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City Court. BEFORE JUDOS OUXVEB. 1 I II MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 12. The Secession Movement.

Those who regarded the secession of the southern representatives in the Charleston Convention as a mere blunder, were very badly mistaken those men knew perfectly well that they could have prevented the nomination of Douglas, and secured the nomination of a candidate whose pre. vious record contained nothiDjr offensive to the The Feeling at the South; The excitement at the South still continues. In the State Senate of South Carolina a bill was reported providing for the enrollment of 10,000 vol" untcers. Senator Chesuut of South Carolina has resigned his position, as has also Senator Toombs of Georgia. The Palmetto flag waves over most of the public buildings in Charleston, and the people of that city arc enthusiastically in favor of so" cession.

At Montgomery, Alabama, a mass meeting was held on Saturday last, composed of all classes and all parties, and all were in favor of secession. The Governor of Alabama had determined to call a convention to take the question of secession into consideration, to meet on the first Monday in Sauuary. The resignation of Southern Senators and federal officers creates much excitement at the national capital, and it was feared that four or five other Southern Senators would follow their example. The tone of the press throughout the South generally is conservative as the following extracts show: From the New Orleans Picayune. Louisiana, we venture to affirm, will ueither lead nor follow in any secession movement.

She acknowledges a fealty to the Constitution, and regards her own honor too highly to favor extreme measures before they become the last alternatives. In the words of the illustrious Jackson, whose memory she reveres, she believes that compared to disunion all other evils yet experienced are light, because that brings with it an accumulation of all," From ibe Savannah Republican. We confess we would have greatly preferred to have seen it otherwise, However, we have no complaints to make. It is the people's business, and if they are satisfied, we must be. We shall always be found ready to bow with respectful deference to their will wheu expressed that great republican arbiter, the Ballot Box.

From the Louisville Journal. What ought patriots to do It appears to us that the answer to this question is plain. Patriots ought to stand loyally aud patientlv in the L'uion under the Constitution and wield" the might of the one and the checks and balances of the other to protect both. It is not enough to guard the Constitution against infraction; we must with equal vigilance guard the Union against disruption. The Union and the Constitution must be preserved.

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untried, The Republican party has been inves' cd with power as a trust, and it may so abuse that truBt as to justify the South in secediug. But it may so use it as to take away all pretence for secession and it will not do to destroy the government because it may be 'perverted in the future. The Political Jubilee ui Plymouth Church. We should judge the eccentricities of clerical politicians by a different standard from that applied to their lay brethren. There is uo position a man can occupy so calculated to foster mental weaknesses as the pulpit.

If there be vanity and egotism iu the character they will be sure to bloom and blossom in the most luxuriant manner in the warm breath of an admiring congregation. Thero is no ordeal so easy to pass as that of a pastoral flock. Sound believing Is rather inimical to logi. cal acumen and the style of argument that passes for being irrefragable in the pulpit would be very irreverently taken to pieces by the criticism applied to other productions. In almost anything he says, so long as he is sound on a few defined points of theology, he may rely upon the unquestioning assent of his hearers.

Then if he possesses any traits of character which arc calculated to render him popular he becomes himself an idol and that sort 01 idolatry denominated man wor! ship takes the place of religion. So much may this be case that the numbers who attend what by courtesy and usage is called divine service will depend entirely upon whether the favorite parson Is to occupy the pulpit. While he can draw a crowd, a substitute would be left to preach to empty boxes. This personal idolatry attaches itself to teachers, lay and clerical. Ipse dixit was quite enough for the pupils of the Acad, cmician.

If the master said so that was an to all argument. But iu the case of clergymen, for the reasons we have parasitical tendencies are much greater. And the evil is double and reciprocal. While the disciples cease to use their own reason, judgment and taste, the teacher, finding occasional eccentricities applauded to the echo, naturally falls into demagoguic habits of thought and vitiated forms of expression until whatever natural ability or taste he may possess, become lost or obscured by the trappings aud tinsel of Mr. Merry man.

It is the misfortune of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, to have a crowd iu attendance upon his ministrations, who are so lost in admiration aud worship of the man that should he have the misfortune to lose his senses and rave and foam at the mouth, they would consider his condition the result of heavenly inspiration. Should he essay to be witty they are bound to laugh, though the jest may have been the property of Poor Richard, or Joe Miller; unless he grins they dare not smile, "though Nestor sware the joke were laughable." It is not surprising, therefore, that Mr. Beecher, in his political harangues, should trespass proprieties which even the lowest class of stump politicians feel bound to observe. It has been a circumstance which we believe reflects credit on the journals ajid orators of the Republican party, that they observed a discreet moderation of tone since the late election, which shows a degree of good taste which all but a clerical orator who had been totally spoiled by the adulation of Mrs.

Jcllaby, would have the acuteness to perceive, and the decency to imitate. There has been no exuberant exultation to exasperate and annoy a party whose defeat itself carries sufficient chagrin, and which no man can fail to see may produce very deplorable consequences. When Buchanan was elected four years ago, the youthful Democrats agreed to celebrate the event by a jubilee at their log cabin, but it was agreed that it would be a violation of the consideration one class of citizens owe to another to exult over a defeated rival. They had not got as far as Mr. Beecher and did not desecrate the Sabbath by celebrating their orgies on that sacred day.

Mr, Beecher yesterday had his jubilee in the Plymouth Church over the defeat of the South. Men never slay the slain, nor exult over a prostrate enemy, nor strike a fallen antagonist. There are laws that regulate the warfare of the political ring, which all men at least ought to recognise and respect. It is only the female rivpn thHa grille tnd cir itnlmc Y.n. oasiuj'a eyes out.

And it is only men who occupy pro fessions which exclude them from the combats of mcD, and whose cloth places them on the non combative platform of womeu and children, who will fall to pounding a prostrate enemy. There are probably few men who can look at the condition of the country, and see in the survey, just cause for exultation, and the pouring of contumely on a section already sufficiently excited. Of these few Mr. Beecher is the most conspicuous We have referred to the advantage the political parson has in his position and the constitution of his audience. Nor do his advantages stop here.

Should Captain Rynders take the name of the Deity In vain in a political harangue, why that is profanity, nay it is blasphemy and the public is shocked. When the pulpit politician takes the same unwarrantable liberty with "heavenly essences" and the nomenclature of divinity, why that is piety and prayer. The political parson curses his antagonists in his prayer and swears at them in his sermon, and it is all orthodox godliness but the lay politician can use no such batteries without incurring the consequences of such irreverent abuse of holy things. The mere politician, too, is liable to cross questions which can find no voice in a church, and has his statements sifted and criticised, but there is a sort of ex cathedra sanctity about the utterances of "the Lord's annotated." Mr. Beecher, however, can fill his church bv these performances, and probably in no other way, and as his audience will be sure to admire whatever he utters, the opinion of the outside world is of very little consequence.

Mr. Beecher is dreadfully scandalised at Wall street and at the idea of people taking commercial considerations into account in viewing political questions. Of course Mr. Beecher, like Paul, preaches for nothing and boards himself. He does not draw ten thousand a year, less or more, from Plymouth Church, and whenhc traverses the country making political stump speeches he does not demand his pay in advance.

And when fie denounced his trustees for refusing to let Wendell Phillips have the use of the church, and afterwards made a very abject apology, he was not at all influenced by the fact that the men he attacked carried the purse. But then as everybody cannot reach such a height of apostolical self denial as himself he ought to have some regard to the weaknesses of human nature and not hand U3 all over to the devil at once. European Items. Harry Lohrequer in Danger. Mr.

Charles' Lever and his daughter were upset in a heavy squall, on the 11th instant, in the Gulf of Spezia a heavy sea was running at the time, and the boat filling went 'down immediately. Being good swimmers, they succeeded in reaching some water barrels that had floated from the boat as she set led down, and supported by these they held on till they wore picked up. The distance from shore about two miles made swimming somewhat hazardous, particularly as the sea was so rough. Miss Lever's danger was increased by her successful efforts to save a favorite dog, which would inevitably have been drowned if uuaided. "A Charming Family.

The tribunal of Correctional Police of Besancon in December last, condemned to imprisonment for robbery two females who gave the names of Claudine and Philberte Jacquis, and who represented themselves to sisters. Subsequently the discovery was made that the lirst woman was no other than the notorious Catharine Minder, who in 1S58, was tried with several other persons bearing the same aud other names, but all relatives, for the murder and robbery of a jeweller, named Pochard, at Caen (crimes which excited immense sensation), but was acquitted. On her examination ou the charge of robbery she sigued the false name of Claudine Jacquis, and was, in consequence ordered for trial before the court of assizes of the department for forgery. The trial took place a short time ago, and the offence was clearly proved. She was, it appeared, a foundling, named Dufour, but was married to one of the Minders, who was condemned to twenty years' hard labor for participation in the Caen murder.

She had, at different times gone by the names of Jules, Roche, Lo Roche, Cerrierre, and Wall, as also those of Dufour Jlinder, and had been condemued under each. The Minder family, to which she belongs, is notorious in the annals of crime; the head 'of it, an old man, is undergoing a sentence of imprisonment for life for participation iu murder, aud would bo iu the bagne if it were not for his age; three brothers, his sons, have been condemned to death for murder; another son, now deceased, was repeatedly condemued; old Minder's sister and her daughter, and the daughter's husband are each undergoing sentences of 'hard labor; aud lastly, the prisoner's husband, as already mentioned, has been sentenced to twenty years of that punishment. The jury declared tho woman guilty of the forgery, aud the court condemued her to live years' hard labor. European paper. Blindness and Lunacy.

A highly interesting paper was read at the last sitting of the Academy of Medicine of Paris, by Dr. Bouisson, physician to the Hospital of St. Eloi, of Montpelier, on a curious case of blindness and lunacy in the same individual, in which the cure of the former infirmity had brought on the cure of the latter. A yew ago a man of about 50, a native of the department of Gard, was brought to the hospital above mentioned. His eyes, upon examination, jwere found to be both affected with cataract, and his incoherent answers to the questions addressed to him sufficiently revealed his state of mind.

An operation being resolved upon, Dr. Bouisson ordered the patient to be chloroformed but although he was thus effectually sent to sleep, the danger of his waking during the operation, and frustrating the hopes of the surgeon by some act of insubordination, which, in a lunatic, might be expected, induced Dr. Bouisson to have him secured with a straight jacket a precaution which was continued even after the operarion had been successfully performed, an attendaut being specially intrusted with the care of the lunatic with orders to apply compresses steeped in cold water on his eyes from time to time. On the tenth day the patient, who until then had not had the slightest idea of what had been done, was allowed to sec the light. A stupid smile gleamed on his face for an instant, and he exclaimed, "I can see 1" These were the first coherent words he had uttered since his arrival at the hospital.

He was now daily subjected to those trials which were requisite to ascertain the complete success of the operation: With his recognition of the objects around him his mental faculties seemed also gradually to revive. First he named the things he wanted, and stretched out his hand for them; then he began to appreciate distances and dimensions correctly; his memory returned next with considerable rapidity; and in the course of a few days intellectual spontaneous ness began to manifest itself. He asked for more food, wanted to get up from his bed, and desired to be allowed to go home, which boon, however, was refused. His ideas soon became clearer, his speech more intelligible, and his recollections of the time when he could see, before he was attacked with cataract, became brighter. Vain endeavors, nevertheless, were made to ascertain the period when he lost his reason; all he could state was that he had been blind three years.

After a stay of six weeks at the hospital he returned home an altered man, enjoying both his eyesight, and intellectual luultua. PHJCBTFT. I. Tragedy at Bradford, England. On Sunday night, the 31st, Mrs.

Gowland, the wife of an attorney's clerk, named John George Gowland, residing in a wretched dwelling in High street, Bradford, England, cut the throats of licr two children, Elizabeth Jane and Ann, aged two and four years respectively, and then attempted to commit suicide by cutting her own throat. The husband states that, on going home about ten o'clock, he found the door locked and the house in darkness. He knocked several times before the door was opened on entering he struck a light, and then discovered his wife sitting on the bedside with her throat cut. The bed was also covered with blood, and the children lying dead with their throats cut. The poor woman soon after the horrible discovery, was taken to the infirmary, and, although the wound on her throat is very serious, she is expected to recover.

The husband was taken into custody, but afterwards discharged, his unhappy wife declaring that she alone cut the throats of her children. The neighbors also say he came to the door at ten o'clock, and had to knock a long time. It seems that Mrs. Gowland, desperately injured as she was, managed to crawl to the door in reply to her husband's knocks; the floor being streaked with her blood. She then appears to have returned to her bed, on which her husband first saw her seated, beside the ghastly corpse of her two children.

She had employed two razors, which were found at the head of the bed, and the children had apparently been dead for some time. Gowland is about 32 years of age, and his wife about o0. He was in the service of Messrs. Terry and Watson, solicitors, and came from Durham or Sunderland. His irregularities had long been a source of unhappiness at home; he and his wife had twice separated, and it had been arranged that they should again separate, as, yesterday, a letter was found in the wife's possession from Which it appeared that a sister at Sunderland was about to receive her into her house.

The poor woman was formerly cook in the service of the Bishop of Durham. The inquest on the bodies of the two children was opened on the 23d. Gowland was examined as a witness, and his conduct described as revolting in the extreme. He refused to attend the inquest unless he was taken thither in the cab, and was, moreover, allowed his expenses. The feeling is very strong against him at Bradford, and his conduct had been very bad towards the woman with whom he cohabited, but nothing really criminal can be urged against him.

So far as the evidence went, it showed that the mother murdered the children, but there was some good ground for the belief that she had been driven to the act through jealousy aud harsh treatment. Owing to her very precarious position, the inquest was adjourned for a fortnight. Gowland has stated that the murderess was not his wife. The woman herself has confirmed this statement, but the police bave found in Gowland's possession a document purporting to be a certificate of marriage. Tbe man was, therefore, re aprehended, and was remanded by tho magistrates, on the application of the chief constable, who expressed his belief that he would be able to show that the prisoner had been guilty cither of forgery or perjury in this matter.

Mrs. Gowland, alias Sutton, is not expected to recover from the fearful wounds she inflicted upon herself. At the sitting of the Court this morning, Hie jury panol for the term was called, and a full altcndanco was present. The trial calendar was taken up, anil tho first case brought on was that of Lynch and wife vs. Flunnery and wife.

This was an action (or slander, tho plaintiff alleging that Mrs. Flunnery stated publicly in July, 1359, that Mrs. Lynch bad one "liego lord" too many has in fact two husbands, and so was guilty of bigamy. The case lias been tried once, when the Jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff of six cunts, which verdict was set aside the Court possibly deeming the circulation of such an insinuation effected more lhan sixpence worth of damage to tho reputation of the fair plaintiff. The defendant denied iu toto the use of the language complained of, and contended that no injury had been sustained; thai it was a mero woman's squabble, and tho present trial was the limax of a series of contentions being carried on between the two families in the rolico courts.

The case is still on. Court of Oyer and Terminer. IIF.KOUE now. EMOTT and justices stkyxeb and 8TILWEIX. This Court was organized this morning at the usual honr, and a Grand Jury was forthwith sworn in.

Judge Emolf delivered a clear and comprehensive charge, setting forth their duties as Grand Jurors, anil directing their attention to the various topics as required by law. 'flic charge was general, aud uncharacterized by any feature of especial note. The Grand Jury retired, ami no business being ready, the Court adjourned till to morrow. New York City News. New York axd Brooklyn Foreign Missionary Society.

The 33d annual meeting of ihc New York and Brooklyn Foreign Missionary Society, took place at the Presbyterian church, comer of Madison avenue and Thirty fourth street, last evening. The annual report was read, showing that during the past year over $22,001) bad been received in contributions, 2,500 more than last year. In addition to this thero wcrespeclal amounting to $20,000, to pay off the old debts. The total amount received in contributions ThoKev. Walter Clarke delivered the annual address.

Draw Bridge Carried Away. The drawbridge over Flushing creek carried away by a vessel which struck against the abutment, on Friday "last, Tho cars could not cross the creek until next day. Staoe Stables and Horses Bct.xed. Tho stage stables of the lted Bird Hue, on the corner of I12d street and 10th avenue, were burned down last evening. They were one story in height and covered Ave lots of ground.

Eighty horses were roasted to death, besides two omnibuses, harness and feed. A neighboring dwelling houso was somewhat damaged. The total loss is estimated at about $15,010. One hundred and twenty one horses were in the stables. Forty one were taken out uninjured.

The Southern Medical Students. The medical students from the South resolved last Friday evening to secede that is, to pick up their traps and go home. They appear, however, to have given up the notion, for, as near as could be ascertained, not ono of them has left. The lack of funds may impel a few to seek a warmor climato, but the great majority will doubtless continue their studies. Express Trains to Aiuany, and the West.

Six fast trains are now running on the New Tork and Harlem, aud Albany railroad, daily. Connections are made with the New York Central, and passengers are taken through to the principal 'Western, North western and South western cities. New and comfortable cars have been provided for tbe trains, and great improvements have been made upon tbe line. The Expresses leave New York at a. and 5 p.

and the mail train at 10 a. m. Congressmen Elected. The new delegation to Congress from the State of New York will stand about as follows; showing a Democratic Union gain of several members Dist. 1 Edward Henry Smith, Iem.

Rain. 2 Moses F. Odefl, Dem. gain. 3 Benjamin Wood, IJem.

4 James E. Kerrigan. Dem. 5 William Wall, Repub. gain.

6 Fred, A. Conkllng, probably, Repub. gain. 7 Elijah Ward, Dem, gain. Isaac C.

Delaplaine, Dem, (Clark's disk) i Edward Haight. Dem. gain. 10 Close and doubtful. 11 Not ascertained.

12 Stephen Baker. Rep. 13 Abraham B. Olto. Kepub.

14 Erastus Corning, Dem. gain. 15 James B. M'Kean, Repub. 16 W.

A. Wheeler, Repub. 17 S. W. Sherman.

Repub. 18 Chouncey Vibbard, Dem. gain. 4C0 maj. IU Richard Franchot, Kepub.

20 Roscoe Conkling, Repub. 21 B. H. Duell, Repub, 21 Wm. Lansing.

Repub. 3 A. W. Clark. Repub.

24 Charles Sedgwick, Eepub. 25 Theodore M. Pomeroy, Repub. 20 Jacob P. Chamberlain, Repub.

37 Alex. S. Diven. Repub. R.

Valkenberg. Repub. v. Alfred Ely, Repub. SO Augustus Frank, Repub, 31 Van Horn, long term.

R. Reynolds, Bhort term. 3 E. G. Spaulding.

Repub. 3 a Keunen e. Kenton, Repub. The Bmtcn Divorce Case in Illinois. Public attention in this vicinity is speedily to be turned from election topics the developments of the various stages of progress of the Birch divorce case, soon to be put on trial in our neighboring county of Da Page, where it is to be called up on Monday next, 11th in the quiet little town of Naperville, about thirty miles west of this city, and lying to the southward of the Chicago and Galena Kailroad line.

From the prominence of the parties and the wide notoriety from the outset given to the ease, the interest with which it will be watched in all sections of the country, particularly in New York State, will be, and is, something remarkable. The trial already promises, when once opened, to continue through a period unusual even for cases of its class, such is the exceedingly bulky and voluminous mass of evidence, both3 oral and by deposition, which in these months past it has been the labor of acute and skillful cousel the accumulate and prepare. It has been sought widely here and at the East, following the parties in their temporary sojourn at the East, in Summer tours and Summer haunts at the seaside, everywhere the wife from whom divorce is sought nothin" has been left unseanned that legal tact and skill! aided by the services of noted detectives, can secure for the attack and defense, which is mutual, reciprocal and bitter. For some time past, in our own immediate vicinity, little or nothing has transpired, and nothing has lound its way into the Press of our city since the publication some months since of the voluminous documents, the plea and answer of the principal parties. In neighboring citie however, in Cincinnati, St.

Louis' and New York the taking of depositions in this case has attracted more or less of public attention, from time to time, finding place aud mention in the Press of those cities. The St. Louis papers have more than once made extended reference to this branch of the preparations. The Missouri Democrat of the 5th mst. gives a column or more of reference to the taking of depositions in that city, the counsel of Mrs.

Burch, aided by C. P. Bradley of this city, in the procuring witnesses and arrangement of testimony. 1 The allegation of the infidtlity of Mrs. Burch is to be resisted, among other means, by an attempt to blacken and destroy the reputation of Mr.

Burch, and it is In this branch ot the defense that these St. Louis depositions are to ihrurc. Tbe deposition of one witness has been taken, that of Ellen C. Clark. The witness swears that she was first informed of this suit by the newspapers that she wrote to Erastus Corning, communicating to him that Mr Bnrch's character could be attacked through her evidence.

Her connection with the case as a witness was secured by an interview with Mr. Beck with of this city, subsequent to, and tho result of, her letter to Mr. Coming. She saw Mr. BecKwith at the Piiehmond House in this city, in August last, where her affidavit was taken in the presence of a notary.

The witness then proceeds to depose that she received the visits of Mr. Burch. The Missouri Democrat gives an extraordinary account of a second and recent visit of the woman Clark to Chicago, where she came in the habit of a nun, with a clonk over her disguise. She visited Mr. Burch to ask alms, but he declining to "ive alms without further information respecting her and perceiving that she carefully held her cloalc around her, drew aside the garment, perceived the nun's dress and then sent her to the Catholic bishop upon whom, however, she did not call.

Chicuyo Tribune, Nov. 7. Civility Rewarded. Two young women, who about eight years since were assistants in the Bhop of Mr. Fletcher, hosier, of Wine street, Bria tol, last week received the agreeable Information that they were legatees for 100 each, free of legacy duty, under the will of an eccentric old lady of Crcwkerne, lately deceased, for "civilities received" from tlicm on visiting the shop in which they were engaged.

A clerk in one of tho branches iH Sheckey's Banking Company is also remembered to the extent of 500 for his "politeness" in picking up and handing the old lady a bundle of notes which she accidentally dropped in the bank. Englwh paper. BROOKLYN SAVINGS BANK, Cobseb of Fulton akd Cokcord Stbekts, OOTODER 1st, I860. This Bank will hereafter be open dally from 10 A. M.

till a P. also every Monday and Baturday evening, from 6 to 7 o'clock. By ordar. 0l3m U03E A WEBSTER, President. South.

It was no temporary ebulition of feeling that led them to demand, as a smc qua non, and as an indispensible condition to their remaining in the convention, the recognition of a doctrine which they believed to be just and necessary to the preservation of their rights and their equality in the Union. The South had been looking on with apprehension at the growing strength of the abo" lition sentiment at the north, the nullification of a plain provision of the Constitution by a majority of the northern States, In the passage of State laws to prevent the return oi fugitive slaves and to punish any at cmpt to capture and restore them. They bad been startled by the apparition of John Brown, and rendered more decided in the position tuey intended to take by the ill disguised sympathy which that fanatical and bloodthirsty expedition elicited from large numbers of northern people, politicians, newspapers and parsons of the Beecher School. They began to conclude that the numerical majority at the North was to be used to oppress them to invite their slaves to escape, to deny to themselves any share iu the public domain, and they also feared that the abolition crusade against them would throw off the assumed moderation of views and language U3 more adroit leaders indulge in as soon as the public sentiment of the North would permit. They, therefore, came to the conclusion to test the northeru sentiment.

They had seen with painful apprehension, not only the Republican party appeal to the country an anti slavery verdict but the Democrats of the same section insist on the nomination of a candidate for no other reason than the supposition that he had acquired a North em popularity by assailing the South. They therefore concluded to demand the recognition of their right to a joint possession in the territories of the Union as essential to their equality with the other States. Should that be refused they would nominate a candidate on their own platform and appeal to the Northern people directly That appeal being rejected and the South left alone without any Northern party to stand by it the na. tural conclusion would he that henceforth the South must bear the pressure of a united freesoii and abolition North, which, whether by force or by the weight of official and moral influence would ultimately crush them. They could have patched up au arrangement with the tricksters of the Albany Regency, secured the rejection of Douglas and very probably elected a Democratic President but they saiv that such a mere temporary dammiDg up of the Abolition waters would only enable the stream to rush down from a higher level four years hence.

That their action was the result of deliberation, and truly represented the people of their section the result of the election fully proves. 'With desperate efforts to divide their votes they sustained their candidate almost unanimously. They believe that by going out of the union now they may establish an independent government, open diplomatic and commercial intercourse with the governments of Europe, and enter into treaties and alliances offensive and defensive, as they undoubtedly can do. "Whereas by remainins in a confederation in which they are already forced to ococipy a secondary and" inferior position they will find their power filched away inch by inch, until they will have lost the ability to resist or protect themselves, and will finally sec their plantations converted into scenes of desolation. Such has undoubtedly been the logical process by which the Southern mind has arrived at the conclusion on which it now rests.

And there is reason to fear that the feelirg in favor of secession is the Tf Mllt. of ffilculatior, nnd olil.roto omii and is so deeply grounded as to cause just apprfr lxension as to the lical result of the present secession movement. The question now is, will the South be justified precipitating disunion at this time There is still a large and powerful party at the North which is ready to uphold the South in ah its rights. It has been temporarily overborne, but it still exists and will be certain to regain its lost position if the South will only abstain from placing itsell in the wrong The conservative men of the North will find means to vindicate their principles in spite of political gamblers if the South will only avoid precipitancy and decline to rush upon ill advised courses, which wil1 paralyse its friends at the North. Will the South' then, be justified in breaking up the Union at this time The answer to this question must be a negative one.

The abstract right of secession is another matter. Some statesmen maintain it against all adversaries others deny its validity under any circumstances. An editorial in Saturday's Eagle gave the negative side of the argument and some of the authorities who sustain it. It is a matter of grave delicacy and one whose very discussion bodes ill for the future. The peace and honor of the family must be jeopardised when the family councils come to be engaged iu discussions on the right of divorce as applicable to its leading members.

For our own pfirt we consider the abstract right of secession to be self evident. No deliberate compact ever cau be entered into by men or nations, but in the very essense of things ceases to be binding when its terms are violated by either party. Who is to be the judge of that violation in reference to this union, and how many delicate and intricate ques. tions involved iu the matter of secession would come to be adjusted, are considerations that claim the most calm and we might say, reverential attention. But while the existence of the union must depend upon the fidelity with which all par.

ties observe the constitutional compact upon Which it is based, State or States which propose to dismember the confederacy and break up the government established with so much patriotic care and under which we have prospered ua. til now, ought to sec that such a solemn rcsponsL bility is not assumed until every constitutional means forredress of grievances, real or imaginary, is exhausted. The election of Lincoln is the ground upon which a number of Southern Suites propose to secede. It is an untenable position. Mr.

Lincoln has been elected according to the forms prescribed by the constitution. His election forms no ground whatever for the secession of any State. And should any States go out of the union or attempt to do so for such a cause, they effectually cut themselves off from the sympathy of those at the North, who have sacrificed popularity and the spoils of office to their fidelity to the rights of the South. Should Mr. Lincoln's administration commit any palpable violation of Southern rights, which is almost impossible seeing that both Houses of Confess win be against him, even then the people of the North would be found ready to protect the injured community through the means the constitution itself provides.

But once actually assailed, the South could stand upon the justice of its cause, in refusing to be bound by a compact whose guarantees were violated and which, instead of a shield of defense, is converted into a weapon of attack. "Thrice is he armed who hath hie quarrel just." It is a task not to be lightly undertaken to destroy the fabric of our government, the only pop nlar government that exists, even were it evident that it had been wrested from its purpose hut to attempt it because a Republican candidate has been elected President, without waiting to see whether he is prepared to administer the government, so far as it falls to his hands, iu a spirit of justice and fraternity, or extreme partisanship would be wholly inexcusable and would do more injury to the South itself than abolitionism could accomplish. The American people will not consent to have any man or any party condemned glorification of the South. Union and submission, Without. ftv nitf i 1 equal rights, will be ruin and destruction to the South.

Let us be prepared to have our rights in the Union if we can, or out of it anyEovv. (From the Norfolk Herald.) Still he is elected according to the prescriptions of the Constitution, and bitter as the cup may be to his opponents, it is not for them to put it aside till he shall have given justifiable cause. (From the Baltimore Clipper.) Let us at least wait and see what will be the issue. Let us discard sectionalism and silence disunion. When the occasion comes, if come it must, for the pcopli of the South to declare their independence of the existing confederacy, the whole South should go together as one body.

We shall then be found as willing as the foremost, and we shall find bests of friends in the North, but that dire necessity is not yet upon us. (From tho Petersburg Express.) The issue has been disastrous to the Union cause; for the triumph of sectionalism has laid the ioundation for all the mischiefs and ills to the country which were predicted and deprecated by "Washington in his Farewell Address. It is a gloomy exercise of the mind to contemplate the new aspect of things, but the people must look at it and ponder it. It is time now for the wisest heads and most patriotic hearts in the laud to enlist in the great work ot adjusting matters in such a way so as to save the republic, if possible, from the almost certain perdition which stares it in the face. (From the St.

Louis Republican, Nov. Mr. Lincoln has been elected President of the cited States according to all the forms of the Constitution that, on his induction into office on the 4th of March next, he should be recognised by all good citizens as the President of the Republic and that there is no justification in anything that has yet taken place, for threats of secession from the Union by any one or more States, or for any demonstration of an intent to break up the Government. We believe the friends of the Union are vastly in the majority all over the South in the border slave States there can be no question of this fact. hardly deem it necessary here in Tennessee to present the overwhelming arguments arguments based upon patriotism and self interest which readily occur to every calm thinking man, against the wild and senseless cry of secession and separation.

The teachings of the wisest statesmen of our country from Washington down the teachings of experience since the foundation of our government the lessons of yesterday and to day all unite in convincing and unanswerable arguments against the doctrine of disunion in any event. We hold that there is no evil existing no evil threatened, even in the excited imagination of these mad disunionists for which the remedies secured to us by the Federal UDion and its Constitutional guarantees, are not fully adequate, and vastly to be preferred, under all circumstances, to anv remedy of secession or revolution. (From the Baltimore republican.) A great many may not be advocates of secession per sc but if they cannot remain iu the Union as equals and have their rights and interest respected, they will prefer to go out and take the consequences, let them be what they may. But, we think, under existing circumstances, there is no necessity immediately to take this decisive step. Seeing that the Black Republicans will be in the minority in the next Congress, and utterly unable to adopt any hostile legislation, we of the South can safely remain in the Union for the present, keeping in readiness for the final and decisive step when our honor and interests and our rights demand it.

We hope the ascertained fact, that both houses of CoDgress will be against Lincoln and his doctrines, may serve to quiet the South and prevent any premature action. Let us hope for the best and prepare for the worst. From EmorE. The steamship Bremen, from Southampton on the 31st of October, arrived at this port late last uight. Her advices are three days later than those received by the Persia.

The causes which led to the disruption of the Conference of Sovereigns at Warsaw were the subject speculation in the prominent journals. The Lonf don Times insists that it was in consequence o'f the impossibility of any agreement among the antagonistic elements of which the Conference was composed. The Neapolitans had made an. other attempt to retrieve their fortunes in the field, in an attack upon the troops of Victor Emanuel. After a desperate strangle they were repulsed, loss of a great number of men taken prisoners.

Preparations were being made by Garibaldi and Victor Emanuel iu conjunction to strike a decisive blow. Austria, through Minister at Paris, had given an explanation of her immense armaments. She insists that her onlv purpose is to defend herself from ai'ressive attacks. The voting in the kingdom ofNaples for annexation to Sardinia, resulted in 1 in favor and 0,371 against it. The returns from the British War Office show the expenses for the current year to meet the expenses of hostilities in China to he about 10,000,000.

The Duke of Decages, one of the notabilities of the fire Empire and the restoration, died in Paris on tho 25th ultimo. There is very little other news of interest. From California. The Pony Express, with California dates of October 37, has arrived. The news from California iB unimportant.

A new steamship line via the Isthmus to New York in opposition to the Vanderbilt line, is advertised. The New Almaden quicksilver mine case which involves the handsome sum of is still pcndiDg in the United States Circuit Court. The argument was opened for the claimaats by J. C. Peachy, whose speech occupied a week's time.

He was followed by Edmund Randolph for the Government, who spoke during the entire session of another week. The Hon. J. p. Benjamin for claimant, has been speaking continually for the past three days, and has just closed, and Mr Randolph has commenced his reply.

Reverdv Johnson speaks next for the claimants, when Mr Randolph will make the closing argument for the Government. As an intellectual struggle this case has seldom had an equal. Senator Benjamin it was recently stated received $1 0,000 for his services in this case. The late massacre in Orcon by the Snake Indians was much exaggerated The Oregon Legislature adjourned on the MUSICAL. MUSIC FURNISHED FOR PBIVATE PARTIES, BALLS, SOCIABLES, 4c.

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se27 lm AGENCIES. HOMAS LESLIE, AGENT FOR THE SALE and Letting of Houses and Collecting of Rents. OfOoo I Savings Bank Building, oorner of Altantlc and Clinton streets. rai31 tv THOMAS LESLIE HAS REMOVED HIS REAL ESTATE AGENCY OFFICE to the Savings Bank Build. inn, Atlantic street, corner of Clinton street.

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The Fifth Coxgbessional District. Mr Roscngarden who acted as a sort of special clerk to the Inspectors of election in the second dis trict of the ICth ward, calls upon us to say that the 72 votes endorsed "For Congress," and which we stated were not given to Mr. Taylor, were counted for him. If this is so, it would put Mr. Wall's election beyond dispute.

There appears to have been more than the usual number of imperfect ballots, and the friends of Mr. Taylor will probably not be satisfied until the official canvass shall determine the result. DoLCLAS iNSl'LTED AT MoNTOOMERT, ALA. The Atlanta (Ga.) Southern Confederacy of last Saturday learns from a highly respectable gentle man, who arrived there that evening, direct from Montgomery, that the Hon. Stephen A.

Douglas, on his arrival in Montgomery, was met with a Shower of rotten cjtjs. The Confederacy is about the only paper at the South that warmly advocated Mr. Douglas's election, and it is hifliiu inriin at the outrage. Mr. Yancey, it says, has been allowed to Bpeak North or South, and it thinks the same privilege ought to be given to Douglas.

The returns from this State indicate that Lincoln's majority will be in the neighborhood of 50,000. The total population of the Russian Empire is 79,000 000. Long Island Items. The Hon. Robert L.

Meeks, Member of Assembly for the 2d District of this county year before last, did suddenly at Jamaica, on Tuesday evening last. Mr. Meeks was at Poarsall's hotel in company with several gentleman awaiting for election returns, and while seated and in conversation was observed to throw up his hand, to fall back, and expire. Coroner Wood was immediately called and an inquest was held, of which ex Governor King was foreman. It appeared that Mr.

M. had been profoundly excited during the day, from the fact of his vote being challenged and that superadded to this was the excitement occasioned by the defeat of several of his friends on the Republican ticket. His death was occasioned by the rupture of a blood vessel near the heart, and was almost instantaneous. He was an active member of the Republican party, and a man of the most genial temperament, and very kindly regarded by both his political friends and opponents. His remains were consigned to the tomb yesterday, and were followed to their last restin" place by a very large assemblage who manifested" their grief for the untimely removal of their friend.

J'lvshiny Journal. James Brooks, a baggage master on the Nashville railroad was accidentallv killnil nn t.lic 9ttth ult..