Year: 1860

From the New York Herald. e..
ALARMING PROGRESS OF REVOLT


TION AT THE SOUTH.


We publish to-day number of letters
from Southern correspondents, and arti-
cles from the Southern press, showing
the alarming progress Of revolution at
the other side of Mason and Dixon's
line. The revolutionary programme of
the Black Republicans at the North, and
the near prospect of the election of their
chief, are precipitating the secessionist
and even the conservative elements of
the South into revolution and civil war.


Already are preparations for hostilities
being made in Virginia, and the arming
and organization are going toward with
vigor, as described by our interesting
Richmond correspondence. If we are
to believe the statement of another well
written and eloquent letter from another
of the border States, Maryland is also in
the incipient stage of revolution, and
every border State will stand by the ac-
ton of any one or more of the cotton
States which may secede, and will resist
to the death any attempt to coerce them
into subsection to the federal power
The writer says that the attempt of the
Republican President to force his North
ern Office holders on the South would be
sufficient to commence the bloody fray,
but that his election will be regarded by
the South as Caesar crossing the Rubicon.


The people of Mississippi and Ala
bama speak, through their press, their
determination to right themselves out
side of the Union, and not within. The
Charleston Mercury, which expresses the
sentiments of the citizens of South Caro-
lima, is equally bold, and proelaims that
'snow or never" is the time for action,
for the emancipation of the South from
Northern aggression, or the retiring of
the Southern States from the Union
That old and respectable organ Of the
Palmetto State counsels the people not
to postpone their measures till after the
Inauguration of Lincoln, and the armed
force of the North is at his disposal, as
their action may then be too late. The
same sentiment is uttered in Virginia.


A Georgia paper suggests the mode of
bringing the revolution to crisis. 1t
advises that either South Carolina,
Mississippi or Alabama should secede,
and then if the central government at
Washington should attempt to coerce
them, every Southern State would rally
around them and then secession would
become general, and new Southern con-
federacy be formed Immediately out Of
the broken Union. That Georgia will
go with the seceders we are fully as
sured. That large majority of the
people of South Carolina, Mississippi
and Alabama are prepared to take the
decisive step of secession there is but
too much reason to fear. The infamma-
BILE materials are there, the train of gun
powder is laid, and it only requires that
the match Of the incendiary, the torch of
the Wide Awake, be applied, in order to
set the whole South in one blaze


The air is rife with revolution and
secession. The partizans of Breckin-
ridge, the partizans of Bell and the par
tizans of Douglas at the South, and they
include nearly the whole population,
agree in one thing, however they may
differ in other matters. They all concur
as to the certainty of revolution if Lin
coin should be elected, while each party
contends that the election of its own
ticket alone can avert the calamity
The Richmond Wing, and Mr.. Hill. of
Georgia, whose letter we publish, insist
that only the election Of Bell can save
Union. The Richmond Enquirer, on
the contrary, declares that if Virginia
sho1ld go for Bell, and not for Breckin-
ridge, the cotton States will regard this
as casus belH, and secession will be pre-
cipitated beyond the power Of man to ar
rest it's course.


Without discussing the points on
which the Southern people more or less
differ, we may take that on which they
seem to be agreed, and that is, that the
election of Lincoln will be the signal for
a revolt, which nothing but his defeat
can prevent. As we are within a fort
night of the time when that question is
to be decided at the ballot box, we
think our readers will admit that we are
on the eve of by far the greatest danger
that ever threatened the country, and
that every man who values the freedom
he enjoys, and knows how to appreciate
the greatness, the glory, the prosperity
and the strength of the Uuited States,
ought to ponder we'll how he may best
prevent the impending ruin which will
make these States disunited States. and
inaugurate a reign of terror, anarchy
and blooshed without precedent in the
annals of civilized nations.


That Lincoln will be elected, unless
some sudden change comes over the
spirit of our Northern dream, can hardly
admit of doubt in any unprejudiced
mind which closely watches passing
political events and is capable of esti
mating their value. For the conse-
quences no wise man will be disposed to
answer. The unthinking multitude, as
in all past ages, are sleeping uncon-
sciously on volcano, which is already
uttering its low murmurings, premoni
tory of eruption, and may at any moment
send forth it's irresistible fiery food to
overwhelm and desolate wherever it
comes. Such is the terrible crisis to
which the abolition sentiment and the
Black Republican party have brought
the country at last.
A New Way Across the Isthmus.


1t is said that new and practicable
route through Nicaragua has been just
discovered. The Atlantic terminus
would be half way up the Mosquito
coast, at the mouth of stream called
Rio Grande on the maps, and enormously
supposed not to be navigable, though it
will admit ocean steamers for eighty
miles, bringing them to- a fine plain
inst the thing for a misunderstanding