The New York Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1861, Page 6

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No. 45 Bowery. — bontxsques, Soncs, Dances, £0.—Biack Buuxpins POLITAN CONCERT HALL, 600 Broadway— f NGS, DaNcRS, Faces. Bunuxsqurs, on , i — = Jew York, Sunday, September 22, 1861. THE SITUATION. Onr latest accounts from Washington indicate no immediate prespects of a battle. While the effi- ciency and dsctptine of our army continue to im- prove under the vigilant supervision of General McClellan, the conduct of the rebel army in that direction would lead to the belief that no attack will be made until such time as General McClellan may decide upon an aggressive movement, which will not be until a decisive and suecessful blow can be struck. Whatover intention tho rebel generals might at ono time havo entertained of advancing upon Washington by a flank movement through Maryland, that idea has evidently beon dispelled by the vigorous measures adopted towards the unsound members of the Legislature and other disaffected parties, which crushed out the last hope of the traitors in that State. An officer of the rebel army, who is said to have held « high rank, reached Washington yesterday, having deserted from Manassas in dis- gust, states that the troops are utterly demoral- ized; that several regiments from the Atlantic and Gulf States have abandoned the service and gone home, and that the rebel forces are whol- ly incapable of either attacking or resist- ing an attack by the Union army. The “‘victory’’ of Bull ran, he says, had so disorganized the rebels that their condition was more critical after that encounter than that of the Union army, which had abandoned the field in dis- order. The guns are still maintained at the dif- ferent points of defence, and garrisons kept there merely for show, while the groat body of the army has fallen back. This information was accepted as reliable, owing to the known respectability and intelligence of the informant, who is a native of Baltimore, and was impressed into the rebel service. All was quiet in the immense army of the Potomac yesterday, and with the exception of & review of General McCall’s division by the Prince de Joinville and the commanding General, nothing occurred to disturb the monotony of the camps. The utmost confidence in the capacity of the army and a feeling of perfect security exist in the federal capital. ‘We cannot fail to notice the significant fact that, while the captious soribblers of the British press and the representatives of British aristocracy in Parliament and elsewhere are defaming our govern- ment and institutions, and sneering at the national cause, the princes of the first European empires not only endorse the struggle of the administration against rebellion, as Prince Napoloon has done in his last letter to the Opinion Nationale, but are throwing themselves into the contest in the person of the Comte de Paris and the Duc de Chartres, the grandsons of Louis Phillippe, who have just tendered their services to the President, and whose swords will henceforth be employed in the cause of a legitimate constitutional govern- ment. Thus the voice of sympathy which comes from the Emperor of Russia, the candid admission of Prince Napoleon that the American government has vitality enough to surmount the present crisis and will become greater than ever, and the adhe- sion to our army of the two Bourbon Princes, are more than an offset to the equivocal and shuffling position which English statesmen and journalists have chosen to assume towards this government at the present stage of the contest. We publish to-day an extragrdinary letter which appears in the Richmond Whig, which shows that a thorough disgust and want of confidence in tho rebel government exists to a considerable ex- tent throughout the South, The condition of the army is represented as deploratile and demoral- ized, The soldicrs, it is said, are treated worse than dogs, and the horrora of the coming winter are fearfully depicted. The rebel government is openly pronounced to be rotten and ineffective, and the incapacity of the army to accomplish any- thing inthe face of the Union forces is boldly pro- claimed. While Southern men can write and rebel journals publish such sentiments as theso, it is manifest that the state of afairs must be very bad indeed within the rebel States, The condition of things at Lexington, Missouri, where Colonel Mulligan, with his Irish Brigado, and a large force of Illinois cavalry, a Kansas To iment, and a thousand Home Guards—in all tree thousand five handred men—still holds ont pgainst the rebel General Price, with an im- Renae force, continues much the same as at ‘nat reports. By fntelligence from Kansas (ity, however, wo learn that Gen, Price, Swithe force of thirty thouvand men, made another assault on the city om Wodnesdsy, which lasted ' NEW .YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1861. for two hours, and succeeded in driving the Union troops back into their entrenchments, but that at this juncture the Irish Brigade rushed outside the works, and charging the rebels with the bayonet, scattered them in every direction. It was anid that Coneral Price would renew the attack on the following morning, wit) seventeen pieces of artil- lery. In Western Virginia the Union troops are not idle. General Reynolds, it is said, has driven the rebels from their position in Cheat Mountain, kill- ing nearly a hundred of them, but the precise dato of the action is not stated by telegraph. The Governor of Indiana has gone into Ken- tucky, by way of Lonisville, with guns and amuni- tion, to aid the Union cause, and has ordered all the troops on the frontier to hold themselves in readiness to follow. It is said that ten thonsand additional troops are ready to leave Indiana at twenty-four hours’ notice. The intelligence from Kentucky is of a most cheerful character, The people there are represented as most enthusiastic in favor of the immediate expulsion of all the rebel troops from the State, and no doubt, with the as- sistance of the Union forees from Indiana, and the determination of the Kentuckians themselves, this object will soon be accomplished, and the absurd “neutrality” of Kentucky will be exchanged for a sterling devotion to the Union as it existed ante bellum, We have late intelligence from Europe by the Saxonta, which arrived off Cape Race yesterday, with three days later news than previous ac- counts. The only item of importance relative to American affairs which sho brings is the fact that the policy of sending further reinforcements of troops to Canada at the existing crisis had been seriously questioned in England, and that, in con- sequence, it had been abandoned for the present. Whether this indicates a forced revolution in the policy of the British government towards this country, under the pressure of popular opinion, remains to be seen, and no doubt more detailed in- formation on the subject will develope the fact with more clearness. THE NEWS. By the arrival of the Saxonia off Cape Race yestorday morning we have European advices to the 11th inst., three days later than the accounts previously received. The shipment of troops from England to Canada has been suspended for the pre- sent. The organization of an Anglo-French expe- dition to Mexico to obtain redress for injuries to English and French interests was expected. The Liverpool cotton market was firm, without change in prices. Breadstuffs had advanced. The Paris Patrie of the 7th of September, under ita head of latest news, says:—According to recent advices from America we learn that the Foudre steam frigate, which was at Halifax, received or- ders on the 18th ult. to proceed immediately to Vera Cruz. This order is attributed to the diffioul- ties which had arisen with President Juarez, and which, as has been mentioned, had caused the French Minister to break off his relations with the Chief of the Mexican confederation. The living ex-Presidents, ex-Vice Presidents and ex-Cabinet officers stand as follows in their semti- ments on the present war:— i Ex-Presidents. Ex-Vice Presidents, Ex-Secretaries of State Ex-Secretaries of the Treasur, Ex-Secretaries of War... Ex-Secretaries of the Navy. Ex-Attorney Generals... Ex-Postmaster Generals, . Ex-Secretaries of the Interior. We give below a table of the Union and seces- sion voters of the fifteen Southery States, as exhi- bited when the people of that section were first called upon to decide between loyalty and rebellion. In some of the States no direct vote has yet been had, and we are, therefore, forced to estimate the strength of the two parties:— eet _t Secession. 46,672 486,554 ‘inion majority in the South- ern States, when the rebellion fist ripened, of one hundred and forty-seven thousand; and when the government gets into 9 position by which it can afford protection to the men in the South who secretly entertain loyal sentiments, nearly every man of those six hundred and thirty-three thou- sand Unionists, as shown above, will take up arms in defence of the Stars and Stripes. One of General McOlellan’s officers recently told him that he thought this war would bo the moans of making him the next President. The General rebuked him by saying it was not the duty of a soldier to look so far ahead. ‘We must,” said he, “tale are of to-day—to-merrow has no existence for ws, and our business is to save the country, not to make candidates.” It is now reported that Mons. Peter G. T. Beau- regard, Brigadier General in the rebel army, and commander of the Confederate forces at Manassas, is dead again. He has not been heard of, reports way, since the memorable day on which the rebel flags were seen at half-mast. The Union sentiment continues to work disas- trously upon the secession journals and editors of the North and in the loyal sections of the border slave States Our lists now exhibit the following results:— Papers Peper. by the authorities. Destroyed by mobs. Died natu Changed to Union. * Faiters in prison:... 6 The Georgia State Convention, which met at Milledgeville om the 11th inst., nominated for Governor BE. A. Nisbet, of Bibb’county. Upwards of 12,000 troops passed through Balti- more last week on their way to Washington. The Montreal papers confirm the report that Colonel Rankin, of the British army, in command of one of the militia districts of Upper Canada, and a member of Parliament, has gone to Detroit torafse a regiment of one thousand six hundred Jancers, to be armed with sabre, carbine, pistol, and a lance seventeen feet long. He has power from the government at Washington to proceed. The “devoted band” organization, which was to —Here we find a longing to the State which were distribute! by Magoflin among the mombers of the rebel State Guard. - The Mayor of Leavenworth, Kansas, has issued @ proclamation ordering all the stores in the city. to close, and all business operations to cease bé- tween the hours of four and half past six o'clock in the afternoon ofeach day, forthe purpose of giving all persons time to perfect themselves in the use of firearms, Win. H. Merritt, who was nominated by tho seceshers of Iowa as their candidate for Lieutenant Governor, has “‘come out from among the foul party,” and declared himself for the Union in the strongest terms. He positively declines to run on the ticket, : The Albany Argus says the effect of the war on the Post Office Department has been @ reduction in the sale of envelopes, during the quarter ending June 30, of 2,114,100, But it does not say that the stoppage of the mails in the rebel States has been aclear saving to the Post Office Department for the same quarter of $915,500. The rate of tax has been officially determined by the Supervisors at two per cent below the line of Fifty-seventh street, and one ninety-five above. The warrants have been signed and will issue to the Receiver on Monday. The tax will be extended forthwith on the books, and the personal book will probably be opened for payments in a few days. A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was to have been held last evening, but when the roll was ¢alled the only parties present were the Clerks of the Board, one man in the lobby and the repre- sentatives of the press. The Board, therefore, stands adjourned subject to a call from the Chair. The committee appointed to amend tho city charter met yesterday afternoon in the chamber of the Board of Councilmen. After transacting some routine business the Chairman of the Conven- tion announced that the standing committees would be appointed at the next meeting of the committee on Monday next, at two o'clock. Tho cotton markot was quiet, with little offering for sale by holders. ‘The transactions were confined to 200 300 bales, in small lots. We continuo to quote mid- dling to strict middling uplands at 21}c. a 220. The flour market was again firm and active, and closod at an advance of 100, a 15c. per barrel for lower erades. Wheat was active and firmer, with freo tales, closing at an advance of 2c. a Sc. per bushel. Corn, owing in some degree to largo shipments known to bo on the way, was less firm, but with a good East- orn and foreign demand the market was quite activo. ‘The government contract for 9,000 bbis. of mess pork was taken at $1452. $14 73 per bbl. Tho contract for *8,000 bbis. of beef had not transpired. The market for pork was firm, with sales of mess at $1450 a $1475, and $9 75 a $10 for prime. Sugars wero firm and active, with sales of 1,840 bhds., 1,200 bags of Calentta and 600 boxes, at full prices, The advance on tho weck's sales was sustainod, Rice was firm, with sales at 7)<c. Coffee was firmer, with sales of 4,000 baga of Rio at 15c. a 153{c., and 200 mats Java sold at 20c., and 300 bags Lagvayra at 163{c. a 17}. Freights were firmer for Raglish ports. Wheat waa taken, in bulk and bags, for Liverpool at 1134d., and corn for do. at 103¢4., in: bulk, with flour at 2s. 9d. To London wheat, in ship’s bags, was taken at 13%. To Havro wheat was taken at 23c. a 24o., and flour at 800, The Miserable Condition of the Rebel Army—Roevolt Against the Confederate Government. From a telegraphic despatch which we pub- lish from Baltimore it will be seen that the Con- federate army is in a most miserable condi- tion, and that the government is assailed by the popular leaders as well as by the press. We recently published an editorial article from the Richmond Heaminer in which the whole per- sonnel of the government, including the Presi- dent and the Secretary of War, were denounc- ed, and not only so, but the generals were held up to public contempt as incompetent to lead thirty thousand men, much less the large army, now in a demoralized condition, in front of Washington. The Richmond Whig now con- tains another onslaught from Franklin Minor, @ man endorsed by the Whég as “first in posi- tion and intellect in the great county of Albe- marie.” It is under date of the 29th of August, and the writer says that one day last week the troops at Manassas had nothing for breakfast but salt and potatoes, were sent eight miles at dou- ble quick to meet a false alarm, and got neither dinner nor supper when they came back to camp. This witness as to the condition of the infantry is fully corroborated by the Prince Napoleon’s description of the ca- valry after the battle of Manassas, the troopers being as ragged as beggars, having “shoes with- out soles and hats without crowns.” The con- clusion drawn from the premises by Mr. Minor is, that he is “ utterly disgusted with Jeff. Davis and his man Walker;” that “ the government is rotten in the head, and Davis ought to be spiked up where men can sec him.” He goes on tosay:—You have won a great victory and got no fruits from it, You have had charge of the government for six months, and have done nothing. No meat, no bread, no powder, no wagons, nor anything but salt and potatoes, and and yet you sing out, ‘the government has the entire confidence of the whole peo- ple’ Now, it has not mine. * * * Ibe- lleve I am not singular in my distrust. If you editors would only speak out full toned about the abuses which stiak under your nostrils things would get right. It is «shame which cries to heaven for vengeance when yeu men of the pen are talking about confidence, and our soldiers are made to trot sixteen miles on‘ono meal of potatoes and salt. There is rottenness enough in the medical staff alone to damn any adminis- tration. Why hoodwink the people? Your government is rotten and stinks. We must smell it at last, and the sooner tho better.” This is plain talk, and if Mr. Franklin Minor and the editor of the Richmond Whig be now at large, it is only because the “Confederate . government feels its own weakness, and dares not arrest them, The Examiner explains why such proceedings might be dangerous:—“ It is evident to every intelli- gent observer that the embittered remnant of the swbmissionist party, which was fully repre- sented in the Virginia Convention, is bent on organizing a regular, opposition to the govern- ment.” Mere is an inside view given us of the rebel army and rebol government, not by Union spies or correspordents of Northern papers, gans. It presents a sad picture of Southern | folly in breaking away from the Union. It is } clear that there is rottenness at the root, and rottennessin every ramification of the tree of re- | | bellion. Walker has been removed and Bragg | { The Revolution in Tuarkey—The Sultan on a Visit to Europe. We learn by recent advices from Constanti- nople that the Sultan intends shortly to visit Trance and England. If this be correct—and we have no reason to doubt the source of our information—we may truly say that Turkey is undergoing a transformation unparalleed in its history, and which will take Europe by sur- rise, i The bigotry of Mohammedan fanaticism, and the antagonistic prejudices of Orientalism against Western habits and ideas, have, until recently, been very powerful. Mahmoud, in a measure, overcame these by his energy and perseverance. He endeavored to assimilate his people to the civilization of Europe. But even he did not dare to dispense with time-honored and fundamental usages, nor brave the opposi- tion of the ulemas or clergy. Ho desired to send his son, Abd-ul-Medjid, the late Sultan, to Europe, in company with Abmed:Fethi Pasha; but he was coolly told that, if he did so, Medjid could not succeed him on the throne of Osman. If, then, a prince apparent could not leave the country for foreign parts, how much more diffl- cult for the sovereign himself to do so—for hitherto no’ Sultan has ever travelled beyond his own dominions, Yet we are informed that the Sultan of Turkey is shortly to visit Europe. If this project is really accomplished, a wondur- ful change has come over the whole nation. Even the wemas themselves have begun to see the wisdom of cultivating the friendship of Giaours. From the day of the inauguration the character of the new Sultan has been anxiously scanned, on account of existing prejudices against him, based on unfavorable and contradictory re- ports, He was said to belong to the fanatical school of ancient Mohammedanism, and conse- quently averse to progressive improvement and civilization; and this belief was confirmed by the sympathy which was always evinced in his behalf by the retrograde party, who looked for- ward to the day of his accession to the throne with the hope that their own power would be restored. But no sooner is he on the throne than his liberal acts and liberal policy not only belied all these rumors, but took by surprise all Europe, as well as his own people. It is true that the late Abd-ul-Medjid was too yielding in his disposition; but he was in favor of remodelling the empire, and the state of the country and the Crimean war did not induce much the cultivation of the arts of peace during his reign. But the utility of such powerful friends as England and France was amply de- monstrated to all classes of the people. From the palace to the hamlet, wherever Mussulmans lived and loved their country, the English and the French, hitherto denizens of a terra incog- nita, became familiar and household words. The immense influx of foreigners into Turkey during and after the war also familiarized the people with European usages, and opened many new paths for friendly enterprise. So, in reality, the country progressed immensely towards the desired assimilation. Such being the prepara- tory process, the people were ready’ to receive a new Suitan like Abd-ul-Aziz, who, with energy of purpose and a will of his own, showed that he was indeed the son of Mahmoud, the heir presumptive of the father who had ini- tiated the reformation. Immediately after his accession, when he assumed the reins of govern- ment, he declared his own policy in the most unequivocal terms. He set his face at once against all maladministration and corruption; sent his silver plate to the mint to be coined into money, the jewelry to England, where it was sold at auction, to pay the debts of his deceased brothex; reduced his own household, and de- clared his intention to do equal justice to all. Yet, such is the force of preconceived ideas that, notwithstanding all his liberal and reformatory measures, his acts are still scrutinized, andinter- pretations given to them perversive of truth. For instance, staying in the mosque longer than his late brother was wont to do, or often perus- ing the Koran, are taken as indications of his innate fanatical proclivities: as if patriotism and statesmanship could not co-exist with reli- gion or were utterly inconsistent with Moham- medanism. Tho reforms which he has accomplished are of such a nature, however, as not to admit of ambiguity. His self-denial in his own house hold, though praiseworthy in itself when the re- duction of the harem is taken into consideration, is direct attack upon ancient usages. Mo hammedan law allows four wives to ordinary men, and to the only one extraordinary— viz: the Sultan—as many ,as seven, in order to make sure of heirs to the throne: Hence to the ordinary man is allowed the choice whether to possess one wife or to enrich him- self with four; but the Sultan has not the same prerogatives on account of his obligations to the throne. But the present Sultan has no doubt taken the liberty to centro his affections on one wife, because so many royal heirs al- ready exist, leaving the responsibility of still futuro provisions to some one of his successors. Besides, the royal princes, who used to be shut up, are now not only free to move about, but appointed to different posts of responsibility— one at the Porte, another at the Navy Depart ment, and a third at the War Department; and the son of the Sultan himself is a corporal in the Imperial Guard. These are palpable facts and incapable of misconstruction, for they speak for themselves. There is no doubt he has spent his youth profit- ably, and, coming to the throne as he does in full manhood, is determined to emulate the great mo- narch whose life and actions he has thoroughly studied. By a faithful perusal of the work of the favorito Turkish author—the “Yacobaky- Tariky,” or the history of Catherine IL— he has doubtless been inspired with the desire to become, like Peter the Great, the saviour and regenerator of this empire. Hence he will visit foreign courts and study for himself the means of national pro- : | gress, and the power of civilization to produce | but by their own reliable men and trusted or- | great nations. For such purpose, however, we could not sug- gest to the Sultan a better field than our own country, where he would see a gigantic growth in a short time, without any stationary or reactionary intervalsas in Europe. Hero he be composed of Southern men who were willing ! has been appointed in his place, but the change | would see that we not only excel all other of one man cannot possibly cure the radical | nations, in point of ingenuity and enterprise, | evils under which the Southern army groans. | but he would also be eonvinced that we, too, | It is now thoroughly demoralized; in a very | have our own houris on this side of the world, “to take their lives in their hands and go forth without the least expectation of ever returning,” does not fill up very fast. The chivalry are rather chary of such an uncertam undertaking. They prefer to trust their lives to their heels, The Memphis Avalanche saya the ‘‘arrant peace humbugs of the North may hold their conventions, whine about peace, and pass their canting resola_ tions antil doomsday, but they will: never effect of the North might as well now drop the peace dodge and show their colors, ‘ere issuing calls for the return of all the arma be- | brief time, upon the approach of winter, when | heavy elothing is needed and other indispensa- | ble requisites of sh army, which it will be im- | possible for the Confederate government to { and our own niggers, too, who, instead of being the sable gnardians of beauty, are made to “take up the shovel and the hoe, hoe, hoe.” He would also see one river in the world equal to | Procure, the disorganization will be completed, | the Bosphorus, with palaces dotting its banks, eace on their terms.” Thi sion di | and the great army of the Potomac will melt | from the Central Park to tho Croton lake, un- or ae <irsce Wes Gea, away without receiving a blow, unless General | rivalled in clegance, surrounded by the most | McClellan should previously come to the con- | exquisite scenery, and, numerous as they are, The Judgos of the County Courts of Kentucky | clusion to thrash the conceit out of the Southern | each one the abode ef an independent sove- reign, | chivalry in one great pitohed battle, The Close of the Watering Place Season, With the stornt of the last few days the sca. son of 1861 at the watering places saw its close, At a few of the summer resorts the sweetness of the season was drawn out through the past few weeks of September, but its finale has come at length. Not even the hotel keepers will regret the event we have here recorded. The season has not been at all brilliant, and it ends as dully and with as little eclat as it began. Beyond the short, bright episode of Mrs. President Lincoln’s sojourn on the Jersey shore, we have had to take very little notice of the watering places this year. The extortions of the landlords have tempted usin vain. In vain have we been re- minded of ill-kept tables and waiters who ought to have been Assemblymen or Congressmen, 80 acceesible are they to bribery and so inaccessi- ble to anything else. At Lake George the stockholders of the hotels have interfered, as usual, with the comfort of the guests, but we have been deaf to appeals upon the subject. The acutely pointed stick which we had prepared for the watering place banditti of this year is re- served for next summer’s gang. Jenkins has laid by for another season his stock of red blue and gold coloring, his tawdry rhetoric’ his well worn similes, his inevitable scraps of old poetry. The game, this year, has not been worthy the chase, War, like time, tries all things, and it has tried the watering places pretty severely: Many of the most pretentious resorts have, like Belshazzar, been found wanting. The war panic struck down the imperious sceptre of Fashion, and during this season people were not forced to go to Saratoga or Newport, or to any other place, to which Jones used to go be- cause Smith went, and not because he liked it, but were allowed to summer it just where they pleased. The result was that many a genuine summer resort, before almost unheard of, sprang into a sudden and a deserved success, and that old-time haunts of fashion, but not of enjoy- ment, were deserted and abandoned. How en- tire this abrogation of the rule of Fashion was may be juds.od from the fact that even at Sara- toga and Newport ladies not only wore their last year’s dresses, but actually wore the same dresses several times at the same place! This war of ours is to revolutionize politics and poli- ticians; to make the government stronger; to make the nation greater; to make business bet- ter and better conducted; to make us all more economical, prudent and steady—why may it not revolutionize Fashion also, and substitute the rule of “do as you like” for that of “do as your neighbors do?” We shall all be bet- ter, happier and more comfortable for the change; and now that Fashion’s sceptre is broken, let us never allow it to be mended. This revolution, in the comparative attend- ance of the more pretentious and the more de- serving summer resorts, is the peculiarity and the moral of the season. At Saratoga the wait- ers fairly outnumbered the guests, and you were surprised to find that the white-aproned attendants made their visits more frequent than angels’, and came to you without the usual bridge of gold or silver. From this fact judge the whole case. Saratoga was a deserted village. Nor did Newport fare any bet- ter. Its fine sea bathing went for nothing, and the Prince do Joinville arrived too late to make the place popular. The White Mountains held up the heavens, Atlas like, with searcely a visiter to disturb their solitude. The Philadel- phians shunned Cape May as they would the malaria, and the Robinson Crusoes of hotel keepers found no strange footprints upon the sands of the beach. Sharon, which is a very stupid place, and whiob has not in the least im- proved during these twenty years, having al- ways made pretensions to exclusiveness upon a very small capital of deserving, was exclusive enough this year, for no one went there except invalids, and these, as at Wiesbaden, very wise- ly stopped at the hotels about the sulphur springs, so that they might benefit by the medi- cated air both night and day. All these and all other watering places pretending to be “first class” the public left severely alone, and they had their pretensions for their pains. On the other hand, most of those summer re- sorts which have hitherto been more pleasant than fashionable were surprised to find them- selves crowded with the very best sort of visiters. The Catskill Mountains were much frequented, and the hotels there were found to" excellent, Beautiful little villages about the Green Mountains had an unoxpected and unusual influx of pleasure seekers. Man- chester, for instance—a delightful little hamlet at the foot of the mountains—was well filled, and its hotels, especially the Equinox, were comfortable and well conducted enough to satis- fy all guests. Long Branch, too, was attended by numerous fashionables, who flocked thither in the train of Mrs, Lincoln, and to be near the person of her republican Majesty endured the combined nui- sances of Jersey hotels, Jersey landlords, Jer- sey eatables and Jersey mosquitoes, and e wrote letters to their stay-at-home friends de- claring that they really liked the place. The force of comparison and of aristocratic tenden- cy can no farther go. This change from,fashionable resorts to real pleasure and health-giving summer haunts will, we trust, be permanent. On all hands it is ad- mitted te be a change for the better, and, now that it is inaugurated, it ought to be perpetuated. If we are to have our Brightons, Isles of Wight and Balmorals, let us solect them with some reference to consistency of location. Our Saratogas can never become anything but American Baden-Badens, and Baden-Badens are not good either for the morals or the pockets of their frequenters. Let springs be given‘over to invalids, and let pleasure seekers go to the mountains and the sea shore. Dancing and sulphurated air, flirtation, late suppers, high living and Congress water, were never made to keep company, and the former pretty effeetnally neutralize any good effects of the latter, although we doubt whether this rule holds good when reversed. Let us keep them separate, then, and each enjoy himself in his own fashion. That is the moral we wish to tack on to the close of the season at the watering places, and we leave it to the consideration of our readers. : Tae Apotitionists Howtma.—The abolition- ists, far and near, have set up a regular concert- ed howl over President Lincoln’s instructions to Fremont on the emancipation question. Gurri- son’s Liberator is all ina blaze upon the sub- ject, and says that in this matier “the govern- ment is subverting itself.” The masses of our people think differently, for they believe that “Honest Old Abe” is pursuing the right course against Southern secession rebels and Northern abolition disunionists and disorganizers, Let the good wook go on, Revowvriow is THE Op Pounicat Parris.— The events that are daily transpiring in political circles in this State bear conclusive proof of the position that we have all along taken, that the political parties have had their day, and would be swept from existence by the revolu- tion that the country is now going through. Thus the democratic party started in the days of Jefferson is rapidly falling to pieces, and those who once considered it an honor to be- long to it are now daily deserting the wreck, since the adoption of the mongrel platform at Syracuse. Already two of the ablest and best candidates have withdrawn from the rotten com cern and united with the new conservative movement—the great political uprising of the people in the Empire State—that is carrying everything before it, while the republican party, which has been in existence only about five years, is already a complete wreck. Without platform, the leaders are clinging to a single candidate in the person of Mr. Bruce, an aboli- tionist of Madison county, and a friend of Ger rit Smith—grasping like drowning men at a straw, in the hope of keeping up an appearanee of life, In this condition of affairs what folly it is for men like Dean Richmond, Peter Cagger and Confidence Cassidy, who have a great deal of sense but no political honesty, a large amount of tact but no soundness, to attempt to ran the old wreck. Why not at once declare the party at an end, as it is, withdraw the candidates and unite in the conservative movement upon the tioket with Dickinson at its head and Tallmadge at its tail? Their present course not only de- stroys all their influence during the present crisis, but removes them from all prospects of an influential position in the great hereafter which is to take place after our present trou- bles are over, and the political parties or ganize upon the new issues that will then follow as a natural result of all this turmoil and warfare. Tammany Hall, the representative of their party at this end of the State, is already preparing to repu- diate the whole concern and come ont in favor of the conservative movement, as it is obliged to do in order to keep its own head above water. Let Richmond, Cagger and Company show an ounce of common sense, and join the tide as its waves roll on over the State, and thus obtain a little credit for themselves. There is no use of their resisting the deter- mined movements of the people, or attempting to divide the public mind, which now sees buf one issue—that of our country and humam liberty on one side, and anarchy and ruin on the other. We trust that the Regency, now being deserted by not only their rank and file, but by their own counsel. lors, will now discover their error, withdraw their ticket, and let the contest be with the com servatives united against tho one abolition can, didate of the republicans. With this clear sail- ing let the campaign commence. The stump speakers and orators, having but one ticket te talk about, can turn their appeals to urging the enlistments of the people in such numbers as te bring the rebellion to a speedy end. In that way not only tens of thousands will be added te our army, but our State will sct an example which will have a wonderful moral effect upes all other loyal States, and at the same time far nish a spectacle to the civilized world unheard of in thé history of democratic institutions. Prince Narogon’s AMERICAN Nores—Nare Lzon10 Ipgas ov Our Minrrany Cararrans.—We give to-day a translation of the third of Prince Napoleon’s brilliant letters to his home orga, the Opinion Nationale, upon the civil conflict in America. This and the preceding letters, @ which we gave translations, are sufficient to ee tablish the Prince’s reputation as an acute ob server and 4 finished writer. For clearness of observation, elegance of style and impartiality of thonght, they stand immeasurably in advanee of those of the special correspondent of the London Times; and the translations of them which we have published have attracted much attention in this country, and have won mush praise for their author. That of which we give a translation to-day will be recognized as the ablest of these com- munications. In it are sketched with a master ly hand the personal and mental attributes of the general officers of both armies on whom rests the conduot of the campaign on the Pote- mac. These pen and ink sketches will be re cognized as true to the life. The Prince’s idea of the effects of a West Point education is also worthy of attention. Slight as have been his opportunities of form- ing a judgment, he has arrived at the conclu sion that the pupils of eur military school have acquired a training that makes of them a dis- tinct class in the community. He says that they stand apart from the three great divisions into which the American people are divided— namely, Yankees, Virginians and Western mea— and he predicts that, as our present commotions have brought into prominent relief this elass ia a military capacity, so it will continue to ep oupy the chief ground in our government ia « political capacity. Who will’say that the Prince is not right im his philosophio idea, or who is there that would regret secing the principal offices in the gift of the people’filled by mon whose careful and honorable training will insure capacity and probity in the discharge of their duties? Among the advantages which the American people may derive from their present difficulties, that which the Prince points out will not be regarded as the least. The time for corrupt and ignorant politicians is passing away. The Prince is right. Mistaken Views or THE War iN Evoraxn— The change of opinion which the London Times has recently undergone with respect to our financial affairs has been succeeded by am equally sudden change in the views of the ng Post concerning our political condi tion, the one being as favorable as the other The latter sees in the establishment of the Southern confederacy an indefinite extension of slavery anda revival of the slave trade. I, alludes to Lopez and Walker as pioneers of “secession, and the whole South as aiming at similar enterprises to those in which these ad- yventurers met their death. It makes prominen* reference to the Knights of the Golden Circle’ who have pledged themselves to carry out these designs—the extension of slavery over the whole of Central America, the seizure of Cuba» and a struggle to control the Gulf of Mexico being stipulated points. It also, by way of contrast, alludes to the Republi. can Central Club of New York, and one of their recent resolutions, to the effect that the surest aad quickest way of ending the rebellion and re-establishing a permanent peace is to declare. immediate and unconditional emancipation. It is evident, from its treatment of the subject,