The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1861, Page 4

4 . NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGU: ST 31, 1861. NEW YORK HERALD. ' JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICH N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8TS. No, 241 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Invisise Huasaxp— ‘oops. Ne NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Bot, Rox—Joms- Way Bxapronp—Love ix \vuR CoRNens. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Evening=Miciaws, HAUNTED CHa vueR—HePO- voramus, Sea Lion, Beans, anp Orngn Cvaiosirixa, BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. Wa;.—SoxGs, Dancks, BURLESQUES, 40.~—BULL RUN. HAUL, No, 589 Broadway.— mee Dances, Boncesaues, CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 586 Broadway.—Sonas, Dancra, Burursqurs, &c. GAIRTIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—Drawina Rook Exrsetainments Bauuxrs, Pantomines, Faxces, £0. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway.—Sonas, Bate arts, PANTOMIIES, &C.—BLACK STATUK. CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT. HALL, No, 45 Bowery.=+ PuRLesQvES, SONGS, Dances, BLACK STAT New York, Saturday, August 33, 1861, OUR WAR MAPS. The numerous maps, plans and diagrams of the operations of the Union and rebel troops in Virginia, Missouri, Iinois, Florida, and on the Mis- sissippi and Missouri rivers, which have been pub- lished from time to time in the‘New York Henarp, are now printed on one sheet, and is ready for delivery, Agents desiring copies are requested to ‘end in their orders immediately. Single copies { bs cents. Wholesale price the same as for the \Yuuxuy Heranp. THE SITUATION. The advanced posts of the army of the Potomac, ‘under General Richardson, had a brilliant skirmish early Thursday morning with the pickets of the eneniy, near Bailey's Cross Roads. The rebels ‘were two hundred strong, and the Union forces, though greatly inferior in numbers, completely defeated them, killing a large number and taking roveral prisoners. The impression prevails that the enemy intended there and then to provoke @ battle, but for this time, at least, the attempt failed (though it was probably only a feiut) as their pickets were driven back gallantly by our forces. The rebels have erected a battery near Munson’s Hill, and are playing away with rifled cannon on the buildings at Bailey's Cross Roads, It is thought, however, that this great activity on the part of the enemy is only a feint to withdraw attention from @ movement of a large por- tion of their forces towards the Upper Potomac, where they intend to make a crossing into Mary- fund, at some place near Point of Rocks, and, trusting to the insurrectionary spirit of that State’ make a stand there, where provisions are plenty, and thus place Washington between two rebel ernies. It appears evident that they cannot fonger maintain themselyes in their position for want of supplies, and it is confidently believed in Washington that a great battle must of necessity teke place within a few days. There is no doubt that the army of General Mosencrans, in Western Virginia, is in a constant state of activity, It is said that he is surrounded oy a staff of excellent officers, an element which, » addition to his own known coolness, sagacity wd military skill, renders his position in the face of the armies of Generals Lee, Floyd and Wise, secure from surprise or defeat. A large body of the rebels, eight thousand strong, under Gen. Lee, are reported to be encamped within five or six miles of the encampment of Col. Reynolds, one of Gen, Rosen- crans’ ablest officers, who is in command of a large body of his army. The action in which Col: Tyler was engaged at Crow Lane, near Summers ville, appears to have been but a skirmish, in which sixteen of Col. Tyler’s men were killed and forty wounded, but it was a brilliant and successful ailair withal, Despatches from Quincy, Illinois, inform us of the march of a body of rebels, numbering some three thousand, under General Martin Green, upon the town of Palmyra, Missouri, on Wednesday morning, and inasmuch as there were no Union troops stationed there, they took quiet possession of the place. It appears that a train of cars on the Han- nibal and St. Joseph railroad, carrying a quantity of muskets for the troops stationed at St. Joseph, while approaching Palmyra on the same day, was Gred into by the rebels, and immediately returned without damage to Hannibal. THE NEWS. The steamship Arago, from Havre and South- ampton 21st inst., passed Cape Race at six o'clock yesterday morning. Her advices are three days later than those received by the Asia. The politi- cal intelligence is of comparatively little interest. The steamship Etna, which broke her shaft whee] on her passage to New York, bad arrived wafcly at Queenstown. Her passengers were to leave in the Glasgow for New York on the 22d inst. At Liverpool cotton had advanced one-sixteenth to one-eighth of @ penny, principally on the middling and lower qualities, while breadstuffs had declined and provisions remained without material alteration. ‘The steamship Karnak, Captain Le Messurier, from Nassau, arrived here yesterday afternoon. she reports yellow fever in the British squadron and the complete loss of her Majesty’s ship Driver, six guns, at Mayaguana. The officers and wrew are all safe, ‘The steamship Matanzas arrived here yesterday from the port of that name in Cuba, which she left last Sunday. There was no sickness there at the ‘time of sailing, and no local yews. An important rumor prevailed at Havana that the present Cap- tain General is soon to be recalled, and his place Bupplicd by General Prim or some other officer Gistinguizhed in the Morocco war. It is said Gene- yal Serrano has not requested his recall, and the clumsy reason assigned is the deli health of his wi beautiful and accomplished Countess gle San io, Some say the Countess alone will return to Burope, and that the Count will continne in the enjoyment of his viceregal state. Yellow fever had broken out violently on board the fleet in the bay of Samana, The United S steamer Mohawk has set an tive’’ blockade at the entrance of the port ot wks, Florida, On the Mth instant she seut- and sunk across the channel, where itis very 'Purow, a captured sloop. The sunken sloop lies such a positionthatno sea going vessel can pass We give below a comparative table of the anla- Hos of soldiers in both sections of thie country. Jt | will be seen that the Southern confederacy has fixed the pay of the chivalry, or the descendants of the first families, largely in advance of govern- ment prices, while the “mudsils,” or the men who do the fighting, receive considerably less:— First Sorgeant., Other Sergeants, ne i iT poi bene Privates... n East Tennegace has at last been forced to suc- cumb to the doctrine of secession, through the in- fluence of threats and banishments. Thoms A. R. Nelson, who was elected by the Union men to the United States Congress, gave in just in time to save his neck from the halter in Richmond; and Parson Brownlow, with his Knoxville Whig, stood out until the bowie knife was brandished above his head, when he, to save “his property and his family, consented to support the rebel Zollicoffer and the traitor Governor Harris. The election on the lst inst. showed that there were twenty-six thousand two hundred and thirty-two unconditional Union men in that section of the State, being ‘a clear majority of eleven thousand over the se- cessionists, and we cannot think it possible that the sudden change which is reported to have taken place there has any foundation in sincerity, John C. Breckinridge is now regularly on the stump in Kentucky, and is preaching rebellion in every place where he can get an audience. The rebels in that State prowl around under the trans- parent covering of ‘‘anti-war,” ‘peace,’ and “armed neutrality,’”? and unless the government make a bold and sudden push into Kentucky she will be dragooned out of the Union in less than thirty days. Secret emissaries of Jeff. Davis have already commenced tampering with the Union members elect to the Legislature, and if their evil influences are not checked that body will bein dan- ger of imitating the acts of the State Convention of Virgynia at Richmond. The vote as far as received on the ratification of the constitution of Georgia foots up as follows:— For ratification... 11,497 Against ratification 637 Majority for ratification. 860 It is generally supposed that the act of Congress increasing the pay of the soldiers two dollars per month includes non-commissioned officers, which is not the case. The law was passed on the 6th of August, and reads as follows:—‘‘That the pay of privates in the regular army and volunteers in the service of the United States be thirteen dollars per month for three years from and after the passage of this act, and until otherwise fixed by law.” The Georgia Seventh regiment of Volunteers, numbering seven hundred men, lost in the battle of Bull run eighteen killed and one hundred and sixteen wounded. 2 The laborers in the laboratory in Memphis, where the cartridges are made, struck on the 23d inst., and refused to work any longer. Thomas W. Barnes has been found guilty in Memphis of the murder of John Hendrihan, and sentenced to be hung. ‘The water is now so low in the Hudson river at Albany and Troy that the passenger boats expe- rience great difficulty in crossing the bars. The Board of Excise continue to prosecute un- licensed liquor dealers. Yesterday, Michael Down- ing, of 42 Thomas street; Patrick Cain, of the cor- ner of Beach and West streets; and Patrick Burns, of the corner of Twelfth strect and avenue C, were imprisoned for selling liquor without license, Since the last session one hundred and seventy- eight persons have applied for license. The Board will hold but one more session this year.. The novel question is being debated as to whether the unlicensed liquor dealers’ associations have the legal right to resist the enforcement of the excise law, because they deem it unsuited to this city, or whether they are not virgually organized rebels, who should be indicted and punished for conspir- ing to oppose the statute law of the land. Itis the opinion of several eminent lawyers that the mem- bers are liable to indictment as conspirators against the law. The cotton market was excited yesterday. It was re- Ported that some heavy government contractors were purchasing, which gave a new impetus to operations, and jd to a decided advance in prices. ‘The sales footed up about 2,500 a 3,000 bales, over 1,000 of which were taken by spinners, said to be engaged in filling government orders. A good portion of the remainder was taken by speculators. The market closed on the basis of 19%c. a 20c. for middling uplands. This is the highest price it has attained in twenty-ono years. Tho stocks at the east- ward are light, and are about exhausted in Philadelphia. Government contractors for duck and cloths on the basis «f 1c. for raw cotton in June, and who may have becn compelled to come into the market at 1Sc. a 19c, per pound, cannot fail to sustain heavy losses We heard yesterday that some contractors had, owing to the rapid advance in cotton, thrown up their contracts, and ex- pected to pay their forfeits. A heavy contract for cotton goods was said to haye been awarded within a few days, and that the parties to whom they were given were in the market yesterday. The stock is reduced, and the government may be said to be considered an indirect competitor with spinners, holding no contracts, in pur. chasing supplies. The English have not yet realized the contraction of supplies, which their manufacturers may soon have to meet, and which ours haye already expe- perienced. India is a long way off, and its increased cul- tivation toa largo extent anywhere, or toan extent to equalize the two or three millions of bales hitherto re- ceived from the United States, now withheld by tho blockade, is not the work of a day, nor, perhaps, of seve. ral years. The flour market opened slugglish, but as the day advanced a more active demand sprung up, and prices closed with tolerable firmness, but without change of mo- ment in prices, Wheat opened dull, but owing to greator ease infreights, the market becamo active, and ruled firm for most descriptions. Corn was active and firm, chiefly to fill Eastern ordera and for export, Pork was stoady, with salos of moss at $15 and of primo at $10. ‘Sugars wore firm, with sales of 1,229 hhds. Cubas.at full prices, Coffee was steady, with sales of 1,422 bags Rio at 14y%e. Freights to British ports closed at easier rates. Grain was taken to Livorpool at 10344. a 114. for corn and wheat, in bulk and bags, closing at the inside figures. To tho continent rates were frm and tolorably active. Hoyor to THE GaLtant Deap—ARRIvAL oF tue Remains. or Generat Lyon.—General Sandford has received a despatch announcing that the remains of the lamented hero, General Lyon, will arrive in this city at half-past two o’clock to-day, from Philadelphia, where they have been honored with a military escort New York, ever ready to testify her gratitude to the gallant defenders of the country, will not be behind thiat city in the respect which is due to the memory of the illustrious son of Connecticut. The authorities, as it will be seen, have atranged that a military guard shall be given his remains at the City Hall, where they are to remain in state until Monday, when they are to be removed, under escort, to their final destination in his native town. Although the time is too short to organize any more forma) demonstration on the part of the public tht that the feeling of the commm- sressed in a way that will be ifying to the family and immediate friends of the deceased General. The spon taneous tribute that will be paid his remains in the presence of hundreds of thousands of sor- row siricken and tearful spectators along the route of the procession on Monday will need nove of the pageantry of woe to give i mourn. ful effect. The merits of the dead soldier and patriot are inscribed deep on tLe hearis of our citizens, and they will mark their sense of his loss as if he were one of the most cherished ony of New York, The Great Cotton Revolution in England and America. Owing to the scarcity of cotton in the North- ern States, in consequence of the embargo upon all the outlets from the South, an enterprising speculator has realized ten thousand dollars upon the sale of two cargoes of the American fibre recently imported here from England, According to the news by the Arago, off Cape Race yesterday, the decline noticed in the news by the Asia had been fully recovered, and the market was firm. This advance will have the tendency to stimulate the operators in India, Egypt and the rest of Africa and Brazil to push forward their supplies, The manufacturers already begin to feel that, if they pay high prices, they can get cotton from Egypt, from China, and, above all, from their own India. The stock of cotton of all growths at Liver pool August 17, as reported by the Asia, was 944,360 bales, The amount afloat was variously computed from 200,000 to 300,000 bales, the . bulk of which was India cotton. The English spinners as a class are heavy capitalists, and work usual- ly only for orders for goods contracted for, which they cover to @ great extent by the pur- chase of the raw material. The average stock held by them, without @ great disturbing cause like the present rebellion, is six weeks’ con- sumption. By working half time after this date they can make their stock last till June next, In previous years, in September or October, we have seen many cotton circulars proving that on the Ist of January ensuing there would not be a pound of. cotton at Liverpool; but when the time arrived there was always a good busi- ness stock of 300,000 to 400,000 bales on hand, and manufacturers not pressed. The European spinners have bad ample time to trim their bark to the gale, and it will be found that they have done so, and that it is the American grower alone who will suffer. Even on this continent the culture of the plant is not altogether in the control of the States of the Southern confederacy. It is pro- duced at Nicaragua, and can be to a far greater extent. On this point we publish two letters, One of them is from the Nicaraguan Consul at London, who says, in allusion to thirty bales of cotton which had just arrived in London from Nicaragua, being the first exported from that country:—This cotton was grown by the natives, and Mr. Hart is, by the government of Nicaragua, authorized to state that it has a great desire to see British industry directed to the cultivation of cotton in that part; and it will “make a free and liberal grant of land in the republic to those persons who may be desirous of establishing themselves in the State for the purpose of cotton growing.” We have no doubt that numerous enterprising Britishers will accept the offer. That the soil is eminent- ly suited to the growth of cotton, Mr. Dickin- son, our Minister to Nicaragua, bears testimony. He says:—*The soil is good beyond description for the growth of cotton, * * * * Tam satisfied, from what Ihave learned by inquiry and observation, that cotton can be grown to great advantage in this country. I saw the gin at work at the establishment of Messrs. Russell & Fitzgerald, in Chinandega, cleaning what I regarded as an excellent quality of cotton. They are Americans, who intend plantiag one hundred acres themselves this season, and are giving away to others all the seed that is wanted for planting. North Americans can labor here and teach the inhabitants how to cultivate the soil and raise cotton enough to supply the United States and most of the rest of the world without slave labor. I very much doubt whether there can be found upon the face of the globe a soil and climate which are better adapted to its growth than the soil and climate of Nicaragua.” We may add that Jamaica and Hayti are both capable of producing the plant in perfection. Cotton from Hayti has brought fourteen cents per pound in the New York market, and it is of that choice kind called ihe Sea Island, produced on the sea coast of South Carolina and Georgia. In Nicaragua and in Hayti two crops are pro- duced in the year, and the plant is perennial, instead of annyal, as it is in the Southern States, on account of the winter frost. It is not neces- sary to plant the seed every year, as in Ala- bama or Louisiana, nor is the plant liable, as in the Southern States, to be destroyed by spring frosts while growing. It is estimated that the cotton grounds of Hayti are capable of produc- ing four times as much of the staple as the entire produce of our slave States.. Spain has thus secured her prize at the right moment, when the-sceptre is falling from the hand of the cotton king of the South. And when we turn to the Old World what do we find? That Egypt is admirably adapted to the growth of cotton, and that its government is encouraging British immigration there with a view to the extensive cultivation of the plant, and in order to cement the interests of Egypt with those of England. Egypt is essentially necessary to England as a means of communi- cation with her Indian possessions, and the cul- ture of cotton on a large scale in Egypt would make England and Egypt mutual customers— the one for the raw material, the other for the manufactured article. Mr. Haywood, agent of the Cotton Supply Association, reports that the export in 1860 was 142,759 bales, showing an increase in four yearg of 51,187 bales. He adds, that it appears to him that there is scarcely any limits to the produc: tive powers of the country. Other parts o Africa are known to be equally well suited to the growth of the plant, But it is from Asia that England will derive her chief supply. China grows cotton in vast quantity, and by cultivating a trade with her in the manufactured article—a trade which, considering the population, would be immense— the British manufacturers may obtain as much of the plant as they desive from “ the Central Flowery Land.” it is with India, however, that England has the most direct interest in dealing, and from that country she will be able to obtain cotton to any amount, while she supplies the colony with the manufactured ar- ticle suited io*the climate. There is no longer any qnestion as to a supply of cotton. It is only now a question of price. While the Union remained intact, aud the American supply was not interfered with hy war, it was the cheapest and the most rapid, while the quality was the best, and thus it obtained a preference. Bui now that the péice fs broken, and war gtops the supply for the present and renders it uncertain for the future, Snglan determined to open up other sources of supply, and the South may loses a customer ty the amount u! nearly $20,000,000 perannua. For that custom “india is the fa. vorite candidate,” says an organ of british opinion, “agi gombines, on the whole, the | couse gf tbe ait greatest number of recommendations. India possesses all the requisite conditions of soil, climate, cheap labor and practised industry.” The Hindoos have nothing to learn in the cult ture of the plant, for they have cultivated it from time immemorial, and fifty years ago they gave England more cotton than did the United States; but in the cleaning of it they are not so expert as Americans. And then the enormous cost of conyeying it to port has kept it out of competi- tion with the American staple; but a system of railroads is about to be established through the interior of the country, which will remedy this dificulty and open to Great Britain the wealth of her Eastern empire. It thus appears that England begins to feel that she can do without Southern cotton; and, in the language of the London Times, “if the civil war should last another year the cotton trade will probably be revolutionized, and with it the fortunes and destinies of States.” The Abolition Hounds Again Upon the Heels of the Administration. The public are familiar with the recent course of the abolition agitators, and well remembet that they, through their journals, led off by the Tribune and Times of this city, hounded the ad- ministration with their cry of “Onwa##d to Rich- mond” until they actually forced our army into the trap set for them at Manassas Junction, re- sulting in a complete rout, attended with enor- mous sutfering and great loss of life. Not satis- fied with the injury that they have thus inflicted upon the Union cause and that of their country, we again find them at their old tricks, bent upon ruining the army, precipitating the entire coun- try into anarchy, and destroying the hopes of the Unionists everywhere, They have, it is true, changed their tack, but are laboring for the Same result by incessantly calling upon the ad- ministration to adopt the war cry of slavery emancipation. Thus Greeley, who exhibited great penitence over the injury that he had done by bis “Onward to Richmond” cry, published his confession; but while the contents of that card are yet fresh in the public mind, he, in connection with the Times, starts out, first with masked batteries, but finally openly, and. both are now strenuously laboring to force the autho- rities at Washington to inscribe upon the ban- ners of our armies the watchword “Emanci- pation.” Ever since the formal secession of South Ca- rolina, down through the adoption f that heresy by eleven of the Southern States, the demoraliz- ing rout at Manassas, and even to the present time, the Tribune has been putting forth every effort within its power to bring about the total destruction of our ship of State, with its pre- cious cargo; adroitly advocating the doctrine of secession, or in favor of letting the cotton States go by themselves, until public opinion rebelled against such injurious policy; then de- nouncing all compromise, and laboring to pre- vent the Peace Conference from adopting any compromise measure that would prevent th® border States from seceding and virtually con- fine the war to the remote Southern or cotton States. We next find the same journal and its incendiary co-laborers taking a long step in the same ruinous path by uniting in the cry “Down with the administration,” and demanding 2 mili- tary dictator. Failing in this bloodthirsty programme, their columns were filled for months with bitter denunciations of Gene- ral Scott and the President and their “Onward to Richmond” cry, until our army took up its march and found its Manassas; and now, not satisfied with the disasters and shame brought upon the country, they are en- deavoring to prepare another Manassas, not only for the army, but the government, by their emancipation appeals. Still clinging to the Chicago platform—the rubbish of the past— they are belching forth their heresy, first in masked batteries and then without any disguise, and are to-day pursuing a policy a thousandfold more injurious to the true interests of the Union than their secession arguments, military dictator appeals or “Onward to Richmond” clamor all combined, In the controversy now going on between Greeley and Weed on the part that each played during the labors of the Peace Convention at Washington, we find Greeley falsifying his own record, and still unwilling to learn wisdom from the bitter experience of the past. In Tuesday's Tribune Greeley announced that “we wish it dis- tinetly and forever held in remembrance that the Tribune believes in the principles enunciated in the Chicago platform”’—evidently unable yet to comprehend the fact that in the rapid changes and the enormous revolutions that have swept over the country since last No- vember, we have, as @ nation, travelled fully a century, and that the famous Chicago platform is among the exploded ideas of the past, and belongs, aa it were, to another century from that in which we are living at the present time. Weed, with statesmanlike sagacity, saw long be- fore the inauguration of Lincoln that the success of the republican party had swept from exis- tence that platform; be therefore advocated con- cession, that the civil war, then inevitable, might be confined to the cotton States. Greeley, on the other hand, declaring the Chicago platform his Alpha and Omega, advocated secession rather than the abandonment of one plank, the destruction of the constitution and the Union, before he would depart one iota from the party creed laid down at Chicago. He labored inces- santly against all concessions and compromises by the Peace Convention, although at that time the compromise proposed would not call for the sbandonment of a single party creed, for Con- gress had already organized all the territory without regard to the slavery question, and had left the entire question within the territorial limits to be settled by the people of the Terri- tories. The vision of Greeley is still at this late day befogged by the Chicago plat- form, and he only the other day asserted that “had the lead of the latter (Weed) been fol- lowed, and the republicans, having elected a President on the distinct gfourid of hostility to the extension of slavery, consented and be- come parties to such extension, no language could have measured the depths of their in- famy.” The concessions, advocated by Weed and those who acted with him contemplated ne ex. tension of slavery, for, as we have already shown, that subject had already been disposed of by placing it in the hands of the people of the T The Tribune does not seem to realize that the Aimighty, in fixing the climate and the productions of the soil, established slavery with stronger bounds thap human laws, but, uniting with some fifty odd ultra meinkers of Congress, it defeated all com- promise, and thus virtually placed the theatre of the war in inia and Missouri, The oly QL copsot ia plainly and emphatically stated in the Lvening Journal in the following words:—* It (Tribune) invited secession; it encouraged the Gulf States to rebel; it declared that when the people of five or six States made up their mind pretty unani- mously to go out of the Union there was no power to prevent them doing so; and, having settled the question in its arrogant and dictatorial manner that they had a right to se- cede, it followed up the work of disunion in successful efforts to drive the border States out with them.” This statement is conclusively proved by reference to the Tribune files. This is the journal that, when it had driven as many States as possible into the so called Southern confederacy, cried “Down with the administration” of its own choice, assisted in driving our army into its Manassas, and is now, urging the war cry of emancipation of slaves Its emancipation banner is but another degree of its abolition heresy so long and so persistent” ly advovated until the country is plunged into ® war, and our government is obliged to main- tain the Union by force of arms, if at all. We trust that the administration has learned, by adopting the “Onward to Richmond” clamor, not to heed this last disunion and anarchical cry of the incendiary press, Should they again yield, a worse than Manassas awaits them. A proclamation of emancipation, in the langua:e ot the World, “would bring sure and irretriey- able defeat from the day on which it was pro- mulgated.” Two-thirds of the army would refuse to march another step or serve an- other day in such a crusade. None but abolitionists would enlist, our capitalists would cease to furnish means, and there would be a fearful’ revolutionary party started at the North. It would, in fact, plunge the country into a general anarchy. Our readers can readi- ly see that this is only in keeping with the en- tire programme of the abolition agitators and their press for the last nine months, and can be clearly traced through all the stages of the pre- sent national troubles. Let us hope that the. government will look upon all such appeals as only another disunion dodge, and proceed steadily, energetically and faithfully to restore the Union to its former peace and harmony by putting down the armed rebels of the Soutif and their abolition allies of the North, Another Missionary Broil at Constanti- nople. Elsewhere will be found a remonstrance from the pastor of the Armenian Protestant church at Constantinople against certain mis- statements of the American missionaries. It was originally addressed to the editor of the 0b- server—a religious paper published here—who refused to publish it, because “it would create a commotion in the religious world.” We can easily appreciate the motives of our contempo- rary, a8 well as of the other religious journals which were unwilling to admit the document into their columns, for that religio-politico close corporation designated the A. B. C.F. M. is already much embarassed by the condition of the country, and can ill afford to have any in- quiry instituted into the conduct and doings of itsagents abroad. Hence the religious press cannot publish any reports save those made by the missionaries of their own operations. But we, not being in the same category, feel our- selves at liberty to promulgate such intelligence to the Christian public as it is important for them to know, and the more particularly from the great interest which it must possess for those who have already seceded from the A.B. C.F. M. Sometime ago we published the history of this Board of Missions, whose original pro- gramme was the conversion of the heathen populations to Christianity. But after having maintained agents abroad for many years with little success, the field of operations was trans- ferred to the semi-civilized, or, in cant phraseo- logy, to the “nominal Christians” of the East. The Greeks proved but stumbling blocks and rocks of offence to them; the Armenians, on the contrary, received the missionaries with friendship, so that their efforts were not without success among the latter people. But the ultra fanatics, as usual, insisted upon extremes—the work should be not that of enlightenment and civilization, but of absolute propagandism and proselytism; consequently a schism was created in the Armenian church, a small portion of which was induced to secede, under the deno- mination of Protestant Armenians. Some of these organized a church in Pera, near Con- stantinople, and not being able to complete the funds for the erection of an edifice, the pastor was sent to Europe and America to collect mo- ney. He was well received in Prussia and England, and was assured that efforts would be made in his behalf. He then cdme to America, as was announced in our columns at the time. But when the missionaries, notwithstanding their recommendations, perceived that the Christian public were much interested in the cause which the Armenian pastor was advocat- ing, they began to fear that the patronage which might be extended to this church would render it independent of their own Jurisdiction, A message was despatched by the missionaries at Constantinople to the Board to inform the pas- tor and the public that all the money had been collected in Prussia. The consequence was that the pastor was obliged to return home empty handed. The report about Prussia proved to be entirely unfounded, and the mis- sionaries, with a view to put a quietus upon the matter, endeavored to disparage the Pera church ia the estimation of the American Chris- tians, and thus elicited the remonstrance which we publish. Everybody knows that the spirit of domina- tion is inherent to humanity, and manifests itself in the clergy as well as inthe laity. Hence the former often degenerate into flerce politi- cians and adroit intriguers. It will be remem” bered how audaciously and successfully they bullied and contradicted our present Secretary of State in the affair of the Syrian contributions, in order that, the funds passing through the hands of the missionaries at Beyrout, their in- fluence might be enhanced over the people. Moreover, in order to further their own designs, these missionaries do not hesitate to involve our diplomatic representatives and consular agents in their proselyting schemes, nor to advise the government who are the “improper” and who the “proper” persons to represent us abroad, They have even had the modesty to ask for a man-of-war to sustain them. The truth is, these men, relying upon Christian enthusiasm for their support, believe that they can throw dust into the eyes of all the world. instead of being heralds of peace, they have sown discord wherever ihey bave gone, and are now reaping confusion. lf it is desirable that Mabomedanism should be superseded by Christianity, it can only be eitected through the Christian populations—not by dividing them into sectarian qigues, and setting one against the other, like a house vided against itself, but by elevating the m and intellectual tone of these communities. this way the errors of their faith and practi if such there be, will correct themselves—no by assimilating them to the Puritanical notio: of the Western world, but by harmonizing the: with the spirit of their own institations and ciaforganization. B Lessons from the English Journals. ¥ We have lately published a number of ex: tracts from the leading English journals, ill trative of the opinions entertained in Englan upon the civil war now progressing in th country. We referto them again because the; contain some very useful lessons for us, and because we should never be above carrying out that old and wise maxim of learning some- thing even from an enemy. There is both @ great deal of enmity and a great deal to learn in these extracts. | And first, as regards our blockade of Sonth/ ern ports—or our coast guard, as it may b more properly called. The English govern; ment organ authoritatively contradicts the port current here that Admiral Milne hus d clared the blockade ineffectual. In the sam article, however, it virtually admits that w have the right—hitherto strenuously denied u of closing such of our ports as we please, for, it says, “if the blockade be effectual, the first principles of public law tell us that we must obey with a good grace, however disagreeable, the restriction may be for one great staple of British industry and British wealth.” It pro- tests, however, against the Am»rivan cour' condemning foreign vessels for running a pape: blockade, and asserts that our allowing privar! teers to passin and out of Southern harbors! must eventually nullify our right to close the ports to merchant vessels... Letthe government} learn, then, to make our coast guard effectual, as we have repeatedly urged, and there will bel no danger of English, French or other fleets vio+ lating “the first principles of public law” by tempting to open any Southern port. Whil we take this necessary precaution against foreign war, however, we must neither overlook) nor forget the animus which prompts the English government to impose upon us restrictions which have never Leda applied to any other nation. No blockade has ever been made effectual in the sense which the English now insist upon, for blockading sailing ves- sels are driven from their posts by stress of weather, and steamers are obliged to leave either for the same reason or for supplies of coal. Nevertheless blockades thus “ ineffi- ciently” maintained have always before been recognized as valid, and even China was al- lowed to close its ports by “paper” edicts, Fortune will turn her wheel some fine day, and when England becomes lowermost these impo- sitions may be recalled to her recollection in a manner more severe than pleasant. What is sauce for the American goose will be sauce for) the English gander. | The journal which professes to lead the Eng-} lish press indulges in a defence of its peel dent here. It is gratifying to know that, even in! England, the LL. D.’s conduct seems to need a defence; but we cannot congratulate him either upon its tone or its conclusion. It appeals te his letters from the Crimea and from India,| when the statements of these letters are now. universally known to be exaggerated and un- true, and when libel suits have been instituted upon them, and verdicts obtained against the journal which published them; and it declares that LL. D. must speak the truth, because he has so often declared himself wrong—he has “avowed himself to be mistaken or misinform- ed.” Let us learn from this how much reliance , should be placed upon his correspondence from this country, and how little we ought to re gard either his praise or his abuse. This de- fence, moreover, recommends Americans to adopt “a less positive, less provoking, less domineering tone” in the discussion of their dif- | ferences, and this recommendation we cordially endorse. Hard words, abuse and misrepresen- | tation have had a great deal to do with origi- | nating our present troubles, and can never set- tle them. Our Congressmen, officials, politi- | cians and fanatical organs should “read and in- | wardly digest” these remarks. Thesame journal declares, in another articles | that “it is impossible to avoid reflecting that the | division of the Union into two great States may | relieve us from many of the troubles with | which we were menaced by the overbear- | ing policy of the old federal govern- | |) ment;” that “the theories attributing im- | | measurable superiority to republican forms of government have all been falsified in the plain- | est and most striking manner;” that our govern- ment has been “extravagantly eulogized for the very qualities of which it is now proved to” be utterly destitute,” and that Englishmen “may congratulate” themselves “that the old British constitution has not been precipitately remodel- ed after a Manchester design.” This blow is | aimed not 0 directly at usas at John Bright } and his school; but, like one who watchesa quarrel between friends, we may see the weak points of both of the adversaries clearly dis- | played. Here, in these extracts, we find acknow- ledged what we have all along contended was the moving principle of the animosity of (be English government against the Union cause, viz:—the jealousy of the English aristocracy against democracy at home or abroad. } The aristocracy saw the influence which a | — great republic like our own was having | throughout monarchical Europe. We began, throngh the John Bright school, to mould Eng- | land into a republic just as England has begun transform ‘Austria into a constitutional mo- narchy. Our influence began to be feared, and, first slavery agitation and then the cotton in- | ~ terest were invoked to destroy and suppress it These, acting upon different minds with the same result, succeeded in provoking a civil i war here, and then came the proposals for the © recognition of a Southern confederacy. That secured, and democratic freedom was strangled and monarchy had a new lease of life. Could any programme be devised with more devilish cunning? It will fail, however. We are fighting the | cause of the world’s freedom, and we must sue ceed. In vain correspondents here may wrie lying letters discouraging to the North, In vain English capitalists may be warned agniast ia vesting in our stocks. In vain the Southern confederacy may he recognized by the Ei, press, The American people will show tia world that they have not been praised falsely that they deserve the blessings they have ea- joyed; that if a democracy cannot avert, it can at least survive the evils which it saves in com- mon with all human systems of power. Then, once more united, our influence will be again felt, ond much song strongly for ike temporary