Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-11-26
FROM WASHINGTON.

Effect of the New York Electiou..Ths
| Richmond Enquirer on NatiOual At
| fairs..ImperiOus Demand OF tho south.
s"ppiiesticns-:indian AGairs-.TerrI'
torial Organization Proposed. etc.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.
The New York election is perfect bomb
shell in the Democratic camp, and has scat
tered their hopes in every direction. Its effect
will be powerful at the South, and it seems
to me that really the irrepressible conflict
is close at hand.
The letter of Edward Bates will tend to rem
| der the Southerners more prOscriptive than
ever of any man who does not come square
| up to their extreme views. As an evidence
| Of this, give you some extracts from to-day S
Richmond Inquirer, which are significant,
and sound very much as though written by
Gov. Wise himself. The Enquirer says:
"Wise's stock has gone up 100 per cent.
since the Harper's Ferry affair. Yes, Har-
per's Ferry has conquered Harper's Maya
zine. The authority of law and order ha :
| supplanted negation and non intervention
Harper's Ferry has revealed to the country
| that the necessity of the times is the authori-
ty of the law, and the lesson of the hour
teaches that the great want of the nation is a
bold, brave man, to enforce the laws, to try
malefactors and execute criminals. The ne
CATION of fnon-intervention, the abandoning of
the authority Of law and order by any depart
ment of Government, is wickedness in the
days of the Black Republican emeutes at
Harper's Ferry, and the Plug Ugly reign Of
terror in Baltimore. What the signs Of the
| times indicate is, that lawlessness of every
kind and degree pervades the country. We
have the lalwessness of insurrection and of
| election mObs lawnessness defended in pub
lie meetings, ,eulogized by public speakers, and
the sanctuary of God prostituted to it's vile
behests; the pulpit desecrated to preach JUS
titication oT treason, murder and robbery
What the nation wants at this time is, laws
enforced, property protected from John
Browns, both in the States and Territories
"The moral of Harper's Ferry teaches that
Intervention of authority, both State and Fed
eral, is demanded as much in the States as in
the Territories. Intervention is not wanted
to introduce, but to protect slavery. Upon
the Charleston Convention will devolve the
duty of drawing line of demarcation, broad
and distinct in platform and candidate, from
Black Republicanism.
"No compromise will be entertained. The
Sonth kr ows its rights, and Harper's Ferry
teaches that they must maintain them. Should
the Union survive the approaching Congress,
the Charleston Convention will decide its fate
If the South is permitted by the existing I'm
ion to meet the Northern Democracy in
Charleston, consultation will be called and de-
liberated The first men of the South will be
there assembled. No scheming, plotting poll
ticians, seeking opportunity to barter the
rights for public plunder, will be able to graf
ify his reasonable propensities, but in firm
ness and dignity, the doctrine of intervention
for protection, will be insisted upon by the
South, and the representatives of the North
ern Democracy will divide the issue.
If for Intervention, the nomination will
be proceeded with. If against there will be
leave taking, bidding adieu, separation, ,disun-
ion, secession, that will be not only prog
nostic, but potent shadow of coming events
cast warningly before, to inform and DETER
The Democratic candidates must be present.
ed to the people of all the States, upon the
uttimatum of the Constitution, as understood
and decided by the Supreme Court. If there
are not conservatives enough at the North to
scarcely be found conservatives enough at
the South to save the Union"
WASHINGTON, Nov. l.
Ihave no anticipation now that much diff
ficulty will be experienced in organizing the
House. My impression is that the Southern
Democrats, recognizing the dominancy of the
Republican party, will be quietly acquiesce in
the selection of Republican officers perhaps
with the latent hope, that by giving their ad-
versaries rope enough they may hang them
selves. In addition to this, the Admiustra-
ton is badly off for money, and is willing to
see the House organized as quickly as posi-
BILE, so that deficiency bill may be put thro'
and the Post Office Department relieved of its
embarrassments, which are becoming extreme
ly onerous.
The President, in his annual message, will
repeat his recommendations of last session, in
regard to Mexico and Central America, but
with no well founded hope of their meeting
with favor. The Opposition having more than
one-third of the Senate, can prevent any OBJ.
noxous treaties getting through, and the
House holds the purse strings, and can keep
in check any tendency to Executive extrava-
gance.
Mr.. Douglas is better to-day, and his friends
are quite sanguine of his speedy restoration
to his accustomed health. His political pros
poets are not, however, hattering The recent
Northern elections, where his friends have
been overthrown as well as those of the Ad-
ministration, show that he has really no more
strength at the North than Mr.. Buchanan,
while the Southern Opposition to him is in
creasing in strength.
The result in New York, though close for
those officers who were affected by the Utica
ticket, is decisive of the position of that State
in 1860. If the Republicans can beat the
Democrats and Americans combined, what
chance have the Democrats alone: The
President is very angry at his officials in
New York city for deceiving him. They as
sured him that the city was good for 10000
majority.