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

| | \ NEW YORK HERALD. FA TBE ua Dm Wotton, oe ovr Wokame KKVE.... cece sees ceeecene sees eres Oe OD AMUBSBMENTS THIS BVENING. oon—O poss urs, Byoning— ke—GoLpan Axe—Six Deorers or Cutmx, RANCAIS, 58 Broadway. —Lxs Pinars yess Tas Csnorinae 0% ta BARB. BARNUM' RICAN MUSE! Broadway.—Day an@ Pmt SR rere Petty (ly Laox 4ND UTAER Ov- ‘muoertres — BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. way.-. Afternoon and Evening—SURLEsQUES, Soxu3, Dances, (4o.—Duuks Land, NIBLO'S SALOON, Buniesques, Sones, Da Broadway.—Liorp's MixstKets 1N ors, &o—Diains Laxd. MBLODEON CONCERT HALL, No, 539 Broadway.— Bones, Davors, Buuresquas, £0. IRVING WALL, Irving place.—Vocar axp IxstROMeNTAL Conoaut, |, Brooklyn —Wort's Wiwernecs 1x Soxas, pivun Bosusiguan sa—Loves tsa — TWEDDLE HALL, Albany.—A ‘Wore. wxT in Wonper — OONCERT HALL, Pittsbure—Us i@ se “4 SsTRELS Ot Brnorux Boxes, Dances, &0.~ the jury, under the direction of the Court and with the consent of the prosecuting officer, rendered & verdict of not guilty without leaving their seats. Hugh Ward, who was convicted a few days since of ® murderous assault upon his wife, was sen- tenced to imprisonment in the State prison for ten | years, the Recorder observing that he would make Ward an example to that class of men in the com- munity who brutally treated those whom they ought to protect. A number of forged Virginia six per cent bonds were offered for sale in Wall street yesterday, at the banking house of Livermore, Clews & Mason. A person named Barbour was arrested on suspi- cion of being implicated in the affair, and locked up for examination. ‘There are 8,736 inmates in the public institu- tions of the city at present, which is 87 less than there were in them last week. The number ad- mitted during the week was 1,962, and those who died, were discharged or removed numbered 2,049. ‘The cotton market yesterday, in the absence of the Ame:ica’s letters, was somewhat leas activeland spirited, while prices were without quotable change. The trans- actions embraced about 1,800 a 2,000 bales. Wecontiaue banks, vot only from California, but from Eu- rope. It will flow back to Engtand for safety; for the strongest doors of our banks will not b+ eafe against the casualties of civil war Noth- ing is safe whore all laws and all rights are torn down by the strong hand of violence. Then our Northern people will begin to com- prebend the meaning of this “irrepressible con- flict,” concocted forty years ago for the abolition of Southern slavery. Then our Northern anti- slavery agitating politicians will begia to real- ize their folly, and thinking mon wal begin to see thatit would have been better to have granted every concession demanded by the South than to have risked this fearful ordeal of civil war. We recur to the reckless demagoguism, the imbecilitles and corruptions of poor Pierce; to the vacillations, demora- lizations and Cubinet treacheries and debauche- ries of Mr. Buchanaa’s administration; to the incompetent, ignorant and desperate “Honest Abe Lincoln,” and we understand it all. Our unscrupulous, scheming, spoils-and-plunder © quote middling uplands at 1280 & 180, The flour market opened with duiness and with a tendency to asier rates, but ere the close of business a better feeling prevailed, and the market exhibited a firmer tone, while soles were toa fair extent, Wheat was heavy, with the turn of the market in favor of parchasors. Corn was less active ond rather easier, with sales at rates given in another column, The war movements of the government have caused an advance in pork. The 6,000 bbis. of mecs contracted for with parties in this city havo been called for, and @ speedy delivery requested. Es timated at an average cost of $17 per barrel, the value amounts to $85,000. The market was firmer to day, with sales of mess at $17 26, and of prime at $12 76 a $18. Sugare were steady, with sales of 1,400 bhds. Cuba, and 400 tierces Porto Rico by auction, and 300 boxes, at rates given in another place. Coffee was steady, with pales of 3,000 bags Rio at 11%0. a 12sgc. Freights were firm, with mcderate engagements, ———_——_—— The Administration Dragging the Coun. try imto Civil War. Civil war, like the sword of Damocles, hangs suspended over this country as by a single hair. As we predicted, the anti-slavery radi- cals of our new administration have gained TRIPLE GMFET. New Work, Sats \any, ¢ 1’ 1G, 187s Te J wt Therumers \ ’ ‘the gor’ n) vier | +) “Ip ope ations y pf ey vitement 4 - pi prevailed * 4 « -e7 Sy #0 sities gene- T eis oy one bw s ° » ¢#,éthe South this wos pt ¢ \ “a Shyerent aspect, but ow +, © sthe altimate designs of emt A A etanspired. An officer from AS un, wteato arrive at Washington to-~ * “wit. mation as to the condition of « “mi tthor., and to ascertain what arrangement will bp sade in view of the evacuation of the fort. Up toa late hour last night the government ha received no intelligence from Fort Pickens for several day#. The non-receipt of despatches led to the belief that the fort has been attacked, and that telegraphic communication has boon cut off by the secessionists. A despatch from New Or- Jeans states that it was reported that the Brooklyn arrived off Pensacola on the 31st ult. A considerable quantity of eleven-inch shells, grape and canister, gunpowder, purser's stores, &c., was put on board the United States steamer Powhatan at the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterd-y, and, everything being ready for a start, .t six clock she was hauled out into* _**ttea” ,and will sure to-day. The Roo @ «w ) wcrtof the dry a°-sintw or’ r cf sg Wea, together with 46% cash,’ ib. ‘oc Sym @ way for comple- ‘Cy, eady ag sing | au 7 orders that might be re- place raem in commission. The Wabash * © water tanks thoroughly overhauled oof 4 ,)*sare placed alongside the Ww sy ef’ 46 3 . Ww. gese Dh em 2 f§ «MOF Aiynow anu 4” Antic ad Ye Vad yycioCaites Stites govern- Keb €. eedwith “revisions, bedding, ce- Men tama sCiuuver, Tho Atm. > is gatored at the Custom House as cleared for Brazos, with roverpment stores. ‘The Tlinois was advertised to sail at noon to- y for Havre. Thuse who had engaged passage yy her will go by the City of Raltimore, which leaves to-day for Liverpool. The maila will alse by the City of Baltimore. One of our Washington correspondents states te call for an extra session of Congress will issued within sixty days, . Barney, the new Collector of the Port, was ed on Thursday, and Mr. bk. Delafield Smith, new United States District Attorney for this ict, was qualified yosterday, and both have ed upon their official duties. mails of the steamship America, which ar- at Boston on Thursday night, with Buropean 8 to the 23d ult., reached this city last even- A full synopsis of the news by this arrival telegraphed from Halifax and published on y- The details are not important. erican affairs continue to engross the atten- f the English journals. Several interesting ions from the London press will be found ‘here in to-day's paper. © House of Commons, on the 22d ult., Mr. announced that on the 16th prox. he bring forward the question of the propriety prompt recognition of the Southern con- y by the British government. inent feature in the news by the America nouncement that the following clause has troduced into the policies by the com- and private underwriters, and the fact Lioyds:—‘‘ Warranted free from al) loss, damage, arising from seizure, detention, other hostile act of the government or any revolting or seceding States of the nerally known as the United States." ‘8 from the continent is very warli ustria and Russia are making extonsi parations, and our Paris correspon. | 8 that Garibaldi is actively employed | his forces for his promised Venetian | te Senate yesterday, the bill to reduce | all the Now York city railroads was & third reading. Similar action was | bill to incorporate the New York ciation, and on that to in ate | » parks and sporting grou | milk freight on the Harlem k third time and lost—10 to 19 The jautical School bill was passed. In | long and animated debates were | Dills affecting New York city. One politan Health District bill, and the maiming & commission to draw up a the city, both of which were or- reading. very great excitement at the Cus lerday, the business being quiet. Mispute arose about the new tariff ey and Mr. Schell paid a visit to during the morning, and in the Closeted <ogether in deep consul- ees of Barncy & Co, were visited mus mortal yesterday; but until to Washington it is sald that no } | { | 8. Hoglem, charged with set we in Maiden jane, was abruptly yeaterday in tho General 8 was no cironw phy w tue guilt oi the wowusey, | ¥ { calamities. the control of it, and “the rebels and traitors” of the seceded States are to be whipped into | submiasion, The formidable military prepara- tions of Mr. Lincoln, his mustering of ships of war, and transports, and troops, for active operations on the sea and on the land, remove all doubts as to the policy which he intends to pursue. To the extent of his resources, his policy will be the maintenance of the autho- rity of the United States over the seceded States by force of arms. The precise plan of operations projectod is of course undisclosed to the world; but we have reason to believe that it comprehends, first, the reinforoement and continued occa- pation of Fort Pickens, at 1 hazards, and ia the face of an inevitable cOllision with a be- sieging army of the Confederate or seceded States of from five to ten thousand fighting men; and, secondly, the collection of our fe- deral revennes from the customs at or near the ports of the seceded States, by means of 8 blockade. Several ships-of-war, for example, are to be stationed at the outlet of Aharleston harbor, to collect the du- ties npon imports at that point ; apother blockading squadron is to guard the several mouths of the Mississippi, aud so on. Such appears to be the practical inter- pretation resolved upon of Mr. Lincoln’s inau- gural, wherein he promised to hold the forts still under our federal flag in the seceded States. and to exeoute in said States our re- venr.e laws. Sow we think it can be no longer disputed that Fort Pickens must be peaceably evacuated by the United States, or that between their military forces and those of the seceded States there will be a bloody collision for the oocupa- tion of said fortress. We are semi-officially | assured that it will not be peaceably evacuated, | and therefore a bloody collision at that point | seems to be inevitable. In the event of such a collision we know what will immediately fol- low. Virginia will lead off the border slave States into the Southern confederacy, and an alliance offensive and defensive, among all the | slave States, will be the next act in the drama. | And what next? The movement, perhaps, of ‘a Southern army of twenty, thirty or fifty | thousand men upon Washington, largely col- | lected from the revolutionary secession ele- | ments of Virginia and Maryland. In discussthg the fearful chances of a civil | war, is not necessary to go beyond | Fort Pickens, But the revenue policy of our administration is also a policy | of war. Has our executive government | any constitutional authority to blockade | any of the ports of the United States, assuming, | with Mr. Lincoln, that the seceded States are | still in the Union? We are not aware of the | existence of any such authority. Has our President any legal right or legal means for | the collection on board ship, in the manner | proposed, of our federal daties upon imports? | None that we are aware of. A blockade, of itself, is an act of war; and the war makiag | power belongs, not to the President, but to Congress. found of our federal constitation, Mr. Lincoln will cease to have any further claims upon ; the loyalty of the border slave States, and they will unquestionably transfer, their alle- giance from Washington to Montgomery, Our readers will thus perceive that we are | standing upon the threshold of “a house di- vided against itself” In battle array; that we are upon the verge of a civil war, in which all the slave States will be combined against the government at Washington; and that there fs at least some manifest danger of that Southoro armed invasion of Washington which, it is thought, only General Scott's formidable f { | warlike precautions prevented on the oo- casion of Mr. Lincoln’s inauguration. Civil war! Our people have no actual kaowledge of the terrible import of these two dreadful words—civil war! Wo read of its horrors in France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and Mexico, and we shudder at its deeolating and brutal atrocities. But at length we are suddenly arrested in our bril- | lant career of national prosperity, happiness | and power, by this horrid apparition of civil | war. There appears to be no hope of escape. We must then prepare for the worst. The civil wars of the Roves, and of Cromwell, and of La Vendee, will serve to warn us of coming events in our midet—fire and sword, confisea- tions, forced contributions, terrorism, an archy and a military despotism. Our merchants, manufacturers, banks, corporations and indus- | trial clasees, onr men of property and our children of poverty, would do well to prepare at once for theee overshadowing and appalling We mi de soon expecta chinge in | the epecte eu towing tf 00 NS 10F Boimne tune post, tit las gorgod our Thus, in usurping powers not to be | politicians, through Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln, have brought the country—its good pame, its prosperity and its hopes—to the dust, We can only deplore its humiliatiou and downfall, and admonish our fellow citizens, high and low, rich and poor, North and South, to prepare for the cruel extremities of civil war. Rerort on THe Arrains or THE CENTRAL Paxk.—It seems to be a stunding rule with the Albany Legislature to appoint two or three in- vestigating committees every session, to sit dur- ing the recess, whose duty it is to inquire iavo the validity of certain monstrous oharges against some powerful corporation or other These committees hold their sessions at various intervals—once a day, or once a week, or once month, as the case may be—the State paying all their expenses, and the corporations on trial, of course, paying all their profits, The result of the investigation always proves to be a complete whitewashing of the arraigned cor- poration. The charges tarn out to be all “bosh;” the witnesses are not forthcoming, or if they do appear they will not substantiate anything to the detriment of the accused; and so the matter ends. But then a parcel of itine- rant politicians, who have nothing to do dur- ing the recess, thus get employment and pay, and so the purposes of the system are served. We have just received the report of one of these committees appointed by the Senate last April, to investigate the affairs of the Central Park Commiesion, and we are not at all sur- prised to find that the entire proceedings of the Commissioners meet with the highest encomium from the committee. Noa single charge of France Preparing for War. In Engiand the alarm of a probable war with France is sounded by the people almost periodically. It is true that since the organiza- tion of military volua\ er companies on an ex- tentive seule the dread of French invasion bas Gecreased, but there is still a lingering fear tbat the inscrutable Emperor is always planning ap attack in which he woud be, to a certain point, successful. He woul) carry off ali the treasure in the banks and originate a train of dieasters, the end of which it would be impos- sible to foretell. There is just now a strong feeling of suspicion ard distrust in England with regerd to France, arising partly from the evasive character of the Emperor's address on the recent opening of the Chambers, and the vast warlike preparations he is making without arsigning therefor a reason. If his intentions are pacific, say the English, why is he augment. ing the naval and military forces of the empire to wn extent surpassing even what he thought necessary immediately before the campaign in Lombardy? By every mail we learn of some addition to the vast armaments of France, and everything woud indicate that they are designed to operate against some great maritime power. The Em- peror can have no apprehension of molestation, and the question therefore arises: what nation does be intend to molest and for which he is arming in this alarming manner? We think be hardly knowe himself, and that he is only making ready for an emergenoy, and in order that he may take advantage of whatever opportunity may present itselt; and in the pre- sent disturbed state of Europe opportunities will probably occur. Itis not but to be supposed, however, that he has scme definite ideas of fu- ture action and immediate objects to be attaia- ed. He has Syria and perhaps the Rhine pro- vinces in his mind’s eye; aud the encouragement he has received from the Christians inhabiting the former country may well inspire him with hope; while the existing Schleswig: Holsteiu diffi- culty, which has recently assumed a somewhat threatening aspect between Prussia and Den- mark, opens a prospect for his stepping in and extending the frontiers of France to the Rhine. This last is a favorite nurseling of French ambi- tion, and we remember being fully reminded of it in the offer which was made to Austria at Villafranca, We know that French intrigue prevails wherever there is anything for whieh to in- triguc. In Spain, Hungary, Denmark, Bel- gium, Turkey, Egypt, the Rhine Provinces, Ire- land and the British House of Commons, its subtle presence may be easily traced. In Den- mark particularly it just now displays itself, malfeasance or extravagance is discovered to management, the laying out of the grounds, the good taste, or the progress exhibited in the for it is hardly reasonable to suppose that the pugnacious spirit she is showing does not exist; nota solitary fault is found with the spring from a confidence in being backed by some force much stronger than her own. The fact of Denmark being the traditional toel of work under the control of the Central Park | Fronch intrigue tends to confirm the suspicion. Commissionere. Everything there is in applo No army oquel to that of France has ever been pie order. There is another committee, too, employed in investigating certain charges of corruption and extortion on the part of the Harbor Masters, which eat at the Astor House for two or taree days, and has now adjourned to Albany to finish up the proceedings in the dark. In all probability this affair will terminate in a white- washing process also, and the Harbor Masters will be round to be a set of flae, wholesouled fellows, who drink the best champagne, and smoke the best eegars, nnd share the same libe- rally with their friends. If this is not the re- sult of the committee’s arduous labors, it will be an extraordinary exception to the proceed- | ings of our legislative investigating commit- tees. Tae Curvarier Wikorr tn Frater Agat.— | The last administration employed that illus- trious diplomat, the Chevalier Wikoff, as special agent to Russia and China, and meanly neglect- ed to pay him. Ile has now a claim on the government for two thousand dollars, and it is said that ho intends to bring it before tho pre- | sent administration without demy. Ia viow of | the fact that the new loan has been taken with | fo much eagerness, and that Mr. Secretary Chase is absolutely embarrassed with the weight of his money bags, and as Old Abe is | proverbial for his bonesty, we presume that Wikoff will be paid off at once. It is not im- possible, either, that the Chevalier’s services | will be found valuable to Lincoln & Co. The fact that he was an adherent of the opposition isa matter of no consequence, as the new ad- ministration has given the Belgian mission to | the Chevalier Sanford, of Connecticut—an ardent fusionist in November. I¢ is under- stood that Sanford was appointed to head off the Commissioners of the Southern confederacy: but he is not the equal of Wikoff in the fine art of diplomacy. Wikoff has been schooled in courts; he knows every rope in the ship; is intimately acquainted with the great commandera, Pal merston and Louis Napoleon, and speaks all the continental languages. Wikoff’s appoint. ment to a special mission would go far to re- move the unfavorable impression created by the sending out of stump orators, totally un- fitted for diplomatic service, and unable to speak the languages of the courts to which they | are acoredited. With a few exceptions, the | foreign appointments of this administration have been absurd in the extreme, Just now the country is in want of such a man as Wikoff, and the very best thing that Old Abe can do is to pay the Chevalier and send him off in the very next steamer. Porrrtoat, Vaear Scamme ro Make New York a “Free Crry.’—There is said to be a) project on foot, and a society formed hore, to tever New York from the State, and make it what is called a “free city.” This would be | like severing the right arm or the head from the body for the purpose of making it free. The application of the term free | city to New York, under such circum. | stances, would be a misnomer. It is a foolich attempt to misapply a term of the | Middle Ages to the circumstances of modern | civilization. Free cities in Italy and Germany | kept long standing without, in the absence of disaffected provinces to keep dowa, or a colo- nial empire to guard, becoming formidable to the world. And no nation has ever possessed the power that France possesses for gratifying ambition without feeling the desire of calling it into action. It is possible that the very bold- ness shown by the new King of Prussia, and which presents so marked a contrast to the policy of the late monarch, may hasten the end which Louis Napoleon has in view; for the supremacy of Prussia and the decadence of Austria in Germany will tend towards a speedy union of the thirty-eight sovereignties that at present partition the great sporting ground of Europe, as Germany has not been inaptly called; and in that event Franco, as she has indirectly made known to the world, would de- mand the Rhine Provinces. This is provided that the Schleswig-Holstein question is settled without Prussia having recourse to war with Denmark. The present Emperor of the French knows the dapger of inactivity. The conse- quenges of a failure to employ a great military power he has witnessed in the fall of Louis Philippe, and he is not a man upon whom warnings are likely to be Jost. The doubt and | dread of his intentions gist now felt in Europe are not without reason. His acts are threat ening, and his words vagne and unassuring. i¢ | is, however, possible that the sudden and re- | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1861—TRIPLE SHEET. Symrroms of Revowwnon at trax Nowra — The intelligence which has been received from various sections of the North, within the last fow days, manifests, in a most ubmistakeable manner, that a great reaction has commenced agsinst republican aggression, even in locali- ties where it was least to have been hoped for. The apathy or corruption of party leadors, es- pecially of those who cling to the fossils of democracy, aud affect to eschew alliance with conservative masses outside of their own or- ganization, has been a drawback, which can only be conquered by such an uprising of the masees as has not yet been seen in the States where elections have been held. Had adequate efforts been made, and a reconstruction of the Union, through proper amendments to the con- stitution, been the distinct and only issue before the people, the gain would have been enormous. As it is, Connecticut has shown a republican loss of five thousand, and a gain of two opposition members of Congress; a change of six thousand appears in New Hampshire; Lixcouy's Apmmxtstration Prosasty Sri.- Born,—It took poor Pierce two years and a half to destroy his admipisiation in the esti- mation of the American people. Mr. Buchanag took three years and a half to kill his admiais- tration, even with the aid of a powerful opposi- tion; but it appears that it only required threa weeks to utterly demolish the Lincetn govern- ment in the eyes alike of friends and foes, The republican journals of this city are pouring out the vials of their wrath upon the President— Journals which have wrought with might aad main to elect him. It really seems as if the Lincoln administration, after gestating for nearly thirty years in the womb of abolitioa- ism, is stillborn after all. How weak must it be when its own organs tarn upon it, and use such language as this, which appears in the re- publican journals of the metropolis:— It 8 idle t conceal the faot that the administration thus ‘The country fesis ao ‘ative and of the same number in Rhode Island, which has been completely revolutionized, both oppo- sition members of Congress having been re- turned. The recent municipal elections are equally cheering. Schenectady has clected a local democratic government, for the first time in many years. Cincinnati, St. Louis, Rome, and other places, have also arrayed themselves on the side of conservatism, In the city of New York, the Mozart Hall democratic organization, has emphatically thrown aside old issues, and bas appealed, in a series of resolutions which commend themselves emergency, or, indeed, of sny policy beyond less waiting to see what may “turn up.” And again:— ‘The fact is, our government has done absolutely nothing towards ing t the tremendous carrying tae pac! Hage It allows every to drift, to float along, without gu! or impuise of any kind It ts the hgh, the imperative duty of President Linoola, in this solemn criaw of the nation’s fate, give the American people this guidance and leadership. do waa perfectly right in saying at Springfield hie shoulders rests a responsi| mye byw woighty ever fallen upon apy one of predecessors. That re- spomaibilsty 48 BOt met by going ge distribution of office Mr. Liscoln should reserve his thoughts and his strength for novier duties than presiding over the wrang- lipgs of bongry and eseifish hunters for patronage and place. He wastes powers that bolong to the nation—ho squanders Opportuuitics which millions upon millions of to Union men of all parties, to the patriotiam of all citizens, to unite in succumbing the in- iquitous yoke, which fanaticism and eectional- ism bave imposed upon the country. It calls upon all who are interested in the preservation of pesce, “to forget dead iseues and past politi- cal differences, and to rally in support of such & movement, as shall secure the preservation of peace, and, if possible, pave the way, through the adoption of suitable amendments to the con- stitution, for’ the reconstruction of the repub- lic.” It repudiates the Morrill tariff, and pledges itself to agitate, henceforth ia favor of free trade, and the emancipation of commerco from the burdens of unequal, protective legis- Jation. It throws the entice burden of respon- ; sibility, with respect to the dismemberment of the confederacy, where it belongs, namely, to unconstitutional encroachments of the republi- can party upon the rights of the South. Its condemnation of a coercive policy is explicit and clear. Tho factious spirit of the last Congress is reprobated in the Mozart Hall resolations in the strongest terms, and the suicidal policy of the administration is effectually rebuked. The epirit of the meeting at which they were adopted is good. It offers a nucleus around which all may rally, who desire a fair expression of the will of the people, in relation to the present crisis, without reference to the miserable, spoils hunting squabbles which ap- pear to ocoupy the exclusive attention of most of the old organizations. Tor FasuronaBLe Wortp anp tHe OrEra-— The fashionable world is as much exercised about the prospects of the next Opera season us the politicians are troubled about the state of the country and the division of the spoils Old Abe and his Cabinet are drifting up or | down Salt river, driven about by contrary winds of doctrine, and there is no knowing where they may bring up. The captain of the ship and all hands seem entirely obfuscated. In like manner, the Opera managers—Muzio, Ullman, Maretzck and Strakosch—are drifting about upon the artistic sea, without any defi- nite destination, Maretvek is presumed to be on his way to Mexico; Strakosch has a new speculation with Gottschalk, the pianist, and Carlotta Patti; Ullman is lying upon his oars, waiting for somebody to raise the wind; the Garibaldi Muzio company intend to return from Boston to Irving place, and commence a short season with “Un Ballo in Maschera” |-mext Monday. ‘Bhat, however, is after the manner of a Border State Convention, and will have no bearing upon the grand result. What that will be no one can tell. In the mean- time we have promise of several interesting | concerte—tbose of Gottschalk, in the early sum- mer, and on the 16th inst. the soirée musicale cent changes in the policy of Austria towards | political liberty and thorough representative government may entirely altor the aspect of Enropewn affairs, and so lead to a rapid redue- | tion of the French armaments. No better re- sult than this last could be desired. | ' j Tur Worst Commerciar, Reversion or tHe | Aor Comma Ox.--From all the indications | which can be gathered from the proceedings | now going on at Warhington, it is more than probable that tho administration are about to | plunge the country into the horrors of civil war; and ifeuch should be the unhappy result of their blind policy, we sre at this moment on the eve of « calamity more terrible than any that bas yet befallen a nation—more dis istrous than the French Revolation, or any of the old revolutions in England. With all the appli- ances of our modern civilization—the tele- graphs, and railroads, and steamship agea cies—a war between the North and South would be the bloodiest ever known, and its | termination could not be predicted upon any | reasonable grounds until after several years | | of conflict. Meantime the commerce of the | country would go to ruin; values of overy kind | would depreciate; property, espeololly in the Atlantic cities, would diminish from forty to fifty por cent; the manufactaring and shipping | interests, except in the construction of engines of war and in privateering, would of course | be utterly demolished; and yet wo seom to be rapidly drifting towards this state of things. | Therefore it behooves all those who owa pro- perty, in real estate, or money, or in any other | shape, to look ahead, and prepare for the storm that is gathering. { Hays We « Reat. Unrrep States Govern- wext Aone Us?—There is a popular fallacy | New York a free city would bo like palating iD sprang up in antagonism to feudalism, and! abroad that Old Abe Lincoln and his constitu- had special privileges which exempted them | tional advisers are the governors of these from the operation of tho feudal law. It was! United States. This is a grave error. in them that the spirit of liberty was generated | government ia really in the hands of the three which afterwards extended to nations, Butin| or four leading republican journalists in this modern times, and especially ia a democratic | city, The revolution in publi affairs Is com- government, there is not, and caunot be, any | plete, and now Old Abe, with his Bob-o-Linooln distinction between a city and the rest of the | Cabinet, is nowhere, Very well. 1t is possible in point of freedom or privileges. All| that the new hands may do bettor than the ras- parts of the State are equally free, aud no por- | cally politicians, Give the editors a fair (ion of it is entitled to special favor. To make | chance. Old Blalr, of Silver Spring, thought he would rule the roast and dispense the spoils the lily or adding perfume to the tose. Iti | of the kitchen when he got his eon into the as f I The it Cabinet. Brt Mater has fonnd on wid | { thingy baye ohanges sinve luis pelmy anys, ' € ean be, a of tanking t that mer iy eo Waa aloud crotyhos of Mile. Adekina Speranza and Madame As- ; Sunta Speranza, two of the finest Italian artists that have ever visited the United States. Mlle, Speranza is @ prima donna soprano, and Madame Assunta a prima donna contralto. | Mile. Speranza has sung once or twice in pub- lic here, but under a cloud, her health having been impaired by change of climate, acting upon a naturally delicate «constitution. She has now entirely recovered. Madame Assunta has never yet been heard in opera or concert, but both artists have sung frequently at private | concerts. In the opinion of musical con- noisseurs they surpass in school, style, method and voice all the prime donne—OColson, Kellogg, Misses Phillips, Hinkley, and others here abouts. Naturally, there will be a good deal of excitement about this concert. Tne Amori- oan andience is always stirred to enthusiasm by a new prima donna, if she is youthful and gifted. A fine tenor, a resonant baritone, a magnificent bass, wins appreciation; bat the prima donna, as in the example of Malibran, Sontag and Jenny Lind, makes the furor, if any is made. The gallantry of the nation takes this form, and adoration of o prima donna is considered perfectly en reyle. So there is as | much rivalry among the divinities of the coulisses as is created by the politicians about the spoils. Who knows that the Speranza ex- citement may not revolutionize the entire opera performance for the next season ? Wro Are rar Lovtstans Seousstoniytst—The Tribune devotes @ good deal of space to a re- view of the antecedents of Louisiana, apropos of the present condition of that State. The writer commences with a tremendous pull for | the Puritans of New England, and then proceeds to abuse the early settlers of the Pelican State light and brimsione style. The deduction from all this is expressed in one sentence :—~ If the morality of New England p'aced her on the lofty position she now ocoupics as a law abiding community, so Moust the substitution of vice in Louisiana go fur to ac- count for her being a law breaker. The Tribune seems to forget that the creole population of Louisiana do not, as a goneral thing, take part in politics, The State is ruled | in the real old blue by New Orleans merchants, lawyers, journal- | ists, &c., and the Jeading men of the Crescent | City are almost without exception natives of the free States, many of them from New Eng- land. John Stldel!, the chief ongtnoer of the | movement, f¢ a Now Yorker, Try | Aguiu, Meeers, Mailoeophers ; try again, , gold wilt never Pome Ser, for rescuing the nation from Ser EO ea eh snes cron je has epent time and strong! ous, upon saving inion and maintaining the authority the conatitution be bea solemnly sworn to defend. He bas not dove wha; he was expsoted to do as svon as he should assume the reins of Fy preempt back, by ‘word and act, the loyalty of American people to the flag and the ment of their common country, Tha Unico is weaker vow than it was a month ago. The administration, we are told, has no policy; and in a great crisis like this there is no policy so fatal as that of having no policy at all, Another republican organ says that there is “an obvious dissatisfaction with the prosent attitude of the federal administration,” in con- sequerce of its do nothing policy and manifest weakness, and adds:— The country, with Login | ® show of dissent, cries {| out—If we are to fight, so be it; if we are to have peaco, so much the better; if the Union can be preserved or restored, good; but if it canoot be, lot us understand the fact and ucquicace in it. At all events, let this iuwlorab'e euspenac and uncertainty cease. While at the same time another administra- tion paper denounces the Morrill tariff without stint, which the government of Mr. Lincola are endeavoring to carry out. What is the meaning of all this? Are these journalists disappointed in the division of office, or is it really the imbeoility or the ‘mas. terly inactivity” of the administration which provokes the hostility of its friends? If, after an existence of only three weeks, the present administration cannot fin@ favor or support from a single paper in New York, either on one side or the other, what is to be its con- dition at the end of a year? Tue SrgecuEs IN THE Frexod CuAmpers.— The privileges recently granted to the Senate and Corps Legislatif by the Emperor of the French have resulted in a freedom and abundance of speech in both chambers which singularly contrast with former proceedings there. It was only reasonable to expeot that a naturally voluble people like the French would, after being so long tongue-tied, speak out, when the opportunity was afforded them, with that bubbling enthusiasm common to their volatile and oratorical disposition, and of which they are so easily capable. This they have done to an extent which has surprised thoee who supposed that the concessions would have no great effect in altering the character of political discussion; and they have done it with a fearlessness which has not been al- together gracious or flattering to the Emperor. The latitude allowed to discussion is not conflaed in France to the legislative halls, but extends to every part of the em- pire, where subjects that in former times people would have felt afraid to broach are spoken of with a freedom entirely new to the present reign. In faot, liberty of speech on political matters seems to be the last great een- sation, and everybody is eager to enjoy it. Those who imagined that the concessions of Louig Napoleon were only nominal will learn, from the recent debates which have been re- ported in extenso im the Monitewr, that they were real. Republicans and legitimists have not hesitated to attack the imperial polioy, nor to reply in potent language to the Ministers. There is, we think, no danger of this freedom of discussion degenerating into a pernicious abuse of a wholesome privilege, or leading to stronger arguments than it has already done. Imperialism is too powerful and closely allied with the best interests of the empire to be easily supplanted in the affections of the peo- pie, and the diatribes of ils enemies will in no way tend towards its overthrow. It is, how- ever, possible that the Emperor may fiad the debates occasionally unpalatable. But ho has taken such a step towards constitutionalism that although he retains the power ot with drawing all the privileges he has granted he would find sach a course almost too perilous to be attempted. The step has been in the right direction, and all that he has to avoid is making one the other way. Tan Hacxtay Streer Cieantve Contracr.— The Hackley contract for cleaning the streots is just now the subject of much animadver- tion. In all the districts of the city, excepting Broadway, there appears to be a universal dis- content with the operations of the contractor, while grand juries and municipal bodies are oxercised considerably about certain alleged corruptions in connection with the contract. And upon this point we have to remark that the statement which appeared in our own com- munications from ...\buny with referenoe to the signing of the contract by the Mayor is incor- rect. The report originated with the republi- can journals ; but it is not true that the Hack- ley contract was signed by the Mayor on the very night of its passage in the Common Coun- cil. It was signed on the next day, together with other documents, in regular order; and the reason why it was not advertised, as the ordinances ot the Corporation had previously been for some time past, was simply because no apprageiations were made to pay for the ad- | vertistng, and the Mayor had consequently to abandon that wholesome practice. However, if the republican papers are determined to make agreat man of Fernando Wood, let them go on. Hoxrst Onn Anpr’s Dreromaric Apporst- Th looking over the Het of Md Abe's diplomatic sppolnyments, we baye youu ob uk MENTS