The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-15

sales OF sugars were confined to about 500 GOO
hhds., at steady prices. About 100 bags Rio cof-
fee were sold by auction at 95c. lie. FIeghts TO
English ports were in good demand az full rates.
The tea sale yesterday forenoon was well attended
by spirited company. AL the green's and about
half the blacks We're sold at prices which exhibited
a slight advance over previous public sales.
The Dangers or the Coantry-Tne Southern
kulliders-Ne>S and startling COmplica-
tfons or the Presidential Issue.
We regale our readers this morning with q
batch OF interesting letters from Washington
on the important subject Of the dispensation
Of the spoils under Mr.. Buchanan, duly salted
and pcppered with the peculiar views Of
some Of our Southern democratic organs. This
spicy dish OF spoils politics, however, is COM
pletely thrown into the shade by our special
despatch from Richmond, Va. developing 4
plot on the part of the Southern nullifers
for the control Of Mr.. Buchanan's administra-
ton or the destruction Of the governmental
plot 60 tempting and feasible az to be really APP
palliDg.
The simplicity Of this plot certainly commends
itself 10 the nulliders as the shortest possible
road to dissolution of the Union and the expert
ment Of that Southern confederacy which is 10
make Of every secessionist President, a little
Emperor, or dashing military chieftain. IL
seems that under the protecting wings Ex-Governor
Wise. little knot 81 disunion traitors have been
celebrating at Richmond upon the following
scheme Of rule or ruin. The nullifers have their
doubts OF the Northern democratic members
elected TO the next Congress, more or less under
free State pledges in reference to Kansas; and
they also have their fears Of Mr.. Buchanan His
position is not satisfactory-his administration
may involve the admission Of Kansas as free
And the nullifers accordingly propose to bring
him out ut once, or crush him.
The Presidential Electors elected by the peo-
pie. meet on the third Of December, IN their re-
spectiye States to cast their votes for President
and Vice President. They will then be sent to
Washington and opened in the House Of Repre-
sentatives on the 18th Of February, and counted,
and the election viii be declared President aud
Vice President-before both houses assembled to-
gether. According to the votes of the people in
the various States, the majority OF the votes OF
the Electors will be declared in favor Of Buchanan
and Breckenridge; but the Electors may bring
about wholly different result if they think ft
to do SO. And this is the plot Of our Richmond
nullifers First to put strong notification
letter to Mr.. buchanan, and to require an imme-
date answer; and, secondly in the event Of an
unsatisfactory answer, or no. answer a. all, to
throw sufficient number Of Southern electoral
votes upon Fillmore, Jefferson Davis or Atchison,
for example, to carry the election into the House.
Thrown into the House. the nullifcrs know very
well that the election Of President would fall up
on Breckenridge by default or that such scenes
Of excitement and violence would ensue as would
precipitate the great secession ultimatum OF the
destruction OF the government and the dissolu-
ion Of the Union.
Such is the simple but comprehensive plot en-
tertained by some Of the leading Southern
nullifers for bond Of insurance from Mr..
Buchanan, or the defeat OF his election
at the hazard Of bloody dissolution Of
the government But If they have
their fears Of Mr.. Buchanan on the Kansas issue,
and their fears Of the Northern democrats elected
to the next Congress as free Kansas men, what
VIII the nullifers say to the California Pacific
Railroad letter Of Mr.. Buchanan, sent out conf
dentially to san Francisco just in time to be too
late 10 get back to the Atlantic coast till after
the election.
This letter comprehends policy Of internal
improvements compared with which the whole
American system Of Henry Clay, so odious to the
simon Pure southcrn democracy, was but mere
flea bite. Grant this Pacific Railroad doctrine Of
Mr.. Buchanan as perfectly constitutional and
eNpcdient and our Congressional spoilsmen may
not only sqrander away the public lands by mil
lions to railroads along which they lie, but the
government may buy up all the railroads in the
United States, and assess q direct tax upon the
people including q heavy tai upon niggers, TO
pay FOR them. Pass a bin upon Mr.. Buchanan's
California platform. for the construction Of the
Pacific Railroad, and in two years thereafter tie
government viii he bankrupt, and heavy loans
and q heavy direct tax wiz be required, including
a tax upon niggers. TO cover the ordinary OK
peusts Of the Treasury.
This California letter OF Mr.. Buchanan, there
set bo in season 10 cost him the los Of
the support OF the South. The position Of the
Southern leaders Of the party at Cincinnati on
this Pacific Railroad, and the careful equivoca-
tons of the Cincinnati platform under their
pruning knife. win admit Of no such doctrine a.
thi. Of Mr.. Buchanan. These southern nulifers.
too, viii readily perceive the necessity Of nipping
tlis Pacific Railroad policy in the bud. Thon-
sands Of hungry democratic spoilsrnen viii 20
away unsaiisied and reyengcful, from Washing
ton unless some prodigious scheme Of plumber i
adopted for their relief; for the Offices are already
Sled by good democrats, many Of whom cannot
10 touched by Mr.. Buchanan. for fear Of trouble.
Hence the danger Of this Pacific Railroad project
tocoming theactive spolspolicy Of his administra-
ton las no, Robert J. Walker charter already