The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1861, Page 6

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Greater activity prevails in phe army and navy than has been known since war with Mexico, Troops haye been placed bn board ship with sealed ordors, and all the ves- of war on foreign stations have been ordered ome, while at the navy yards orders have been ble. he occupation of St. Domingo by the aniards is regarded by the government, it is id, as an act of hostility, and it is conjectured it the extensive naval preparations are but the ginning of a contemplated demonstration in upport of the Monroe doctrine. Ono of our Washington correspondents Pr oe pon the authority of a Cavinet officer, that the sent cut on board the sloop-of-war Brook- ere really intended for the reinforcement of prt Pickens. It is also etated that within the ast forty-eight hours the government have re- ed advices which lead to the belief that the opa have been landed atthe fort. President has recently made a requisition upon the ernors of the Confederate States for troops, y are doubtless intended to operate against Pickens, At any hour we may have news hat the long threatened collision of the bellige bats has actually taken place. he order for the evacuation of Fort Sumter | has not yet been issued, although the Cabinet, 8 ia well known, some days ago decided upon its abandonment. It appears that an immense | pressure has been brought to bear upon the President by the war section of the republican party; it unlikely now that i e administration will and is not throw the responsi- pfthe surrender of the fort upon Major | Hderson, as he will soon be compelled, by rea- of lack of supplies, to capitulate. On the hand, it is believed the administration, while inced that the fort cannot be reinforced, hope Southern forces will attack and capiure it, and by this action, as they imagine, cast upon the Confederate States whatever odium may attach to the inaugurators of a bloody civil war. The new federal loan of $8,000,000 was awarded yesterday at Washington at an average of 9314 er cent, about 3 per cent better than the last loan, The aggregate amount of bids was about $30,000,000, nearly $27,000,000 of which came from New York. The bids ranged from 8714 to par, but the great bulk of them were betwee and 944. The lowest bid accepted was at the See money article for details. rate of 93 17-100. We have important news from the Rio Grande Gen. Ampudia, with three thousand Mexicans, was at last accounts within sixty miles of Browns ville. The Texans report that his object was to , ote and pill t Ampudia has design of reannex es that as the er supports Texas, now The Texans were pre m one appointing one °$ public in this city. establishment of a nautical school harbor was ordered to a third read flaws in reference to the f on square. He is of op be no question of the clear tit the city to the entire square, nd | it ita right to sell the same is therefore in. | deibasible. The Annual Appropriation bill again nggged a portion of the Senate's time. In the Sertiy a long and animated discussion was in- jal; in over the bill to create a Metropolitan district, on which progress was reported in Committee of the Whole and in the House. jolutions to amend the constitution so as to nize the Court of Appeals were reported biy from the Committee of the Whole d portion of the day was spent by the As ly over the new Insolvent bill, which was Mily, after undergoing au amendment, ordered dreading. The Committee on Cities and #8 gave a hearing yesterday to partios for pe ‘operty ti ion that there » Dontracts from the Common Counct of this ‘ Brooklyn charter election como off yester | ited in the return of Martin Kalb pt of the Common Council, for rick Scholes, Alderman of the hou The news from Washington this morning i+ | ceived tc make ready for sea such vessels as are | | the bills, ion was received from Comp: | rat NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIV 3, 1861—TRIPLE SHEET. | men, Supervisors and other officers, but at mid- | night it was evideat that it would take a long time yet for the several returns to come in. The steamship New York, from Southampton 20th ult., arrived at this port early yesterday morn- ing, bringing three days later European advices and upwards of $600,000 in apecie. ‘The steamship Borussia, from Southampton 19th ult., also arrived at this port yesterday morning, bringing a small amount in specie. The total i Pre Total sincs December 15, 1860. We publish this morning some interesting ex- tracts from the English press’ upon President Lin- coln’sinaugural. The London Telegraph of the 18th ult.,in an able article, declares that the commer- cial ties existing between England and the South- | ern States are too important to admit for an instant of a blockade of the Southern ports. The Morrill tariff also comes in for its shares of con- demvation at the bands of the London journals. ‘the Italian Parliament, in responding to the speech of Victor Emanuel, tells him that it trusts in hint as an Italian King and a valiant soldier, sigvificantly adding that its thoughts are sorrow- fully turned towards unhappy Venice; that Italy anxiously aspires to the possession of her city of Rome, and that every measure calculated to in- crease the armaments will be hailed with satisfac- ion by the Italian people. At Rome, on the 18th ult., a consistory was held, at which the Pope had an opportunity of ex- pressing himself upon the preseat position of Italy and the Papacy, He defended the Papal government from the charge of being opposed to civilization, and declared that it only op- posed the pretended modern civilization which persecuted the church and trampled justice under foot. He stated that he would himself have spon- taneously granted all reasonable concessions, and would have gladly abided by the counsels of the Catholic sovereigns, but that he could not receive the advice or submit to the unjust demands of a usurping power. News from Bosnia informs us that a revolution had broken out there, and that the whole Herzego- vina is in revolt, supported by the Montenegrin. Addresses of condolence to the Queen, on the occasion of the death of the Duchess of Kent, were voted by both houses of Parliamcut on the 18th ultimo, : Ry ou arrival at Key West on the 26th ult. it was reported that the Spanish flag had been | hoisted at St. Domingo by the Spanish and | French. The Spanish President had pre- | viously written to Havana, stating that if Spanish forces were not sent thither immediately the Spaniards would hoist the Spanish flag, where- | upon five Spanish war vessels and 1,000 men sailed from Havana and took formal possession of San Domingo, aided by a French corvette. General Miramon (now in New Yerk), it was reported, was at Havana endeavoring to raise a force for the purpose of invading Mexico, and it was said the Spanish and French sympathized with the movement. It was believed at Havana, on the 25th ult., that these governments would by squadrons aid in the landing of such aa expedi- tion. It was also affirmed at Havana that the English, French and Spanish fleets had sailed for Vera Cruz, ths object of which was not known publicly. The steamship Cahawba, from New Orleans, and Havana 28th ult., arrived at this port at a late hour last night. There was no news of im- portance stirring. The ceremonies of ‘Passion week’’ commenced on the 28th. Business would be generally suspended during the remainder of the week. The sugar market and exchange re- mained at previous quotations. Health of the city good, and pleasant weather. The Morrill tariff is now giving trouble, indeed, at the Custom House. Full particulars will be found elsewhere. Goods for transportation to the seceded States cannot be entered at our Custom House, by special order from headquarters. How is this? The following is an extract from a letter of the | captain of the schooner Kate Brigham (from New Orleans 19th ult. to Boston) to the owners | here, dated April 1, 1861:—‘“I arrived here from New Orleans yesterday. I have got to pay one hundred and fifty dollars at the Custom House for | having a Confederate States clearance. Under the old administration the fines were remitted, but so | fur here, under the new, it has not taken place.” | We to- give a very interesting description | of the free es of Europe. As there is some talk of making New York a free city, and as there is an organization forming for that purpose, these particulars will doubtless be read with much in- terest by all the well wfShers of Manhattan and the neighboring islands. At the regular meeting of the Board of Super- visors, held yesterday, the following business was transacted:—The weekly statement of the Comp- troller showed the balance in the county treasury on March 30 to be $69,156 04. The bill of Norman McLeod, amounting to $ for pay of extra | guards for the county jail,’was ordered to be paid. The sum of $1,000 was, after considerable | opposition by some of the membera of the Board, appropriated to meet the late in- crease of the salary of the Deputy County Clerk, The report of the committtee, in favor of paying the bills of twenty-one persons appointed as attendants on the Court of Oyer and Termine was taken up, and after some very warm de amounting in all to $1,%86, ordered to be paid. were After a seasion of over two hours the Board adjourned to meet again on next Tuesday, at the usual hour. | The European news bad a favorable Influeaco yorterday on the cotton market, which closed at an advance of ‘ye. a ye. per td, part in transit The sales footed up about 6,000 bales 12Kc. a 1S. for middling uplands Flour, under the a spened with buoyancy and actiy ty, but closed tamely for most descriptions, though rather higher for State and Western braads. Wheat was quite active, and the advance of the previous day was sustained, Thero wae a good export demand. Cora was without change, with tolerably ac sales to the trade and for export, Pork was in speculative demand; the | government contract for 5,000 bbi been called firmness and a bbls. mess w for, imparted m and eales of 1,0¢ ome prime at $19. Sugars day's advance, with sales of at 137 bhds. New Orleans by ven in another column. © a f 1,423 bags of Rio was made at Ile. a 1) \e.— Freights market, 7, with (Tee ea! average 12 [4e-100. rm, with « fair am Perity at Arpaxy.—Judging from our re cent experiences, purity is almost the last thing we should expect from our Legislature, It ap- | Pears, however, that some conscript father has | been attacked with a fit of virtuous indigna- tion, and has reported a bill intended to pul- | verize the swill milk dealers. This is hasty | legislation. It is now about ten years since we called attention to the fact that thousands of children came to their deaths every year in | this city through the effects of impure milk. | We gave facts, ficures, statistics enough to satisfy the most obstinate skeptic in the world. Subsequently the topic was resumed by an- inst the bill to take the power of comfrm- | other newspaper and taken up by the Acadomy ofMedicine. It wasthen dropped, and has since remained in statu quo, We are not so delight- | fully pastoral as to suppose that the Legisla- ture will take any decided action to sippres: the ale of swill mil’ in the metropolis; but it is refreshing to see {vat some iy momubers The Beginning of the Real Struggie Bo- tween the Pwo Confederactes. ‘The struggle for supremacy, commercial and political, between the two confederacies, North and South, may be gaid-to have fairly com- menced, and we recognise the opening of the battle in three or four events which have come to pass within the last few days. First, in the inauguration of the Morrill tariff on Monday last; second, in the tone of the English preas upon that measure, as demonstrated by the papers which arrived here yesterday by the Borussia and New York; third, in the instrue- tions said to have been imparted to our repre- sentatives gcing abroad by Mr. Seward; and fourth, in the circular addressed by Mr. Chase to the Collectors of Customs at the North, pro- hibiting entries of goods in bond about to be shipped to the ports of the seceded States. Let us treat these incidents seriatim, and en- deavor to arrive at the inevitable reault to the future of both confederacies. The operation of the Morrill tariff, as mani- fested in the New York Custom House for the past two days, and as we have de- scribed it in our columns, verifies all that has been predicted of the ruinous complica- tion and confusion with which it was oer- tain to surround the importing interests of this city; and, as regards its effect upon the revenue, there can be no doubt, from the present pro- ceedings, that although for a month or so the receipts of the Custom House may increase— that is to say, while the merchants are taking out of bond those articles upon which the du- ties are lowered—after that time the revenue wilt fall off immensely, in proportion to the de- crease of importations. On the first day of the operation of the new tariff $50,000 worth of sugar and molasses was withdrawn, and 60 with other goods upon which the duty is lessened, and which were rushed into bond in large quantities since the tariff was passed. When this spasmodic influx of money to the treasury declines, as it soon will, the government at Wasbington will find an alarm- ing decrease in the revenue to be the conse- quence of the Morrill tariff. Many importations yet to arrive will be subject to much confusion. Of the steamers which arrived here from Eu- rope yesterday, two of them bring cargoes, a portion of. which must be levied upon under the old tariff, and a portion under the new. For instance, it is provided that all merchan- dise shipped on or before the 17th of March can enter at the reduced rate of the old tariff, but all goods shipped subsequent to that date must pay the exorbitant duties of the Morrill law. The Borussia left Hamburg on the 15th, Havre on the 18th and Southampton on the 19th of March. Hence her Hamburg cargo comes under the old law, while the goods shipped in the two latter ports come under the provisions of the new law. And in like man- ner the cargo taken'on board the New York at Bremen on the 15th will only have to pay the old rates, while that taken in at Southamp- ton on the 19th must pay the new rates of duty. This provision of the new tariff was affecting the trade of some of the manufactur- ing districts in England; for we find that great activity was observable in Newcastle to hurry off its chemicals and its coal for the Amegican market before the 17th of March, in order to escape the prohibitory duties now imposed upon these articles; and also in Rochdale, to make up its shipments of woollen goods with a like purpose. But this is, as it were, the last spirt of trade in these articles with the North- ern ports, for the Morrill tariff virtually ex- cludes them. It is evident, from the tone of the English press, that all questions of American politics are completely absorbed in that country by the great commercial issue involved ia the solution of the Northern and Southern tariff. Slavery is swept out of notice altogether; there is no longer a word to be found about the negro; the vital question there now is which confede- racy shall receive most favor, in view of the manufacturing interesta of England, and the verdict in every quarter is on the side of the South; for, says the London Telegraph, “not- withstanding all the sympathy for the free States, we cannot suffer our industry to be cut up by the roots in order that a slaveholding faction may be prostrated.” And the same journal says:—“France and England will no doubt combine to thwart the Cabinet at Wash- ington in any efforts it may undertake to coerce the cotton States by shutting them off from the trade of Europe.” This is emphatic in favor of a recoguition of the Southern con- federacy. And in connection with Mr, Lin- coln’s alleged project of blockading the South- ern coast, the same paper adds:— We cannot afford to see the Southern ports blockaded for a month, a week, a day. If Mr. Lincoln at- tempta to blockade them, the European law of blockade will be put in force, and the navy of the republic wili be at once powerless upon the seas.’ The ' ondon Times, News and Glode are equally distinct upon this point. The Times says that Mr. Lincoln, instead of ign Southern confederacy, should reco reality; and it gives deserved credit to the sagacity of the Southern statesmen by adding, that while the North is passing a prohibitive tariff, the Confederate States are acting “with marked prudence and propriety.” From these expressions it can be seen that the commercial necessities of the case are com- pelling public opinion in Exrope to side with the South and against the North, despite of all , is totally lost sight of in the face of questions which touch the dearest in- ta, not alone of this country, but the whole ized world. The republicuus have got the negroall,to themselves, and while—like the man who won the elephant at a raffle—they are en- deavoring to stow him away comfortably in the garden at Washington, all sensible nations are booking after the material interests of com- merce, industry and manufacture, as they are affected by the vital commercial question in- volved in the operation of the Northern and Sonthern tariffs, and the division of the repub lic into two separate confederacies. While such is the sentiment abroad with re ward to the North and the South, we bear that the Secretary of State is instructing eur new representatives to foreign Courts to t Southern confedera off its Commissione in their efforts to establish friendly rela- tions with other Powers. For the first time in the history of any administry- tion, the whole diplomatic body represen! ing the government at Washington 1uoin 6 and diplomatic agents | too, for the purpose of damaging the chances of the Southern States, which the policy of the dominant party has driven out of the Union in self defence. But this kind of diplo- macy can effect but little towards that end while the Morrill tariff remains upon the records of Congress, The statesmen of Europe will take the testimony of facts before the whisperings of the politicians recently ap- pointed to foreign missions. They will see the Commissioners from the Southern confede- racy, with their cotton productions in one hand and their free trade tariff in the other; and they will judge between these and the Carl Schurzes, and the rest of the red republicans who speak tor the Lincoln administration, with a probibi- tory tariff upon manufactures sticking out of their pockets; and who can doubt the issue’ The first blow, then, in the contest between the Northern and Southern coufederacies has been struck. It is plainly recognizable in the events here referred to; and to render the matter more certain, we have the important circular addressed by Mr. Chase yesterday to the Col- lector of Customs, declaring that as the control of the warehouses of the government in the ports of the States comprising the Southern confederacy has been usurped, and the officers of the customs have been forcibly excluded no entries for transportation of goods in bond to those ports can be permitted until farther instructions emanate from the Treasury De- partment. The Virginia State Convention—Appre- hensions ef a Secession Coup d'Ktat. Apprehensions are entertained that the se ceesionists of Virginia, disgusted with the Union saving delays and expedients of the State Convention in session at Richmond, have laid their plans for a revolutionary coup d'état to break up the Convention and carry the State over to the Southern confederacy. The following circular, which has been extensively circulated throughout the State, it is suspected, is ad- dressed to the purposes of this projected coup détat:— Ricamonp, Va., — Your presence is ioularly uested at on the —— day of = “Ay chmon 4, ——, to cousult with the friends of Southern rights as to the course which Virginia should pursue in the present emergency. Please bring with you, or send, a full deiegation of true aud reliable men from your own county, apd, if convenient, aid the same object in the surrounding counties. On arriving at Richmond report yourself and com. sar os immed iately to ——, at——, 8 Samuel Woods, of Barbour; J. R. Chambliss, of Greens. ville; Charies F. Collier, of Potersburg; John A. darman, of Augusta; Heary A. Wise, of Priacess Anne; John T: Anderscn, of Botetourt; Wm. F. Gordon, of Aibemarle; ‘Thomas Jetforson Randolph, of Albemarle; James W. This invitation is to the mass meeting of the secessionists which is to come off on the 16th inst. and it is feared that the result of the gathering will be a successful movement, i la Cromwell, to drive out and disperse the long Parliament, to wit:—the Union State Conven- tion, which has been in session since the mid- dle of February. It was elected before the question of secession had been agitated in the State to any extent; and thus the old Union sentiment of the State resulted in giving the preponderance in the Convention to the old line whigs by a heavy vote. But subsequent events have vastly strengthened the secession party, and the public mind of the State has been thoroughly aroused, until at last it is declared that the Convention has outlived the prevailing public sentiment of a month ago. Unquestionably the secessionists are fighting most zealously on the offensive, while the Unionists of the Convention and the State are reduced almost to a defensive silence. The secessionists have no less than three very active and earnest daily newspapers at their back in Richmond, while the Unionists have but one—the tone of which, lately bold and defiant, has become remarkably cool and mode- rate. To illustrate the spirit and temper of the secession journals, we extract a few passages from the Richmond Examiner of March 30. It eays, in its opening editorial, “If anything could increase the disgust and contempt with which the people of the State are regarding that odiously corrupt body, now calling itself the b ary Convention, it would certainly be the attempt to choke off the Southern side of the debate, and forestall the instructions of the people,” coming in. Again:— The corcettet, eccentric, stubbora few who oppose se- cession are warring ogi Providerce, Andiag fauit with the ways ot They may occasion war and bloodshed by their irritating opposition; they may pre. veut @ peac sclulion of our diflicultiea, but caunot prevent secession. If war cces e, the submission ists will be alone to biame for it » they to upite their efforts with the secessionists, show to the imbecile government at Washington that Virginiaos were united and unanimous, that governinent would let us depart ta peace If they continue their hopeless, factious appo- sition, they will prompt and encourage Lincoin to profit by our divisions and attempt coercion, which is but .a- cipieat war. Or, if we escape war from without, they may engender worse than war in our midst. Virginians are conser yative, order loving, law-abiding people, they are patient and forbearing as they are brave, and yot thoy are but men. 0} , th warted, fretted by the submis sionists, will they rot at last become as intoleran scriptive and cruel as their English ancestry in th of Cromwell’ The barricades, the ‘a la lanterr the guillotine of Paris, will uever find place am but certainly, unicas the submuissionists succum), aod obey the voice of of persecution in V! people, they will excite a spirit worse in ite effects thaa foreign war, The submisetor are sure to be tho first vic tims of tho intestine troubles which they invoke aad occasion. Already they have run upa long account of wilt, They are keeping business at a standstill, Thoy are expelling much of the weaith and population of the Anxiety, doubt, uncertaint; t and aunoy every mind. They occasion tals sty things, ant they could remove it, restore confidence, revive bus ness and arrest immigration, by aimpiy voting for an ordinance of secession. Here are some very broad hints thrown ont, which may possibly, somewhere near the 16th of this month, be interpreted in Richmond bz the revolutionary coup d’état to which we have alluded. All the secession organs speak in the same menacing vein, and from the public seces- sion meetings occurring from day to day, throughout the State, it is manifest that ginia is drifting rapidly out of the Union. fore the expiration of this month such thi: may occur in her capital as will cut short all \? further controversy concerning the border | slave States, and carry them precipitately ont | of the Union. The suspicious masterly inac- | tivity of our federal administration is doing ita work of widening the breach between the North and the South; but this do-nothing policy will soon have to be abandoned. Mr. Lincoln may feel safe against a: with Gen. Scott and an army ington; but it will be well for his admiciatra- tion to act at once with reference to tie threat- ened seceesion of Virginia, by calling upon Congress to try what may still be done for the Union and for peace. Lront Wanten.—We have published during the last fortnight certain elaborate and ad- mirably written explanatory statements, signed by Jobn B. Floyd, Godard Bailey and W. H. Ruseell, These documenta refer to the very singular method of transacting the pubyic busi- ness in the Departments of War andthe In- terior during the last three years. Will some learned pundit now be kind enough to give the public a clear recital of the gacts in the + 9 say. are - 2 Facts, as Mr. o | templates no co: ‘The Bids for the Loan to the Government at Washington. The biddings for the loan of eight millions of dollars, offered by the Secretary of the Treasury, were opened yesterday at Washing- tom, and, as will be seen by our ‘aphic intelligence, not only was the loan + but the proporals amounted to thirty millions of dollars. The average for accepted bida is about 93 1-2. It appears that this time the bidders are not altogether Wall street capitalists, but some belong to the Eastern States, and from Penn- tylvania end Maryland; and some are not financiers and brokers, but persons wishing to make permanent investments, and expecting that the stock will go up some time, and that they will be paid the interest in the end, even if ite prompt payment should be interrupted by disastrous events, about which so much ap- prehension existe in the public mind. But the great bulk of the stock bas been taken by speculators who intend to sell again, and who have been encouraged by the success of the brokers with the last loan, who made two or three per cent on the operation immediately after the purchase. From the weakness and vacillation of the go- verpment they hope there will be no war, and that they will make a good thing of the stock It is evident that there is still a misgiving in the public mind, ele why should a stock which a few months ago would bring 116 be now allowed to sell for 93'4—a depre- ciaticn of 22% per cent It ougat to be « far better investment than State stocks and railroad stocks, which bring a far bigher price today. [t is not a year since it stood Al in Burope and on this conti nent. No financial or commerc'al disasters bave reduced its value. Political causes alone have affected it, and these causes still exist and are now in operation. Hence the stock is as yet doubtful. But aeverthelers, owing to the quaa tity of capital lying idle ia the bands of bank ers and financial agents, biddiogs Lave beea made for it to the amount of thirty millions This money has been acowmulating bere from Europe, California and elsewhere, and withdrawn from business on ac count of the uncertainty and threatening aspect of the political atmosphere; and & thows that if blighting discord bad a0' come over the councils of the nation, the prosperity of the country would have been almost fabo- lous. While the nations of Harope were over- whelmed with debt and political troubles, and making enormously costly preparations for | goubied—increesed from two to four millions— war, and while their short crops and oUF | shows hat in abundance of breadstuffs threw the balance of trade into our hands, we committed national and commercial suicide, and wantoaly ¢hrew away the magnificent advantages which a bountifal Providence had conferred upon us. Nor bare the evil consequences of our folly been yet ex- hausted. Far from it. Unless we retrace our steps all the distress and suffering that have aa yet been experienced are but the beginaing of sorrows. Let the people, therefore, place but small reliance on the fact of tue loan aot going down to a lower figure: that may soon come The events of a few days might send it dowa to eighty, or even lower. Already news rela- tive to reinforcing Fort Pickens and of a threat ened collision with Spain begins te come over the wires. The action, it is true, of the border States has had a favorable effect upon the loan. Their gravitation towards the old Union has to a great extent tranquilized the popular mind. But let no one be deceived by present appearances. Theaction of the border States has hitherto been centripetal, and they still revolve in their orbits around the govera- ment at Washington; but how soon the centri- petal force may be overcome by the centrifu- gal, and those States may fly off and gravitate to the new centre at Montgomery, no man caa with confidence predict. The reinforcement of the Southern forts, or the attempt to collect the revenue by force under (ue Morrill tag in the Southern confederacy, may precipitate the border States into immediate secession and revolt. At this moment Virginia threatens re volution, and may be numbered with the Con- federate States sooner than we are aware. But in any event, if satisfactory concession§ are not made before next winter, the probabilities are decidedly ogainst the slave States cemain- ing in the Northern confederation. Then there is the danger of a war with Spain, as our readers will see by the intelligence from Washington Should such an event take plaice our govern ment would have to call immediately for new loans, and the effect would be to bring dowa United States and all other stocks to a very low figure. If a collision should oceur between the troops of the government at Washington and those of the government at Montgomery, that would havea still more depreciating in- fluence upon these securities. In this view, unless the government begin at once to show some common sense, and the summer and fall elections indicate a strong re- action and counter revolution in the Northern States, we should not be surprised to see United States stocks on the firstday of the new year much below the favorable bids made yesterday at Washington. Tus Conxecricut Exxcrioy.—Our returos received since yesterday morning do not change our first impressions of the Connecticut election. The republicans hold the Stat, and they have not been materially weakened in the The Union cause hangs fire, The re- publican party ating nothing of its anti. notions, is jubilant and defiast. The an administration Washington is Itbas made no, concesstons; it con acessions, except in the face of superior batteries and military strength, as at Oharleston. Nothing is to be done to uphold the Unionists in Virginia—nothiag has been done to heip them—and so they are going to the wall, and Virginia is going to leave us, In poic: of fact, not a solitary Northern State, ex- cepting, perhaps, Rhode Island, has done any- thing to remove those offensive Personal Liberty bille, Here and there, aa in Massachusetts and Vermont, some pretences of conciliation on this | scbject bave beea made, but nothing subatantial has been done, The republican party, at Wash- ington and im the Northern States, stands where itstood last November. It has no compromises to make. It is abaorbed in the division of the spoils. Its policy of starving the South into submission foreshadows the loss of the border slave States, and such scenes of baakruptey and suffering in the North as we have never dreamed of before. “We are ia the midst of a revolution,” with o party in power which persists \ia closing ite eyes, that it may not seq the o8 which it has brought ‘vse nob sense Wearra, Pavrzrism anv Cro iw ram Mu TRovoLraN District—Facts REVEALED BY Tin Census—A view extending some fifty miles, having New York city as a focws of observa- tion, presents much that is gratifying and much that is to be regretted. Before the free labor of the North should boast of its advan- tages over the slave labor of the South, om Prio- ciples of humanity or philanthropy, it sheuld carefully consider the pauperism and crime ex- isting among us. There are about two millices of people inhabiting an area extending miles from New York. The Sea a trict contains about 1,200,000 people, who poa- sees an aggregate wealth in real and personal estate of about one thousand millions of dol- lars. The assessors valued “this Property for 1859 at little over $750,000,000, and the census marshals added to this about twenty-five pec cent as the true or cash value, thus making about $1,000,000,000, This amount, divided among 2,200,000 people, gives to each man, wo- man and child about $833, or to each perso twenty-one years of age about $1,600, or ta each head of a family about $5,000. Here wa find an aggregate and an individual wealth no- where else to be found on the continent of Ame- rica in a territory embracing the same area. Buta glance at the pauperism and crime exiat- ing in the same area will astound us. The census marshals retura 114,966 paupers in the Metro- politan district, wholly or- partially supported atthe public expense during the year. Thus we see that about one in every ten of our population were either wholly or in part supported at tha public expense. This is independent of a larga number supported by private charity, for which our citizens are proverbial. The num- ber of criminals convicted within the year iu the Metropolitan district was 50,958—thus ebowing that crime is a natural attendant upoa poverty. This magnitude of pauperism and crime should be looked equarely in the face, asa thing we do not find to any greaf extent in the slave labor States. Tucugh freedom is the normal condition of the white man, he draga at every etep the gulling chain of inferiority ia soolal life. Here, among one million two huur dred thousaad people, one person in avery toa is wholly or in part aided by public charity. Would it not be better to reflect seriously on this condition of social life before we make war oo en isstitution under which the physical comforts of the laboring class are well provided for’ The fact that within the last quarter of a century the slave populatioa has about physics! comforts and general good treetment they have little to complain of. ‘What they are bappier than the free blacks, both North and Sovth mo one can truthfully Geny; that they are better cared for in sick- wees, have more of the necessaries of Life, than the great body of the laboring white class ie the free States, is equally evident. No Arriscartons.—The other day we pab- lished an advertisement, which emanated from a gentleman for whom we have the highest re- spect and sincerest regard. Our friend is troubled about his landed estate, which ex- teads from the Canada line to the tropics, and tekes in the hundred forests of Maine, the cot- ton Gelds of the Carolinas, the sugar planta- tivos of Loutstama, and the gold mines of Cali- fornia, He has oo less than thirty-four farma, and ls really very wealthy, although, in conse- quence of the rascality of some of kis employday be bas latterly been obliged to shin about Wall street for money wherewith to pay his hands, Now, the old gentiemas—Unocle Sam—wants aa overseer. He was ret satisfied altogether with bis former man—Buchanan—who was teo amiable by half, and permitted people to cheat him right and left. As for the present incum- bent be is even worse than bis predecessor; and Uscle Sam must either make a change ia his overseer or retire from business. Sym- pathizing with the old gentleman, we pub- livhed the advertisement in a conspicuous place. In spitg of all this, however, and the fact that the ($25,000 per annum) ia very good; ti overseer has a house to live in, a m mt kitchen, eighty thousand servants and nearly one hundred millions of dollars a year to spend, there have been ao applications for the place. This looks bad, For less things than the situation aforesaid oar advertisers are approached by hundreds aad hundreds of talented but impecunious individe- als, ali capable of keeping a botel ia the most admirable manner, We are fain to think that it is all up with our old friend, aad that his affsirs are in such e trightfully bad way taat ao one will underteke the responsibility of regu- lating them. In that event what is to become of bis tenants! It strikes us very forcibly that they would do well to consider this important question seriously and prayerfully Caat Scuvez axp Oor New Retarions wrra Srarm.—Carl Schurz, Mr Lincolu’s Minister to Spain, the most loyai and inflexible Catholic Power on the face of the earth, will be very apt to prove « troublesome appolatment Schurz, if we are not mistaken. is not only « rabid black republican of the ultra aati slavery type, but a ranting red republican of the Jaco- which such @ man should be detailed as « re- presentative of the goverameat and people of the United States. But, considering the move. teal questions at lasue between ‘a little