New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-17

mnt he Eats Of the main trains of the suffer dep
me,t !. sscertsined. So far as can be conjectured
/ Iey we're following the route Of the others, and
a.. e 70 rendered liable to similar destruction If
.So e1mfss which brought the information to Judge
| Fcke,s concerning tho attack, communicated with
| Co Jobp,ton's force, which was in the rear when
lat heard from, it may be possible that sufficient
detail of troops was sent trwsrd in time to prevent
a REQUIRE nee Of the catastrophe. This suggestion.
however, 10 entirely speculative
The result before the public only fulfps our er-
peciation frequently expressed and predicted, when
ills expedition was organizing with long delays aud
baltirg policy Experienced mountaneers and
trappers and explorers united in the opinion long
ago, ttat If force was to enter or approach Utah
this Wint.r, it should have been started at least
month earlier than it was in order to avoid the very
difficulties which have come to pass, although the
season has been unusually prOpitiOus and prolonged.
Their advice was dlsreRsrded by the self.ssserted
superior knowledge of the Circumocution Office,
and the consequence is, that hundreds Of valuable
lives are dependent upon the merest turn of desper
ate chances for and safety. A grave respon-
sibiGty rests somewhere, which an inquiry from
Congress few weeks hence may properly fix.
Baltimore has determined that all the glory of the
revolutionary demonstrations shall not be confined
to New-York and Philadelphia, though the pro.
gramme is little changed az compared with those
cities. A delegation came here yesterday to ask
Of the President and the Secretaries employment at
the Navy Yard or on the public wOrks-claimDg it
a. good Democrats for being driven away from home
by the mob spirit which maintains control there.
OF course, there every disposition to accommO-
date the applicants, but unfortunately little or no
work, and cOnse guently they had to return empty
handed. Washington sympathizes with her friends
in Baltimore, but not to the extent of surreaderng
her own subsistence Thus disappointed, the next
movement will probably he 10 assemble a meeting
nd al bro tba e., shion ar In
sack the warehouses where -four may be stored.
Yet, although the causes which have produced this
state of things are as palpabe the sun at noon
day, these will doubtless march to the polls in
solid column and vote without dissenting voice for
the men who helped to impose system which,
within certain cycles, brings inevitable monetary re-
vulsOD, and consequent prOstratOn OF all industry.
Perhaps they will learn better by and by, but not
until wisdom has been purchased at the cost of
probation which will impOverish thousands of house
holds, and strike down almost hcpelessy the pros
poets which we're encouraged under artificial signs
of prosperity.
effort will be made to contest the seats of the
Members of Congress elect from Baltimore, upon
the ground that fraud and violence were dominant
st the polls, by which fair choice by the people
was prevented. This sort of remOnstrance will
come with rather an Indifferent grace from those
partisaDs who have heretofore steadily refused to
recognize or redress the papabe Outrages in Kansas
ignoring them wiLfuly or scouting them as wicked
fabrcations. The poisoned chalice being now re-
turned to their own lips they are less inclined to
accept The Offering. We shall see with what intense
zeal The Democratic majority in the House will un-
dertske to correct these elections, when many of
the same Members steadily voted against any revs-
ion of the enormous and palpabe frauds in Kansas,
which were verified before Committee OF their
OwB body.
There is more hopeful feeling in official circles
in regard to the prospects of the revenue since the
arrival Of the Arabia, by the advices OF which it
would appear as if the crisis had spent its fury in
England. And this feeling is, perhaps, fortified by
the fall of Delhi thus relieving cause of embarrass-
ment quite as serious in its financial as in its military
aspect Still there is no evidence in these facts that
business will revive spontaneously, or that Frustrated
manufacturing establishments can resume opera
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