The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1861, Page 4

‘NEW YORK, HERALD, MONDAY, -MARCH 18, 1861. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFYIOB N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 873, TERMS, oneh ts advance poy ome by mail wil be at tha riak of the sender, None but bila current tn New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, too conte , $7 per cemmenm, LY HERALD, Eoeur dar, THE WEEE ERALD, every wie, at ai conta (or $8 per annum, very Ws af as cents per conn, $A per annum to any part Brita - re! Continent, ppX berg date hee eden on the ine LUN cd Zia of cack moethal ote ‘oy, oF 81 Of per annum. os MIENALD, on Wednesday, a four cents per or $2 pa anni "ARY CORRESPONDENCE, contatning importand news, solicited from any quarter of the world; if usak will bs t id for, E@r OvR Forrion Comnsarovvents sux ALL Lrians and Pack- pai PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO AGES BENT US. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Kixa Luan. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Wore's Srcner. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Ksicurs of tus Bounp Tasix. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, No. 62% Broadway.— Seven Sursrs. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Taz Ownut— Brian Boxoiume. UNION THEAT#E, Chatham eqnare —Cross or Go.p— Buaock Byrep Susan—Puantom Loyxn—Lnisn Assurancx. THEATRE FRANOAIS, 585 Broadway.—Us Monsine ut eurt Las Fasmes—Unx ALiumerrx entke Deux Feux. BARNUY'’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway —Day god Rven'ng—Grrarniui—Buirs, xs ‘Lio, ax O7uKk SURLOSETL BRYANTS' MINS’ way.—Buaiesques, So! — Mechanics’ Hall.—472 Broad. aNcKs, &0.—Dixigs LAND, MELODEON CONCERT HALL, No, 539 Broadway.— Bones, Dances, Burtxsques, &0, COOPER INSTICUTE.—Exuimition sy Ongcon Inpux Carers or Turin Oustoms, Cxremonins, Dances, &0. CLINTON HALL, Astor Place.—Lecruns sy W. G. Dix OW The ANDES. MBTROPOLITAN HALL, @hicago.—Uysworrn's Mix. erREts in Eruiorian Sonas, Dances, 40. New York, Monday, March 18, 1561. MAILS FOR EUROPE, Tne New York Herald—Edition for Europe. ‘Tho Cunard mail steamship Niagara, Capt. Moodie, will leave Boston on Wednesday for Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close ia this city to-morrow afternoon, at a quarter-past one and at half-past five o'clock, to go by railroad. ‘Tur Evrorean Eormon or tae Henarp wiil be published st eleven o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrap- pers, Bix centa, ‘The contents of the Evrorkan Eomion or tux Herat will combine tho news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the hour of Publication. ts The News. From Washington we learn that the question of evcauating Fort Sumter still continues to occu- py the attention of Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet. There seems to be no doubt that the administra- tion has determined to withdraw Major Anderson and his troops, but how to do it appears not yet to have been settled. Numerous plans have been submitted to the President and his advisers, but none that appear to be practicable. The report of a collision between the State and federal troops in Florida meets with no credit in Washington. The appointment of Commissioners by the South- ern confederacy to visit England and France seems to have startled the administration, and itis said that a secret agent will be immediately despatched to inform those governments of the policy intend- ed to be pursued in regard to the the seceded States. From Charleston we learn that everything was quiet, but a change in affairs was hourly autici- pated, The appointment of Judge Magrath by the Confederate Corgress as District. Judge for South Carolina, seemed to meet with universal fa- vor. The floating battery is to be removed from its moorings to-day, but with no intention of at- tacking Fort Sumter. It is understood in Washington that the answer of the administration to the communication of the Commissioners from the Confederate States will be communicated to them to-day. It is said that tho general government will decline holding any offi- cial intercourse with them. Tho Southern Congress on Saturday confirmed the following persons as District Judges for the Confederate States:—A. G. Magrath for South Carolinas; H. R. Jackson, Georgia; W. Lanier Harris, Mississippi; Thos. G. Semmes, Louisiana; Jobn Hemphill, Texas, and Jesse J. Fin'ey, Florida. On Saturday night the Congress sdjourned to meet in Montgomery on the second Monday in May next. By the arrival of the steamship Arabia at this port on Saturday we received tho gratifying in- telligence of the safety of the steamship Australa- sian, She left Queenstown at her appointed time, and when four days out, during a heavy gale, broke two of the flanges of her screw. After vainly en- deavoring to make an American port, the captain bore up for Queenstown, which place she reached on the 3d of March, the passengers and crew all safo. The Arabia brought over the passengers of the Australasian. By way of New Orleans we are in possession of 4 fow additional items of Mexican news. So far a3 determined by the late Presidential election the republic is nearly equally divided between three parties. Eight States are thought to be for Juarez, representative of the Puros; eight arg for Lerdo do Tejada, candidate of the ex- treme radicals, and six for General Ortega, rep- esentative of the army and more moderate poli- tiolans. It is believed, therefore, that there will be no choice by the people. The election then goes to the Congress, whero Jnares, it is thought, will have a large majority. In the mean- time Gen. Arteaga, tho Governor of Queretaro, has put himself at the head of a movement against the Central government. The press, however, very generally condemn it, though it has advooates. A conspiracy had also been discovered at San Luis Potosi, and the city, by Gen. Doblado, de- clared in a stato of siege. A number of the con- spirators had been banished from the country. Gen. Woll escaped on the 27th of January on board of one of the Pacific steamships at Manza- nillo. An attempt was made by the authorities to seize his person, but the captain refused to give him up. Yesterday being tho anniversary of tho birth- day of St. Patrick, a solemn high mass was cele: brated at St. Patrick's cathedral, and an eloquent panegyrio pronounced on the Apostle. In the evening Archbishop Hughes lectured at Irving Hall on the sndject of Irish devotion to Catholl- clam to a large and attentive audience. To-day the military and civic societies will unite ina grand parade, and in the evening the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick will celebrate their seventy- seventh anniversary by a sumptuous dinner at tho Astor House, Archbishop Hughes lectured last evening at Irving Hall upon the subject of Irish devotion to Catholicism. Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, was previously announced to deliver the lecture, but owing to the non-arrival of tho steamship James Adger at the appointed hour, he was evidently un- able to do so, In order not to disappoint the large audience which had assembled, the Archbishop took this place, and at the conclusion of his remarks made some interesting alluiions to tho duty of Catholics respectnig tho present condition of our national affairs. A report will be found in another column, The St, Joseph's Roman Catholio church, in Pacific street, near Vanderbilt avenue, Brooklyn, was dedicated yesterday by the Right Dev. Dr. Loughlin, Bishop of Brookl n. The Rev. Dr. Cahill preached a stirri.g sermon to an over- whelming congregation. The Comt of Oyer and Terminer, which has been knocked about from post to pillar for years past, will meet this morning in part No. 2 of tho Common Pleas, through the courtesy of Judge Brady, who will finish the cause now pending be- fore him in one of the chambers of the Clerk of the Common Council. The want of court accom- modation is creating trouble all around, and ju- rors have excellent excuses to offer for non-atten- dance io the difficulty of finding out where tho cour's sit, One of the city functionaries, on being recently remonstrated with by a Judge of the Su- perior Court as to the insufficiency of the rooms allotted to that tribunal, suggested the idea of re- moving the Marine Court to the Superior Court, and the latter to the former; but the Judge of the Superior Court, more considerate and more fa- aniliar with Justice than the city father, refused the advantage of such a change, saying that no doubt the lives of the Judges of the Marine Court were as precious to their families as wore those of the Superior Court Justices to their wives and chit- dren, and he did not think it fair to kill them off by sending them to the pent up and ill ventilated rooms which have hurried so many of our judioi- ary to the grave, sent the present Chief Justice to the South to repair his shattered health, and com- pelled another judge to resign. And atill jobbers and speculators at Albany taik of increasing tho number of judges, whilst it is proverbial that the jurics are frequently obliged to deliberate on their verdicts in rooms in which the causes have been tried, whilst the judges are compelled to walk the ccrridors, waiting for the result. ‘The Great Western stage coach from Denver city arrived at Omaha on the 16th inst., bringing eight passengers and $6,500 in specio. The trip was accomplished in four days and twenty-two hours—the quickest time ever made. The cotton market on Saturday was stoady, and closed without quotable change in prices, Tho transactions em- braced about 1,200 bales, closing on the basis of 11%c. a 12c, Accouni from the Southern ports continue to report a deoline im the receipts. The flour market was firmer, with a good demand from the trade, while prices closed at un advance of bea 106 per barrel, Wheat was in good request, in part for export, and closed at about 1c. per bushel higher, Corn was steady and in fuir demand, with pretty fi eales both to the domestic trade and for exper. Pork was unsettled and lower, Sales of moss were made at $16 623g, and of prime at $12 60 a $18, Sugurs were in good request, and at steady prices. The sales embraced nbout 1,€00 hhds. Cuba, 168 boxes and 630 bhds. melado. Coffee was quiet, with limited salee at unchanged prices. Freights were more active, with more offoring, especially for English ports, while rates were without change of importance, There was a good demand for charter to outside ports, and seye- ral vessels wore taken up. ‘the Montgomery Commissioners to France and England—Prospective Com- mercial Treaties Between the Southern Confederacy and Huropean Powers. While Mr. Lincoln and his advisers are vent- ing chortsighted spite over the evacuation of Fort Sumter, by rudely repelling the Commis- sioners from the seceding States, and have thus miseed the favorable moment for initiating a reconstruction of the Union, the government of the new Southern republic is moulding its des- tinies with skill and forethought, and is com- pelling from its adversaries the unwilling tribute which folly ever pays to wisdom, and weakness to strength. The seifishness, incon- sistency, and suicidal blindness of the Washing- ton aéministration, united to the mercenary legislation of the late republican Congress, present such a sad and deplorable contrast with the energy, sagacity, unanimity of action, and statermanlike ability of the Cabinet and repre- sentatives of ihe people, at Montgomery, that the whole world will yield the respect which the latter challenge, while it cannot but be sbocked and amazed at the unlooked for imbe- cility of the former. The Powers of Europe bave, for four months, been contemplating with that anxious concern which only self-interest can inspire, the affairs of tho United States; and now, at the very moment when the efficiency and diplomatic acutenese of the South, stands forth in the boldest relief from the degradation to which fanaticism, venality, discord, and tho rottenness of a bad cause, have reduced the dominant party in tho North, England and France are about to be called on to recognise the independence of the withdrawing members of the American con- federation, even at cost of the displeasure of those that remain behind. That they will de- cide to do so, admits of but small doubt; and, when the circumstances of tho cage are con- sidered, they will be abundantly justified in their determination. The Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, of Alabama; Col. A. Dudley Mann; and Judge P. A. Ross, of Louisiana, are the three special Commissioners that the federal government at Montgomery have selected to negotiate a recognition by the Courts of Paris and London, of the indepen- dence of the seven seceding States, and to pro- pose such commercial treaties, as may establish, upon @ permanent basis, the future relations of the three Powers, The fear of the reopening of the African slave trade is the solitary ob- jection which was offered to friendly relations with the South, when the subject was recently discussed in the British Parliament, and that has been amply provided for by an article in the Montgomery constitution. The people of France are mere than disposed to welcome the Southern confederacy into the great confra- ternity of nations. According to the latest news from Paris, the Moniteur, the official jour- nal of the imperial government, had expressed the “deepect indignation at the increase of duties imposed by the Northern United States upon French productions,” and the Pays bad already exclaimed: “Let the indepen- dence of the South be recognized ; that ser- vile insurrection openly and boldly preached in the pulpits of the North, may cease to be an ever present danger. Inno part, perhaps, of the continent, regard being had to the popu- lation, do there exist men more eminent and gifted, with nobler or more generous senii- ments, than in the Southern States. No coun- try possesses lovelier, kinder hearted and more distinguished women. To commence with the immortal Washington, the list of statesmen who have taken part in the government of the United States shows that all those who havo shed @ lustre on the country and won the ad- miration of Europe owed their being to that much abused South. And—strange coinci- dence—while Southern men presided over the destinies of the Union its gigantic prosperity was the astonishment of the world. In tho hands of Northern men that edifice, raised with #9 much care and labor by their predecessors, comes crashing down, threatening to carry with it in ite fall the industrial future of every other nation.” The impotence with which the republican administration of Mr. Lincoln has alternated between its desire to adopt an aggressive, coercive, bloodthirsty policy towards the South, and ita physical inability to do so; the want of | The New Tarif—Ite Disastrous Effect | The Roman Question—Demgeroas Agite- either coursge, or @ epirit, which bas characterized iis measures, in the affair of Fort Sumter, will have created guffloient con- tempt for it, in Europe. But the monstrous copglomeration of absurdities of the Morrill tariff, will have proved, more than anything else, to both England and France, that while the South have but little to fear from the enmity of the Washington administration, they themselves have everything to dread, and nothing to hope from its friendship. Indeed, the rivalry between the tariffs, that were almost simultaneously adopted at Montgomery and the national capital, will, probsbly, decide the question of acknowledging separate aation- alities, North and South, in the minds of the statesmen of Great Britain and France. The former hes been framed with care and dis- crimination, upon the model of that whiob will expire in the Northern States, on the lat of next month. Tho duties it imposes are reason- able; it is free from objectionable features; and it is evident from tho spirit in which ii was adopted, that legislators of the Southern repub- lic are willing to modify its provisions, and agree to discriminating imposts, in the interest of such foreign Powers as shall enter into alliance with them. The prevalent Southern feeling is in favor of free trade, and the only exclusive tariff legislation that is to be looked for, will be against the manufactures of the North. Northern merchants are, already, making ar- rangements tq import goods into Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans, in order to avoid the duties of the Morrill tariff. A few corrupt and depraved politicians concocted it, with the double intent of increasing the revenue and patronage of the present administration, and of benefitting the manufacturing and iron in- terests of New Jorsey, Pennsylvania, and the New England States. It is a disgrace to every one concerned in it, Its authors will be disappointed in their expectations. The fact is, that the superior advantages offered by the South, and the certainty that im- ported merchandise can be transmitted, by rivers and railroad, to any part of the Northwest, and the States south of Mason and Dixon’s line, at the lower rates of duty of the Montgomery tariff, will divert importations from New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachu- setts, to South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, and a blow will be struck at the local prosperity of the former States, the effects of which it is impossible accurately to calculate. It has been repeatedly demon- strated, thet every effort of the Washington government to prevent the free ingress of mer- chandise into the Southern ports, must prove abortive. The unitod navies of England and France, could scarcely guard such an immense line of coast. Thus, able as the South will be to import goods, and, after they are landed to forward them to all parta of the continent, they will practically collect duties for the whole Union. It is simply absurd to suppose that any Euro- pean nation would neglect the advantages which it might derive from a commercial treaty with a Power liaving so extended a commerce within its grasp. Messrs. Yancey, Rost, and Mann will, proba- bly, have secured the recognition of the inde- pendence, by England and France, of the South- ern confederacy, before the middle of this year; and the accompaniment will be such commer- cial treaties as shall frustrate, forever, the in- sane, coercive policy which republican leaders have daticied themselves mey could with im- punity carry out. What will then become of the North? Where will the importers of the central States be, and what will be the fate of our manufacturers? No calculation can be made of the prodigious and lasting damage their interests will receive. The evil will, also, be without a remedy. Our Southern brethren poseess shrewdness enough to retain the van- tage ground they will have secured. Neither can any system of border inspection shut out goods from the Northern States, that have once been brought into the South. The Commissioners from the South go abroad under the mostYavorable auspices. Meanwhile, the conservative masses of the people, look with indignation upon the course which Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet are pursuing. And the time is not far distant when the North will hold them to a bitter responsibility for the shameful imbecility and fanaticism with which they are betraying the interests of the country. Murrany Maxms Goop ror Pourricrans.— The most important man in the country just now is General Scott. Old as ho is, he has proved himself the only statesman in Washing- ton. But for him the new administration would have precipitated the country into the horrors of civil war, and rushed upon its own de- struction. He has cooled down its belligerent ardor by a little soldierly advice. Military men are often the best guides when political sagacity is at fault. The Duke of Wellington taught the old routine tory politi- cians that true statesmanship consisted as much in knowing when to yield as when to resist. Had he obstinately refused to recognise the justice of the Catholic claims he would have plunged Great Britain into the same troubles that now menace us. We trust that the Lincoln administration will continue to benefit by the lessons of their mili- tary Mentor. His last, conveyed In the form of a notice to his correspondents, is Welling- tonian in its brevity and significance, Telling those who address letters to him that, owing to his infirmities and inability to use his pen, ap- plications for autographs and offices are most burdensome to him, he adds that “he has within his own gift but two small places (long well filled), and that he recom- mends no one whatever, other than an old soldier, nor for any office whatever out of the army.” It would of course be too much to expect that a republican administration should apply these principles to all its ap- pointments. There {s, nevertheless, a large class of public servants in the government de- partments whose experience and usefulness cannot easily be supplied. These persons can be the lees dispensed with at a time when the disorganization of the Post Office by the se- cession of the cotton States, and the adoption of ahigh, and, as regards some of its provi- sions, an incomprehensible tariff, are likely to throw the public service into confusion. As the new administration has been compelled to call in the old veteran to extricate it from the embarrassments caused by its inability to fal- fil tho pledges of the Chicago platform, it is to be hoped that {t will continue to benefit by his advice, and act, as far as possible, on the ‘wise rule that he has laid down in tho choice of his subordinates, Politically and Commercially, tiem by the French Ciergy—Speeeh of There seems to be but one opinion among | Primce Napoleon. commercial men in this olty and in the country at large as to the consequences of the new tariff law going into operation. By them the law is denounced as one that carries the princi- ple of protection to the very verge of prohibi- tion, and as being besides so ill considered and full of palpable blunders and inconsistencies as to render its execution very expensive and well nigh impossible. These are tho views of the men in this country who are qualified to judge of euch a measure. On tho other side of the Atlantic the new law appears to meet with no more favor; and the sympathy which at first the British and French people were disposed to give to the Northern States in the present difficulties of ‘be government is being con- verted into a feeling of hostility. This change in European sentiment we have seen manifested in various ways of late. There is much suffering among the operative classes of England, produced by a variety of cause, among which the secession of the Southern States occupies a prominent position. The English trade report, which we print in another column, enumerating the causes that have acted unfavorably on that market, makes this clear specification:—“Political movements in ‘the United States not only check exports, but retain moneys due, and cause derangements of trade in other quarters.” In another para- graph it complains that we are not content with bringing distress and derangement upon European traders by our political quarrels, but must also enact a tariff which is noxt to prohi- bitory, and thus shut the door to tuture com- mercial transactions. It states, also, that many American orders for goods have been counter- manded. Again, we have the same sort of complaint from France. The official paper of the Em- pire—the Paris Moniteur—expresses its indig- nation in strong terms at the inorease of duties imposed upon French productions by our new tariff, and intimates the withdrawal of the na- tional sympsthy from the anti-slavery cause on the ground of the palpable insincerity of those who made it a stepping-stone to power. There isa latent meaning in this Ceolaration. We find lurking in it an ill concealed menace that after all it may be the policy of the empire not to give the cold shoulder to the Commis- sioners from the Southern confederacy. Thus the Morrill tariff bids fair to prove destructive to Northern interests politically as well as com- mercially. The mistake was the pressing of euch a measure of legislation at a period when the country was in the midst of a revolution. Tariffs are always among the most delicate subjects of legisixtion, and never should be touched unless at periods of profound peace. Even then they should not be meddled with rashly or without due caution and delibera- tion; fora change in the revenue laws of a country invariably causes dangerous fluctua- tions in trade. But here this great change has been rushed into when half a dozen States of the confederacy had wiihdrawa, and when the rest were too much occupied with the imminent dangers of the republic to be- stow any attention on the details of a revenue law. And now what is our position? The new tariff law must, of necessity, go into operation in all the ports acknowledging the jurisdiction of the federal government. In the ports that have ropudiated that jnriadiction the existing tariff, which was re-enacted by the Congress at Montgomery, is and will continue to be in force. The rates of duty imposed in the latter are considerably less than those imposed in the former. Consequently, while merchants can import goods into the Southern ports at low rates of duties, itis not to be supposed that they will continue to import them into New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other Northern ports at high rates, and therefore the import trade at these perts will be, if such a state of things be allowed to continue, utterly ruined. Shere are now some eight hundred vessels employed in the carrying trade between Europe and the ports in the seceded States. No less than one hundred and thirty-one sailed from Europe for such ports duriag the first twenty- five days of February. That trade will be doubled within the next year, under the com- bined influence of our protective tariff and the inducements offered by the South. Who does not see in this movement disaster to all our interest? What is to be done? Is the new administra- tion so absorbed in the work of parcelling out the spoils that it can give uo time to the prac- tical necessities of the hour? Sap Conprtion or THE Rerupiican Parry.— There never before was a party in such a sad condition as the republican party. There does not appear to be any possible chance of saving it from utter annihilation, if we are to believe its own followers. When the administration was inaugurated they cried out that if the govern- ment yielded an inch towards compromise the party would be ruined; then, when the evacua- tion of Fort Sumter was talked of, they cried out again: if the troops are withdrawn the party will be ruined. The republicans in the last Congress passed the Merrill tariff, and the republican merchants and importers in the Northern cities, as well as the republican agri- oulturists of the West, now declare that unless the tariff is repealed by an extra session the party will be destroyed. Again, Mr. Seward announces that no naturalized citizen, espe- cially no political refugee, shall represent this government at any Court in Europe; where. upon the whole Northwest rises up and cries out that if the missions to France, Eagland, Austria, Russie, Sardinia, Switzerland and Prusela are not filled by European refugees, the republican party is ruined forever. In such « state of things what are the administra. tion to do to save the party? If ruin await them at every point, what can be done? Old Abe, indeed, has hit upon ono safe policy, and hat is to give all the fat offices to the cousins, uncles and law partners of the leaders. We are afraid that the rank and file of the party, who became republicans on the representations of the demagogues, will find that their leaders are like the New York dollar jewelry—all brass. Aw Extra Sesston or Conaness.—The opin- fon prevails among political circles at Wash- that President Lincoln will soon be compelled to call an extra session of Congress. There are many necessities for it; but there would be justification enough in the call if it wore made simply for the purpose of securing an act to explain the act entitled an act to re- gulate the duties upon imports, &o., known as the Morrill Tariff bill. CT Ne eT ae pe The controversy between the French’ elergy and the Imperial government in regard to the Pope has resolved itself into an open war. It is evident, from the bitterness of the Bishop of Orleans, reply to M. Laguerroniere, and the gross personal insult offered to the Emperor by the Bishop of Poic- tiers, that the ecclesiastical power has deter- mined on measuring its strength with him. The conviction of this fact has induced the govern- ment to lay aside the reserve with which it has dealt with this question. It feels that to crush out the danger which threatens it at home from the hostility of the clergy, it will have to put ap end to the uncertainty that prevails as to its intentions in reference to it. To leave it unset- tled for six months longer would be, in the present excited state of the public mind, owing to clerical influence, to compromise the secu- rity of the Imperial throne itself. We may judge how critical the government deems its position from the declarations of Prince Napoleon and Count Pietri in the Senate on the address in reply to the Emperor’s speech. Both plainly intimated that the tempo- ral power of the Pope waa forfeited, and that France should confine herself to the preservation of bis spiritual power. How this is to be done is to be inferred from the Prince’s conciuding remarks. As Italy united, he says, will soon demand Rome as her capital, and as the Pope cannot become subject to another sovereign, the only way of reconciling the difficulty and maintaining his independence is by securing to the Pontiff the right side of the city, witha Papal garrison aad a Papal budget, guaran- teed by the Powers. This, we have no doubt, is the plan decided upon by the French govern- ment. It is merely a modification of the ori- ginal project of the Emperor in the pamphlet published by him previous to the Italian cam- paign, altered to suit the changed condition of things since that period. If it gives the Pontiff a divided occupancy of the Eternal City, he has his own obstinacy and the evil ad- vice of the Antonelli clique to thank for it. There are other reasons why the Emperor should be desirous to bring this question to an immediate settlement. It is well known that his domestic peace has been destroyed by the efforts used by the clergy to control his views in regard to it through his wife. ‘To such an extent has her mind been worked upon by their arguments, that she has been driven half crazy, so that she is alternately projecting pilgrimages to the holy places or adandoning herself to the influence of the spiritualists. The dotails given by our Paris correspondent in regard to her movements are exceedingly ourious, and ex- plain the cause of some of her recent freaks, as well as of her unaccountable trip to Scotland. Thus situated, it is not to be wondered at that the Emperor should lose all patience with the the Pontiff, and decide upon making no further efforts to conciliate the prejudices of the ultra- montane party. The decision to which he has come, followed, as it probably will be, by the immediate en- trance of a Piedmontese army into Rome, will aggravate to the most violent pitch the hostility towards him of the French clergy. It is not un- likely that to defeat their intrigues, as well as to neutralize the effect of the discreditable ex- posures that are about to be made in the Mires’ case, he will resort to the favorite expe- dient of French rulers in snch cases—that of engaging the attention of his peo- ple in another war. He will not want for an opportunity. Although the prudence of the Italians will postpone for a time any effort for the recovery of Venice, Austria cannot continue to maintain a purely defensive atti- tude. Inactivity in her present circumstances is far more costly to her than war, and she will avail herself of the first chance to provoke it. The entrance of a Piedmontese army into Rome will soon afford it to her, if we are to place faith in her recent declarations. It is satisfactory, however, to the friends of freedom to be assured that no mere religious pretext will be permitted by France to furnish an ex- cuse for the invasion of regenerated Italy. Orextne or THE Barrtse Rep River Trrri- Tory.—It appears by the last news from Eng- land that a bill is in preparation in Parliament with reference to opening out the territory in British America lying between the Red river and the Pacific for colonization. The British government are thus about to develope a fine Northwestern territory, stretching out to the Pacific on one sido, and to be ultimately brought into connection with the Atlantic on the other, by means of the Canada Trunk Bail- road, the St. Lawrence and every other availa ble means of communication. This is a fertile region and a splendid wheat growing country; 0 that the Amorican Northwest will soon have a rival beside her in the British Northwost, and the former will have to look sharply to her in- terests, The American Northwest, in short, must decide upon wiat course she is to pursue in the present complicated condition of the country, which has been brought about by the fanatical party who are now developing their policy at Washington in a ferocious scramble for the spoils, which they have won at the cost of disunion and the destruction of the country. Itmay come to pass that the Northwestern States will one day find it to their advantange to unite with this newly developed British territory, and form one grand country for themselves, in- dependent of the North, East and South. Such an event was hinted at before, both in this cory ae eateries cra Talos by the abolition fanatics. 4 Waar po Tar Freevom Sunmxers Wanti— In 1786 there were thirteen States in this Union, twelve of which were slave and one free. In 1861 there are thirty-four States and seven Ter- ritories; nineteen of these States and six of the Territories aro free, and two other States which now recognise slavery—Delaware and Mary- land—will undoubtedly soon be free States also. In five years from now the six Territo- ries will be ready to come into the Union—if there be any Union then—as States, ander free labor constitutions, and we shall then have twenty-seven free States to thirteen slave States. Yet the freedom shriekers are not sat- isfled with this rapid progress and growth of free territory. They are not content with any- country for the ol Sena ove which they are now engaged in such a fierce squabble at Washington. Ixformation Wantev.—Can any one inform ws what has become of the late reported no- mination of Mr. Orittenden for the vacancy in the Supreme Court? nl ed ‘Tar Isrivx oy Srecm rromw Evnorg.—The in- flux of specie from Europe continues, with but little abatement, the Arabia, which arrived here on Saturday evening, bringing nearly » million aud » half of dollars from Since the political complications of the commenced, the transit of specie has been alto. gether changed: iactexd of sending it from this country to Europe, Europe bas been compelled to send it to us, because our imports fell off, while our exports increased; and now that the Morrill tariff is about to go iato operation, the probability is that the imports will yet largely” decrease, and hence we may expect still farther arrivals of specie from Europe till some ar- rangements with the Southern confederacy are made. The subjoined table will show the m City of Maxchester, Kangaroo. Here we have over nineteen millions of specie contributed to our rosources in the space of three months, independent of the im- portation from California, which amounted to about five millions. Had it not been for this unprecedented influx of money in the present calamitous times, and the remarkably prosper- ous condition of the country, nothing could have saved us from frightful financial ruin. It would have been in vain that the New York banks combined to consolidate their specie; in vain that commercial speculation became re- stricted; had it not been for the fortuitous cir- oumstance that the decrease of our imports and the demand for our cotton and breadstuffs forced the European merchants to meet the crisis here by the shipment of specie, general ruin would bave fallen upon us—the conse- quence of our political complications, which have brought all our internal commerce to s dead lock. : Fort Pickens.—It is given out that the Southern confederacy Commissioners at Wash- ington will demand the evacuation of Fort Pickens, at Pensacola, and present the alter- native of a fight for it if not surrendered. It is beliewed, however, that Fort Sumter is as much as the administration will give to the secessionists, even for the sake of peace, and that even Sumter would not be given up if there were any help for it. Accordingly, we may expect to hear the ominous-sound of thun- der from the Florida coast before many weeks are over; and then—why, then, we shall have the beginning of the end. The administration talks peace, but it is drifting to war. Dow’r Forort tHe Cievatrer Wess—From day to day our Washington correspondents in- form us of whole batches of fat offices given out, or of appointments expected; but we have looked in vain, thus far, for any fat office given or expected to be given to our venerable and valiant fighting cotemporary, the Chevalier Webb. But he must have something. If we are to have war the Chevalier might be sent down with Horace Greeley to relieve or re- capture Fort Sumter; and we rather suspeot that Honest Abe Lincoln is keeping our fight- ing Chevalier in reserve to meet the con- tingencies of war. Otherwise we should say “Honest Old Abe’s” treatment of the high and migh‘y Chevalier is not the thing. Political Intelligence. 4 Dnmou.—0ld Abe’s administration is just now ing most woful Ox. If coercion is attempted towards the seceded States the border slave States will go out of the Union, and the country will be lost. If a pacific policy 1s adopted, the Chicago platform will go to pieces, and the black republican party will be broken into fragments, ‘The President’s position may now be likened te an in- toxicated individual, who was one very cold night hold- ing on to a spile on the edge of the dock, and who thus moralized:—If I hold on here,” said he, “I shall cor- tainly freeze to death, and if I lot go [shall fall in the ‘water and be drowned.”” Kayaus Saxator.—Marcus J, Parrott will probably bs one of the United States Senators from the new State of Kansas, His qualifications for the station may be found in the following paragraph from the biack republican paper in Leavenworth :— th cnvous of republican Qongreasmen, and voted againat cancus every measure ich favored lowering tho ropnbiioam or backing down from the Chicago platform. A Rana Avis. —There is a bisck republican in Philadel- phia who requests the Bulletin to announce that he ls not a candidate for any oflico under Old Abo’s admi- istration. Tx Omo SsxaTorsmr.—The republicans held a caucus ‘at Columbus on the 14:b inst., and had thirty ballots fer United States Senator. Thore were a great many changes and the result is doubtful. The contest at the close wag between Dennison and Horton. The following is tho first and last ballot:-— Procession on:his visit to that’city. Conorassmen Yer To on E.xorep.—The States which are yet to choose representatives, and their times for oleo- tou, are as foliows:— April 1 North Carolina is gine : Aug. 1 he » Aug. & is ae follows:—Berry (rep.), 33,988; Stark (dom.), 29,748. There remain to bo heard from twonty.one towns, the vote of which in March, 1860, was as fol- ows:—For Goodwin (rep.), 1,858; Cate (dom.), 1,707, Taking that vote for present purposes, the, result this year will be:—For Borry, 35,846; Stark, 91,460; Borry’s majority, 3,896. The Concord Standard says:—The re- publicans bave elected 160 representatives to the Legisia- ture ard the democrats about 100. A Cuasca ror On Aon To INcnmase His Prua.—The editor of the Delaware Gazette offors a reward of $6,000 to the man.who, from the reading of Lincoln's taaugural, can tell what version to give it—ponce or war. ‘Tin New Ternrronim,—By tho erection of three new Territories the black republicans have made room for « 8 hundred or more additional office seekers. Concrestionar Nowmwations ix Conmnoricot —'the bladi republicans of Conneetiout have nominsted for rq election all the off abolition members of Oongress, 7