The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXVI. “AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WINTER GARDEN, Bioadway.—Lear YxaR—Toopiss, NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Bout Rux—Murvre Gow ar Sua BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Evening—Miow se! ERLE—H AUNTED CHawaeR— Enero FOTAMUS, SHA LION, BEARS, AND Orne Cuniositixs. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way. Sones, DaNons, BUniESQUES, &6.—BULE Ruy. MELODEON CONCERT HALL, No. 539 Broadway.e Sonas, Dances, BURLESQUES, KC. —!RELAND IN ISY6. CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 585 Broadway.—Sonas, Dances, Buniesgues, dc. GAIETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—Drawina Room ENTERTAINMENTS BALLE: ‘ANTOMIMNES, Parncxs, £0. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, ‘LETS, PANTOMIMES, &C.—BLa 444 Brondway.—Sonas, Bat- STaruR, CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No, 45 Bowery.o» Boriesques, Songs, Dances, Ac.—BLack STATUR, New York, Tuesday, August 27, 1861, OUR WAR MAPS. The numerous maps, plans and diagrams of the operations of the Union and rebel troops in Virginia, Missouri, Illinois, Florida, and on the Mis- sissippi and Missouri rivers, which have been pub- lished from time to timein the New York Henatp, are now printed on one sheet, and is ready for delivery, Agents desiring copies are requested to send in their orders immediately. Single copies six cents. Wholesale price the same as for the Weexty Herarp. THE SITUATION. The government continues to exercise consider- * ble vigilance about Washington to prevent com- Cwnication with the Maryland shore. All the €yaft on the Potomac, down to the small row boats nd akiffs, have been taken possession of by the authorities. The army is receiving abundant sup- plies of every kind from the Quartermaster Gene- ral's Department, and the condition of the troops is consequently improving. The ad- dition of regiments to the army is being increased every day by arrivals from the Northern and Eastern States. Some collisions with the enemy's pickets are constantly reported, which show that they are in immediate propinquity to the Union lines. On Sunday evening the Thirty-seventh New York regiment had a skirmish with the rebel outposts. One of the Thirty-seventh was killed, and Colonel McCunn, it is said, killed two and wonnded one of the enemy with his own hand. Anew Mayor of Washington in place of Mr- Berret, now a prisoner in this harbor, was chosen and installed yesterday in the person of Mr. Richard Wallach. Several soldiers claimed by Lord Lyons as British subjects were discharged from the army Yesterday. We learn from Missouri that the Eastern division ofthe rebel army are hastening to join General Pillow. General Hardee's forces, at last accounts, were moving towards the Arkansas line. The rebel forces under Colonel Green were marching on Athens, The privateer Jeff. Davis appears to be stil! actively occupied in her predatory warfare. Cap- tain DeWolfe, of the British brig Ann Lovett, which arrived at Yarmouth, N. S., on the 19th nst., reports that on the 9th inst., in latitude twenty-nine degrees forty-five minutes, longitude iixty-seven degrees, his vessel was boarded by her gnd released after a brief examination of his papers. By an arrival from Antigua, in the British West Indies, we learn that quite a demonstration took place there recently, at the hoisting of the rebel flag from the building of the consignees of a Southern vessel. The American captains in port insisted upon its being hauled down, and the peo- ple responded by tearing it into pieces. By the Hibernian, at Father Point, we have news from Europe to the 16th of August. The London press was still engaged with the discussion of the The Globe denies that Admiral Milne had reported on the inefficiency of the blockade of the Southern ports, and asserts that no official advices on that subject had been re ceived by the government. The London Times, in its city article and an editorial, expresses its ap- prehension of the financial ability of the govern- ment in Washington to carry on the war. Mr. Russell had forwarded another letter to that jour- nal, which is spoken of as “discouraging to the cause of the North.’”” Anaval expedition from Fortress Monroe has been in preparation for some time, and is now nearly completed, but its destination is kept a pro- found secret. At a meeting yesterday afternoon of the presi- dents of the banks of the city of New York, it was tesolved that Mr. Stevens, President of the Bank of Commerce, select a committee of five, to pro- ceed with him to Washington, to enforce upon the President and his Cabinet the resolutions previ- ously passed by the bank presidents, that the Conditions of the loan recently made by the bank Presidents are that the war is to be prosecuted with all the vigor and energy of the government. Thus, from every quarter, the administration is being stimulated to the active progress of the campaign, in order that peace may be restored And the commercial prosperity of the country may be resumed at the earliest possible time. THE NEWS. The news of the safety of the steamship Etna, which we publish this morning, will relieve the anxiety of many of our readers. The ship Power- ful arrived in the River St. Lawrence yesterday, having on board five of the Etna’s passengers. She reports that the Etna broke her crank on the 7th inst., and was boarded by the Powerful on the llth. The accident rendered the steamer’s ma- chinery useless, and she accordingly put back to Queenstown under sail. The ship was in good order, and the passengers all well. The steamship Hibernian, from Liverpool the 15th and Londonderry the 16th instant, reached Father Point yesterday on her passage to Quebec. Her news is five days later than that received by the Canada. The salea of cottonfin Liverpool during the ‘veck amounted to 46,000 bales, leaving the stock in port, as estimated, 944,000 bales. On the 14th instant the staple declined one-eighth of a penny # A the pound, but on the 15th the market closed f'Ymer at unchanged prices, Breadstuffs were de- €Jining. The Bank of England had reduced the Gate of interest to four and a half per cont. Con- €vle closed in London on the 15th instant at 90% 2 00%. The pate of the diplomatic relations existing be- American war question. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1861, tween France and Austria was considered ominous | The Slavery Policy of the Administra- of another war rupture, while at the same time there were symptoms of a close alliance between Aus- tria and England. The Archduke Maximillian of Austria was in England relative to the organiza- tion of a new steamship line, and made a speech, in which he hoped for a closer alliance, “‘commer- cial and political,’ between the two countries. Mr, Cobden had eulogized the ‘‘constitutional” course of Francis Joseph. At the same time Prince Met- ternich took his leave of Napoleon, and the Empe- ror immediately left for his camp at Chalons, ac- companied by General Fanti, of Italy. There was still extreme agitation existing in Hungary and Poland. The King of Sweden was in England. Catharine Hayes, the vocalist, is dead. It was thought that a joint garrison of French and Italian troops would occupy Rome, Governmental reforms were still progressing in Turkey. j The mails from India, China and Australia had reached England. In India heavy rains had dam- aged the crops of indigo, rice and sugar. Commo- dore Stribling, United States Navy,-had returned to Hong Kong, China, in the steamer Hartford from an expedition up the Yang-tze-Kiang river, where he had arranged with the rebels at Nankin for the protection of American property. The United States steamers Saginaw and Dacotah were at Hong Kong, and the ship John Adams at Swatow. The Australian markets were depressed and the yield of gold had fallen off. The City of Washington, from Liverpool on the 15th and Queenstown the 16th instant—same dates as the Hibernian—passed Cape Race on her way to New York on the 23d inst. Within three or four days nine “‘secesh” prison- ers have been received in the barracks at Camp Chase. There aye now thirty-seven rebels in confinement at that place, in custody of General Hill. The members of the ‘‘peace”’ partyin Kentucky, of which John C, Breckinridge and his man Ma- goffin are prominent members, give frequent exhi- bitions of their strong desires for peace by break- ing up railroads, burning bridges, resisting laws and driving Union men from their property and homes, The Southern chivalry apply pretty hard names to the federal government, and to some of our most prominent men and people generally. They speak of the United States as ‘‘ the rump of the Union,” the ‘‘usurper’s government,” and call the North- ern section of the country ‘Yankee land.” The President they call a “usurper,” a ‘“ kangaroo,” an ‘‘ape,’’ a low ‘‘flat boatman” and a “tyrant.” General Scott is a ‘‘ butcher,” a “vile traitor,” a ‘hypocrite’ and a ‘fuss-and-feathers tyrant.’ The Northern people they call ‘ Hessians,’ “‘Jay- hawkers’’ and a ‘‘ set of cowardly Yankees.”’ There is a rumor in Baltimore that the four se” cession papers in that city are to be suppressed, William S. Johnston, nephew of General Johnston, rebel, was arrested in Philadelphia on Sunday night, just as he was going on board the cars, he having procured his tickets for Louisville, Ky. He is supposed to hold a commission in the Southern army. The St. Louis Republican, formerly a secession paper, says it is now plain that in six weeks time, or two months at farthest, there will not be a rebel soldier in Missouri. This is cheering news. Eight companies of cavalry, under Colonel Con- rad Baker, left Evansville, Ind., on the 21st inst. for St. Louis. Seventy-five cars, making four trains, were necessary to transport the men and horses. Below will be found the programme of move- ments aud events which have been announced to take place during the month of September:— Monpay, 2d—Meeting of the Kentucky Legislature in Frankfort. Weonespay, 4th—The New York Democratic State Con- vention will meet in Syracuse. The National Union Party State Committee, of New York, will meet tn Syracuse. The Georgia State Convention to nominate candidates for Governor and Presidential electots will be held in Mil” ledgeville. ‘Tuvrspay, 5th—The no party Stato Convention of Min” negota will meet in St, Paul. Tho no party State Convention of Ohio will convene in Columbus. Sarcrpar, 7th—The Democratic State Convention of Ohio will assemble in Columbus, Tvxspay, 10th—The secession State Convention of Mary- land, called by the rebel members of the Legislature, will meet in Baltimore, The New York German Republican State Convention will be held in Syracuse, The peace or armed neutrality State Convention of Ken- tucky will be held in Frankfort. Wepsespay, 11th—The New York Republican State Con. vention will convene in Syracuse. Taurspay, 12th—The Democratic State Convention of Minnesota will assemble in St, Paul. Monpay, 16th—The deposed and defunct Legislature of Missouri will attempt to mect in Jefferson City, thoy having adjourned onthe 15th of May, to meet again on the third Monday in September. TuxspaY, 17th—The Legislature of Maryland will meet in Frederick. Wepnespay, 18th—The Democratic State Convention of Massachusetts will convene in Worcester. Wepyespay, 25th—Tho Republican State Convention of Wisconsin will be held in Madison. Tavrspay, 26th—National Thanksgiving appointed by tho President of the United States. According to the City Inspector’s report, there were 522 deaths in the city during the past weck, a decrease of 26 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 27 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 2 deaths of alcohol- ism, 1 of disease of the bones, joints, &c., 97 of the brain and nerves, 2 of the gene- rative organs, 9 of the heart and blood ves- sels, 109 of the lungs, throat, &c., 6 of old age, 24 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 3 pre- mature births, 217 of diseases of the stomach, bow- els and other digestive organs, 33 of general fevers, 1 of disease of the urinary organs, and 18 from vio- lent causes. The nativity table gives 391 natives of the United States, 77 of Ireland, 29 of Germany, 3 of Scotland, 9 of England, and the balance of various foreign countries. ‘Tho cotton market was firmer yesterday, while the sales embraced about 1,000 bales, closing on the basis of 18340. a 18%e. for middling uplands, A part of the sales were made to spinners having government contracts on hand. The flour market was heavy, with a moderate de- mand from the home trade and for export, and closed at about 6c, decline for superfine and medium grades of extra brands. Wheat was rather lower, but tolerably active at the concession. Corn was easier and in good export request, chiefly for British ports and for shipment to New England. Pork was steady, with sales of mess at $15 and prime at $10. Sugars were active and firm, with sales of 2,000 hhds. and 1,200 boxes at rates given in another column. Coffee was steady; a sale of 500 bags Rio was made at 13340. Freights were firmer, and grain freely taken to English ports at 9d. a 10d. for corn, and at 10341. for wheat, in ship's bags. Rates were algo firm to London and Havre. L.L. D. Russet, x a Horver’s Nest—The last letter of the snob correspondent of the Lon- don Times will get him into trouble with every- body. It pitches into the brave and gallant Meagher in the most unhandsome and calum- nious manner. The Irish blood in the communi- ty is justly aroused at so wanton an insult to a tried and true patriot. If Mr. Russell goes South again, he will meet with twenty chal- lenges, for his betrayals of confidence, and tirades against the people of the rebel States. The sole pride and vocation of this bilious L.L. D. seems to be to deride, sneer at and villify everything and everybody. His letters are crowded with malignity, and we are much mis- taken if this last outrage offered to ihe Irish, through one of her noblest sons, does not ren- der the United States too hot to hold him, tion—Opposition of the Abolition In- cendiary Press. It needs no argument at this time to prove that to the operations of the abolition agitators of the North can be traced the cause of the pre- sent war, and all the evils, sufferings and loss of life attending it. Their continued and sys- tematic agitation, in season and out of season, through their conventions, pulpit orations, stump speeches, fascinating novels, communica- tions and editorials in such organs as the Tri- bune, Times, Boston Liberator and that class of journals, has from time to time furnished the revolutionists of the South with their material to inflame the Southern mind, prepare it for secession and unite the entire South in their policy for a separate confederacy. In attempt- ing to build up a party in the North, based ex- clusively on the abolition of slavery, they have palmed off upon their followers imaginary state- inents of hardships, falsehoods and misrepre- sentations, which, coming to the attention of their antipodes of the South, furnished the basis for a revolutionary party and their entire po- litical food, in the absence of which they would have been without power or influence. Going before the people of the South—by nature, habits and education an excitable race—with these statements and misrepresentations started at the North, they have power and influence just as the agi- tators of the North grew more noisy and arrogant. Leading the Southern mind step by step through its several stages, they finally suc- ceeded in infusing the belief that the election of Lincoln was only another name for the imme- diate emancipation of the slaves, and that their only salvation was in immediate secession and a separate confederacy. Thus we find that as soon as the election of Lincoln was made known several of the Southern States declared themselves out of the Union, and immediately entered upon extensive warlike preparations; the leaders, daily strengthened among their own people by the domineering attitude of the agitators of the North, found also willing hands in Buchanan’s Cabinet to place at convenient poiats the latest style and most approved wea- pons of warfare in the hands of the government. With the revolutionary material furnished them by the abolition agitators they continued to strengthen themselves, until, soon after the inauguration of Lincoln, eleven States adopt- ed this heresy and united their fortunes with the Southern confederacy. Continuing the same system of appeals, and declaring to their follow- ers that the entire North were abolitionists, bent upon emancipating the slaves, and that Presi- dent Lincoln was but their mouthpiece and tool in this work, they have succeeded in uniting the South and working them to the pitch that we now find them—in arms against the regular con- stitutional government and menacing the nation- al capital. They are to-day enabled to keep their army together, amidst privations and suffer- ings, by reiterating to the rank and file the very words of the agitators of the North, holding those views to be that of the entire North, and that which the President is pledged to carry out. We regret to say that to the latter state- ment the course of the Zribune and Times fur. nishes the appearance of plausibility. The columns of those and kindred journals, are stil} filled with articles attempting to force upon the administration the emancipation of the slaves as the war cry. Thus, in the Times of yesterday we find two or three communications, apparent- ly meeting the approval of the conductors of that journal, arguing the importance of making the wara war for the abolition of slavery, in which we find such sentences as, “we need a war cry, a professed object; “besides, wemust proclaim emancipation if we would conquer.” Another writer adds, after admitting that the issue which the administration is carrying on is not the abolition of slavery, “that a more radical cure would be to pro- claim slavery incompatible with our national safety, and the end of slavery the only end of the war.” “Slavery and freedom, the one or the other must go down.” Now, we know that the President and his Cabinet are not gathering armies, nor are our generals drilling and perfecting them, to de- stroy the institution of slavery, but to restore the Union to its former prosperous condition, through such constitutional means as that in- strument and Congress have placed at his dis- posal. “The war now prosecuted on the part of the federal government,” writes Secretary Cameron in his letter to General Butler, “is a war for the Union, for the preservation of all constitutional rights of States and the citizens of all the States of the Union.” Again, Caleb B. Smith, another member of the Cabinet and constitutional adviser of the President, in a re- cent speech delivered at Providence, states un- equivocally that “this war is not a war upon the institution of slavery, but a war for the res- toration of the Union and the protection of all citizens, in the South as well as the North, in their constitutional rights.” The law passed by Congress confiscating the property of rebels affects that of slavery only the same as other property. There is not, in fact, the slightest evidence that the federal government is now conducting a war having for its object the abolishment of slavery. On the contrary, we have an accumulation of evidence that itis a war for the maintenance of the Union and the protection of all citizens in their constitutional rights, slavery not excepted. This being the real object of the war, as the letter of Cameron, the speech of Smith and the action of Congress declare it to be, the course pursned by those organs of this city that labored for the election of Mr. Lin- coln—and which are consequently believed by the South to be the organs of the President now that he is in power—is manifestly doing tenfold more damage to the cause of the Union than all the so called peace organs combined. Their systematic appeals to adopt the abolition of slavery as the war cry, and thus attempting to force the government to adopt that policy, are not only strengthening the rebels at home, but dividing the North, weakening the hands of the administration and obstructing the prosecution of the war for one of the wisest and most just causes that ever a nation went to war upon. Those journals that have recently been visited with a mob, and others which the government has attempted to prevent their circulation by seizing copies in Philadelphia, are harmless as doves compared to the Tribune and Times, engaged as they are in hounding the federal government int adopting the policy and in- scribing upon the banner of the armies the emancipation of slavery. The aid and comfort given by the so called peace organs to the rebels is but a drop in the bucket compared with the incendiary appeals of the agitating press, and the sooner the administration puts a atop to their jncendiary appeals the earlier will increased in_ it receive the united and undivided support of the North, and completely disarm the rebels and their allies in the South, Our Relations with England and France in the Present Crisis. The tone of the English and French press since the battle of Bull run would seem to indicate that the hostility existing towards the North in both countries has been very much increased by that event. We have the best rea- sons for believing that this is not so. Neither in England nor in France can the journals which have taken such a decided part against us be said to represent the great bulk of public opinion, In the one case we find them both, through their editorial columns and the efforts, political as well as journalistic, of their repre- sentatives here, openly aiding the rebels. In the other we know that the French newspapers merely reflect the tone of the English in the in- terest of that identity of policy which, for the moment, exists between the two governments on the American question. That neither represent that great body of public sentiment which must ultimately decide the question of inter- ference we have the clearest evidence in their endeavors to make out the contest in which we are enaged as one of material inte- rests, instead of what it really is—a conflict of principles. The two governments and their or- gans evidently feel that public opinion will be powerfully arrayed against any infraction of the neutrality which they profess, unless they can succeed in imparting a false coloring to the conduct and objects of the North. Besides this difficulty, other elements have sprung up, which will render them less dis- posed to push matters to extremes. The tho- rough ventilation and discussion which the question has received, owing to the shamefully partisan course taken by the London Times and one or two other leading English journals: have led toa better understanding by the Eng- lish and French publics of their commercial in- terests and international duties. They now be- gin to appreciate the fact that they have not 80 large a stake in the independence of the South as the advocates of the latter pretend. Notwithstanding, therefore, the unfavorable impression created by the rout of our army at Manassas, and by the false representations and sneers of the London journals in regard to it, it isnot the less certain that the conviction is rapidly gaining ground abroad that not only does the North possess all the resources, but all the vigor and determination necessary to bring this unnatural contest to a prompt termination. It is unlikely, in the face of these facts, that the English government will attempt to break the lines of our coast guard. It would be a violation not only of the principles of international law, which give to every government the right of closing such of its port as it chooses, but an infraction of a long series of precedents acted upon by Eng- land herself. In the dificulties with China, Ja- panand Siam, it was never for one moment pretended that the European governments were entitled to dictate to those countries the ports that should be opened to foreign commerce. We stand precisely in the same position as they did. The closing of the Southern yorts is not a blockade, in the inter- national sense of the term. It is simply the reassertion of what was done by the govern- ments in question—the fact of all our Northern ports being left open establishing clearly the distinction between it and a regular blockade, England, therefore, will not venture to violate in the case of a civilized people a right accord. ed to them by the laws of nations, and which she did not dare to infringe when in conflict with semi-barbarous governments. But there is, as we have said, another motive equally powerful which will operate to pre- vent her taking this course. Her commercial interests forbid it. John Bright, himself con- nected with the cotton interest, and a man of much more comprehension and statesmanlike views than Lord John Russell, or any of his col- leagues, has placed this in the clearest light. England and France would risk more by going to war with the North than the whole of the fu- ture cotton production of the South would be worth to it. The present conflict has demon. strated the necessity of her rendering herself independent of that source of supply, and by the Ist of March next, up to which time ‘ itis calculated her stock in hand and that which is expected from other quarters will last, she will, to a great extent, have established that independence. If she keeps from interven- tion in our affairs the North, by next spring, will have reopened to her the Southern ports, and placed her in possession of any further quantity of the staple that she may require. Let her attempt to violate the blockade and she will not only lose this, but she will lose,in ad- dition, the trade of the North, which is to her of infinitely more consequence in the future. The manufactures that we take ir exchange for our breadstuffs and other products will be shut out by prohibitive duties, and the distress caused by it among her operatives will be far greater and more permanently damaging than that re- sulting from the interruption of her supplies of Southern cotton. Such are the views which are rapidly substituting in the minds of the sen- sible and reflecting portion of the British public the mistaken impressions which the first effect of the war on their manufacturing interests had created. In France the same convictions are gaining ground, be- cause France has also, in her exports of silk, fine woollens and other fabrics, much to lose by adopting aggressive measures towards the North. But were this not so, she would be likely to follow the policy of England, whose interests, as we have shown, are clearly not on the side of hostility towards us. Of course, under such circumstances, there are no rational grounds for anticipating an interference with our coast guard by either government. King Cot- ton is a bugbear that has been made far too much of in the arguments upon this question. Wuat Wau. we Do with THE ArRREsTED Fr- MALE Secessionists?—It is really a very grave and serious question that the administration is called upon to resolve, to what place of sur- veillance or confinement the ladies shall be sent who have recently been arrested for their se- cession sympathies? They can scarcely go to Fort Lafayette, for that stronghold has been se- lected for the especial benefit of fashionable traitors ofthe male species. Were the season not so far advanced, a few cottages might have been taken at Newport, or a hotel at Saratoga, where our wrong minded fellow citizenesses might have been reduced to repentance. Long Branch haa been evacuated by Mrs. Lincoln, and New Jersey dinners are execrable, so that we cannot recommend any point below Sandy Hook for their entertainment, We have heard, however, of am excellent public house on the North river, at Fort Washington, kept by a certain Mr. James Gordon Bennett, where every delicacy of the season may be obtained, and where there wil! be the fullest guarantee that no treasonable in- tercourse will be allowed them. Government would do well to send them there, just as ami- able old Dix sent his curiosity shop of prisoners The loca- tion is magnificent and the inducements to loy- altyare superb, We hear that Mr. Bennett has to the Gilmore House at Baltimore. recently had Mr. Thurlow Weed for his guest, and that these two worthies have arranged be- tween them just how the war shall be carried on. The ladies will thus have even their curi- osity catered to without any danger to the Union. Send them by all means to Fort Wash- ington. The Conspiracy in the Republican Camp Against the Cabinet—Another Masked Battery. We submit to our readers this morning a very suggestive commentary from the New York Tri- bune on the alleged shortcomings, corruptions and imbecilities of “Honest Abe Lincoln's” Cabinet, and imperiously demanding a change in the War and Navy Departments. This broad- side of shot and shell does not come from the editorial columns of our abolition contemporary, but from a masked battery, in the shape of an anonymous communication. If called to an ac- count for it, Greeley can plead, as usual, not guilty, and that if apprised of the character of this communication in season he would have re- jected it. But the Tribune has conspicuously published it, and scattered it broadcast over the land; and in thus actively lending itself, under a mask, to the uses of plotting spoilsmen and political disorganizers, we feel it to be our duty to hold upour Janus-faced contemporary to the attention of the government and the country. The anonymous paper in question, adopted. conspicuously printed and circulated by the Tribune, calls lustily for a change in the Cabinet; declares that “there will scarcely be a dissenting voice throughout the whole North that there is‘a necessity for a change;” that “public confidence has been weakened to a still greater degree by the belief of compli- city by the War Department in the numberless frauds which have been committed in army contracts;” and that,as to the Navy Depart- ment, the charge “is not so much complicity by the Secretary as his utter inefficiency.” Hence a change in these two departments is imperiously called for; and the Tribune re- former in the premises is somewhat surprised that “our capitalists, when called to determine upon taking the loan asked by the govern- ment,” did not prescribe “the condition that the Cabinet should be reconstructed so as to restore public confidence.” Let it not be supposed, however, that these are the indignant and unadulterated complaints of an honest patriot, intent only upon “the in- tegrity of the Union.” Behind this masked battery we think may be detected seme of the parties of a radical conspiracy in the republi- can camp initiated on the 4th of March for a change in the Cabinet, in view of the abolition of slavery, the spoils of the present war and the honors and emoluments of our Presidential suc- cession. For all that we know the roots of this conspiracy may extend to the Cabinet itself; for it is said that Mr. Secretary Seward, Mr. Secretary Chase and Mr. Secretary Cameron have each their little cliques of sappers and miners, and party jobbers and speculators: working like beavers for the inside track to the succession. This stupendous continental war, however, has given to the War and the Navy Departments the expenditure of the hundreds of millions of money which Congress and the Treasury De- partment have been called upon to supply. As- suming that Messrs. Seward, Chase and Came- ron are each looking after the White House, it will thus be seen that Cameron has the inside track, and that Welles, regarded as a mere no- body in wielding the important expenditures and jobs of the Navy Department, is holding a place which might be turned to a much better account in a party view of the subject. The trouble with the radical abolition Tribune wing of the republican camp is that the Cabinet is too conservative, and Cameron, in this re- spect, is particularly obnoxious to these aboli- tion radicals. They complain of his complicity in jobs and contracts, and of his incompetency; but while they have furnished no proofs of his alleged corrupt afliliations, they cannot safely undertake to deny that Secretary Cameron has proved himself a most active, a very capable and an untiring business man. That he has made some mistakes in the business of this war we must all admit; but they are rather due to the counsels of his mili- tary advisers than to his dishonesty or his own want of judgment. Nor is it fair to charge upon Secretary Welles all the short comings and mis- fortunes of his department since he was placed at the head of it. Much of the responsibility in these things belongs to his inefficient, blunder- ing or treacherous naval subordinates, as in the case, for instance, of the destruction of the Nor- folk Navy Yard, and the mysterious surrender of its immense supplies of cannon, shot, shells and ammunition to the rebels. The fact is, that the republican abolition ra- dicals want to supersede Cameron and Welles, 80 as to patch up a radical Cabinet, with the view of making this war a crusade against slavery; and other partisans, joining in this hue and cry for a change, have their eyes upon the spoils, The policy of Mr. Lincoln is to turn his back upon these disorganizing radicals, and to follow his own true policy—“the integrity of the Union.” Messrs. Cameron and Welles appear to be now thoroughly awake to the necessities of the crisis; but in any event, if we are to havea change in the Cabinet, let it be absolute and complete—a change from the beginning to the end. In this way all the plots and counterplots on foot for the succession, in connection with the present Cabinet, will be broken up, whereas anything like patching will only result in fresh clamors for another change. The present Cabinet in- tact, or & new one out-and-out, is the true course for Mr. Lincoln; and meantime, while looking after our Northern secession incendiary newspapers, let him keep an eye on those abo- lition incendiary organs of his own party camp, which, while professing their devotion, are la- boring to demoralize and destroy the govern- ment. Wuat Does True Peace Movement IN THE Norra Meay?—There is no doubt whatever, from the developements that have already taken place, that there is a direct, explicit al- liance, between the so called peace newspapers and their supporters in the North and the ultra secession party in the South. The former hope to aid the latter by creating an insurrection here. A careful review of the Proceedings of the late Congress will show that the anti-war faction in the Nortern States were unable to conceal their disunion >toclivities. The names ofseveral members of the Senate and House of Representatives could be acted, who ought to be domiciled at Fort Lafayette. and perhaps may be before long. Under suck ch'gumstances theadministration should beware how ft minces matters, Martial law should be preclaimed at once and every newspaper should be suspended which does not heartily go in for the suppres- sion ofthe Southern insurrection. The Journal of Commerce, News, Tribune and Anti-Slavery Standard should all be suspended, and vigor- ous measuresshould be used to put an ead to the conspiracy in favor of Southern traitors which is growing up in tho free States. Prospects of the Drama for Next Seasome For the past nine months the. Opera and the drama have been in a very bad way. The sudden plunge of the nation into civil war proved too much for the theatres throughout the country, and one after another they were closed, or, if kept open, did anything but a paying business. In New York city, which is a sort of gauge for the whole country, the managers did their very best in vain. Sensa- tion plays, dramatic representations of camp life and battle scenes all failed, and the Opera became but a pleasant memory. Only the newa- boys’ theatre, in the Bowery, succeeded in weathering the storm nicely, and that only with closely reefed sails, But now new times and better ones have come for us all; We have touched bottom in our national troubles, and are beginning to rise again. The magnificent negotiation of the hun- dred and fifty million dollars government loan has brought confidence to the country, and re, inspired trade and commerce. There is no- thing whatever to prevent this fall from being a good business season, Between the govern- ment and the banks the most cordial sympathy and good understanding exist: our harbor is open to the commerce of the world; from go- vernment sources alone one million of dollars are daily expended and find their way into the pockets of the people; stores and manufactories begin to do some business: and. altogether— though there have been many failures under the old system of financiering. and though fancy houses and property have lost nearly a half of their former value— we have to congratulate ourselves upon better times, and upon a better and more economi- cal management of business affairs. We have been tried by a very hot fire. to be sure, but a great deal of pure gold has come out of the crueible. Meantime the banks at the South are quarrelling with Jeff. Davis’ government, and refuse to give it any more money; the Southern ports are closed hermetically by our coast guard; Southern manufactories, commerce and trade are among the dim traditions of the past, and even the spare cash which English capitalists trust with Jeff. Davis’ agents finds ts way into our coffers—so that we have, therefore, a new element of strength in the rapidly increasing weakness of our enemios. The angel of confidence has stirred the Beth- saida pool of trade, and all that our merchants, capitalists and commercial men have to do is to wade in. The theatres will feel the beneficial effects of this revival of business, just as flowers spring up with the soberer grasses and the more useful grain. It is hard to keep New Yorkers from amusements at any time, and now that they are to have a return of hard work they will natu- rally seck more and more relaxation. Some of the more astute managers begin to see this al- ready, and are planning their campaigns accord- ingly. Manager Wallack treats the public to a new theatre soon, and we believe that every theatre in town has a new play ready for pre. sentation at the opening of the fall season. If these are as successful as there is every reason to expect, we shall need Opera in this city dur- ing the winter, and will support it brilliantly. Let Garibaldi Muzio emerge from his summer Caprera, then; cease to be contented with su- perintending a serenade, and put himself into fighting trim. Let Brignoli polish up bis natu- ral instrument for a sweeter “Marta” and a more mellifiuous “Spirto Gentil.” Let Ullman drop the sorcerer’s wand for that of the di- rector, and go on to glory and profit, like Napo- Jeon to Austerlitz or McClellan to Richmond. We are all ready for you, Messieurs. Formes vos bataillons! Tue Venacity or THE Lonpon Trves Corres- vonpent, LL. D.—In another column will be found an article from the Chicago Tribune com- menting upon the description of the battle at Bull run given by Mr. Russell, the special cor- respondent of the London Times. The writer of the article transferred to our columns states that he was in company with Mr. Russell in the retreat to Washington until they arrived at Fairfax Court Houso, and declares positively, backed by circumstantial evidence that leaves no doubt of the truth of his assertion, “that not a single instance related in Mr. Russell’s letter transpired on the route,” up to their arrival at the Court House. The writer says he saw “nothing of the flogging, lashing, spurring, beating and abandoning that he so graphically describes; the road was as quiet and clear as if no army were in the vicinity.” To this em- phatic statement the editor of the Tribune adds, that “two miles and a half from Centreville we stopped at a roadside farm house fora cup of water. While drinking Mr. Russell passed, We recognized him and passed along, and were soon engaged with him in a discussion of the causes of the check—it was not then known to be anything more—and in his company we went to Fairfax—in all a distance of six or eight miles; and we can affirm that not one incident which he relates as happening had any foundation in fact.” the falsifying propensities of Mr. Russell, the writer adds, “the defeat was not known to any on the road, not even to Mr. Russell, who informed me that our army would fall back and encamp for the night to renew the battle the next day.” As a further clincher to Here we have the statement of an cye witness that the correspondent of the London Times in- dulged in statements existing only in his own imagination. Unable to assist his Southern al- lies by telling the truth, he manufactured a sketch to suit his purpose, and sent it to his employers as the result of his own observation, which in fact is disproved by his own state. ments. Thus confronted by the Chica- go editor and Mr. Putnam, of this city, whose statement was recently published— both of whom saw Mr. Russell in his hasty re- treat to Washington—there is nothing left of his graphic account of the Bull run battle but a bundle of lies. His veracity as a correspondent has been shown tq be simply an ability to write ‘ j 5