The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1861, Page 4

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Whole- Bale price the same as for the Weex.y Heraup, The rebel army before Washington—thatis, what Temains of it—have been very quiet all day yester- @ay. Some few civilians, however, venturing too far boyond tle Unicn pickets at Balt’s Cross Roads, Were fired upon, but without serious effect. Two of the rebel pickets ventured yesterday afterno:n beyond their lines, and were fired upon by sharp- shooters with some effect, as they were seen to fall. Negroes have been seen by the Union pickets per- forming picket duty for the rebels. The Spanish Minister at Washington asserts that he has not been officially advised of any permis- sion being accorded by his government to vessels for the purpose of trading in the Spanish waters Under the rebel colors. The receipts of the Treasury Department have Sring the last few days averaged one million dol- }es per day, while during the whole of the month J August, 1360, the aggregate was but $800,000. * There was a very great prospect of an engage- ment at Newport News on the night of the 13th thst. The rebel steamer Yorktown, very heavily armed with pivot and other guns, came within three miles of the camp, and commenced shelling ft and the blockading fleet. The guns of the ships Could not reach the rebel steamer, but a couple of shells from Sawyer’s gun were more eftective, and the rebel craft retreated. Other rebel steamers have been observed making reconnoissances. The Mayor of Baltimore, Ross Winans, Hon. Henry May and others, are close prisoners in Fort- ress Monroe? From Kentucky the tidings are very important. In the Senate of the Legislature a resolution was {ntroduced, authorizing the Military Board to seize the State arms wherever found, and to employ a uficient police force to protect the railroads. Governor Magoffin has issued the following procla- fmation:—‘The government of the Confederate Btates, the State of Tennessee, and all others con- cerned, are hereby informed that Kentucky expects the Confederate or Tennessce troops to be with- @rawn from her soil unconditionally.”” Jeff. Thompson has threatened to hang ‘‘a minion of-Lincoln” for every rebel executed by General Fremont. The news from the South is highly important. General A. 8. Johnson has, without doubt, been Assigned to the command of the operations in pro- ress on the Upper Mississippi. The Richmond ‘Examiner asserts that the Potomac is effectually blockaded and closed by powerful batteries. It is Bsserted that a challange to battle has been of- Fered for some time past by General Beauregard to General McClellan, but had not yet been accepted. The same correspondent says “no direct attack is Bt present designed upon the works at Washington, at least not on the Southern side.’ The rebel lines are reported to extend from Occoquan to Leesburg, and that “the fire of pickets fmay be heard from reigiment to regi- Went along the entire extent.” Field bat- teries have been called for by, and supplied , the rebel troops very recently. Jeff. Davis is reported, on the 9th inst., ‘‘so far recovered from hhis recent severe attack of illness as to have been enabled to take an airing in his carriage.” Ben. Winder has telegraphed to Gen. Twiggs, at New Orleans, inquiring how many prisoners he ©an accommodate in the forts of that city. It bas already been announced that one hundred Bnd fifty-six of those taken at Bull run, &c., had been sent to Castle Pinckney. There is an idea Bfloat in the South to seize all woollen and cot- ton mills for the use of the government, and that Boldiers be employed therein. In Charleston, B. C., preparations are being made to manufac- ture locomotives. The full report of the European news by the @Prrwaroo, off Cape Race, shows that the Great tern was to take three British regiments to ada at an early day. This—three regiments— @ould make the reinforcement number two thou- (pand far hundred and fifty men, instead of twenty- two thousand five hundred, as stated by & late mail steamer. This measure was regarded in Engkand as~ one calculated to enable Canada to preserve her provincial integrity against all complications, and shows forth the identity of interest existing between Great Britain and the colony. The London Zimes was still exercised on the subject of the capacity and willingness of the Union citizens of the North to endure taxation for purposes of war. The same journal expects that the high price of cotton is certain to free some of the staple, and intimates that it may find its way from Texas to the ports of Mexico. THE NEWS. t The steamship Kangaroo, from Liverpool on the 4th and Queenstown the 5th inst., was off Cape Race last Saturday on her way to New York. Her news is four days later than received by the Africa. A copious summary of it, telegraphed from St. Johns, Newfoundland, is published in the Heraup this morning. Cotton was in good demand in Liverpool on the 5th instant, and up to and on that day the market was quiet, but firm, at unchanged rates. Bread- stuffs were dull. Consols closed in London on the Sth instant at 9234 092%. American securities were steady. The Paris Bourse was dull at the close. Another railroad accident had occurred near London, by which thirteen persons were killed and about fifty wounded. A second pamphlet, en- titled “Rome,” had appeared in Paris, which was regarded as a bold reply to the manifesto of Napoleon. A change had been made in the new Cabinet of Italy. President Geffrard, of Hayti, had paid the money indemnity demanded by Spain from that republic. By the arrival of the bark Conway, Capt. Wood- ward, at this port last evening, we have advices from Buenos Ayres to July 24. The country was in a very unsettled condition. Martial law had been proclaimed in Buenos Ayres, and it was ex- pected daily that Gen. Urquiza would march into the city at the head of an army. Produce was scarce and commanding high prices. Flour was selling at twenty-four Spanish dollars per barrel. Capt. Woodward reports, August 20, when in lat. 6 22 N., lon. 3950, spoke a British brig from Bahia for New York, who reported three privateers cruising on the equator; also, Sept. 14, in lat. 38 12, lon. 74 09, spoke schooner Revere, from Norfolk, Va., in charge of a United States naval officer, as a prize, captured in attempting to run the blockade by the United States frigate Cumberland, Commander Bainbridge. The prize was bound to this port. By advices from Kingst-n, Jamaica, wo learn that the United States steamer Powhatan arrived at Port Royal on the 22d of Angust, and that she and the United States frigate Richmond left on the 25th—the former for St. Thomas, to coal there, and the latter in search of the Sumter. Governor Dar- ling had dismissed the Hon. Edward Jordon from the chief magistracy: of Kingston. Small pox was raging at Remedios, near Cienfuegos, Cuba. A letter from Kingstown, British West Indies, dated Angust 24, says:—The weather here is and has heen very rainy, which has not injured the health of the place. Crops very good. The crop of sugar this year will be less than before, on ac- count of the cotton plant taking the place of the cane. We publish in another colum™ the clause of the act of Congress, passed ny the last session, confiscating the slave property o persons in rebel- lion against the government, together with the proclamations of President Lincoln and General Fremont thereon, and the President's letter to the General, ordering him so to modify his proclama- tion as to conform strictly to the act. The Treasury notes expire on the nineteenth day of August, 1864. The coupons are made payable every six months, therefore the fifth one is due February 19, 1864. The last amount of interest is due and will be paid with the note at the first men- tioned date. The coupons specify the interest of each at 3.65 per $100, or two cents per day, but no allowance is made for February 29, 1864, that year being leap year. The holder of a one hundred dollar note loses two cents by this omission, which is to him a mere bagatelle; bat on the one. hundred and fifty millions of dollars borrowed it makes a saving of thirty thon- sand dollars to the government—enongh to pay the principal of three hundred of these notes. “Great oaks from little acorns grow.” The New Orleans Delta says:—‘No mediation of any Power on earth will be entertained by the South which looks to a reconstruction of the go- vernment as it existed on the 4th day of last November,’ and no scheme of any party or fac- tion in the North ‘can ever again bring together the broken fragments of the once powerful United States.” Will the “peace” dodgers and “olive branch” men make a note of this? The rebel Legislature of Missouri, the members of which were formally depose! by the State Convention, adjourned on the 15th of May last, to meet again in Jef- ferson City to-day. The prospect for a mecting is at present not very flattering, and if it was there are no State officers at the capital which they weuld recognise to receive them, and no money which would be under their control to pay them, In Louisville, Kentucky, there are two recruiting stations for United States regulars—one for a cavalry regiment, tobe commanded by Colonel Bayles, and one for another cavalry regiment, to be commanded by Colonel J.S. Jackson, M. C.; one for the Hamilton Guards, one for the Tompkins Zouaves, one for the Anderson Rifles, and one for Colonel Pope’s regiment—in all, eight recruiting stations for the Stars and Stripes. There is no doubt now about the invasion of Kentucky. The Quebec Mercury—a sort of secession Maw- worm—says that the buccaneerSumter must not be allowed to capture and destroy United States ves- sels in British waters. When it is known that the Mercury is in the employ of Jeff. Davis & Co., and that there is not a more rabid secession journal in all the South, it will be fully understood to what extent that paper considers the acts of the Sum- ter an “‘ outrage.”’ The Governor of Connecticut has issued a procla- mation calling on the people of that State to ob- serve the day designated by the President for fast- ing, humiliation and prayer. It has been stated that a large amount of pro- perty in Pennsylvania, belonging to Robert Tyler, son of ex-President John Tyler, had been confis- cated, because Robert had joined the secessionists in Virginia. It now appears that the story was not true, as Bob never owned property in Pennsyl- vania or in any other State. The Hartford cartridge works use six tons of lead and two tons of powder each week. The Odd Fellows Grand Lodge of the United States will assemble to-day in Baltimore. The remains of the late Terence Bellew Mc- Manus, the Irish patriot, will be taken from the Stevens House, No. 27 Broadway, this merning, at eight o'clock, as privately as possible, to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where the requiem high mass will be celebrated. The remains will then be con- veyed to Calvary Cemetery. No popular demon- stration, it is understood, will take place for a week or ten days. The Second Avenue Methodist Episcopal church was opened for divine worship yesterday. Rev. Colonel Perry, of the Continental Guard, preached tho dedicatory sermon, which was of a purely religious character, and contained no allusion to the unhappy conflict'in which the preacher will shortly be engaged. Snow fell on the White Mountains, New Hamn- shire, on Tuesday, the 10th inst, The visiters up there are hurrying down into a warmer climate. The cotton market continued firm on Saturday, with ales of about 1,000 bales, in lots, glosing on the basis of 22¢. for fair middling uplands, Several large holders were not offering their supplies. The market was firm and higher for some grades 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 froights, and some grades wore from 1c. to 2c. per bushel lower. Corn was 4 fraction better, although the receipts were large, the de- mand being chiefly for the East and export. Pork was steady and in fair demand, with rather more doing; sales of mess wore made at $14 a $14 25, and of primo at $975 o $40. Sugars were firm and in good Tequest, with sales of about 1,200 hhds. Cuba, closing within the range of 7340. a 730. for fair to good refining gradeg, and at 730, a 8340. for grocery goods. Included in tho gales were 50 hhds. Porto Rico at 8%c. Coffee was steady, with sales of 3,200 bags of Rio, in which were included 2,720 bags of the Solferino’s cargo, at 143¢c., and 250 do. at 143¢0., with 1,700 mats of Java at 200. Freghts to English ports were firmer, while engagoments ‘wore moderate. To Havre wheat was engaged at 23c. per bushel; flour at 80c. por bbl. The Abolition Incendiaries Conspiring to Overthrow the Union. In another page we reprint an account of an abolition meeting held at the Astor House, pub- lished by the New York Tribune and Times—the incendiary organs of anti-slavery revolution— who are in conspiracy with the Northern fa- natics, acting in concert with the Southern rebels, to permanently overthrow the constitution of the United States, to defeat the legitimate ob- jects of the war and prevent the restoration of the Union as it existed before hostilities com- meneed. At this treasonable meeting were as- sembled all the old leading abolitionists, with Lewis Tappan at the head and John Jay at the tail; and we are much surprised that the pro- prietors of the Astor House would permit their respectable establishment to be used for a pur- pose so illegal and so embarrassing to the go- vernment, By the wisdom and patriotism of the Presi. dent and his administration on the slavery question, much had been accomplished towards disabusing the Southern mind as to the hostile intentions of the government touching the pe- culiar institution of the South. The manifesto of Mr. Cameron, addressed to Gen. Butler, and the proclamation of Gen. Fremont, qualified by the letter of President Lincoln, have an nounced to the world that the rights of loyal slaveholders in the Southern States will be respected, and that only in the case of rebels in arms or proved traitors will the rights guaranteed by the constitution be taken away: It was thus distinctly understood that depriving rebels and traitors of their slaves was an ex- ceptional policy, and intended only fora state of war—that there was no authority given by Congress, and no right by the laws of war, to deprive non-combatant, peaceful Southern citi- zens of the property they held in the services of their slaves. The effect of the promulgation of these principles of action was to save ‘Ken- tucky to the Union, as we hope it will save Mis- sonri, Maryland and s!] the border States. But in the midst of the fruition of the happy results of this sound policy the cup is rudely dashed from the lips by the abolitionists and their twin organs, the Trime and Times. In league with the Southern rebels, they get up a meeting in New York, whose manifest sim and tendency is to mar the good effects of the pro clamations of the government, to embarrass and distract the government itself and the people at large, by rendering uncertain and visionary the objects of the war. Their course is calenlated to prolong the exhausting struggle by changing the issue from one of human law to put down rebellion and treason to one of “a higher law,” “the law of God,” to abolish negro slavery throughout the land by the strong arm of the | federal government, making no distinction whatever between the friends of the govern- ment and its enemies, between loyal citizens of the South and traitors and rebels in arms. It needs no ghost to tell us that the effect of such a policy as this would bo to unite the South as one man, and thus take away the main ground of hope on which the war was inaugu- rated—the adhesion of the Union sentiment of the South to the federal cause, so soon as the progress of our arms gave it free utterance Again, the effect of the abolition fanaticism, if adopted by the government, would be not only to unite the South, but to disunite the North. The masses of the people, who are zealous for the war for the Union and for the honor of the flag, would be chilled to the heart by the id that it was to be a war of injustice—a fanatical abolition crusade against those undoubted rights which are reserved by the constitution, the only bond of the Union, and whose security is the condition of loyalty; for protection and allegiance are reciprocal, and the latter cannot exist without the former. Tt is thus evident that the anti-slavery fanatics are doing their utmost to injure the cause of the Union, both at the North and at the South; and while they profess. that their movement is for “liberty and Union,” their interpretation of liberty is the emancipa- tion of the blacks, involving the amalgamation of races and the deterioration of our Anglo- Saxon blood by mingling it with that of the negro—the chief cause of the misfortunes and degradation of the Mexican, Central American and South American republics. The fanatics and the demagogues who lead them want “lib- erty” for blacks—the liberty not to work—at the expense of the liberty and rights of the white man; and the Union they desire is a Union for the accomplishment of this unholy object, not the restoration of the Union established by our ancestors. It becomes the duty of the go- vernment, therefore, to put down all such meet- ings as that held at the Astor House; to seize theringleaders and send them to Fort Lafayette, and to suppress their organs—the Trilnme and Times—and the whole tribe of incendiary jour- nals represented at the late abolition gathering. Great Briar anp Tae Insvrrgetion.—When the American Revolution of 1776 broke out there existed in France the most despotic mon- archy in the world. Yet France favored the colonists in their struggle against the oppressive authority of Great Britain, and the French peo- ple gained a new idea by the example of reyo- lution in the New World, which not long after- wards developed itself in their own great Revo- lution, which swept away that kingdom and in- augurated a new era in the history of France. In the same manner we now find England giving support to the insurrectionists ingthe present struggle, although the latter have nothing like the cause for rebellion that the old colonists had. The moral encouragement which England has extended to this causeless and unprovoked uprising of the South against the authority of the federal government is perfectly anomalous when we consider the nature of her antecedents, For thirty years she agitated egalnst slavery. and now she shows herself in favor ot | it, She has preached in favor of established governments, and now she countenances insur- rection. What, then, will be the effect of such examples upon the English mind, and are they not likely to react disastrously upon herself? Just as the first French Revolution followed the first American Revolution, so may the second American Revolution be succeeded by reyolu- tion in England—the latter nearly a direct con- sequence of the former. It will therefore be well for the British government to take warn- ing in time, and not lose sight of the future in their present policy towards this country; otherwise the present British monarchy may be swept away as ruthlessly as was that of France. In no former age could this have been done as easily as in our own, and no event is capable of inducing causes more provocative of it than the one which now agitates this continent. The Moral Victory at Syracuse—Triumph of Conservative Ideas. The results of the late People’s Convention, held at Syracuse, must be gratifying to all loyal men throughout the North. It was one of the largest conventions that has assembled in the State, conservative in its bearings and highly national in a political sense. It not only pur- sued a safe policy, declaring itself in favor of & vigorous prosecution of the war, and for strengthening the hands of the administration, that it might more speedily put down the rebel- lion—and all this without any ifs or ands—but it forced the republican party from its radical and extreme platform. Its platform, when com- pared with the sneaking, double dealing and many sided resolutions of the late Democratic Convention, is exceedingly satisfactory. We can, in fact, look upon the result of this gather- ing of the people inno other light than the com- plete overthrow of all factions in the State. The hards and softs, hunkers and barnburners, silver grays and woolley heads, radicals, abo- litionists, Americans, shoddyists and all other cliques and combinations have all gone down together, and a new, conservative and national party has sprung into existence, pledged to sup- port the government, maintain the constitution and the restoration of the country to its former condition. The conservative and national tendency of the people gathered there forced the Republican Convention into the same channel, and suc- ceeded in putting dowa the men of radical ideas on all sides. The republican party likewise now stands before the world stripped of its Chicago platform, forced to abandon it by the uprising of the people. When Lucius Robin- son, before the war really commenced, led off in the State Assembly in favor of com- promise measures, he was denounced on all sides as abandoning the Chicago plat- form and the fundamental principles of the republican creed. Weed alone, of all the leaders of the republican party in the State, planted himself on a similar platform, and was denounced by not only the Greeley faction, but by many of his personal associates, and ac- cused of being a traitor to his party. Less than nine months have rolled around since that posi- tion was taken by Weed and Robinson, and we now find that the republican party, in its own Convention, has abandoned the Chicago platform, and been forced upon issues and to support candidates conservative and national. The re- publicans have even been compelled to take Robinson as one of their standard bearers, and have not a man on their ticket of the extreme republican faith. Whatever may be said of Weed’s defeat, in a local or personal sense, no one can deny but that, in a national point of view, he has triumphed over Greeley; and such it will be considered, not only at Washington, but throughout the country. The platform enunciated is national, and without any attacks upon the administration; the candidates nomi- nated are all, without exception, conservative; the ideas and doctrines daily advocated in the Tribune and Times have not a representative on he ticket or a sliver in the platform. In this view the public receive it; and we now rejoice that the people, and even the republican party, have declared that they have had enough of the Chicago platform. While our military generals are preparing for a glorious victory over the armed extremists of the South, we are thus per- mitted to record an equally important moral victory over the extremists of the North. Our Royat ann Foreian Minrrary Visrrers.— The struggle in which we are engaged has not merely engrossed the attention of other nations, but is daily bringing to our shores numbers of distinguished visiters, anxious to become spec- tators of a contest which has had no parallel in the history of the world. The arrival of Prince Napoleon, the cousin of the French Emperor, and second heir to his throne, was set down by the quidnuncs to motives of personal interest. It would be more just to ascribe it to the curi- osity which, as a military man, he naturally feels ‘in a war waged under conditions entirely excep- tional, and presenting so many features of novel- ty to an eye accustomed to the scientific govern- ment and strict discipline of European armies. The visit of the Prince de Joinville, though having for its object the placing of his son at our Naval Academy, has no doubt been also in- fluenced in regard to time by the events now transpiring here. The fact of his being ac- companied by his nephews, the Duc de Paris and the Duc de Chartres, confirms this impression, These young men are the sons of the late Due d’Orleans, and the eldest is consequently one of the pretendents to the French throne. The object of these young men in coming here has, however, no more reference to their own interests than that of Prince Napoleon. Although the history of their family presents many remarkable turns of good and bad fortune, they are not simple enough to imagine that out of our troubles there are likely to arise for them chances of regaining the positions they have lost. They are actuated by just the same feeling which brings among us from Russia Prince Liebenhoff, from Prussia Prince Salm-Salm, from Spain Gen- eral Planos, and from England Colonel Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest and Sir Jehn Murray, the latter of whom is serving in the federa) army. Of some of these distinguished person- ages we have already published biographical notices. Of the remainder, similar sketches will be found in our columns to-day. The desire to witness our republican institu- tions, tested under conditions of internal strife and military vigor, is sufficient to account for the presence of these eminent persons, without secking to invest them with political motives. The spectacle is no ordinary one, and may never again be witnessed. The issue of this contest will decide whether our republican system possesses the elements of durability, or whether it is vorishable, like other forms of government, The magnitude of the stake in- volved holds the world in an attitude of breath- less expectation. Like the duel of old between the FJoratii and Curiatii, hostile armies, which were about to precipitate themselves in deadly shock against each other, suspend theiraction and remain silent witnesses of the scene. All other wars become paralyzed and impossible in the presence of a tremendous conflict like this: Having such a drama to offer to the inspection of the curious, it is of course not to be wondered ‘at that we should muster an audience in which foreign Princes and rival candidates for thrones figure as plentifally os mushrooms. The Expansion of Ideas Down South, In April last, just at the commencement of hostilities between the North and the South, Mr- G. B. Lamar—a gentleman well known and respected here for his quiet, conservative views and conduct—resigned his position as President of the Bank of the Republic, in this city, and re- moved his local habitation to the State of Geor- gia,or the Empire State, as the Confederates prefer calling it. Mr. Lamar’s experience fur- nishes us a most apt illustration of the vast expansion of ideas and imagination generated by the heated Southern air, and conclusively proves, what we have so often asserted, that the most practical common sense man in the world is transformed’ into a Baron Munchausen by a very short residence upon Confederate soil in these piping times of war. Shortly after Mr. Lamar’s arrival — at Savannah he was chosen President of the Bank Convention at. Atlanta, Georgia, but at that time he could scarcely sympathize with the expanded views of the seceded financiers, and in part sustained the reputation he had acquired here as an excellent practical business man, with no chimerical nonsense about him. Nothing could resist the effect of Southern air, more potent than that of fairy land, however, and now we find the practical Lamar writing to his friends here that the Southerners have half a million soldiers now in the field; that they will have a full million by the Ist of. next May; that by the date of the receipt of his letter Washing- ton will be captured by the Confederate forces; that Baltimore, being secessionist at heart, will next be easily taken, and that Philadelphia will then be captured and its rich stores go to fill the stomachs and pockets and cover the limbs, backs and general nakedness of. Jeff. Davis’ land pirates. As to the half million of men already in the field, that is a statement to which not only McClellan, but also Beanregard and Johnston, may take objection. We can imagine the be- wilderment of the rebel officers when they are assured that they have half a million of men at command, and yet find it impossible to hunt up these mythical troops. In what field?” they indignantly demand, as they survey their deci- mated forces—some sick of the camp measles and the smallpox; Mississippians breaking their rifles and going home; North Carolinians leaving by whole regiments on the double quick to defend their own sea coast, and take a long, regretful look at Forts Clark and Hatteras—“in what field?” As to the million to be raised by next May, that is merely a question of proba- bility. The whole Southern States—Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia included—have, accord- ing to the census of 1860, only one million one handred thousand males between the ages of eighteen and forty-five. Now, if the Confede- rates get all these men, they will do more than ever Napoleon could do with the aid of his con- script system, or, indeed, than any other man ever did. Still the ranks may be filled up with the old and the young—veterans in years and babes in arms—and perhaps a million of people may be raised. But nota million of men, but of children and people in their second child- hood. If so, however, we cannot see it, and we don’t think any one outside of Confederate- dom can. If Washington is taken, then our telegraphic reporters must be slow fellows, or else the whole thing has been so very quietly managed—as most rebel “victories” are—that nobody knows anything of it, except Lamar and the South Carolinians. Baltimore and Philadelphia may be taken after Washington is taken—just as Porson said that a certain book would be read when Shakspeare was forgotten— but not until then. But why stop at Philadel- phia? Why not take New York, also, and de- populate Broadway and decash Wall street? This taking cities by letter is so very easy a plan that we wonder it is not adopted as a gene- , ral rule of warfare, as Cooper’s Monikins made verbal promises to pay a legal tender through- out their dominions, and exactly equal toa cash settlement. Besides, this is the only way in which these cities will ever be taken by the Confederates, and so why not have the fun and the glory of itat once? Let Lamar write an- other letter, by all means, and occupy New York. The moral of all this is that the Southern at- mosphere is inimical to truth, and that the Southern confederacy is a huge confederated lie. When the ideas of such a man as‘Lamar become expanded toa million of men and to Philadelphia, to what numbers and distances may we not expect older and more practiced residents of the confederacy to extend? Seces- siondom is like a brilliant soap bubble, float- ing in the sunshine, filled with gas and sustained by a great deal of blowing. Pretty soon the gas or the blowers will give out, and then there will be a crash—the confederacy will vanish, and no remnant of its brief but gaseous exist- ence will remain, except, perhaps, a few episto- lary trophies like that of Lamar. Tre Svnorpiates IN THE DEPARTMENTS AT Wasmnotoy.—We publish in another column an enthusiastic letter about Quartermaster General Meigs. We have no disposition to dis- pute the truth of the statement. On the con- trary, we are glad to find that General Meigs is so zealous and upright an officer. We would not detract one iota from his public character, or from that of any other officer of the govern- ment. At the same time we hold that all the trouble that has arisen, and all the obstructions to the progress of our arms by land and by sea, have been owing to the subordinates in the War and Navy Departments. These men have proved, some of them, traitors to the cause of the Union, and others unfit for their positions from incompetency. We are in the midst of a terrible rebellion and a great war, and the jog-trot sort of men, who might answer well enough in peace, will not suit the present emergency. If the govern- ment appoint young generals in the field—such as McClellan, Fremont and Rosecrans— for the same reason they ought to appoint young, energetic officers as subordinates in the departments, for they are the men to whom is intrusted the duty of sup plying the army and gavy with men, money, muuitions and all the material of war by land and dea. It is manifestly of importance that they should be such po ane will keep Pace with the rapid and vigorous movements of our young generals. If water and fuel are not supplied in abundance, and the right kind of men are not placed in charge of the fires and the steam boilers, if Is impossible for the engi- neer of the Ship of State to make good time, or for her commander anil erew to give a good ac- count of themselves, We perceive that the Southern papers bitterly complain of the indolence amd neglect of their War Department, to which they attribute the failure of Beauregard to makd such use of his victory at Manassas as to hase’ captured the whole Union army and the city of Washington. We apprehend that the Union has been cheated out of greater victories by the inactivity and incompetence of the subordinates imour Navy and War Departments. Important To Minrrary Surcgons—Lecrures ON AMPUTATIONS AND GuNsHoT Wounps.—To- day, at twelve o’clock, the: fall. course of lec- tures at the Medical College, No. 90 East Thirteenth street, will be opened by a lec- | ture of Prof. Carnochan on “ Amputations,’’ which is to be followed up to-morrow (Tues day), at twelve o'clock, by a lecture of Prof. Raphael on “Gunshot Wounds.” At the present moment these lectures by two such distinguished professional men are highly interesting and im- portant, and all young surgeons about to serve in the army and navy ought to attend, mark, | learn and inwardly digest. They will soon have work on their hands, for which the discourses of the eminent lecturers are well calculated to prepare them. OUR ROYAL VISITERS. Movements of the Prince de Joinville, His Son and Nephews—Sketch of the Count de Paris. ‘The Prince de Joinville and his illustrious companions haying found in the Brevoort House, in the Fifth avenue, such comfortable and sumptuous accommodations as Dofit their rank and condition, have quictly settled dowm into the regular routine of any citizen of New York. Provious to hisarrival here the Prince communicated with the proprietors, of this fino hotol, to ascertain whether he could obtain suitable apartments for his friende ‘and himself, and having received an affirmative reply, caused all the necessary proparations to be made, 60 tha, on his arrival here he had nothing to do but to take pos session of his rooms. ‘These are all located on the samc floor, are splendidly furnished, airy, commodious anc comfortable in every particular. ‘The royal party soctr to be quite satisfied with their quarters, as they wil doubtless be with New York and its good citizens. On Saturday ovening last the Prince de Joinville accompanied by his son, the young Duke of Pov thiovre, and one or two of the gontleme of honor, and Senhor Lisboa, the Brazilian Consul, lof this city for Newport, Rhode Island, where: he will vis the Naval School, recently stablished there. The probs bility is that tho Prince will leave the Duke in tb Academy to prosecute his naval studies, if he approve « the regulations governing that institution. There az ample provisions at Newport for the comfort and conv: nience of the naval students, and if the Duke remait there ke will not Gnd the winter months 0 dreary as som might suppose. Although the summer visiters have all r turned to their distant homes, there are a goodly numb: of permanent residents there, forming the nucleus of veal choice and select society. The Atlantic House—situate in the most delightful part of the city, with a fine park front—has been, or is now being fitted up ina most clab rate manner, as the winter quarters of the student Gas and steam pipes are being introduced throughout ¢ house, and on the 20th September the Naval Acaden will open its sessions there, so that the young Bourbj will be surrounded by every external comfort, which be greatly enhanced by the companionship of t) intelligent young gentlemen who are being prepa) for an important branch of their country’s service. It not positively statod that the Prince will leave his son. this occasion; but as the Duke has arrived at the prop, age for matriculation, and as the education of the you man is the principal aim and object of his father’s sence hore, it seems most probable that this will be « result of the trip to Newport. As we already stated, Duke de Penthieyre is the second child and o son of the Prince de Joinville, who in M 1843, married the Princess Dona Francoise Cr line Jeame Charl Loop Romaine Xaviero da Paula Mica } Gabricla Rafacla Gonzague, daughter of the late 2 Pedro tho First, Emperor of Brazil,and therefore ter of the reigning Emperor. ‘The Prince de Joinvil! expected to return to the city of New York on Tues morning next. In the absence of their uncle at Newport the Cx de Paris (Louis Philippe Albert d’Orleans) and Due de Chartres (Robert Philippe Louis Eugene Fordir | @Orleans) continue at the Brevoort House, remai:! principally in their own apartments, but going out casionally for a ride or a walk to view city and its environs, They live in a style grcat republican simplicity; dress, cat, and drink lik: dinary mortals; speak English with considerable fluen’ attained during their long residence in England—anc courteous, gentle, affable and kind in their ‘add They take their mca's in the publicrefectory, wit! other guests of the house, and in every way deport tl selves.as simple citizens. Yesterday morning, with friends, they attended public worship, as most de people do, and in the afternoon went out fi ride somewhere in the vicinity of the Ce Park. From the inquiries of the Count do concerning the means of conveyance to | Point, it is supposed that the princely 1 will to-day mako an excursion up the Hudson river. Count has been supplied with all the information n sary, and will, in all probability, proceed to West I starting carly, soas to get a good view of the v sconery that line the banks of the river. ‘The Count de Paris is the eldest son of the late Dr Osleans, and was, before the grand stroke of thc | sent Emperor of the French, the direct to the throne of France. His mother, | late Helene Louise Elizabeth de Mecklenbourg Schv| was a Princess of the Orleans family. On the % May, 1837, she married the Duke of Orleans, the son of Louis Philippe. The mepriage was celebra Paris with the greatest magnificence, only marred terrible accident, which occurred at the Champ de By another most unfortunate accident, the Prince: camo a widow about five years afterwards—her hu having been violently thrown from a horse, r ing injuries which resulted in his death. widowed Princess mourned bitterly for a time, and only found consolation in the exp. intelligence of her two sons, whose education she intended in person. Although a Protestant herse caused the young men to be brought up in the relig| their father. She died at Richmond, in England, ¢ 18th of May, 1858. It is the intention of the whole royal party to p) ona short tour to the West, but it is not yet ascer how far they will go. Report of the Quartermaster Gene the United States Army. TO THE RDITOR OF THE HERALD. Although General Moigs requires no vindicators than his own works, Icannot suffer your unjust to him in yesterday's paper to pass unnoticed. Th of General Meigs are perfectly incredible, and to used to hard and varied toil would be overwhelmi ‘addition to the detail of his various subordinates a| military post, each separate item of which pass« his eye, his immense correspondence, personally ed, his close scrutiny and execution of contracts, judication of accounts, and, more than all, his pers ‘tention to the throngs of contractors having busing his department, form a total of labor that few moj encounter, and fewer still successfully accomplish, No predecessor of General Meigs has ever been with a tithe of tho duties devolving upon him. kept pace with the organization of an army of 300 ( and no requisitions upon him have found his dep at fault, What McClellan is to the discipline of th Meigs is to their equipment; his eyo is everywh| hand at every point,and it is too well known scaroely the mention that his incorruptible hon unswerving devotion to the interests of the fectually destroy overy attempt at fraud, while bj iy ‘and energy are never behind the public ‘am no contractor nor dependent upon General the government, but it has fallen to my lot to know what [have here written. You will do simple justice to publish it,