The New York Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1861, Page 4

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Room Lvterranments Bat RICAN MUSIC TOMES, det ALL, 44 Kroadway.—Sonas, Bate PORTRAIT PAINTER, New York, Friday, August 16, 1861. OUR WAR MAPS. We have issucd another edition of the nu merous maps, plans and diagrams of the ope- rations of the Union and rebel troops in Vir- ginia, Missouri, Minois, Plorida, and on the Missis- | sippi and Missouri rivers, and it is now ready for | delivery, Agents desiring copies are requested to send in their orders imme iwtely. Single copies six cents, Wholesale price the saime as for the Weexiy Henanp, THE SITUATION. The rebel pickets around the camps about Washington have exhibited a good deal of vity for the past few days. At Annandale, Bailey's Crass Roads and other points, they have made advances upon the Uniou pickets, and fallen in with in considerable numbers, several shots being exchanged on both sides, anda few of the rebel cavalry scouts picked off. It would appear from all these indications that the rebels are closing up, as far as safety will permit, towards the defences on the Potomac. The difficulty with the Seventy-ninth New York Highfand regiment at Washington has been setiled by the prompt, energetic and soldierly action of Gen. McClellan, The regiment went over to camp yesterday in good order to the Maryland side of the Potomac, opposite The disaflected soldiers Lave put and are in confinement. A mar- tial been ordered to try them for insubordination in refusing to march iuto Vit. ginia when ordered. Upon learning of the mutiny Gen, McClellan ordered the Provost Marshal, Col. Yorter, to surround the Seventy-ninth with a force of cavalry, infantry and artillery, which was promptly done. Gen. McClellan then issued the following proclamation, which worked like a charm on the discontented Th General the Alexandria. leading been in irons court hag member Commanding has heard with deepest pain of the acts of insubordination on the | part of the Seventy-ninth regiment. Without at- tempting to enter into a discussion of the cau-es, itis sufficient to say that they are frivolous and groundicss; that these acts have thrown disy upon the regiment and the service, and taking Place at this time, they give rise to the strongest suspicions of the most abject cowardice. ‘he re- giment have forced upon the Commanding General an issue which he is prepared to meet. The men are ordered down their arms aud return to duty, All those refusing to do so will be fired upon immediately. re to lay If they comply with the order the ringleaders only will be pun- ; ished. The colors of the regiment are taken from them, and will be returned only when their conduct incamp shall have proved that they understand i the first duty of a soldier—obcdier on the field of battle, they shall have pr: bravery. nd when, The names of the leaders in this revolt will be sent to the Governor of New York, to. be placed in the archives of the State.” The second Maine regiment were treated with | similar rigor. Sixty-two of them lave been sent to Tortugas, to work as unarmed taborers on the fortifications during their three years’ term of en, | listment. The good effect of the vigorous course adopted | by General McClellan upon the army generally will be manifest. In time of war the strictest dis- cipline is essential in every capacity, from the highest to the lowest. Without it the commanding @eneral can effect no movement with certainty or success. General McClellan appears resolved to maintain a high state of discipline at all h: and in such a resolve lies the only safety for the army and the national cause. Nor is is it only in compelling order in the army that General McClellan is showing the force of his character, and the wisdom which he has gained by experience. In everything that can conduce to a high state of efliciency in the troops under his com- mand he is displaying the greatest activity. Camps of rendezvous and instruction are to be established in the vicinity of New York, Harris- burg, Pittsburg, Cincinnati and other large cities for the benefit of the volunteers. These schools will be presided over by officers of the regular army, and there canbe no doubt that they will prove most valuable in the construction of a well disciplined army. We give some further pagticulars to-day of the late battle at Davis’ creck, Missouri, but they do not alter the facts already stated in any material way, save that the loss of artillery by the Union troops is now put down at five guns instead of four, as previously atated. The body of General Lyon has been embalmed, in order to be sent to ‘his family in Connecticut. From Fortress Monroe we hear that tho rebel pickets in the vicinity of Hampton are very bold and active in their approaches upoa ourlines. On Tuesday night their scouts attempted to cross Hampton creek, but they were fired upon by the Union pickets aud imme tiately retired, ave heen | ved their | azards, | | | _ Our files of Rio Janciro papers, to July 9, are | devoid of interest, The coffee trade was dull and | prices lower. Rates of exchange are quoted still | lower than our lust advices, being from 26 to 2434 and 2414 on London, From our Buenos Ayres correspondence, dated June 27, it would appear that the provinces snp- posed to sympathize with the former will not be represented in the coming-—aad apparently inevi- table—conflict, and the Tuenos Ayres must bear the brunt of the war alone. Preparat both sides were going on with great activity, a at this moment, probably, blood has alread, ed. The chances are decidedly in fayor of Dergni | and Urqniza, | We have intelligence from Honolulu, Haw Tiands, to Juno 25. Nothing of special interest | had transpired since our last advices. taunts were reposing under the usual stagnation of business incident to the summer months, On Wednesday morning, June 12, there was a revep- tion at the palace of his Majesty the King, whea Mr. J. W. Bordon, late United States Commission- er, took leave of the King and Queen and tho Prince of Hawaii, and introduced his successor, Colonel T. J. Dryer. In welcoming him as the | representative of the United States government his Majesty assured him, on the part of his own government, of its constant endeavors to pre- serve the friendly feelings existing between the two countries. On Thursday, June 20, her Britannic Majesty’s Acting Commissioner and Consul General gave an entertainment at the Court House in honor of Lady Franklin. The apart- meut in which the seirce took place was decorated inan elegant and tasteful manner. At the side opposite the entrance from the hall was a dais surmounted with a crown. Lady Franklin eceupied # seat on the right of the King, and Miss Cracroft, her niece, on the left of the Queen, ‘The supple ment tothe Commercial Advertiser, of Honolulu, in speaking of the event, says:—Lady Franklin ap- | peared to be a delighted spectator at the enter- | tainmeut given in her honor, on the anniversary of the accession to the throne of Great Britain of the royal lady who so adorns it, hy her representetive, + he having as his guests the monarch of a kingdom | whose history is imperishably connected with the memory of a man as illustrious in British nava | annals as that of her lamented husband, Sir John | Franklin. The story about French agents being in the South purchasing large quantities of tobaceo, and paying gold therefor, is too absurd to gain ere- dence. The price of tobacco now in the Southern States is nearly equal to what it was in more pros- perous times; but before it can be shipped fromthe blockaded ports to France, or elsewhere, another crop will be upon the market, and its value will be lessened thereby nearly one-half, French agents know this fact, and they are not so blind to their interest as to pay for a commodity double the price it will be worth when preducers are able to de- liver it. The Quebec Mereury saya the object of the British fleet in going South is only the general one ig British interests, aud to demand that free access shall be had to the important Southern ports so long as they are not blockaded in a man- ner deewed legal by international law, An exchange paper says there are two parties yet at the Northones enlisting to fight the bat- tles of the country, and the other is staying at home making all sorts of contracts by which they can swindle the soldiers out’ of their rations and clothing. The Richmond papers have been forced to ac- knowledge that Hampton was burned by rebel troops, acting under the orders of Gen. Mugrnder. What they previously denounced as an act of van- now justify as being « case of military Al strictly ‘‘constitutional,”? 1 returns of the rebel forces show them to be two hundred and ten thousand strong. The re- cent act of the Congress at Richmend calls for four hundred thousand more, which they expect to get | from the States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. Jt will requive some sharp practice if they succeed. Adnan named BE. W, Gould, now residing in St. Paul, Minnesota, complains over his own signature | inthe St. Louis papers that great “injustice” has been done bim in giving his name as the com- mander of one of the government transport steam- ers on the Mississippi. He says he would sacrifice all he possesses on earth, and see his children beg- | ging bread, sooner than he would Jend any aid | or influence to the government in the prosecution, | of the war. This gentleman Gould is certainly a | self-sacrifleing patriot; but it might be asked what he ix doing iu St. Paul when his services are so | much requived among his brother rebels at the South. The twelve companies of the Michigan cavalry | regiment are now full, and will rendezvous in Detroit this week. The regiment is under the command of Colonel Brodhead, and has been ac- pted for the war. Richard A. Jaco, son-in-law of the late Thomas H, Benton, and brother-in-law of General Fremont, | isone of the Union candidates for the Presid of the Kentucky Senate. Colonel Steptoe, United States Army, and fa- of Virginia, were in Mentreal on the 13th |“ inst., a8 was also Hon. Joseph Holt, of Kentucky. | The Democratic State Convention of Vermont nominated for Governor Pan) Dillingham; for Lieutenant Governor, Stephen Thomas, and for | State Treasurer, James T. Thurston, These gen- temen have all dectined y be candidates, They opposed to party distinction and in favor of the ‘The fossil democrats in Vermont must try | again. ‘The steam sawmill and tumbes ton & Co., at Bound Brook, N.4., were destroyed by fire on the 12th inst. Loss $35,000. A schoon- ey lying at the dock and two or three dwelling houses were also burned. | A company of guerillas or bushwackers has been } formed in Virginia, aud is under the command of Licutenant John LL. Simms, late of the United States marine corps. The Commissioners of Charitles and Correction nict yesterday afternoon, when a report was re- ceived from a committee on typhus fever patients | at Bellevue Hospital. A copy of the report was | ordered to be sent to the Mayor, accompanied by | a request that some a jd be taken to aver the progress of the d A resolution was | adopted requesting the Comptroller of the city to rd of Codding- | place the stun of fifty thonsand dollars at the dis- posal of the Board. The number of persons who | w mitted to the institutions during the last | week wate | there on th 33 on the pr Charles F 1 10th inst. was 8, j ling week. ' Hewett was arrested in Boston on | the 15th inst. on a charge of enticing soldicrs | away from some of the Massachusetts regiments | to join the Irish brigade in this city. ! ' t i The whole number remaining Sa decrense of In another column we publish a lightly interest- ing letter from Dr. James Norval, surgeon of the | Seventy-ninth regiment New York State Militia: who was one of the cleven physicians taken prisen- | ers at the battle of Bull run, and released on his parole. Dr. Norval goes into details about the battle, how he took possession of a stone house situated in the very midst of the hattlefield, where he had forty-three wounded men iy his charge and no other me help to assist him. Ue also em: bodies in his fetter a list of the lames aud the regi- ments the wounded men were attucti¢d to under his immediate care; also of numerous prisoners at Rich: | mond. Among numerous letters for the friends aud relatives of the prisoners, Dy. Norval was the bearer of a petition to his Excellency President Lincoln, signed by the captives, which the rebey authorities refused to be carried forward until in- apected, and promounyed © wil right” by their Wax ‘Tho inhabi- | © | to have been | contract NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, Department, The Doctor also speaks in his con- munication of the kind treatment received at the hands of the cuemy. In conclusion he gives an ‘ecoant of the death of Colonel Cameron. About eight or ton of the United States Marshals, from various seaports, met parsuant to a call issued by Hon. Caleb B, Smith, Secretary of the Interior, in this ¢ yesterday, The purpose, as Stated inthe order of the Secretary, is, that the various officials become with cach pective dep: the meeting supprossic meet again to-day, 4 relatives of the late M: Jeave this city to-day en rov procuye the remains of the ina ti concert is announ Park to-morrow should the wi Dodworth’s Band will and the music will commence at half . M, Refreshments to be obtained treet entrance, leading fic tis also supposed thu have some bearing on the efivetual of aye trade, he Marshals will Genera! Lyon ‘for Mixsouri, to 1, which wil! be to take plac the Central provo fav attend, able, f cotom wore more to salt yout re weak, ef sing sof 18e, a 18,0. plund, With sales of only 459 bales, ih .¢ transected it brewtstutts, mésty by rs; tho total receipts wore 16,¢83 bbls, {loor, els whoat ard corn; while the gals | amounted to over 23,000 bbls, flour, and 500,C09 bushe'® | wheat and corn; aud prices of flour advanced Bo. a ‘There was very little end there was ro buy in botter demand, aod at foll rates, Ther } ard Jess arimation in | ed a title d wer od rice; while w! coffee was quict vory gol fo and for spirits turpentine, which wore hi or Ket on freight were advanoing, and more produce was ollered. Thurlow Weed anil the Cabinet. | in the p | between sixty and seventy millions of specie 1861. | The Government Loan—Condition of the | Nation and the Work Expected The prompt response of the banks and bankers of the three leading cities ef the Union to the call of the government for funds to pro seente the war is without parallel im the his- | tory of the world, The financiers of England, who were astounded at the boldness of Con. gress, even when it was intimated that that body would’ call for its hundreds of millions, | with the idea that it would be taken at home, will now, that the mone men of the country have stopped forward and pledged one million eyes | 8 of | » and Bos day, have good reason to open th hh wonder and amaze The ban ton, in arrangii f overnment with one hundred and fifty millions ia dred and filty de lion per day, until after Congress shall heve in session long enough to make further | preparations to vaise means, if needed, to sup- press the rebellion, 1 | ipe st executed by theiing clers of Lingland, or even those of France dur- ing the famous Vreuch Revolution. What i better still, in taking this bold and dec step they have secured the prosperity of the banking institutions ef the nation, and pre- vented any harm befatling them. Jt may bo considered somewhat singular that, ub depres coudition of trade and the banks of these threo cities have specie in their vaults ia abundance to fulfil 3. The banks of Boston, Philadel- ew York bave at this very mement feat that ec 3 any f commerce, phia and command, And since the mouey does not In another coltuma will be found a strong and emphatic article from the Al- bany Evening Jowna, the organ of Thur- low Weed, which we commend to the special attention of our readers and the ad- ministration at Washington. It is too good a thing to be lost; we therefore give it in full, Weed at length soos, what everybody has h comply about, that the present Cabinet do not nprehend the great issues of the hour, and have been treating this whole war as agrand frotic to benefit favorites rather than | to punish the enemies of our country, His de- nunciations of those who ponsible for this exceeds that of the democratic editors, and coming from one who has been known to have a view at matters in this administration which the public generally have not been per- mitted to see, we look upon it as only the com- mencement of the storm of indignation that is about bursting forth upon the heads of the de- partments at Washington, and even Lincoln himself, unless he inaugurates a new order of things and infuses energy into the different de- partinents, Speaking of the attitude of the government towards traitors and spies in their midst, actu- ally paying men to furnish the enemy with their movements, he adds:—“But it muy not be unpro- fitable to say—and we say it with emphasis— that this condition of things is unendurable, and will not be endured.” In that emphatic ex- pression the administration can see what is brewing in their own household, and announced in a quarter that it will do well for them to heed. “We have,” says Weed, “a navy” (we think that there must be some doubt about that)—* a navy which in other wars was not only our means of defence, our pride and glory, but the terror of our enemies.” He further asks:-—“Huas that navy made its mark?” “Where and in what way has it annoyed and harassed the enemy?” This is a question that our shipping merchants have long been asking, while they have continued to demand that addi- tional vessels should be purchased and placed in the blockading service. The imbecility and incompetency of a portion of the present Cabi- net have for a long time awakened the serious apprehensions of many of the leading men of the country. They have felt the loss of millions upon millions through the inefficiency of the blockade, and the fact that with the exception of the short and brilliant campaign of General McClellan in Western Virginia, and the success of Gen. Lyon in Missouri, disaster has been our fate everywhere. For all this they consider some one at Washington responsible, A train of events has traced it to the heads of the different departments, and it is not at all gur- | ing that the demand for a stop to this boy's wy ¢s becoming so earnest that even Thurlow Weed should be compelled to speak out in de- cisive tones, declaring that such proceedings will not longer be endured. Let the authorities at Washington take heed in time. The public want no more Big Bethels, Bull runs, or even such slaughters as have lost them the gallant General Lyon. Minirary Disctrrixe.—We are glad to find that the insubordination in the New York Seventy-ninth has been promptly put down by the disarmament and guarding of the regiment and the arrest of the ringleaders, numbering nearly fifty. The disaffection is said to have urisen from the tact that they were promi: furlough in order to see to the comfort of the families and to elect new officers to fill existing va But whatever the cause, there js no excuse for their conduct, and an investigation of the circumstances, which is immediately to take place, will doubtless result inthe offenders cies, receiving a merited punishment. An army is | useless without discipline, and any breach of it should be visited with proper sey The force of a bad example is only to be corrected by such prompt and decisive measures as Ni leon and Wellington never failed to adopt in cases like the present. uy YRn—Over “ih papers have given us the intelligence that Governor Wise had been taken prisoner. These stories prove all untrue. He js still safe and nd, and rusticating som White or Yellow Sulpbur we fear he may ha Hot Sulphu saxon Wisk not Cav and over again the republic ngs. One day nt quarters in Springs, unless ke renounces rs to bebave himself, Why does not President Lincolu offer a reward for his capture, or let the Governor he tak Not by any of th » perman at by usylvania job bers, however, or he will Hever be oanght, ~ ae See a Prcxev Sxoore.—The pr which has prevaileds fu both armies of « « the ene- ny’s pickets is in. the bi We ave that such inbumanity is bei reprelen- sible and barbarous, tad to hy certafi officers on both A genera} order ouvht, however, to be issued upon the subject, witch would no dont call forth a sii- lar one from the rebels, and so would | paid ont to. the | as they have not only the right but the duty to ore at the Red, | ed | the country, but isexpended in those differ- ent branches of trade and maantacture which are essential to the war, in it the hands of one to another, the changing from rst twenty mil- lions will not pass out of the hands of the banks way back ore at least two-thirds of i vaul mie nto thelr and can again be strong, and on the southern con- action bas caused a large amount to be sent here for e safe investment; which, taken fogether w ne enormons falling of in importations and the operations of the Morrill (or high) (aril, bids fair to revive and give an impetus to the woollen, iron and other manufactures of New England and the Middle States, and do more for them and the country than did the war of 1812, which was noted for laying the foundation for manufacturing in America, and will commence a new era for them. we might say impregnable, posi ing in part to the federacy, whose of hanks is ow We have now in the States loyal to the go- vernment a population of at least twenty-two inillions—exceeding that of Great Britain at the ; commencement of the French revolution—a larger navy, more extensive commerce, greater wealth and twice the mercantile fleet of that na- tion at that period, which enabled her to w ther the storm and come out victorions against | the combined efforts of Europe. Can any oue doubt, therefore, but that we are capable of contending with the so-called Southern con- federacy, with its eight millions of people, with- out a navy except its privateers, and 3 domes- tic institution that will in the end weaken rather than strengthen their hands? With the advan- tage in our favor of numbers, wealth and all that is requisite for a successful prosecution of the war, and the consciousness of right and jus- tice on our side, who can for a moment doubt but that this great struggle will end in the main. tenance of the government and the restoration of the constitutional rights to all citizens, from the lakes tothe Gulf, and the suppression of the most outrageous and unjustifiable rebellion known to the world? What is to prevent those Union men of the Gulf States from again enjoy~ ing the peace, quiet and prosperity so long blessed with under the freest government known in the history of the world, by putting down the unholy and iniquitons organization that now grinds them to the dust, and makes even their own household a place not safe to express their own thoughts ? Nothing can prevent the accomplishment of this desired and humane object but the imbe- cility and dishonesty of those at the head of the different departments of our government. What is now wanted is the same energy and activity at Washington as has been manifested by the financiers of Boston, Philadelphia and New York. Now that our moneyed men have decided to furnish the sinews of war it is their duty, on behalf of themselves, the people and humanity the world over, to insist that the funds furnished “by them shall not be wastefully spent on favor- ites and corrupt contractors around the War Department, or frittered away by sleepy, slug- gish and imbecile officials in the Navy Bureau, but spent, as it is designed, in a vigorous prose- cution of the war by land, and making the block- ade so effectual that no vessel of the enemy can obtain ingress or egress from any harbor, bay, ereek or inlet from the Chesapeake to the Rio Grande. They should demand of the President, do, that more honesty and energy should be infused in the War and Navy Departments, and men of talent and statesmanship placed at their head. The country has already lost enough through the imbecility: of one Welles, at the head of the Navy Department. We have been long enough disgraced in the eyes of the world: having twenty-two millions sustaining the go- | vernment, contending with Jess than eight millions, and at the same time sending out ar- mies one-third of the numbers against us.) The Seerctary of War,in his message to Congress, stated that he accepted three hundred and ten thousand troops and rejected many a paunowen meu may, be paced in the War Department who will no longer fawn upon | bacco which Frendh agents are now buying up | in Virginla, the whole financial system of the favorites, while the gallant soldiers are kept | French government would be deranged—a vast without thelr pay, and treated more like brutes | proportion of its income being derived from the than mex. We trust that our financiers will see | that this change at least iy made, upon which depends the success of our eanse and the canse i ing on the subject has been arrived at as to the’ | combined setion of the two governments to- of freedom for all time to come. . Monacing Hostility of the English Gov- ernment and Press to the United States. By our fites ot papers, which we received from England by the Persia, and froin which we published yesterday highly interesting and important exiracts, it appears that the heséility | of the Kagtish government and press to the United States has not at all abated. The tane | ofthe London journals is not so vituperative, but they breathe a quiet malignity and deter- mination which is more dangerous, On the } whole the @spect of the news is by ne nweass cheeving. ‘The oue bright spot is Jobn Bright's h, which we publish to-day, Lord [’al rston made a speech in Parliament, in which he threatens with prosecution all who send ov ms or other articles contraband of war to the United States, and all financiers who dare to*take our loan or have anything to do with it. According te one report he said “they will be dealt with by the gevernment;” and another represents bim as saying “they will be dealt with according to law.” The govern- ment and the press are openly doing their utmost to prevent the loan being taken, Yet they cannot succeed; for while speculators get seven per cent for their money on good security, they will not be deterred from taking the loan either by the on- slanghts of the journals or by threats of prose- cution. The price of this loan will rise when the government puts down the rebellion and peace is restored. It is, therefore, an execleut investment. Tho republic i4 rich and of vast extent; its resources are boundless, and it is able to pay all that it borrows. It is a country of tur greater area and of immensely greater wealth than the French republic after the Revo- lution, when it successfully contended agains duty on that article. We ave informed by Losd Palinerston’s organ that a perfect mnderstand wards that of America, and that “this: coopern- tion is to be prosecuted on both sea and! land.” Yet we do not believe the Emperor’ of the Fronch will take any step hostile or injurtous to us, unless the English government lead the way, Should England enter upon such # dam serous career, she will rue the day that her rulers have committed her to a deadly struggle with this young giant republic. Fashionable Intelllgence=Which Is the’ ‘True Jenkins, Willis or Greeley? We publish in another column two articles the one from the Hon. Massa Greeley, whe, since his abdication. after the battle of Bull run, of the superintendence of the War Department, has devoted his attention to the mysteries of fashionable life, and the other from Myr. N, P, Willis, who has been recently attending to the affairs of the nation, and matters and things te general at the national capital. Both Willis and Greeley are prominent aspirants for the mantle and renown of the arbiter of elegance, Jenkins, The text upon which Massa Greeley, in his new vocation, modestly enlarges, is the President’s wife in the dog days; and he tele us with the zeal and gusto of a tyre, how thet lady is to be attended and how she is to be have and be treated throughout her journey backwards and forwards to watering placer and bathing resorts, while absent from Wash ington, “We are all snobs,” he says, “aad heaven be thanked there are plenty of ue a over the world,” and, after this acknowledge meni, he does not pretend to be over dictate rial. He even tells us that there are some kinds of snobbishness which are greater than other kinds of snobbishness, and compares them together a little vehemently, with an evident desire to be thought capable of compassing far more numerous and more formidable ene--| them all; but he closes in a strain which is in- mies iban our government has now to deal with, We are better able, therefore, to overcome the | resistance, even if it should be aided by Eng- land and other Powers, If the English goverament should break the blockade we have abundant means of retalia- tion. If it goesto extremes, we can go to ex- tremes also. We will have control of the cotton, and we will not let England have a pound; and | it is admitted by her press that if she does not get it her manufacturing interests will be ruined. We can cut off her entire trade with | this country, and that would be death to her, Her subjects hold five hundred million dollars worth of our stocks, At one stroke we could confiscate these, unless the holders come and reside in the country and take the oath of al- le; e. As they would, for the most part, emigrate in order to save their property, there would be capital to that amount transferred to this country for the purpose of establishing new manufactures. We could bring half of Manchester and Lancashire here, and, notwith- standing the war, business would flourish, while the manufacturing and commercial interests of | England would fall into ruin and decay. We | could thus deal a heavy retribution for her sclf- | ish policy in attempting to sacrifice our vast | national and permanent interests to alleviate her own temporary distress, That she has se- cret interests beyond this no one can doubt who has read her history. She wants to avenge her defeat in two wars, to assert her maritime supremacy throughout the world, and to extend her dominion on this continent. Her designs on Mexico are very apparent. Her only chance | of success in these schemes of aggrandizement is the permanent division of the United States into two or more factions, which she would play against cach other with that subtle diplomacy she knows so well how to wield. For many years she hus been sowing the seeds of diseord in our midst. But the slavery question was the wedge which her agents in this country have driven home to some purpose. It has split us in two, but not forever, as she may yet learn to ' | her cost. ' If the tone of the British press be any index | of the intentions of the administration, there can be little doubt that it means mischief to this country. The London Jferald (Suly 29), Lord Derby's organ, declares that “the blockade is thoroughly inefficient and contemptible,” and | that “not a single prize can be condemned;” | and even if the blockade were efficient the American government cannot blockade its own ports, according to the doctrine which it successfully asserted in the case of one of iis own ships at Na- ples in the late Italian war. Fivally, the | writer concludes in these emphatic words:— “With the stoppage of the American supply of cotton, Manchester, from sheer necessi fall to pieces. * * And a cessa war or the intervention of other Powers seems at this moment our only prospect of escape from serious social and commercial trials.” The langnage of the London Shipping Gazette, the influential organ of British shipowners, and formerly very friendly to this country, is still more menacing. It announces that England, France and Spain will now take a decided course of action in American affairs, “and at whatever hazard maintain, with all their power, the freedom of the seas, and cast] the respousi- bility of any collision that may occur on those who wontonly provoke it by a disregard of those obligations which the code of interna- tional law imposes on all mavitime States.’ This is plain talk, which cannot be mistaken, | and there can be no doubt that the government | more. Where are those treops? They certainly were not at Big Bethel, nor has there been a large enough force at Fortress Monroe at any time to carry on the war fa that seetion with | | vigor, General McDowell, when he was com- | pelled to march on Manassas with his thirty. five thousand men, and there battle with three times his num certainly did not have any | a s the Secretary of War would have us infer was at the command of the eovernment, pree | } | } i { | { | | his life at the head of a men, fighting a force forr times as compelled to sac thandfal ¢ pat as his ? | The small numbers in the two positions ref i \ to would lead us to look for them at the West, | hut if they are there, why was the gallant Lyon | played Jong enough, and now call upon the | President and his advisers to country, and not the sac and brave solders fighthing four times the listened to the compluinis « lef work for the of our commanders ' |” 'The public insist that this game has been | ' { egainst three and ve long enough the treatment of r numbers, We the soldiers who hive be put to this system of revel and useless bloodshed home and offered of Great Britain will walk over us if we permit it. We learn by this arriyal that Kingston, in Canada, is to be made a naval as well aga military station, and that a naval force is to be stationed on the lakes. Does this look like neu- trality? We further learn that the English government has sent out reinforeements to her already immense fleet upon our coast, number- ing some thirty ships—two of them ships of the line, 90 guns; several of them frigates, and most of them armed with the powerful Arm- strong cannon. The whole number of guns is now about 500—a force, con- sidering the quality of the ships and ar manent, more than suffcient to break the blockade in every port, and sink our whole fleet, thanks to the imbecility of the Navy De- partment at Washington. Then there is the powerfal French squadron here, which we are assured will co-operate with the English, be- cause the exports of Mrance in wine and other articles have fallen of more than one half, in | | i i | } i i { } | | | } | such rivals. tended to be sweet and musical, and hopes Mrs, Lincoln may be nowhere troubled with mus- quitoes, which is certainly kind. Chevalier Willis has many advantages over Massa Greeley. His natural qualifications as & Jenkins are the greater of the two, Moreover he brings to his aid the experience of the ela- borate cravating generation of thirty years ago, when he was in his heyday of glory. He has renovated his youth, too, wonderfully, and enters upon the scene ef fashionable life amid gales of perfume and fragrance. He possesses that happy faculty of appropriating to himself the distinction he imparts to others, which is so refreshing a part of the enthusiastic Jenkins’ role. “The Prince,” he says, “ unbedecked him- self of his full dress, appearing afterwardsin a Leghorn hat, frock coat, and straw colored waistcoat and pantaloons, and changing hia white kids, of course, for gloves of the pro- menade tint. I believe I was the only spectator as the royal party passed out!” Happy, thrice happy Jenkins, to have a monopoly of such a blissful vision! “TI find his Royal Highness a taller man,” he_says, also, “ than I used to sup- pose he promised to be, when] knew him asa hoy,” thus giving the admiring world to know on what close terms of intimacy he has been with the said Royal, (should he not have said Imperial?) Highness, for an immemorable period. Tow the President of the United States was dressed (for Chevalier Willis is describing adinner) and what clothes Secretary Seward had an, and how everybody clse appeared in his happy eyes, will be found duly. chronicled elsewhere, With that proper deference of times and sea- sona which always characterizes a discriminating American public, the question of paramount importance, in this season when the dog star ed to be, who is the ablest gene- is ral? or when will there be another battle? and, has, of late, become, who is the greatest Jen- kins? We have endeavored to throw some light on this all important subject. The whis- pering Arabella, and the mustache-caressing Brown, shall not sigh for a solution to this tre- mendous problem, if it isin ov power to aid them. Of course it must be either Greeley or Willis. But, of the two, which, ah which? We dare not pronounce inconsiderately between Willis has the most refinement, but then Greeley has the most vigor and energy. He has advantages of power on his side, derived from his experiences—even though unfortunate—in the wars, which the Chevalier docs not possess, Still we leave the decision as yet in abeyance. The garland of rose leaves must remain for a few days longer unappro- priated. DisLoyavry IN ‘THE GovERNMENT Depart. ME ‘he commitice appointed by Congress to inquire into the retention of disloyal em- ployes by government continues its sittings during the recess, under a special resolution of the House. It has thus far procured the dis- missal of upwards of one hundred and seventy clerks in the different departments, who bad either refused to take the cath of allegiance, wer who had compromised themselves by trea- sonable acts. The work of the committee is far from being completed, but by the time Con- gress meets again it is hoped that the govern- ment offices will all be thoroughly weeded of traitors. {na report made by him to the House before its adjournment, Mr. Potter, chairman of the comunittee, lays special stress on the Jact thas in several instances, where the circumstances had been brought to the knowledge of those who had the power of removal, the incriminated parties had been retained in effice. Does not this statement account for the incapacity an@ want of vigor on the part of the Navy and War Departments, exhibited in.the utter ineficiemey of the blockade, and the failure to, senej timely reinforcements te the Unionists iy Missouri and Tennessee? The result in the ome case has been to raise.an outcry on the: part of the European journals against the: legality of ovr naval proceedings, while in the- other it has ledito the slaughter of a large namber of our troops and the death ef one of the. bravest and, inost skilfal of our generals. The clue to these failures is, a3 we have sak, swpplied by Mr. Potter's report. It is notoripus that it is not the Cabinet heads, but the chiets of bureana, who do the real direeting work of the departments. The former are generelly poli ticians who know little or nothing of the duties they are called upon to fulfil, and who are con- sequently obliged to leave the management of their business to their principal clerks, who are - qualified for it by years of ¢ As- consequence of tho duterruption of its American suming these pesitions to be filied by disloyal \ theic lives gu the altars of phep country, and | trade by the war, aud because, without the to- ! ox disaffected persons, it is evident that they ene é