contented with thls, the pulpit is still desecrated, and the press pros- tituted, to force the remaining eight slave States to withdraw from the Union also. The guilt lies at their door of the most terrible blow that has ever been aimed at our political, commercial, financial, agricultural and manu- facturing prosperity. If civil war comes, they will bave brought it upon us, and the greater number of them are disappointed at the delay legality of his acts, says the existence of the ac ceptances was known in commercitl circles | for over three years, and avers that the War De- | partment never was managed more economically | than it was during the administration of Mr. Bachanan. He also disclaims all connection with Bailey, and says he cannot see for the life of him | what the yoong man’s object was in ruining himself to prevent disgrace being broug'it upon ove who was almost a stranger to him. Both branches of the Legislature at Albany were again in seasion yesterday. In the Scnate various matters of merely local interest were acted | upon. Notice was given of a bill to extend the streets between West Twenty-fourth and Thirty- | first streets in this city to the bulkhead line. The | initiatory movement was made for the appoint | ment of a Grinding Committee, to prepare busi. | nese for the action of the Senate. The resolution | introduced the previous day, relative to the }.ctro- | politan Police Commissioners sending men South, was adopted, and considerable other business | transacted. The Assembly passed several bills, | and made some progress on others. The Sapital | Punishment bill wes made the special order fog | next Mondey ev The Railroad Commaittee | heid another meeting last evening in the Avsem bly Chamber, heard speeches for and against the Broadway Railroad bil ort of which will be found in our A Tae obatd mittee will hold a final mecting on this subject on | Monday evening. The «team: forth Briton, from Liverpool on | the 2lst, via Londonderry on the 224 ult., arrived at Portland last evening. ngs two days later news than previously reecived, but her ad. | } vices are not important. Bhe brings ro intelligence concerning the 4y asian. Mr. F, Cunard has chartered the etes ji Adriatic to take the mails for Englend a nesday, the | ith inst., in place of the Australasian 4 Bhe will «ai! from her dock, at the foot of Ca street, at@ight A. M Advices from Paris state that several persor Connected with M. Mires in his late financial ope rations had beon arrested Constantinople bill. | the Potomac. of an internecine conflict, with its attendant horrors, which they believe would stereotype anti-slavery fanaticism in the North. Secretary of the Treasury Chase foretold, in a recent speech, that, after the inauguration would come adjustment It is sorely needed; but it must be one which will involve the overthrow of the principles and practices which have elevated the administration to power, or it will be held, sooner or later, to a bitter account by the people. Listen to the late harangue of Wendell Phil. lips, in which he proclaims to the Bostonians his rejoicing and triumph in the disasters of the past three months, and in the calamities and bloodshed which he believes to be still impend- ing. He says:— Why do T think disunion gain, peace and virtue? Lat us rise to the height of our position. This i¢ revo- lution, not rebellion. Suppose we welcome disunion, manfully ayow our real sentiment, “liberty and equality,” and draw the line at Wo do not want the bordor States, them go. Disunion is honor, Disunion is gain. ture the asseriion, in the face of State street. that of any five Northern men engaged in Southern trade exclusively, for will end in Lankrugtey What can be more horrible than snch jubila tion over the prospective pauperism of his own immediate neighbors? Yet he continues: I know what anarchy is, I know what civi’ ear is, can imagine the scenes of blood through which a rebel ious slave population must march to their rights, Toy ‘aul. And yet,Tdo not know, that, to an on- Lghteped mind, a scene of civil war ls aay mre sickon Jat lem 1 do not hrink from the sentiment of Sou'hey, or oD ppa—There are scenes of tremendous Teould «mile at by Merey’s sido. An tn eurre which should make the negroes masters of tho West Ladies is one.’ 1 believe both these schtimonts are dictated by the highest humanity, Mr. Phillips takes patas to declare that tho most fearfal horrors which imagination caa de- pict, would crown the wishes of politicians of bis echool, if they were the accompaniment of slave insurrection, He eays:— Welgh out the fifty thousand hearts that have beaten thetr e amid agonies of thought and suff n the thought of @ bundred wad fifty yoara of | | on Mires to the amount of £280,000 which were | fancy faints to think of; and the fifty thousand mothers, who, with sickening senses, watch for that are not wont to tarry long in their coming, and soon find themselves left to tread the pathway of life alone—add ail the horrors of cities sacked and land laid waste— and then weigh them all against” slavery, “and | tell me if Waterloo or Thermopyle can claim one tear from the eye even of the tenderest spirit of mercy, compared with this daily sys- tem of hell amid the most civilized and Chris- tian people on the face of the earth!” * Notwithstanding this awful language, Mr. Phillips is explicit in asserting that slavery is constitutional; that the encroachments upon it of the last thirty years have been illegal, and that he and his partisans aly upoa revolution, and violation of law, to secomplish their nefa- rious ends. He exclaims:— Understand me. In 1787, slave property, worth, per- haps, three hundred millions of dollars, sirengthened by the sym| of all other capital, was 5 miguty powst a oe Rothchild of the State. The constitution, vy slave basis, made slavehoiders an order of nobles. It was the house of ee hands Rothach! judice iid. of tho cablo, bitter and potent uz Catholic ever luguenot, or ‘Hungary ever spit oa Moslem. ‘This fearful trivity won to its side that mysterious omni- potence culled fashion—a power which, without cen- certed ection, without either thought, iaw or religion on ‘seems etronzer than all of them, and spare. no - foo but wealth. Such was slavery. This is the school of politics which bas re- duced the country to ita present degraded con- dition. From the proudest place among the Powers of the earth; envied and udmired by the enlightened of every land; our institutions a model for patriots, and our ferm of gove:n- ment a salutary and beneficent example to those who are throwing off a despotic yoko; we have become, in the’short space of a quar- ter of a year, a byword and laughing siock, and a cloud of shame darkens our horizon, forebodes still greater evils in the future. The Queen of Great Britain pities, while the Em- peror of the French mourns over us, and the statesmen who lead the cabinets oi Eurepe be- hold with amazement the hideous national suicide we are perpetrating. Yet we are told by the incoming administration, that now we shall “have an adjustment.” Mr. Seward has added that posterity would wonder at the “magnanimity” of the government, and that “every sacrifice that shall be needful will be made,” even to ubandoning “party platforms and organizations,” to secure ‘the welfare of the Union. Tke people call upon the leaders of the repub‘ican party, who now hold the reins of power in their hands, to fulfil their pledges. The last planks that hold the nation together are being rent asunder; materia) in- terests aro every hour becoming more im- perilled; and political differences more diffieult of settlement. Let the administration begin to do something towards relieving the republic from the pressuite that is dragging its prosperity | in the dust. Up to the present hour, not one step seems to have been taken by Mr. Lincoln or his advisers, beyond giving vague and unsatisfactory assur- ances which have alarmed rather than tran- quillized the public mind. During the late ses- sion of Congress, every obstacle to a proper explanation, not to say amendment of the con- stitution, was opposed by republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives. Tho 4th of March came, without a single reagering measure having been taken on the part of our national representatives. Since that time, the single thought of the President seems, to have been to satisfy the greedy, hungry, Goth and Vandal office seekers, who swarm in every thoroughfare of the capital. The howling of these wolves, shuts out from the ear of the Chief Magistrate the cry of distrees which rises from every patriotic heart, in view of our troubled inter-State relations. If the adminis- tration, however, sleeps, the people do not. They are alive to existing dangers, and cry aloud for relief. A responsibility devolves upon the republican government, from which it cannot escape, and unless it has resolved to permit every interest to go to ruin, it must speedily turn its exclusive attention to the events that are so rapidly progressing. Position of Douglas in Relation to the Administration. In his epeeches of Wednesday and Thursday in the Senate Mr. Douglas interprets the Inau- gural of Mr. Lincoln as entirely pacific and as abandoning coercion. On Thursday he forti- fie? Lis opinion by the fact that Fort Sumter sld not be reinforced by Mr. Lincoln. “He believed it could not be reinforce 1 xow without the vse of at least ten thousand men by land and sea. There were but few men to serve the guns, who would soon be exhausted; and they had not bread and salt enough to last for thirty days.” It is stated that Major Anderson has com- municated to the government that, with less than twenty thousand men, it would be useless to at- tempt the reinforcement of the fort. The fact therefore urged by Mr. Douglas in favox of the inaugural meaning peace would only go toshow that he is aot yet ready for war. When Louis Napoleon proclaimed to the world “ the empire is peace,” he had war in his mind’s eye, as the sequel proved. But we will assume ihat the inaugural does mean peace, and that Mr. Douglas is right in the conclusion at which he arrives, that “dis- tinctly and certainly it is the policy of the new administration and the wish and purpose of the President to preserve peace and avoid war.” We will not inquire by what authority Mr. Douglas interprets the inaugural differently from everybody else, and contrary to the ob- vious sense of several passages; but granting that he is correct, what then? Is it the policy of the administration to leave matters as they are, to do nothing, but by a kind of “masterly inactivity” to let the revolution run its course and the country to drift into civil war? Ifhe is really in favor of peace, what has he yet done to secure it? At any moment the federal troops at Fort Pickens or Fort Sumter may be attacked by an overwhelming force. Is he waiting for those events in order that the Southern confederacy, having struck the first blow, he may appeal the war spirit of the North and to the God of battles to enable him to retake the captared forts, and send an army of invasion against the South? If he is not, and that he warts peace, then why does he permit the federal troops at Ports Sum- ter and Pickens to be eacrificed? If those posts cannot be held by their present defenders, and | Mr. Lincoln will not or cannot reinforce them, is it not cleatly hie duty to remove thoss brave soldiers from their pe:tlous povitign’ Again, what has Mr. Linooln or his Cabinet dene towards a peaceful solution of the national troubles? What has he done to restore the bro- ken Union? By priciples of the Chicago platform, on wii was olected; by the prin- ciples which he avowed in bis owa speeches; by the principles p med in the sp ; * bis Cabinet ministers—Seward and Qh by all the republican leaders and presses, seven Southern States have been driven out of the Union and have organized a separate govern- ment, and around this nucleus the remaining eight slave States will soon rally if Mr. Lincoln does not at once show his hand. He and his party have brought this calamity on the coun- try. They bave broken up the confederacy. What is he going todo to rounite tho fragments? In his Inaugural he has not upeaid what has done all the mischief. He has recommended no concessions and proposed no measures, and it does not appear that he intends to propose any. Mr. Douglas, therefore, misses the real ques- tion. His speech is an evasion of the point at issue. He might as well say, in favor of a man who fires a cannon loaded with grape shot vaguely into a crowd, that he did not intend to burt anybody in particular. The suspense in which the country is held, between peace aod war and between hope and fear, is as puta lyzing to business and as destructive to every interest of the country as if civil war actually existed and the worst apprehensions were fully realized. Livi it be war, or let it be peace. Speech of Victor !...aucl at the Opening of the I Parliament. There is to be no campaign against Austria this spring. Such, we take it, is the construc- tion to be placed on the speech of Victor Emanuel to the Italian Chambers. “My voice,” he says, “was once raised with bolduess, but it is a8 wise to wait at the right time as itis to duce at the right time.” This moans—if it means anything—that Count Cavonr’s policy has triumphed over the precipitation of the op- position who have beén earnest in urging ov early commencement of hostilites, The fact tliat Garibaldi is still at Caprera and is giving no sign of activity is another evi- dence that the ex-Dictator and the Turin Cabi- net are in accordance as to the course to be pursued on the Venetian question. The neves- sity of affording Italy breathing time before she enters .1a fresh struggle—the magnitude and duration of which no one can foresee—has been apparent to every one but those by whom the Liberator has, until within the last “three months, been surrounded. Carried away by their persuasions and dazzled by the brilliant success that had attended his expeditions against Sicily and Naples, he pledged himself to make an effort for the reco- very of Venice early this year. From the dar- ing and chivalrous character of the man no one doubted that this promise would bo fulfilled Tho world has accordingly been anxiously awaiting some indication of the plan which he was said to have determined upon—such, for in- stance, as would have Leen afforded by his de partore for Dalmatia, where an insurre¢tionary movement has been organized, the outbreak of which only awaiting his arriva! It will relieve the minds of the well wishers of Italy to find that Garibaldi is uo! likely to compromise the advantages gained io his cyuo- try by his efforts by any rash and ill consider- edact, Although he is known not to entertain much respect for diplomatists, he is by this time convinced that the policy recommended by Count Cavour in reference to Venice is the only safe one to pursue. To attempt its recovery at present would be to endanger all that has been gained to Italy and risk a rupture with France: By deferring it for another twelve months the delay will cause greater exhaustion to Austr'a than the most costly campaign. It will oblige her to maintain her enormous defensive arrangements in the Quadrilateral and on the Adriatic coast, without giving her a chance of indemnifying herself by reprisals; and at the same time it will give the disaffec- tion which prevails in her Transylvanian de- pendencies an opportunity of maturing its preparations for a simultaneous movement against her. But there is another and a still more con- vincing reason why Italy ehould not make this attempt just now. She is not prepared for it, either in a financial or a military sense. The difficulty which she has had in accumulating the necessary material for the capture of Gaeta must have proved to her that the task of taking Venice requires greater resources than she oan at present command. She has to apply herself, first, to the work of internal organisation, and endeavor to inspire confidence amongst Eu- ropean capitalists, before she can raise the im- mense sums required for such a war as that in which she propuses to engage. From the course adopted by France in withdrawing her represen- tative from Turin, it is probable that she will not be sustained by that Power. Nor, indeed, is it desirable that ehe should. Italy would not be again disposed to pay such a price for hor aid as that of the cession of Savoy and Nice; and without some such inducesent to influence him, Louis Napoleon is not the man to make any fresh efforts in her behalf. The conspiracy which has just been detected im Naples, in favor of Prince Murat, is an indication of tha direction in which he might be inciined to look for compensation for his assistance. The declaration of Victor Emanuel, then, of the intention of Italy to abide her opportunity, will give great satisfaction to her friends both here and elsewhere. Ihe proof of the wisdom of this determination is to be found in the fact that the secret agents of Austria ure doing all they can to precipitate the movement, by urg ing upon those who are supposed to have any influence with Garibaldi the folly of further delay. Happily the Liberator has been guided by the sober second thought which in such cases frequently saves greqt enterprises from shipwrecks. The postponement of the campaign against Venice has this further advantage, that it pro- vents the Roman question from being compli- cated with it. It is desirable that some settle- ment should be effected with the Pope, and that the French troops shall be withdrawn from Italy before the energies of the government re- quire to be concentrated on a war of so for- midablo a character as this must lead to. His Holinees is said to have partially succeeded in freeing himself from the influences by which he has hitherto been surruunded, and is dis- posed to come to sorte arranger at by which, in surrendering the greater px n of his tem- poralities, the dignity aad splenior of tepJ’on tiflcate shall be maintained inviolate. The plan of continuing to the Pope o residence in Rome, with the rank and revenues of a sove- reign prince, but without civil jurisdiction, is the only compromise that the Italian poople will submit to. This has beon offered him by the Turin Cabinet, and he would do well to at once accept it. If he allows another six mouths to clapse without coming to terms the Pepacy may haye to go begging for a Gomioile. North and South—Thele Commerce and tion. Popula Some of the anti-slavery journals of the North have been recently waking comparisons between the growth of commerce and popula- tion at the South and at the North; and, taking their cue from Helper’s book, they are in- dulging in considerable sophistry and misrepre- eentation, of course to the advantege of the North and the detriment of the South. For inetance, they assume that because the popula- tion of the fifteen Southern States is only twelve and a half millions, and that of the nineteen Northern States is nearly nineteen millions, or one-third more, that the North is immensely prosperous and the South miserably slow. But while they quote the figures from the census tables, they carefully kee; out of view the fact of the artificial increase which the North has received by emigration from Europe—the result of revolution and misgovernment in the Old World. From this #ource alone the population of the Northern States has added to its numbers not less than eight millions of people within the last half a century, and to its capital, in money and labor, all the little property, the skill, in- dustry and enterprise of just that number. The South, meantime, has gained comparatively nothing from this source; but in fact and truth the growth of the Southern States, by natural means, has been just as great as that of the North. As to the material prosperity of the two sec- tions, comparisons are drawn between some of the Northwestern States and the cotton Siates— between IWinois and Georgia, for example. Now, if there be a State in the Union which owes mere to the iofluence of immigration than another it is Iilivois; and moreover, to com- pare the growth of a new State with aa old one, in alinost the first decade of the former’s existence, with labor and capital flowing into it from abroad, as it has done into the Northwestern region, is absurd. We all know to what circumstances the Northwestern States owe their extraordinary increase in population and cultivation; and we know that the Southern States have not shared the ad- vantages of theee circumstances. It is to im- migration from Europe and from the Atlantic States, aud to the fever of land speculation, that the sgw States of the West are indebted tor their eadden prosperity. But in the matter of solid financial stamina it is folly to compare the West with the South. The West, with all its advantages, is hardly able to pay its way. It is only upon the splendid future before it that one can predicate anything for that section of country. The South, on the contrary, has always been sound in its financial concerns. It pays its debts. Commercial transactions with the South have always been secure opera. tions—not mere gambling speculations, as with the West. But it is urged that the South has only one staple. This is not so; it possesses in abun- dance four great staples—essential to the whole civilized world—cotton, rice, tobacco and sugar. And if it were not more profitable to raise these products and buy grain from the Western States, the Southern fields could grow cereals as well in much larger quantities than they are raised now. Taking the cue again from Helper, the anti- slavery journals argue that the South pays only one-tenth ot the duties on foreign imports. Now we will ventare to assert that more than half the luxuries paying high duties—such as wines, rich silks and velvets, jewelry and other items—are consumed in the South, although the duties are collected in Northern ports. The West uses very little of these articles; the Atlantic States, of course, consume their proportion; but half of the entire importation of luxuries goes to the South. It is the poorest sophistry to represent the amount of duties collected in the Southern custom houses aa the test of the contribution of the South to the re venues of the government. No matter at what port of entry the duties are imposed, it is the consumer of datiable articles who indirectly pays the impost, and in this regard the Southern States are not behind the North. Again, it is said that all the cash capital is centred in the North. It is true the great bulk of cash capital is in the Northern States, but where is it? Not in Wisconsin or in Mlinois, nor in Vermont or New Hampshire. It is in the large Atlantic cities—in New York, Boston and Philadelphia; but if the Southern con- federacy is to become permanent through the hostile policy of the present administration, there may be a very material change in its lo- cation before long. Already we hear of large houses here breaking up and going Sovth; and it ia not only the merchants who will transfer their business in that direction, but even (he manufacturers of. New England will be soon following; the mill owners and manufacturers of Lynn and Marblehead and Lowell will re. move to Virginia and the other border States if the Southern confederacy maintains its inde- pendence permanently; and then what becomes of our cash capital and of our property of every description? They will go to the dogs before many years have elapsed. It is very well for the anti slavery newspapers to got up articles based upon Helper’s false tables of finances and statistics, endeavoring to prove that the North enjoys all the prosperity of the country, and that the South is weak, poor and despicable. But the theory is not true, and if the political events now transpiring do not as. sume an amicable complexion before lor, that theory will be put to a bitter test, as we shall discover when too late. Norrnery Sars axp Crews vor Sovrnery Privareertne.—Some time ago the New Or- leans Crescent advocated the issuing of letters of marque and reprisal against Norihern ocean and other commerce, and the matter bas been discussed in the Con- gress of the Southera confederacy. It has been suggested that proper vessels for this service cannot be easily obtained; but that difficulty, it appears, can be remedied very easily, a number of Northern ship owners having offered to furnish vessels armaments and crews gratis—sailing papers only being required. In other words, there are to bé found men in the Nortbern States who will, in view of the money to be made out of the operation, engage in the destruction of their neighbors’ ships and the confiscation of their goods, At the first view this seems grossly improbable; but when we reflect that tor many years slave ships have been fitted out almost exclusively from Northern ports, it is not altogether unlikely that the abolitionists would go a step farther, and turn a penny or two by plundering honest traders on the pea, Evcrerany Sewarp Swattownsa Hts Owx Muuicrse.—In ite issue of yosterday tha Tribune came out with a violent leadiag article against Mr. Lincohn’s Secretary of State, ander the cap- tion—Gov. Seward’s new idea.’ The leasing Seward and a deputation of citizens of Mlinois, as follows:— citizens of IMinois now in Washington called after the ‘and in response to he eald;~Gertiemen- Tf you er} ur omune ir. thotr is “futally mistaken and perilous’—the meaning of which is that it is perilous to the republican party. It is perfectly true that during the late campaign Mr. Seward did in his speeches proclaim an “irrepressible con- flict” between the North and the South, and advocated all the revolutionary doctrines of the Massachueetts school of politics—‘a higher law” school, at the head of which stood Garri- eon and Phillips—who, in despite of constita- tions or covenants batweex the North and the South, hold that it is the duty of the federal government to overthrow slavery in the Southern States by any and every means which it can command. If Mr. Seward is now conservative, and shrinks with horror from the idea of carrying on civil war to propagate the Gospel according to Helper, and to fight and die for the faith for which John Brown became @ martyr, it is clear thathe was a hypocrite and a demagogue during the election. The Tribune’s case against him is conclusive. ‘The leseon to be derived from Mr. Seward’s present position ie vis, that when a great statesman etoops to play the demagogue to gain an object, he must accept all the conse- quences. Mr. Seward must swallow his own wedicine, and bear all the abuse that will he heaped upon him by the radical wing of his perty, or be precipitated into the abyss of civil war. Such fs the danger statesmen expose themselves to when they pander to the fanati- cal passions of a multitude. It is known to all students of history that Robespierre in France and Cromwell in England were long averse to the extreme course to which they were finally driven; but they had sown the wind, and they must either ride upon the whirl- wind and direct the storm or be swept by it to destruction, as one of thom was at last. Well will it be for Seward if he does not share the same fate. Tux Forman Arrointments—Are THE Rapt- CAL GERMANS IN THE Ascenpant?—The radical Germaus of the West and Northwest are urging with great vehemence the appointment of Carl Schurz, F, Harsaureck, and other favorites with very hard names, to the best foreign mis- sions, on the ground that the Germans of the red republican stripe have elected Lincoln, by casting in his favor the balance of power they held in the Western and Northweatern States. It is no doubt true that the revolutionary radicals and agrerian socialists who, in 1848, fled here from European governments which they had failed to overthrow, have materially contributed to the election of Mr. Lincoln and the success of revolution on this continent, while the vast majority of the old German set- tlers voted against Lincoln and revolution. It is natural that the red radicals of faderland should now claim iheir rewards; and though it is understood that Old Abe has declared, and that he “put Lie foot down” when ho said so, that he would not disgrace his administration by the appointment of renegade foreign ad- venturers, it is believed the German candidates are in the aseendant. However this may be, it is certain that men entertaining revolutiona- ry ideas in reference to European governments cannot be acceptable ministers to those go- vernments or suitable represontatives of the United States, especially when they will have to compete with the ministers from the South- ern confederacy, who will be all respectable natives. Neither in education, manners or habits are ‘hese men fit to represent the United States at any « urt of Europe. It would be much better, therefore, to ap- point to foreign offices those who are “native and to the manner born;” and if the President wants to know where he can strike upona golden vein we can give him the information In the offices of the republican journals of the city of New York he can find enough of men to fill every foreign post. In every office there are from six to eight candidates all ready to start on a foreign mission at an hour's rotice, It is true the modest and amiable poet of the Post, William Cullen Bryant, says in an ob- scure corner of his paper that he has made no application for the mission to Spain, and does not desire any foreign office. When aclergyman of the established church in England is promoted by the Queen or ihe King (as the case may be) to a rich bishophric, worth from $50,000 to $100,000 per annum, he declares, during the ceremony of consecretion, in the Latin lan. guage, Nolo episcopari—* I don’t want to be made a bishop.” Of course he accepts the dig- nity only in obedience to the head of the Eng- lish church, and he is decidedly averse to the appointment. In the*same way Mr. Bryant, though personally reluctant, will be persuaded to yield obedience to the head of the yovern- ment, if he should order him to Madrid, Mr. Bigelow, another republican New York editor, is on hand for the French mission. In the Tribune office there are several candidates whe understand the Italian and German languages, and are conversant with painting, sculpture, music and the other fine arts. They would suit admirably for Italy or for the German States. ‘Then there is at the head of the list in the Times office, Jenkins Raymond, who ic well acquaint- ed with the geography of the Mincio and its “elbows,” and Inows all about the race course of Solferino, on which he onco played so dis- tinguished & part. He has another qualifica- tion, too, in which he distances all competi- tors—he is the man to find out plots. It was he discovered the plot to assassinate Mr. Lincoln; and if there should be any conspiracy going on in Sardinia unfayorable to the Nort’ a