The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDI‘OR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFIC’ N. Ww. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. adwamcn. matt will be at the pTER AS Sah Gomes Bea Vike Cartont tn diow Tork Bi put ech roms eaets tame iF ony Sel tected postage, the ne Be Tih and Bat of each month, of vke Girma eas 8 four cons wer comm Sipe enmen. Velame XX\ =—_— NIB. » GARDEN Broadway. —Afternoon—Farnixs Amosg tHE FLowxns—Tae Suucciens, Evening—Youna ‘Dsectasts—ii.usion pe Psintas—Toovins—SavcciEus, WINTER GARDEN, ls ite Bond street. Pe. 3 Broadway, oppoai WALLACK’S THBATRE, Broedway.—Lonvom Assv- mancx, LAURA KRENE'S THEATERS, No, 6% Brosdway~ Bin biome RY THEATRE, Afternoon Han. aay TONeterine tt Ont. mershag-tieste or tire [ice-Foun Lovaus—VeLantomm app Gnson. THBATRE, Chateam street.—Non ut Crauxa— wentOs gure deate rravom—Hosase Macstus, THBATRE FRANCAIS, 685 Broadway.—L'Horxeus st L'Ancust. ARNUM'R AMERICAN a ‘Eveping—GiraNeuii—Beass, kA ANTS’ bey Somrys ‘Meobanias’ 472 Broad- CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL Broadway.—Ticat Bora, Boxes, Daxces, Bumiasquas, zs Lino. MELODEON CONCERT HA! No. 639 Broadway.— Bones, Darces, Bust coques, aad aed Broadway.—Day fy AMD OTHKR FIREMAN'S HALL, Detroit.—Unswortn's Mixeranis 1 Brmorux Soxcs, Dances, £e. New York, Saturday, March 16, 1861. The News. The government of the seceded States has ap- pointed Hon. William L. Yancey, of Alabama; Sndge P. A. Rost, of Louisiana; Col. A. Dudley Mann and T. Butler King, of Georgia, special Commissioners to proceed to England and France to obtain the recognition of the independence of the Confederate States, and make such commer- cial arrangements as their joint interests may in- spire. ‘The Cabinet and Gen. Scott held a protracted conference yesterday, partly on the subject of evacuating Fort Sumter, but mainly upon the dis- tribution of the spoils. There was.a report in circulation in Washington yeaterday, to the effect that the Baltimore sympa- thizers with the secession movement will be the first to offer resistance to the federal authority. They are, it is said, determined to oppose to the last the appointment of black republicaas to office in Bal- timore. The proceedings of the Senate yesterday are of unusual interest. Mr. Mason offered a resolution calling upon the President for information as to the number of troops quartered in the District, when they are to be withdrawn, for what pur- pose they are maintained there, and whether the force is to be increased, and to what extent. ‘The resolution was laid over. Mr. Douglas’ resolution, calling upon the Secretary of War for information in relation to the forts, arsenals, navy yards, and other public property in the seceded States, whether the administration intend to re- captpre those in possession of the secessionists, and if so what military force will be necessary, &c., was taken up. The resolution calls for a de- tailed exposition of the policy of the administra- tion with reference to the seceded States. Mr. Douglas, in advocativg his resolution, said that, the policy of the administration being peace, he desired to relieve the apprehensions of the country by obtaining a reply to his resolution, which he believed would give quiet and restore good feeling among the different nections of the Union. He argued that the President has no power to collect the revenue in the seceded States, nor call out the militia to ro- capture the forts. To carry on a war with the Southern republic would require an army of two hundred and fifty thousand men, at an annaal cost of three hundred millions of dollars. In con- clusion he advocated such amendments to the con- stitution as would hold the border States in the Uaion, and thus secure a reunion of all the States. Mr. Wilson said the administration would make known its policy through gentlemen in whom it had confidence. The debate was continued at con- riderable length, and finally degenerated into an undignified personal quarrel) between Messrs. Douglas and Fessenden. Tho steam frigate Powhatan, which arrived on the 13th instant from the Gulf, was laid alongside the dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday. No orders have been received from the Navy Department respecting her, but it is expected that she will be dismanded preparatory to refit- ting, and that in the meantime her crew will be sent on board the North Carolina. Much business, of a diversified character, was transacted yesterday by the Legislature at Alba- ny. In the Senate, among the bills reported upon favorably were those to establish a nautical school in New York harbor; to authorize the New York Corporation to constract a basin in front of the Battery for the accommodation of the Staten Island forries; to incorporate the Bellevue Hospital Medi- cal College, and that to facilitate the trial of cases in the courts of this city. The resolutions insti- tating aGrinding Committee were adopted. A bill was introduced to extend the Central Park from 106th to 110th street. A new measure was also introduced for regulating the sale of intoxi- cating liquors. In the Assembly a numberof peti- tions were received and many bills reported upon favorably, among the latter of which were seve- ral relating to this city and Brooklyn. The Com- mittee of Ways and Means reported the Annual ‘Tax bill, Another project for the amendment of our city charter was introduced. The annual city tax levy was presented to the House in a commu- nication from Comptroller Haws. ‘The third annual meeting of the Alumni Asso- ciation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons attached to Columbia College was beld at the re- sidence of Professor Smith yesterday fvening. ‘There was quite o large attendance, and it was the occasion of a very pleasant reunion. No busi- neces interesting to the general public was trang acted. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—President, Dr. Thomas W. Blatch- ford, of Troy; Vico President, Dr. R. &. Kissam; Beoretary, Dr. J. H, Vedder; Treasurer, Dr. H. B. Bands; Orator, Dr. David T. Brown. Another terrible calamity by fire occurred in Brooklyn yesterday morning. A hoop skirt factory in Orange street caught fire, when a girl named Busanna Wilson jumped from a five story ‘window in her fright, and died in a few minutes after. A woman named Anna Trenor narrowly evcaped being suffocated by the smoke. A young German named George Albrecht was arrested on suspicion of incendiariem, and stands committed to await the action of the Coroner's inquest, which adjourned to Thursday next. The Police Commissioners wore yesterday to have remmmed the case of detective Wil- fiamaon, charged by Superintendent Kennedy with disobedience of orders, a report of which ‘was givon in full last Monday; but owing to the absence of Mr. Kennedy at Albany, it has been postponed to the 22d inst. An association for the purpose of entering goods pt the Savanneh Custom House, in accordance cy, bas been started on a somewhat extensive scale. It ia expected that the execution of the Moeri!] Tariff bill will compel Northern merchants to do their importing at Charleston, Savannah and other Southern cities, and the brokers and storage men down South are making their ar- Tangements accordingly. ‘The cotton market was firm yesterday, but not active, The sales embraced about 500 a 900 bales, closicg on the basis of 117{c @ 12. for middlicg uplands, with little to be bad under the Jatter figure. The advices from the Routh outinue to represent a falling off tn the receipts. Many estimates of the crop have settied down to 3,760,000 bales, or 850,000 below the yield of the previous year. ‘The market for dour was decidedly firmer, with @ good demand from the trade, ivclading some purchases for ex port, Wheat was 6old with more firmness, while gales were made tos fair extent at full prices, Corn Was in g00d demand, and prices firm, Sales were pretty freely made, at quotations given ia amother place. Pork was unsettled, and prices irregular. tales of mess were made at $16 @ $17, and at $12 60 a $12 75 for prime. Sugars were steady, and gales of 1,500 hhds. Cuba were reported, and a lot of boxes, at rates given in another column. Coffee was quiet, and eales limited. Freights were unchanged, while engagements ig the aggregate were to a fair extent. The Southerm Treaty Commissioners to England and france and Their Mis- aion—Fearfal Times Ahead. The new federal government at Montgomery, Alabama, of the seven seceded cotton States, has appointed Hon William L. Yancey, of Ala: bama; Judge P. A. Rost, of Louisiana, and Col. A. Dudley Mann, as special Commissioners to England and France, for the purpose, first, of securing the recognition by those great Powers of the independent government of the Confederate States; and, secondly, to propose such Southern commercial reciprocities as Eng- lish and French statesmen will not be apt to decline. The Hon. Thomas Butler King, of Georgia, has also been selected by the cotton States to visit Europe, to make arrangements for direct trade from the Continent to the ports of the South. Upon this important mission we understand that Mr. King has already sailed, and fiat his associates will soon follow. What will be their reception in London and in Paris? According to the oracle of the new Northerr régime at Wash- ington, these Southern Commissioners will be contemptuously ignored abroad, as the vagrant representatives of a new Power among the na- tions which has no ac'ual existence, but which is only the mere jack o’ lantorn of a fleeting exha- lation. But the intelligent observer of European affairs in their relations to this continent will have discovered that among the statesmen and politicians of England and Franco, the rise, ex- pansion and developement of our Southern se- cession movements into an independent con- federation are more and more regarded, from week to week, 25 momentous revolutionary events cballenging a serious consideration. “King Cotton,” in this matter, stands be- fore my Lord Palmerston and his Impe. rial Majesty of France as a veritable potentate, whose demands cannot be set aside The necessities of the cotton mills of Manches- ter, when put to the test, will supersede the abolition love feasts of the Duchess of Suther- land. From the commercial necessities of and advantages to England and France, thus sug- gested, it is by no means certain that these treaty Commissioners from our new Southern confederacy to those Powers will be as cava- lierly treated as the Montgomery ambassadors to Washington. On the other Land, upon the single issue between the new high tariff bill adopted by the government at Washington, and the low tariff schedules of the Southern confederacy now in force, French and English interests will appeal strongly in favor of the South. On English iron, cotton and woollen manufactures, and on such French productions as silks, laces, wines and brandies, the differ- ences in the duties range from ven and twenty to fifty and sixty per cent between our new Northern aud Southern tariff laws; and as upon those imports from ten to sixty per cent duty can be saved by taking them into Charles- ton, Savannah, Mobile or New Orleans, instead of discharging in Boston, New York, Philadel- phia or Balumore, the reader will comprehend the force of the argument in favor of direct European trade with the South. The saving in the mere choice of a seaport of ten or fifteen millions of money upon fitty millions of their goods, destined for the same consumers, must exert ® power- ful influence upon the governments of France and England in faver of the Southern confederacy; but when its Commissioners shall propose to enter into still more inviting com- mercial reciprocities by express treaty stipula- tions, they can hardly fail of a successful hear- ing. Apprehensive, as matters now stand, of serious loses lo its treasury from the diversion of foreign imports to the South, the govern- meat at Washington is mustering a formidable home squadron of war vessels for the purpose of enforcing in Southern ports our Northern tariff law. To overcome this difficulty, the Southern Commissioners will say to Lord Pal- merston and Louis Napoleon, you have only to recognise the independence of our new con- federacy. Then the blockade by the United States of our ports will be nothing to you, until the government at Washington shall have da- clared war against us, and, as in that contin- gency, seven or eight other Southern States stand ready to join us, you need not have any fear of the final issue, or of the suspension of the cotton culture by the march of hostile armies over our plantations. Upon the case thus presented, we think it probable that England and J rance may choose not to pay thirty, forty or fifty millions a year in the differences in the duties upon their goods, North and South, to sustain the govern- ment at Washington and our Northern manu- facturers. Let our Northern manufacturers, merchants, financtors and men of capital and real estate, and our industrial classes of all descriptions, prepare, then, for the fall prac Vical developement of this Southern political revolution in the transfer of an immense amount of our Northern Atlantic trade to the South di- rect from Europe. In addition to this, our Northern manufactures, under a Southern tariff, taxing alike Northern and European im- porta, will be absolutely excluded from the Southern confederacy, and thus a home mar- ket of many millions in value to our “ Yankee notions” will be closed to us; for England, France and Germany will supply it. We have thus pretty broadly outlined before us an impending Northern financial revulsion of the most fearful magnitude—a revulsion in which banks, merchants, financiers, stockjob- bere, corporations and individuals, high and low, rich and poor, will all be prostrated, from New York westward to San Francisco, and northward to Hudron’s Bay. But, still worse, ® thousand times worse, we are menaced with ‘wth the revenue laws of the Southern gonfedera- | all the calamities of civil war and Mexican NEW TORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MANOR 6, 186. Thurlow Weed om the Irrepresstble Com- | = Tux CENTRES OF Trapg ro ux Remover 10 sparcby. And what are the crimes for whic" we are threatened euch fearful ies? +The crimes of 8 mock philanthropy, of @ reckl~ss fanaticism, of a persistent iptermeddling in our neighbors’ affairs, of religious hypocrisy, of bad fuith to our political brethren, of political corruption, of brazen faced and of # morbjd demoralization of the Northera mind upon this thing of Southern slavery, which has brought about the disruption of the most protperous, and promising, and naturally the richest country uncer the sun. We have bad some experience in financial revulsions from time to time, But they have resulted from the of a war with come foreign Power, or from the overthrow of a financial system like that of the United States Bank, and the substitution of shinplasters ; or from excessive overtrading, speculating, stookjobbing and swindling, asin 1857 ; but we have still to experience the more terrible pressure of @ financial prostration ro culting from a radical and comprehensive po- litical revolution, This is the trouble with which we are now menaced ; and as we look in vain for any manifestations of wisdom at Wash- ington equal to the exigencies of the crisis, we can only admonish our fellow citizens of the North, of all pursuits, all conditions, ead all classes, to prepare for the worst, We lesve the Southern confederacy to take care of itsef. Important To Orrice Beaoars.—Some of the black republican papers in the West have been very much exercieed about the conduct of the administration in the matter of the Southern forts. We were the first to announce that the evacuation of Sumter had been re- solved upon, and our despatch was at once sent to all parts of the country. We are now re- ceiving the papers containing the intelligence, and it is a little curious to see how they take it. Some chime in, reluctantly, with the adminis- tration; others say nothing, while a third party declares that the story is all gammon—a sensa- tion despatch made up in the New York Henacp office. These chaps have probably found out by this time that they have made a blunder, and so must pitch into the ad- ministration instead of ws In like manner, several of the administration editors heresbouts affect to discredit our despatch to the effect that an advance of the Southern troops on Washington would be, in a certain coatingency—the adoption ofa coercive policy by Lincola—the next move on the part of the leaders at Montgomery, De- feated in enterprise by the Heratp, these phi- losophers immediately resort to the stale trick of declaring that we manufacture our news. We beg to assure our cotemporaries that no journalist or other man can serve two masters at the same time. So let them go on with their office begging, and leave the newspaper busi- ness in our hands. We have nothing else to do but that, while if they do not look sharp the Western Vandals will have carried off all the spoils worth having. Old Abe still wears that Harrisburg disguise—the Scotch cap and the long military cloak—and he is bound to pay up his debts to his friends, rela- tives and neighbors, keeping his mouth closed as to the real policy of the administration: that is, provided it has a policy, which seems doubt- ful. While this squabbling for the spoils is progressing the South is preparing for war, and if their government is not recognized, the un- heating of the sword seems imminent. Then comes the attack on Washington. Where will Old Abe’s friends be found then? A Siesiricant Item From THe Sovra.—Since the establishment of the Southern confederacy there have been a good many manifestations of its progress as an independent government; the latest, however, being the adoption of the clear- ance system in the New Orleans Custom House for the river steamers running on the Missis- sippi to ports in the States which have not en- tered the new confederation? Thus we find among the New Orleans clearances for Satur- day, March 9, the following steamboats, bound to cities in the non-seceded States of Arkansas, Missouri and Keatucky:— CLEARED, _ Steamboat Jas. Johnson, for Nashville, Ton —B. Duf- eid “‘Sleamboat Era No. 7, Moore, for Camdea, Avk.—Mas- ter. “Steamboat Hannibal, Lee, for St. Louis, Mo.—I. D. Pul- kerson. Steamboat Ferd Kennett, Briely, for St. Louls, Mo.— 1. D. Fulkerson. Steamboat '. ©. Twichell, Phelps, for St. Louis, Mo— I. D. Falkerson. ._ Steamboat Poytona, Leyden, for Louisville, Ky. —R. A. Beil & Co. This is the first time that river steamers on Western waters were obliged to obtain clear- ances; but as these boats are now looked upon in the light of vessels sailing for “foreign” ports, of course such an obligation is consider- ed necessary, and it is very significant of the change which has already taken place in the relations between the two sections of the conntry. European imports arriving at New Orleans, or any other city within the limits of the South- ern confederacy, and paying the low duty pre- scribed by the Southern tariff, will unquestion- ably be shipped by these Mississippi boats to all points in the Northwestern and the border States, without any regard for the exorbitant provisions of the Northern Morrill tariff, which takes effect on the Ist of next month; and how will it be poseible for the government at Wash- ington to prevent it? What a complicated Custom House system on the banks of the Mis- siesippi, the Miesouri and the Ohio rivers would be required to intercept this traffic, or to collect the Morrill tariff duties on foreign merchandise entering New Orleans or Mobile, before it could reach all the pointe in the Northern con- federacy, as far North as St. Paul, Minnesota, and as far East as Pittsburg. There are no re- sources ut the command of the country equal to the maintenance of such a revenue force as would be necessary to guard this line, It is evident that the West and Northwest, as well as the border slave States of Tennessee, Arkan- sas, Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia, will re- ceive their supplies of foreign merchandise subject to the moderate imposts of the Southern tariff, thus contributing to the revenue of the Southern government instead of to the North- ern, and the profits on importations to the Southern merchante instead of to the importers of New York, Boston and Philadelphia, A Sprotan Corresronpext rrom Lowpon Exrrerep iy Tas Country.—We perceive by the English papers that Dr. Russell, the Crimean correspondent of the London Times, who was also the correspondent of that journal during the terrible revolution in India, is coming out to this country to describe the revolution going on here. This fact shows what a deep interest our revolutionary pro- ceedings poseess for the public mind ta Europe. flict Between the Two Already Thurlow Weed sees the impracti- cability of the new tariff, the impossibility of collecting the revenue, and the dead lock to which the government is reduced. “The exe cutive arm,” he says, “is paralyzed. There are no laws at all adequate to existing exigencies, * * * Inthe present condition of the coun- try its embarrassments have been aggra- vated by a complicated tariff. Congress ad- journed without passing the laws necessary to enable the President even to collect the na- tional revenues. Greatly as extra sessions of Congress are to be deprecated, there seems now to be an overruling necessity for one.” Such is the humiliating confession of the imbecility of the republican government made by the organ of the chief member of the Cabi- net, The duties on foreign goods, he says, will be all collected at the South, and the whole trade of the cities of the Northern sea- board will be “diverted” there. The duties on foreign goods reaching Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans, &., amount to more than $20,000 per day, “and to this extent the general government is practically pay- ing tribute to those in open rebellion againat its authority.” Yet we were assured by all the republican journals that in Mr. Liocoln the country would find “a man at the head of affairs, and he would soon prove to the world that we have a government.” But now his utter impotence is admitted, and an extra ses- sion of Congress is called for to give him “backbone” and to stiffen his “weak knees.” By the time fixed for the new tariff to go into operation nearly two millions of dollars, says the Journal, will have passed into the hands of thore who have thrown off their allegiance to the Union. Nor is this all. “After the Ist of May, the rates of duty will be much lower at the Gulf State ports than elsewhore. The dif- ference will be go great that the entire North- west would find it to their advantage to pur- cbase their imported goeds at New Orleans rather than at New York.” What is proposed tobe done? A blockade? Not at all “There will be no blockade,” says the Journal; for “as the law of blockade is now constructed, block- ade is nearly a practical impossibility on a coast line of thousands of miles.” What then? Has the government no authority on the land? Just before Mr. Lincoln’s inauguration his friend and representative in the Senate, Mr, Trumbull, declared that under any other go- verpment than that of Mr. Buchanan the Com- missioners from South Carolina would have been arrested and hanged. Why does not Mr. Lin- coln arrest and bang the Commissioners from Montgomery? Weed has now discovered that “én holding Sumter, an isolated fort, the autho- rity of the government could only be vindicated at a fearful expenditure of treasure and blood.” No republican journal made this discovery while Mr. Buchanan was in office. On the con- trary, it was unanimously agreed that he was nothing less than a traitor in not vindicating the government at that very point. It is only now they have found out that “the executive arm is paralyzed.” But Weed consoles the party with the idea that the authority of the government can be as well maintained “by collecting the revenue on the quarter decks of armed frigates, to be stationed at the entrances of the harbors.” “This,” adds the Journal, “will be a legitimate exercise of authority. If bloodshed shall re- sult from it, the government will not be the ag- gressor. There will be no invasion. It will involve us in no controversy with foreign Pow- ers.” Thus the cowardly government, know- ing that the Confederate States have no navy, will invade their waters, but not their territory. Tt may rest assured, however, that if it pursue that course, it will soon have to defend itself on land, or make a_ precipitate retreat from Washington. And are the Cabinet so silly as to imagine that this plan will not involve the country in a controversy with foreign Powers, and that the British and French governments, fer example, will permit the armed frigates of a government de jure to levy tribute on the high seas, from their mer- chant vessels, on goods which will have to pay a second tribute'to a government de facto, when they enter port—to pay, first, the Morrill high tariff duties, and then the low duties of the Confederate States? The supposition is ab- surd, and any such attempt will lead to a war with England and France, who will not recog- nize the authority of any government over ter- ritory which it is not able to assert by land as well as by sea. “Tf this much of ‘coercion’ is not prac- ticable,” says Weed, “then the government is atanend.” There is no one knows better than the editor of the Lvening Journal that it is not practicable, and that the government is really at anend in the Confederate States. Such is the pass to which we are brought by the elec- tion to the office of Chief Magistrate of an igno- rant, incompetent man. There is no statesman in the Cabinet—there was none in the last Congress—nor is it likely that any will turn up in the next Congress capable of grappling with the difficulties of the situation in which the country is placed. Canprmpares ¥oR Forrign Missions Unver Horst Orv Ase.—For the last five or six years all the republican journals in this city, and a great many of their followers outside, have been putting forward the name of James Gordon Bennett for a foreign mission under previous administrations. Some of them named him for the mission to France, some to England, some to Sardinia, some to Russia, some to Austria, and otiers—the more good natured ones—to Plum Gut or Salt river. They of- fered to recommend, to endorse, to puff that gentleman for any of these missions—that is, many of them did so, and afew did other- wise; but most of them did not do otherwise. We begin now to see the motives of these kind individuals in recommending Mr. Ben- nett for this distinction, for we perceive that every republican newspaper office in the city has a host of candidates for foreign missions and consulships. ‘Pho Tribune has half a dozen; the Courier has as many more. The Post has its aspirants, too; for although it attempts to conceal the fact, yet it sticks out very plainly; while the whole Times office, from Signor Jenkins Raymond down, is in a wild hunt after foreign appointment. Thus, while they were urging the appointment of their cotemporary, a8 a member of the press, at the hands of former administrations, they were only thinking of themselves when the should fall within their grasp. They may make themselves perfectly content, how- ever, about the foreign appointments, for the first cousins, the second cousins, the third cou sins, the fourth cousins and the law partners of the leaders will get them all. vux Souru—The forcible revolution of com- merce, brought about by the fanatics and uo- principled political demagogues of the North, will result in diverting the whole trade of the country to the South. As if the disturbance vaturally resulting from the secession of the cotton States and the low tariff they have established were not enough to damage the Northern States by cutting off their own trade with the South, and by drawing away from them the commerce of Europe, the late stolid, blun- dering Congress capped the climax of their suicidal folly by adopting a high protective tariff, which in many instances amounts to a prohibition of imports, and in all cases tends to drive to Southern ports the commerce of the world. Already the merchants of New York who are not yet utterly ruined are preparing to establish importing houses in the Southern cities, for the triple purpose of supplying the local trade, of sending goods to the West by the Mississippi river and other channels of gom- munication, and of sending the merchandise over the frontier of the Southern confederacy to New York, thus escaping the duties of the Morrill tariff. Dry goods palaces here are being offered for sale, without purchasers, at half what they cost, and leases of warehouses can be had at a little over half their former rent. The merchants say it is impossible for them to do any business under the new tariff, from the delay in passing goods through the Custom House, owing to the complicated calculations of the duty. For instance, in the case of linen, the number of threads in the square inch must be counted, and -narrow velvet must be calculated by the square yard. To render the matter worse, the Custom House will be filled with new hands who know nothing about the business. The embarrasements will be over- whelming and litigation endless. The importa- tion of carpets, blankets and other heavy wool- len articles, on which an enormous duty is levied by the pound, is in effect prohibited. The same observation applies to steel. An- other of the absurdities of this tariff is that the duty on unmanufactared tobacco is far greater than on manufactured, thus striking a deadly blow at the segar manufacturers of the coun- try. Such is the consequence of entrusting legislation to the hands of incompetent and selfish men, who destroy the very interests they profess to serve. The result of this tariff, conpled with the revo- lution and tariff of the South, is to remove the centres of trade to the Southern States, giving that section not only the whole commerce of the country, but the duties also upon what goods may reach the North, via New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah and Charleston. Itis perfectly idle for the federal government to attempt to collect the duties outside of the Southern har- bors by means of ships-of-war. They have no legal power to do so. For instance, a large portion of the goods would be entered in bond. Where would be the warehouses in which to store them? Thenif there is any dispute or any fraud, a court must dispose of the case. Where are the judges and juries to be had? A Force bill would be necessary even to the attempt at collection of the duties, and it would utierly fail, because impracticable. There is no possi- ble way of surmounting the difficulty by forei- ble means unless by declaring war against the Confederate States, first acknowledging their independence, and then placing a block ade upon the whole Southern coast, which to be valid must be complete; otherwise it will not be acknowledged by the Powers of Europe. But to render a blockade of such an extent of coast complete and effectual is out of the ques- tion. It is thus clear that Northern commerce is in a fair way of being utterly rained. Such are the bitter first fruits of the success of the republican party and its elected head. Tur Couarss or THe Guar Mmns Bon- BLE.—Bubbles must buret, aud mushrooms cannot flourish long. Therefore it is not sur- prising that the “Caisse Generale des Che- mins de Fer” should have stopped paymen‘, that M. Mires should have been consigned to prison, and the Governor of the Bank of France deputed to administer its affairs. We are not going to dwell upou the state of society which proved so favorable to M. Mires rising almost in a few months from being miserably poor to having possession of im mense wealth, and the influence arising from his being the head of a great banking estab- lishment; but it is interesting to observe by the transactions of the house how much the government of France itself has been mixed up with stock jobbing, and how much reason M. de Morny and others equally eminent may have to regret the disclosures which will shortly be made. Well may all Paris, and not alone all Paris, but all Europe, gossip about an affair of such importance in the fiaancial, and not less the political world. People talk openly everywhere about M. Mires having been so closely connected with the government that its reputation cannot but be compromised. We must of course attribute to the failure of the Turkish loan the immediate cause of the break- down; but transactions of a very varied nature will have to be fally divulged and expiataed before a just opinion can be formed. It would have been, perhaps, better for both the high officials of the government and M. Mires himeelf if a friendly settlement of his affairs could have been arranged. He endea- vored to do this, and was at first sanguine of suocess, owing to the importance of his numerous transactions with those in pow- er. Being disappointed, however, he un- wisely said publicly that if he fell he would not fall alone. After this it would have betrayed fear for any one to have exerted him- self to avert the catastrophe. The scandal about this event will increase rather than di- minish with the revelations which are expected to be made, It is somewhat remarkable that in a city so notorious for the suicidal propensi- ties of its inbabitants as Paris a prominent mem- ber of the Committee of Suporintendence of the “Caisse des Chemins de Fer” should have died, as was alleged, of apoplexy, immediately after the arrest of M. Mires; and we are there- fore not surprised to hear that the Parisians be- lieve he took poison to avoid a similar fate. Reports are flying about that various public men have fied or are abont to fly the country, and the popular mind continues in a feverish state of excite mett pending the anticipated disclosures, Bonapartiam is notorious for associating itself with financiers of the Mires stamp, and it has injured iteelf in popular opinion thereby. But the government is one with the French peo- ple in this love of dabbling in speculations, ’ Every Frenchman worships the alwighty five frane piece far more ay < svat does the dollar, «nd money getting appears te to have become the cle object of his daily life. In tte immense iojury which the Mires feilure will inflict upon individuals especially, we may compare it with the diastrous fleancial consequences of the revolution in our own country. Saxe or me Apriatio—This superb steam- er bas departed from our shores, never te return with the stars and stripes at her mizen, After surpassing everything afloat in speed, as well as comfort, this last aud triumphant effort of the lamented Steers—who attained a world- wide celebrity by his construction of the yacht America—is now on her way to be naturalized in Great Britain, where ehe will haul down her flag and run up the Harp of Erin or the Cross ot St. George, as an emigrant ship from Galway. Under the command of her popular master, Captain Joe Comstock, this vessel proved suc- cessful during the past summer, and recent changes in her machinery give promise of « greatly increased speed. Yet she is sold out te British owners for less than half her original cost. State after State secedes—a nation is lopped tranquilly off from the Union—our fleetest steam- ers and clippers are sold to foreign countries a¢ panie prices, foreigners carry our mails and goods, and finally, when our taxes are paid from the grass grown in our streets, they will perbaps occupy the country, and drive out the pation which is fast earning the reputation of being effete. The glory of our flag and Union is fast passing away, and this change of owner- ship is humiliating evidence that American steam navigation isat an end. We shall go om in our downward career, and past redemption, unless the people rise up in their might and rid themselves of the buckstering politicians who have so long been permitted to govern and misgovern the country—forced to admit that our boasted republic is a failure, and that, notwithstanding our enormous resources, we are incompetent to carry on cither goverament or commerce. We must then take our place on the roll of nations by the side of Spain and Holland, and our country may porhaps revert, as distracted colonies, to the protectorate of the British empire. Tue Decision iN THE Gaines Case.—The de- cision of the Supreme Court of the United States in favor of Mrs. Gaines is the first of @ long series of legal embarrassments which must arise out of the hostile relations of the Northern and Southern confederacies, Al- though the claims of suitors from Louisiana pending before the United States courts were exempted by a special clause from the opera- tion of the act of secession passed by that State, there is no doubt, from the immense sum involved, that efforts will be made to evade this provision. So far as the property in Mary- land and Tennessee is concerned, the decision just rendered is fival, and would be equally so in regard to the New Orleans portion of the estate if Louisiana were still in the Union. It would be too bad if, after the heroic struggle in which Mrs. Gaines bas been engaged for the last five and twenty years in the vindication of her mother’s honor and of her own rights, the fruits of this hard earned victory should be onger withheld from her. Her’s, however, will, we fear, be only one of a great number of cases in which justice will be postponed or frustrated, in order that the republican party may keep possession of the spoils which they have so ingloriously won. Nerorism ann Favorirmsa ox a Lange Scare.—The rank and file of the republican party have been shocked at the nepotism and favoritism which are displayed by the Lincoln administration in the distribution of the spoils. In the history of the Crimean war there was a curious episode, the commander-in-chief being ‘ especially commanded, by telegraph, to “take care of Dowb,” and not knowing what to make of it. It turned out, however, that “Dowb” meant Dowbiggin, a relative of the Secretary at War, and “Dowb” had been sent i out tothe Crimea to bo taken care of. “ Dowb” is in Washington just now. “ Dowb” is related to some member of the Cabinet, or he has been somebody's law partner, or his wife is some body’s cousin, aud so he must be taken care of, without reference to capability or party ser-_ vices. All the fat places are to be distributed on the nepotism and fayoritism programme. After the Olays, Corwins, Judds and Schurzes are gorged, the scraps, cold meat and bones will be given to the rank and file. Bud news, that, for the rank and file. It is as true as gos- pel, how ever. The New Postmaster. As it seems tobe conceded on all bands that William ' B. Taylor, Freq , isto be our Postmaster for the mext fonr years, it may be well to state, for the information of those who know but little of the history of that gentle- man, that he has been connected with the New York Post Office since 1819, having in that yenr boon appoint- ed toaclerkship by General Theodorus Bailey, at a salary of $100. He had been a clerk for four years previously in the New Brunswick, N. J., Post Office, At that time there were but six persons employed inthe New York office besides the Postmaster. There were also six lot- ter carriers. The location of the office was then in Gar- den strcot, now Exchange place. Mr, Taylor has there- forw been identified with the practical business fe of the Post OfMlce for forty.two years, Haw- ing of course become perfectly familiar, not ovly with the clerical duties of the office, but with the mames, location, &c., of business firms, ana the standing and occupations of the groat mass of those ' having correspondence through the mails, this knowledge and experience has beea of immonse advantage not only to the public, but to the different Postmaaters who havo held the office and retained Mr. aylor’s services. Tn 1848 he was an applicant for tho office of Postmaster, on the accession of Gen. Taylor to the Presidency, sad his application was basked by the names of upwards of sixteen hundred of the best mercantile firms, and ofoers of banks and other public inatitutions, in this city. The President determined to give the place to his aamosako, the papers were actually made oat, and Mr. Taylor was telegraphed to fodk out for the wax aod the broad seal, when lo! the politicians, on further consultation, found that satiafactory provision could not be made for certain other worthy genUemen. who bad a more distinct and Influential politieal record, unless ovr modest friend's claims wore passed over for the time being; and the namo of William V. Brady wan, at the last moment, substituted for that of William B. ‘Taylor. Under Gen. Jackson Mr. Taylor Despatch Agent for eight years. When Gen. Dix aesumed the Postmastorship he ap pointed Lim Assistant lostmaster, Tu politics Mr. Taylor is what is called an “old Mno whig.” Although not a very active politician, yet he has always been a firm and consistent ova, His drat voto was cnet for John Quincey Adare, and hie last ono wae gives fer “Honest Abe Linoola.”” There oan be no doobt that a Jarge majority of the business men of New cattahed with the President's decision ir, Tay'or, io waa cootrmed by the Sonate eon alter his appointment by Mr, Buchawan, held the office of York are enitrely