The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. "ERMS cash in advance, Mi othe’ the ander. ‘None tut’ Bam tent dy matt will beat the Villa current tx New York Volume XXV1.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Inviseie Huseann— ‘Toopums. NEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Buut Rux—Done- ING FOR 4 Wirk—MINUTE GUN AT SKA, apes AMERICAN MUSRUM, Fret ny Vening=MiCHABL ERLE AUNT! Foranvs, Sus Lion, BEARS, AND OTHER m Ountosrrixs. bs BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- ‘Way.—SonGs, Dances, Bumixsques, £0.—Butt Ron. MELODEON CONCERT HALL, No. 539 Bonas, Dances, Bunuxsques, 40,—lRELAND 1X CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, Broadway.—Son¢ Danoes, Buaiesquss, 2c. if Pi - GAIETIBS CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—Dnawina RoomEnreatainwenrs Bates, Pantowimes, Fancns, 40. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 rs ists, Pawromiaxs, £0.—B1.40K ila eee BH ORYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, Ni és ‘Bowresqves, Sons, Dances, &¢.—Buac asco keen Broadway.— 1886, a New York, Friday, August 30, 1861, i THE SITUATION. The activity of the rebel pickets in their attacks upon the army of the Potomac continues day and - night. They now occupy a position a mile anda half nearer the Union lines of defence than they did before the battle of Bull run, and it is said that they are posted all along the country, and have guns placed wherever an available spot can be found. Near Bailey’s Cross Roads they have planted a battery on an eminence commanding not Only that place but Arlington Heights. A gentleman who arrived at Washington yester- day from Richmond via Louisville, states that the rebel army in Virginia now amounts to over 300,000, of whom 180,000 are on the South bank of the Potomac. He says that Manassas has been to & great extent abandoned, and the main force of the. army moved to the Upper Potomac, where they intend to make a crossing, take possession of Maryland, and thus surround Washington and get posacssion of all the army stores and munitions lying there. He represents that the enthusiasm of the South knows no ‘bounds since the battle of Bull ran, and that the people there are confident of victory, the recon- straction of the United states under a Southern President, and the permanent security and exten- sion of the institution of slavery. We give the programme in full in another column. Mr. Russell, of the London Times, has just re- turned to Washington from a visit to the camps, and it is said has changed his tune about the Union army since his imaginative flights of fancy have ‘been exposed. He thinks that the troops are won- derfally improved since he last saw them. ‘The War Department has issued an important order prohibiting all communication, verbally or by printing or telegraph, respecting the operations of military movements, either by land or sea, or relating to the troops, camps, arsenals, intrench- ments or military affairs within any of the military distticts, by which imformation shall be given to the enemy, under the penalty prescribed by the 57th Article of War, which is death, or such other punishment as a court martial shall impose. The Post Office Department has ordered the car- rying of the mails in several portions of Kentucky, west of the Tennessee river, to be suspended, in Consequence of the repeated violation of the same. ‘ We have the best authority for stating that the Fumors circulated in other quarters, to the effect that onr Minister to England, Mr. Adams, has in- formed the State Department of the intention of the English government to recognise the Confede- rate States immediately, have not a shadow of foundation. On the centrary, the latest official information is that England and the other great Powers have determined to remain neutral until the close of the war. By order of the Secretary of the Treasury no clearances of goods will in future be allowed for Matamoros, Mexico. It has been found that car- goes shipped to that port, containing material cal- culated to give aid and comfort to the rebels, could read‘ly be, and indeed have been, sent across the “Texan frontier without restriction. Hence the ne- scessity of the order. There appears to be" very little doubt that the destination of the naval expedi- tion from Fortress Monroe under General Butler and Commander Stringham is Hatteras inlet, where the frigate Roanoke was fired into by arebel battery as far back as April last. Information has since been received that a heavy battery of twenty guns has been mounted there, and another of ten guns, both commanding the . inlet, from which point the rebels have been over- hauling and capturing Northern vessels. These facts were obtained from the captain of a Maine vessel, which was taken in May last, and remained for some time at Hatteras, but was recently released. The alacrity and enthusiasm with which the call for the new Treasury loan is responded to in this city, is evidence enough that, as @ popular movement, its results are likely to prove as re- markable as those of the people’s loan in France, The Sub-Treasurer’s office was literally besieged yesterday with applicants for the notes of smal) figures; and, singular to say, the largest amount of ‘these parties anxious to loan money to the, government for the national cause were Women, conspicuous among whom were servant girls and the wives of mechanics and laborers. There appears to have been a heavy draft on the savings banks, in order to invest the deposits of this class of persons in the great popular loan. ‘The sum of $270,000 was taken at the Sub-Treagur- er’s office yesterday. Several of the lenders came from the country and from neighboring States. We learn that a con- eiderable amount of the loan is being taken in Canada also, the seven three-tenths interest offering a great temptation for the investment, and the in‘ervity of the United States government being ¢ (a safe guarantee. A Montrea paper soy. ' solvency of the savings banks ther mpromised in consequence ot for this purpose. We! 1 ela in the counties of La Fayette and Ray, and all around to the direction of Lexington, emboldened by the news of the battle near Springfield, are committing terrible outrages on the property of Union men. Our European advices, by tho Asia, are to the 18th of August. One of our Paris correspondents reports that most of the manufacturing interests of the empire were extremely depressed in conse-*| quence of the absence of ordera from America. An,excitement among the cotton spinners was allayed by a sort of official assurance, ind \striously circulated, to the effect that plenty of the staple would be had in the fall of the year. It is again repeated that Napoleon is ready to recognise the independence of the rebel confederacy if England will join him in such a dangerous step. Mr. Rost, the rebel Commissioner, had left Paris for London with the intention, as alleged, of using strenuous exertions to induce the British Cabinet to coalesce with the -Emperor in this policy. England was making vigorous efforts to obtain a cotton supply outside the Southern States of America. The re- public of Nicaragua had forwarded thirty-five bales, grown by the natives, to Liverpool, and the Minister of that country in London holds out in- ducements to British capitilists to become plant- ers. The movement for growing cotton in India is to be pursued on a very extensive scale. THE NEWS. The action at Summerville is and will ever be noted for its brilliancy of execution. A sudden surprise of such a nature would cause, in many cases, a complete surrender of those attacked, but in this instance the command bravely fought their way through the rebel horde. The following ig the list of the principal officers:— SEVENTH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEERS. Colonel . E. B. Tyler. Lieutan: . R. Curtin, ohn S. Casement. — De Forest, killed. :— King, killed. The Asia, from Liverpool on the 17th and Queens- town the 18th instant, arrived at this port yester- day morning. Her news is three days later than that brought by the Hibernian. Cotton was in fair demand in Liverpool and the market steady at the decline of one-eighth of a penny in qualities below middling. The stock on hand on the 16th instant was computed at 944,360 bales, of which 678,910 were American. Bread- stuffs were very dull on the 16th instant. Consols closed in London on the 16th instant at 90% a 90% for money and account. The visit of the King of Sweden to Napoleon had produced an unpleasant feeling at the Court of Russia, Napoleon's fete was celebrated in Paris on the 15th instant, and his Majesty had inaugura- ted a new boulevard with great eclat. It is said that the French commander in Rome has been or- dered not to oppose the entry of Cialdini, with Italian troops, into the city. Another war struggle between Austria and Hungary was regarded as im- minent. The Sultan of Turkey was actively en- gaged with his governmental financial reforms. Advices from Ceylon, dated at Columbo on the 17th of July, report our total exports of both kinds of coffee are now more that 1,000 cwts. in excess of those for the corresponding period of last season, the figures being 560,000 cwts. against 559,000. The proportions are different, however, for while last season showed 413,000 cwts. planta- tion kind, we have now 433,000, with only 127,000 native against 145,000 for last season. The pros- pects for next season continue very gloomy. The grand festival in aid of the widows and orphans of the members of the Sixty-ninth regi- ment who were killed in the battle of Bull run came off yesterday at Jones’ Wood. The enter- tainment consisted of singing, dancing, and an ora- tion by Captain Thomas Francis Meagher. There wasan immense assemblage present, and the ut- most enthusiasm characterized the proceedings. A fail report will be found in another part of to-day’s paper. A half starved regiment of rebels, who are located at Glasgow, Kentucky, have named their encampment Camp Vallandigham, in honor of the secession representative in Congress of the Third district of Ohio. The German Turners of St. Louls, having been three months in the service of the government, and received an honorable diseharge, have decided to re-enlist for three years, and are now filling up their regiment. No person will be accepted who is not a recognized gymnast. The able bodied Union men of Missouri are falling into line very fast. Jackson and Price and McCul- loch, with their Arkansas gentlemen and wild Camanches, will meet with a reception they little dream of. Nearly fifty thousand cartridges of all kinds, from grape and canister down to Minie balls and buckshot, are manafactured°daily in Memphis. So the papers of that city say. - The secession paper in Paterson, N. J., has come over to the side of the Stars and Stripes, and will henceforth battle for the country and pitch into the rebels. A soldier writes that in some of the regiments across the Potomac the quartermasters sell the men’s rations, and when the soldiers complain they are reported to the superior officers as mutineers, General McClellan could very easily inaugurate an examining board, whose duty it would be to see that the men get all to which, by the regulations, they are entitled. Last week there were seven thousand troops in the camp at Springfield, Mlinois. A large number of “‘contrabands” have been taken from Petersbrrg, Va., to Richmond, to work on the defences now being thrown up around that city. The business of impressment is carried on in Memphis, and a regular press gang organized. In many cases, says the Memphis Avalanche, acts of barbarity have been perpetrated, and not unfre- quently have farmers, who were in the city on busi. ness, been seized, as well as heads of families whose wives and children depended entirely upon them for support, To sach an extent has this barbarous practice been carried that the Council of the city have become alarmed, and appointed a committee to confer with the Archbishop, Major General Polk, upon the subject. Memphis must be a nice place to live in just now. Colonel James McIntosh, the commander of one of the Arkansas regiments in the Davis creek bat- tle in Missouri, statea that the rebels had eight thousand cavalry in their army, “only a few of whom showed the white feather.” Their whole force, he says, numbered thirteen thousand. On the 23d instant there were two hundred and sixty-two sick and wounded soldiers belonging to New York State regiments in the hospitals of Washington and Georgetown, Patrick Henry Donegan, an officer of the United States government, attached to the const survey, was arrested in New Oneans on the 22d inst. by order of Gen. Twiggs, as a spy. The principal interest on the one hundred mil- lion dollars of Treasury notes which the Southern Confederacy are about to issue paid bya | War tax of fifty cents on ev ed ai j lars of real esta other stocks money NEW. YORK. HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1861. cattle, gold-watches, gold andsilver plate, pianos and pleasure carriages. ‘The Commissioners of Charities and Correction met yesterday, but no business of public im- portance was transacted. The weekly statement shows that 2,536 persons were admitted to the in- stitutions during the week ending tho 24th of August, and the number remaining there on that date was 8,340—being an imsrease of ninety-nine on the preceding week. The receipts from the 16th to the 29th inst. amounted to $50,564 68, which iacludes the sum of $50,000 placed at the disposal of the Commissioners by the Comptroller of the city. Peace picnics and barbecues got up by seces- sionists to encourage rebellion are now very popu- lar in Kentucky, ‘The cotton market was firmer yesterday, while the sales embraced 700 a 800 bales, closing on the basis of Ife. a 193¢c. for middling uplands. Tho cotton year loses on Saturday next, when the stock in this city will be taken. Opinions differ regarding the probable amount. Estimates are most common at 20,000 a 25,000 bales, while some persons fall below and others exceed theso figures. The heavy receipts of flour, combined with tho news by the Asia, tended to depress the market, which declined from 3c. 9 10c. por barrel. At the concession the market was active. Wheat, from the samo causes, was depressed, and closod at 2c. a 3c. per bushel lower, with fair sales for export. Corn fetl off 1c. per bushel, and was quite active at the decline, chiefly for shipment to Eastern ports. Shipping lots of Western mixed, for export, closed at 47c, a 48c., and Western yollow at 50c. | business capi Pork was steady, with sales of moss at $15 and of prime at $10. Sugars were firm, with sales of 700 a 800 hhds. Cubas at full prices. Coffoo was firm, whils sales were light. Freight engagements wero somewhat leas active, while sales were without change of importance. Another Masked Battery—The Disanion Efforts of the Incendiary Press, The secessionists of the South, with their at- tacks upon the government through their mask- ed batteries and their allies, the incendiary jour- nals of the North, are all aiming at one and the same result, although apparently travelling dif- ferent roads. They are each fightixg with masked batteries—the former using powder, lead, grape and shell; the latter stealthily, un- der the plea of friendship, are at work under~ mining the constitution, bent upon the destruc- tion of the hopes of all Unionists at home and abroad, and sending despair to the hearts of all lovers of democratic institutions the world over, The Southern leaders are rallying their armies to fight the gallant men enlisted under the ban- ner of the Union, whom they hope to draw into their disguised batteries, while their incendiary allies of the North—the abolition agitators—are, serpent like, drawing their coils around the ad- ministration, endeavoring to force the govern- ment into their traps, thus weakening their hands by dividiag the supporters of the constitutional government—thereby furnish- ing the rebel army an easier and more thorough victory than they had at Bull tun. A few days since we exposed a significant and dangerous masked battery from the Tribune, laboring at its old game—the breaking up of the Cabinet; to-day we place before our readers an attack upon the Cabinet by our Quadrilateral contemporary, the Times— riding roughshod over a portion of the Cabinet, especially Secretary Cameron, although the “little villain” declares that his animosity “takes no definite shape, fastens on no specific acts.”” Thus that class of journals—the Tribune and Times and their co-laborers—bave been at work from the very commencement of the war to divide, break up or destroy the government. Immediately upon the heels of the Baltimore riot, when the administration needed all the assistance that could possibly be given to it by the prompt and «united action of the entire North, these journals combined in a systematic cry and appeals to supersede the administration, by driving the President and his Cabinet out of Washington and appointing a dictator in their place, and even nominated that patriotic blun- derbuss, railroad and ‘steamboat speculator, George Law, for that position. The public paid noattention to this bloodthirsty appeal. Defeated in this French revolutionary plan, they opened their batteries upon the military leaders and endeavored to destroy public confidence in their well earned ability; then, again, attacking the President, next the Cabinet in bitter terms; but finding that their discharges made no impression on either of those points, they commenced their howl, “Onward to Rich- mond,” until finally the army of the Potomac was forced to march into the masked batteries of the rebels at Manassas, resulting in a dis- astrous rout and fearful loss of life, adding at least six months to the war, to say nothing of the millions upon millions of additional ex- pense and the increased prospect of & war with European Powers. That disaster removed the mask from the in- cendiary journals, revealed to the public their real objects and showed to the world their com- plicity with the secession leaders. For awhile they manifested a wonderful amount of peni- tence, and pretended to humble themselves in sackcloth and ashes, but their anxiety to under- mine the constitution soon got the bet- ter of them, and they commenced throw- ing out their feelers, and growing bolder by degrees. When their masked batteries again belched forth, it was in a demand that emancipation should be the bat- tle cry of our armies. If this had been ac- ceded to by the administration the rebels, instead of being compelled to fight the loyal North and an army numbering its hundreds of thousands, ‘would in a short time find the government supported only by a handful of abolitionista, with no funds to back it—thus in ove fell stroke sealing the fate of our glorious Union, leaving to Jeff. Davis and bis subjects only the duty of holding a jubilee over tif@ir victory. The au- thorities at Washington, showing no disposition to thug deliberately surrender to the rebels, these journals have again changed their tack, and are now directing their masked batteries against the individual: members of the Cabinet, especially the Secretary of War, although they declare in the same breath that they don’? imow what Cameron bas done so awfully wicked as they would have us believe. The most curious of all this, and we might say sug- gestive of their real purpose, is the fact that they demand the appointment of Mr. Holt, of Ken- tucky, the man who was at the head of the Post Office Department for six months before he dis. covered the defalcation of Fowler, sini The integrity and the unity of the Cabinet during a crisis like the present are of the great- est importance, and we are happy to inform the publio that the Cabinet of Lincoln was nevor better united or more unanimous in their labors to suppress the monster rebellion than at the present moment. Neither are those clamoring fer a change able to point to one single act jus- tifying that demand. Cameron is a man of great and wonderful energy. Having fully initiated into all (he workings of the Wand in man time ment, his removal and the substitation | would be ruinous in the extreme. Mr. Holt is unquestionably a good orator anda staunch Union man, is doing good service on his elec- tioneering tour, and is a valuable aid to the ad” ministration when in his true position; but his career in the Post Office Department and his failure -to discover the defalcations until the public, two hundred miles from his office, informed him of it, certainly does not in- dicate that he is the man for the War Depart- | ment, which at this time requires the greatest vigilance to keep the unscrupulous contractors within bounds. Tho fact of the matter is, these journals are bent upon the separation of the Union, and are flying from one project to an- other in their vain attempts to bring about, to them, the much desired object. If there is any- thing wrong it rests with the military leaders and not Secretary Cameron. No one has yet been able to point out the deficiencies of the latter, while, on the other hand, Senator Wilson declares that “after a careful scrutiny of the War Department he has satisfied himself that there is no foundation for the flippant allega- tions against Cameron.” We are also informed that Secretary Chase concurs in this opinion- We trust, therefore, that the President will contrive to direct every effort in his power to- wards putting down the rebellion and restoring the country to its former prosperous condition regardless of the abolitionist clamors, and ‘let the disunion, incendiary journals howl away to their heart’s content, Cotton Dethroned—Corn is King. By the arrival of the Cunard mail steamship at this port yesterday we have highly interest. ing and important advices about cotton from England, A letter from Mr. Haywood, the Secretary of the Cotton Supply Association, is published, detailing the result of his interview with the Viceroy of Egypt, and his opinion as to the capacity of that country for the produc- tion of cotton. He says that the growth of the staple may be extended there to an unlimited amount; and the Viceroy invites British capi- talists to come forward to cultivate the plant. American seed sown in Egypt had produced cotton valued in Liverpool at eight pence per pound. It is also announced that the Nicara- guan ambassador in London offers a free and liberal grant of land in Nicaragua to settlers there for the purpose of growing cotton. The first ship with cotton from that country had ar- rived, From the mails by this and previous arrivals itis made evident that British merchants and supply companies are ransacking the globe for cotton in order to enable them to dispense with the American staple;and there can be little doubt that they will obtain all that they want for the next six or seven months, if not a per- manent supply. Any calculation, therefore, that the rebels of the South may make upon the basis that Great Britain is dependant on them for cotton is manifestly false. A few plain figures will show this:— The receipts of India cotton in Great Britain for five years are as follows:— EDA BE MUO, wos hia ois onie sags 6 dip, 56 0. 8'o. dre 679,000 In 1858 (interfered with by the rebellion of preceding year).............cceee ee eee 361,000 In 1859... 510,000 In 1860... » 564,000 So far in A leading Manchester authority—Messrs. Neill, Bros. & Co—say:—‘From India we may draw a large supply if we give sufficiently high prices to outbid the native manufacturers, and, at present prices (July 22), we look for a total Tue Rapieat, Anoterion Repcosacan Faction 4np THE New York Heratp.—Since the out break of this Southern rebellion we have not neglected the duty of marking. and exposing the disorganizing schemes and movements of the. radical abolition wing of the republican party. We have shown that the bloody instruc- ions of the New York Tribune, the sneaking | incendiarism of the ‘Fimes, and the undiluted abolitionism of the Independent, the Anti-Slavery Standard and the Boston Liberator, are all directed to the same object—emancipation or disunion—the liberation of the four millions of slaves of the South by force of afms, or the adoption of Lloyd Garrison’s ultimatum, “no union with slaveholders.” We have shown that icol anti-slavery faction has been and ed in the enterprise of breaking up Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet, and of superseding it by more zealous anti-slavery instruments, in order that the conservative policy adopted by the President may be pushed aside for that destruc- tive abolition policy which seeks to make the issue of this war emancipation or separation. In thus exposing the disorganizing schemes and counsels of our abolition contemporaries, including the little tricksters of the Times, it appears that we have touched them to the quick, for our nimble-footed hero of the Mincio and Bull run appears to be frantic in his exces” sive rage, Without rhyme or reason, and re” gardiess alike of common sense and common decency, he flies off into a tirade of coarse epithets and personalities against “Bennett” and the Heravp, as if serious facts and argu- ments could be answered by wholesale per- sonal abuse. We are:charged, however, as hay- ing taken the ground that this war “can only end with universal emancipation,” and numerous ex- tracts from our columns of April last are re” produced to support this foolish accusation. But in these very extracts this ridiculous charge is answered; for in one of them we find that on the 24th of April the Heranp recom- mended that “in advance of this movement (of the army) President Lincoln should issue his proclamation guaranteeing the complete pro- tection of all loyal Union men and their pro- perty, but warning the enemies of the govern” ment of the dangers of confiscation, negroes in- cluded.” Here our policy is disclosed—the common sense policy of war against a rebellion; the policy since adopted by act of Congress; the policy of discriminat ing between the friend and the of the government, and of protecting the one, including his rights of property in negroes, while we punish the other. If we are to restore the revolted Southern States to the Union, it must be through some such policy of a just discrimination between the friends and the enemies of the government. Only in this way can we build up an effective Union party in the South and bring about a decisive South- ern popular reaction in favor of the Union. This is the ground which we occupied in April last, and we occupy the same position now. We repeat, too, that there is great dan- ger that this war may be changed from its pre- sent legitimate purpose—‘“the integrity of the Union”’—into a war of indiscriminate and uni- versal spoliation against the South, including a sweeping abolition of slavery; but this is the very danger against which we regard it our duty to warn and advise the President. Hence our vigilance over the teachings, schemes and Movements of the leaders and organs of the radical abolition wing of the republican camp. Their aim is the extinction of slavery, and if supply of over 900,000 bales; but an advance here of another penny would, perhaps, add 300,000 to that quantity.” The staple of this cotton is very short, and it is badly cleaned, but it answers well to mix with our strong American staple, and as the supply is enormous in the interior, the hundred millions of the people—a population like sand on the sea shore—being for ages clothed entire: ly in their own fabrics, it is simply a question of price. Cotton comes to port in India from immense distances, in bags, on the backs of bullocks. The transportation is expensive: hence the moderate supply. As prices now tule at thirty per cent at Liverpool over those of 1857—the year of greatest supply from India—and may go thirty per cent higher, it is more than probable that the free or discretionary orders which have gone to India will start itfrom a greater distance in the interior, and the sea- son may close with a delivery double that of last year. As the manufacturers at Manches- ter are heavy in stock, and know how to make it last, it would appear to us that by running half time they can float to April or May next. The result of this ‘var, therefore, if it be prolonged by the rebels, will be to ruin the cotton trade of the South, and at the same time to destroy its property in slaves— the great point for which the leaders of the re- bellion allege they are fighting. The English are now quietly making railroads in India to facilffate the transport of the staple, and when these are completed they will not need half or quarter of the cotton from the South that they have been in the habit of taking. The consequence will be not only that his great article of their commerce will become o drug in the market, but their slaves, now or lately worth $1,500 each, will not bring more than two or three hundred dol- lars. Thus, like the swine swimming down the stream, at every stroke the Southern rebels are cutting their own throats, A commercial revo- lution is taking place which will dethrone American cotton as the great staple of com” merce and elevate breadstuffs to its position. Henceforth what has been said of the Southern fibre will be more true of our Western cereals, and the watchword of our trade will be, “Corn is King.” Sampres or “Suoppy.”—Three samples of shoddy cloth have been sent us, which are a cur riosity to the uninitiated. They are much more easily torn than paper, s0 utterly rotten are they, Infact, a strong-winded man might al- most blow through them. And such are the garments with which it is expected soldiers are to rough in trenches, in picket duty, through Jong marches and in all the arduous toils of a soldier’slifa Itis no wonder that our troops at Fortrass Monroe wete described as half haked in a week or two after they donned this doibiig: Now, these are bat specimens of thé great bulk of material with which the army is clothed; and itis by such contracts as these that the life-blood is being sucked out of the country by the vampires, and that our army is injured, demoralized and destroyed. Napoleon used to hang such scoundrels. What our United States government ought t6 do with them is very clear: We would, meantime, advise that they be sent, \ every man of them, to Fort Lafayette, were ‘t not that even rebels are too good go%apany for ilon the administration stands in their way, and if the Union stands in their way, these radicals will destroy both the Union and the administra- tion if they can. Our anti-slavery disorganizers would rather rule in a small corner than be ruled out of our political affairs by the restora- tion of the Union; and hence this abolition faction, to this extent, is just as bad as the rebel faction of the South. Posrrion oF Excuanp Towarps THe Unrrep Srares.—One of our contemporaries gravely in- forms its readers that a letter has been received from Mr. Adams, our Minister in England, stat- ing that the independence of the rebels is now fully admitted there as a military and politcal necessity, and that its recognition is only a question of time and prudent courtesy. We do not believe that Mr. Adams bas written any such nonsense. The tone latterly of all the English journals is entirely at variance with it: None of them now pretend that England has any direct interest in the recognition of the Southern confederacy. It-would not help her any sooner to cotton from that quarter, but, on the contrary, would place it still further beyond her reach. The cotton question in reality exer- cises but little influence over the policy of Eng- land in our regard. With the supplies on hand, with those expected from the colonies and Af- rica, and witha grant by Parliament in aid of the manufacturing interest, she can very well afford to bide our time for the settlement of our present difficulties. She is as well aware as we are that she will get American cotton sooner by following this course than by further complicating matters by her interference. But even if she had no such conviction there are considerations that would counterbalance the temptation that a contrary one might hold out. The inconve- nience that she will suffer from the suspension of her usual supplies of cotton from this country can only be temporary, while that arising from the results of a hostile position on her part to- wards the North would be permanent and ir- remediable. There isa far larger number of her population dependant on the breadstuffs and other exports of the loyal States than can ever be affected by the stoppage, though total, of her supplies of Southern cotton. The latter she can replace in time from her own colonies; for the former she must always continue to look to us. What would be her position if we were to prohibit even for a season the exporta- tion to her ports of our cereals? Even though her present harvest may prove an average one— of which there is great doubt—such a retalia tory measure on our part would cause far more embarrassment and anxiety among her people than the interfaption of our cotton exports has done. . nts 23 Let the alarmists take comfort. England is not going to plunge into a war with us merely to gratify a fancied spite against the North, She cares, in fact, very little about either sec- tion or its interests. Her aristocratic organg gloat over our misfortunes, not so much tg, vex or mortify us as to humble and annib‘sate that party at home which, looking to, this country for its political models, has bi ehr by year ex- torted concessions from tig gelfishness of the ruling class, and fo" ye an extension of the bas the elect oral franchis sprite and short sightedness of nae —rsttcneeneinonieneandenttantees! | tocraey'save received before now some severe lessons from, this country. Unless we are mis- taken in our ¢x culations of the futyre, their conduet in the prey 'ent crisis is destined to meet with another heavy ch, #tisement at our hands. pate lr senna Attecep Coypricrry ov THE Barris Minis. ‘Ter with Tue Resers.—Have any steps been taken as yet by the State Department in refe- rence to the letters found on the ret! emissary Muir, implicating Lord Lyons and My’ Bunch, direct treating with the Confederate govern” ment? It will be recollected that it was stated circumstantially in one of them that Bunch and the French Consu!, Belligny, had sent Mr. Tres- Mr. Buchanan, to Richmond to ask Jeff. Davis to accept a treaty of commerce for a neutral flag to cover neutral goods. This statement as- sumes a more serions aspect from the fact that the writer is on the most intimate terms with Punch—a fact proved by the reproduction in one of Russell’s letters to the London Times of a phrase reported by him to have been used im the manuscript text of the same letter, shows to him in confidence hy the British Consul. Of course it ix not to he presumed for a moe ment that Mr, Bunch would act independently of Lord Lyons in so important a matter as this. The discipline of the British Foreign Office is too strict to permif consuls to assume diplomatic functions where there is a resident. Minister at hand. Prompt dismissal would follow so impertinent’a prot ceeding, and Mr. Bunch is too old and expe rienced an offigial to be betrayed into any steps of the kind. Assuming the statement to be enemy | correct, of which there seems to be very little doubt, the conclusion is inevitable that the communication was authorized by the British Minister. The language used in the letter from which the story is teken admits, in fact, of no other construction. «This is the first step ot direct treating with the government,” says the writer. There conld be no direct treating ex- cept with Lord Lyons personally, or through his authorized agents. The documents fonnd on Muir have been im possession of the State Department since bis ar- rest. and as yet we have beard of no action be- ing taken npon them by the government. We trust the matter is not to be allowed tosleep until British and French officials here have sncceed- ed in compromising their governments by overt negotiations with the rebels. It is the duty of Mr. Seward to at once call on the Ministers of the two countries for explanations of the extra- ordinary statements contained in these papers of Muir’s. Unless they are perfectly satisfacto ry, the exequaturs of both should be instantly revoked. Sxcessionism BY TNvENDO—-Morg CaxpmaTRs ror Forr Laraverre.—Many of our readers have remarked the little recruiting tents which dot the City Hall Park here and there, and the little squads of would-be volenteers which daily surround them. Now, in each of these squads will be noticed a few persons who are obviously there, not for the purpose of enlist- ment, but apparently for curiosity’s sake. If you listen to the remarks of the crowd, how- ever, you will discover that whenever one, two or three men exhibit a disposition to enroll themselves in any of the regiments, these apparently curious observers drop, as if casually, such remarks as, “No one will thank him for that;” “I wonder when he’ll get his pay;” or, “He’s going to fight te crush out the South.” To such inwendoes there can be no reply made, for they are addressed to no one in particular, and are so framed as to admit of no argument. We have not the slightest hesitation in declar ing that the fellows who utter such remarks a& these are traitors in disguise, and are employed and paid by secessionists to discourage enlist™ ments. The volunteers who hear such flippant and lying inuendoes begin to doubt the pre- priety of enlisting at all, and either walk away or else put down their names hesitatingly» and as if they were doing something to be ashamed of, instead of enrolling them- selves with the proud consciousness that they are acting nobly and patriotically, and are inscribing their names upon the muster roll, not only of the regiment, but also of fame and glory. There can’ be no mistake about these secessionists. The same men may be found there day after day, saying the same things with the same result. It is carrying the right of free speeeh to absurdity to allow them to go ua- punished any longer. Superintendent Kennedy ought to send a few detectives, in citizens’ dress, to the Park every day, to look after the utterers of such lying and traitorous sentiments. Discrete anp Erriciency or Tae ARMY.— The War Department has a responsible duty to perform in the organization of the army on the Potomac. The country is passing through a fearful crisis, such a@bas never befallen before, and upon the discipline of the army and the efficiency of its officers everything depends. There is much to be done in this respect, as will be seen in the ease of one regiment of New York Volunteers—the Thirty-seventh—whose officers have all but unanimously demanded the resignation of Colonel McCunn on the grounds of incompetency and on other grave charges, The regiment is in the most advanced post, and» according to our Washington despatches, ap- pears to be nearly in a state of mutiny, owing, it is alleged, to the demoralizing conduct of the Colonel. It is time for the government to set aside aly mere politicians from military positions, and put soldiers in their places. This war, upon which the existence of the republic hangs, should not be conducted after the manner of an election, where nothing is involved but party supremacy and the spoils of office. The petty schemes and dodges of a primary election are out of place just now, on the banks of the Po- tomao, with a formidable foe standing face te face with our army. The Secretary of War should remove all such officers as Mr. McCunn, and put experienced men—of whom there are plenty willimg te serve—at the heads of regiments. So OUR WAR MAPS. The numerous maps, plans nd diagrams of the operations of the Union Sind rebel troops in Virginia, Missourt, Diknois, Floriaa, and on the Mis- sissippi and Missouri rivera, Which have been pub- lished from time to time in the New Yoru Henan, are now printed on one sheet, and ,is ready for delivery. Agents desiring copies are requested to send in their ordera immediately. Single copies six cents, Wholesale price the same #8 for the, Wernny Hpranp. the British Consul at Charleston, in a ehacge of | cott, formerly Assistant Secretary of State under | |