The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1861, Page 4

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The mail steamship North Star, Captain Jones, will loave this port to-day, at noon, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific will close at ten o’clock this morning. ‘The New Yous Weexry Huenatp—California edition— sontaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, with a large quantity of local and miscellaneous matter, will be published at half-past eight o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six conta. Agenta will ploaze send in their orders as early as pos- sible. The News. Our despatches from Washington this morning reiterate the assurance that both the Lincoln ad- ministration and the government at Montgomery are disposed to preserve the peace. It is stated that the Commissioners from the Confederate States have the positive assurance from the ad- ministration that no movement of troops, or rein- forcement of forts in the seceded States will be permitted for the present. On the other hand, the Montgomery government will do nothing to dis- turb the existing condition of affairs. The two indictments against Mr. Floyd, late Secretary of War, for conspiring to defraud the government, and for malfeasance in office, were yesterday dismissed by the Court at Washington as untenable. In the United States Senate yesterday, Mr. Hale Offered a resolution, which lies over, that the Sen- ate adjourn without day at one o'clock on Satur- day next. The consideration of Mr. Douglas’ re- solution in relation to the Southern forts, &c., was then resumed, and Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, made & speech on the troubles of the nation. He con- sidered a reconstruction of the Union impossible, and there remained but one of two courses to pursue, namely, war, with a view to sub- jugation, or tho recognition of the indepen- dence of the Southern republic. He indicat- ed a proposition which he should offer, investing the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, with power to accept the declaration of the seceded States, that they are an alien people, and authorizing him to con- clude with them a treaty acknowledging their in dependence asa separate nation, At the conclu- sion of Mr. Bayard’s remarks the Senate held an executive session, and confirmed a number of ap- pointments. We publish below the names and salaries of the various Ministers and Consuls thus fur appointed by the Lincoln adiwinistration:— MINISTERS: Whereto Compen. ENGiasp— Reside. sation Min. Pien., Charies F. Adams..... London.... .. .$17.500 Sec. of Leg., T. Bigelow Lawrerce. London 260 Asa’t Sec. of Legation,John Adame Londoa 1,500 ‘Min. Plea , Wai. L. Dayton. 1c. Of Lexation, W.H. Fry Min. Plom., N, P. Judd.s.y essere e See. of Less cion, H Kreisemati.. tun. 1 joo. P. Marsh..... oo» Terin f Tuarnny. Min. Res., Jamcs Watson Webb. Constantinople. 7,C00 AcerE1A— Min. Plea., Anson Burlingame... Vienna, 12,000 Sweeen axp Nonwar— Min. Res., Jacob T. Halderman. Stockholm..... 7,600 ARK — ‘Min, Res., Bradford K. Wood..... Copenhagen 7,500 Baazn— Min. Pien., Thomas H. Neieon.... Rio Janciro.... 12,000 Baows— Min. Res., Henry 8. Sanford...... Brussels... 7,600 Powrogar— Min. Res., Carl Schurz........°... Lisboa, 7,500 Sr » Madrid...,.... 1200) Mairid........ 1809 Guatemars — Min. Res., Misha C. Crosby....... Gaatemala 7,0 Ponta: Stares— Min. Ros,, Kats King... .......66 Rome 70 CONSULS. Name. Compensation. +» Freeman H. Morse... .$7,500 : ©, Davisson vs 2/000 2 Do Witt C. Littlejohn. 7/500 Havre... James 0. Putnam...... 6,000 Aix la Chapelle. : Wm It, Vesey... 2/500 Frapkfort-on-t Rnfos Hoamer 3/000 Alexandria, 45 pt W. S Thayer.... 3,000 COMMISSIONER. Sandwich Inlande.. ‘Thouias J. Dyor,..... 7,000 The necessary measures to ensure a strict servance of the tariff laws and regulations have been put in operation along the inland routes. At all the railway connections between the con- federate and border States revenue officers have been stationed, and similar precautions have been | taken to prevent smuggling on the Gulf coast. The legislators at Albany went through an cx- tensive routine of business yesterday. Several bills were pagsed, various others reported from the committees, and a number of new ones intro- duced. Much of the business transacted, how- ever, merely related to local interests. In the Senate, among the bills passed was that to regu- late the sale of intoxicating liquors, the previous vote on the measure being reconsidered. The fol- lowing bills also passed:To amend the laws estab- lishing regulations for the port of New York; to provide for of murder and arson in tha first de- gree, committed prior to the ath of May, 1860; and to revise the map of Now York. A re- port was made on the Chamber of Commerce bill. In the Assembly @ minority report of the Railroad Committee was presented against the Broadway Railroad, and petitions in favor of the road were also presented. A large portion of the day wae taken up by the Assembly in the discustion of the Albany ond Susquehanna Railroad bill, and it way fually laid on the table. the punishment of the crimes | At the meeting of the Emigration Commissioners yesterday the Standing Committees of last year were re-elected. The number of emigrants re- turned as arrivals for the past week was 1,336, which makes the number since January 1, 6,151. ‘Phe amount of the commutation fund in bank at present to the credit of the Board is $3,566 Ol. Captain Caffrey and two policemen of the Fif- teenth ward were arrested yeste on @ warrant issued by Judge Alker, of the Marine Court, charg- ing them with the false imprisonment of Hugh Clark, a liquor dealer. They were brought before Judge McCarthy and held to bail in the sum of #500 each, These cases are becoming very nume- rous, and frequently occupy the attention of the courts, The report of the City Saperintendent of Public Schools was presented in the Board of Education last evening. In our report of the meeting may be found some statistical extracts from this document of an interesting nature, The business transacted by the Board was of little moment. ‘The demand for beef cattle was fair yesterday, but the receipts being heavy, prices were about half a cent per pound lower on the average, though the range was about the same. Milch cows were plenty, but steady. Veal calves were unchanged. Sheep and lambs were slow of sale yesterday, at a reduction of 26 cents per head, but sold all through the week at previous rates. Swine were without essential change. The total -receipts were 4,555 beef cattle, 153 cows, 593 veals, 6,703 sheep and lambs and 4,539 swine, ‘The cotton market yesterday was active and firm, with sales of about 5,700 bales, including some lots in transitu. Prices closed on the basis of about 1210. a 12%c, for middling uplands. Flour was firm, while sales were made to fair extent, including some purchases for export: Wheat was firm and active, with a good demand for ex- port, while the market Closed at full prices. Corn was better and in active request, at prices given in another column. Pork was dull and heavy. Sales of mess were made at $16 6234, and of prime at $12 6244 a $12 75. Sugars were in fair demand, while the sales embraced about 9C0 hhds. at prices given in another column. Cof- foo was in fair demand, with sales of 3,250 bags Rio at 12c. a 18c., and 150 Maracaibo at 133{c. adc. Freights were taken toa fair extent, without change of moment im rates, Gradual Developement of the Policy of Mr. Lincoin’s Administration—lnpend- img Amarohy. A fit parallel to the imbecile conduct of the administration, in the crisis which threatens to engulf the prosperity of the Union, is to be found in the riotous intemperance of sailors, who abandon the care of a vessel menaced with destruction, in order to gorge themselves with liquor, and drown conscience and fear in brutal self-indulgence. Out of the contradic- tory intelligence that is received, from day to day, from the national capital, it is not difficult to perceive that the Lincoln government is al- most exclusively occupied with the apportion- ment of spoils, and that it has adopted no set- tled practical policy, respecting the great ques- tions that agitate the popular mind. It has shown every disposition to pursue a fanatical, antagonistic course towards the South, and would have, ere now, drifted the two sections into a bloody civil war, but for sheer want of courage, and inability to carry out the aggres- sive instincts that inspire it. In directing the evacuation of Fort Sumter, not even a pretence has been made of desiring to conciliate the se- ceding States; nor were the wishes of the bor- der slaveholding States taken into considera- tion. The solitary excuse given for the recall of Major Anderson and his troops, is, that go- vernment is physically unable to give him any agsistance. Previously to the inauguration, it had been hoped that Mr. Seward, and his friends, were inclined to a “magnanimous” line of action; but the indications have since been, that, through lukewarmness, greed of place, and an overweening desire to retain popularity with the ultraists of New England and the Northweet, they, also, have concluded to take no efficient step to- wards peacefully solving the difficulties that embarrass the country. The proclivities of the administration, therefore, are for disunion and such inter-State hostilities as shall accom- plish the Wendell Phillips programme:—« Dis- union is honor ; disunion is gain.” The crafty indecision which characterizes its course—now flattering, now blustering—is simply the result of the doubts government entertains, of its ability to carry out its iniquitous designs. The election of Mr. Lincoln to the Presi- dency, was the result of thirty years of per- petual agitation, upon the slaverye question, with the direct and avowed object of ruining the country. The constitution was declared, from the outset, to be “a league with hell, and a covenant with death ;” slavery tobe “a “a curse,” and “the sam of all villa- nies ;” and the calamities and disasters which should flow from the destruction of the Union, subjects of triumph and rejoicing. “There are scenes of tremendous horror I could smile at,” exclaimed the great champion of aboli- tionism ; and he has lived to exult over the success of the schemes, projected by himself and his colleagues. The active system of pro- pagandism which they inaugurated, has already culminated in the elevation of their candidate to the Chief Magistracy of the country ; it has driven seven members of the confederacy from the republic; eight more, it is believed, will follow within a few months; and the guilt lies at their door of the most terrible blow that has ever been aimed at our political, commercial, financial, manufacturing, and agri- | cultural prosperity. If civil war comes, the | republican party, of which they constitute the vital element, will have brought it upon us, and it is frightful to perceive that the greater number of those who surround the President, and by whose counsels he is guided, are disappointed, and apologize for the delay of an internecine conflict and its attendant horrors, which they believe would | stereotype anti-slavery fanaticism in the North. Meanwhile, the people of the North behold with terror the gradual descent of this lately happy land, towards either a military despot- ism, or a worse than Mexican anarchy. Intel- ligent citizens compare the President that is, | with the Washington of three-quarters of a cen | tury ago; the founder of our liberties who was our first Chief Magistrate, with the destroyer of | the integrity of our nationality, who bids fair to be the last. They groan beneath the con- trast, and only seek for an opportunity to pro- teat against it. The leaders of the victorious party, know, however, that their tenure of power is owing to merely fortuitous causes, and that five-sixths of ti voters of the Union are opposed to them. They have, therefore, inter- | posed thelr authority as a screen, and have gagged down the popular voice in the North, 80 that a period of several months must elapse, before it can be effectively heard. The factions opposition of the republican majority tn Con- gress, caused the defeat of the Crittenden amendments, which the people would have gladly accepted. The bill of Mr. Bigler, which simply asked that an opportunity might be given of informally testing the strength of par- THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1861. Cea, was thrown overboard, because it would ‘have sealed the condemnation of the fanatics ia power. The propositions of ‘the Peace Con- ference, insufficient as they, in many respects, were, might have been regarded by the South as an olive branch, and public feeling clamored for their adoption, on this account. These, also, were treated with scorn by the House of Representatives, and were crushed by Mr. Seward in the Senate. After the 4th of March, the duplicity of the inaugural, and the victory of the incendiarist section of republi- cans, in the formation of a Cabinet, convinced every thinking citizen, that no good could be expected from an inherently rotten source, and that the worst fears they had entertained, were sure of being sooner or later realized. Under circumstances so deplorable, no im- mediate method exists, of expressing general condemnation of the policy which is gradually developing, at Washington, from bad to worse, excepting through conventions and public meetings; and it is especially necessary that the conservative masaes, everywhere, should begin to act openly, instead of confining them- selves, as they have hitherto done, to private utterances of opinion. Means should be taken, of sending forth such a fiat of public opinion, as cannot be mistaken, and which will render misunderstanding impossible. The South should be made to know, that it possesses the sympathies of the central States; and the ad- ministration should become aware, that it will be held to a bitter responsibility for its shame- ful mismanagement of the public interests. Tue Merrororsras Eprrors iy Luck Uner Ox» Ase.—There is one thing in which Lincola and his administration appear to have im proved on the democratic régime of the last eight years. However the imbecile rail-split- ter and his Cabinet may be in other respects, it cannot be denied that they know how to ap- preciate the press. In the reign of poor Pierce evory twopenny rural editor of whom nobody ever heard, and who barely knew his right hand from his left, was cent upona mission abroad or fattened upon a good office at home. Every third and fourth cousin of his was well provided for. Under the administration of Mr. Buchanan it was not very different. But under the new re- publican rule, and with the advice of Mr. Sew- ard, the enlightened and educated metropoli- tan press are selected for reward, and every republican newspaper office in the city will eend forth two or three men to serve Uncle Sam, either on a foreign mission or in a fat do- meatic office. Some will go to France, some to Italy, some to Germany, some to Eng- land, some to Turkey, and some even as far as Alexandria in Egypt. Mr. Seward estimates the press at its right value. He knows that the metropolitan journals create, control and modify the public opinion of the country; that New York is the centre of light whence facts and opinions ra- diate to the rest of the Union, and that the peor devils of country editors, equally without brains or education, are dependent fupon the metropolitan press for their very existence. In taking care of the New York journalists, and throwing overboard the hungry, impu- dent and ill mannered swarms of country edi- tors who are now buzzing around the White House, the Departments and the Capitol, lite- rally darkening the air with their numbers and deafening every body with their noise, Lincoln and Seward are showing more discrimination and sound judgment than they are doing in re- ference to the mere objects of government. ‘Tur New Ex@ianp ‘TIONS—PROBABLE Reaction 1x Pusiic Ortstos.—In the late elee- tion in New Hampshire the republican majority was reduced from the vote of last November to the amount of five thousand three hundred, and in the recent elections in Pennsylvania we had a similar result, as well as in some of the town elections of this State, In the early portion of next month the elections come off in Rhode Island and Connecticut, and we should not be surprised, judging from the re- sults in the other States alluded to, if a more complete reaction took place in those contests, even to the extent of sweeping out the repub- licans altogether. The people there are beginning to wake up to the true state of the case, They are getting to understand the policy—such as it is—of the administration; a policy half cowardice and half coercion; the policy, in fact, of a coward and a bully; for they are synonymous terms. It is beginning to be understood that the re- publican party attained power by false pre- tences—by assuming to be pure and incor- ruptible—while they are now doing nothing but handing out the spoils and paying their stump orators with offices, at a crisis when the country is awaiting some settlement of its pressing difficulties at their hands. The ad- ministration is doing nothing and promising nothing, to extricate us from the present com- plications. Yet the question could have been settled by the last Congress if it had submitted the Crittenden resolutions to the several States; and it could be settled even now, in six weeks time, by submitting the Montgomery constitu- tion to the people. The present administration is destined to be the most corrupt and disastrous one with which the country was ever afflicted, and its course up to the present time must have con- vinced every one that the most fatal con- sequences to the whole country are certain to result from it. Thus we should not be at all surprised if the expression of the popular will at the approaching elections in Connecticut and Rhode Island—States that are more in- terested in the Southern trade than ary others in New England—should be dead against the administration party. Tur Poutcy or THe AvMrNisTRATION IN Re- arp 10 THE Sovurnens Fowrs.—It ia now defi- nitely settled that Fort Sumter is to be evacu- ated before Saturday night. The administra- tion is so full of fears of the damaging effect of this movement upon its own party, that it has determined to retrieve itself at Fort Pickens, which is to be “held, occupied and possessed,” # Lincoln phrases it. In the Albany Journal of Tuesday evening, Thurlow Weed says :—“ The signs of conflict are passing away from [ort Sumter and gathering about Fort Pickens. The former cannot be reinforced. The latter may be. It would be folly to hold the one, and sheer cowardice to abandon the other.” Tt is for Fort Pickens, then, and a blockade of the Southern ports, that troops are being col- lected from all quarters, and ships-of war sum- moned from distant stations, and thither public attention must be now directed. A ten days’ armistice, and what then? The administration rays civil war, and we might as woll look the fact squarely in the face. ‘The Chevalier Webb Don't Like Tarkey— ‘Wheat Cam We De for Him? | The Chevalier Webb don't like Turkey, does not want it, and will not have it. The following positive declination we fiad officially set forth in the Courier:— day, in our des cf General Webb, the senior editor Mipwter to Constantinopie. img under an attack of sickness which confines ‘his residence, near Tarrytown; but we are informed that on seeu g the anpouncement of bis nomination in the mornivg papers of yesterday, he immediately tele- graphed to Wasthegton ‘that in no event would a cept of such #n appointment if tendered to him, This is decisive; but we must remember it is the edict of a sick man. We are sorry that it is; but a maa in the Chevalier’s condi- tion is apt to become somewhat diegu ‘ted with the fripperies and follies of this wicked world especially if he has had a surfeit of them, Calmly counting up the gost, the Chevalier has doubtless arrived at the sound conclusion that Turkey will not pay. Webb is no chicken to be satisfied with Turkey. The “sick man” of Turkey is not the man for him, at the petty figure of seven thousand five hundred a year, anda very emall margin for “backshish,” or perquisites, Very true, Webb may be play- pg the coduette, like Cassius M. Clay with Spain, and Tom Corwin with Mexico, aad when he gets better he may change his mind, and agree to a four years’ exile among the houris of Constantinople; but we doubt it. We apprehend that upon the important item of the “financial and material aid” required to meet the Chevalier Webb’s magnificent ideas of a foreign minister, sick or well, he will resolutely turn up his nose at that paltry sum of seven thousand five hundred a year. We kpow from his past history that Webb is a resolute man, and that when he puts his foot down, like “Honest Abe Lincoln,” he “puta it down firmly.” So it was in that negotiation with the United States Bank in the good old days of Nick Biddle. Webb put his foot down for $52,675 874, and Biddle bad to come to it So it wasin the matter of the general bank- rupt law of 1841. The Chevalier put his foot down so firmly in favor of that law, in order to get the benefit thereof, for something con- siderably over fifty-two thousand, that he got into a duel on the subject witha member of Congress known as Tom Marshall, and thereby got into the penitentiary, from which he was released by Governor Seward’s pardon. We ail know, too, that on a previous occasion the military intrepidity of the Chévalier Webb, and his terrible mahogany stocked pistols, at Wash- ington, drove Gen. Duff Green into a rage, and ‘almost upset the administration of General Jackson. When a man of this decisive stamp says “No,” he means no—-making all allowances for a sick stomach. Upon a financial basis of fifty- two thousand a year, Turkey would do But cannot this thing be arranged? Mr. Webster once went on a private commercial mission to England on an outfit of sixty thousand from the merchants of Boston, and spentit like a prince. Webb can also spend money like a prince, and hence, like Webster, with fifty or sixty thousand, he has always been hard up. Our funds, if we are not mistaken, have been occa- sionally used for his relief, without our know- ledge of it. He has been very ungrateful, but we have been, and still are, disposed to be very generous. We ask, therefore, cannot Constan- tinople be made acceptable to our military chieftain? To induce the Chevalier Forney to take the Liverpool Consulate, and so get him out of the way, Mr. Buchanan, or his friends, offered to raize him a pony purse of thirty thousand; but Forney, having had a taste of the White House kitchen, peremptorily de- clined. Now Webb, we know, has had a smell, but he has never had a regular good feed of the fat things of the kitchen; so that this temp- tation does not hold him back. Provide him, say an outfit of fifty-two thou- sand, and we think he will consent, fora yearor £0, to try an official residence near the celebrated harem of the Sublime Porte. Webb has an eye for the beautiful, and a sweet tooth for con- fectionery; but he is like little Ullman with the Opera: he must stop if he don’t get “der monish.”’ Now aman from this side the At- lantic, who is a lion abroad, may occasionally, to raise the wind, consent to play the jackall. Thus Mr. Bryant, the poet of the Post, having a European reputation, in making a lion of a rich but comparatively obscure traveHing companion, in a late tour of the Continent, made the lion only too happy with the privi- lege of footing the bills; for there were bills to pay— because poets, even in Italy, are death on mutton chops. In the same way, we think, Mr. Fillmore, ex-President of the United States, travelled extensively, free of charge, in lionizing the Washington banker, Corcoran, as his travelling companion. Cannot the Chevalier Webb do something of this sort? He hashad a surfeit of military and diplomatic honors, athome and abroad. He has breakfasted with General Cass, bas dined with Lord Clarendon, has supped with the Prince de Joinville, has been officially recalled from Vienna, and has shaken hands with the Prince of Wales. He has fought his own duels, has had another man to do his killing for him, he has been pardoned out of prison, and has joined the church. Such a man can speak the “open sesame” for himself and travelling companion at all the Courts of Europe, especially on the strength of his mis- sion to the Sultan. He wants to go like a prince. and the money is the difficulty. What is to be done? Let him apply to his old friend and colaborer in the vineyard of democracy (before Nick Biddle weaned eff our cotemporary), and let him ask James Gordon Bennett, who has the sinews of war, if he will not agree to accompany the Chevalier on this Turkieh mission, and as the lion thereof, with the privilege of footing all the bills inside of fifty two thousand a year, and who knows what may happen? In defauk of some such expedient, we know of no other mode of meeting the princely notions of our mognificent Chevalier than ina fair division between him and the Reverend Thurlow Weed of the marrow bones, the spare joints and grease, and odds and ends, and old boots, bottles and suchsof the White House kitchen, which may be inade to reach even twice fifty- two thousand a yearin theee piping times of spoils and plunder. Turkey or no Turkey, something must be done for the Chevalier Webb. An imperial vermilion edict. Let all men cause it to be respected. Tar Broapway Rairoap Swinptw.—Ac- cording to all accounts from Albany, the authors of that most outrageous swindle, the Broadway Railroad, have “fixed” the Assem- bly, and hope to manage the Senate. The next thing to be accomplished is the purchase of thy New York Common Council, and then there is, . as the corporators imagine, no obstacle in their “way. The bill provides that the grant for the road shall be conveyed to the persons named in the preamble, and that they shall hold it exclusively, making such arrangements with the municipal authoxities as shall seem proper to both parties, We have no hesitation in de- in the first place, that Broadway ought to be preserved as it is; and, second, that if a railway is needed in that thorough- fare, the franchise should be offered at public auction. Broadway belongs to the people of New York—men, women and children. When we have anything to show—a crack militia regiment, a foreign lion, like Kossuth or the Prince of Wales; a stylish equipage, a new coat or bonnet, a big safe, or any other thing out of the common way—we display it in Broadway. It is the main artery of the great city, the canal through which the very life blood of New York ebbs and flows, like the tides of the ocean. And we can tell the Le- gislature that however they may decide the matter, their masters—the people of New York—have made up their minds that Broad- way shall not be epoiled by a railway. We have had, in the Metropolitan Police act and other cbjectionable laws, quite enough of Albany le- gislation for this city. Notwithstanding the course of the black republican journals here- aboufs,we can assure the Legislature that there is a very deep, indeed we may say unanimous, fecling on the part of the public against this scheme. Laying the rails for the new road will be, we opine, rather a difficult operation. Tae Mexican Powtcy or THE Ap MINISTRATION—Mr. Corwin’s Misston.—By our telegrapbic advices from Washington it will be eeen that the administration have deter- mined upon a policy with regard to Mexico which they suppose will head off any attempts on the part of either the Southern confedera- tion or the Texan Rangers to encroach upon Mexican territory, so as to add to the “area of slavery.” It is stated that instruc- tions have been prepared for Mr. Corwin, who, it is believed, will accept the mission which has been tendered him, looking to the negotiation of a treaty with Mexico, by which the United States shall guarantee the inde pendence of that country and the stability of its existing rulers. The governments of Eng- land and France, it is further alleged, are to be asked to join in this guarantee; and it is argued that, in view of the large fnterests the Britieh bondholders have in matntaining the present status of Mexico, and the repugnance which exists in Europe to the extension in any way of slavery or slave territory, there will be no difficulty in inducing them to become active parties to the agreement. With the ex istence of such a treaty it would become the duty of England and France to lend Mexico all the necessary assistance to repel an in- vasion on the part of the Southern States, and thus the Texan Rangers or the army of the confederation would find themselves face to face against these European allies. We thus see that the present weak adminis- tration is rapidly hastening to the adoption of the same policy which has preceded the de- struction of all republics, and which has made those caricatures of governments—the Central American States—the football of every adven- turer who came along, and objects of contempt to the civilized world. In order to try and checkmate the designs which they attribute to the Southern confederacy, they do not hesitate to enter into “entangling alliances” with the most powerful military governments of Europe, and to give those governments not only an ex- cuse but an invitation to occupy territory upon this continent with their armies. If the Ameri can people can quietly submit to such a de- parture from the teachings of the founders of this republic, from the advice of Washington, and in defiance of the warnings of history as to the natural result of such a policy, they de- serve the fate that awaits them. Undeeerving of liberty, they will dwindle into the mere serfs of a military despotism, or revert back again to the paternal care of Great Britian, as people who had not the capacity to enjoy the liberty their forefathers had achieved, nor the courage to defend the inheritance they had left, Mr. Corwin is a fit instrument to carry out this policy of the administration. Distinguish- ed in 1847 as the only man who could be found in the Senate of the United States to lend aid and assistance to the enemies of his govern- ment, who did not hesitate in his place to pray that American soldiers might meet with “bloody hands and hospitable graves,” and that the flag of his couniry should be humiliated by Mexico, he will worthily close his career by paving the way for the occupation of the central portion of this continent by European soldiers, and re- ducing his country to the level of South Ameri- can republics, which exist simply because of their insignificance, and are only tolerated from their obscurity. A New Government Loan.—It is said in many quarters that the Secretary of the Trea- sury, Mr. Chase, will soon want another loan, the money raised by the late one being very nearly exhausted; and it is intimated that this new loan is to be contracted for privately and secretly. There are, ro doubt, many men in Wall street who would be very glad to loan money to the government in this secret plan, because, as the bids could not be scanned by the ecrutinizing eyes of the public, they could make as much as they pleased out of the operation. But if a loan should be raieed secretly by the government, it will not only be a thing without precedent, but it must be regarded as a corrupt job, and a gross swin- dle upon the people. Errect or Tan 8 or THe Rerunnicass on Fasntons—The opening of the spring fasbions, which takes place to-day, will present a great falling off on that of previous years, The modistes and milliners are among the greatest sufferers from the general business de- preseion which has resulted from the success of the republican party last November. Re- trenchment and economy have been inaugu- rated in every household, and a general reduc- tion in domestic expenses of all kinds is the consequence. Even fashion, which, under all other circumstances, reigns supreme, and is sub- ject only to her own capricious will, has suf- fered severely. The orders to France have undergone a large reduotion, and bigh price articles in the millinery and dressmaking line will not be so eagerly sought after. An un- mistakeable indication of the change which has taken place in this reepect is to be found in the great demand for low rent houses—-partios that paid two, three and four thousand dollars Inst year being satisfied with residences for a thousand, In faet, economy has now be- tN come the order of the day, and until the arri« val of better times the fickle goddess will be obliged to succumb. ‘The Great Scandal Case tm Ircland—An Example We May Profit By. The latitude which is allowed to young un- married ladies in English society bas been long and often commented upon by the French as countenancing impropriety, and by the more Straightlaced of their number it is regarded as little less than a reproach. Custom is, how- ever, everything; and because the Freach im- mure their girls in convents till their education is complete and they have reached a mar riageable age, that is no reason why the whole British nation should do likewise. Neverthe- less, there is a limit to the freedom of single women in England—a conventional barrier of which none can plead ignorance—and which ought not to be paseed, and can seldem be paseed with impunity. We have an instance in point in the Yelverton trial at Dublia, which has disclosed an amount of weakness on the part of the woman, and heartlessness and perfidy on the part of the man, which is almost unparalleled. It was perhaps to be ex- pected that a young lady who, like Miss Long- worth—-the hervine in this case—had received her education in a French convent, and beea consequently removed from most of the little vanities and temptations of life, should, on finding herself outside the convent walls, be more liable to errors of propriety than one schooled in the world. Not only would ashe have to contend against the natural tendency of the female mind to escape from the tram- mels of propriety, according to its conventional interpretation, but she would have to resist the double impetus arising from her former isolated mode of life and the restraints which it imposed. A lark is never so wild as after being released from a cage, and every one who has been deprived of his liberty for a time feels strongly disposed to make the most active use of it when restored. But unfortunately there is a growing tendency in England and in this country also to violate propriety, as a thing fit only for old maids; and among no class is this more conspicuous than ia what are called fast young ladies. We distinguish be- tween propriety and prudery. The former ought imperatively to be observed, but the latter is as objectionable as a violation of the other. It was a violation of propriety for Miss Long- worth, when returning to Boulogne by the Dover packet boat, to sit up all night on deck, sharing the same plaid with Major Yelverton, whose acquaintance she had just previously made on board. It by no means followed that she would afterwards contract a secret mar- riage with that individual; but she did 40, and she has since reaped the bitter penalty, by his openly repudiating its legality and marrying another lady. A more villanous course of conduct was never practised by a man occupy- ing an honorable position than the trial to which we have alluded has so far revealed to us. And yet this man, who is heir to the Avonmore peerage, has had the audacity to come forward and confess, under a rigid cross-examination, to all his baseness and shameless eelfishness. We have nothing but contempt and disgust for such a man, and we sincerely hope that the result of the trial, which he might have avoided had he not re- fused to pay for her support, will be to prove his first marriage legal, although we cannot but feel extreme pity for the one with whom he contracted the second alliance. We must not, however, entirely overlook the fact that * Miss Longworth was to blame in neglecting the proprieties in her relations with Major Yelverton; and young ladies had better take warning by such an unfortunate example, and remember that to be fast is not to be sure, and that retiring modesty is always more graceful and wins more respect than the affectation of that abandon which many of the rising generation so foolishly cultivate, thought- less of consequences, Newspaper Forcertks.—The press, here and elsewhere, without distinction of party, has ascertained, at rather a late period in the day, that the black republican journals of New York have been indulging in a series of forgeries of the most flagrant character. These forgeries have been imposed upon the public , in the shape of letters dated at Charleston, Sa- vannah, Montgomery, New Orleans and other places in theSouth. Long ago we saw through this game, but did not think it worth particu- lar mention. The letters seemed to us to bear on their face eyidence of their utter falsity, and we did not believe that any man of com- mon sense could be deceived by them for a moment. One of the bogus correspondents, al- luding to the fact that work upon the new South Carolina State House had been sus- pended, locates the edifice at Charleston instead of Columbia; while another announced the arrival of President Davis at Charleston, when he had never left Montgomery. So gross was the ignorance of these writers, and so en- tirely unacquainted were they with the locali- ties from whence their letters purported te have come, that they utterly failed in their purpoce, They were all cooked up from the newepapers by literary Bohemians who do odd jobs in the offices of the black republican newspapers, and they were intended as means whereby the people of the North should be humbugged as to the real condition of things im the South. Promptly detected, and as soon ex- posed, however, these newspaper forgers have not been able to do any particular harm. They have only succeeded in writing a very large’ quantity of bosh to no purpose, Tax Sxnatortat, Desates on Tar Crists— Tue Power or tax ApsusisTraTion Laans Ovr.—Every few days some Senator presses the republican party in the United States Senate as to the programme of the administra- tion—whether it is peace or war—and the re- sult is that, notwithstanding the studied reserve / | and the effort to keep sient, the policy of the government is leaking out now and then, and bit by bit, One day Mr. Donglas draws oat the republican Senators; another day Mr. Breckinridge applies @ sharp lance, and bleod , flows, On Tuesday Mr. Clingman stung them into a reply, which, though intended to be evasive, discloves to every intelligent mind the designs of the Lincolm Cabinet. Mr. Simmons said “the administration ‘had no idea of in- vading State rights, but it would continue to collect the revenue as heretofore, and the Steles setting vp for themselves will cease to have any business.” ‘The meaning of this is obvious, and only re- veuls what we have heretofore pronounced the programme of the government to be. Thoir intention fs t blockade the ports of the Coa- + federatp States, so ag to prevent any imports or