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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

might even be alleged, with much show OF reason
that this experiment might then go on undor
more favorable circumstances than before. 1t l,
an undeniable fact that the degree to when
these United States have attained IN the scale
of civilization and that high national position
which they hold in the world, are mainly due 10
the energy, the enterprise, the intelligence tue
education of the Fee States. The Southern
States contribute TO the wealth of the Union, but
10 what elsei The term Yankee 80 generally
employed at home and abroad as name TOR the
whole American nation, shows pretty clearly IN
what nort oI the Union the essential energy OF
the United States is thought to reside. 1t IS
very well known that, outside Of agriculture tho
Advancement and industry even of the Slavehold-
ING States is largely indebted to Northern immi'
grants. What might be the fate of the Southern
States, either as regardS selEgoyernmeht or So
Gu, progress, if cut off from the political and
civilizne influences exerted over them by their
Northern associates, is more than we would like
TO answer for. That the experiment of self-goy-
eminent would still continue to go on at the
North, and that the aspirations of our people al
ter high civilization and an exalted nationality
would continue as strong and effective rs ever,
we cannot for moment doubt.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21
NEVER DESPAIR.

dissolved, the great experiment of self-goy-
" eminent is a failure. Dissolved the asPira-
" tions for peryading prosperity aud happiness,
ga high civilization and exalted nationality
"'vansh." Such are the lugubrious exclama-
tons with which The albany Ercaing Journal
accompanies its scheme of compromise and by
which it seeks to persuade the free-labor masses
of the nation to recant and abandon all the prn
ciplcs and the entire system of policy for which,
during the last six years, they have success
fully commended
But suppose the ideas of The Ereaiag Jonraal to
be adopted and carried outs what, in that case, is
to become of its aspirations for peryading prosperity
and happiness, high civilization, and an exalted
nationality! Such aspirations would not seem to
be very consistent with voluntary aid in the per-
petuation and extension Of negro Slavery, and
the humble recognition of sayehOlding a. the
ruling power of the nation. What a drawback
the institution of Slavery is to our national pros
perity and happiness, those may Judge who see
the effects it is producing at this very moment.
The Judgment of the civilized world recognizes
Slavery us utterly incompatible with high civil
zaiion An exalted nationality is hardly To be
anticipated from suppressing the instincts Of
humanity, and converting the National Union
INTO a mere convenience for sayeholdine
If the Cotton States, and following in their
wake, all the Slayeholding States should go out
Of the Union, what is to prevent the Frec-LabOr
States notwithstanding that catastrophe, from
still aspiring az much ever, after pcryading
prosperity and happiness, high civilization, and
an exalted nationality Are twenty millions Of
free people, Industrious and energetic, whose
rapid advancement in wealth. knowledge, and all
the refncmcnts of civilized life, have made them
the admiration of Europe, to sit down and fold
their arms in despair In addition to the expert
mcnt of selfgOyernment, we have also been try
ing two other experiments-that of reconcling
the existence Of negro Slavery with democratic
institutions, and of holding together Frce-Labof
States and Slaye-Labor States in common
union. The withdrawal of the Slave States
might 90 far to show the impracticability of the
latter experiment. Upon the experiment of self
government It would have little or no BEARING
r,ftpjpIt Mons of sn un'ayorable character. |,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21
Az A MEETING of the EIGmrEENrH WARp RE.

An A MEETING OF the EIGHTEENTH WARD Re-
ASSOCIATION held THURSDAY EVENING goth inst at
kchnet Hotel the headquarters Of the party Of the Ward
ELLIOTT C. CowDIS esq called to the Chair and the fol-
lowing ticket for officers Of the Association for he
unanimously adopted
In view OF the large increase in the Association during the past
year. public notice though unusual has been deemed
ssry
For Presdent-GRoRGR OpDYKE.
For Eirst kice-P Iesdent-HkN WILSON.
For Second Vice Presid,n-PETER MoFADDyS
For Recording Secretary-JOsEPH SEYMOUR H,sYiSs
For CorrespoI ding Secfotary-WS. ID. CHASE.
For Ireasurcr-JOnN PULLMAN
For Delegates to the Central Committee.
ELLIOTT C. COWDlN JOHS A. FOSTER,
WILLIAM w NORTHRUP, L. q. GIAUBBSsKLgE,
J. AUSTIN STEVENS, il.
For Delegates to the Young Mems Committee
WILLIAM 4. BLACK, DUDLEY f1KLD,
WILLIAM 5. OPDYKR AARON FRANK,
THOMAS j. HALL
Executive Comnitee-gob IL. Black, Henry A. HuIlbut,
David Dudley Field Solomon Bdssl james NJ Cross Henry
d. Sedgw ck jesse Fonda Peter T. OEen Benjamin Warden,
Case r. Hamilton, Emil Kirchner John J. Townsend
Alexander Cnch George H. Metcale Amos T. Chamberlain
VIM. Wheeler j. Philip SchmengeT, John j. SPenyi Dr. Geo
r. Woodward Isaac Sherman David kilner VIM NJ. Hend-
rick Robert H. Gibson, George j. Rpch VIM H. hall, Thomas
Culhane -
We cordially ndorse above ticket and call upon all who
have the true interests the Republican party heart to rally
to its ppot and once tar the schemes OF those who
under guie seek to prevent The good oil me party
10 the iuItheTance OF their own selfish ends.
Let all who would keep the party Pnre and true to Its pur
poses out tonight. 49,
The po opens at kichners Hotel corner 9th and 3dsy,
ct Z O'Clock and closes at O'Clock. Vote carly.
Elliott C. Cowdin, David Dudley Field, Edward T. Cowles,
Henry A. Hurlbut Timothy g. Underi Job j.. Black Henry
d. Sedgwick John Austin Stevens Jesse Fonda James NJ
Thompson James NJ Cross Benjamin Warden, Joel Foster,
NJ D. Amos s. Chamberlain, Thomas Cohane, John Pullman,
Peter T. OBren Theodore @. Oaubenskee Emil kirchneT,
VI ilam Wheeler, Horace Webster Thomas Stephenson.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

to say that Worcester has done the same thing
several times before, and yet steadily voted Tor
FreeSoil at every State election, as she will con-
tinue TO do. Mr. Davis is an excellent and
popnlar man, whose Gberality and public spirit
have done much for the city Of Worcester, and
WHO is especially an object of partiality among
the Baptists lie was chosen on q Citizcn'
ticket win a Republican Council. "or-
ccster has way Of doing very much rs
she pleases. In 1856, Immediately after having
cast 2. 9i4 for Fremont to 9I5 for oil others she
elected an Anti Republican Mayor By So major
ity. Yet from that day to this, we have failed
TO notice any substantial change in the vote OF
that staunch old town at the State elections, ex-
cept that the vote is rarely so full.
In the same manner, Democratic journal, III
exultpg over the election, the other day, OF q
Democratic Mayor in Springfield, BY less than
100 majority, speaks of that city as =" strongly
&" Republican heretofore" while in fact Spring
field never elected o Republican Mayor but once,
and then by very small minority. On the
whole we think our Republican friends need en-
terrain no fear that the bottom has fallen out of
Massachusetts, and we should advise the Reyolu-
tionsts TO adhere to their original plan OF excluding
her from their new Union, since it il quite GER
tain that they can neither bully nor coax her
into conquering her prcjudices in favor OF free
speech, free SOIL ard free men.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

III" says a correspondent Of Tna TRIBUNE
Congress concede to The South protection 10
"slayery in the Territories, or even the right
"to carry Slavery there. we viii trampe them IN.
L" der our feet when they come home and ask our
endorsement. While we deprecate The idea Of
remain together unless we bow in sublnssion
"to the Slave Power we say let the bond b,
"seyeredw
This writer speaks the sentiment, not merely
of Republicans, but of great proportion Of ths
Democrats of The Free States as well. A5r0h1m
Lincoln, and The Moin,tnaHce Of the Constitution
as It is, hare today many more supporter hH
yoted the 2,ppbiican ticket ~ Yorember.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

recent speech Of Senator Wade. They bs,,
done no wrong and have 10 apologies 10 offer.
They stand BY the Constitution and the Onion.
and are not get ready to rcpudiate Tho Foarsh II
July or to tramplc Oh tbe Stor-spnbgled banner.
In all history more admirable spectacle wa
never witnessed than is now afforded By ;a,
great people, unaarmed ut the camor, and d.
termined Only That Che controversy Of which it Is
feature, shall now be finally settled So tina, i
cannot be revived again by ibe fools, fanatics
and demogoCucs Of future day.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

Tire Common Council met last evening. The
Board of Aldermen did very little beyond liberal
" raising the salaries of number Of officials.
In the Board of Comcimen the Mayors veto of
the Thrd-avenue Railroad extension was mega
tiyed. by vote OF 10 to 3, and the ordinance
adopted. The sum of 81 200 was unwarrantably
donated to the Broadway Clearing Association to
make up an alleged deficiency in the amount of
their Subscriptions. This Association agreed to
pay the expense of cleaning the tboroughfare three
times week, the city to pay for the other three
times. Subsequently the city cleaned it nightly at
its own expense. Now, three years after, this
claim is brought forward and paid, as We think,
without legal authority. Under the gag of the
previous question, the japanese bills were put
through Councilman DANIEL TOWNSEND Build
er, No. 1876 West Thirty fifth street, nOm'nally
Republican, caying III, and making the requisite
hreefourths vote. Let lis hope that it will be
q long while before such another shameful inl-
position upon the taxpayers is perpetrated by
he Common Council. The gentlemen who OPP
posed it TO the last Were Slessrs. KANE, LENT,
TROT1ER PINCkNEy, ALLEN, and DECKER.
Mr.. KANE is the only Democrat iii the
Board who would not soil his hands with the
dirty thing. 1t is hardly necessary to say that he
was quite too honest to be renomnated by his
party. The ordinance TO meet various deli-
ciencies, passed last evening" approprlates, in
addition to the Japanese swindle, the large SUN
of S575,922 20, of which $50, 900 is for expenses
of the Central Park Stock, $4,000 for a new
Police Court, S35, 900 for tax deficiencies in 1889,
S5i, $50 interest on Floating Debt and stock OF
the Central Park, SIG 900 for laying out the
City north Of c.huuJredand- fifiy-flth street.
S6G, coo for construction aud repairs of public
buildings, $4,000 for real estate expenses,
100000 for sewers, $50 00o for printing for the
COGncilmen-an enormous swindle; no such ex-
pense could ever have been legally incurred--and
$4,000 for an untried tre-escape patent, of
which only little model has, as yet been con-
stracted. In the japanese, Printing and Fire
Escape appropriations, the city has been most
outrageously deirauded; but what more could be.
expected from the corrupt majority at the City
Hall The japanese bill goes back to the Alder
men for concurrence. OF course it is sure to
pass; but is il to receive the approval of the
Mayer
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

Among the ten thousand Compromises that have
been proposed, from that of Mr.. Thurlow Weed
down to that of Gen. Joe Lane, late Of Oregon,
why doesn't somebody suggest an amendment to
the Constitution that shall guaranty peaceful
travellers 10 the South against tar and feathers.
Imprisonment, hanging, drowning, and the other
attentions oi Kindred nature, whiah hays of late
become frequent in that sweet and suany land !
If it is wrong to give pisce of bread to a
runaway negro, which can only be psmedied by
dissolying the Union what shall VA say about
Rnchirg unofending white people Perhaps M
Crittenden viii reflect on this subject, and put
new clause III his Compromise t. meet the csse.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21
uOEE POLICEMEN WANTED.

The report of Committee of the Board OF
Supervisors, in favor of adding 400 men to the
police patrol of this city, will probably come up
in that body to-day for action. It is quite evil
dent that the requirements Of the public peace
and the security of property urgently demand an
augmentation of the Police force. They have at
present line of S03s miles to guard Allowing
for detailments, sickness, and reserves, and we
find that only about 5l3 men arg on duty at
time, which gives each man o beat Of more than
IA miles. II is obvious that with so long pa
troll route robberies may readily be effected at one
end of the beat, while the officer is at the other.
Where so few men have to cover so much ground,
to expect that the police can be omnipresent, as
too many do, is simply unjust. The proposed H.
crease will afford far better protection to the
lives and property of citizens, than is posi-
BILE with the present number of men, and go far to.
wards making the force as efficient as the public
appear to desire. II the Supervisors of Kings
County will take into consideration the exposed
condition of Brooklyn, where policemen have
between six and seven miles of street line to
cover, the people of that city will be duly crate
full. As now constituted the police force of that
city is altogether too meager to be OF much SER
vice. more especially in the outer Wards.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

Government now rest from responsibility, and
giving thus aid and comfort to the insurgents OF
South Carolina. he is loud in the demands he
makes upon the incoming Administration to give
assurances that will satisfy the malcontcnts.
But what if it should not satisfy them The
Hon. Senator fails to provide for a contingency
which is a good deal more than likely to happen.
1t is not, after all, compromise that Mr. Pugh
wants for his Southern friends, but the Repub-
licans should yield everything. The fault he finds
with them is that they do not like Slavery, and
this is shortcoming which be seems at loss
to understand and cannot pardon. OF course,
with this view of the subject, Mr.. Crttenden's
proposition meets with his appreciation. The
speech is quite as good, perhaps, as we hal any
right to expect from the Senator from Ohio; but
it is a melancholy exhibition of what passes !oI
craftsmanship.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

Never in any political excitement nor in any
puobe crisis have We seen sGsh comness, ,tead
hess and hrmness among the masses of the
people as now prevail throughout all tAe Free
States. In the Cities the defeated Democrats
are sgtatsd with .he hope of rccusci,atnc their
late party from the anaihilation which has iaj
o'er'ahcn it, anl accordingly are playing the
Disunon hnrp with all their might while here
and there weak brother who voted for Lincoln. but
now hnds himself pinched in some stock gambling
speculation, joins in the cry for Compromise and
Concession. But in the country, from Maine 10
IAansas, the frecmen are quiet and resolved.
Their feelings and wishes are best expressed in N,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

"The King is dead; long live the King" The
the less in our armament, or rather, South Caro-
lima thinks so.
According to the general expectation that
State has gone out OF the UniOn but if we do
not forget that it is not the first time she has
done So we shall tremble the less. We remem-
Der when she was ready to go to the death for
Gen. Hamilton's sugar, when it is was said of
her, - dVice ct decor1m est pro patria mor"
But it was sweeter yet to come back, and she
came back. She may do so again. 1t is so easy
TO pass resolutions; so difficult TO execute them.
Her first act of sovereignty is rather ludicrous.
She asks the Government from which she
cedes to conduct for her her postal system
However she has gone, and if she is gratilied
by the manner of her going the qualification IL
enc which nobody, we fancy, will grudge her.
If she chooses to be without the advantages Of
the Union, which her sister States enjoy aud
VIII continue to enjoy the loss is hers, and the
adyantages-so far as the saving of some heavy
expense is cOncerned-are ours. How in any
other sense she is to get out of the Union, it is
not easy to see. Her Commissioners will pres
emily appear at Washington, and will have the
honor, doubtless, of dining with the Old Public
Functionary, who still holds high Court in the
White House. They may wait upon Congress,
but Congress has no authority to treat with
them upon the subject of dissolution What,
then, can they do Like the French King who
marched up the hill with twice ten Thousand
men, and then marched down again, they can
return to Charleston and report progress. Oh'y
let the State continue to pay the regular duties
on imports, and keep her hands of the Forts
and she can sccedc as long as she pleases.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21
THOSE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

Ii is possible that the extraordinary delight of
the Democratic press over the result Of the recent
municipal elections in Massachusetts may misSad
few people into fears for the stability OF Re-
pnblican,m in the old Bay State; and since The
EJyresS boasts that ts party could now carry
Massachusetts by 10000 majority, it may be well
to state few facts, from which intelligent read
ers can draw their own differences.
Twelve cities in Massachusetts have just chosen
Mayors, siX Of them being Republicans, three
Bell men, and three Donglasltcs. The Common
Councils in niue of the twelve are Republican
Boston has elected n Union" Mayor by 5000
majority to the infinite satisfaction of the Dis
uuonists. Wen, what of it Boston has never
elected Republican Mayor, az such. On pre-
yous occasion, a Republican nominee was de-
ieated by about $500 majority Dir. Wightman,
the new Mayor, was nominated by the same cit
liens organization that has carried Boston at
each municipal election since 1856. The follow.
ing table shows the vote of that city at each
State election since and including 1856:
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

golden shower has begun TO pour in upon
US. Last Saturday California sent us a million,
on Sunday the Europa brought us $4,000
from ENGLAND. The Etna came on Tuesday with
$3.50 600, on Wednesday the Atlantic brought
$3.50, O0O and yesterday came the Persia, with
So 100000, TO which the Quaker City, from
Havana, added SlO7,7l8, and the Borussia,
from Hamburg, $l7, 800, making the receipts of
yesterday SO, 225,2l8 or Sj,945,2lS since Satur-
day last. Comment may be dispensed with.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

In view of these figures the Republicans Of
Boston bad no good reason te anticipate success
and, Of course, under such circumstances, could
not draw out their full vote Nevertheless they
poled larger vote than at any preceding mum.
cipal election. Where, then, ia the great re-
action in favor of Cotton, OF which We hear 80
much and see 80 little' That may do very
" well as an explanation OF the election in Bos.
" ton," say the DisupiMsts, 81 but Worcester,
" heretofore the hot5ed Of Abotlousm, has Just
" elected Isaac DAVIS, Douglas man, for Mayor.
- What have sou 20 offer about that" We have
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

Tie steamer Persia, with two days later
European intellgence-her latest dates being Of
the 9th inst.-arrived at this port yesterday
afternoon. She brought E62l ,407 in specie.
The most important announcement by this arrival
is that the Allies have captured Pehin. The
Empcrors summer palace had been sacked, and
immense spois taken. The Emperor had fled to
T0rtary. The Allies were to winter at Pekn
and 1ien-tsin. Victor Emanuel had returned to
Naples. trial had been made of the Caveli
battery against the fortress of Gaeta with terri
bic effect. Reactionary disturbances had taken
place at Caseta and other places, but the Carl
baldans had promptly put them down. King
Francis H. has concluded loan at Vienna. The
Neapoltan army in the Roman territory has
diminished to 5000 The Russian decree email
cipatng the peasants has been signed by the En-
peror, and is TO be promulgated on the lst of
January. BreadStufs steady. Consos on the
7tb, $50 for money, and 9ii for account.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

If in 1854, when the Kansas Nebraska bill was
proposed, the Southern Senators snd Representa-
tives in Congress had exhibited 1.-THE Of tbs
sense, wisdom, and courage which ANDREW
Johnson of Tennessee displayed in bis speech in
the Senate on Wednesday, that bill would never
have passed, and its consequences would not
have happened. 1t is said that Mr. Johnson Is
now bitterly denounced by the Revol'rsionists.
He can afford TO bear it.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

Senator Pugh of Ohio addressed The Senate
Yesterday, chiefly in reply to the speech of his
colleague, Mr. Wade, on Monday Mr. Pnghs
speech is in very marked contrast to that Of
Mr. johnson, on Wednesday, and is so far from
approving the enforcement of Federal law, SO
abs advocated by the Senator from Tennessee,
that br considers such enforcement ~ the cocr-
zion Of an independent State, and blow at her
sovereign right, which must lend to cnI war.
Though AIr. Push is thus ready to relieve tas
Executive, in wLosc hand, thr powers Of the
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Some feeling was excited in the House Of
Representatives at Washington yesterday by a
resolution, offered by Mr.. DelaDO of Massachusetts,
inquiring of the President whether n statement
made in the South Carolina Convention, to the
effect that notice had been given him that re-
enforcement of Fort Moultrie would be the signal
Tor an attack, was true. What with Mr.. Clarke's
resolutions in the Senate, which were again
brought up yesterday, and the urging of this
similar inquiry in the House. it is not improba
bic that Mr.. Buchanan will yet be compelled to
explain and defend his do-nething policy in regard
TO the nsurgent CarollDans
The Pacific Railroad was got through the
Honse Yesterday as an amendment, offered by
Mr.. Curtis, to the Nebraska Land bill. 1t pro.
yides for road starting from the western border
of Missouri and the southern border of Iowa, to
meet within 200 miles of the Missouri River, and
then 10 unite 10 II single trunk by the best and
shortest route near Salt Lake to San Francisco,
or the nayigablc waters of the Sacramento. The
other road is to start from Fort Smith and Ii
point on the western border Of Louisiana, with
two convergng lines westward Till Junction is
made with the road chartered by the Texas
Legislature.