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Upon this question the Cabinet at Washington, and the republican Senators, held Jong and anxious deliberation erday, but ar- rived at no decision. As the question involves the alternative of peace or war, it has naturally caused an intense excitement throughout the country, and a solution of the difficulty is awaited with the greatest anxiety. While it would ap- pear, from our reports from Washington, that the administration are inclined towards peace, there are also indications pointing very decidedly in a contrary direction. The ves- sels of the Home Squadron, except the Mace- donian, have been ordered to the various ports on the Atlantic. All the available troops, and large quantities of supplies, are either on their way or in course of shipment to the South; and our des- patches state that most ample preparations are going forward to put the government ona war footing. The United States Senate yesterday were en- gaged in discussing the resolution providing for the expulsion of Senator Wigfall. The debate was very spirited, as will be seen by our report. {n another part of to-day’s paper may be found important reports on the troubles of the nation, presented by committees to the State Conven- tions now in session in Virginia and Missouri. ‘These States are willing, notwithstanding the fail- ure of the Washington Peace Congress, to make another effort to prevent a complete separation of the free and slave States, and with this view Vir- ginia proposes the holding of a Conference of the border slave States at Frankfort, Ky., on the 27th of May, while Missouri proposes a@ similar Confer- ence at Nashville, Tenti., on the 15th of April. Both houses of our State Legislature were in session yesterday, and considerable business was transacted. In the Senate, among other acted upon, the bill amending the act de anating legal holidays was passed to its third reading; a minority report against the Fourth Ward Mission School was submitted, and the proposition for a grinding committee, after debate, was laid on the table. In Committee of the Whole the bill to reduce the fare on all the New York city railroads was debated, and had progress reported on it. Among the bills in troduced was another in reference to Quarantine, which, among its other provisions, transfers the control of that institution from the Commissioners of Emigration to the Commissioners appointed under the act of 1857 for the removal of Quarantine from Staten Island. In the Assembly the concur- rent resolation to adjourn on the 10th of April was debated and tabled. The bill incorporating the | New York Volunteer Burial Association was or- dered to a third reading. Several bills were iu troduced, and others discussed and otherwis acted upon. The Railroad Committee held th final meeting to hear arguments on the Broadway Railroad bill yesterday afternoon. A report of the | proceedings will be found in our Albany despatch. | The steamship City of Manchester arrived yes- terday at this port from Liverpool and Queens town. Her news has been anticipated by the | North Briton, Niagara and Prince Albert. The Niagara's mails reached this city this morning. From a paragraph in the Paris Pays of Keb: roary 21, we the circumstances atiending the death of M. Scribe, a notice of whom ap- peared in Sunday's Hens Le Pays says: “At the moment of our going to press, we learn very sad news. M. Hugene Se ied yesterday at noon, in his carriage congestion.” We conclude from this that the distingui per sonage in question died suddenly of ap * We have received advices from nos Ayres and the United Provinces to January 11, It will be remembered that @ revolution had occurred ia Ban Juan, ia which the Governor, Virasoro, was mumered, and Aberasiain placed provisionally atthe head of affairs. in consequence of these occurrences the national government determined to send 6 commissioner to San Juan, and Don Juan Baa was chosen to that office. Saa sot out for Wve San Juan, attended by a Mr. Lafuente and Col. Paunero, and on arriving at Mendoza, yielding to certain influences, the Commissioner changed his programme from peace to war, in consequence of which determination his companions left him and peiurned to Pagapa, Sea, in the meantime, or , tour, wheat and cid corn were # shade lower, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1861. ganized a force, and commenced his mar’) to- wards San Juan on January 6, The nextday he was in that provinee, which he declared in. a state of siege, and sent to Abe- rastain, giving him tbree hours to sub- mit. The demand was refused. as being an vnconstitutional proceeding, and onthe morning of the [1th Saa pushed on to enforee it. In a short time he came up with Aberastain's forces, to the .800, ata place called La Rinconada, near Pocito. These latter were composed, for the moet part, of mere boys. Baa’s force was less in point of numbers. The fight immediately com- menced, and lasted three hours. Alberastain’s youthful battalions fought with desperate valor, but were beaten, and the Governor himself made prisoner. Over 600 men of Loth sides were left on the field, The general opinion is, that Saa has as- sumed a tremendous responsibility in deserting his true mission and acting as he has done, particularly when a little negotiation would bave been sufficient to settle the existing difficulty. Our correspondent at Sagua la Grande, writing on the “4th ult., says:—The weather hasbeen dry and warm for the last ten or twelve days, but the crops are not injured, owing to an abundance of rain having fallen in the latter end of January and up to the 14th inst. The troubles in the United Siates are sorely felt here, and have caused nearly a total prostration of business. The stores are full of sucar and molasses, and vast quantities are prevented coming in from the interior. The Board of Aldermen met last evening. The report of the joint committee to whom the tax levy was referred was received and adopted. A resolution from the Board of Councilmen, giving Mr, A. J. Hackley the use of dumping grounds lately used by the City Inspector, was concurred in. A communication was received from the Cor- poration Counsel, in answer to @ resolution of in- quiry, stating that in his opinion the award of the street cleaning contract to A. J. Hackley was valid. A Communication was received from the Comptfolier transmitting a draft of a memorial to the Legislature asking them to pass an act closing Manhattan square, The memorial recites that, the said square being in the vicinity of the Central Park, it is no longer used by the public. A communication was received from the Finance Department stating that an additional appropriation of $864,778 will be required for the use of the Croton Aqueduct Department. A reso- lution was adopted, authorizing the Comptroller to make application to the Legislature for the pas- sage of an act authorizing an additional loan, The Board then adjourned to Thursday next. ‘The Board of Councilmen met last evening and transacted a large amount of routine business. The report of the Conference Committee on the tax levy was sent in from the Aldermen, and on motion to concur in the adoption of the report, Mr. Pinckney made very severe remarks in reference to some of the items. The $30,000 for “contingencies for the Mayor's office’ he would not vote for, because it would be expended for political purposes at the next election, to further the fortunes of “‘his Excellency.” He complained that no member of the minority was appointed on the Conference Committee—Alderman Smith and Councilman Hazelton, elected on the opposition ticket, having gone over to the majority. The report of the committee was concurred in unmber of by « vote of fourteen to nine, The ag- gregate amount of the tax levy as amend- ed is $7,451,870 18. The total amount originally recommended by the Aldermen was $7,475,281 18, and the Comptroller's estimate was 6,819,404 36. Thus it will be seen that the “Re- geucy”’ of both Boards, under the leadership of Boole and Barney, added to the original estimates the comfortable sum of $632,465 82. Aserics of resolutions presented a few weeks since, directing the Hudson River Railroad Company to remove the rails connecting the main track with Hudson and Worth streets, and also the side rail connect- ng with their track between Reade and Chambers streets, and forbidding them to load and unload their cars in Hudson street, were debated at some longth, and finally adopted. A petition from the Baron Steuben Association, requesting permission to erect a monument to Baron Steuben in Stnyve- sant park, was referred to the Committee on Arts and Sciences. The Aldermanic Committee on Roads held a meeting yesterday, to hear parties on the subject of widening and straightening Broadway, from 126th street to 144th street. Ex-Mayor Tiemann appeared, and spoke in favor of the improvement, on the ground that the upper section of the city, with its ever increasing wants, requires it, A number of property holders on the line of the street were present and urged that the improyve- ment is not requisite, and that it would not be worth ite cost. The committee adjourned for a week. in an action of the New York Belting and Pack- ing Company against the Washington Insurance Company—a suit involving over $65,000—Judge Moncrief yesterday directed the complaint to be distwissed. The Washington Insurance Company vas the only one of a few that disputed the claims of the plaintiffs. The Court of Oyer and Terminer adj6urned yes- ay until Monday next. No business was ted. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 398 deaths in this city during the past weck— a decrease of 5 as compared with the mortality of the weck previous, and 111 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 4 deaths of diseases of the bones, joints, &c.; 82 of the brain and nerves, 6 of the generative organs, 14 of the heart and blood vessels, 145 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 10 of old age, 57 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 5 premature births, 41 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive or- gans; 30 of gencral fevers, and | of discase of the urinary organs—of which 7 were from yio- lent causes. The nativity table gives 280 na- tives of the United States, 73 of Ircland, 7 of England, 27 of Germany, 1 of Scotland, and the balance of varions foreign countries, ‘The cotton market was more ative yester tay, and rates were firm on a basis of 11 {%¢. a1174¢. for middling upland, with eales of 2,000 bales, mostly to spinners. Prices of The in- quiry for wheat was good, and for four and corn limited | Provisions were in slack demand, though quoted steady. 10 coffee and Cuba sugars were pretty freely purchased at foll figures, Whitkey was in roquest at 17¢., as were hay, tallow, rice and tobacco, at former quotations. | Motals were quiet; and very light sales of fieh, naval etoree, hides and leather were efiected. Thore waa not much activity in molamer. The freight market was very firm, with on upward tendency, but the actual cugago- ments were quite moderate Tur Sovrmers Tanivr—The adoption of the old United States tariff by the Southern con- federacy strikes a heavy blow at the foreign commerce of New York and the other Northern cities. The Morrill tariff of the Northern govern ment imposes nearly double the duties on some | articles of merchandise which the Southern ‘tariff imposes, and in many cases the rates amount to an absolate prohibition. of this must necessarily be to drive importa- tions from this city and send them into the The result ports of the South. Once landed in the coun- try at a low rate of duty, these goods will soon find their way across the.borders into the Northern States, and smuggling will be exten- sively carried on; nor can the government pre- vent it. The object of the Morrill tariff ie to benefit the manufacturers of the North by a protective impost on foreign goods; actual consequence of it will be such tion of the revenue but the a red Mé will vender waditional oans necessary to carry on the government. It will utterly destroy the.commerce of the Northern cities; and, moreover, by driving the seven Gulf States out of the Union, and the eight border States very probably after them, we have reduced, to a considerable extent, the market for our importations. Thus the effect of the two tariff’ upon the North will be to reduce the revenues of the government, to destroy the toreign trade of the Atlantic cities, and to create an endless system of smuggling on the border line between the North and South. The advantageous results of all this to the Southern confederacy are unnecessary to dwell upon. The Probable Fature Policy of the Bor- der States, Mr. Lincoln did not err greatly, in his inau- gural, when he stated that nothing could be lost by delay, in the present national crisis. The errors or inadvertencies of a moment, might precipitate events beyond the possibility of aremedy. Yet day by day has passed by, within the last tbree months, and the couatry has gazed with stupefaction at the apathy, in- activity and ignorance of those who have been entrusted with its most sacred interests. If the Crittenden amendments to the constitution had been adopted by Congress, a few weeks ego, an instant stop would have been put to the progress of the disunion contagion in the cotton States. That chance was allowed to pass away. The Bigler resolutions met with the same fate. The republican strength in the Senate raised an insurmountable barrier be- tween the government and the people, which could not be passed. The border Peace Con- ference was then convened, but its members failed in energy. They were selected from the antiquated fossils of the land—men behind the time, and unequal to its require- ments. Their resolutions were treated with contempt, and, even if they had been adopted, they could have accom- plished no permanent good. As for the shittlees imbecility, incapacity, stupidity and gross venslity of the late Senate and House of Representatives, they literally filled every cor~ ner of the republic with amazement. The de- mocratic minority was paralyzed, and the re- publican majority, seeing as they did the coun- try drifting towards a precipice, could imagine no bigher aim than to squabble for place and apportion spoils. Under such circumstances, all eyes have been turned to the eight members of the confederacy that have not yetseceded, and the anxious inquiry of all parties has been, will they withdraw from the Union or will they re- main in it? The balance of power is in their hands, and it yet remains to be seen how they will use it. Inextinguishable as is the attachment of nine- tenths of the voters in the Northern States for their country; prepared as moderate, sober minded, intelligent citizens of Virginia, Mary- land, Kentucky, and North Carolina are to ac- cede to any minimum or amendment to the constitution which might secure their rights, it is mone the less painfully true that an unnatural, factitious pressure of revolutionists, of the Massachusetts school, is compelling those whom they have entrusted with power to bury out of sight their preclivities for peace. Abolition fanatics surround the portals of the temple ot Janus, and they are resolved that its gates shall not be closed. Every caucus, every Cabinet council that has been recently held at Washington has been a scene of strife. The most desperate efforts have been made by re- publican radicals to force the administration into the adoption of a coercive policy. The late bound and rebound ot the political ther- memeter, from hour to hour, have defied pre- vious calculation, and set at naught past hopes and fears, Mr. Lincoln’s speech at Indianapo- lis, in which he maintained that it would not be coercion for government to “retake its own forts and properties, and collect duties on foreign importations,” and that it would be no invasion to “march an army into South Caro- lina;” the menacing phrases of his inaugural; the bitter prognostications of Secretary of the Treasury Chase; the appeal of, Seward to “‘battle;’ the transfer of power to General Scott, in the War and Navy Departments; the late recall of our land and sea forces from the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean and the Pacific; together with a thousand inexplicable causes of distrust, have created, altogether, a degree of agitation in the public mind which might easily bave been al- layed, had there been a disposition to do so on the part of the authorities invested with power on the 4th of March last. The probable fact is that the present administration, with every dis- position to be coercive and vicious, does not dare, in the face of public opinion, to display the venom it is possessed with. It desires war, but it will pursue peace. It would willingly reinforce Forts Pickens and Sumter, but it will withdraw the troops that are already there. It yearns to fight with the cotton States; but it shrinks with terror from the prospect of being driven out of the District of Columbia by the militia of Maryland and Virginia. Diplomatically poverty stricken as the ad- ministration is, nothing is lost to the nation by itsexanimate state. There is abundant time for the people of the border slaveholding States to express their views, without the least fear of their being aggressively interfered with. The Virginia Convention has passed a resolu. tion calling fora Border Slavebolding State Convention. Resolutions to the same effect have been introduced in the Convention of Missouri. Let it be held. Let the delegates thereto deliberately resolve what the minimum may be of compromise, or of amendments to the constitution, that they will accept at the hands of the North. Meanwhile the masses of intelligent citizens in the non-slaveholding States, formally or informally, either at polls regularly held or otherwise, will send forth such a fiat of public centiment as cannot possi- bly be mistaken. A careful analysis of the late residential vote, shows that Mr. Lincoln was not elected to the Chief Magistracy of the United States by avy predilection of the peo- ple for abolitionist disunion, but by fortnitous causes. Hven the “wayfaring man though fool,” cannot fail to perceive how utterly false the idea is of those 'pseado-reli- gious and = philanthropist fanatics, who press him forward as the represen- tative of anti-slave power ascendancy in the Union. Ont of o total of 1,719,548 votes, 2,366,208 were really arrayed on the side of concession, and the preservation of the In- tegrity of the nation. The popular yoice, even ember last, proclaimed nearly two to one ite abhorrence of abolitioni«m; and if the revulsion of feeling. since then, is estimated at iis proper worth, it is within bounds to assert that act gne out of six of those who aye entitled to vote in the Northern States are prepared to endorse an aggressive policy against the South. All party lines have become obliterated by the alarming crisis towards which the country has been hurrying, and, in the non-slavehold- ing States, only a contemptible and continually decreasing faction place their trust in the pre- sent administration to perpetuate the sectional discord which is reducing us to a state of po- litical anarchy. Intelligent citizens begin to compare the President that is with the Wash- ington that was, the founder of our liber- ties, who was our first Chief Magistrate, ‘with the destroyer of the integrity of our nationality, who bids fair to be the last head of the Union. They groan beneath the contrast, and, inquiriag why this stupendous suicide, in- dignantly protest against it. Seven cotton States have withdrawn from the confederacy. Eight slave States remain. The indications are that they may be the mediators who may yet accomplish a reconstruction of the Union; but it must be under different auspices from those we have known up to the present hour. The conservative masses of the North must rise as a man and correspond fully to the requirements of their brethren in Virginia, Maryland, Ken- tucky, Tennessee, Missouri and North Carolina, and, without distinction of parties, a voice must go forth from the polls which will render misunderstanding impossible for the future. The external prospect before the country is cheerless in the extreme; but out of the sober second thought of the people of the border States may yet grow salvation for the re- public. The Election in New Hampshire To- Day—The Other New England Elec- tions—Their Vast Importance in the Crisis, The election for Governor and members of Congress in New Hampshire takes place this day, and the contest is regarded with more than ordinary interest, because it .has been looked forward to as a criterion by which to judge of the amount of reaction in the New England States against the revolutionary re- publican party in consequence of the disas- trous effects it has produced in breaking up the Union, in destroying all the commercial and industrial interests of New England, and in now attempting to inaugurate a bloody civil war, the end of which no man can foresee. The decision of New Hampshire to-day will be regarded as a test by the border slave States, which are now deliberating whether they will continue in the Union or immediately secede from it. If the contest should result *in the defeat of the black republicans, the effect will be immense on Virginia and the other border slave States, probably turning the now evenly balanced scales in favor of the Union and against secession. If, however, the result in New Hampsbire should turn out different from what all wise and patriotic men desire, the border slave States ought not to assume too hastily that the counter revolution is making no progress in New England. For our owa part we scarcely expect that the republicans will be defeated, for there is not yet sufficient time for the full effect of reaction; but we do expect that their majority at the election in November will be greatly reduced; and we have every confi- dence that in the other important contests in New England—the elections of Connecticut and Rhode Island, which are to come off on the Ist and 3d of April—there will be glorious victo- Ties in favor of the reconstruction of the Union, and against the fanaticism which has wrought its dissolution, destroyed the trade of the North, and reduced to idleness and penury multitudes of the working population. Let the border slave States, therefore, pause and take no precipitate action if New Hampshire should still go republican. There is & majority of upwards of 9,000 to be overcome. The figures at the Presidential election were:— Republican bs Pea 4 Opposition Republican majority. 9,100 The republican committee, after a canvass of the State, only calculate now upon 5,000 majo- rity, though through their machinations the conservative interest is divided between the candidate of the Union party and the candidate of the democracy. Perhaps they may not ob- tain even this majority: and if not, the fact would be a significant indication that the cur- rent of the counter revolution has steadily set in, and will in the end carry all before it if the border slaye Siates will only allow time and pa- tience to do their work. If the republicans may not be defeated in New Hampshire, they can be overthrown in Connecticut and Rhode Island, if the moderate and conservative men of those States who have recently voted with the republican party will retrace their steps and redeem their error by combining in the counter revolution with the democracy to lay low the anarchists and re- volutionists. Unless they do this the same in- fluences which placed Mr. Lincoln in the Pre- sidential chair, and have produced such disastrous results throughout the country, will drive public affairs from bad to worse, till re- vulsion becomes chronic, and our fruitful plains and lovely valleys are desolated by civil war, our cities and towns are laid in ruins, and, in the language of Garrison, “blood flows like water” in every section of this fair land, lately smiling with plenty and prosperity. If the radical revolutionary republicans could but see the end from the beginning, and real- ize the horrors of the future, they would shrink back appalled, like Frankenstein, at the mon- ster which they are about to raise but cannot quell. When they prepare to inaugurate civil war, they propose to put forces into action which they cannot control, and let loose pas- sions which turn civilized man into a demon. Of these forces and these passions they will be- come themselves the victims when it is too late to retrace their steps. What has happened in England and France may happen here again, and American bumanity has no exemption from the common lot of the race and those natural laws which ever work the same results, ‘The effect of the constant progress and acea- mulation of wealth is to make civil war far more terrible now than in previous ages, Im- mense sums have been expended on works which would perish in a few hours. The mass of movable wealth in large cities would be ex- poeed to spoliation and destruction, and the public credit shatiered, on which thousands of families directly depend for subsistence, and with which the credit of the whole commercial world is inseparably connected. “It is no ex aggeration,” observes Macaulay, “to say that a civil war of @ week oa Uaglish ground would now produce disasters which would be felt from the Hoangho to the Missouri, and of which the traces would be discernible at the distance of a century.’ What then would be the effects to America and Europe, from the Rio Grande to the Volga, of a civil war in the United States, whose duration would not be measured by weeks or months, but by a long series of years? If even now we only éo our duty to ourselves, to our children anc to our couc- try, our destiny is still in our own hands, and we can give a death blow to the revolutionary faction, whose incompetence and imbecility are already demonstrated, and whose policy would render the soil one “aceldema” from Maine to Texas. The time to act prompily and vigor- ously is in the present hour, before blood is shed, and before insurrection and civil war have taken the control out of the hands of the people. ‘The Impending Evacuation of Fort Sum- ter—“Is Anybody Hurt?” Who could have supposed, three days ago, that the first movement in the “enforcement of the laws,” under “Honest Abe Lincoln’s” administration, would be the evacuation of Fort Sumter, and the abandonment of that bit of government property to the rebels of South Carolina and her confederate States? No man could have dreamed of such a thing. Mr. Lin- coln, in his inaugural, however, left the back door open, in his declaration that in the execu- tion of the Jaws he would have to act according to “circumstances.” It appears, too, that all the “ciroumstances”’ touching the reinforcement or relief of Fort Sumter are against him. The approaches to that work from the sea are lined with hostile batteries on both sides, fully equipped for action, to say nothing of the monster floating battery prepared for a, tilt with Major Ander- son at close quarters. A land force of ten thousand men would probably be needed to open the way for any relieving ship to the fort. This force the administration could not bring together within a month, under the “circum- stances” in which it is placed, and meantime Sumter is getting short of provisions, and if not supplied within fifteen days the peculiar “circumstances” of starvation will reduce the little garrison to a surrender. It is an estab- lished fact in military science that a small detachment of the bravest men, with empty stomachs, cannot long hold out, even behind impregnable stone walls, against an overwhelming beleaguering force in the en- joyment of three good meals a day. Gen. Scott, the ripest soldier and the best military authori- ty of the age, has perhaps been impressing this important fact upon Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet. The case, then, is pressing. If the fort can- not be relieved, the administration must choose between the abandonment of Major Anderson to his fate or his withdrawal from the place. To withdraw him, after all the magnificent flourishes and vainglorious republican boast- ings of “Old Abe’s” policy of proving that “we have a government,” will be somewhat humi- liating to such fighting men as Horace Greeley, Giddings, Chase, the Blairs, Sumner and Sena- tor Chandler; but to leave Anderson to the chances of starvation and the mercy of the South Carolina fire-eaters would be a burning and lasting disgrace to the administration. Under all the “circumstances” of the case, then, the only alternative to President Lincoln is the abandonment of Iort Sumter to the custody of President Jefferson Davis. There is a world of difference between talk- ing and acting. It was an easy matter for our republican organs and indignant patriots to denounce Mr. Buchanan as a coward, a traitor, atimid old dotard, an old granny afraid of his own shadow, and to say that without difficulty he might have thrown reinforce- ments and supplies into Fort Sumter; that he ought to have done it at all hazards and regardless of costs, and that he ought to have arrested those South Carolina treaty commissioners as traitors, and that “Honest Abe Lincoln” would soon make these traitors and rebels understand that we have a government; but “Old Abe,” when invested with the responsibility, seems to come to pretty much the same way of thinkingas “Old Buck,” to wit, that “circumstances” must be consider- ed. Hence Mr. Lincoln begins to suspect that this legacy of Fort Sumter ia not worth holding; and that when a piece of federal property has ceased to be of any earthly value to the govern- ment, it is inexpedient to plunge into a civil war to retain it. After the marvellous escape by the light of the moon of Abraham Lincoln from Harris- burg through the imaginary line of Southern conspirators intent upon cutting him off from Washington, Senator Wigfall, of Texas, gave it as his opinion that there would be no- war; that a Presidect elect who, in a Scotch cap and @ long military cloak, could thus slip through the fingers of his enemies, must be a man of peace, and not “a man who can look on blood and carnage with composure.” We now sus- pect that the Texas Senator was more than half right; for even that terrible fighting man, Gree- ley, is apologizing for the expected evacuation of Fort Sumter. We have been urging this very thing for some time, as a step demanded by every consideration of peace and common sense; and when this administration begins to act accordingly, there is still some hope for the country. The issue is not yet definitely known; but, if Gen. Scott is against the radicals, we have no doubt that Mr. Lincoln will conclude that the retention of Fort Sumter will not reimburse his administration for all the calamities of a civil war. But we shall see. Tur Ceriovs Coxrrovexsy Anovr tae Fo- REIGN AprormntMENTS.—The controversy now going forward in the republican press about Carl Schurz, and other foreigners who have ap- plied for missions to the governments of Eu- rope, is very curious, to say the least of it. Seward and Weed resist the appointment of those candidates because they are foreigners, and the radical journals sustain them because they were revolutionary in Europe, have been revolutionary here, and would be revolutionary if they went back to Purope again, They are always revolntionists—revolutionists by nature and by profession. But the objection of Seward and Weed to them is simply that they are foreigners; and thus the nativist question is revived once more in the ranks of the republi- can party. What imparts more than ordinary sharpness to the controversy is that the ap- pointments are in Mr. Seward’s own dopart- ment. Tt is true that Carl S and aman of learning, the organs of the radicals reprpsent him to be. He is a German metaphysician of the socialist school, and is well verred in all Greeley’s theories of Fourier. ism, free farms and fr Tle is an eto- quent orator, and he has done ag muck norz is a philosopher love. fo pro duce the revolution in this country as Mr. Seward himself. If Mr. Seward sends him te Italy, being a man of the Mazzini school, he will probably intrigue for the overthrow of Victor Emanuel and the establishment of a red republic, whose fate none can doubt, Mr. Schurz dezerves well of the repub. lican party, He has materially. helped to place Seward and Lincola where they are, Is he not to receive his reward t T¢ he does not, what has been so often said of republics will turn out to be true of the republicans, that they are ungrateful. It remuins to be seen whether the radicals of the revolutionary type will prevail over Seward and compel him to yield to their just demands. As Faustus sold himself to the devil and was compelled to fulfil his bargain, so Mr. Seward bas sold himself to the German revolutionists, who did their utmost to secure his nomination at Chicago, and have contributed in a main de- gree to the election of Mr. Lincoln; and now the higher law prophet, unless he is smarter than Dr. Faustus, will be forced to give him- selt up, body and soul, to the evil spirits of red revolution, Tux News or Tae IsTexpep SuRRENDER oF Forr Suwrer—Errecr ry Wau. Srrper.—The news that the government contemplate the evacuation of Fort Sumter created quite a sen- sation in Wall street yesterday. Stocks rose, and became buoyant, This effect was, of course, produced by the probability that there is one chance the less of civil war, from whick we may infer how disastrously the public se- curities would be affected if internecine strife should once begin. As for the stockjobbers, it is in perilous times like the present that they reap their harvest. They fish in troubled waters, and in order to enable them to catch numerous gudgeons they are now inspired from Washington like the Paris Bourse from the Tuileries. It seems, since the accession of the Lincoln administration, they have access to State secrets, and by this dangerous facility they are enabled to make their operations tell, to the loss and injury of the public. This ar- rangement is the result of the money they sub- scribed for Mr. Lincoln’s election, and their readiness in taking a portion of the new loan, The government is thus turned into a great stockjobbing establishment, with its ramifica- tions in Wall street and elsewhere; and if politi- cal events of a cloudy character are about to take place, the jobbers in New York are placed ia possession of the intelligence beforehand, and, after buoying up the market with some false in- telligence, they sell out. Next day the news is publicly known, and down go stocks. Ina few days after some political move is contemplated which will clear away the clouds, and the job- bers, receiving previous information of it from headquarters, buy all the stocks they can lay hold on while they are yet down, and when the “cheering” intelligence is publicly an- nounced and the mercury rises sufficiently high in the stock barometer, they sell out again, in anticipation of another check. Thus the stockjobbers will gamble from day to day, and from week to week, on the current political events, between the public alternations of hope and fear, the prospects of peace and the anticipation of war Never in the history of the government has there been such speculation in stocks, in con- nection with State affairs, under any former ad- ministration, as there will be under the vacillat- ing Cabinet of Honest Old Abe Lincoln. Surrrmrenpent Keynevy xp His Fruenps,— We understand that Mr. Kenney, the distin- guished Superintendent of Police for New York and all North America, is very much hurt at the great injustice done him by the re- publican press, in connection with the disco- very of that terrible plot against the life of Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Kennedy’s republican friends are endeavoring to explain his position by saying that he acted under the advice of Gen. Scott; that he did not believe there was any plot at all in existence, but that Gen. Scott thought there was a plot, and some of the Baltimore’ police thought so too, though they denied it afterwards. Now, the best thing Mr. Kennedy could do-—for be is a very smart man and a good policeman, notwithstanding the abuse of the republicans—would be to come out with the whole unvarnished truth. We should like to know the exact length and breadth, depth and thickness, of this terrible conspiracy which led to thoze extraordinary developements of the Scotch cap and long military cloak. It is said that Mr. Kennedy, disgusted with the ingratitude of the world, intends to confine his detections in future to this city and the me- tropolitan district, and leave the country to take care of itself. He is going to establish new station houses in localities hitherto very much neglected; in short, to make a radical re- form in the Police Department. If he does this we will give him every aid and comfort, even, perhaps, to the obtaining of the United States Marshalsbip, as a reward for saving the life of the second Washington. A Giayee av rie Foru ne — Waar is TO BE Pox ?—Since the inauguration of the second Washington upon the ruins of the Union which the first Washington constructed, the conserva- tive masses have been anxiously inquiring what is to be done? How can peace be restored to the country? Under what banner sball we range ourselves? How shall we make head- way against the storm which has shattered, and which now threatens to sink, the ship of State? For our own part, we believe in the doctrines laid down by Mr. John Cochrane in a speech delivered by him to his constituents when they complimented him with a serenade a few nights ago. Mr. Cochrane took a calm survey of the whole field, and drew sound philosophical de- duections. The anti-slavery crusade which haa been carried on during the last thirty years has culminated at last in the election of an abolition rail splitter, who has not only severed the Union in twain, but has divided his own party into two or three cliques, whereby they are placed at the merey of a well organized opposition. For the mo- ment the United States have ceased to exist. We have no place, just now, among the great Powers of Christendom, We are of no moro account in the eyes of Muropeans than Peru or Chile. All this has been bronght npon ua by the radical Aevotecs of the almighty nigger, and we have only experienced the first fruits of their great conspirgey to destroy the re- public. The only remedy is « counter revo- lution appenl to the better feelings of the masses, ronse them from inertion to action. We must manage to whip the black renublicans in the elections to oF within the next pat s«OF And eve merchant, every trader, Se