The New York Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1861, Page 4

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THE SITUATION. s The information as to the death of Jefferson Davis accumulates to an extent that leaves little doubt of his decease. Special despatches from Louisville, Ky., were received by our correspon" dents in Washington yesterday, confirming the news. Intelligence had reached Louisville from For- tress Monroe that Mr. Davis was dead, and that the rebel flags inthat vicinity had been fiying at half- mast for the past two or three days. Parties who arrived from Richmond state that the probability of his speedy demise was canvassed freely in that city on Saturday, and we learn, by way of Nash- ville, that the rebel Congress, which had adjourned on that night in consequence of the precarious con- dition of Mr. Davis, has since been called together by Mr. Stephens, the Vice President. AN these facts tend strongly to confirm the rumor of the de- cease of Mr. Davis. Great excitement prevailed in Washington yester- day in anticipation of a great battle, which was confidently expected as an inevitable necessity on the part of the rebels. There is a general belief existing there that a serious conflict will take place to-day, and that the rebels will sustain a severe repulse—the perfect condition of Gen. McClellan's army warranting that anticipation. It is reported, and we believe with truth, that General Beauregard’s army is suffering terribly Jrom measles, which is decimating the camps. We perceive that Secretary Chase has returned to Washington from his visit to Philadelphia, and expresses himself delighted with the promptitude and patriotism of the merchants of that city in taking their share of the national loan. Indeed, in all quarters the people seem to respond most cor- dially to the application of the government. Reports from North Carolina indicate an extra- ordinary reaction in that State. The Union feeling is said to be gaining ground rapidly, one half of the voting population being Union men. It is said that the North Carolina troops in Virginia have been recalled since the capture of Fort Hatteras, that two brigades of Union troops have been organized, that Union leagues have been formed all over the State, and that a provisional State government will be inaugurated within afew months. If all this be true, it is evident that North Carolina is disgusted with the conduct of the war and is getting tired of rebellion. In fact the news of the capture of Fort Hatteras has had a most depressing effect on the rebel army. The South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama regiments, who were pushing on towards Virginia, have re- ceived orders to stop and proceed to Newbern, North Carolina, to protect the coast. ' Itseems exceedingly probable that the fate of the renowned privateer Sumter will soon follow the Jeff. Davis by falling into the hands of our squad- We learn that letters were found ina prize recaptured by the frigate Powhattan, stating that the Sumter was gone to Porto Bello, on the coast of Venezuela in search of coal, having run out of that indispensable commodity. The Powhatan has fol- Jowed her to that port, and if she has not succeed- ed in getting her supply and clearing out she stands a bad chance from the guns of the Powhatan. It would be a singular coincidence if these two most should have to succumb almost at the same time—one by wreck and the other by capture. ron. vexatious privateers THE NEWS. ‘The mails of the Arabia reached this city yester- day from Boston, bringing us European journal of the 24th of August, Mr. Russell's Washington letter, of the 10th of Angnst, to the London Times with a very important letter from one of our own correspondents in Paris, appear in the Heraup this morning. Our Berlin correspondent shows that the import and export trade of the has fallen off thirteen per cent in r come, when compared with that of 1859, in conse- quence of the civil war in America. The Prussian courts of justice are to issue “sea passes” to mer- chantmen trading to North America, in the hope that the rebel privateers will respect such protec: tion papers, as did the Algerine pirates and Bur- bary corsairs of former days. Immediately upon the reassembling of the Demo- cratic State Convention at Syracuse, yesterday Dorning, a motion to reconsider the vote of the day revious, on the resolution admitting the Mozart | and Tammany delegates equally, was made. A warm and spirited debate ensued, when the @hair decided that the ¢elegates from New York ad no right to speak or vote on the question. An | appeal from this decision was taken, and the Chair was sustained by a vote of 142 to 62. After a long debate the Convention refused to lay the subject on the table by a vote of 91 to 112. The Conven- tion then refused to hear Mr. McMasters, of the New York Freeman’s Journal, speak, and ordered the main question, thus effectually sealing the lips of the so-called peace men, The Convention reconsidered the . resolution admitting both branches of New York dele- gates by a vote of 114 yeas to 87 nays, rejected the substitute, adopted on Wednesday, admitting both sets of delegates, and finally admitted the Tam- many delegation alone. Whereupon the Mozarters withdrew, held a meeting, and adjourned to meet in New York, to draw up a protest against the ac- tion of the Convention. The Convention then adopted a series of resolutions having special refer- ence to the rebellion, which we give in our report of the proceedings, and nominated the following ticket for State officers:— Secretary of State—D. R. Floyd Jones, of Queens, ‘wee of Appeals—George F, Comstock, of Comptroller—George F. Scott, of Saratoga. Attorney General—Lyman Tremaine, rasurer—Francis E. Brouck, of Erie, Canal Commissioners—Sarvis B. Lord, of Mon- Troe, and W, W. Wright, of Ontario. State Prison Inspector—Wm. C. Rhodes, of New York. The steamship Glasgow, from Liverpool on the 21st and Queenstown on the 22d of August, reached this port early yesterday morning, bringing the mails and passengers of the disabled steamer Etna, $84,600 in specie, and files of European papers to her day of sailing. When the Glasgow left Ireland the Etna was to be towed to Liverpool for repairs. The news of the Glasgow is antici- pated. At last accounts Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the bogus confederacy, was at Ma- nassas attending a sick brother, who is Lieutenant Colonei of one of the Georgia regiments. The following sums were in the different deposi- tories and branch mints of the United States in the seceded States at the time those States rebelled, and were stolen from the government:— New Orleans. Richmond. Norfolk... Wilmington, N. Savannah..... Mobile. .. Little Rock, Ark Tallahassee, Fla. os Charlotte, N. . (branch mint) Dahlonega, Geo. (branch mint). . Total... «$718,998 We published some days since the announcement that the rebels had seized a hundred thousand dol- lars in specie belonging to the Fayette branch of the Bank of Missouri, and subsequently another announcement that the money had been restored. The secret of the restoration is, that the stock of the Fayette Branch Bank is owned almost entirely by secessionists, and the rebels had been robbing their own friends. The rebels in Richmond gay that the near ap- proach of the inclement and frosty season admo- nishes them that they must have winter quarters, and they have settled upon Baltimore as the place affording the proper facilities for them to locate during the cold months, At last accounts they had not yet arrived in that city. Hon, Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, has written a long letter in opposition to the proposition of aban- doning the republican party and establishing a new organization. Joshua is opposed to ignoring the question of slavery. He says it has been the life- giving element of all parties, and should not now be cast aside when the abolition work is but half completed. The republican party, he thinks, ison the right track for the ultimate establishment of freedom for the nigger, and it should be pushed along to the consummation of that idea, Joshua is an abolition brick. The address of the ‘‘peace”’ party in Kentucky is very particular in requesting the person to whom the address is sent to ‘‘report the strength” of the “neutrality” men in the place in which he is lo- cated. It is said that the Secretary of War, at the com- mencement of the battle of Bull run, implored a certain Pennsylvania regiment to “strike for their homes,” and they did so at the rate of ten miles an hour. Two Union no-party State Conventions were held yesterday—one in Columbus, Ohio, and the other in St. Paul, Minnesota. A steamboat in course of construction at Pitts- burg, Penn., for Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, has been seized by the United States authorities under the Confiscation act, Mr. Bell has paid about, five thousand dollars on the contract, Dan Rice,.the showman, is stumping the West- ern States, outside of his menagerie, in favor of the Union cause. He addressed a meeting at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on the 28theult. The Goyernor of Vermont has appointed the 26th of September asa day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, This is the day appointed by the Presi- dent for the same object. Since 1844 there has been but one summer (1854) in which so little rain has fallen as during the sea” son just closed, and but two summers (1857 and 1859) in which there was not a greater average of hi “the Board of Councilmen did not hold a meeting last evening, a majority of the members being ab- sent at the Democratic Convention. They will positively meet on Mcnday. The weekly statement of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction presented yester- day shows that 2,205 persons were admitted to the institutions during the week ending August31, and the whole number remaining there on that date was 8,257—a decrease of 83 on the preceding week. In the General Sessions yesterday Samuel Ed- wards pleaded guilty to stealing $53 worth of cloth- ing from Michael Brady on the 18th of August, and was sent to tho State prison for two years. John Anderson, indicted for burglary in the first degree, in breaking into the dwelling house of Nathan B. Graham, 21 Washington square, on the night of the 7th of August, pleaded guilty to an attempt to com. mit the offence. He stole $500 worth of property, but was arrested that night by officer Conway. The Recorder sent him to the State prison for five years. Robert McConnell alias McCullough, hay- ing broken into the store of Richard Knoner, 310 West street, on the 17th of August, pleaded guilty to burglary in the third degree, and was sent to the Sing Sing prison for three years. George Ed- wards was convicted of forging an order for sumach, purporting to have been signed by John O'Neal, and addressed to James Morgan & Co. He was remanded for sentence. The cotton market was again firm yesterday, and more active. The sales embraced about 3,000 bales, closing ou the basis of 2c. a 22%4c. for middling uplands, Owing to ligtit receipts, from some interruption in canal naviga- tion, shipping lots of State and Western brands of flour, including extra Stato, were better, while the demand for export was fair, Wheat was firm for good shipping lots, while sales were tolerably active. ‘The export demand for Liverpool was lees active, while prices were sustained mainly by the demand for the Continent. Corn was firm and active with fair sales for eastern ports, and for exports at full prices. Pork was dull and y, with sales of mess at $14 a $14 12), and of prime at 975 a $10. ‘The govern” ment contract for 1,500 bbls, mess was taken at $15. Sugars wero firm and active, with sales of 3,500 hhds., 1,300 boxes, and 180 hhas, Mel io at rates given in another column. ‘Tho Messrs. Stuart's prices for theip Fefined goods are given in another place, Coffee wag steady, wit of 2,200 bags Rio at Ie. a 16¢., in- cluded in which were 1,200 bags at the latter figure Freights—engagements were checked by light receipts, Rates to Liverpool were rather easier, and firm to ton. don, whilo to the Continent they wore unchanged and in fair demand. The Death of Jefferson Davii Probable Consequences. Our latest telegraphic advices from Louis- ville, Washington and Fortress Monroe, as- sure us positively of the death of Jefferson Davis, Provisional President, or Dictator rather, of our rebellious Confederate States. Consider- ing that his health has been in a very shattered condition for several years, and considering his extraordinary labors, anxieties and exhausting excitements of the last five months, we were not only prepared to believe the report of his death, but we think it somewhat remarkable that he Was not carried off three or four months ago. Assuming that he has at length gone the way of all the earth, the first question suggested is: what will be the effect of his loss to the bad cause of this Southern rebellion? We think that the loss of Davis at this time will be more serious to the rebel cause than would have been the defeat of Beauregard at Bull run. Davis was the man of all the aspiring leaders of the South for the post of Provisional Dictator of the rebel States. Educated as a soldier at West Point, his conduct at the battle of Buena Vista rendered him exceed- ingly popular throughout the South as a mili- tary chieftain. His subsequent prominent career as a Southern partisan leader in the United States Senate, and in the Cabinet of poor Pierce, as his Secretary of War, and again as the anointed champion of the Mississippi dis unionists in the Senate at Washington, had given him a character in the cotton States for statesmanship and administrative talents fully up to the standard of his military reputation. Thus combining the practical training and knowledge and popularity of the regular sol- dier with a very large experience as a fire- eating politician, legislator and executive civil officer, State and federal, Davis was the very man required as the provisional head of this desperate experimental Southern confederacy: Self-conceited, self-willed, arrogant and des- potice, we have in these peculiarities of Davis the very qualities which, of all ethers; were most needful to enable him to give force and authority to his position as President of the Confederate States. He was invested with this office because of these very qualities, and because the crude, loose and irresponsible embryo government of which he was the chief, and the exigencies of the armed rebellion with which it was associated, demanded a dictator. He was named the President, but the few men who thus appointed him expected him and aided him to assume the powers of an absolute despot. Thus we can account for the wonderful mili- tary energy, activity and resources brought into the field by the rebel States. They have been called into requisition by Davis, the abso- lute despot of the new confederation. We anti- cipate the question: was he not subject to the laws of the Confederate Congress? by answer- ing that that Congress, consisting of only one house of from twenty to thirty self-appointed disunion managers, was nothing more than the obedient corps legislatif of the Southern Dicta- tor. They legislated according to his will; and all his subordinates, military and civil, were taught, before appointed, the necessity of absolute obedience to their chief. Our read- ers will thus comprehend to some extent the loss to the rebel cause of this man Davis, with his great popularity, his abilities and indus- trious habits, his unbounded authority and his dictatorial character. With the decease of Davis, Alexander H. Stephens—a superior debater and politician, although a jaundiced, dried up and very feeble little man, of about ninety pounds in weight—succeeds to the office of Provisional President of the rebel States. For the paramount duties of this office—those of dictator of the rehel armies—Stephens, we ap- prehend, is no better qualified than is Horace Greeley to stand in the shoes of General Scott. Stephens is an able lawyer, an able stump speaker, a skilful, intriguing politician, and, withal,a man of strikingly conservative ante- cedents, opposing to the last gasp the secession of Georgia. But this is not the man to hold the helm of this Southern rebellion. He is not the man to hold in check the rival political fac- tions and the rival ambitious military chiefs starting up in the rebel States. To be sure the provisional term of Davis and Stephens ex- pires in February, when a rebel President and Vice President are to be regularly elected; but this interval to February under Stephens, or under anybody else, will probably break down the whole concern. Such men as R. Barnwell Rhett, of South Carolina, or ex-Senator Mason, of Vir ginia, could play the Southern Dictator with a will, but not with the comprehen- sive abilities and graceful condescension of Davis. Stephens has not been trained to recognise the superior blessings of a des- potism of any sort; and we may, therefore, ex” pect to find him unequal to the squabbling chiefs and ferocious factions of the rebel camp. And so we think that the loss of Davis will be more serious than the loss of a great battle to the rebel cause. If gone to his final accounts the strange coincidence of his death with the total wreck of the dashing privateer bearing his name will have its effect upon the impressi- ble public mind of the South. In connection, too, with the late disasters to the rebels in the field, and the manifest hopelessness of their sinking cause, the loss of Davis, among many of his followers, would be accepted as a judg- ment of Providence. and Its Crean Suirts aT A Premium Amona THE Re- Bers.—The following, from the Memphis Argus of August 25, is a somewhat suggestive official proclamation:— To Te Cinzexs oF Mewry Applications hay ecutive officer of the city, for pro partics who are sent out Lo impress citiz i against their will on steamboats. Many of these me have been dragged from their beds, wives and children, but never has there been a man taken who had on a clean shirt. Thereby notify any citizen who may wish a pass within the city of Memphis to call on me, and I will fur- nish the same, and will see he will be protected. One poor man being shot yesterday by one of these outlaws, as they may be called, causes me to give the above notice. JOHN PARK, Mayor. Avast 24, 1861. “Indiscreet parties” one would surely judge them to be, who, being sent out to kidnap and “impress citizens into service on steamboats,” drag many of them “from their beds, wives and children.” But the Mayor thinks it worthy of special note that “never has there been a man taken who had on a clean shirt.” All this, however, might have been tolerated but for the shooting of a poor man “by one of these out- laws, as they may be called.” Mayor Park touched this appropriate epithet somewhat gin- gerly, and doubtless is himself one of those who is careful, even in his bed, to be clothed in a clean shirt. What a delightful place to live in is Memphis, Tennessee, under the perfect anarchy of secession which her people now enjoy! Past Victories and Future Energy: There has been a great deal of rejoicing at the recent victory at Hatteras Inlet, and a dis- position to magnify it beyond its just propor- tions. There have been also loud congratula- tions on the notes of warlike preparation from Maryland to Missouri. It may be all very well to rejoice at past success, or at the prospects of it for the future; and there is- no doubt that the Hatteras victory is very good as far as it goes, provided the fruits of it are secured, and that the advantage is promptly and vigorously followed up by other achievements. It must be said, however, as a drawback to the capture of the Hatteras forts, that there is no reason why it should not have been done three months ago. The government and the officer in chief command of the navy were a long time coming to the point that the forts at Hatteras Inlet could be successfully assailed. The necessity existed in May last as much as now, and the re- sult would have been far more beneficial. Perhaps in that case no Bull run defeat would have tarnished the federal arms, and the cause of the Union might have been in a very diffe- rent position from what itis to-day. We had then men, and money, and guns, and ammuni- tion, and vessels of war, or if we had not enough of ships, they were offered to the go- vernment by merchants of this city and refused. Now that the ice has been broken, and something creditable in a naval way accomplished at last, let us not delay to make too much _self-glorifi- cation about it, but proceed at once to other and greater achievements by sea and by land- There is much to be done and a short time to do it, unless it is resolved to make the war in- terminable. As for the vigorous preparations of General McClellan, and the discipline and order by which he is moulding a mere military mob into an army, the country and the government have reason to rejoice that events have brought out such a military leader. We have every con- fidence in his ability and vigor. But it must be confessed that there is evidence of great want of skill and energy in Western Virginia and Missouri, otherwise there would not be so many repulses and disastrous retrograde move- ments. The true path to victory and to a speedy termination of the war is down the Mis- sissippi, and in order to a successful expedition in that direction Fremont ought to be vigorously supported by men and money, and arms and munitions of war. The conquest of Missouri and the reduction of Kentucky, if she will not take her place as a loyal State in the Union, are the first steps and necessary preliminaries to the descent of the Mississippi. Red tape must be laid aside, and circum- locution and all discussions about who ought to be retained in the Cabinet, who turned out, and who to succeed the ejected be abandoned. Instead of wasting time in debating and squabbling about army and navy contracts—whether Cameron’s friend, or Seward’s, or Chase’s, or Welles’ is to get this fat job, or that or the other—the Cabinet as a unit ought to rise to the height of the great crisis by which the existence of the Union is jeopardized, and come directly to the question of its preservation with a single purpose to do or die. The system of government founded by our ancestors is on its trial before the world; democracy itself trembles in the balance, and mankind are viewing with deep interest the conilict which is to decide the question whether the American people are capable of self-govern- ment, or whether they must fall back upon the worn out systems of military despotism which control the destinies of Europe, or, what would be still more deplorable, degenerate into the perennial disorder, barbarism and bloody an- archy which have characterized the history of Mexico for the last forty years. A Desonate Crry or THE Sovrn.—We have had concurrent accounts from various quarters going to show the desolation which this mad Southern rebellion has brought upon her greatest mart of commerce, the city of New Orleans. The article which we publish else- where, embodying the statements of a merchant of that city, entirely corroborates all that we had formerly learned in that respect. Trade and commerce are at a standstill; no inward or outward bound vessels pass the mouth of the M ppi, unless it be a sneaking pr or an insignificant coaster that may escape in a fog or storm; cotton bales and sugar hogsheads are not, as in former times, piled upon the broad levee, but are kept on the plantations, lest they should fall into the hands of the national forces; the streets are so deserted that the Picayune perpetrates the dismal joke of recommending them to the attention of some industrious scytheman; the payment of rents is regarded as an antiquated absurdity, and the citizens generally are quaking in terror over the idea of a visitation from the national fleet. New Orleans once enjoyed the reputaton of being’a loyal city, and it is even still believed that the adoption of the ordinance of secession by Louisiana was attained through fraud at the ballot boxes, and against the will of her citizens, That may be or may not be so. If New Orleans had proved equal to the high commercial posi- tion which she held as the second port of the United States, no frauds or violence per- petrated by traitors could have made her lend herself to their objects or adopt their thieving principles. By doing so she brought upon her- self her present desolation, and richly deserves to suffer as she has done and is doing. Never. theless we shall rejoice when the army and navy of the United States shall have banished terror and dismay from the minds of her citi- zens, when her levee shall once more be the deposit of the products of the Mississipp! valley, and when the white winged messengers of commerce shull revisit her wharves under the protection and flag of the United States We trust we shall not have long to wait for that day. Tue Orrosing Generats.—It is a singular cir. cumstance that General McClellan, the com, mander of the Union forces on the Potomac, and General Beauregard, the chief of the rebel army, each graduated second in rank in his class at West Point. It would be curious to know what has become of the cadets who gra- duated first in these classes, Do the first gra- duates always subside, like the men who take first honors at colleges, or what becomes of them? Here are the second rate men the lead- ers of twin opposing armies, the largest and best appointed ever in the field in this country, Now, if the rank of graduation is any test of merit, we have a stray Napoleon, 9 loose Wel lington or an embryo Scott lying around some- where, North or South. Where are the first Tate graduates? Does the Scripture rule hold good at West Point, and are “the first always last,” and vice versa? Inrercovrss Berween vue Nort AND Sovra—Deatn or Juve, Davis.—-Since Genera’ McClellan assumed the command at Washing- ton every effort has been made to cut off the communication of news from the North to the South, and, as far as military matters are con- cerned, these efforts have been quite success- ful. Like most good rules, however, this non- intercourse arrangement has worked both ways, and the chiefs of the confederacy take every care to keep us in ignorance of their movements and intentions. On Tuesday last, for instance we published rumors that Jefferson Davis, the rebel chief, had died on Monday morning. Soon after came reports that the rebel flags at Bailey’s Cross Roads were at half-mast, and that the rebel officers wore black crape for mourn- ing. Then negroes and travellers from Ma- nassas and Richmond asserted that the news of Davis’ death was true. Next came reports from Louisville that “ the President” of the rebels, sofar from being dead, had actually called Congress together, by a special proclamation, he having been left without money to carry on the war. Then a Nashville despatch said that Jeff. Davis was alive and recovering. And to- day we have despatches informing us that it was Stephens, now President ex-officio of the conspirators, who called Congress together, and that Jeff. Davis had really follow- ed the example of his privateering namesake— hoisted the death’s head flag, struckon a bar and gone under forever. Whatever may be the motive for concealing the death of Jeff. Davis—whether to influence the action of Kentucky or to avoid discouraging the rebel armies—the fact that this conceal- ment could be maintained so long, in spite of our efforts to penetrate it, is none the less re- markable. It is, now-a-days, about as difficult to get news from the rebel States as from the interior of that other confederacy, the kingdom of Central Africa, or from China and Japan, whose rulers are frequently reported dead some time before they really expire. We know nothing, except by inference and logical de- duction, of the state of the Confederate armies in the field, or of that great Confederate army of women and children at home. We are abso- lutely unable to state authoritatively whether the President of the confederacy is dead or alive. The whole confederacy is in the dark, and we are in the dark about it. By and by, however, we intend to let day- light into this affair, landwise, by the aid of our Union armies, and then we shall have daily the best of news from the rebel States—the news of our victories, of the certain death of many rebels besides Jeff. Davis, and of State after State reclaimed to our glorious Union. Tne Times anp THE PRess—We have often before noticed, editorially and in tabular form, the number of newspapers dead, diseased and dying on account of the hard times, in this city and throughout the country. In the South very few newspapers yet survive, and these are in the last stages of dry rot. Want of paper kill- ed some, want of advertising patronage finished others, want of readers settled still others, and a combination of all these causes, like an extra number of physicians, has ended the days of many more. Sometimes our armies knocked the whole paper into “pi,” as at Alexandria. Sometimes our soldiers killed the paper by making dead matter of the Confederate editor: At any rate, most of the secession journals down South have collapsed, and even the loyal journals there are obliged to ask subscribers and advertisers from the North. We hope they may get them. Even in New York city, as we have before shown, many of the newspapers have an ex- ceedingly hard row to hoe during these times, while the Northern country papers are not only dead, but largely in debt for their funeral expenses. Upon sending out to purchase our usual copies of the New York weeklies yester- day, we ascertained that no less than ten of these papers had suspended during the past week or two, and that others were sounding the dismal note of preparation to follow suit. It is some consolation for us to turn from the con- templation of such grave matters to our own rapidly increasing circulation and advertising patronage—already more than that of all other journals in the city combined. Mr. Secretary Wettes at Home.—We no- tice that Mr. Secretary Welles, of the navy, has become so exhausted by his onerous labors in the Navy Department, since the government has been energetically at work to crush out the Southern rebellion, that he finds a week’s rest at his home in Connecticut necessary to recu- perate him and fit him for the heavier work yet to come. With Secretary Welles at home, Commodore Stringham at Brooklyn, and General Butler in Massachusetts, nothing new will probably be undertaken, sea- wise, this week. By next week, how. ever, all these gentlemen will be again at their posts, and then the brilliant expedition upon Forts Clark and Hatteras will be followed up by a series of attacks upon points along the Southern coast. While the navy attends to Beaufort, &., our army will take care of Beaure- gard & Co., and thus the rebellion will find our forces, like a good rule, working both ways— but either way badly for the confederacy. Wait patiently till Secretary Welles returns to Washington. Tue War I Missovri.—tIt appears that the late so called victory near Springfield, Missouri, of Ben. McCulloch, with his rebel army of 24,000 men, over General Lyon and his 4,500 men, has proved so very unprofitable to Ben. that he has been compelled to retreat back into Arkansas. Meantime, under the extensive com- binations of General Fremont, the Union forces are pushing forward, while the rebel forces in the southern part of the State, in addition to those of McCulloch, are falling back. Thus, before the end of the present month, we hope to be able to record the complete suppression in, or expulsion from, Missouri of all the armed forces of this rebellion. Fremont’s proclama- tion, declaring free the slaves of local traitors in arms, was doubtless the result of careful deliberation, and will operate to make practical Union men of many Missouri slaveholders, who, with all their love for secession, love their nig- gers still more. We have every indication from Missouri that the strong medicines applied by Fremont to this secession plague in Missouri will cure the patient as by a miracle. Wno Knows?—Perhaps the immediate explo- ration of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds by a few steam gunboats, swift and strong, would result in the capture of a lot of rebel privateers watching in those waters for an opportunity to slip out to sea. Who knows? Mewners ov tam Unrrep Srates Ooxegy vrom Nowru Carouma—aA Mr. C,H. Fosters appears, from North Carolina, has arrived a Washington, claiming to bea member of the United States Congress, elected on the first day of August last, according to law, and that five other Union candidates from other parts of the State were also elected to our Congress on the same day. These elections, we presume, were secretly conducted; but, if representing a re- spectable body of men, we may safely gueas that the Union sentiment of North Carolina is still not only alive, but ready for open action with the first opportunity. Hence, we recom- mend the experiment of a vigorous coastwise Prosecution of the war against the rebels of North Carolina. We may thus bring out a powerful body of allies in the heart of the State, and break down this seceasion rebellion through a Southern Union reaction. Let the government try the experiment. Tue Hox. Massa Greeuzy on toe Lars Lerrer or Anrcupisnorp Huaues—The Hon. Massa Greeley, after carefully studying over the late admirable Union letter of Archbishop Hughes, finds him wofully short of the standard of the Chicago platform on the question of slavery. The Archbishop is admonished that Southern slavery is aggressive and dangerous, and that the republican party “will resist every attempt to widen the area of slavery within the limits of the Union.” In trumping up the Chi- cago platform at this crisis, when the county calls for the sinking of all such party rubbish, the Hon. Massa Greeley shows that he is one of those bigoted party Bourbons or fanatics who “never learn anything and never forget any- thing.” The loyal masses of our people to-day care no more for the Chicago platform than does Archbishop Hughes. Greeley must be taken care of by his friends, or we shall soon again hear him renewing his war cry of “Om- ward to Richmond.” The McManus Obsequics—M Meeting at Irving Hall Last Night. PRELIMINARY PREPARATIONS TO RECEIVE THE RE- MAINS ON THEIR ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK—THRUE TRANSPORTATION TO IRELAND DECIDED UPON, ETC. ‘There is not an Irishman in the city of New York whose bosom swells with ardor, love and patriotism to- wards his native country, who will not peruse with ex- treme satisfaction, as well as sincere regret, the proceed- ings of the mass meoting at Irving Hall last night, whioh are reported underneath, The moeting was specially convened to make preliminary arrangements for the pur- pose of doing honor to the memory, and receiving the re- mains in a becoming manner, of one who, in his early days, when Ireland passed through her last political throes in 1848, cast his lot in the great womb of fate with sud men as Meagher, O’Brien, Reilly, O’Donohue and othors, jn their patriotic ondeavors to have the grievances under which that country groaned redressed; to extricate Ire- land, if possible, from Saxon domination—lift her up and bring her back to assume her national greatness and pristine glory; to arm her with all the powers and in- vest her with all the privileges which she continued to enjoy before the act of union. In making this attompt, which proved futile in the re- sults that followed, the deceased, with his other com- poors, subjected himself, at the latter end of that year, to ‘be indicted for treason, for which he and they were triedr condemned, and banished as exiles from the land of their homes and their fathers; and after the sentence of Chief Justice Blackburne, which was rigorously carried inte execution, they were driven off to a penal settlement, im ‘Van Dieman’s Land, there to finish tho remainder of their days. A lengthened obituary of the deceased T. B. McManus, embracing these facts, has already appeared in the col- umn of this journal.’ It is only’ necessary, therefore, now to state, that he cherished an endearing love for his native country, and was a pattern to others in his generous abnegation of self. He had spent a good por- tion of his youthful carcer in English society, his busi- ness bringing him much im contact with the English people, consequently he did not them mix himself up often with the differences which existed betweon the “young” and “old Irelanders,’? at Conciliation Hall, on Burgh Quay, in Dublin; yet the truest indox of the éxiled and decensed McManus wi can be given is found in the beautiful and ‘pert repl made when asked his opinion and love for both countrics by counsel on the trial. It was this:—Not that I love England less,”” said the patriotic McManus, “but Ireland more.” Boing the first of the exiles to make good his escapo from the penal settlement referred to, he wended his way to this country; and afterwards determined on making San Francisco Lis future abode, at which place he con- tinued to reside up to the hour of his death. Irving Hall, on entering, presonted an’ animated and excited appearance, the capacious room, literally. speal- ing, being crammed to suffocation with’a vast mass of hhuman beings. A silent enthusiasm seemed to actuate all present, commingled, no doubt, with heartfelt regret at the melancholy circumstance which had cailed such am itnmense number of people together. It is, however’, cor- tain that the dense throng was ouly moved by one great principie—namely, to enter into arrangements to pay the dearest tokens of respect and esteem to tho mortal re- mains of their late countryman, whom they loved and re- yored. Previous to the organization of the mecting the Stars and Stripes were displayed and supended from the gailery above the speaker’s heads, which were most en- thasiastically greeted, as also the’ different speakers om entering the room and ascending the platform. Judge Connoily moved that their distinguished friend, Captain Thomas F, Meagher, be chairman of the meeting: carried unanimously, amidt great applause. Tho assomblago was called to order by the Chairman calling on Mr. William E, Robinson to read the list of Vice-Presidents and Secretaries, which, on being put by the Chair, their appointments were ratifled urarimously. Tho Cuammmay said that an appropriato address been prepared by the Committee, and also resolutions, which would be submitted for thelr approval. The Secretary then read the address and resolutions prepared by the committee, all of which received the unanimous assent of the meeting. Appropriate and thrilling addresses wore then delivered by the Chairman, Counsellor Doheny, Messrs. Robinson, O'Mahon and Recho, all of whom spoke in the highest terms of the deceased exited patriot, is qualifications as ‘friend and a gentleman, the harshness with which he and his compatriots had heon treated by British states- men and British law, and denouncing the tyranny of Eng- land in the strongest possiblo terms. These speeches were listened to very attentively by the audience, who repeatedly gave vent to their enthusiasm by cheering most vooiferously. At the termination of the proceedings a subscription was opened, under the supervision of the Executive Com- mittee, and’a goodly sum was collected on the spot. The amount subscribed will be appropriated to paying the ex- pense of taking the body to Ireland, which is now on ite way to New York, and also any further expenses thas may be incurred by the committee here. ‘Ihe remains. may be expected in this city about the 13th inst., and. after due respect being paid tw them, they will be’ for- wardod to the deccased’s friends in Ireland for interment, The proceedings terminated at half-past nine o'clock, and the large gathering then broke up. Police Intelligence. Svrprisr or BuxGtars—Tury Strap A POLcEMAN AxD Excarx.—Ofllcor Tompkins, of the Twenty-seventh pre- cinct, while patrolling his beat yesterday morning about four o'clock, discovered four men endeavoring to break into the gun store of Mr. Sidney Roberts, at 181 Broadway. The officer immediately sounded the alarm, and rushed upon the mon for the purpose of arresting them, but they drow knives and stabbed him in the wrist, hand and arm, hesides knocking him down sengoless, after which they fled and escaped. Shortly after this, a citizen was pass- ing and observed the officer lying insensible in front of the entrance of the store, and notified one of his comrades, who had him conveyed to his residence, 241 West Forty= ninth street. The wounds, though severe, are not deemed dangerous; but it is thought that the blows upon the head, which rendered him insensible, have caused a fracture of tho skull. The burglars are unknown, but the police are en— deavoring to trace them. City Intelligence. Tas New Cuanrer Comsssiox.—sAn adjourned meeting of the Committee on Organization of the New Charter Commission appointed by the Legislature was held yes- terday, afternoon in the Clerk’s room of the Board of Su- pervisors. There were present Messrs. Purdy, Sweeney and Biunt, democrats, and Messrs. Stout and Williamson, republicans. Mr. Elijah F. Purdy presided, and after considerable desultory conversation he proy Mr. G. W. Blunt as permanent President of the Commission, but Mr. Blunt declined. The committee then resolved to draw for President, which resulted in the election of Wil- liam M. Evarts, Exq. John Hardee was elected Clerk. A series of by-laws was presented and discussed, which will ‘be submitted to the Commission for adoption, A commit- tee was appointed to notify the President and Clerk of their election, and @ committee of three, consisting of Messrs. Purdy, Stout and Sweeney, was appointed to re- port the names of three gentlemen to fill vacancies in the Commission, caused by the resignation of ex-Mayor Have- meyer, by the death of William D. Kennedy, and by the absence of August Belmont in Europe, committee then adjourned to meet on Monday, the 9th inst., at half- ‘past one o'clock. A BravtiruL Presevt.—There is now on exhibition im Tiffany's window, in Broadway, a splendid French na- tional flag, which Prince Napoleon had manufactured a8 @, present for the children of i's Taland. Tt wilt shortly be presented to them of Charities and Correction. the Commissions: %, ; ,