The New York Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1861, Page 4

oie 4. 2 ee at a | NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. No. 260 Volume XXV1............cccee terete AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ACADEMY OF MU: c¢.—P'nov. HeRRMANN. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway. —Cixpereita—New Yore Wives. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Buut. Ruy—Jonn GULER'S DAUGATER. AMERICAN MU! Vie TRUS Ati—PLe ‘4 LION, AND O: —Day 4 BOK—HI. of \. Broad- éo,—Tue Strancxs, MELODEON CONC Sonus, Dances, Buri CANTERBURY 3} Dancers, Buriesques, GAIETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway;—Drawixa Room EXTHRTAINMENTS BAaLLers, PaNtomiaes, Fances, &C. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 ets, "ANTOMIMES, &O.—MAGIO Px: CRYSTAL PALACE CO} Borursquxs, Sonos, Dances, 539 Broadway.— ARTISANS, > HALL, 685 Broadway.—Sones, T HALL, No. ques, &£0.—RIVAL. Broadway.—Sonas, Bat- ¥. THE SITUATION. An exciting scene took place after the adjourn. “Mretent of the Maryland Legislature on Monday afternoon, The military surrounded Frederick city, and Lieutenant Carmichael, of the Baltimore police, arrested the officers of the Legislature and several members. Thirty thousand copies of Wallis’ treasonable report were seized and destroyed. Several active rebel sympathizers in Frederick were also arrested. The Union members zefused to meet yesterday, and the roll not having Bcen called, owing to the absence of the clerks, he rebel Legislature is at an end by default. From General Banks’ army the tidings are very @pportant. The rumors relative to the passage of General Johnston’s rebel forces across the Potomac have proved to be without serious foundation. ‘The report that the rails taken from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad were being laid down from Strasburg to Winchester, has, like many other re- ports from Southern sources, proved to be erro- neous. It is now stated that they are being used in forming an additional line from Manassas to Richmond. A few instances of skirmishing have taken place between portions of the Union army under General Banks and the rebels. A rebel bat- tery was silenced at Sheppardstown, Virginia, by our forces on the opposite side of the river, The Leavenworth Conservative of the 11th inst. Gives a different complexion to the telegraphic re- ‘port from that place the same day, via Chicago, September 16. Instead of General Rains, with his tebels, pursuing Colonel Montgomery, it appears that acting General Lane, with the Kansas forces several thousand strong, was in active pursuit of General Rains through Western Missouri. The tidings from Jefferson City confirms the report that the rebel General Price had called upon the Union troops at Lexington to surrender; but also states that no fight had taken place up to Sa. turday. The defenders had held out bravely, and were still doing so on Monday, the last advices received. General Price is said to have fourteen thousand rebels under him. General Pope was to have been in Lexington vesterday with four thou- sand additional troops. Arrangements have apparently been made that tommunications between the British government 4nd their consuls in the rebel States shall, with the tonsent of the United States government, be made bn board a British vessel of war, instead, as here- tofore, through other channels. This method is thought likely to obviate some serious difficulties and embarrassments that have previously oc- curred. The following is the text of the much nojsed and much doubted circular or proclamation of the Captain General of Cuba relative to the rebel flag:— Havana, August 31, 1861. ‘To THE Couxctors oF Ports IN THE IstAND:— FPirsi—Vessels with the flag of the confederation of the Soutia will be admitted into the perts of this island for the Put pose of legitimate trade, provided the documents which thoy present do not inspire the least suspicion of piracy, frand or other erimes, which are punished by all national "8. Second—Once in our por! said vessels will be under the safecvard of the meutrality by the Gover. nor in the royal decree of 17th June, and cannot be mo- fested in their loading, discharging, &c. Trird—Ai the authorities will consider the above ves- sels a: procerding from a nation having no consuls ac- credited in this territory, The news from Kentucky has a very disturbed appearance. The cars from the South due at Louisville had been stopped, and had not reached the city at the time our despatches left, although at midnight on the 17th they were nearly eight hours behind time. The telegraph wires had ap- parently been cut, as communication had ceased beyond Elizabethtown, which is forty-two miles from Louisville. ‘The Union Home Guard of Louis- ville had turned out in uniform, and had marched southward. Part of General Rousseau’s Union Kentucky brigade of volunteers arrived from Camp Holt, Jeffersonville, and were also sent along the railroad line. The troubles still continuing, ener- getic measures will be used for the protection of the Unionists; and the Postmaster General, to Bive greater effect to the military movement, has ex- eluded the Louisville Courier, a rebel sheet, from the mails. A sad accident, said to be the result of treason, occurred near Huron, Indiana, on the night of the Aith inst. A railroad bridge, ten feet high, and having a span of sixty feet, gave way under a train of cars containing troops—a portion of the Nine- teenth Illinois Volunteers—precipitating nearly the whole of the cars into the bed of the creek. About ifty poor fellows were killed and about a hundred d. It is belicved that the bridge had been saliciously weakened, and if so it is time some permanent stop should be put to such diabolical agencies of rebels. Such acts as bridge burn: ing, precipitating trains down embankmen soning food and water, &c., is not legitim fare, and no quarter should be shown th who are detected in such work, Mr. Bazi ey, a Manchester cotton manufacturer, had read a paper at a meeting of the Cotton Sup- Ply Association, in that towa, in whic » pois war- wre tches demoniac kind of | h the present Commercial policy of the United States was bitter- Ay denounced, and strong recommendations given to England to make Nf independent of Ame- | Wea on this head. The Liverpool Post states that | @r. Thomas 8. Serrill must have boon sent to Fort Bafayette under a misconception, as an affidavit Bom his Lozdon bankers shows that he had no po. Btical mission, and that the mone _ 4 y takea from him | 42 New York was his own property, : | proceedings are at prc | better served if the exa: THE NEWS. The Europa, from Liverpool the 7th and Queens- town the Sth instant, reached Halifax yesterday morning on her way to Boston, Her news is two days later than that brought by the Anglo-Saxon to Father Point, Consols closed in London on the 7th September at 927% a 93 for money. Cotton was dull in Liver- pool on the 7th, with very little inquiry from ex- porters. Flour was buoyant at an advance. The new steamship City of New York was to sail on her first voyage for New York, from Liver- pool, on the 11th of September. Napoleon ex- pected to meet the King of Prussia at Compeigne on the 2d of October. M. Felix Belly has instituted a lawsuit against an English com- pany which assumed rights over the pro- jected canal in Nicaragua, Reivforcements of Italian troops had been sent to Naples. It was reported that the King of Portugal would marry the youngest daughter of Victor Emanuel. The Austrian government had definitively dissolved the Legislative Committee of Pesth, Hungary. Spain expected to soon organize her government in San Domingo completely. The steamships New York, from Bremen and Southampton, and the Kangaroo, from Liverpool and Queenstown, reached this port yesterday, with passengers, specie, valuable cargocaand European journals of the 5th inst. The extracts from our files, published to-day, are very in! ting, Bl- though the news has been anticipated The Unita Italiana of August 28 prepared ¢o announce that odéthethas the United States to General Garibaldi inviting him to present himself there with ten thousand men to take part in the war against the secessionists. The patriots who nave written to Garibaldi thus express themselves:—‘As to conditions, we accept before- hand all you intend proposing to us.” We give to-day a translation of the second letter written from the United States by—as we have every reason to believe—Prince Napoleon, and published in his organ, the Opinion Nationale, of Paris. Starting out with the declaration of ‘a most lively faith in the future of the American nation,’ the distinguished author gives a very interesting analysis of political parties in this country, showing their effect on our social man- ners and their agency in producing the revolution in which we are engaged. Prince Jerome Napoleon arrived in this city yesterday morning from Albany, having finished his tour through the West. He was accompanied by the French Minister, Mons. Mercier From China we learn that the United States steamer Saginaw was fired on from a government fort, quite unexpectedly, while cruising along the coast from Hong Kong in search of the missing vessel Myrtle. The Saginaw, after a time, threw shot and sliell into the place, and, it was thought, exploded the magazine, when she returned to Hong Kong. Dates from Rio Janeiro are to August 7; Buenos Ayres, July 30; Montevideo, July 31, and Asuncion, Paraguay, July 20. Exchange at Rio had not improved, being quoted at 2414, and sales of coffee had fallen off immensely, only 9,000 bags for the United States being sold in two weeks Hostilities had not commenced in the Argentine Confederation, and the French, English and Peru- vian Ministers were endeavoring to effect a com- promise between Generals Mitre and Urquiza, but the latter refused to attend a conference on the ground that the Executive alone was the treat- ing power, and in the mean time the press of Rosa- rio was insisting that the surrender of the leaders in Buenos Ayres to the civil authorities for trial was the only basis of a compromise the govern- ment would listen to. The National Congress in session at Parana passed a law on the 24th of July depriving the Buenos Ayrean members of their functions. So, on the whole, the chances for peace look rather slim. Business in Buenos Ayres was entirely suspended, and provisions fearfully high. At Montevideo quite a number of French and English vessels of war had assembled in connection with the claims—fixed last March at four millions of dollars instead of five millions, payable in thirty years with interest—of those nations against the governmentof Uruguay. Uruguay offers three per cent, while the others insist on five, in considera_ tion of having taken off a million from the originay claim. The press of Montevideo is urgent for neu. trality inthe Buenos Ayres quarrel, but prepara- tions to assist Urquiza continued. By the arrival of the overland expresses we have advices from San Francisco to the 4th instant, and also news from Oregon, Nevada, Lower California, British Columbia and the Russian American pos- sessions. A copious telegraphic summary of the news may be found in another part of to-day’s paper. The steamer St. Louis left San Francisco on the 31st ultimo, with $1,135,000 in treasure, $945,000 of which is for New York. The State election took place in Galifornia on the day of the departure of the express, and the inte- rest in the result of the contest was so intense that business affairs were entirely neglected. The opinion generally prevailed that the republican ticket would be elected by a handsome plurality, thus establishing the loyalty of the State to the Union. Three military camps had been establish- ed, and the quota of five thousand was being rapidly recruited. Judge Cradlebaugh, Union democrat, has been elected delegate to Congress from Nevada Territory. The survey of the boun- dary line between Washington Territory and Bri- tish Columbia has been completed, and the United States Commissioners had arrived at San Fran- cisco on their way to Washington to make their report. ‘he Massachusetts Democratic State Convention met at Worcester yesterday, and nominated Tsaac Davis, of Worcester, for Governor, and Edwin C. Bailey, of Boston, for Lieutenant Governor. A series of resolutions in favor of sustaining the fede- ral government in a vigorous prosecution of the war were adopted. The opening of the new college attached to Bellevue Hospital took place yesterday afternoons in the spacious building recently erected at the foot of Twenty-sixth street, East river. Professor James R. Wood delivered the opening discourses which was devoted to a description of the progress of medical science in New York from the time of his first connection with Bellevue Hospital down to the present day. He also briefly but cloquently alluded to the circumstances which led to the es- tablishment of the new college. It is to be re- gretted that we have no room fora fuller report iscourse. Quite a number of distinguished persons occupied positions on the platform, and | among them we noticed the Rev. Dr. Cummings, Professors Doremus, Barker, Sayre, Flint, MeCrea- B. Mott, Taylor and Elliot. cious lecture hall, *n room, and a most ility that could pos- i hy the medical student is afforded, other ady too numerous to rked that a boat will be at an unus valuable museum. sibly be de and beside mention, it may be rer the service of the aliumui to visit the various i tations under the control of the Commissioners of Public Charities. The re iedical course will begin on the 16th of October. Business at the Custom Mouse is at present in anything but a flourishing condition. Several new appointments have been made by Collector Barney | during the last few days, the former occupants of the desks being removed te make room for them. The names of the the newly appointed clerks are not known to any one in the Custom House except the Collector. The zure of the British brig Mystery will be inquired into to-day; nt withheld from publica- tion, as it is thought the ends of justice will be ution of the Mystery #¢ is c mducted with secrecy. Ad ep eetast Segoe Lau be City Lispeclen . Gobiva eacy hey Lucy Une atog | the but the | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1861. was laid before the Charter Commissi Tuesday last. In it Mr. Delavan shows ve clusively the unfitness of the Board of Health as at present constituted. The present administration of the dispensary system, and the benefit it has been to the city are claborately illustrated. The Inspector states that the present sanitary regula- tions of the city are objectionable and the system inefficient, and proposes the formation of a new Board of Health, The document, which is a very lengthy one, is crowded out of our columns by the pressure of advertisements and war news. There was a meeting of the Board of Ed last evening. The only business of any sp terest that came up was a report from the | Committee against the purchase of the lot No. 293 Pearl street, for $16,500, fer the erection of a school- honse in the Second ward, and also a protest against the report from the local-board of that ward. In the course of the discussion it was stated that the property is only assessed for $10,000. The Board finally adopted the report of the Finance Committee. In the General Sessions yester¢ay Edward Sten- nison pleaded guilty to grand larceny, and wassen- tenced to imprisonment in the State prison for three years and éight months. John J. Hayes was tried and convicted of bigamy, the prineipal wit ness for the prosecution being Jane White, whom he married on the 13th of September, 1860, while his first wife was living. On the cross-examination Miss White admitted that she was guilty of a serious indi ion hefore the marriage, but stated Hatin deSnaut owe: Ashe aueriabe ceremony was performed at a house in Thompson street, and the event by agreement was kept secret for a few months; but as soon as Miss White dis- covered that Hayes had a wife living she caused his arrest and subsequent conviction. He was re- manded till Saturday for sentence. Anthony Moran was placed on trial, charged with attempt- ing to-kill Philip O'Hara by cutting him with a large knife, but the case was not finished when the Court adjourned. ‘The Commissioners of Emigration paid a visit to the institutions on Ward's Island yesterday. The number of emigrants landed here last week was 765, which makes the total since January 1, 56,466. The commutation balance now amounts to $14,376 68. The market for beef cattle yesterday was buoyant, and prices were a little better, ranging from 5Y4c. a 8c. a8%c., anda few at 9c. The offerings were most- ly ordinary. Milch cows were quiet. Veal calves were more active, and prices were rather better, ranging from 444c. a 54%c. a Gc. Grass fed veals sold at from $450 to $9 per head. Sheep and lambs were steady and unchanged. Swine were active and better, corn fed selling at 444c. a 4Y%e., and still fed at 34%4c. a3%{c. The receipts were 4,151 beeves, 91 cows, 545 veals, 13,234 sheep and lambs, and 6,499 swine. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to about 200 300 balos, in small lots. ‘The transactions were too lim- ited to afford any just criterion of the state of the mar- ket. We continue to quote middling uplands at 2134c. a 22c., according to quality, conditions of payment, &c. Holders, ag a general thing, seemed to manifest no want of confidence, while buyers wero inclined to stand aloof for the moment. Flour was in fair demand and firm for shipping brands, while prices were without change of im” Portance. Wheat was some less active, and closed at about le. per bushel lower. Corn was in good request and rather firmer, especially for shipping lots of Western mix- ed. Pork was steady, with sales of mess at $14373¢ a $14.50, and of primo at $9 75 a $10. It was said tho go- verument proposals for 9,000 bbls. would be opened to- day. Sugars were firm, with sales of 600 hhds. , 450 boxes and 12,000 bags of Manila on terms given in another place. Coffee was firm and active, with sales of 10,868 bags of Rio, part at 14%. a 14%c., and the remainder at p. t. Freights were firm, with a fair amount of engage, monts at full rat The American Loan in England—A Com- plete Revolution. We publish to-day a remarkable article from the London Times, in which that journal not only recedes from its former position about the American loan, admitting now that it isa good investment, but “acknowledges that the citizens of the new Union, though reduced to twenty millions in number, might be taxed to an extent hithérto unknown on the other side of the Atlantic.” Nothing would be easier, the Times admits, than to raise the federal re- venue permanently to $200,000,000. The Times admits that the soundness of the conclu- sion of our government, to borrow in the Ame- rican market only, has been established by the very first experiment. The success of the loan among our own people has opened the eyes of the English stockjobbers. A change has come over the spirit of their dream, and their teeth now water for the large interest out of which they have been cheated by the misrepresentations of their organ, the London Times, which now makes the amende by admitting its error as far as could be expect- ed at first. It is evidently the beginning of a revolution in the course of that journal, and in the financial, commercial and political circles which it represents. It is the inanguration of a revolution in the Times in the very teeth of the statements of the special war correspondent of that journal, Dr. Russell, whose trash no longer passes current in England; for the people of that country have begun to flnd out what every- body here always knew—that Russell is about as ignowant of the country as he is of Japan, The London Times is sure to come round at the right moment in revolutions, whether they are monetary, commercial or political. It did so in 1832. Before that year the Times had always been a strong tory journal. But the formidable revolutionary movement of the masses of the people, who demanded an exten- sion of the suffrage, and threatened London, if not the throne itself, wrought a sudden change in Printing House Square, and one fine morning our British cotemporary came out a whig jour- naland the advocate of popular rights. The Reform bill was carried in Parliament by the pressure from without, and the sagacity of the Times was established.* It displays equal saga- city now in shifting its sails to the change of wind in England. The philosophy of this change is that the Eng- lish hold some five hundred millions worth of our Slate stocks and old federal securities, and they now discover that the present loan, bear. ing such high interest, is an excellent invest- ment, and that the American bankers and finan. ciers, who necessarily know more about its worth than Englishman, have eagerly taken it, So good, indeed, is it that the government and | the monetary interest have kept it all on this side of the Atlantic. The English holders of our stocks thus see that we can carry on the war to a successful issue—that we car raise the money to put down the Southern rebellion more easily Englan@ raised the finances to over- throw yoleon and the French Revolution. lience they are alarmed lest they should lose sif they meddled with our internal affair and, besides, they want a share ii the profits arising from the new loan, that they find it is so capital an investine! This is the secret of the London own words, for it is the orga now n now of stocks ayainst cotton, with us about Jt is a questi and they fear that ia qiarrelli also the cotton; and in this they are undoubted- ly right. . The financial and commercial condition of no nation was ever better than that of the United States at this moment. The commerce of the world is as open to us as it was to Eng- land in her wars with Napoleon, and though we do not import as much as before the war, it is because the South is cut off by the blockade, and the imports are just ¢ ,cased to the ex- tent of her wants. Consequently the North suffers no loss on that score, Our internal re- sources are far superior to those of England in her most palmy days. So vast is the country, and such are the varieties of its productions, that the States have a great internal trade among themselves, which, so far from suffering in consequence of the war, is greatl y stimulated thereby. This is apparent from the statement as to the progress of railroad business in the money article of yesterday’s Heraup. It ex- ceeds by eleven per cent the business for the same period of last year, The loan, expended among our own population, is setting in motion the wheels of manufactories and commercial agencies, and giving employment to millions, If the English government and English cotton manufacturers and stock operators will only keep perfectly quiet, we will undertake, in two months from the present time, that our ‘army; with the military mevements now in ope- ration, will penctrate to the very centre of the cotton States, and supply them with all the cot; ton they want—say 4,000,000 bales, value two hundred millions of dollars; and at the same time we will let them have as much of the new loan as we can spare, though they will then have to pay a far higher price for it than now. It is so valuable an investment for our own citizens that we prefer keeping it to ourselves. But if England is henceforth civil, and conducts herself pro- perly, we will allow her stockjobbers to have a little of it when it gets above par. But if Euro- pean Powers should be so rash as to meddle in our domestic affairs, they will only delay the time when they can get cotton, they will not get a dollar of our new loan, they will forfeit the stocks of this country they now hold; and when we have settled our family quarrel here, and shall have 300,000 fighting men who will want employment in that line, then let those European countries—particularly England and Spain—who possess colonies in the New World, look out for the avenging swoop of the Ame- rican eagle. Tue Rev. Dr. Cuzever “ at Home ”—An ABo LiTIoN Frstivat.—The Rey. Dr. Cheever, having returned from his church begging and abolition preaching tour in England, was warmly wel- comed on Thursday evening last, at an abolition jove feast at the residence of the Rev. S. R, Da- vis, 18 East Twenty-eighth street. “The par. lors were hung with portraits and mottoes suita- ble to the occasion.” The affair, indeed, was quite a brilliant abolition demonstration in its pictorial and mechanical arrangements, and likewise in its fervent abolition prayers and speeches. Some of the choice emancipation agitators who figured*in the late seditious “ Lib- erty and Union meeting” at the Astor House were present. The inspiring theme of this jubi- lee over Dr. Cheever was, of course, our South- ern institution of slavery, and “the duty of im- mediate and entire emancipation;” and the great feature of the evening was, of course, the Speech ef the immaculate Cheever himself; and our readers may judge of the staple of his discourse from this single passage:—“If the claims of freedom, justice, humanity—the claims of the enslaved—are not made the ob- jects of this war, then there is needed no pro- phet’s ken to know what will be down in his- tory upon this country—infamy, infamy.” The Rev. Dr. Tyng, next in order, harped upon the same string, to this effect:—* We shal] never take one successful step until we take the first righteous step” (the abolition of slavery). “That we shall ever come out of this warfare at the door through which we went in is,in my judgement, impossible. We cannot come out but with a country free or a country overcome, And I say for myself, much as I loved, in my old federal education, the Union, I would rather go back and live upon the shores of the Merrimac, and in the single State of Mas- sachusetts, than I would form a Union again with the South, if the cancer of slavery is to be inits bosom.” In fact, the reverend gentleman declared that he would rather see “the utter ex- tinction of the whole confederacy,” and resolved into its elements, than gain the glory of a great majestic people at the sacrifice of a great princi- ple—the principle of emancipation. We select these specimen bricks of this aboli- tion love feast from the copious report of the Tribune, whose sympathies and labors are de- voted to the same object. We denounce the whole affair and all its affiliations as demoral- izing, seditious and treasonable; for if it be trea- son to “give aid and comfort to the enemy” in this war, it is treason to be laboring to sow the seeds of discord, and to stir up our abelition fanatics against the administration charged with the great responsibility of saving our gov- ernment from a violent overthrow, We call the attention of the government to these seditious agitators of abolition. In seeking to divide our loyal people, to distract our counsels and to embarrassthe administration, they are giv- ing “aid and comfort to the enemy,” and hence we contend that these abolition disorganizers deserve no less the restraints of Fort Lafayette than the secession emissaries, agents and co- laborers of Jefferson Davis and his rebel con- federates. Tue Recent Canamrry ry Parapecrnata.—The deplorable accident at the Continental theatre, in Philadelphia, by which six ballet girls have already met their death and several others have been maimed for life, proves the culpability of employers who neglect ordinary precautions against the common risks of every-day existence- Had the lights in this theatre been provided with glass chimneys or wirework Miss Gale's dress could not have taken fire, and the tragedy recorded would never have oceurred. In like manner, if Miss Gale, when her clothes became ignited, instead of rushing to and fro and com- municating the conflagration to those around her, had summoned presence of mind sufficient to lie down and roll herself on the floor, she would in all probability not only have saved | her own life, but the lives of those who suffered with her. Even had there been | alum or soda mixed with the starch used on the dresses of these girls, they would have been rendered practically in- combustible. But ia no case was there any provision against accident, and therefore, as a natural consequence, the worst results followed. The Coroner’s jury upon the dead bodies of the victims have returned a verdict which casts blame upon no one—not even upon the manager of the theatre, who, gitber from motives of | economy or carclessness that ought to be made criminal, failed to guard the gaslights. The jury were too lenient in their judgment by far, as the occasion offered a good opportunity for bringing country managers to their senses, and securing something like personal safety to their employes. It is melancholy to read either the list of accidents in the daily journals, of of ac- cidental deaths in the annual returns of mor- tality, and reflect upon the direct or indirect carelessness and other preventible causes from which they arise. Tue Maryianp Sxcession LeGisLaTure TAKES Care or.—Read our telegraphic advices upon this subject. The government has interposed the strong arm of its military authority to put an end to that treasonable nest of conspirators known as the Maryland Legislature. Enough of the leading members of both houses had already been seized to prevent a quorum; but secession is full of expedients, and if it could not have raised a quorum for an act of seces- sion, doubtless, if not further interrupted, such an act would have been passed without a quo- rum, and would have been accepted as the sig- nal for a rebellious uprising in Maryland, in co-operation with Beauregard’s army. In put- ing an end, therefore, to this treasonable Mary. land Legislature, the government of the United States has in reality achieved a great military victory, and without bloodshed. his victory is the defeat of the game of the Maryland rebels for rushing that State into the horrors of a civil war like that which has been inflicted upon Mis- souri by her late Legislature of secession con- spirators. Beauregard and Johnston, doubtless, have been waiting for a rebel uprising in Maryland; her contraband Legislature had arranged the programme; but in not being al- lowed to “put it through,” the State, from all appearances, will be saved from the sweeping ravages of fire and sword. Let her people be thankful, and let them stand fast by the govern- ment which protects them, if they would not be utterly destroyed between two terrible fires. Meantime, while cordially endorsing the vigorous policy of our federal administration in its summary mode of dealing with secession traitors and conspirators, we would submit that our rabid, seditious and incendiary aboli- tion propaganda of the North would be cooled down considerably by a few wholesome exam- ples of martial law. If the Rev. Dr. Cheever, Dr. Beecher, or Dr. Tyng; for instance, were placed in the same port hole of Fort Lafayette with the Abbe McMaster, the experiment would probably act as a wholesome warning to the mischief making editors of our abolition news- paper organs, great and small, including those of the Post and Tribune, and the “Tittle vil- lains” of the Times. Grapva DemoraLization 1x THE SovrH.—We publish in another column a remarkable article, from the Charleston Mercury of the 16th inst., from which it appears that the greatest discon- tent prevails, throughout the Southern States, with the Confederate administration and Con- gress, and that leaders of the most ferocious school of fire-eaters are becoming discontented, and prepared to undo their own handiwork. The efforts of the rebel government to raise men and money are denounced as an absurd piece of pretentious bullying; the boast that there are from one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand Southern soldiers in Virginia is treated as pure gasconade; the confession is volunteered that the South have no general ade- quate to the task of manwuvring thirty thousand troops; and it is predicted that the upshot of the war will be that each State will have to take care of itself, and be “ left to its own devices.” What a picture! Yet we have little doubt it falls far behind the dismal reality. It has been apparent, for some time past, that the utmost jealousy prevails of the insurrec- tionary States against each other, and that the States rights politicians of South Carolina; Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama, contemplate with undisguisable alarm the paltry successes that are from time to time achieved by their commanders. They are convinced that a series of victories on the part of Beauregard, Johnston, Davis or Lee, would make these generals mas- ters of the situation and that they would esta- blish, at once, a central military despotism, which would overthrow the last remnants o liberty and of State sovereignty. They prefer the horrors of anarchy to such a result; while the latent Union force at the South, takes ad. vantage of the feeling to encourage a return to loyalty. There remains but little doubt, in view of the state of things which the Charleston Mercury exposes, that, deprived of coast de- fence, honeycombed as the Confederate army is, with disaffection, sickness, and want, tired and exhausted as the masses have become of a destructive and useless war, one single triumph of the federal arms on the Potomac will be the signal for a tremendous reaction against trea son, and aspeedy return may be looked for to the allegiance to the constitution which has been so suicidally abandoned. GENERAL FREMONT, THE ADMINISTRATION AND ovr Anorition OrGaxs.—Our abolition organs, including the Zribune and Evening Post, are close upon the verge of rebellion in consequence of President Lincoln's instructions holding General Fremont subject to the laws of Con- gress in reference to this business of the eman- cipation of Southern slaves. We can thus dis- cover the extremities to which, for abolition purposes, our anti-slavery radicals and their organs are prepared to push this war. They are prepared to set up the unauthorized edict ofa military subordinate above the authority of the President and the government; just as another of our sify and malignant abolition organs, the Times, was clamorous a short time ago for the removal of Mr. Lincoln by a mob, and the substitution of George Law as Presi- dent or Provisional President of the United States. faults and to magnify his virtues, as a politician, soldier and patriot. But we must say that this late dashing prgclamation of his, without au- thority aud upon his own responsibility, was a very indiscreet proceeding in every point of view. No subordinate officer has the right to assume any such grave responsibility as this. The President, in his mild rebuke of Fremont, has dealt very tenderly with him; but they who, with the facts before them, continue to glorify the imprudent proclamation of Fremont, are counselling insubordination in its most dan- gerous form. They should be looked after, and taught a wholesome lesson upon that first duty of loyalty in this crisis, submission to and co- operation with the government and its war policy to save the life of the nation. A Hew with One CuricKen.—The republican party with one candidate—Benj. F, Bruce, With regard to General Fremont, we | have always been disposed to overlook his | teeters heeesnnastineashtesenenensibns? Mexico anp A Proposey Evrorran Coati- ‘TION —There is still talk in Europe of the pro- posed coalition of England, France ané Spain for the settlement of the affuirs of Mexico; and the London imes, in a recent article, gives prominence to the subject. The interest which these nations feel in the future of the country is only ressonable when we consider the capital which they have invested in its mining indus- try, and, apart from their constantly increasing trade with Mexico, the importance of its geo- graphical position ts all commercial nations. Moreover the English and French—but the for- mer more particula ly—have becn subjected te all sorts of insolenc» and plunder, for which they have been unable to obtain redress. Their subjects have beer murdered, their lega- tions robbed and their ministers insulted, and affairs in Mexico are still as bad asever, Pal- liatives are useless, says Eugland, and the only remedy is coercion, to which latter “the cown- try is very acceasible, as its existence depends on its communication with the Atlantic and Pacific, which ean be closed without a blew and at any moment by the naval Powers.” Thus an end, it is maintained, may be:put to the prevailing infamy. But there must be a eo- operation of European nations. If one were te attempt the work of forcible reformation alone, the other would operate antagonistically; but with combination. a permanent settlement may be arrived at. It is therefore proposed that a ruler, to whom all Mexico would agree, might be found among the deposed princes and other seekers for authority in Europe. Among these is mentioned Patterson Bonaparte, as likely to please both America and France, and Dom Juan de Bourbon, who is plotting against the Queen of Spain in London. With regard to the former, we think he has too much good sense to yield to any such suggestion, and we further think that any Emperor or other personage the combined Powers might select to govern Mexico would have about as short a reign as its former Emperor Iturbide. At present the coalition is only rumored, but the probability of its aa- suming a definite existence is not remote. ABOLITIONIST JOURNALS ON THE FREEDOM OF THE Press.—Such disunionist organs as the Times, Liberator, Tribune and Anti-Slavery Standard, have been loud in their denunciations of the secession newspapers of the North, andin calling upon government to suppress them as treason- able. The chalice they have so warmly ad- mired is about, however, to be commended to their own lips, and there is but little room te doubt that they will suffer the penalty of their attacks upon the constitution, and their endea- vors to obstruct the course of the administra- tion in carrying on the war against Southern insurrectionists. The last Anti-Slavery Standard, goes so fur as to publish a labored editorial, in which it gives the best of reasons why its own office should be shut up immediately. It says that the “ suppression of seditious papers is es- sential ‘> the continued existence of Mr. Lin- colu’s government,” and that their “stopping was a necessity,”’ because they made war upon the established order of things. It boldly, however, includes itself in the same category with the infamous portion of the press which has already been put under the ban of the law, and exclaims, with a vehemence and malignity, worthy of the most violent diatribes of the re- bel nigger driving organs :—* We condemned what we held to be immoral and wicked in the provisions of the constitution, and proclaimed it to be the duty of every honest man to refuse to obey them. We affirmed it to be the duty of the free States to withdraw and be separated from the slave States or amend the constitution. If we are thought worthy of death for all this we are ready to die with all dignity.” “The editors of the Anti-Slavery Standard, think themselves safo; perhaps, in preaching rebellion, secession, and the overthrow of the constitution, and in courting martyrdom for their pernicious and treasonable cow It is our belief, however, that the administration cannot and will not suf- fer such diabolical teachings to go on with im- punity. The very same rule which has con- signed the Abbe McMaster, and others, to Fort Lafayette, and closed the mails to so many nigger driving secession papers, should be ap- plied to the nigger worshipping secessionists also. Until this is done, there can be no hopes of permanently allaying the ferment in the mind of the people, and satisfying them that the result of the war will be the complete triumph of the constitution and the laws over all, of both sections, who are arrayed against them. Tue Ano.itionists AND Mr. Joun Jay.—We have received a lengthy communication from Mr. John Jay, with respect to his share in the proceedings of the abolition meeting that was held the other day at the Astor House. We can afford, at the present conjuncture of affairs'in the United States, no room in our columns for any such documents, The abolition question is dead and buried for the present. We copied the report of the sayings and doings at the Astor House assembly, as we found them in the columns of the Zrilune, and are not responsible in any manner whatever, for any inaccuracies it may have contained. It is enough for us that the minds of sensible people are turned, at the present time, towards subjects far more im- portant than anything relating to the nigger. They are tired of the nigger, in all his shades and colors. Nigger worshippers and nigger drivers are equally odious to true patriots, and the elaborate discussions which they would fain parade before the public, can serve no good end, and contribute not a particle to solve satisfacto- rily the grave problems that are before the country. If Mr. Jay is a good patriot, and on- deavored, as he declares, he did, to shut out abolition heresy from the conclusions which the Astor House meeting came to, we rejoice at it, but it ishis own concern and not ours. Tur Lanovace or THE Curvatry.—The vul- gar insolence and bloodthirsty threats contained in the proclamation of Jeff. Thompsen, a rebel Brigadier General, who evidently writes under tle exasperation produced by Major General Fremont’s declaration of martial law in Missouri, are fair samples of what we may expect from the Southern chivalry. He solemnly declares that for every member of the Missouri State Guard or rebel soldier who shall be put to death, in pursuance of the order of General Fremont, he will “hang, draw and quarter a minion of Abraham Lincoln.” He further says, “I intend to exceed General Fremont in his excesses, and should these things be repeated I will retaliate tenfold, so help me God!” It is a pity that this infuriated monster is not a Choctaw or Ca- manche, so that he might enjoy himself by scalping, and possibly roasting and feeding upon his enemies, when he gets hold of them.