The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1861, Page 6

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AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway —Day i Bens, Bea Lior axo Orme C MmOmTES eargese Mechanics’ Hall, 472 wn acess. Besa Bonus Discus, ac—Huuina Fate. WIBLO'S BALOON, Bros¢yay.—Liore's Morsrnecs 1y Buscacaues, Soxas, ibaxcus ac. &c.—BitLy Parmusos. Pe ay reed CONCERT WALL by vad No, 638 Broadway.— ANCES, BuuEsquns, & OANTEBBURY iy HALL, 685 Broadway.~Soxas, Dancus, Buniiscces, ax HALL, Lrving Piaco.—Apgiins Srunaxys's BOBDOIE PANTHEON, No, 650 Broad Me. Sau Oowest's Duawine Room Concent. ee UNGWORTH'S MINETRELS, Ho Mordhelmer’s Hall. —6oxas, | ) Bow LBOQUES, ‘TRIPLE ‘SHEET. ae, Hew York, Thursday, May %, eel DAILY CIRCULATION OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Ant 1860. April, 1861. 79,680 | Daily average of 1861 over 1860. THE SITUATION OF AFFAIRS. ‘The news from Washington last night is stirring and decisive. Vory important intelligence reachod the government yesterday, brought by the Adri- | etic from Europe, and ssid to be based upon the American Minister at Yaris, had presented the Commissioners from the Southern Confederate | States at the Imperial Court, contrary to his ex: , Mr. Dallas refused, however, | plicit instructions. to present them to the Court of St. James, in the absence of orders from the federal government. | one of our most influential cil It is etated—and if true may Lave a material effect apon the future policy of the revolutionists of the Socth—that the Ministers of England and I*rance + bave protested to the Montgomery government | against iasuing letters of marque to privatects, and that Mr. Davis will not dare to take the re- sponsibility of ostablishing his privatcer system im the tecth of these two powerful maritime na- tions. The government at Washington have pur- chased twenty-five additional steamers, and will blockade cvery port on tle Southern coast within twenty days. The Union sentiment ia Virginia and Mo appears to be growing stronger every hi deputation from Western Virginia waited President yesterday to avsure him that the p of that section were | sented a document sons, stating that if they had arms th fend the government and ¢ More yesterday also the greatest enth wailed at the hoisting of the nations the public buildings. When the crowd at the ( tom House had dispersed after was raised, a secessionist cut down th ‘al to the Union, aud pre- ned by three thousand would de nstitution. In Ba the natio: flag d from the violen va] Court of Baltimore was with difficulty rescu the people. In the Crimi the Judge charged the Grand Jury with reference to the late riot and killing on the pas United States troops through the city, investigation for the purpose of bringing the gu parties to punishment. With regard to the movement of troops, there has been little change at the seat of war since our cows of yesterday; the military s/utus yo is still Preserved, but the couree of the governinent {+ decided upon, and it isa vigorous one. C Patterson is to march two corps! Marylend, cach ten thousand strong go from Harrisburg by the N Railroad, and the other by the Baltimore road, through the city of Aa army of ten thousand men trated at Annapolis, ready to march on Ba in case of resistance. The New « three thousand strong, left Trenton yeaterde age of the urging an Ity neral e through ome body is th Contral or Move Anvepolie, to furm purt of this corpe Criue ‘This movement wil) cffuctually vettie the ques Gf free travel to the pationa! cay Fort McHenry has been safely 1,40 men, and is now perfectly tack. Fort Pickens hay also iuforced. The United Statea transport Atiaati sailed from this port onthe ‘th alt. orders, and which at the time caused t “# to aru Lis dew of, ag:iicd av day port lag, | 472 Bros. | New YORK HERALD, TRURSDAY, MAY 2, 186L—TRIPLE SHRE?. | men at Fort Pickers, By this arrival wo have re- ceived from our correspondents full particulars of the manser in which Fort Pickens was rein- | forced, aad also brief historical sketches of the | army and naval movements in the Gulf, | which we give eisewhere. Fort Pickens is now | ina complete state of defence. There are over seven hundred troops within its walls, and noder the commaad of Colcnel Harvey Brown, an officer of extonsive military talent and expericace. The detalled by our correspondent, wae interesting. The day after the arrival of the Atlautic off Pen- sacola men, horses, stores, fleld pivces, hay, pro- visions, hardware, &c., were sent off to Santa Tosa Island beach. About twenty-five boats from tho squadrcn, simultaneously employed, ac- companied this succossful military movement. Forts Taylor and Jefferson, near Key West, were Constantly receiving large aupplies of ordnaace, stores and provisions. The utmost enthusiawa was manifested by the troops ia those works. Accounts have been received in Washington that there are not more than seven thousand Con- federate troops assembled in Virginia, and that they are Little better than a halfarmed mob. This may he the intelligence circulated at the capital, but reports from other sources represent the num- ber at 3 much higher figure, and the government should aot be deceived on this point. A gentle- man who arrived in thia city from Richmond by the train last night states that there are from twenty to twenty-five thousand men there, and that small arms to the amount of three hundred a day are being turned out by the Tredegar Works for their use, The News. The United States steamship Atlantic, govern- ment transport, arrived here yesterday from Pen- sacola, bringing us details of the reinforcement of Fort Pickens. The Atlantic sailed from this port ; on April 7, having on board troops, provisions and war munitions. She arrived at Fort Taylor, Koy West, on the 13th, and at Fort Jefferson, Tor- . tugas, onthe 14th, at both of which places she took on board additional troops and government | stores, and sailed for the mouth of Pensacola \ harbor, joiming the fleet stationed there, and | anchoring off Santa Rosa Island, on which is Fort | Vickens, on the evening of the 1ih. Immediate- ly on her arrival, during the night of the 16th, the reinforcement of the fort by tho fleet commenced, | in which the Atlantic took a prominent part. The operations of reinforcement continued up to April 23, during which time a large number of troops, horses, cannon, provisions, workmen, | firearms and great quantities of various kinds | of military stores, were safely landed and placed securely within the walls of Fort Pickens. The steam transport Ilinois also arrived off Santa Rosa } Island on the 19th, and her troops and stores were also landed. During all these operations not a gun | was fired by the rebels frem their fortifications. Fort Pickens is now amply supplied with men and guns to successiully resist any attack, thero being now in the fort and on Santa Rosa Island together iC) Purser William Caldwell, of the steamship was immediately hoisted gain, aud the assailant | about one thousand men, with provisions and stores sufficient to last for six months; and from the advantageous position in which this late rein- | forcement places both the garrison and the fleet, further supplies of men, provisions, Kc., can here- after Ne thrown in at pleasure. Schooner William H. Smith, Captain Scott, from Wilmington, North Carolina, April 25, whieh ar- rived here yesterday, brought the following pas- } sengors:—Captain Powell; Mr. Jinks, first officer; Mr. Dobbin, second officer; Mr. Merrit! and Mr. Bass, engineers, and fifteen of the crew of the | steamer North Carolina, seized in Wilmington. teMable authority—that Mr. faulkner, of Virginia, | The crew of the steamer Uncle Ben were yet in prison. There were no government steamers sailed yes- terday. Major Anderson was engaged yesterday writing letters mm his own apartments in the Brevoort House. Inthe evening he was out dining with ens. No orders have yet been received from Washington, but he | expects to be in that city by the latter end of this week. To-day (Thursday) the Major will visit the Asylum for the Instruction of Deaf Mutes. The European mails of the steamship Arabia, from Liverpool on the 20th, via Queenstown onthe 2ist ult., arrived at Boston yesterday morn ing, and reached this city last evening. A tele graphic synopsis of the news by this arrival has already been published, and our newspaper files, are to the 20th uit., contain nothing of ad a al interest or importance. The letter of our | Paris correspondent, which we give this morning, will be found interesting. | By the steamship Atlantic, Capt. Gray, avrived esterday, we have dates from Havana to the There was no local news of interest. Business continued very dull, and many business houses which relied on remittances from the Northern States fear that the Southern privatecrs | may deprive them of their last resource from | bankraptey and ruin. The Diario proposes that an armed vessel, under the Spanish flag tween New York, New Orleans and Havana Dates from Caracas, Venezuela, are to the 2 ult., and Puerto Cabello the 16th. There is no nows of importance. Recent letters from Vera Cruz state that General Doblado has been beaten at Sau Miguel de Alle- ide by Marquez and Mejia, It is not unlikely. At scene of the reinforcement of Fort Pickenr, as | ply be lantie, will please accept our thanks for de- spatches and intelligence from Pensacola and Fort Pickens. The overland California express, with advices from San Francisco to the afternoon of the 20th alt., arrived at Fort Kearny yesterday, A saw wary of the news may be found in another column. The first meeting of the commission appointed by tho last Legislature to revise the city charter took place at noon yesterday, in the clamber of the Board of Councilmen. Mr. George W. Blunt called the meeting to arder, nominating Mr. Andre Yroment as temporary chairman. Wm. Allen iat ler was appointed temporary secretary. No other «pocial businces was transacted. The law creating the commission was read, and a commitice desig- nated to report permanent officers anda place of meeting, After this the Commissioners adjourned ject to call of the Committee on Organization. | It is not probable that much progress will be made ithe work of revising the charter until the pre- ut war oxcitement ehall haye somewhat abated. ‘The number of omigrants arrived at this port wing the past week was 2,614, making the total | vce Januaty 1, 15,875, Tho balance of the com- nt is #14,495 33. The Com n transacted no busiuess of nt ‘their meoting yesterday after wd. Hackley, the street contractor, harged with contempt in refusing to answer cer- fain questions propounded by the Grand Jary re *y ¢ alloged municipal corruption, pleaded raiity in the Court of Oger ond Terminer vegter- day, under © stipulation drawn by his counsel Jas. T. Brady, Hsq., to the effect that, in case it wld ve ultimately decided that he had a consti- right to refuse to auswer the qu A 199 the ple i te be withdrawn. ff the ig er | bloody programme of Old John Brown. Hackicy he will suswer * | and Havaaa, after (nading @ reinforcement of 450 | tae obnoxious questions Ths students of the Free Academy sent a petl- ticn to the Beard of Kducation iast evening, sak: ing them to approve their action in forming o company of thirty of their members for ‘home ice,” has received the sanction of the President and Faculty of their institotion. B red, with power, The Board appropriate t % for fo ing ward school No, %, in the Tw ° second ward, and also $584 for extra work on the same achoo’house. The Finance Committee re- ported that the balance of funds for special appro- priaticns remaining wnappropriated at present is $16,269 91. After the disporal of some smailer matters the Board adjourned. The American Telegraph Company ani the New York, A:bany and Buffalo Telegraph Com- pany have removed fr No. 21 Wall atreet to their new quarters, No. 145 Broadway, corncr of Liberty street. Beef cattle were in feir request yesterday, but prices wero a shade lower, Veals were dull. Sheep and lambs were firmer. Swine were dull and 4c. ae. lower, The receipts were 0,94 beeves, 61 cows, 937 veals, 6,044 sheop and lamba aad 7,920 swine. ‘The cotton market »cetorday, ow!ng maialy to the Gepreesion in ateriing exchange, with @ limited demand from the trate, was quiet, while prices wore without quotable charge. The sales were coulined to abeut 400 8 £00 baleg, in lots, within the rapze of 18%c. & Lac. for mitdilog uplends; the latter figure was considered oa outeide price. Flour was Leavy, and commou graces were in some cages lower, while oxtra brands ,were eus tained. Wheat was heavy nnd dull, and commen to medium qualities wore lower, while sales were inode rate, Ccrm was in Limited request, whils sales wero moderate, and the market closed at easier rates. York was heavy and lower, with gales of mess at SLT o $17 50 and at #15 25 9 $13.9734 for prime Beef wae steady and in fair demand. Tho stock of pork smounted to 67,(CO bbls., against 58,820 bbis, 1st of last zonth. Tho stock of beof amounted to 47,618 bbis., against 65,517 bbls. om the Ist of April. Sugars were siesdy, with sales of 600 bhds. and 147 boxes at prices giveu in another columsy. An account of stocks will te found in aactaer place. Coffeo was quict and gales Limited, owing to the Public sale to come off today, Frolght engagements were moderato, aad rates, if anything, wore rather bieadior. The War—Democraiic Patriotism Versus Republican Folly and Ferecity. If, on the 6th day of last November, the prophet Elijah had descended from Heaven in a chariot of fire, and had proclaimed to the American people that before May day of the preeent year the Northern democracy, rank and file, would be ready and eager to join ina ‘war against the secessionists of the South, at the call of President Lincola, the Prophet would have been laughed at as an impostor, from Maine to Texas. But what do we now behold? The fact is accomplished. The do- mocracy of the North have rallied not only a3 @ unit for this war, at the the call of Abraham Lincoln, but, armed and equipped, they are first in the field from the gathering legions of the North. How are we to account for this extraordinary spectacle? The solution is very simple. The Northern democracy are devoted to the Union. The Union is and has been the corner stone of their political faith, with all their corruptions and demoralizing squabbles over the spoils. To the Isat extremity of hope they were ready to make ail compromises und sacrifices of ab- stractions and of power to conciliate their re- fractory brethren of the South. To save the South these Northern democrats had cheerfully submitted to a serics of disastrous defeats; but, rallying again and again, they still struggled to hold the two sections together. The South- ern secessionists, last April a, year ago, at Charleston, and last June, at Baltimore, insult- ingly severed the bonds between the two wings of the democratic party, and opened the door | toarepublican triumph; but till the wrongs of the South might have been redressed, and the rights of the South secured within the Union. The democrats and other conservatives of the North, in favor of Southern rights, atill held the balance of power in both houses of the late Congress, and had secured it in both houses ef the new Congress which is to meet on the Iourth of July; and thus, beyond all ac- cidents, for two years to come, the Southern States were positively safe against any en- croachments of an snti-slavery administration. What next? Seven of the Southern States, in quick succession, receded, and their members, withdrawing from Congress, left both houses in the hands of the republicans. These acts of se- ceesion, too, were coupled with such astound- ing disclosures of Southern treachery in the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan, and with such high- handed seizures of government property, that the Northern advocates of Southern rights were left bitterly defenceless among our people. It needed only the bombardmentof Fort Sumter and Mr. Liacoln’s war proclamation, to deve- lope the sweeping revolution effected in the North. Here is the explanation of the present war- | like attitude of the Northern democracy. Alienating and insultingly rejecting the friendly offices of their Northern allies in the Union, the revolted States have thrown down the gauntlet of war, and first, from the wnited North, our patriotic democracy spring forward to take it up. All compromises having failed, they are | prompt to make good the cause of the yovern- ment and the Union by the sword. They furnish the bulk of the fighting element of the North. Gen. Butler, late the Breckinridge candidate for Governor of Massachusetis, has won a campaign in opening the government route to Washing- ton by way of Annapolis. We dare say, too, that three-fourths of the volunteers now on hand for the defence of Washington are from the parties who opposed Mr. Lincoln’s election. They are thus arrayed ®u the side of his ad- ministration in behalf of the integrity of the government and the Union, and for nothing more. Their loyalty and their patriotiem cannot be questioned, But what can we say in defence of our republican parly organs and leaders, who are preaching crusade of nniversal de- vastation and confiscation against the South? | The republican party have practically served | as the Northern allies of our Southern conspirators in bringing on this and now, if the «dministration is to be guided by its leading party organs, this war is to be a war of Southern extermination, according to the Tt be- comes, therefore, the first duty of our adminis} conflict, | tration practically to disaiuee the public | wind of this dangerous idea. Mr. Lincoln has indicated a legitimate war polley, apon which all loyal Union men may unite. Let him ad- here New York Zrilune are preaching a ferocious crusade, which, if adopted, will carry us into the endless horrors of Mexican anarchy, and the 7/mes, in urging the displacement of Mr. Lincoln, would have the government destroyed and anarchy Inaugurated at a single blow. Tho war policy of the Presideut is Luited ta to it. The anti-slavery Vandals of the , the recovery of all the forts, arsenals, custom bouses, mints and other federal property seized and appropriated by the rebels of the Confede- sate States for the purposes of their cebellion; and this policy affords “ample scope aud verge enough” for the restoration by force of arms of every revolted State to the Union. Oa the other tack of a merciless subjugstioa, involving the servile atrocities of St. Domingo, the unity of the North will be lost, our administration will become entangled in an endless war, and our country, North and South, will be ruined. - But we waat 20 compromises now with armed rebellion. While the spirit of the North is up, we want our government to act promptly and decisively, and not to let the iron get cool by wasting time. The speedy movement of a com- petent column of government troops upone Richmond may restore Virginia without blood- shedto the Union; an unwise delay may in- volve the government not only in heavy losses of money, but in a series of bloody battles to recover Virginia, Action is the word. ‘The Great Crisis of thr Nation. The American republic is now passing through one of those terrible ordeals from which no nation in anclent or modern times has been or can expect to be exempt. Let civil war, and all the evils which follow in its train, be de- plored as much as they may be, still, the reflec- tion that our present situation is one against which perbaps no patziotism or foresight on the part of the American people could guard, must reconcile us to it a8 one of the inevitabilities of our national existence. The people of the South may be condemned for entering into a causeless war against a government whose operation was never felt, except for good, by a single law-abiding citizen, from Maine to Texas; and yet even for them there may be something alleged in extenuation. They allow- ed themselves to be swayed by the mad coun- sels of ambitious demagogues, until they began to believe that the federal goverament would be or might be warped to their injury and de- gradation. There never was the slightest ground for such an idea; but tacy believed it, nevertheless, as they also believed that what ever they demanded the people of the North would concede, aad that no measure of coer- cton would ever be tolerated against them. Thus they found themselves entrapped into a false position, from which they can see no es- cape except in self humiliation or in s devast- ating war. And so war is upon us. It cannot be evaded. It must be met as it becomes a great nation to meet such « calamity--as the great North has shown itself ready to meet it Trade may languish, commerce be interrupted, our prosperity be temporarily checked, and sorrow and suffering must fall to the lot of many. All this we must bear, we are pre- pared to bear, with unfaliering courage and resignation. Private interests and feelings give way before ihe public welfare. The ene absorbing thought to-day in the mind of every citizen ef the free States is the preservation of the government and the perpetuation of the republic in its integrity. With that one idea, and with the spontaneous uprising of the peeple to maintain it, there need be no craven fears for the issue, No reverses can shake the popular resolve, no impediments stop the onward tread of our armies to the triumphs which will restore peace. Parity lines and dis- tinctions are swaliowed up in the one patriotic thought of protecting the republic—the only difference being that the great heart of the | democracy beats for the cause of country with even more generous impulses than that of its party antagonist. Why should we have hoped to be exempi from those fiery ordeals through which all na- tions pass in turn? It might not have been well for our future if this cup of suffering had been turned away. Our prosperity might have made us effeminate. Adversity is as essential to nations as to individuals, and we will emerge from our present difficulties purified and strengthened. Imperial Rome, through her long centuries of conquest and greatness, had to pass through many sanguinary civil wars. But tho safety of the republic was always the predominant idea of her citizeas; and whether Cwsar or Pompey prevailed, her territorial limits suffered no curtailment. The little republics of Greece, possessed with the States rights madness of their times, made war upon each other, but were only formidable when thoy | forgot their intestine feuds, and, under the lead | of Philip or Alexander, presented a united front to the foreign enemy. England has had her civil wars, as France has had, and as every country in Europe has had; and the general re- sult has been to establish their respective govg ernments on a more solid and enduring basis. So let us hope it will be with the American republic. The dangers that now threaten its existence seem formidable, but are in reality trifling when compared with those which other nations have met andsurmounted. We are yot in the very youth of our national existence, Including the colonial era, we have hardly en- tered on our third century, not more than one- fifth of tho average duration of great nations, We could not expect to have gone on in untn- terrupted peace and prosperity, exempt from the trials which chequer the existence of all nations. Our day of trial and suffering has come, and we must prove ourselves equal to it. No doubt wo shall. With the unanimity that prevails throughout the Northern portion of the confederacy, there need be no apprehension as to tho ultimate issue of the contest. The war is one between government and anarchy; | and, however obstinate and sanguinary may bo the contest, the principle of government must finally prevail, and the republic remain in the future as in the past, one and indivisible.” Mrrrany Movewenrs ar tae Sorru,—The Southern journals say very little about the military movements of the revolutionary party. Hero we have a free press, and hence we pub- lish everything concerning the movements of our troops that we can get; but the Southera papers are existing under a military censor- ehip, and they are almost mute with reference to what is going on in the Southern States. But we have no doubt whatever, from all the information we receive from private sources, which is the only reliable intelligence these days, that the most strenuous efforta are being made In the South to advance troops towards the Potomac and the vicinity of Washington, and we should not be surprised if they had 50,000 men concentrated there within a week or two. Gen. Scott should not be deceived by the apparent quict and calm in the Sonth. He should anticipate the movements of the revola- tionary lenders by taking some decisive action at once in Maryland and Virgiala, An English View of Our Political ~ sma Russctt’s Lettrrs from the Considerable ouriosity hag beea manifested both here and abroad conoernims the first let- ter from this country of Mr, Russell, the cor- respondent of the London Ji ¢s. In Fngtend it bas been anxiously looked for, aa being like- ly t throw some fresh light on the tangied web of American politics, at all times difficult of comprehension to foreigners. Here the in- terest excited in regurd to it attached rather to the individual than to his mission. People were curious to see how a clever journalist, gifted with great quickness of observation and desoriptive powers ef no cemmon order, would acquit himzelf of a task in which such writers as Dickens, Captain Hall, Mrs, Trollope, Miss Martineau and a host of other literary celebri- ties had ao signally failed. Mr. Russell's opening letter is now before us, Itdces not disappoint as; formuch as weadmire the ability displayed ia his Crimean and Indian correepondeace, we did not expect (o find his first impressions of this country marked by his usual soundness of views and accuracy as to faote. Itis-one thing to describe the stirring incidents of a campaign, or the abuses of a sys- tem like that of the Foglish administration in Kodia, and another to anslyze correctly a con- dition of society and institutions which presents e0 may complicated, and, to the Nuropean mind, so many incomprehensible phases. It isnot to be wondered at, therefore, if, after ® residence in this country of only a few weeks, the impressions formed of it by the London Times correspondent should present some atrange blunders. He has been living a life of 80 much excitement for the last few years, and been so accustomed to the noisy demonstra- tions of the mercurial populations with whom he haa been brought ia contact, that he could not understand the calmness and equanimity of the people of New York under their present troubles. That they should take matters so coolly whilst the Union was threatened with dissolution paseed his belief. Mr. Russell forgets, or rather he was uasnble to appreciate the fact when he wrote this letter, thet in their hearts the peopie of the North never did believe, and do aot believe now, that the Union is monaced by any euch danger. Seven of the Southern States tad rebelied egainst the authority of the .generai govern- ment; but although they felt it their duty to exhaust every means of conciliation to bring them back to reason, they knew that they pos- veseed the power to coerce them into cbedi- ence when they chose to exercise it. therefore, Mr. Russell enlarges upon the apathy which he witnessed amongst the people of New York on his arrival, ho is evidently unable to reconcile the latent energy and calmness which are the distinguishing features of the American character. We do not go frantic wader the misfortunes by which we are visited, simply be- causo we bave reliance upon our ability to overcome them. The events of the last fort night will no doubt have taught our Woglish censor that his estimate of the patriotio sensi- bilities of the North was founded on the most superficisl grounds, Tle makes some curious statemenis as to the opinions expressed to bim by leading mer- chants here, on the causes of our present troubles and their remedy, They sneered, he says, at universal suffrage, vole by ballot, free citizenship and a free press; asserted there was no recuperative power in the con- stitution, and maintained that New York would do anything rather than fight. her delight being to eat her bread and honey in peace. Mr, Russell seems to have fallen into curious company during his brief sojourn amongst us. Weare afraid that, shrewd as he is, he got amongst a knot of practical jokers, and was extensively crammed, like seme of his unhappy predecessors in the tourist line. Certainly we recognise in the sentiments which he puts into the mouths of our leading mer- chants nothing of the spirit which came for- ward 0 promptly at the first appeal of the government to the patriotism of the North, and poured forth money like water to defend it. There may be persons hold- ing euch opinions in our community, but they are very few, if any, and in all pro- bability belong to that old and uainfuential class of foreign traders who have never taken the naturalization oath or modified their Ku- ropean prejudices. We are sorry for Mr, Russell. He is a man } of a very diferent stamp from Mr. Woods, the correspondent whom the London Times sent out to accompany the Prince of Wales, and we should regret to see him wrecking a fair repu- tation by the carelessness and flippancy which distinguiehed that individual. His letters, if conscientiously written, can do great geod abroad. by correcting mistaken impressions as to the character and objects of the patriotic effort now being made by the North. Per- verted in favor of a bad cause, they are sure to recoil upon himself, and to lose him the esteem in which he is so generally held. Wart is to 3x Dose Oven? to se Done Quioxiy.—There is no time to be lost in deal- ing with the rebellions States. The most prompt and energetic action is required on the part of the administration. Troops ought to be hurried into Washington with the utmost celerity, and at the earliest day Virginia and Maryland ought to be controlled by the sword. This may be done by pouring large forces into Bal- timore, Alexandria and other places, and taking complete possession of them, and thence proceeding actively with the work of subjuga- tion elsewhere, It will be a great vic- tory to have the Union men in posses- sion of Virginia before the 25d of May, upon which day the ordinance of se- ceesion is to be submitted to the popular vote, If the administration only acts with vigor, and (lisplays ekilful genoralship in the | movement of the troops at Its command, we may have Harper's Ferry, the Norfolk Navy Yard and the capital of the Old Dominion in the hands of the fedcral government before the last Thursday of the month. We are by no means sanguine that this result will be so quickly accomplished but the mere fact of its possibilily onght to stimulate the country to use its strongest efforts towards such an achievement. Theso are momentous mo- ments, notwithstanding the partial lull which is being experienced, and, there- fore, we say earnestly, that the pre- sent is the timo for action, and that whatever is to be done must be done quickly, The promptitude of our movements may de- cide half the battle in our favor, and the re- sistance we shall have to encounter, both by the strength of arme and the popular Pentiment, Will be lewe then ifour measures hye deferred, Whea, | Time ap toe certain limit will only add foel to the fire ef eecession, ead enable tho rebels to dmorease aud concentrate their resources, Theree@rill be fifty thousen? Northern troops ia and wifMin forty miles ef Washington in less than ten dags, and these eught thea to be put into immediate wetlon, Let it be remembered that the sooner the waris really commenced the sooner will it be @ver, aad the sooner that tukes place the better for us all, Tue Moutany Mevzwents 0 Democracy.—At the Presi? fall w million and a baif .© erthern de- mocracy voted against ” cola. ¥et four- fifths of the military (ucce’ now moving tv the South, to sustaia bis goverment in the present emergency, are democrats. As for the Wide Awakes, with their curious costume and their flaming torches, with which they paraded our streets in nocturnal processions, they bavo totally disappeared. When the time for a dif- ferent sort of marching has arrived, they are nowhere. The fighting leaders of the republi- can party, who threatened such gveat things, have gone on foreign missions; aud the irre- pressible conflict is left exclusively to the de- mocracy. Both the officers and the rank end file belong mostiy to that party. Frea the Massachusetts regiments are democratic, ome of them being commanded by Colonel Butler, who was the Breckinridge eandidate for Gov- ernor last fall, This shows the sagacious iastinets of the democracy. They cling to the constitution and the Union, and they will triumph om this broad principle. .How different ia their course from that of the Southern secea- sictists. The democracy have always stood by the South; and had the seceding States atood by the democracy last fail Mr. Lincola would net bave been eleoted; the next Congress would have been completely under the control of the Southern statesmen and their Northern allics, and all would have beea right. But they aban- doned their friends at the Norih, and broke up tLe Union on the alleged ground of threatened destruction to their institutions from the repub- ficam party. The Northern democracy, on the contrary, though always allied with the South on political primciples, not only refuse to jom them in their attempt to overthrow the govern- ment, but are the first to confront them on the battle field in euppert of it. Had the democracy of the North backed the seceding States the issne could not be doubtful. But they would not meanly take advantage of the weakness of a political foe, wko was constitutionally elected President, so long as he did not commit any overt act subversive of the rights of any section of the Union. By this prompt action the democracy will not only save the Union, but put dowa for- ever the secession movement and abolitionisn together, and the republican party will aever be heard of again. The country will become more united, more prosperous, more happy, and greater than it ever wes before—an ox- ample to the nations of Europe, whose states- men and press are now sncering at our trou- bles—an example that a representative de- mocracy has more vitality and cohesion thax they ever gave it credit for, and that it cas maintain itself, when put to the test, better than the despois with their standing armies, expeasive navies and complicated diplomacy. Morrriiny al efection last Tux Portvran Esravsiasm anp Nationa Srrencru.—We have only to turn to our streets to see the grand unity of opin- ion which prevails among our people at the present momentous crisis, There ig but one voice, one sentiment, and that is for the defence of the flag of our Union. The popular demonstrations of whick our streets have been the scene at the departure of every fresh regiment for Washing- ton bear overwhelming testimony to the una- nimity with which the citizens of New York, and not New York only, but the nineteen millions of the nineteen stil? loyal States, have entered upon the glorious work of defending the national honor and as-° eerting the national strength. Grand as were the scenes of former days, the spectacle perhaps, outrivalled them all. Broadway presented from side to side a sea of human heads, and this sea, as the troops approached, opened for their passage as the Red Sea is said to have opened of yore for the passage of the hosts of Israel. But in- stead of the seething murmur of dividing wa- ters, there arose mighty swelling chorus of deep, linpassioned voices in welcome of the brave. Loudly rang the peans of tens of thousands in their praise, and tons of thousands beyond echoed their glorious cheer. Those eoldiers must have felt the effect of such a vast and touching display of patriotism, and looked upon every one of that applauding moultitude as a friend, with a common interest at heart. {t was an expression of devotion to the flag of our Union that flag which pre- serves to us our rights and liberties, and for which our fathers fought. [t was a voice of encouragement and a pledge of sympathy, and uttered in such 4 manner as to thrill with exultation those in whose ears it rang. Such spectacles as these present the most telling contradictions to the assertions of the European press that the republican form of government had proved a failure. That re- publicanism and the working of republican institutions have not failed, will soon be, if it is not already, fully demonstrated to the world, and the world will be forced to make the acknowledgment. Jn what other country could such extensive military resources hava been ro quickly and so extensively developed as in these Northern States during the last fort- night? And in what other country than our own would the people have come forward sa promptly with the offer of their purses and their pereons to aid in the national cause? Wa can raise, if required. not only millions of mo- ney, but millions of men. We can concentrate whatever amount of force may be found neces~ sary for the subjection of our enemies. Wa have all the elements of greatness, whether im war or peace, and our trie will flouriste and our wealth increase, whatever carnage there may be. Who, therefore, con doubt the final issue? Tow Ustoy Feriive ix Vimetta ano Many Lann.—Notwithstan?ing the activity of the revolutionary leaders in Virginia and Mary~ land, and the vigorous attompts to keep up a violent demonstration of secession sentinent, there is still » powerful feeling in favor of tha Union in these States, which, if allowed frea expression through the ballot box, would make ituelf felt very sonsibly. In Virginia we have very little doubt that two-thirds of the peopla aro willing to pronounce for adhesion 1 the