The New York Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1861, Page 4

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From Charleston we learn that the people were fully advised as to the warlike preparations of the federal government, and in consequence the great- est excitement prevailed. On Satarday, when the supply of provisions was sent down to Fort Sum- ter, Major Anderson was notified by General Beau- regard that no more supplies for the garrison could be obtained in Charleston, which was re- garded as a declaration of hostilities on the part of the commander of the Confederate forces. Go- vernor Pickens, with his Council and the senior officers of the army, were engaged during Satur- day in inspecting the batteries in Charleston har- bor, and everything was found ina state of effi- ciency. Troops had been ordered to rendezvous within supporting distance of Charleston to watch the movements of the enemy. The people of Charleston all appeared to be in fighting humor, and declared themselves prepared for any emer- gency. Despatches from Montgomery, Alabama, state that no attack will be made by the troops of the Confederate States on either Fort Sumter or Fort Pickens. To do so, President Davis argues, would De to place the new government in a faise position hofore the world, and he is determined that if civil ‘war must ensue, the first blow shall be struck by the administration at Washington. Washington City was yesterday filled with all sorts of reports, rumors and speculations in regard to the present naval and military preparations of the administration. The President, it is said, in conversation does not hesitate to express his de- termination to “hold and possess’’ the govern- ment property where it is practicable, and, as far as possible, to carry out the views expressed in his inaugural address. A plan for the peaceable evacuation of Fort Sumter is said to have been agreed upon, and that the order to Major Ander- son will be issued to-day. The Roanoke was taken out of the dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Saturday evening, and her place will be occupied by the Savannah to-day. The outfitting of the steam transports recently chartered by the government is being rapidly pushed forward. The Iilinois was hauled round yesterday to the dock recently occupied by the Atlantic, where a cargo of arms and provisions ‘was taken on board. She sails to-day, and will receive her troops in the bay from a steamtug. ‘The Baltic is also being rapidly got in readiness for sea, and will follow in a day or two. The admirers of Henry Clay, the venerated sage of Ashland, are making preparations to celebrate the forthcoming anniversary of his birthday with all due honor. The Clay Association intend having @ grand social reunion, including a sumptuous din- ner, with the necessary adjuncts of wit, wine, song and speech, at the St. Denis Hotel, in Broadway. ‘The festival will take place on the 12th inst. The Corcoran Court Martial case has been set down for a final hearing this afternoon, at four o'clock, Richard O'Gorman, the defendant's coun- fel, will sum up, and it is expected the cnse will then be finally adjudicated. A letter from a correspondent at Arroyo, Porto Rico, dated March 16, gives the following as the prices of produce at that place:—Sugars, $3 a $3 75 per 100 Ibs., extremes, with a downward tendency; pales principally at $3 25, $3 37% a $3 60. Mo- Jasses, 10c. a 1c. per gallon, without cask. Char- ters—United States, 38c. a 40c. for sugars; mo- lasses $3 25 a $3 60 under deck, $3 on deck. Ex- change on New York nominal and difficult to negotiate; London, $5 a $5 05; Paris, par for five francs. By advices from Bermuda to the 26th ult. we learn that a heavy gale of three days’ duration, commencing on the 2st had been experienced on the islands, by which the potato crop was mach injared. The marke’ for cotton on Saturday was steady and quiet for lots, in store, while the sales, including percola in transit, wore larger and footed up about 7,000 bales, chiefly within the range of 12K¢. @ 130. Flour was less buoyant, and closed at prices in favor of purchasers, while sales wero tolerably active. Wheat was more active and in good demand, in part for export, Corn was frm, with a fair amount of sales. Pork was firm and loss active, with @ales of mess at $17 18% 0 $17 25, and of prime at $12 Tha $15. Sugars were steady, with sales of 1,100 hihds., at 490. 0 65/0. for Oubs, and 60.0 6K0o for Porto Rico, and 100 voxes at 6\40., and 190 hhda. melado on private terms. Coffee was dull, with amall sales at steady prices. Freights wore stoady, with a fair amount of engagements. Feen Trape anp Direct Taxation.—The Chevalier Forney thinks the adoption of the policy of absolute free trade and direct taxa- tion by the government at Washington would soon starve the government at Montgomery into submission. The idea is not a bad one, and we dherefore recommend it to Honest Abe Lincoln and bik Cabinet and party as @ good thing. Suppose they trv it. Its adoption would oause the secession of the New Eogland States, no doubt; but if we secure by it the border slave States and the seceded States we caa let New England go to Halifax. invasion of the South—The Inauguration of Civil War, 4 By order of the federal government, on Saturday ships of war and transports, with troops, provisions, stores, ammunition and arma, large and small; tools, sandbags, spades and other slege tools; stalls for borses, boats, boat howitzers for landing, and “all the cir- cumatance of war,” cleared from this port with sealed orders, for parts unknown. The city was like a camp, and the excitement waa intense. Some of the officers of the army, knowing the bloody mission on which the Powhatan and Atlantic are sent, resigned rather than mingle in the fratricidal conflict, The ships which have sailed are but the vao; others are pre- paring to follow them, not only from this port, but from the Navy Yard of Charlestown, Mas- sachusetts, where there is the same warlike ac- tivity as at Brooklyn and New York. It is thus evident that a bloody civil war is resolved upon by Mr. Lincoln and hia Cabinet After locg hesitation, the President has screwed bis courage to the fighting point. At what precise spot he intends ‘to commence hos- tilities or to provoke them—whether at Charles- ton, l’easacola, the mouths of the Mississippi or in Texas, where there is an evident design io excite “domestic insurrection,” or at all of these places togetber—does not yet appear; but a few days wali unfold the mystery. To Mr. Lincoln, bis Cabinet and the leaders of the republican party three courses are open—first, to yield to the Confederate Statesand to all the slaveholding communities their just rights as coequal partners in the Union, which would have had the effect of healing the breach and reuniting the sections ; second, to permita peaceable and bloodless separation, either in the hope of reunion at a future day, or at least of a friendly alliance for mutual defence against foreign foes, and for the establishment of com- mercial relations, which, if not specially favor- ing the North, would at least not discriminate against her ; and third, to wage a war of sub- jugation against seven sovereign States, which will be ultimately extended to fifteen, to com- pel them to submit to the authority of the gov- ernment at Washington, and to pay tribute to it, whether they are represented in its Congress or not, in contravention to the great principle for which the colonies fought and conquered the mother country in the Revolution of 1776— the principle that “ without representation there can be no taxation.” The first of the three courses was the best, and would have been that of a statesman. The second is the next best course, because the most successful war could only lead to the same result after inflicting an amount of suffer- ing and calamity upon the country at which the imagination is appalled. As for now re- storing the revolted States to the Union by war, that is the wildest chimera that ever en- tered the brain of man. But it is probable that even if the Northern section should succeed in subduing the South (for that is the naked aspect of the war when stripped of all its disguise), the same fa- vorable terms would not be obtained, certainly not the same entente cordiale so necessary to the future peace and prosperity of both sections, as could be secured by the peaceful arts of diplo- macy and statesmanship, which seem to have been completely ignored at Washington. The third course has been adopted, and that is un- yuestiunebly the worst of all. If lt tulls, aud that is very possible, it will be destructive to the prestige and to the interests of the North, to say nothing of the overwhelming expense and debt which it will entail upon the country, the many hearths it will leave desolate and the feelings of bitter eternal enmity which it wil) have engendered between two geographical sections separated by an imperceptible line, The pretence of carrying out the laws of this Union in the confederate States, enforcing the federal authority and collecting the revenue, is too transparent to deceive any person. It has been clearly demonstrated that it is impowible to accomplish these objects without civil war ot the most ferocious kind. To make the attempt, therefore, is deliberately to commence a war whose end the present generation may no! live to eee, and whose disastrous effects will be such as to annihilate the accumulated wealth of the country at a blow, and throw back its progress half a century. The real object of the war is not to coliect revenue, nor to assert the authority of the federal government, nor to protect its property. Itisa war of propagandism—a war against the social institutions of fifteen States—a war to ex- tirpate negro slavery, if not to exterminate slaveholders. It is the irrepressible conflict predicted by Mr. Seward and Mr. Lincoln, and for which Garrison, Giddings and the blood- thirsty abolitionists of their fanatical party have ‘een laboring for the last thirty years. It is a revival of the struggle which took place two centuries ago in England between the Puritan Roundheads and the rest of the nation. ‘The vast majority of the people were against them, but by the military genius and iron will of Cromwell the fanatics were rendered suc- cessful for a time, after putting thei king to death and deluging their native land with seas of blood. But when their chieftain died, their cause died with him, showing that it had no root in the affections of the people, and that it was equally opposed to human nature and the freedom of man. Hence, when Charles IL, who had nothing personally to recommend bim, was restored, he was “ prociaimed with a pomp never before known.” A fleet conveyed him-from Holland to the coast of Kent; for that republic had no sympathy with the fanati- ciam of the Puritan republic of Eogland. Whea Charles landed the cliffs of Dover were covered with thousands of gazers, among whom, says the historian Macaulay, “scarcely one could be found who was not weeping with delight. The journey to London was a con- tinued triumph. The whole road to Rochester was bordered by booths and tents, and looked like an interminable fair. Everywhere flags were flying, bells and music sounding, wine and ale flowing in rivers to the health of him whose return was the return of peace, of law, of freedom.” That was the last of the Puritan faction in England. They bave never revived. But their descendants here, the inheritors of their principles and their blood, now seek to inaugu- rate another civil war upon a question of morals, religion and social polity, in States over which they have not, and ought not to have, any control, Like their ancestors in Great Britain, they are in a small minority, but by an accident and the divisions of the people they have contrived to get hold of the reins of gow- ernment; they have the sword of the nation, and for the present its purse With this tem- porary power in their hands, they are propar- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1861. ing to embark in internecine strife, against the will of three-fourths of the people. But whether they will be fortunate enough to find another ‘Cromwell to lead them remains to be seen From our accounts the military talent of the army bas espoused the side of the Southern confederacy. Tbe South, moreover, is unit~4, to s maa when it comes to blows, while the North is divided, and will be rent asunder by still greater divisions as the war proceeds, if even insurrections and revolutions do sot take place in several Northern States Soon the government will find itself in the position of the British government in the war of a ir Revolution, only in a still greater degree. There will be such a storm of opposition, to- gether with a positive refusal to fuinish the sinews of war, that the Lincoln adm! siratios will be compelled to succumb ia diserace, amidst the exccrationa ot the people and the curses of mankind. And that will be the end of the Puritanical faction in Norih America. Tue Reax Posrrion or Tux Borpgr Srates.— In last Saturday’s session of the Virginia Con- vention # test vote was fiually arrived at. The strength of the extreme Unionists, as compared to that of the secessionists immediate and in fu- ture, was in the ratio of one to five—the Union figures being twenty-two, the disaffected one hundred and fourteen. It has been supposed allalong that Because Virginia voted to in- struct the delegates in her Convention to refer their acts to the final decision of # popular vote, and that a majority of the delegates were avowed evemies to the doctrine of immediate secession, the State was safe for the Union. From a)l that we can ascertain, however—and we have taken some pains to get at the facts in the case—the struggle in Virginia has been nerrowed down to a fine point. The question is not, now, sball Virginia reamin in the Union or go out of it? but, when shall she go out? To put the matter plainly before our readers, we wust first premise that in the West- ern part of Virginia, including what is called the Panhandle, there are very few slaves, and the people generally are strong emancipation ists. They are determined to remain in the Union so long as peace is preserved. In Eastern Virginia the negro iaterest predomi- nates, and immediate secession is the cry, Be tween these extremists there stands 4 conserva- tive party, headed by Botts, Ridgway and others, and asking for time, in order that the policy of both confederacies may be more fully developed Neither the abstract right of se cession, nor the probability that Virginia will exercise that right at no distant day, is denied by any of her public men. The only point of difference is this: whether or not in the case of immediate seceasion Western Virginia would not go with the Northern confederacy, and thereby complicate matters still farther. Vir- ginia does not hesitate because she sympathizes with the North, but because one section of her people cannot rely upon the fidelity of the other section to the peculiar institutions of the South. The same struggle is going on in Kentucky. The Legtslature has just been treated to a speech trom Mr Breckinridge, embodying his views upon the alt important question. Mr. Breckinridge favors secession He sees no hope for the restoration of the Union He dors not believe that the S(ates which have seceded would accept such coapromises as could be offered by a Border State Convention. He believes that the seceded States never can be brought back, and that Kentucky ought to go with them ° Mr. Breckinridge’s speech is Jong and not very strong. One point, how- ever, is worth atteution. After stating the case as regards Kentucky in the Union, the Senator says:— Then comes upod us wmmediaie'y, inssantiy, the ques Hon of ewauntvation, he 3outh is cat t har, thea, and Uere are nineteen pon-wavenoistog States to six or even slavehoidi g Statee—the government practically sdminietered wi bout consritutional tmitations, in a epirit of anti-slavery fevavicism; for what loyal North erp Tap COU) Band up in the North, whea half of the South was gone, 10 GefLee of ths constitutional rignts of 60 poor & fragment «s woud emai? We would fau bo. veath the aggreesive power of an overwhelming party It wouid become instantly a question of emancipation in Kenta ky. A powerful party woud rise here for the pur Lose of Carrying for ward euch « movement Mr opeuker, It is horribie t contemplate, and no- it weula suee cd Chiog fete than Cevision 01 courage will prevent us from Fentig these epectes party io tae future as powerful la Keutacky wilt be raised gs of emancipation, whether " I exnnot say; if wiihe om pensation, t will prebadiy be a mere nominal mattor But there is even a higher quervion than that of pecuni Ary mte-est involve’ ( have eald that the Southern Ntates wall net altow the slaves be carried there, and the Nenth with wt allow them to be carries into their midat reauties A to put 19 pr with or wit aside, then, from the question of property, you will bave 4 quarter of @ mititon of slaves thrown Upon the Boi! of Kentucky—*% political «nd sociat curse §=Thn sir, you will see t-ouble tu the stte tis @ social question, as ‘well a8 @ political one, It ia one m which every white man in Kentucky bas an interest Jy tome aliowed, I think I cula undertake to show that the mom: white pepwatom of Kentucky have as deep an wnterest er peopl in rest ting ont p Hicy which 18 to b try em ineipati to chrow two hundred and firty th: Of seerety, This is the root of the difficulty in the border States, If they go out they can still maintain their negro trade with the South. If they re- main true to the North what is to become of their negroes? As Mr. Breckinridge says, this is a question of vital importance to every white maa, slaveboider or not, in all of these States. The border States have to choose between se cession and abolition, and that they will accept the former as the lesser of two evils admits of no reasonable doubt. Tax Opmnion ae v8 Cuarnesron Mencury.— The Charleston Mercury, the leading organ and oracle of the secessionists, thus discourses upon Mr. Lincoln’s war preparsions:— An invasion, a campaign ¢ »y land or sea of the North on the Souta js, in o jon, gammon. Goer. clon (# manifestly 60 novsensica and abaurd that, if it were practicable, it would oot be attompted, and ‘it ia viterly impracticable for Mr Lincoln and his ramp goverment to taake eff-ctive war upon us The Nortn, to be Bure, if besotted, avd Lincoln baw Unreatenet He may bold Forte Sumter and Wickens until oblige? to yield them; he may, and probably wil), keep Kev West and Tortugas, because we have bo naval resources, until a treaty of amity is made, or unt) the Confederate Stavea have naval appliances for ousting him, but ag to anything Like real war, or wnything beyond a few collisions on cerning the forts, proving our temper und capacity in this revolution of government, we are altogether and en tirely skeptical Lincoin’s secresy and activity, which trouble the correap»ndenta, go to this extent, no more be is nonolussed and fidgety. He desires to hold the Pag forts if he can, and wil give them up when ie must. Another point in this argument of our Charleston cotemporary is that fighting “im- mediately and obviously destroys the Union party in the border slaveholding States,” and that, accordingly, our federal administration will not go beyond the few collisions referred to. We apprehend, however, that a brash a’ Fort Sumter or at Fort Pickens will not only carry off the border slave States, but that tay bring @ Southern invading force up agains: Washington, which will inaugurate o weveral civil war, Within this month, o within this week, we shall know which way the wind is blowing. Aw/ Ow Parrior Hosnveasy—Pariars We e@pppintinent to the Bupreme Cour’, nothing more of Mr. Orittendea’s * Tar Mysrerious np TakeaTsnine Asrecr or THE RevoLvTION.—Secresy is only the de- fence of the weak, and is always calculated to arouse suspicion. It is, therefore, a bad sign when we find the administration of this coun- try hiding ita designs, as the ostrich hides his head, in the face of proceedings that are the theme of universal comment and anxious specalation from Florida to Maine. We find the government chartering and despatching transports laden with troops and stores, and equipping the entire naval force at its com- wand with the utmost haste, and without let- ting tbe public know the purpose or destina- tion for which they are intended. Meanwhile rumor is busy op the wing, and we are left to conjecture. Some say the vessels are bound for Pensacola, which is probable; others that they are for Texas, in order to car- ry on the war against the Indians that are making hostile demonstrations on the borders ; while many surmise any and everything, probable and improbable, from ac- tive interference with Spain at San Domingo to the reinforcement of Fort Sumter. To the ominous and painful uncertainty occa- sioned by these warlike movements, we have added an increased distrust of the administra- tion, consequent on the surmise that there is trouble, slmost amounting to a split, in the Cabinet. It is evident that the war section of that august body has triumphed over the peace section. What, therefore, are we to expect? The administration, by working only in the dark, has evidently no definite policy to proclaim, and is weak and un- certain in its movements. Now, let us ask in what good cen all this secresy result, and what necessity is there for maintaining it? There is no necessity for or utility in it what- ever. It is only blinding the people, while the country is drifting to ruin, and while civil war with all its attendant horrors is being wilfully inaugurated. Look at the immense harm the condition of things is producing in financial and commercial circles; for, of course, according to the acts of the administration, direct or myste- rious, stucks in Wall street rise or fall, and just now, as a consequence, we find the heart of the money market very irregular indeed in its pulsations. From present appearances we know what we may expect in the future. We see that all the professions of peace uttered by Mr. Lincoln and others were mere idle talk, or else made to lull the country into a state of false security til the administration concluded its loans and was ready to strike a blow. Fort Pickens, on its lonely sandbar, may, in its ruins in years hereafter, tell of the bloody battle of Pensaco- ia. which commenced the civil war that deso- lated the United States in the year of our Lord 1861. Our fervent prayer is that it may not, ond that those enemies of their country who cry tor blood may be disappointed. But of this there seems now to be little hope. Foreign Symparay wrt THE Two Conre- pEractés.—It bas been industriously reported in some of the republican papers that secret agenta were deapstched by the government at Wasbington to Frauce and England immedi- ately upon the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, tor the purpose of securing the good feeling of these countries in behalf of his administra- tion, and preventing the recognition of the ‘bat these agents have returned with the as- surance of the full accomplishment of their miasion—that neither of these governments wi)l recognise or countenance the Southern confederacy. This is absurd on the face of it, because there bas not been sufficient time since the 4th of March in which to consummate vy such object; and we know that the very ast intelligence from Europe only brings news of the receipt of the President's in- augural and the comments thereon. One of the radical organs says that the wgepcy of these special messengers was entirely unnecessary, because it is well known to the sdmivistration “that the slave- holders possess no hold whatever on the sym- pathy or reapect of any part of the civilized world.” This statement is about as absurd and as false as the one concerning the mission of the secret agents. We kaow, from all the expreaced opinions of thesovereigns, the states- wen and the journalists of Europe which are entitled to any weight, that tie Southern con- tederacy bas their entire sympathy. Without any regard to the question of slavery, the commercial issues involved in the political @ifficuities of this country have directed the tympathies and the interests alike of foreign nations towards the free trade policy of the South, The manufacturing interest abroad, «everywhere, isin favor of the recognition of the Southern government, from motives of self. protection, and it is simply ridiculous to tell un that the governments of Kurope are “de- cidedly hostile to the slave confederacy,” in the face of such articles as have appeared re- cently in the English and French press, Day Breaxina.—The Boston Post discovers, from the late elections in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Brooklyn, St. Louis and elsewhere, that the day is breaking; while others, from the war- like movements of the administration, declare that a very dark night iscomingon We fear that these late elections are all moonshine, and toat our shallow Northern democratic organs, who bail them as good signs for the Union, are oply betraying their anxiety for the public plunder from which they have been thrust aside in consequence of their own folly. The republicens, baving gained the federal spoils, ure too busy squabbling over them to pay much attention to these petty local elections. In the ordinary course of things it will tase nearly two years to make them feel the pressure ot public epimion, and in the meautine civil stares us allin the face. Can nothing convince «ur poor old bigebound cemocrane organs ‘hat old things are dove away with, wad that we are in the midst of # revolntion?” war Ay Extra Srsston or Conan be very Jie doubt now tha: “Honest Abe Lincoln” will soon be compelied to call upon ‘ ongrces to come to his relief, He is moving hie fleeta and Jand forces upon a scale which will ina very short time adeorb all the ready funds, loans and Treasury notes of Mr. Secre- vary Chase, to say nothing of the threatened complications of actual war, which only Coa xrere can reach, Let us all, then, prepare for « long partiament, a leng war, general bank- aptey avd « military Bomba, vupe, drums and gunpowder #1!) sooo make sad bavoc smong the balls aud bears, lame onoks aod spread eagles of Wall street, The war faction of the republican party now rules ‘ the camp. 3.—There can Ceayotivin. Seuthern confederacy: and it is now asserted: Tue Rervetican Wan Cay rrou rae Nogts- west.—The republicans, as in various other lo- cal elections East and West, have suffered a heavy defeat in Cincinnati. The Gazette of that city, the leading republican organ, thus accounts for it:— Anti the questions that will be asked aa to the cause Of this Wa'erloo defeat, we may say that Sumter Sg ies ino hn cotinued at Washington, thus ry the Mr. Lincoln has taken the hint. He finds that Mr. Seward does not speak the voice of the republican camp, which is for war, but that Blair and Chase do represent the party. Hence Seward goes to the wall, and we may expect soon to hear that he has bowed himself out of the Cabinet. It is getting too hot to hold him. Greeley is still his master; and Thurlow Weed, shifting his sails to the wind, begins to talk of fighting. NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Wasmnaton, April 7, 1861, AFFAIRS IN CKNTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, ‘The government has advices from Centra! and South America to the 13th of March. From Costa Rica and Nicaragua the political news is unimportant. The treaty with the latter government had not been acted on and the prospect of its ratification was not flattering. The move- ment which was on foot for the consolidation of ail the States into one government was well received, and the impression was very general that i} would be consum mated. The diplomatic relations between Esuador and Peru, which have been 80 long interrupted, are on the point of being renewed. Corpancho, who was accredited by Pera to the government of General Francho, has been recogniz- ed by Garcia Moreno, and the Ecuadorian government bus sent a Minister to Lima. Knowing his unpopularity, aud living in constant apprehension of an attempt against his person, Castilla never ventures from home without a guard of a dozen soldiers. He is in almost open war with the Congress of the republic, and recently re:ura- ed all the acis to that body with his observations, the Congress, on the othor hand, jusisting on their passage. It is generally thought that this state of affairs cannot continue much longer, The reflecting portion of Peruvians deplore the troubles which have distracted the United States, be- cause they weaken the influence of the great republic, heretofore regarded as a check upon the arbitrary mea- sures of the great European nations against the South American States. The provisional government of Bolivia has convoked Congress to meet on the Ist of May. Several candidates for the Presidency have been put forward; among others, Gon. Belzal. The feelings of the present Cabinet were very friendly to the United States, AFFAIRS IN SAN DOMINGO, It is a mistake to suppoge that recent events in Domini- ca have excited any peculiar interest on the part of the administration, and least of all that the subject especially enters into the instructionslof our Minister to Madrid. Nothing is authentically known here beyond the fact that the Spanish subjects on the islind sent to the Captain General of Cuba for azsistance, and that the two or three hundred troops despatched by bim were under orders n t t land unless by request of the authorities. There is, bowever, some anxiety to learn what Spain will now do in the premises. That she was privy te the revolutionary movement is a mere copjecture, as it is said that even in diplomatic circles there is no information on which to base such a conclusicn. MISCELLANEOUS AFFAIRS, There is a fierce strugg'e going on here for the Com- missionersaip of Public Buildings ‘in this city. There aro a large vumber of candidates. New York has two— Christopher Adams, from Albany, backed up by both Senators, both branches of the Legislature, aud archi- tects and engineers innumerable. The other candidate is the famous Wood, who had charge of the Presidential party on their way from Spriagtield, who ts entirely unfit for the place, not possessing the requisite require. monts. It is a fat office, however, and Wood claims that he bas earned something handsome. His services may be required here befare long to ¢ aginecr tho part y pack to Bprivgfield again. All the talk about New England and Penasylvauia put- ting themselves on & war footing to sustain the preseat imbecile and vacilliating administration is regarded as the merest twaddle. Inthe event of hostilities a New Engiand man would not dare show his face in this city. Moryland says she will take care of all such people. ‘The President has appointed the following yPostmas- ters:—David Price, at Newark, N.J.; Wm. H. Post, Yoo- kers, N. Y.; Hadley P. Burdill, Chelsea, and Nathaniel K. Noble, Fast Cambridge, Mass. Among the candidates already mentioned for the vacan- cy on the Supreme Bench is N. H. Swayne, of Ohio. Mr, Seward is also named for the samo place. Mr. Sumner called upon the President yesterday after. noon and requested the immediate appointment of Mr. Norton, of Charlestown, as Navy Agent of Boston. The President declined, aad informed the Senator that there were other applicants to be heard. Mr, Corwin, Minister to Mexico, and Mr. Burlingame, Minister to Austria, have returred to Washington, and wil receive their instructions and hasten to their posts of duty. Mr. Corwin’s instructions are completed Mr. Botts, of Virginia, had an ioterview with the Pro. sicent yesterday. The Dead Letter Department of Post Office was the seems of great conater- nation yesterday afternoon. Upon emptying some begs just Arrived from Florida, two copper head snakes suddenly emerged from their contents to the iu” tense fright of the officials. The reptiles were killed after en exciting scramble. Comment on this dastardly piece of vengeance is uaneceesary. the General WEST WASHINGTON MARKET—THK GOVERNOR'S AN- TICIVATED VETO OF THE ALBANY AND SUSQUE- HANNA BILL—THE CANDIDATES FOR SUCURSSOR TO MR. VAN DYCK AS SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION—THR CATHOLIC ORPHAN ASYLUM— THE GIBBONS AND NELSON AFFAIR, RTC., BTC, Anant, April 7, 1961. The Commissioners of the Land Office have reconsidered their action ia the West Washington market property, aud have now agreed to geil that property to the city for three hundred thousand dollars, including the cost of survey, Comptroller Haws asked them vot to fix the price over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but this they would not accede to. The vole of the Board on the three hundred thousand was unaoimous, The veto message on the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad bill is expected in the Senate to-morrow. The friends of the bill are rallying their forces to-night to override the veto, An interesting time ia anticipated, and we are promised to have placed on record a fetter of the Governor, written during the last campaign, promis ing tosign it.’ Verily, the prom'ses of politicians are as chaf in the wind. The veto insures & Comocratin delegation to both Houses of the next Legislature from thore counties, They cannot override the voto in the Assembly. The contest for Superintendent of Public Inetrnction is becoming quite interesting The case lies between A. J. H. Duganne, of New York, Risiey, Clerk o1 the Assem. bly, and Keyso, present Deputy. ' Risley is oppored by the’D, B's. of the Order of Caatauqua Tue House Committee haye concurred in the Senate appropriation of fifty thousand dollars to the Oatuolie Orpban Asylum of New York ‘8 was inverted in the Senate by McLeod Mu The committen to investirate Nelson's action with Gib bons bave summoned two or three witnesses to prove hat it was a joke. They consider th have proves be point and a majority will report thay Nelson should not be censured, because Gibbous looked upon it as a oke, They are willing to clear Nelson on tost point, bat not to give Gibbons the henefit of this woncerrul diaco- very. There will be a majority report agutnat Newon. Bhoold she majority report, be endorsed by the Assembly, there will be ap effort to reinatay Dons. The Steamer John Bell, Burros, April 7, 2861 The steamahip John Rell, from Glasgow vit Portland, and bound for New York, passed Highiand Light, Cape Cod, at sunrise this morning. Four Mie Race st New Orleans. Naw Oncmana, April 6, 1861, ‘The great four mile race came off to-day over the Motarie Course, Lightning distancing the favorite bors Ponte, in tho first heat, and beating Planet two werate . heate, Time—802 and 8:19. The track was very hey Over three hundred thoamind dollar exchanged hy vie Doewo's Virginia horaes did not win a race, The Great Affairs in Norte neue, April 7, 1861 elected May ¢ Jobo O. Lawrence, Tol nist, has of Portemouth by 206 any rity forteponner Julia. of Maryinnd, has been seized fo: violation of the Virginia inspection law . Abolishmeat of Capttel Punishment Mm aserts, Bowrow, April 7, 18 ‘The State Senate yesterday passed the bul abode capital punishment by # vote of 18 vo 16. Fire at Piymouth, Lag a PLYMoUTS, ut, Exchange Boek, on Midale street, wee tensed fire this morning, reculting m a ioss of about $1¢ = jpsurea, Two firemen were severeiy, but sy {gjured, ene Principal cocupanta of the bai De Ba Lg A | ela unne ab car April 5, 13) aw Onieane, . Moloumet: Me. 8 a0e- Flour quiet at ‘$520.0 65 superfine. f toKge.a thee sales of the week. 3,950 b firm: w Ostxams, April 6, U Cotton—Sales to- 12, middling. Corn Pete ae ‘ase, yy tod ton, to Liverpool, 4d. ——_— Reconstruction of the Police Precine THE NSW PRECINCT OF HORSE POLICR ABOVE TRAL PARK. ‘Tho Police Board have adopted the report preparc Superintendent Kennedy , remodelling the eatire eyst police precincts and patrols for this city. Four nev cincts are added, making the whole number thirty. of the new precincts are at the upper end, and two | ower part of the city. The precincts north of Fourt street are adjusted with a view toe mathematica, regular patrol, according to the rectangular direct! the streets and equares, Below Fourteenth strec division into precincts carries out the same prio. instead of following the arbitrary lines or bounds oid ward limits. Under tho new regulation the u ines of communication or patroi, as presented by th: are as strictly adbered to as possible. Each polic will be posted to watch, not around a number of cated corners, but upon as direct and square as possible, thus enabling him to cover the est extent of ground in an effective m: The change ig @ valuable improvement, shows in what simple and radical matters aol system has needed skilful direction, But the chu ture of the new arrangement is the fact that tt recap at last, the necessity of some protection for tha rvs at the upper end of the island. Hitherto one roun: has visited that district daily, and two horsemen ni The inhabitants have all beon compelled to hire py watchmen for their property, and trust to revoive | Dloodhounds for their personal security. The ni rangement very intelligently sets apart all that ei region north of the Central Park and west of i! avenue a8 a separate precinct for horse patrol main station will probably be at Manhattanville, sub-station at Fort Washington, on the Kingsbridgt The same judicious principie which regulates ‘| plan for the lower precincts by the extent and dir of patrol, a8 well as the character of the populatic turally dictates that the picturesque aad irregular © try at the upper oud of the isiand should be mi” upon a different plan, The distance of five miles it presents in length, with its driving roads, by: and private grounds, could only be covered by a patrol The gas bas been carried up almost to the end of the island, and when this new police mov have been followed up by an accessible supply of | water, population will fill in there rapidly, aud tho! daries of the new precinct—betwoen 110th Eghth avenue, the Hudson and Harlem rivers to! teu Duyvil—will comprise the most attractive sub the world. The new system goce into operation | 1st Of next month. Jersey City Manictpal Election. To-morrow the spring election for the choice officers will take place. Although the city is st democratic, the republicans are sanguine of being push their candidates into office between the two of the disunited democracy. Before the nomi: ‘were maée, all for the Union were to unite, crush ¢ opposition, and thus maintain the nonentity of wh y7ge proportion of Jerseymen are 80 enthusiastic with the failure of the attempt to jom the Iris Americans together faced their hopes, and the c from @ national (1), became one of mere persona’ larity. ‘The following candidates hays beea put pation:— ' DEMOCRATIO UNION NOMINATIONS. i Moyor—Augustus A. Hardenburgh. Reov der—Vhomas E Tilceu School Commissroners—Adraham 8S Jewell. Asse90r— Louis De Camp and Smith deade. Water Cmmiuasuner—s Cassiay (short tern Ephraum Prey (long). Mayor—Soseph G. bi la joseph G. huge. Recorder—C. © Martindale. Schorl Commissmmer—A 8. Jewel Collector —B. L. Richaros Assessors Alonzo Jaquins and Smith Meads Water Conmmission: ®. Bedfora and Culver. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. Mayor—Corneiius Van Voorss Kecerdar—W 1. Dickinson school Commissiomner—M. RK. Oaae. (ollvcun —Thos Vare. ; SOMETATIONS, i ; 4 Asmssere—Dr. W Stone and F. P Budden. Water Comminioner—A. 8, Whiting (short term Ja adeition to the minations hive alse beer for the Aldermanic pected the election than for the offices at large At Hoboken the contest for the Mayoralty v between J, R. Johnson and Charies Chamberiain geutlemeu of great local popularit; le of the ity where it muck more warmly cov mv Fires in New York, Fore iy Weer Twenty s2venTH Sreeer.—Betweea and one o'clock on Saturday morning a fire ocov the premises of Wiliam Jones, No. 291 West f seveuth strect, The flames were quickly extngy Damage Flight. Fink x JAckton Smut. —Abomt half past ton o’e) Saturday morning a fire broke out oa the roof ef the building No. 8 Jackson street, caused by « spark Dieckemith chop. The thames oxtended © uber Nos 10 and 12 before tne fire was extiaquiahed property is ewned by mr. Lypeh The aamnag amvunt to about $100, raid to ve inaured Fre iw Wasr Foxe emest Seacst—A fire occa | the cakum factory of Mr. McCormyck, Nos. 78 + Weat Forty-firet t. the flaznes were exting by the workmen in the factory. Damage trifling Prax ty Souta Winuast Sreuer.—aoout bastpa o'clock ov Saturday evening}s firs was disorvered off.ce of Leach & Co., No. i South Wil iso1 street : wed by some asbes in a wootea box. Damage 10 Fn 143 Sreext —At revo o'clock on Sa evening a fire was dicovered i» aa unoecupiad dy house in 143d etreet, betwoen Eighth nod Nenthay 5 owned by William Thornton. fire was quicl tinguished. Demage sight. The fire, uo doum, & work of an incendiary. Fine ty Baxter Sreert —About two o'clock ont morning a fire was discovered in the rag shop Boxter atreet, owned by John Giilshan Tac pr the Sixth precinct extinguished the fire betor damage was done Coroners’ Inqnentas, Drownen Winry Ivtoxrcaren.—On Saturday aft ax aman named Archibald Andrew was walking the gang plank of the steamer Passaic, lying at t Of Barclay etrect, be reli into the river aad was dre Coroner Schirmer hela an inquest in the case, ¥ appeared that deceased was iatoxicated at the © that when he fell into the water he msde no effr, ” save himself, He was a native of Scetiaad, a res Jersey City, and xbout 60 years of age (m Sunday morning the body of Lawrence Hi ve of Ireland, 50 scare of age, was found hh river at the toot of Perry street. Decoase ve habits, had beew m satoy . Coroner Ja’ an inquest, and a verdict of death from dri Tepdered. Fara, Accnest on tae Tur Averva Raroa rover Jackman bela an inquest yesterday at thr York Hospital upon the body of donry Schmidt, man, aged 28, who «as fatally injored on the} lave y, in consequence of be: Third Avene Hallroad car The occur sbovt six o'clock in the eveniag, pear it being so dark atthe time that tho driver of t did not eee the the unfortunate maa until ho neath the horses’ feet. An effort was made to st vehicle, bot it could pot be done, and the wheels over Schmidt's breast. fe was carried to the York Hosnital, whee, Qaving lingorod in great until yesterday, his death occarred. A verdict cidertal death” was ronderea, Tux Massaenoserts Two Years’ Amesonent — House, on the 6th ivat., Mr. Wright gtor «° Pall moved a reconsideration of the vow by whieh ‘state ja relation tothe “. ” mont wae adopted. Messrs Branniog. 0: i. fy Boston; Deane, of Pawtucket; Tyler, of somerv. * Piorce, Doreneater, spoke against the law as it now & and 9 recerfmideration was carried by » decisive ‘The qnestiun then reourred un the adoption of ar for a ope year amendment, © Mi. Parker, of Worcester, favored the law as { apd sain the republicans were plecged by Americans to retain it. 5 00, of New Bedtord, aid he was not a pr ereo a bargao, end the republicans of today we to be houna by it, ih, of Boston, and Branving, of Las, CUM favor the resolve, sod it was ¢ iced ive the report U vote of 146 yeas to 28 nay traverse jury empana, Sapreme Cuirt of Boa! reoay, inouded scored man—vir, W. 4. AD Ho {8 Bad t h6 che uret of his race who bas been in te jury bo wm tlavcity, He in a hair dros ee,