New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-09

trict Judges for this city. There was not mach
general interest in the contest, and less than half
the legal votes of the city were polled.
But ono of the candidates for the lid District
Judgcship was Judge Kennedy violent Seces-
sion member of the Louisiana Convention afore-
said, who steadfastly opposed submitting the Sc
cession ordinance and the Montgomery Constitu-
ton to the popular vote. Judge Kennedy mas a
profound contempt for the people; and they
demonstrated yesterday that the feeling Is quite
reciprocal. They not only defeated hlm, but
landed him 80 high and dry on the shell that IL
will require an unusually strong wave to set MN
aGoat again. Out of more than 5000 votes ne
received less than 1900; and so he is consigned
TO private life l fear that he and his friend
Judge Semmes win now have more hearty dis
gust than ever for "mere numerical majorities."
This is but the beginning of the end.
Our fire-eaters are intensely bitter upon the
Border Slave States for refusing to throw
themselves into the whirlpool of Secession.
Curses both loud aud deep are invoked
upon Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia.
The gallant Andy johnson is just now the best
abused of men in the Confederate States OF
America. / have heard the gentle wish expressed
several times that his people might hang him on
the nearest tree. The Secessionists are at pres
ent looking hopefully to Virginia. They think
she VIII soon come out Of the Union with mo-
mentum which will bring al the Southern States
with her. If the Border Slave States do not
come, the Confederate Congress, probably at its
next session, viii attempt TO coerce them by
levying heavy import duty on slayes--25 or 80
per cent is talked of.
They are determined either to persuade or
drive all the Slave States into their ranks.
Their great fear is flat if this is not done, Vir-
ginia and the adjacent States viii gradually be-
come abolitOrized, and bring free territory down
to the very line of the Gulf Statea. They are
quite willing to subject Kentucky and Virginia to
all the embarrassment aud peril of ccntisulty TO
free fore gn republic, which of course would
not trouble itself 70 return their runaway ne
Croes; but they VIII move heaven aud earth to
save themselves from any such possible contin'
gency.
These Secessionists have remarkably expansive
ideas. They are gentlemen Of magnificent eA-
pectations. "Sir." remarked one of them-a
Judge. too--in conversation with me oday, " ID
seven wears the Southern Coniederacy VIII be The
greatest and richest nation On earth. We shall
have Cuba, ard Mexico, and Central America,
and every State west of the AAeghanes' We
are the natural market Of tho North-Western
L
States, and they are bound to join US" Ihink
of that, will you Imagine Father Giddngs ana
Carl Schurz. and Owen LOyejoy-the Western
Reserve of Ohio and the staunch Republican
State, Of Wisconsin and Michigan, in Slave
Confedcracy
Our Secession organs seize upon and reproduce
all the barefaced falsehoods of tho Northern Pro-
Slavery press with amusing avidity. Even the
sensation stories OF the ancient Munchausen OF
The N. Y. Herald about suffering and disailection
in the North are daily paraded before us. Our
merchants and other business men, three-fourths Of
whom are Of Northern bifth, smile quietly at
them os illustrating what enormous les man
can tell who gives his whole mind to il. Here
and there n native believes them, and the Scces-
sion editors swallow them whole. II Tie Herald
were 10 state that hundred thousand Of yeur
working men had burned the Aston IIousc,
turned the North River up Broadway dcposed
the City Government taken possession of all the
Fifth-aveDue palaces, and were now parading The
streets bearing Mr.. Horace Greeley's head upon
a pole and crying " Bread or Blood they
would Mt have the faintost Suspicion that it was
q hoax.
The interior papers Of Mississippi and Alabama,
for the last few weeks, record an unusual aud
alarming number Of instances in which slaves
have murdered their overseers and mnstert. l
have no specific information rs 10 the cause, but
prudence and common sense ought TO teach
shareholders in such times as these not TO coz
verse as freely ard unreseryedly about tie
progress bud strength of Aboiit!ousm, aud other
kindred topics, as they almost invariably do, in
the presence of their negroes.
The weather continues excessively Lot, with
frequent showers.