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The lead article didn’t lend itself to cutting up and reassembling well. I apologize if page 2 is difficult to follow.

The City of Washington and the Capitol – 1-2
Editorials – 3-4
The Lounger – 4-5
Humors of the Day – 5
Affray in Boston – 5-6
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch. VI-VII – 6-9
Departure of the St. Louis Brigade for Kansas – 9
Domestic Intelligence – 10-11
Foreign News – 11-12
In the Indian Summer – 12
The Old House in the Five Points – 12, 15-16
A Record of the Day – 13
Assembling of Congress, Hall of Representatives, Washington City, December 3, 1860 – 14
Love – 16
She Wished to Be Something – 16-17
Non Satis – 17
Life Scenes in the South: A True Shark Story – 17-18
A Day’s Ride: A Life’s Romance, by Charles Lever. Ch. XXVI-XXVII – 18-20
The Sort of Seed Garibaldi is Sowing – 21
Scene on the Levee at New Orleans – 21

The editorial on page 3 tells us the "real reasons" behind Southern secession: it was all a plot by the British aristocracy to reduce the appeal of American style democracy by splitting the country over the issue of slavery.

That was the "real reason" the Brits freed slaves, in 1833, in the West Indies and paid slaveholders 20 million pounds sterling to free their 800,000 slaves.
Brits set the example that American abolitionists were then eager to follow, transforming themselves from very gentle & gradual persuaders into radicals scorning & mocking Southerners over their "peculiar institution."

So... it turns out, according to this opinion, that the root cause of the US Civil War was dastardly British aristocrats freeing 800,000 slaves in the West Indies, paying slaveholders 20 million pounds (about US $95 million at the time, roughly twice the US national budget) in 1833.

Who knew?