The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1861, Page 4

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The balloon reconnoissance made yesterday at Washington developed the fact that not only had the rebels who made the dash upon the Union pickets near the Chain Bridge fallen back, but that also a very large portion of their main force had done likewise from the positions formerly occupied by them. There are various reasons given for this movement on the part of the rebels, some asscrting that it is for the purpose of draw- ing the Unfon forces from their intrenchments; others that, seeing the bold front shown by the Union troops, the rebels were afraid to attack them, and retired, preferring being attacked in- stead; and still others, that the movement was a feint to attract the attention of Gen. McClellan at that one point, while the rebels made a more powerful advance higher up the river. It is, how- ever, certain that, from present indications, any serious attack by the rebels before Washington cannot well take place to-day. The letter from the President to General Fre- mont has been published, and confirms the particn- lars given yesterday. The only clause objec- tionable in the General's proclamation, is that re- ferring to the liberation of the slaves belonging to rebels, and at the apparent request of General Fremont, the President has made an open order that the clause “shall be so modified, held, and construed as to conform with and not to transcend the provisions on the same subject contained in the act of Congress on that subject, approved August 6, 1861." Intelligence has been received at St. Louis of a vattle fought at Booneville, resulting ina victory br the Union. Tho rebels, 1,000 strong, were driven back by the Home Guard, with a loss of twelve killed and thirty wounded. The Union loss was only one killed and four wounded. Among the rebels killed were Colonel Brown and Captain Brown, both virulent secessionists. The news from Western Missouri is far from cn couraging. St. Joseph is still held by the rebels, who detain and doubtless confiscate the mails, seize the stores and appropriate their contents, and have either driven out or forced the Union men toleave. The rebels and Union men in the neigh- borhood are both arming, anda severe contest is hourly expected. Large bodies are marching from various sources to join General Price's army. From special correspondence from northeastern Missouri it appears that General Fremo! it, having secured the safety of St. Louis and the southeast- ern part of the State, is now directing his attention to Martin Green and his rebel forces. General Hurlburt has been removed from the district bor- dering upon the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, and ordered to report at St. Lot General Pope will doubtless take command of this neighborhood. General Hardee is reported as having again oc- cupied Greenville, southeast Missouri, with 800 re- bela, and had threatened to march upon Ironton. This report, however, needs confirmation. General Price's advance guard of rebels is said to have becu at Warrensburg on Tuesday last, and the main body, making in all sixteen thousand men, not far behind. The report states that the destination of these troops is Lexington. Gencral Price reports that he had, with General Raines, caused the Kansas Volunteers to retreat from Fort Scott, which they had abandoned and gone north- ward, but not wishing to invade their State, he had not followed them in their flight. He, however, threatens the Kanzas citizens with a total destruc- tion of their cities and towns, if they provoke him further. The report of his victories in Kansas is much doubted by the Unionists, and his threats are not much feared. Major French, the United States commanding officer at Key West, Florida, has issued and pro- mulgated an order, bearing date September 6, that all residents of the island who have taken the oath of allegiance to the United States shall register their names at headquarters within ten days, and all who have not, shall take the oath within thirty days. Sixty days are allowed for persons who are not inclined to comply with the above, to make up their minds, and if they still refuse to abide by the order they will be removed from the island. These orders apply equally to the familiesof those who may have already left Key West to join the rebels, as those who remain there. Four vessels, two from the British provinces, but all sailing under British colors, have been nicely entrapped at Hatteras Inlet, and taken possession ef by the government war steamers stationed ) ere. Captain Rowan’s report of the transaction fsvery interesting. These, doubtless, will not be | he only prizes taken, as those vessols which were St sea before the capture of the forts will. dopbt- less, make for that point, with the full confidence that the inlet is still guarded by the rebels. Gen, Reynolds sailed yesterday from Fortress Monroe for Hatteras, where he will take command. The news by the Kangaroo is not very important, as regards the situation of affairs, except in that part which refers to the shipping of three regi- ments of British troops for Canada and the fact that the government have agents on all the trans- atlantic steamers for the detection of traitors pass- ing between Europe and America. The intelligence from Richmond is important, as it states that 156 of the prisoners taken at Bull run had been sent from that city to Castle Pinck- ney, Charleston harbor. It also appears that a number of prisoners had attempted to escape, but that only Captain Hurd and his two companions had been successful therein, - The steamship Columbia, from Havana, brings news from Cui-to'-tke 10th instant, the most im- Portant portion of which is the confirmation of the report that the Captain General of that island has’ admitted vessels bearing the rebel flag to all the commercial, privileges enjoyed by recognized na- tions of the world. _ THE NEWS. The steamship Columbia, Captain Adams, ar- rived at this port yesterday about noon, ‘from Havana, with dates to the 10th instant. She brings the important news of the de- termination of the Spanish government ‘to admit to all the privileges of Cuban ports mer- chant vesselsfrom the Southern States carrying the flag of the, confederacy, without, however, re- cognizing tho nationality or independence of the latter. The determination was in a manner forced upon the government of the island by the decision of the coutts in the euse of the Bumberg and :an- other vessel, which the courts declared were not pirates, nor under a pirate flag, and, that being so, no matter what their flag, they had a right to mer- cantile privileges, This explanation strips the matter of a great deal of the importance which might be attributed to it. We have Mexican dates to the 3d instant. If possible, matters grow worse in that distracted country, and a portion of the press comes out strongly in favor of foreign protectorate. Mur- ders, robberies aud assassinations are as frequent as ever, and the government is evidently too weak to cope with the terrible evils surrounding it. Gen. Ortega had whipped Marquez, but he and all his officers escaped with most of their force, of course to reappear on the next favorable occasion. A conspiracy to invite Spain to take possession of the country, a la St. Domingo, was discovered in the capital, and a number of arrests made. Con- gress adjourned on the 31st of July, Our correspondent in Mexico city, writing on the 29th of August, states that Mr. Moran, editor of the Mexican Extraordinary, was arrested on the previous night by order of the government. The event caused quite a sensation among the foreign population of the city, as the pretext for his imprisonment was the publication of an article in sustainment of their guaranteed rights. Her Britannic Majesty's frigate Mersey had arrived at Vera Crnz, and much speculation was afloat as to the cat: of her visit. Congress was to mect in sessiv i in the city on the 30th of August. No com- on had been had with the United States for amenth, The Liitish bark Manuel Ortez-—cleared at this port for Whydah and a market on the 30th ult.— was seized last evening by the Surveyor on suspi- cion of being engaged in the slave trade. We learn that she was allowed to clear at the Custom House for the purpose of seizing her after she had commenced her voyage. Her cargo, as per mani- fest, consists of one hundred barrels of Virginia tobacco, four hundred and fifty-six hogsheads of whiskey, six tins of crackers, four tins of butter, two cases of cheese, one barrel of flour and one half barrel of coffee. The soldiers on the Potomac are sending home money to their friends as fast es they get their pay. An Indiana regiment sent two thousand dol- lars in gold to Evansville last week, and on the 10th inst. the members of the Eleventh Massa- chusetts regiment gave Mayor Wightman, of Bos- ton, upwards of five thousand dollars, to take home for distribution among their families. The three Tennessee Commissioners to the Ken- tucky Legislature, after the passage of the resolu- tions ordering the Governor to drive the Tennexsee invaders from the State, took a hasty departure from Frankfort, and at last accounts were “striking for their homes’’ across lots. The Right Rev. Major General Leonidas Polk, of the rebel army, has at Columbus, K twelve regiments of infantry, numbering seven thousand men, eight companies of cavalry, tlirce field bat- teries and one siege artillery battery. His whole strength is about eight thousand. Paraon Brownlow and his son, of Knoxville, Tenn., are still under arrest, by order of General Zollicoffer. ‘The Richmond papers have recently bronght to light the fact that John BF. Floyd, when he was Secretary of War, tried to steal the government manufactory of army clothing at Philadelphia and send it to Richmond. . Nothing but want of saga- city and enterprise on the part of the Richmond merchants, it is said, prevented the consummation of Mr. Floyd's scheme. Some fears have been recently aroused in regard to the safety of Fort Delaware, which at present is not very strongly garrisoned. It is thought that there are a number of secessionists in the State of Delaware who have their eyes upon the fort, and are only waiting a favorable opportunity to seize it. Fort Delaware is situated on Pea Patch Island, in the Delaware river, near Newcastle. It cost the government over half a million of dollars, mounts one hundred and fifty-one guns, and is calculated to maintain a garrison of seven hundred and fifty men. ‘The great cotton mill at Sprague, Conn., the largest in the country and owned by Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, is now in full operation. A number of Vermont volunteers visited the house of a secessionist at South Royalton, on the night of the 7th inst., took him from his bed, spread the Stars and Stripes on his doorstep, ard made him kneel and swear allegiance to the constitu- tional flag, and then escorted him back to his bed. Todiana has thirteen new regiments forming, numbering from the Twenty-seventh to the Thirty- ninth, inclusive, Two-thirds of the towns in Muine have been heard from, and their votes for Governor foot up as follows:— Isracl Washburne, Jr., republican C.D. Jamison, Union John W. Dana, democrat. Mr. Washburne has a majority thus far over of 12,347, and the Union majority over sec: democracy is 27,525. Is the democratic party dead in Maine? The Charleston (S. C.) Mercury of the 3d inst has the subjoined carefully compiled estimate of the population of that city, just completed: — | Whites. . itchell, a member of the Fifth regiment of Vermont, bemg on his way back to the seat of | War, was killed at St."Albans, by a train of cars | running over him, on the 10th inst. A cavalry regiment is to be immediately raised | in Maine, A military company at Benson, Vt., recently | fired, as they supposed, a volley of blank car- tridges, but some of the muskets were loaded with ball, and eight persons were severely wounded, among whom was Rey. Mr. Coburn, of the Methodist church, John B. Cox, his wife and four of his children, residing about seven miles from Bloamington, Ind., were brutally murdered on the night of the 10th inst, The destruction of the railroad depot by fire, at Concord, N. H., on the 11th inst., caused a loxs to the Concord and Lawrence Company of upwards of $30,000, The new steamship Hansa, belonging to the North German Lloyd, Bremen, was safely launched at Greenock, Scotland, on the 23d ult. She is 2,868 tons builder's measurement, and will register 3,500 tons, being the largest vessel ever construct- ed at Greenock. She will be fitted for the ace commodation of 250 cabin and 460 stecrage pas- sengers, and will be commanded by Captain H. J. Von Santen, late of thc steamship New York. The Hon. Daniel 8. Dickinson, it is understood, will shortly address the people of this city on the great issues at present before the country. The Fifth Rhode Island battery arrived here yesterday morning, by the steamer Commonwealth: under command of Lieutenant Herkins, enroute for Washington. It is from Providence, Rhode Island’ and has three batteries already in the ficld. The first battery, which returned home at the expira’ tion of its term of service, is largely represented in the corps which arrived to-day, all appearing hardy and well equipped. Hon: Joseph Howe, Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia, has presented to the Farlof Mul- grave, Lieutenant Governor.of the colony, an offi- cial report on the subject of the gold mines re- cently discovered in both portions of British North America, the field of the diggings already opened, and the prospects of mining and agricultural im- inigrants. The paper is very cheering for tho interests both of the home government in England and the colonial settlers. Gold is found at four or five points of the territory, and, according to Mr. Howe's statistics, pays both the individual worker and the capitalists investing in the mines very well. ' Chelsea Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 84, of this city, have by a unanimous vote appropriated the sum of two thousand dollars to be invested in the patriotic loan, Tho annual regatta of the Empire City Club will take place to-morrow afternoon, on the Harlem river, from Conrad’s Garden, at Yorkville. There are to be four racos—one with seventeen feet boats, with two pairs of sculls; the second will be with six-oared boats, belonging to the amateur clubs of the city; the third with four-oared boats, and the fourth the champion race, with one pair of sculls. The best oarsmen in the country will contend for the prizes which are offered; and this, like all the preceding regattas of the Empire City Club, pro- mises to afford pleasing amusement for the admirers of aquatic entertainments. The steamer Westchester, Captain Jones, which arrived yesterday morning from Providence, brought on freight one hundred and eleven bales of cotton, ‘The cotton market continued firm yostorday, with sales of about 1,000 bates, in lots, closing on the basis of 22c. for fair middling uplands. Soveral large hokters were not offering their supplies, The market was firm and higher for some graces of flour, with a good demand for export and domestic consumption. Wheat was less buoyant, and, though active, closed at lower rates, owing in part to the increased firmness in freights, and some grades were from 1c. to 2c. per bushel lower. Corn was a fraction better, although tho recelpts were large, the de- mand being chiefly for the Fact and export. Pork was steady aud in fair demand, with rather more doing; sales of meas were made at $14 @ $14 2%, and of prime at $975 $10. Sugars were tirm and in good request, with sales of abont 1,200 bhds. Cuba, closing within the range of Tie. a 73c. for fair to good refining grades, and at 7%. a &1ge. for grocery goods. Included in the sales were 50 bhds. Porto Rico at 834. Coffeo was steady, with sales of 3,200 bags of Rio, in which were included 2,730 bags of the Solferino’s cargo, at 14}4c., and 250 do. at 143c., with 1,700 mats of Java at 200, Freghts to English ports were firmer, while engagements wore moderate. ‘To Havre wheat was engaged wt 230, por bushel; flour at 80c. per bbl. The Captain General of Cuba Pronounces in Favor of our Southern Rebels, The Captain General of Cuba has issued a decree, in which he says that, “in virtue of the proclamation by her Majesty the Queen, I have determined, under date of August 7, that all vessels occupied in legitimate commerce, pro- ceeding from ports in the (so called) Confede- rate States of America, shall be entered and cleared under the Confederate flag, und shall be duly protected by the authorities of the island;” and “foreign Consuls are notified that no inter- ference on their part will be tolerated.” At the first glance the reader may consider this intelligence somewhat alarming; but, with amoment’s reflection, he will be apt to concur with us that there is nothing in it either tery alarming or surprising. The Captain General of Cuba is acting under instructions. In ad- vance of any he had released a number of prizes brought into a Cuban port by the rebel vessel of war Sumter. Now, however, accord- ing to this proclamation of the Qucen, the Suter, as ship of the Confederate navy, may bring into any port of Cuba any number of prizes, and she and they will be protected; for, as we understand this proclamation, it is vir- tually a recognition of the independence of our rebellious States, But why should Spain take sides with Jeff. Davis and his Confederate rebels, when their programme is a great, expansive, filibustering Southern confederacy, “hased on military prin- ciples?” We may pretty safely assume that England, at Madrid, is at the bottom of this business; and that Spain is only too willing to avail herself of the opportunily for a bit of re- venge against the government of the United States and the famous Ostend manifesto of Messrs. Buchanan, Mason and Soule. Moreover, while the danger of losing Cuba might return with the restoration of the integrity of our Union, the Cabinet of Spain no doubt believe that, in the dissolution of our Union, the safety of Cuba is insured—that our Northern confede- racy, with a navy, will have no desire for the annexation of an outside slave State; and that our Southern confederacy, withoul a navy, even as an enemy, desiring the island, need not be feared. But this hostile position assumed by Spain against the government of the United States and in behalf of our Southern rebellion will surely not escape the immediate attention of our Secretary of State. Let him at once in- quire of the Spanish Minister at Washington the meaning of Queen Isabella’s proclamation upon which the Governor of Cuba has issued his offensive decree; and, while Mr. Seward is about it, we would suggest that it might not be amiss to apprise the Spanish gove?nment that its recent proceedings in regard to St. Domingo, and its intrigues in reference to Mexico, have not passed unnoticed on our part, and that come explanation in the premises is desirable, in view of the maintenance of our friendly re- lations with her Most Catholic Majesty. Let our government speak without hesitation and without fear. It is bad enough at this crisis to be belied and threatened by England; but when Spain assumes to flaunt her authority and her power in our faces forbearance ceases, in- deed, to be a virtue. Mr. Seward, in present- ing the honest friendship of Russia to the con- sideration of Queen Isabella, will command at once her respectful attention, and to the proba- bility of a disturbance of the balance of power in Europe against uny coalition to break up the great balance of power in America, Oar Ol@ Politicians and Young Generals. Not the least curious incident of these times, which are fruitful of noticeable things, is the manner in which our old fogy politicians, of all parties and classes, have been buried beneath the ruins of their most cherished projects. Like an unskilful engineer, they have been hoisted by their own petards. The plans which they had carefully arranged for their own aggrandize- ment—the anti-slavery agitation—the repeal of the Missouri Compromise—the formation of a republican, anti-slavery party—the dissensions fomented for personal purposes in the de- mocratic ranks—all have culminated in a civil war which has not. only swept all these issues completely out of sight, but has also entirely killed the men who made and supported them. We have passed, as by magic, from the eraof black coats to that of epaulettes and gold lace—from the era of party intrigue to that of real warfare—from the era of politicians to that of generals. Old fogyism of every kind is now practically dead, and Young America has taken the field. The public, North or South, cares no more for the Presidential aspirations of Breckinridge, Hunter, Seward; Seymour and others of that ilk. McClellan, Beauregard, Banks, Johnston, Fremont, Kershaw, Rosecrans, Bragg and Siegel are now the men of the hour. Military proclamations and general orders usurp the interest of party -platforms and political speeches. It is bulletins from the scat of war, and not political gossip, which the ‘public demand. The newspapers are the indices snd the mirrors of the time, and we have only to refer to them, and notice what proportion the war news holds to the political, to ascertain into what complete oblivion politicians have fallen, and how completely oar young generals are masters of the situation. The -people will not listen to a politician now-a-days unless he talks about the war, and hardly then. The stern logic of facts and the simple rhetoric of the incidents of civil war outrival the most polished of orations, and Scott's Tactics is con- sidered the most interesting reading. At the South it is no longer the Toombses, the Masons, the Hunters, the Wises, the Slidells, the Bayards, or the Chesnuts who occupy the public mind and attract the~public atten- tion. Most of these gentry are never heard of at all, and if they are noticed it is not in connection with political schemes, but with war movements. Chesnut is firing a pri- vate cannon at Fort Sumter, or Wise is calling for large dinner knives and old muskets in Virginia, or Floyd is playing hide and seck with a ragged army in the Kanawha valley: The Beauregards, the Johnstons, the Kershaws of the South are the men most regarded and honored. Kven Jeff. Davis would be lost to sight if he did not put on a military coat and mount a white war horse; and éven then he is of secondary importance until, for a day or two, people bother themselves with the question whe- therhe is dead or alive. All the voters have turn- ed soldiers; the arts political have changed to the arts military; the politicians have either joined the army or are completely forgotten. Here at the North the same rule holds good. The spirits which the politicians have raised have cither abandoned them, like Manfred’s, or destroyed them, like Faust’s. Of politicians proper, none are heard of except those who are in the army, like Cochrane, Wilson, Sickles and the like, and it is noticeable that we hear of comparatively few of them there? Conventions and speeches intrude themselyes once in a while, but only as episodical to the grand epic of the war. When have we heard last of Bu- chanan? Does any one know anything of either of the Chicago candidates except those whom Lincoln has provided with a Cabinet seat? Where is Everett, the orator, Tedyer author and former Presidential candi- date? Where is Cass, or Van Buren, or Fill- more, who made a party, or Pierce, who killed one? These men are as completely dead as if struck by a thunderbolt, and yet they are the very Vulcans who, working as they thought for their own advantage, forged the bolts which de- stroyed them. Only those who were young enough and sagacious. enough to don soldier's and go off to the wars have escaped this oblivion. Thus Butler steps into a Major Gen- eralship ; Fremont declines a foreign mission to take care of Missouri; and in Sickles, Schenck, Cochrane and others we have politicians turned generals and colonels, as illustrations of this truth. It is noticeable, also, that the men who now hold the reins of power are generally young— between the ages, say, of thirty and forty. This is particularly the case on the Southern side, where there are very few old men in command, and these, for the most part, in subordinate po- sitions. At the North only two or three vete- rans manage to cling hold to the plank of office with sufficient energy and vigor. Dix, an instance of a reformed politician, is just in this situation, and may drop off at Baltimore into the Chesapeake any day, and will not be missed. Several army officers are in this same position, and have young McClellan, and young Fremont and young Banks ranking above.them. Our veteran Lieutenant General Scott has ceased to tako any active part in the war, but gives good advice to the young gencrals he has educated to do the work, and stands ready to pat each of his boys on the back when he comes back to the veteran General with a fine victory. General Wool, another veteran officer, is a sort of con- necting link between the old school and tho new, with the experience of the former and the energy of the latter; but even he organizes expeditions and sends Butlers to lead them. Take all our major and brigadier generals, our colonels and their inferior officers, and you will find young men in the majority, young men in the ascendancy, young men in the command. This is as it should be,and with the experience of Scott and Wool to restrain and direct youthful energy and zeal, we may augur well for the success of our troops. It only needs one more turn of the wheel, and then the strange eventful history of our old politi- cians will be closed forever. By and by will come peace, and then, instead of politicians turning soldiers, we will have soldiers turning politicians, and the bravest will have the highest offices. Some ofthe politicians see this already, and strive to avert it; but they might as well have tried to keep Jackson, Harrison and Tay- lor out of office when they were in the flush of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTHMBER 15, 1861. ry their militnry fame, Every boom of the cannon is the knell of the old politicians, and the public have the satisfaction of knpwing that if the next lot are not better than the old they cannot be worse, Gerrit Smith and Christy, the Minstrel, the Two Great Nigger Phi'osophers of the Age. In the Tribune of Monday last, Mr. Gerrit Smith publishes a long letter to President Lin- coln about the war, slavery, the constitution, and other matters, in which he entirehy mis- represents General Fremont’s proclamation, which is a measure of war, confiscating the slaves of rebel owners, and having no bewr- ing whatever on the general subject of slavery For the past twenty years Mr. Gerrit Smith and Mr. Christy have been before the public as the great representative negro philosophers and exhibiters, and it is a little curious to notice the peculiarities, differences and antagonisms in the styles of these two great managers and of their respective corps. Each has done his prettiest to take the shine out of the other’s darkies, but opposition has been the soul of business to both of these managers, and it is very hard to decide whether Smith’s speeches and pamphlets have developed the negro most, or whether Chris- ty’s songs and dances have done most to recom- mend Smith’s negroes to the consideration of the public. The details of an African race, 80 close and so well contested, are worthy the at- tention of our readers. Both Smith and Christy are philosophers; but Smith’s philosophy is of that morose, sullen, gloomy type which prefers tears to smiles and groans to laughter, and is never so happy as when it is perfectly miserable. Chris- ty’s philosophy, on the contrary, is hearty and joyous, with just enough admixture of tears and sorrow to make the fun more enjoyable, as coquettish April delights us equally with her showers or her sunshine. Both are philanthropists; but Smith’s philanthropy consists in making people discontented with their present lot; assisting niggers to “ills they know not of,” via the underground railroad, and providing them either with barber shops and oyster stands at Chatham, Canada, or with lots of wild land, luxuriant in rocks, stones, briars and skunk cabbages, in the northern part of York State. Christy’s philanthropy, on the other hand, is more genial, wise, diffused and practical. Towards his darkeys it displays itself in large salaries and not tee much work; towards the jublic, in admonitions to “speak of a man as you find him,” “never to despise a man who wears a ragged coat,” to “laugh and grow fat,” or man- fully to “pully off your coat and rolly up ‘your sleeve, for Jordan am a hard road to tra- bel, I believe.” Both are Christians; but Smith belongs to only one church, and that is of the rigidly religious and piously Puritan school; a church which reads the Bible “as through a glass, darkly,” and translates “Egyptian” into “Southern slaveholder,” and “Tsraclites” into “ African slaves,” wherever there is any reference to bondage, emancipation or deliverance ; but insists that “ servant” does not mean “slave,” whenever Onesimus in- trudes himself, or Christ says “servants, be obe- dient unte your masters’—-a church in which all the singing is done through the nose, to very long metre time ; so that, to be a sing- ing saint, in good voice and standing, of the “ Praise-God-in-the-111th-Psalm” style of man, it is necessary to have quite as much wind as piety. Now, Christy belongs to a dozen different churches, and so has eleven more chances than Smith of reacling Heaven safely and in good condition. He is not content with long-winded metres, does not leave the devil and the concert saloons all the best tunes, but supplies all denominations from his ample stock of melodies, and old-fashioned fugues are displaced by cheery glees, in this style:— Jerusalem, my happy home t Du dah, du dah t Soon as I die to you I'll coma! Diddy iddy du dah dat —Or by the graver and more platutive melodies of Lillie Dale:-— Oh, Heavon ! bright Heaven t Oh, Heaven of tho blest { How I long to be thore In its trintaph aro And to lean on Abram’s breast. His religion, too, eschows all political Chris- tianity—for the “ole Abram” above referred to is not Old Abe Lincoln—and will have none of Smith’s political sermons at any price. Smith paints his darkey blacker than he really is, while Christy gives us the brightest side of this dark subject. Smith’s negroes are al- ways weeping, wailing, moaning, gnashing their teeth and clanking their chains; they are al- ways being beaten, outraged and kicked about by Massa Legrees; they are always doing a su- pernatural amount of work and being lashed for doing it; they are always assembling in dismal swamps, and, though the most pious of ginners, are always plotting blood, and massacre, and murdered masters and mistresses, and fre- dom, and all that sort of thing, and, when let loose, are equally dangerous to the public. Smith’s Cuffee, who got into the Chicago plat- form, has ruined his friends and damaged his foes; Smith’s irrepressible nigger has tnvolved us all in civil war. Indeed, so well is the fire- brandish nature of Smith’s negroes now under- stood, that one has only to raise the cry of ‘a nigger inthe fence,” and the public indignant- ly shout, “hustle him out,” althongh the fence itself—political, philanthropic or literary—be ruined in the operation. It was this ery which destroyed the Tract Society and smashe.l up the May anniversarice. Sinith’s negroes are re- sponsible for it all. But Christy’s troupe pre- sent us different and more enjoyable views of Southern life. They are always singing happy songs, or laying down the shovel and the hoe and taking up the fiddle and the bow to assist in tripping what pleasant Dick Swiveller calls “the light fantastic.” They love their masters; and if massa is so unfortunate as to die, them Down in the cornfield Hear that mournful sound, All the darkies are a-weeping For mgssa in the cold, cold ground. They indulge in plantation dances, in “Hop Light Loo” affairs, in champion jigs, in essences of old Virginia, and have no taste for domestic “treason, strategems and spoils,” and are thus much better than some of their masters. They love and are loved, like ordinary white trash, and enthusiastically announce that “Sally is the gal for me,” or that “Ebery one is praising the coal black Rose.” Instead of set- ting fire to things, and going on their way to Canada rejoicing, nothing can exceed the pathos with which they refer to the “old folks at home,” or to their “old Kentucky home far away,”’ or ask to be carried “back to ole Virginny.” Of course they have their lit- tle private grief, and think regretfully of “dar- ling Nellio Gray” or of “Rosalie, the Prairie, Flower,” bu’ these are but clouds uoon the — nee, ere sun of their general gayety and happiness, In fine, they do thy’ comedy of life, as Smith's troupe does the me)drama, and aro, the publie think, much more natural, enjoyable and human, ° With characteristics so diverse, these corps never agree in their opinions of men and i and here again the public side w,'th Christy, and think him much more logical and Correct in bis views. Christy would never have mde such 9 mistake as that about Fremont’s proclax“ation, So, in Gerrit Smith’s recent letter to President Lincoln—which he prints as if doubtiag whether the President would read it—he asserts that the abolition of slavery ix the only way te suve the country, But people generally side with Christy, who declares:— ant ope i's nos too ata tt Iryou leave tem al aleve 2 PaMeRs 1n thelr happy Seuthern home, analy © way to rave thie great and gloriows Smith says that abolitioniste ase the salvation of the country. Christy looks upon them ine very different light—regards them as just about as bad as secessionist, and, in the Irigh tongue, makes the following offer:— It you'll snd these men to Treland wha? try your peace te Wo'll drive ‘em to tho devil ia our Irish jaunting oar. Smith thinks that a free negro at the North ix in elysium. Christy has records of only twe representative ‘free niggers hereabouts, one ef whom “lived with her uncle, up seven pair of stairs, in the. Row-wow-wow-ery, near Grand,” and did a pad business in the peanut lines and the other:— ‘That olever man, Judge Russel, He sent her up to the Jeland, He sent her up to tho Islund, For siggling silver spcons, Smith asks the President to accept of “blac regiments” to meet the Black Horsemen of the rebels, and represents the negroes as eager for the fray. Christy understands black nature much better, and gives us laments, not em couragements to enlist:— My lovier was a horsiman, so galliant and bold; None of your,Seventh regiment fellows a candle te him could hold; But he slept out jate ono night, and so he eaught cold, And now Iam in mourning for my cavilier 30 bold. —Or else he expresses this original and tender desire:— I wish I was on Bergen Hill, *Tis there I'd sit and cry my fil ‘Till every tear should turn a mill. Oh, Jobuny,, ho is gone for a soldiert But then, as far as other people are eom- cerned, Christy’s negroes are as patriotic as Smith’s, and show their patriotism in the same way—by a great deal of advice and very little example. Only they are more hopeful and confident, for Smith says this war will last a great whilo—“thirty years,” perhaps—while Christy don’t agree with this, and says so very plainly:— Do gallant Sixty-ninth it has mixed in do row, And ail of our brave sogers are hastening forward hew; If ever we get at the Sout we're suro to lay ‘em low, And they will soon discover that deir cake is all Now, both of these managers have made money from their exhibitions—Christy by taking in his honest quarter at the door, and Smith by collections at all sorts of meetings and by the sale of papers, novels and pamphlets. This war, however, will settle Smith's ne- groes effectually, while it will only give Christy new songs, dances and burlesques. We hardly know what will become of Smith. His evoupa” tion, like Othello’s, is gone. Perhaps he had better come to the conclusian of Cuffee Pete, in the “ Seven Sisters,” and say — T'll_go down to ele Massa Parnum— ‘He's the friend of poor niggers, I know— And T'll play f'm the “What Is It's” father ¢ Yes, Barnum’s the place where I'll ge. With Greeley as exhibitor and lecturer, @ very good business may be done there, for a while, now that Tillman, who killed the pirates, is played ont. That little villain Raymond may tend the door, if he'll deposit that “$15,000 to $20,000” he has in bank as security for his honesty, and if he is kept under the espionage of Kennedy in case the temptation of real silver should prove too much for him. So, what with the favor of a generous public and our first rate notices, and gratis “double leaded” advertise- ments, the thing may pay. Ovr Anonition INcenprartes at re AGAR— According to the Trilune and Times, whieh scem to be affiliated with the movement, our old incendiary abolitionists had a nice little love feast at the Astor House on Thursday last (room No. 20), for the purpose of organizing a iherty and Union Committee of the city of New York.” This liberty means liberty to the slaves of the South, for it was “resolved that, im the deliberate judgment of this meeting, it is manifest that there is no reasonable prospect of so terminating the present conflict as to prevent its recurrence but by the specdy and complete liberation of the slaves on the soil, in the expect- ation that, with other citizens, they will sus- tain the government in putting down the rebel- lion;” and that “the public welfare requires that the free colored people of the United States should be invited and encouraged to aasist in this great enterprise.” | In every possible way this “Liberty and Union Cammittee” are to agitate and labor for these” indicated objects; and that they will do so we may be sure, from the antecedents of theabolition | brotherhood assembled on this occasion. That | notorious old abolition sinner, Lewis Tappan, presided, and among the kindred spirits present were the Rev. Mr. Brown, editor of the American Baplist; the Rey. William Goodell, editor of the radical abolition Principia; Oliver Johnson, editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard; John Jay, Esq., and various other abolition ce- lebrities of smaller calibre. Now these aboli- tion patriots must be taken care of in season, or they will bring serious trouble upon the govern- ment. Their project is a systematic agitation im favor of the immediate abolition of Southern slavery, when we all know that the war policy of Mr. Lincoln’s administration is nothing more nor less than the integrity of the Union. We* know, too, that this policy comprehends, as fur* as possible, non-intervention with the domestie institutions of the South. The act of Congrese confiscating the property of rebels conspiring te , overthrow the government is not an abolitio @ measure, but @ war measure, and is nothi ig more, even as construed by General Freme jnt, Its object is the punishment of rebels and the protection of loyal men in all their rig) ts of property. The administration, in view of the ultimate overthrow of the rebels in t? .e field, desires the support of a Union party if , the cot- ton States, in order, when tho time gomes, to bring about a popular Union react’ jon in said States. A single defeat on a large: scale of the rebels in the field will develope #uch a Union party, from Virginia to Texas, w’.th any positive evidences that it is no part of Mr. Lincoln's policy to interfere with slavey.y beyond the ac- tual necessities of a state oftwar. But our eholition incendiaries, whose real