The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-08

MI
he construction Of stone Whsrves and pen aIong
both rivers, % preferable 10 any ether, Sad as is
would afford employme ns TO O large numbe Of psr-
sons who are nov reduced to 9 state Of destitution
for want OF woik. We urged the same plan about .
moath ago upon the attention OF the CommM
Council.
In The Beard Of Education last evening, the re.
port OF the Committee on Finance, proposing tina.
certain sums no set apart for school purposes, 30 as
to prevent the recurrence OF difficulties similar to
those OF last year, was adopted. A report Of the
proceedings ia published in another COLUMN
The severity and stormy c1srsstsr Of the weather
yesterday nteriered to some extsns with trspGac.
tons in domestic produce. Sales OF 600a 800 bales
Of Gotten we're made at STEADY prices. Flour was
in fair demand, at steady prices. Sales were chiefly
made to the home trade. A analllos Of Soutbera com
mon white wheat SOLD az 81 15. Corn was held above
the views of buyers. Provisions were STEADY, with a
good demand for old ness pork. Lard was atS3c.
o Toe. for prime quality. Whiskey, in State barrels.
was irmer. Shippers were inclined to Avail the
receipt Of later foreign news, ard hence freight en-
gagements were limited.
IL win be seen By the report Of fires, elsewhere,
that two dwellings, yesterday caught fire by defec.
tive hot air furnace iues. Hot sir fues appea. to be
unsafe means OF warming buildings.
The steamship Atlantic LEFT Liverpool On the 27Sh
ut, for this port. She is, therefore, fully due. Toe
North Star, from Aspinwsh, with later news from
California, viii be due tomorrow.
Stewards Re-Election-The Know Nothin0s-
A Sectional Scrub Race for the Presidency.
The reelection Of W. ii. Seward to the United
States Senate establishes the great fact that
the nttslavery sentiment ia paramount and
predominant in the North. The issue between
him and the Know Nothings was distinct and
decisive. He had thrown down the gauntlet as
their sworn enemy in the Senate, and they had
taken it up. It sarrnounted their Flagstaff in
our November elections, and, bearing e it aloft, the
Know Nothings entered the Assembly to super
sede him or prevent his election. The more
sanguine of their members were confident of
SUCCESSIVE order commanded the balance Of
power, and yet, on the appointed day of the
tournament, they surrendered the glove with
out even breaking a lance.
In the Senate five Know Nothings voted for
Seward and his majority vas fve-a clear
Know Nothing majority. In the Assembly his
majority was twelve; but had the seven Know
Nothings voting for him opposed him, there
would have been a majority against him of two.
Thus the vote Of each house and the election
Of Seward were decided by Know Kothing
votes. The result may be charged partly to
the despotic discipline of the Know Nothings
and the consequent. mutiny of some members;
partly to the spoils and the superior tactics Of
the Seward pipe layers; but, more than to all
other causes combined, to the predominant
anti-slavery sentiment in the Assembly in the
State and throughout the Northern States.
Our Pierce administration is responsible for
this. 1t is but one item Of the fruits of the
general anti-slavery reaction brought about by
the Nebraska bill-a constitutional measure,
unquestionably, but sprung upon the country
without instructions, without warning, and for
no other than the selfish purposes OF this same
sinking and desperate Pierce administration.
Elected by the spontaneous uprising Of the
Union sentiment Of the country, Mr.. Pierce
went to the White House under that delusion
Of a peddling politician, that he was elected by
the sufffages of the Van Buren, free sellers and
JEFF. Davis seces sionists Of the Baltimore Con-
~vention. His sympathies in '46 were openly
with the Wilmot proviso party his ~predilec-
tons in AS were in favor of Van Buren, and his
New York partizans, TASK John Cochrane for
the Scarlet Letter) and his division of the plum.
der in the appointment ofhis Cabinet, his diplo-
mats, &c, attested his antecedents in the lions
share OF the spoils accorded to the free sellers
Of the Buffalo rebellion, and the flibustering
Southern disunionists. The Union sentiment Of
the country was reused against this outrage
the national conservative democracy were in
dignant-the party in the North was broken up,
and in the South it was paralyzed by Mr.
Pierce's unblushing free soil spoils affiliations
and by the disclosure, through the Independent
press, Of his pre- existing anti. slavery principles
and party associations.
The case was desperate. The burden of
proof was against the Northern tavorite Of vir-
ginia and fhe South, chosen at o venture.
They had selected q free soiler. His largesses
of the spoils to the Van Buren, Buffalo leaders
had established the fact. He must do some.
thing to wipe out the stigma. Senator Dixon,
a whig, Of Kentucky, suggested the repeal Of
the Missouri compromise. Nobody had thought
Of it before; and at first the Cabinet organ
secuted the proposition as utterly out of the
question. But Judge Douglas, a lover Of start
ling effects and Of active excitements, turned
the matter over, consulted Southern secession.
lists upon the subject, and they resolved that
Dixon had hit the mark. Mr.. Douglas reported
progress to the President. A caucus was called
at the White House--a Sunday caucus--the
repeal was carried, and Mr.. Pierce was con-
strained to endorse il in writing. 1t would
save him-nationalize him, and put his admin
i~stration right side up before the country.