The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-10-15

their houSee. IL Ii not likely tnRt In the ge0eIai
breakdown Of fortunes caused BY the present
panic, the fashionable prestige Of hotel will
induce people to pay for accommodations more
than they are worth. We are done for the present
with pretensions Of this sort, and We must now
conform our habits of life to our actual wants
Mr. Clapp, as the proprietor of one Of our most
fashionable hotels has acted wisely in scconmo-
dating his establishment to the necessities Of the
times
vhs Pennsylvania Dlsction-Drssd Col
lapse OF Slack Republic anism.
The Pennsylvania election appears to have
gone for the democracy by default The collapse
of black repubhcanism in that honest old State is
about on par with the general break down of
the rotten trust companies, railroads banks, stock
jobbers and fnanciers that have been carrying
everything before them go gloriously for year
or two.
David Wilmot entered upon the late Pennsyl-
vania canvass with "bleeding Kansas" bred
Scott the Wilmot Proviso, the aggressions of the
slave power, the Missouri border rufians, the per-
fdies of Governor Walker, and the treacheries of
Mr.. Buchanan's administration to the cause of
freedom, as his political stock in trade. Within
week or 50 of the election, however, Mr.. WilmOt
discovered that he was in the midst of great
revolution and that niggers as political capital,
and all the niger issues Of six months ago, were
used up obsolete and defunct He had been
stumping the State in niger agitation which
the people had ceased to care anything about
he had been wasting his labor, time and lungs in
useless lamentations for the slave, and in useless
denunciations of " the slave oligarchy"
On making this remarkable discovery, Mr..
Wilmot made desperate effort to get to
the windward of this financial revulsion,
free trade politician all his life, but he was sud-
denly convinced at the eleventh hour that free
trade and low tariffs have been the ruin of the
country, and especially the ruin of Pennsylvania
He issued proclamation, accordingly; but it was
too late in the afternoon to do any good. The
people had made up their minds that Mr.. Wilmot
and his party were behind the times; and thus
thousands of the supporters Of Fremont who did
not directly support the cause of Mr.. Buchanans
administration, did the next thing to it, by
quietly remaining at home.
The result in Pennsylvania thus admits of an
cay solution. The people are satisfied that the
affairs of Kansas, in falling under the supervision
of Mr.. Buchanan have fallen into good hands
that the Kansas issue is practically settled-that
the federal administration has proved itself, in
this and in all other respects, worthy the public
confidence and support. Thus very great
popular reaction in favor of the administration
has followed the removal Of poor Pierce and the
substitution of Mr.. Buchanan as President of the
United States II was the public contempt and
disgrace into which poor Pierce had sunk the
government and the democracy that came 80 very
near TO the total destruction of the party in
1s56--it is the calm, straightforward and con-
sentative course of Mr.. Buchanan and his united
Cabinet that has 30 rapidly rallied to his admin
istration the confidence and support of the peo-
pie in 1857. Thus, within single year Mr. Bu-
chanan has recovered the ground lost by poor
Pierce in four.
This has been one great cause Of the general
disintegraton ia the North Of the overwhelming
Fremont party of 1856. The people have be-
come entirely satisfied that Mr.. Buchanan will
give no countenance to poor Piercc's policy of
forcing slavery into Kansas by fire and sword,
but will honestly administer the Kansas Nebraska
bill; and with that they are content But this
fearful financial rcvulsion, its causes, its conse-
quences and its remedies, have now become the
all absorbing questions among all parties, all
sections and all classes Of people. Hence, at this
crisis there is no room and no business for po-
litical party whose principles and measures for
the public welfare begin with nggcrs and end
with niggers. The slave and the stakeholder,
the South and the slave oligarchy are abstrac-
tons which we may take up or set aside
at our convenience but the remedies for
suspended banks, credit destroyed, broken
merchants, suspended factories, loss of
employment, and impending aud wide
spread want, misery, ruin and starvation
admit Of no delay. And here, too, all eyes will
be turned to the federal administration, and to
the ways and means of relief within its reach.
The decay and the dissolution, then, of the
great Fremont party may be safely charged to
these simple facts-that the causes which led to
its organization have practically ceased to exist,
and that this great overshadowing financial re-
vulsion brings with il the new and paramount
Issues of political revolution and reorganiza-
ton of political parties Thus, according to the
late election results in Pennsylvania and else
where, we may anticipate similar effects from the
same causes In New York; and thus we are pre-
pared TO see the astounding New York vote for
Fremont of 1856 entirely FILTERED away in 1867,
and democratic Legislature elected TO supplant
the odious Seward oligarchy Of last winter. No
outside party organizations or party estimates
can withstand the pressure Of revolutionary
times like these. We are in the midst of great
revolution.
Az OASIS IN THE DEsERT.-ln the general