The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-06

In the touft OF Common Pleas yesterday Judge
ingraham delivered the opinion Of the Court in the
case Of Joseph Tinkham and others agans, william
Tapscott for certain alleged services in examining
into the condition of vessel and cargo belonging to
the defendant. The court in rendering their dec
sion for the plaintiffs intmated that the law far
as it related to the surveys contemplated was IN
constitutional and void.
All the freight trains on the Ohio Central Rail
road were stopped yesterday at Cincinnati by the
mechanics and workmen, on account Of the non
payment Of two months wages due them by the
company.
The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 200 bales
in lots, to spnners based upon middling uplauds, at
Ike; good middling do. at ii &c. and mddi fair at
ike, closing irregular however the higher grades
The previous advance in the price of flour sustained
while sales made to fair extent both to the domes
tic trade and for export Wheat inactive and sales
quite limited The chief transaction consisted of Virginia
white at 81 40 Corn firmer for old while new was
dull and lower; sales Of all kinds being limited Pork
was heavy and lower, with sales of and old light
weight mess, Albany inspection, at 416 50; and full
Reight do at 81; light prime was at SIS Sugars
In fair request with sales of about 500 900 hhds Cuba
muscovado and Porto Rico At steady prices Coffee
steady, with light sales. Freight engagements light
and rates unchanged.
Kansas-The Southern Firc-Eaters, the North
ern Dirt-Eaters ind the Administration.
The conflicting articles which we publish this
morning from the two democratic organs at
Philadelphia Chevalier Forney's Press and
Captain Rice's Pennsyluanan-s pretty dis
tinctly the depth of the rupture in the North
ern democratic camp in reference to the Kansas
Lecompton Convention and State constitution.
And here the transfer of this Kansas mutny
from the Southern to the Northern wing of the
party calls for passing explanation.
When Mr.. Buchanan went to Washington last
February upon the important duty of the seIec-
ton of his Cabinet, the Southern fire-eaters
made dead set at him in behalf of Robert j.
Walker as Secretary of State The President,
however, possessed of an intimate knowledge of
the Cabinet qualifications of Mr. Walker, turned
the matter over in his mind and fell back upon
an older and more experienced statesman in
diplomatic affairs. But, desrous witha of
proving his amiable inclinations towards the
fire-eaters, and believing in the capacities and
answering loyalty of Mr.. Walker the Presi-
dent appointed him Governor of Kansas But
what change! Directly after the arrival of
Walker i'm Kansas the whole pack of
the fre-eaters, organs and orators-the
Charleston Mercury, the New Orleans
Delta, the Richmond South, Jefferson
Davis Barnwell Rhett, Keitt and others-set up
regular and most dismal howl" against
Walker. with frequent snaps and snarls at the
'treacherous" proclivities of the administration
in appointing and in unfolding this man
Walker as Governor of Kansas.
But with all this the Gro-eaters were is true
to their purpose in deny 4ncing Walker in Kan
sas as in demanding his appointment as Pre-
mier Their Object from the outset, was to con-
troll or to break down the administration With
Walker at the head of the Cabinet they had
hoped to secure the power to control it; but
being ruled out of the Cabinet by conservative
men, the fire-eaters were reduced to their last
alternative of breaking down the administra-
ton. Mr.. Buchanan, however, soon proved to
them that he had a will and way of his own
that he had adopted his policy in reference to
Kansas. and was not the man to be cajoled or
bullied to the right hand or the left The fire.
eaters. therefore after bawling themselves
hoarse, resolved to postpone for time the dis
solution of the Union, and to stop their below
ing and bowling, and await the issue of events
in Kansas and the disclosures of the Presidents
message.
Hopes of peace were thus beginning to
dawn, and streaks of daylight began to
glimmer through the fog of this Kansas
imbroglio, when, presto, Gov. Walker packs up
his traps, returns to Washington, and opens
what Gen. Scott dong life to HIND would call
"a fire in the rear " of the Northern column of
the democratic army. Thus, no sooner are the
Southern ire-eaters reduced to submission
than the Northern dirt-eaters of the party re-
open the trouble in new quarter We call
them dirt-eaters; for, are they not devouring
the dirty crumbs and remnants of the niger
agitation. left upon the table by Garrison,
Abby Kelly Foster, Seward, Weed, Greeley
a Co?
Gov. Walker, ostracised in the South and COM
pletely used up in that section, has resolved bis
political and financial speculatons In Kansas into
a sort Of Northern coup dttdt, which Is to sweep
the fre-eaters, the democratic party, the adj
minstration, and everything else before IL that
stands in his way. In this movement his right
hand man Is the Chevalier Forncy, whose dis
appointments in regard to the United States
Senate and the Cabinet appear to have soured him
towards his Oldest and best friend--the President
A pity-but we suppose there is no help for it,
Gov. Walker aud Forney are, however, not
alone. They are sustained by some Northern
democratic presses. here and there, that have
gone off hali-cocked, and by little clique in
Philadelphia, and little clique here that has
just achieved the important work Of giving the
enemies Of the administration Judgement in
this citadel Of the Northern democracy.
We refer TO the New York Hotel clique. of
which Mr. Walker was the chief In 1856 and TO