The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1861, Page 6

a: Oe 6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Hee. Money sent Cy mai? ei Beatthe EMS cash in a Fer the nnter, “Nome tt Darts balls current tn New York ride the seuder, DAILY HERALD. too cente per THE WEEKLY HERALD, | copy, oF $3 per af se cents peri nent, lath to inclucie pos! | the Ivt, Mth and Bhat of each month, at vie | LD, on Wetnesday, at four cents per SPONDENOP, conti the MONDENTS ARN Kus AND Pack. | anymous correspontence. Wedo not jor every: day; advertiooments ine v in serial MRALD. Faminy Herat, and in the California ean Editions, JOR PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and dex Volume XXVI.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Act Haniow Eve— MaGiC JOKY—BARNEY THE BAnOn. WALLACK!S THEATRE, No, $14 Broadway.—Macic Mar- WAGK—A ne SCALE OAT, LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Skven Sons. | NEW ROWFRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Burt. 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PARISTAN CABIN’ Open disily trou 40 A ONDERS, 663 Brondway.— NATIONAL MUSIC HALL, Chatham sire’ Quus, Soncs, Daxces, &¢.—Masqukuape Batt, NOVPLTY CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.—Soncs «ko, Dances, PAyTOMINES, BURLUS QUI ET . New York, Tuesday, November 26, 1861. THE SITUATION. The important event of the day is the sudden flight of the rebel government and Congress from Richmond to Nashville, Tennessee. The rebel Congress assembled at the former place on yester- day week, and received the message of Jeil. Davis there on Tucsday. But it appears from the Rich- mond Enquirer that a resolution was passed to remove the seat of government to a more secure locality in the interior of Tennessee. This is a sig- nificant measure, and confirms the presumption ‘that Richmond is not sufficiently fortified to render the archives and the persons of the rebel govern- ment safe from the menacing aspect of General McClellan's army. We give to-day a very interesting account in de- tail of the surrender of Messrs. Mason and Slidell to the commandant of Fort Warren, together with 8 description of the public reception given by the olid-‘men of Boston to Commander Wilkes and the officers of the San Jacinto. Upon searching the baggage of the two rebels it appears that no des- ‘patches or credentials of any kind were found. The probability is that those documents, whatever ‘they may have been, were sent in the mail bags of ‘the British steamer, and have thus escaped deten- tion by the officers of the goverament. A deserter from the rebel army came into Gene- ral Blexker's camp yesterday, who proved to be a sou of one of thetlerks in the Treasury Depart- ment, named West. He was pressed into the ser- vice at Winchester, and acted as orderly to Gene- ral Elzey. He reports the rebel force about Cen- freville, where headquarters are established, as fumbering 60,000 men, and as many more all along the Potomac lines. Centreville, he states, is well defended, but has no siege guns. At Manassas, however, there are some heavy guns. He deseribes the troops as being in good spirits, pretty well fed clothed and armed, and under the impression that the war is one of subjugation, devastation and abo- Mition. This impression they receive from their ofticers and chapla 8. Tt is the inteution of the government to put all the coast defences of the Northern States into complete working order immediately, for protec- tion against foreign foes in case that such defence Bhould become necessary. The Governors of Hlutes are authorized to carry out the work. This precaction is highly commendable. The first reinforcements from this port for our army at Port Royal left yesterday, The United States steamships Boston, Delaware and Cosmo- politan s they will receive troops and proceed to Port Royal. eleven hundred men, also a full cargo of pro- Visions and ammunition. We have some interesting news from Fort Pickius by the steamship Geo. Peabody, which arrived hore yesterday. The privateer Beauregard, which had been captured by the sloop-of-war G. W. Anderson, of Boston, with twenty-seven prisoners ‘nd one large pivot gun on board. is now lying at Key West. By late intelligence from Santa Fe we learn that New Mexico will furnish at once the 12,000 militia called for by the government to garrison the dif ferent posts it that Territory. Our news from the Bouth to-day will be found very full, and abounding 4a interest. dat noon for Fortress Monroe, where These three steamers will carry about The steamship North Star, from Aspinwall 15th instant, arrived at this port yesterday, with the Pacific mails, $829,807 in treasure and a party of officers and soldiers of the regular army from Cali- fornia, under command of Colonel R. ©. Buchanan. Phe brings no news from South or Central Ameri- fa. ‘The iniclligence from New Granada, though Interesting, 1 importance. The i jaily notified of the | bo that of th The schoonce Ps at the foot of I vid lou, Capt. Whitg, now ly jan street, East river, w New Granada \ NEW. YuRK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1861—TRIPLE SHEET. immediately commence to take in a full cargo of | The Rout of the Rebel Government—Glo- Provisions for Hatteras Inlet. They are for the Union men of North Carolina, ‘These provisions are not government supplies, but from private do- nations, Charles H. Marshall, Esq., and other in- fluential gentlemen are at the head of the subscrip- tion list, The FE. Sheddon is about 200 tons regis- ter, and will carry about 250 tons of cargo. The Board of Aldermen met last evening, but transacted little business of general interest. According to the Compiroller'’s statement there was a balance in the treasury of $2,439,796 on the 23d inst, A communication was received from the Street Commissioner, submitting plans and pro- files for the grade of Chambers street and inter- secting strects, from Chatham street to James | slip, Jt was urged that speedy action should be taken in this matter, as the street is now in a very filthy condition, and nearly impassable. The re- port was reforred to the Committee on Streets. A resolution was adopted appropriating $25,000 for the Central Park, being the balance of the esti- mated expenditures of the Park Commissioners for the current year. A resolution appropriating $20,000 on account of roads and avenues was adopted, The Board of Councilmen were in session tast evening and disposed of a good deal of routine business. The ordinance adopted by the Alder- men at their last meeting, appropriating five hun- dred thousand dollars for the relief of the families of volunteers, was brought np for concurrence, when, on motion, it was referred to the Committee on National Afhirs, with a request toreport at the next meeting. Tho report of the same committee, in favor of appointing A. V. Stout as Comuissioner of the soldiers’ allotment fund, was received and ordered to be printed in the minutes. A resolution directing ihe printing of two thousand copies of the Street Commissioner's Report was adopted. After an animated debate a resolution appropriat- ing thirty thousand dollars as a donation to the ‘olent Society, to aid it in construct- asylum, was lost for want of a con- uutional vote, Evacuation Day was becomingly celebrated yes- y by a military parade, national salute and general display of bunting. Late on Sunday evening a light sprinkling of snow setin, and continued till an carly hour yes- terday morning. The temperature having risen considerably thereafter, a rapid thaw occurred, and before noon not a trace of the snow was left. The weather was exceedingly variable all day, blowing hot and cold, and raining and snowing lightly at intervals. ‘fhe appearances indicate that a good snow fall is at hand. Abrahum Lent has been nominated for Council- man from the Sixth Senatorial district by the Republican, the Taxpayers’ and the People’s Syra- euse Union Committees, Mr. Lent has been Coun- cilmen for the last three years. ‘The pressure of the suils brought by speculating lawy ors, for their own benefit, agal unlicensed liquor dealers is being felt. Several respousible dealers who haye been sued have applied for license. The Boord of Excise will hold its final session on next Saturday, the 30th inst, The English government have strenuously insist- ed that the blockade of the Southern ports should be effective or it would not be regarded. It is re- ported that Mr. Seward will now demand that the boasted neutrality of England shall be “eftective” cts her protestations in that respect to foree or couunand any consideration, Mr. Train's letter has opened the eyes of our go- vernment in regard to British neutrality. The Western Virginia Convention will meet to- jay in Wheeling to adopt an ordinance for the di- vision of the Old Dominion, and to erecta new State, to be composed of the counties west of the lows: Joseph Fi. Brown BR, A. Nisbet . . Brown's majority. 2 Mr. Nisbet was the no: of the State Con- vention which convened at Macon on the 11th of September. Governor Brown, the present Execn- tive, refused to recognise the action of the Con- vention, and rin as 4 stump candidate, The vote is not so large as thet cast last fall for President by over twenty-nine thousand, ‘The result of the election for Governor in Missis- sippi, as officially announced, was as follows:— Thompson. Pettus McAfee . Benton. . 373 Jacob Thompson, who was in Mr. Buchanan’s Cabinot as Secretary of the Interior, is therefore elected Governor by 1,387 majority over John J. Pettus, the present executive. The vote was six thousand short of that cast for President one year ago. The New Orleans Crescent of the 9th inst. copied from the Hekaxp the account of the sailing of the great expedition, and said that it was given mere- ly for the “amusement”? of its readers. On the following day it gave an account of the capture of the two rebel forts at Port Royal and the landing of our troops at Hilton Head, but to what extent i ‘3s were amused by the last intelligence not learned. The new Common Council of the city of Alexan- dria, Va., met on the 22d inst. The Mayor elect, Mr. Lewis McKenzie, and all the members took the oath to support and defend the constitation and laws of the United States, and to abide by the decrees of the Wheeling Convention. It is proposed to consolidate all the colonels, licutenant colonels, majors and captains in Illinois who have no men under them into a full regiment. The Louisville Democrat says that before the close of the present month the news from the Union forces operating in Kentucky will be more startling and gratilying than the apnonncement of the suc. cess of the great naval expedition, ‘The First New York regiment of cavalry, which was ordered to join Gen. Banks’ column, is still in Baltimore, quartered in stables, hay lofts, sheds, and such other places as aitord a shelter, and are fed by the Baltimore Relief Committee. Who is answerable fer such treatment? According to the City Inspector’s report, there were 397 deaths in the city during the past week—~ an increase of 5 as compared with the mortality of the week pr And 28 more than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The recapitula- tion table gives 3 deaths of alcoholism; 5 of diseases of the bones, joints, &c.; 72 of the brain and nerves; 7 of the generative organs; 15 of the heartand blood veesels; 130 of the lungs, throat, &e.; 10 of old age; 41 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers; 8 premature births; 28 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 51 of uncertain seat and general fevers; 6 of diseases of the urinary organs; 17 from violent causes, and 1 unknown, There were 272 natives of the United States, 4 of England, 84 of Ireland, 22 ef Germany, 2 of Scot- Jaud, and the balance of various foreign countries. ‘The cotton market was frm yesterday, with sales of about 1,500 bales, divided between spinners and specu. lators. Prices cloged at about 250. for middling uplands, which was a slight advance over last week's prices. Flour was steady, but somewhat Jess buoyant and active, without change of moment in prices. Some graces vere rather easier, Wheat was firm for most descriptions, especially good Jots for milling and tor export. A part of the sale} were made to arriye: was loss Yuoyant, while sales were tolerably active, 1 good domestic demand. Rates at the closo rather Savored purehi Good Western mixed, for etyiyy was word at G4} Pork was heavy, but tole aut $8 stoudy, wit 6) his: Oubs Domingo Freights | ser al the ologa for Brivists { an xa rious News from Richmond. Our intelligence from the Richmond Enquirer, that the Confederate Congress bas passed a bill for the removal of their capital from Richmond to Nashville, and that the rebel Congress wil} soon assemble at the last named place, an- nounces the most important, the most signifi- cant and the most encouraging event in bebalf of the Union cause of all the events in the his- tory of this desperate Southern rebellion. Why this removal from Richmond to Nash- ville? The message of Jeff. Davis to his corps legislatif is silent upon the subject. The move- ment involved required secresy and despatch, and 60 our first news of such a design is its con. summation, But this transfor of Davis and his spurious revolutionary cabal from Richmond to Nashville may be readily explained. Rich- mond. has become too hot to hold them, and Nashville aflords better facilities of re- treat towards the Gulf of Mexico. The rebel armies of Virginia have eaten up the sur- plus substance of her farmers; and the Rich- mond Whig, in its complaints, betrays the signs of an impending revolt against the continuance of these rebel extortions. Dragged headlong into this rebellion against their wishes and their votes, the people of the Old Dominion will not sustain it to the extremity of starvation. The western section of the State has remained loyal from the outset, The Eastern Shore counties of Accomac and Northampton have lately return- ed to their proper allegiance; and the great central division, exhausted by rebel armies and foreed contributions, can meet these requisitions no longer. All this is virtually confessed in this hegira of Davis and his Cabinet and Congress from Rich- mond to Nashville. But they have béen driven to this step from some other considerations. There was danger in tho menacicg army of McClellan, It might march over Bull run to Richmond, and if the “Confedorate” authori- tics should thus be driven out of Virginia their reign of tercor would be at ounce ignominiously Then, again, from the combined move- ments of General Buell in Kentucky, and of General Tinlieck in Missouri, Jef Davis, as a military man, appreciates the danger which meuaces Tennessee and the whole valley of the Mississippi to New Or- leans. Halleck and Duell may cut off the rail- way communications betweca V cotion States through astern General Sherman, in the occupation of Charles- ton, may complete the separation of the ex- tvemoSouth from the Old Dominion, and thus leave the rebel army of Manassas and the rebel government at Richmond detached from rein- forcements and supplies and completely at the mercy of General McClellan, In removing from Richmond to Nashville the rebel Confederate government excepes from this trap, and what follows? Doubtless, the bulk of the rebel army of the Potomac will soon be transferred to the Mississippi river, in Western Ternessee and Kentucky, in order to arrest the descent of our forces into the heart of the cottan States in that direction. Then, again, the original rcbel programme of the selaure of Washington and Fortress Moxroe, and the secession and military occupation of Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay by ie Con- federate forces, having utterly failed, Richmond and Virginia cease to be of any practical value to the government of Jet. Davis. He is thu driven to the extremity of abandoning Virgin and the removal of his government from Rich- mond is but the first step to the absolute sur- render of the State to the Union. From the fact that the rebels have never at tempted any strong defensive works around Richmond, it is manifest that they Lave never contemplated the fixed location of their capital at that place. When they moved up to it from Montgomery, Alsbama, it was for the purpose of throwing the immediate burden of this ter- rible war upon Virginia, Maryland and the other border slave States. Virginia, cheated 8 and UBtrayed by her rebel conspirators, and | wasted by fire and sword, has failed to pay her secession expenses, and she is to be abandoned aga bad rebel investinent. In the same way, or more precipitately, Davis and his Jacobin Club will be pushed out of Nashville, and henceforward they will find no resting place until they cross over to the sacred soil of Mexico. We have assumed in these observations that this reported action of the one house, or one horse, Congress at Richmond is corr: and we are the more fally disposed to believe this re- port from the very unsafe and dangerous posi- tion of the rebel government at Richmond. If the act in question has passed, the day of Vir- ginia’s redemption is close at hand. But still we would not counsel any hasty movement by our Army of the Potomac upon Manassas. Gen. McClellan can afford to bide his time. The army opposed to him, meanwhile, having eaten out Virginia, and having been cut off to a great extent from its supplies from Tennessee and Western Kentucky, by the Unionists of East Tennessee, in the burning of halfa dozen railway bridges, is not in a condition to wait much longer at Manassas, and not at all qualified for an advance towards Washington. Let the government promptly follow up on the Southern coast the successful experiment at Port Royal, and let General Halleck and Gene- ral Buell be strengthened so as to push forward upon the rebels in the West, and General McClellan will seon have the opportunity of marching on to Richmond, and perhaps without a battle. He is now ina position which will enable him to spare a hundred thousand men for the South and the West, without materially delaying his own particular purpose of moving “onward to Richmond.” Doubtless he will soon learn the exact condition of the rebels at Manassas, and will act accordingly. If he should move forward to-morrow we fect entire- ly confident of his success; and if he should de- lay an advance for a week or two weeks longer, the country would be satisfied that he is wisely watching and waiting for his opportunity. With the evacuation of Richmond by the rebel government we shall have little else to do for some time but to record a rapid sneces- sion of disasters to the rebel cause, culminating in a general Southern Union reaction, begin- ning with the deliverance of Virginia. Wuar Suan We Do Witn me Necrors?— Eowin Cxoswe..’s Lerren.—We have before us a copy, in the manuscript, of Mr. Edwin Cros- weli’s letter on Col. John Cochrane's late speech, at Wa: ington, recommending the arm- ing of the negroes of the South against their We cannot discover anything, how- ever, in this | r, but a bit of unsatisfactory special pleading and pettifogving in support.of the indefensible prop Jol. Cochrane, a accordingly we mus masters. te | t go-by. The simple truth is that Col. Cochrane committed a grave mistake in proposing to arm the negroes of the South against their masters. Wo want no such arming. It would be an act of disgrace and humiliation to the government to resort to such soldiers. We don’t want them. We have loyal white men enough, three times over, to put down this Southern rebel- lion. Let us keep the negro in his place. We can make him in the South useful in a thousand ways; but if we attempt to make him a Union soldier we ruin him, we ruin the South instead of sa’ it, and wo disgraco ourselves and our cause in the eyes of the whole eivilized world. Grand Discovery—The New York Herald tobe the Motive Power of the Political World. All great discoveries require time for de- velopement and for their recognition and appre- ciation by mankind. It was long till Galileo’s discovery in astronomy was firmly established. Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood fong met with great opposition. Galvani’s discovery of galvinism; Morse’s discoveries in inagretic electricity, leading to the invention of the telegraph; Watts’ invention of the engine, proving sleam to be a motivo power, and Ful- ton’s success/ul application of it to ships, all evcountered opposition, difficulty and doubt; and i required twenty-five years to establish the most useful of these discoveries to the satis- taction of the world at large. It has taken the same length of time to develope the newspaper press of the United States as a great power on earth; ard “the Little Villain” of tho New York Times, however small in other things, is great in being the discoverer of the motive power which regulates the move iments and wheels within wheels of the chief governments of the world. In yest s nuinber he devoted a long leading avticle to ae demonsivation of his discovery, and he shows very conclusively that the New Yorx ip is that power, He says the Hurap 3s power to compel England to recognise » Southern confederacy and to go to war he United States; nor is this all: the Hx- nay, with its enormous circulation, is regarded in England as the great organ of the whole American people and of the government at Washington, and “it has power to plunge the country into a war with England,” and intends to do this, knowing that it would be disastrous to the couutry. Such is the potent and mighty influence as- cribed to the New Yorx Hunatp by the Times: 1 1 v itis nota little amusing to find in the next page of the same paper its Washington cor- respondent taking exacily the opposite view, proclaiming that the Hitraw is right on the question of Mason and Slidell’s arrest, that the abolition press are all wrong “in counselling a cowardly concession to Eng- jand or France for the sake 0! peace,” and that in pursuing this course they are “ doing more m to the country than Jefferson Davis or ard.” Be er holds that the has no influence; whereas, “when the ing suggestion is re-echged in journals Nh pted ioyalty (meaning the abolition journals), from @ nervous apprehension of the danger of war with England, there is danger that the poison will infuse itself into the public ” We really wish the abotition Scribes d Pharisees would settle among themselves is our position, for the poles cannot be more opposite than the two positions which are ailributed to us respectively by two writers in the same jourval. The truti is that these ignorant pretenders to journalism know nothing of the business, and when questions of difiiculty arise they are at their wits end, and, like drunken men, recl to and fro. Time will show that the Henavn is right on the international question now raised, that England will look before she leaps, and think twice before she goes to war wita twenty-five millions of freemen who already owe her a grudge, for the sake of two men with whom we have a quarrel, who are not among the number of her subjects and have no relations with her of any kind whatever. Right glad she will be if we will let her alone, as is intimated by Lord Palmerston and the London press. But it is not likely that sie will long enjoy this immunity. As appears, from the intelligence publish elsewhere, the rebel govermment at Richmond is breaking up and retreating to Nashville, pre- paratory to the retreat and breaking up of its army, and the caving in of the whole rebellion before the victorious march of our aris. There will thus be very soon a million of men in arms left free to settle the question of Mason and Slidell and all old scores with England. We have a long account with her to wipe out Whenever she was ina pinch we were friendly to her. But for the last thirty years she has been laboring to split up the republic, and, with the aid of her allies, the abolitionists and their organs, she has succoedod at last. ‘This is the greatest injury one daiion could inflict upon another, and when the disaster is repaired, as it quickly will be, we shall then be in s position to make the British aristocracy feel the conse- quences of their treacherous schemes to over- throw our government, and with it democratic institutions in the New World and the hopes of homanity in the Old. we Carturep CorresroxpENcy or THE Exemy at Porr Royat.—We publish to-day a curious batch of letters captured at Port Royal, where the enemy made 30 hasty a retreat. Some of them are military and official; some are the epistles of office seekcts and would-be captains; some give us a glimpse of life in a fort; some show that the enemy was othe lookout for our forces; one gives an account of the battle of Manassas; some are love letters, some tamily epistles, and there is one letter from Connecti- ent, evidently belonging to a captured or killed soldier of the Union, having the Union envelope, with the Stars and Stripes and motto “ Death to Traitors.” One of the official letters was evidently being written at the fort and sud- denty broken off when the battle commenced, reminding one of the discoveries in the buried city of Pompeii, in which so many thousands were arrested by the hand of death in the midst of their various occupations of business or pleasure, vice or crime. Perhaps the most instractive letter in the col- Jection is one from Mobile, by which it appears that the number of troops furnished for the war from that city exceeds the whole voting popula- tion of ihe place—a fact which proves that every able bodied man and yonth is pressed into the service. It gives a true picture of the extraor- inary zeal with which this rebetlious more- ment is conducted. If New Yi city ‘had turned out troops in the same proportion, she would lave sent one hundred thousand to the From all accounts the North is grealy | dis outstripped by the South in enthusiasm for tho war. There is another point in which the South- erners seem to have the advantage of the Yan- kees—they are better thieves. The wholesale robbery of the arms of the United States: achieved under the direction of ex-Secretary Floyd, is well known to all. But we were not prepared for petty larceny. It appears from examination that the paper on which the official letters of the Southern army, from General Polk in Kentucky to Drayton in South Caro- lina, are written, has been stolen from the United States government, From the water mark it{s demonstrated that it is the paper manufactured for the federal Congress. How did the enemy get it? It could only be by petty pilfering. Let us hear no more of the honor of the chivalry. The American Question in England. The speech of our Minister, Mr. Adams, at the Lord Muyor’s dinner, seems to have made a most favorable impression on the public mind in England. To use a nautical phrase, it bit between wind and water. At a time when the least infelicitousness of sentiment or ex- pression would have been eagerly seized hold of by the tory journals in the interest of the South, it has disappointed them by its straight- | forward and conciliatory tone, and its total abstinence from irritating allusions. The London Tines tries to be sarcastic upon it, but it fails to weaken its influence. This can be best judged of by the response which it elicited from Lord Palmerston, whichis marked by better feeling than anything that has dropped from him in reference to us since the beginning of the war. The news of the arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell will, of course, alter for the moment this agreeable state of things. There will be a vast expenditure of indignation and hard words on the part of the journals that have becn working so assiduously in the rebel in- terest, whilt ‘hose that are well affected to- wards us w.'! 6. faken aback by the boldness of the step. Whou the facts of the case and the legal authorities and precedents bearing upon it come to ny estigated, it cannot, however, fail to have the best effect. No people are greater admirers of pluck than the English, and they will see in this readiness to beard the British Lion, just as he is beginning to indulge in in- cipicnt growls at us, an unmistakeable evidence of our contempt for his ungenerous menaces and of our determination not to be intimidated from prosecuting our just rights wherever and by whomsoever they are coatravened. Whilst, however, this bold vindication of the powers uccorded to us by the public law of na- tions will tend to encourage and strengthen the friends of democratic institutions generally» there can be no question as to the extent of the perturbation that it will occasion in the public mind in England. Since the commencement of the war the tories, with Lord Derby at their head, haye been endeavoring to make of tue American question an issue by which they might oust the present Cabinet. They have only becn held in chock by the cautious course of Lords Palmerston and Russell, who, whilst turning a deaf ear to the demands made upon them tw bresk the blockade, have, by the un. friendly tone which they have individually af- fected towards us, kept the manufacturing in- tercst in the belicf that such a step was not remote. The unreflecting excitement which the news of the stoppage of the Trent and the arrest of Messrs. Slidell and Mason will occasion will, for the mo- ment, help the schemes of the opposition and tend greatly to embarrass the administration When the latter, as it must do on investigating the legal bearings of the question, declines to demand reparation from our government, there will be initiated a fierce agitation throughout the country for its removal. It may prove suc- cessful; but it is not, therefore, to be sup- posed that a tory Cabinet will reverse the po- licy of their predecessors. They will do pre- ‘isely as they did when they turned out the whigs on thé Catholic emancipation and Corn law questions—adopt their views unreservedly: In the meanwhile the agitation engendered by this conflict for power will be productive of consequences not calculated upon by those who originated it. Te bitterness of political strife will be intensified by coincident grounds of irritation which will test the boasted superiority of monarchical over republican institutions. The wide-epr distress produced amongst the working classes by the stoppage of the cotton mills, and the terrible suffering which will be ioned in Ireland by the total failure of the potato crop, are in themselves suficient ele- iments of trouble without having saperadded to them the acerbity of party warfare. Of these combined influences the results will be disas” trous to the interests of the aristocracy, When’ by and bye, the English operatives, worn out by starvation and sutlering, take a glance at the confortable condition of our own working and that notwithstauding the heavy 3 Made upon our Tesources by a stupen- Y war, their conclusions in regard to republican institutions are not likely to tally very closely with those of their rulers, The contest by which we shook off the yoke of the mother country led to the first revolution jn France. Does it not look 34 if it were predes- tined that out of the conflict in which we are now engaged shall spring the elements of far- ther enlightenment and liberation for the masses who are virtually as much enslaved un- der the vaunted constitutional institutions of England as under the worst form of continental despotism? Yor such a result the English aristocracy will only have themselves to blame. During the last thirty years they have been sowing the whirlwind of anti-slavery agitation, and will now have to reap its fruits in common with us. In seeking by that insidions and dastardly poli- ey to break up our institutions they have pro- bably brought ruin upon their own heads. Let them fume and bluster about the affair of the Trent as much as they please, they will have enough to do in providing for their famishing population, and in guarding against bread ri- ots, political conspiracies and revolution, with- out dreaming of going to war with the people whom they bave so deeply injured. claset DruxkeNxess oN Boarp Transport Suips.— Testimony reaches us to the effect that there is a too free use of intoxicating liquors on board of the steamers employed in the army transpoxt service; and it is said to be pretty well ascer- tained, and firmly believed by the best authori- ties, that the loss of one or two of the vessels of the recent expedition to Port Royal was fly owing to some of the officers being too xicated to attend to their respective duties. government has a right to ingui to the liae on board the ships in their employ ¢ with searching scrutiny, and where any abuse of the kind referred to is detected to punish it with promptitude and severity. The insurance companies have also a right to adopt similas measures for their own greater security. Where so much life and property and such important national interests are at stake every ordinary precaution ought to be used to insure safety, and certainly the government is justified in in- sisting that the same strict discipline which is required on board steamers in the service of private companies should be observed op board vessels freighted with troops and gun- powder, The same regulations that govern the navy ought to be enforced on board transports, and a stricter supervision than hitherto main. tained in this branch of the service. ‘The Coming Mayoralty Election and the Country. There are certain aspects in which the ap- proaching charter election is beginning to assume an appearance, which itis of the high" est moment should not be welcomed by the conservative portion of the citizens of this me tropolis. Upon its result may indeed depend the solution of the question whether the city of New York is to become, henceforth, a political spoil of abolitionists, or preserve the posi tion it has hitherto held of unwavering devotion to the constitution and the laws. We do not speak now of the contest for aldermanic and other subordinate offices, which possesses sig nificance only so far as relates to local govern ment, just taxation, and the general manage. ment of city affairs, Neither would the strife for the Mayoralty, almost worthless for good as that position has become, in consequence of interference in our concerns by the State Legisla ture, rise to a much higher level than squabbles over school commissioner or trusteeships, if merely metropolitan interests were affected by its occupancy. In spite of over twenty vetoes of pecuniary appropriations, during his present term of office, by Fernando Wood, the burdens of taxation are increasing instead of diminishing, and it is evident that the Mayor has but little influence to prevent frauds and proffigacy of expendi- ture. The United States is engaged, however, in a gigantic struggle to suppress a terrible re- bellion, and the forthcoming election has a di rect bearing upon the efforts of the gover ment to accomplish that object. The aboliti faction in our midst is straining every nerve to elect a candidate to the chief magistracy of New York, upon a basis which shall make it ap- pear that the voters of this city are identified with their views, and desirous of the success of their incendiary and diabolical schemes, It iay therefore, an absolute necessity that the whole moral weight of the community should bd thrown into the scale at the coming election; that this iniquitous project should be utterl; overthrown and defeated; and that a well known constitutional conservative should be elevated to such power as the Mayoralty con- fers. Mr. Fernando Wood, the present Mayor of New York, is one of the most accomplished ex ecutive officials that this city has ever possessed, In spite of calumny and the tirades of his ene- mies, he deserves to be esteemed, as an undoubt- ed patriot, who thoroughly comprehends the affairs of the country, and the rights of the pee ple of its different sections. he citizens of this metropolis have three times manifested thei» confidence in Mr. Wood, by raising him to the Mayoralty; but he is now forced before the public, by the enemies of order and of the ad= ministration, in a new capacity, namely that of champion of the conservative element in the community, in opposition to those who ard seeking to undermine its prosperity, and rob i€ of the good name it has hitherto held fast to, of uncompromising hostility to sectionalism, and. the wicked machinations of the anti-slavery ene- mies of the Union. It is on this ground that, one week from to-day, he will, beyond question; be re-elected to the office he now holds. There has been a party in the Northern States for over thirty years, under the influence of British aristocrats, and upheld by subscrip~ tions from England, which has ceaselessly la~ bored, by the agitation of the slavery questiony to rend the United States asunder, overthrow its constitution, and reduce it to anarchy, Under the motto, “the constitution is a league with hell and a covenant with death,” it has Ia- bored on and on, until its infernal agitations have culminateds in civil war. The two principal instigators of abolitionism, as a political lever with which to destroy the landmarks placed by the fathers of the republic, have been the Tribune and the Evening Post. To the first of these journals was mainly owing the disruptions and the final destruction, of the glorious old, whig party, and the latter was the organ of the faction which divided the democratic organiza tion, rendered it powerless for good, and paved. the way for its extinction. Slavery was the apple of discord used by both of these papers to accomplish their ends. Now they have united together for the purpose of presenting Mr. George Opdyke to the voters of New York as the representative of their views, whom they hope to secure the election of, in order to make it appear that the fell spirit of abolitionism has taken possession of this city, and that the good sense, enlightenment and enlarged conservatism of the masses of the community had been over- ruled. Mr. Opdyke and Mr. Wood commenced life much in the same manner. While the latter was a poor boy in New York, the former wag in a similar position in New Orleans. From the station of a journeyman tailor im the great commercial mart of Louisidha, he has risen to great wealth, and a high place among our merchant princes, here, and is es- teemed one of the most enterprising and saga- cious of our moneyed men. He is said to be worth no less than three or four millions of dollars. Such facts tell of themselves the story of a career deserving the greatest credit, They show Mr. Opdyke to be a true specimen of American worth and genius; but, unfortu- nately, in his political affiliations of the present, day, and as the representative of the ideas of such incendiaries as the Tribune and the Post, who are moving heaven, earth -and the regions under the earth, with their cloven-footed in- habitants, he cannot be supported for the Mayoralty by any one who desires the true in- terests of the country, and who seriously com- mends the course that has been pursued by Mr- Lincoln and his administration for the restora- tion of the integrity of the Union, The only contest in the coming election will be between the two candidates we have named: and the ideas they respestively represent* Tammany Hall first nomiuated Mr. Brady, ag an empty compliment to the Irish, and fhen ponneed upon that unfortunate indi- dual, Me. Goifey Gunther, in order to