The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-07


consumed BY FIRE on Sunday night. and the whole
family were burned to death.
me cotton market was baoyaus yesterday, under
The Influence Of tho foreign news received BY the Indian
The saes embraced about 800 bales, closing arn ss
about l2c for mlddng upisnds The deficiency In the
receipts ct the ports, compared with last year. has be-
come reduced TO about COO bales whe tne decrease
In exports amounts 70 about les bales The
reports speak OF IN nuncston in the Red River which
RAD ove'n'wn III banks, but the injury not
oeheVed prove very serious crop hAd sufci
ettly advanced 10 be materially effected by IT, Most
estimates Of the crop fau to Up to 5000 900 bales
though some parties ss adhere thsi amount or more
Flour was depressed by the foreign news, aud sales
dncult to marc freely without concession
vor Of purchasers, especially for tho lower grades,
while saes moderate and without important change
IN prices Wheat was freely dealt in, bu, prices
were somewhat irregular and less buoyant Corn was
hrmer, With sales of sound white and yellow TO.
TSc, including some cargoes TO arrive at T2c T2kc
Pei was again drmer and higher and active with sales
OF mess at SIT rs ST IS, and prime at SIS 90 $lA
sugars were rm and active, with sales OF about 800
lc0 bids and 900 400 boxes at rates given in another
column. Coffee firm, with sales OF about 400
zoo bags at rates given elsewhere The stock embraces
about bags OF which about lsl4l consists Of Ro
Freighis we're inactive and engagements moderate.
The Crisis upon Kansas The Necessity OF a
Prompt Decision.
Wise men shape their action to meet the ext
gencies of the day. The present crisis upon
Kansas affairs demands q prompt decision
The removal of this subject from Congress is
the first necessity: the precise form of the act
has become a secondary consideration. The
failure to admit Kansas into the Union at this
session may be followed by the most serious po-
litical Observation-Disclosures and sectional
The rabid pre-slavery ultras of tho South, and
the reckless anti-slavery disorganizers of the
North, if this question is to remain open, will
leave no efforts untried to infame II into con-
suming fire. Nor can we hope for the return of
common sense, or the prevalence of sober coun-
sells, in the party camps of either section, until
we shall have closed and locked this box of
Pandora, and delivered over the box and the
key to the people of Kansas, there to be buried
under the corner stone of the new capitol at
Minneola.
The Union Is strong. The masses of the
American people are accustomed to laugh at
the impotent threats of dissolution from fac
tionists, fanatics and cadaverous Don Quixotes
of either section. Yet there may he danger in
dsregarding too far the apparently contemp-
tible labors Of these disunion sappers and
miners A small worm has eaten up the whole
Russian feet which was let down under the waters
of Sebastopol to save il. That keen political
philosopher, John c. Calhoun, has said that dis
union cannot come upon this people like a
French revolution or an avalanche, but by such
slow and successive processes of disintegration
as those which have marked the rise and dcve-
lopement of this sectional slavery excitement
To secure the positive safety of the ship the
leaks which have resulted from the slavery agi-
tation must be stopped. The settlement Of this
Kansas imbroglio, at this time, will caulk them
all, North and South. Our disorganizing fac
tionists have nothing left them to work upon but
Kansas Take that from them, and their zoe
cupation is gone'-peace is restored, and par
ties will be re- organized upon practical Issues
in which all the heresies Of disunion will be
swallowed up.
The Senate of the United States, therefore,
rising above all party punctilios, all foolish
technicalities, all silly bubbles upon side issues
should at once consent to the admission of Kan
sas upon the Crittenden- Montgomery bill, in the
TO that plan. We have shown that this bill prac-
tcally comedies everything which the admins
tration has ssserted-the legality Of the Lee
compton constitution, the legality Of the autho-
rity under which it was framed, and the princi-
pie that new State, applying for admission
with pro-slavery constitution, ratified by the
popular vote, is as much entitled TO admission
az free State. All the opposition sections,
parties and factions in Congress have been re-
duced to these concessions The principle is
fixed. The exact point for which the South
have been contending is gained, and thus 1t
makes no substantial difference whether Kansas
be admitted under this that or the other con-
stltution. The great Southern principle in
volved in the contest is secured, the destiny Of
Kansas is established-it cannot he changed;
al d nothing, then, is wanting to sink this ex-
hausted agitation into oblivion but the admis-
sion Of Kansas into the Union.
Since the fusion Of the three discordant oppo-
stion factions Of the House upon the Critten-
den-Montgomery bill, the administration need
not feel any further anxiety in the matter; and
the South, having achieved the vital point at
issue, may readily consent TO put an end to the
whole controversy without further delay. Pass
the Crittenden Montgomery bill u is ca
pitulstion of the enemy, which they do not wish
to be accepted. They would prefer its reiec-
ton. for the purposes Of factious aud sectional
engineering in the coming elections for the next
Congress. But pass it, and they are beaten with
their own weapons The three opposition fac
tons which have thus conspired to make out a
common case for the stump, have based
all their calculations upon the failure
Of the bill. Pass IT. and they are
thrown fat upon the gousd The black.
republicans, completely siultihed and chop