The New York Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8T3. Volameo XXVI.,.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.Au, Hatuow Eve— Magic Joke—Bauwey Tux Baxon. 8 THEATRE, No, 844 Broadway.—Maare Man- Searkuoar. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway,—Stvex Soxs. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Burt Rux—Sworn or Moxoee wae Woy Mopxen Tutk—MARY PRICE BOWERY Cincvs. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brondway.eDay and Fvening—Hanest Hoae—Hivrorotaaus, WAALE, AND ‘Oruxe Cuniosirixs, BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way. —Cuaw Roast Byxy. HOOLEY'S MINSTRELS, Stuyvesant, Institute, No. 689 Broadway.—Etuiorian Soncs, Dances, &0. MELODEON CONCERT HALL, No. 539 Broadway.— SONGS, Davos, BURLESQUES, AC.—HSMERALDA, THEATRE, —StickNeY's NationaL CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 585 Broadway.=! Danors, Buaunsquas, 46.—Ntw naw Cates ne GATETIFS CONCERT RC OM, 616 Broadway.—Drawing NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1861. THE NEWS. . The Fulton, at this port, and the Bohemian, at Portland, yesterday, furnished us with news from Europo to the 15th of November--one day later. Cotton remained firm, at unchanged rates, in Liverpool. Breadstuffs were quiet and the prices unaltered. Consols rated in London, on the th inst., at 937% a 94. M. Fould, having assumed the office of Minister of Finance of France, had presented his programme of the new budget to the Emperor, who approved ofit. There is a deficit of about two hundred mil- lions of dollars in the treasury, which the London journals say has been caused by the excess of war force which is maintained over the estimate pre- sented at the early part of the year. The number of men voted for the army and navy was 393,000, but the number now in arms is half a million, Avery interesting trial, involving the right of Victor Emanuel to take the naval property of Na ples, has just been closed in France, The King of Italy was defeated, as will be seen by the report published in the Hgraxp to-day. m By telegraph from San Francisco we learn that the steamship Uncle Sam left that port on the 21st instant, for Panama, with $970,000 for New York. She would take on board at San Pedro six hundred United States regular soldiers and their officers. On the 24th there was an active speculation going on in sugar. Advices from Honolulu to the 12th of October had been received, with news from the Room Entertainments Batters, Panromiaes, Farces, £0. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway.=Songs, Bau. Lets, Pantomimgs, &¢.—Misciugyous NicGER, CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45 Bowery. = Bunixsgues, Sons, Dances, &C.—Buivanv's Oatu. METROPOLITAN CONC! RT HALL, 600 Broadway.— Bones, Dances, Fancxs, BuRLEsevxs, Ac. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway.— Open daily frow 10.A. BM. till 9 = hioh NATIONAL MUSIC HALL, Chatham s'reet,—Burues- QvEs, Songs, Dances, 4c.—Mascurkape Batt. NOVELTY CONCERT HAL , 616 Bi boat Dances, Pavrowisas, BUREMEAUES, £0, Pr NTy SONG New York, Wednesday, November 27, 1861 THE SITUATION. The most interesting news which we have to re- port to-day is the bombardment of Pensacola from Fort Pickens, by Colonel Harvey Brown on Satur- day last. The information comes to us entirely from rebel sources; that is to any from intelligence brought under a flag of truce from Norfolk to For- tress Monroe, and from a statement in a Norfolk paper. The rumor states that the steamers Niagara @nd Colorado and the guna at Fort Pickens had Opened a heavy fire on the rebel General Bragg’s for- ces and the Pensacola Navy Yard—that the town of Warrington was totally destroyed by the hot shot poured upon it from Fort Pickens, Gen. Bragg, how- ever, ip his despatches which he has widely circula- ted all over the South, describes the affair asa rebel victory, and reports that the United States steamers had to haul off, being badly damaged by the fire of the Febel batteries. It is admitted that the destruction done by the shells from the fort and ships was very considerable, and that the Navy Yard was set on fire three times by the hot shot from Fort Pickens. Goneral Bragg boasts that the walls of the fort were breached in several places, a fact which, from the calibre of the guns he had to bring to bear upon it, and the immense strength of the fort itself, is highly improbable. The despatches of Bragg are evidently only in keeping with the name of the author. We all remember the dexpatches pf Captain Hollins, describing the great “victory” of the rebel fleet of tugboats over our naval squadron at New Orleans, and it is ex- ceedingly probable that General Bragg is playing the Hollin’s game over again. We are the more disposed to view it in this light, from the fact that the fight at Pensacola had been known to the se- cessionists in Washington and Baltimore, for the last two days, and if it resulted in a victory for the rebel arms, they would certainly have given it a triumphant announcement long ago. Weare, therefore, disposed to look upon the affairas a Union victory, and we think that when the facta reach us from authentic sources we will be borne out in this opinion. A reconnoissance made yesterday by a portion OF Genoral Fitzjohn Porter's division towards Vienna, turned out unfortunately. It appears that while going through a defile of woods, they were attacked én the rear by a galling fire from a body of rebels concealed in a house near at hand, and upon push- ing on into open ground they met a large force of 300 rebel cavalry, and had to receive a severe fire of carbines and pistols. Our troops, who were commanded by Captain Bell, of the Third Pennsyl- vania cavalry, were immediately thrown into con- fusion, and fought their way for the time hand to hand with the enemy. They finally withdrew, and were met by Gen. Porter in person, coming up with reinforcements, near Fall's Church. Forty-five of Captain Bell's force were missing. The number of killed and wounded is not ascertained. It appears that the confusion was caused by the fact that many of the horses were unused to the discharge of musketry, and became unmanageable. With reference to the state of affairs on the Upper Potomac, a letter from Darnestown, Md., dated yesterday, says that there are no fixed bodiea or rebel picket stations from opposite the mouth of Muddy run up to half mile south of Goose creek. Above the creek, on the sideling, they have dug rifle pits and keep upa regular system of pickets of considerable strength. They still occupy the fortin view of Edwards’ Ferry, and on Sunday displayed o full regiment in parade just below the fort. General G. W. Smith, late of New York, still commands at Leesburg and surrounding country. The reports received by General Dix from the counties of Accomac and Northampton, in Eastern Virginia, yesterday, are most encouraging. That these districts have been restored to the Union is certain, General Lockwood has issued a procla- mation enjoining all the civil magistrates to ex- ercise their functions as usual in accordance with the law and the constitution. We publish to-day a fine map of the city of Nash- ville, Tenn.—the newly sclected capital of the rebela—to which their Congress has now repaired. Rumors were prevalent in Louisville, Kentucky, yesterday, that John C. Breckinridge, with a large force of rebels, was advancing from Green river towards Owensburg or Henderson, but the report was not generally credited. By the Bohemian, at Portland, we have news of the sailing of a portion of the French expedition to Mexico. It will be seen, from an article from the Paris Debats, given in the Heraun, that the ho it towards of the Mon most important consequences are expected by European Powers from this moy America and the first ‘‘infringoment roo dosiwine. Arctic whaling fleet. The average catch this season has been three hundred and seventy-five barrels. An address on “The Great Rebellion and the Constitutional Powers of the Government for its Suppression,” was delivered last evening in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, before a large and fashionable audience, by the Hon. Henry Winter Davis, of Baltimore. The speaker was listened to with great interest, and was frequently applauded. The Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, delivered a lecture last night in the First Baptist church of Hoboken, on “The Duties of Life.” Patriotism and the support of the government, by whatever means in our power, he urged upon his audience as one of the very important of these duties, The number of vessels entered at the Cus- tom House on Monday last, from foreign ports, was seventy-two. This number of en- tries in one day was never exceeded but once, which occurred in April last, when the num- ber reached ninety-one. It will be seen by refe- rence to our reports of entries and clearances since the commencement of the rebellion, that they exceed by far that of any corresponding pe- riod in past years. Our exports continue to in- crease in a still greater ratio, and as may be seen by a comparative statement published in our co- lumns this day, are in excess of last year, thus far, of more than thirty millions of dollars. The Port Surveyor has seized the schooners Ot- tawa and Otolama, both of which are owned by parties residing in the rebel States. The examination in the ie of Spencer Pettus, who was arrested on suspicion of having been im- plicated in the Winsted Bank robbery, was post- Pponed yesterday by Justice Brennan, at the, re- quest of the counsel for the prosecution. ‘Two writs of habeas corpus have been applied for and discharged in this case already. It is expected that Pettus will be sent forward to Connecticut on a requisition from the Governor of that State. George R. Cowel, a clerk in the employment of Messrs. Robbins, Royce & Hare, of No. 70 Reade street, was arrested yesterday ona charge of having embezzled goods at various times amount- ing in the aggregate to about $5,000. The prisoner, who has been living a fast life, confesses his guilt, and seems anxious to make all reparationin his power. Justice Brennan committed the defaulter to the Tombs. The Board of Supervisors held another meeting yesterday as County Canvassers, but owing to the tables not being completed the totals were not given, Another meeting will be held at noon to- day, when it is expected they will be able to com- plete their labors. The jury in the United States Gircuit Court were discharged by Judge Shipman yesterday from fur- ther attendance until the first Monday'in January next. The Judge, however, notified the bar that in the interim the Court would be opento hear motions. The Vermont cavalry regiment will arrive in this city from Burlington to-morrow, by the Hud- son River Railroad. The horses will occupy sixty- five cara,the men twemty, and twenty have been appropriated for baggage, making one hundred and five in all. It is said to be the finest and most complete cavalry regiment that has been raised in this section of the country. There is now no doubt—and sufficient time has elapsed since the sailing of the fleet to render the announcement safe—that the stone blockading squadron is destined for the harbor of Charleston, S.C. The intention of the government is probably to close the entrance to that port anddestroy the business and prospects of that nest ogg of rebellion, the city of Charleston, forever. * One of the reasons given for the sudden depar- ture of the bogus confederacy government trom Richmond is the cutting off of their supply of oysters by bringing the shores of Accomac and Northampton counties, Va., into the Union fold. Western Virginia—or what will probably soon be known as the State of Kanawha—has done remarka- bly well in raising troops to support the government in putting down the rebellion. ‘That portion of the Old Dominion has now in the ficld the following numBer of men:— Regiments, Men. vee 13 8,840 vi . 3 2,808 Three artillery batterie: 358 Voted ee sas Op eeseacersenne tere eeeeees 12,006 An election for a member to the federal Congress at Washington will take place to-day in the Second district of North Carolina, in accordance with the proclamation of M. N. Taylor, the provisional Governor of the State. ‘The cotton market was excited yesterday, and prices were from }4c. @ 1c. per Ib. higher. The principal pur- chasers were spinners, with some takers on speculation. The sales footed up from 3,750 a 4,000 bales, closing on the basis of 253Z0. a 26c, por Ib. for middling uplands. ‘This is the highest price it has brought in this market in & period of thirty-six yeare. The flour market Was steal). sn? prio’ without quotable change, although conunen shipping grades were rather firmer. Wheat was active and firm, but with- Out quotable change in prices. A part of the sales wore made to arrive. Corn was firm at the previous day’a quotations, while sales were tolerably active, both for home use andfor export. Pork was heavy, and prices unchanged: sales of mess were mate at $12 50 a $13, and Prime at $850. $9. Bacon wae active, with ealea at full prices, Beef was also firm. There was rather more doing in gugara, with sales of about 450 bh do. me. Indo, 1,400 bo: 4 4,400 bage, on terme given it an- other column. Coffee was firm, but quiet. Freights were rather easier, but tolerably active at the conceseion, Weep snp Woop.—We have reason ti ve that our late general article on Tinilow Weed and Fernando Wood will be borne ont by coming events. The Albany Journal is leaning towards Wood in a very amiable frame of mind. In fact, since the developements of the Chicago Convention, the republican party is not big enough for Weed and Greeley. It fol- lows that, as Opdyke is the man for Greeley, Wood is the ticket for Weed. And why not? | Wood supports the government policy of | “Honest Abe Lincoln’ out-and- nd so does Word, while Gre | Kick in the trace ! pect the solid conserva ley and his al: ion clique ccordingly, we may ex- » body of licans of this city tog } whil | polis The Satanic Element of Abolition in the Charter Elect According to the two great prophets and Poets of religion, Moses and Milton, the first mighty rebel and destroyer of public peace that ever appeared on earth, by name Satan, made his magnificent entrance, in the earliest age of the world, into the Garden of Eden, previously the abode of happiness, concord and love, and by the simple introduction of the destroying element of abolition, produced a scene of dis- order and destruction that have fatally reacted upon the whole human family. The arch- tempter was the first abolitionist, and with tho lying tale upon his lips that they were in slavery and ignorance; that their present feli- city was as nothing compared with the delights of emancipation, induced the founders of our race to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that they might rise to a higher and impos- sible level, and“ be as gods.” There has been scarcely a nation, from that time to this, before which the same diabolical delusion has not been presented, at some period of its his- tory, misleading it into suicidal efforts to sacri- fice existing prosperity for the sake of ima- ginary good, and thus enticing it on to its own ruin and overthrow. Thirty years ago its germs began to appear on this continent, and in a shape similar to that which plunged Adam and Eve into misery, sought to raise the negro to the level of the white man, at the expense of every benefit that had been bequeathed to us by statesmanlike and patriotic forefathers, pav- ing the way for the fearful excitement that has at last culminated in bloodshed and carnage, and menacing to change into a desert the great native Eden that had been looked to by the op- pressed of the whole world, up to a recent epoch, as the city of refuge, and a haven of repose. The two principal organs of this devilish, destroying abolition element, in the city of New York, are the Tribune and the Evening Post. They have both been employed, for over fif- teen years in misrepresenting the people of the South and of the North, respectively, to each other, and in endeavoring in every way to in- culeate the infernal idea that the constitutional bond which unites them together, is a “league with hell and covenant with death” which ought to be rent asunder at whatever cost. No effort has been left unemployed by them; there has been no fabrication too atrocious, no for- gery of correspondence, perversion of facts, or calumny of individuals so barefaced or menda- cious that they have shrunk from it, provided it tended to excite the passions of their readers, and foster discontent with the beneficent in- stitutions under which we live. They are in a great degree responsible for the convulsed state of the country at the present time, and at their door lies a large proportion of the respon- sibility of the dreadful crisis through which it is passing. As a culmination of impudence and atrocity, they are now endeavoring, however, to cause the great and conservative city of New York to identify itself with their nefarious aboli- tion schemes, and they have chosen the coming Mayoralty election as a fitting standpoint for their abominable machinations. 3 This metropolis has been, at all times, noted for its eminently comprehensive and national conservatism; its impartial fairness towards all sections of the republic alike; and a farsighted commercial policy which have caused it to eschew every clement that could impair its posilion as the great depot of trade for the American continent, When the war first broke out, the first national impulse exhibited itself here, and the first troops that were sent to Washington to avert invasion from the national capital, were despatched from New York. Yet, in the midst of this conflict, which has been car- ried on with such prudence and wisdom by the administration, and upon the success of which depends the restoration of the integrity of the Union, and the salvation of the United States asa nation, the Zribune and Evening Post, have, persistently thrown every obstacle in their power in the way of the government, cavilling with the measures it has adopted, and besieging it with clamors to arm ihe blacks of the South against their masters, and to prevent the possibility of the re-establishment of the guarantees of the constitution, by inaugurating an epoch of massacre and servile insurrection in the rebel States. They now come forward with a candidate for the Mayoralty, Mr. George Opdyke, individually a man of character and integrity, but under whose leadership they hope to consecrate the principle that Irish and German labor must be driven from the market and the handiwork of emancipated slaves sub- stituted in its place. The main object of the abolition conspirators of the Tribune and Post at the present conjune- ture, is so to complicate issues in the Northern States as to make it appear to the nation that New York endorses their emancipation schemes, in opposition to the President and the true interests of the country. Mr. Op- dyke is merely the instrument whom they have chosen to accomplish this design. The majority of the inhabitants of this metro- are conservative merchants, mechan- ies. and laborers, who have an interest at stake in maintaining the unity of the republic, and who cordially hate and eschew everything that savors of agitation of the slavery question. The Evening Post, the Tribune and their allies wish to make it seem to the country, by elect- ing Mr. Opdyke, that the seventy thousand voters who will go to the polls on Tuesday next, are willing to elevate the bondsmen of the South to a level with themselves, and drive out the Irish and German laboring population of the city for their benefit. The result will show that they cannot attain this wicked end. By giving an overwhelming majority for Mr. Wood, whose national position is indisputable; of whose loyalty no one entertains a doubt; and who has proved himself to be a sagacious and accomplished executive officer, the people of New York will demonstrate their appreciation of the trap that has been set for them by aboli- tion incendiaries, and confirm our metropolis in its proud position of a point of reunion, around which the South can rally, after the rebellion shall have been crushed out, and the Union have been resiored to its pristine integrity. Tue Lasr Dover or Ovr Anorrrion News- rapens.—Our readers are well aware that if anybody has been hovvitied at the lottery ope- rations of Ben. Wood, Greeley is the man; and yet he has at last publicly ent@ed into the lottery business himself. Me offers the prize ofa gold pen to any one who will send ina bateh of five subsevibers to the Week ly Tribune. This ie the first step towards a gift newspaper concern on the lottery system. At this rate, if | the war should last six 1 s longer, the | Tribune, Times and World (for they are all | down at the heel) will have to be fased into one concern. Should this thing happen, we suggest the title of “the World, the Flesh and the Devil,” as the most appropriate name for the Abolition Holy Alliance Tue Inoenpiary Press or New Yore.— In yesterday’s numbers of the two leading in- cendiary journals of this city appeared two telegraphic despatches from Washington, both tending to embroil this country with all the Powers of Europe, and both so identical in sen- timent and almost in language that there can be little doubt they emanated from a common source, and that source one of the numerous secession emissaries with which Washington is now filled. The despatch in the Tribune is as follows:— Tux Ravovvnionists at Work in Eorors.—Thoroughly trustworthy private letters from Kurope contain the highly important intelligence that the revolutionists of the Continent have made the most folzo any opportunity which a mod in the affuirs of this country may give them. In Italy, Austria, Poland and even France, mines are laid ready to be sprung at @ moment's notice. Should England trouble us she will be likely to cause a general conflagration. The despatch in the Times runs thus: Tur Ravotvtiomsrs 1x Evrors.—Latters recoived by private parties in this country from their agents and cor- respondents abroad, state that the European revolution. ists are basing high expectations in bebalf of their own plans on an anticipated intervention in Amorcan affairs by England and France. They believe that such an event would be to them a favorable moment to strike a blow for European liberty, and that the active sympathy thus shown by England and Franco for slavery in the New World would swell the ranks of the revolution by the ad- dition of large numbers of conservative men. "Already socret societics had been organized in France, Italy, Aus- tria, Hungary aud Poland with a view to this contin- gency. It is very plain that the two foregoing an- nouncements, in substance one, have proceeded from the same quarter. If there is any truth in the intelligence it goes to show that certain conspirators here are in league with conspira- tors in every country of Europe to upset their respective governments, on account of their hostility to the United States. The effect of this news, if believed by the crowned heads and statesmen of Europe, would be to unite them in a formidable coalition against this re- public, like that which ultimately crushed the First Napoleon. In pursuing this course the incendiary abolition journals are only con- sistent with their own antecedents and true to their own history. It was through their instru- mentality that the emissaries of England have been so successful in sowing the seeds of na- tional discord among us. They aided and abetted their propagandism in every shape and form, and finally played into the hands of the secessionists of the South, till the consumma- tion so devoutly wished by the British aristoc- racy was achieved, and secession became civil war. And now they are laboring to complete what they began, by inviting not only England, but France, Austria and all the Powers of Europe to go to war with us at this critical moment, by telling them that the American government and people are in league with the revolutionists of Europe to involve the Old World in one “gene. ral conflagration,” and to make bonfires of every throne. The Satanic journals say that the effect of a European war with us would be to secure to the Southern confederacy its indepen dence. On their own showing, therefore, they are fomenting a war which will render the severance of the Union perpetual. And this was their programme from the beginning. They have never concealed from their readers that their object is to exterminate slavery; and they add that, if the war be not to accomplish this, every man who falls in the struggle is murder- ed, and that, rather than see the Union restored as it was founded by Washington and the patriots of the Revolution, they would prefer a final separation, and a Northern republic, consisting wholly of States without a slave in them. Such is their programme, and they calculate that a war with all Europe would hasten its accom- plishment. It is true that these journals have only a limit ed influence. They have been reduced in their cireulation by one-half of late—cut down ip size and expenditure—some of them resorting to gift lotteries to retain the remnant of their old subscribers, or to get new ones in place of those who are so rapidly dropping off. Yet they may do a considerable amount of mischief, and, like other incendiaries, they ought to be arrested before the harm is done. Reymond: therefore, and Greeley, and all the joint stock philosophers of the Tribune ought to be sent to winter quarters at Fort Warren, to play cards with Mason, Slidell and their two secretaries. Imrortant Newspaper Facts ror tur Pro- pLe.—Greeley, like the Baron Munchausen, goes it with enthusiasm in producing his important facts for the people. But he differs from the Baron in singing the same song over and over, whether the people will listen to him or not. Yesterday, for example, according to his own peculiar ideas of veracity, he reiterates it as the gospel truth that some time ago James G. Bennett, editor-in-chief of the Henan, received a secession flag from South Caro}ina, and had it hung over his private door, ke. This is awful. But we can state some facts concerning Greeley upon which we could convict him before a jury of his own choosing. Before this war broke out Greeley & Co. were in the receipt of con- tributions to the extent of three or four thon- sand dollars a year from the South to aid the schemes of the secessionisis through the Satanic abolition element of the North; Greeley has a lot of shirts the raw stuff of which was pro- cured trom a Southern secessionist; he eats South Carolina rice in preference to New York hominy; he has Carolina secesh potatoes some- times privately cooked in his kitchen; he eats his boiled pork seasoned with secession mo- lasses, and he consumes early secession straw- berries and tomatoes with the gusto of a rebel yegetarian. He esteems the flour from the mills of Richmond as better than that from Rochee- ter, and Virginia secession hams as far supe- rior to the swill-fed bacon of our Northern dis- tilleries. Is not Fort Lafayette the proper place for such a gormandizing traitor? Who can explain the Clemency of Honest Abe Lin- coln in reference to this dyed-in-the-wool seces- sionist, Greeley? TeLecrars Birnvers—The telegraph has enough to answer for in manufacturing ground- less excitements for others without going into that business on its own account. Yesterday it threw the bears in Wall street into ecstacies by making our Washington correspondent say that the estimates of the appropriations called for by the requirements of government for the next fiscal year amounted to “one thousand and sixty millions of dollars.” Let there be deducted from this startling total the sum of nine hundred millions, and there will remain what our correspondent stated to be the amount of next year’s estimates, just one hundred and illions--neither more nor less. For ana- ed in crushing out the most gigantic rebellion on record, this sum is a more bagatelle, sixty ¥ New Yorx Frvanciens wv Leaave wira Seces. sioN—Movements nv Foreion Excuanox.— Wall street was a little astonished the other day at witnessing the financial phenomenon of a rise in the rate of foreign exchange, in face of a commercial movement which, according to all recognized rules in such matters, should have caused the rates to fall. But there is an easy explanation of the matter. Itso happens that, with scarcely an exception, the dozen firms in this city which control the business of foreign exchange are, to a greater or leas degree, deeply {imbued with secession sentiments. British, French, German, American, they are all open to that same charge. Their aggregate capital is probably some ten millions of dollars, and the business which they transact upon itis very large and profitable. Of course, the higher they can put up the rates of exchange, the greater are their profits, The more the difficulties of the government are magnified, the better their chances of profits. They are, therefore, from the very nature of their business, as well as from their commercial, public and social relations, sympathizers with the South in this rebellion. They generally entertain sentiments on the subject similar to those which prevail in England, and would not be at all averse to seeing the Union permanently dis- solved. In that event the currency and trade of the country would be injuriously affected, and the rates of foreign exchange would conse. quently be enhanced. They therefore lose no opportunity that promises any chance of weaken- ing confidence in the government, and thus cre- ating @ financial panic. For, although they work for a rise, and the bears on the Stock Ex- change operate for a fall, the objects of both are identical. The last movement of these dealers in foreign exchange was, by concert among themselves, to run up, on Monday last, the rate of exchange on London to 10934. Owing to the balance of trade being so much in our favor, the rate has fluctuated for some time between 107 and 108, The point at which we can make a profit by im- porting gold from Europe is 107%; that at which it will pay to export it from here is 109%. The regular "par value is 10934. It will be thus seen that theso foreign exchange dealers managed to get up the rate, last Mon. day, to within one-half of one per cent of the point at which the export of gold from here would set in. The object of that movement was to embarrass the government, by withdrawing specie from the banks, thus interfering with the lean, and promoting, in a proportionate extent, the prospects of the rebels. In this they are backed by the cotton men and rebel sympa- thizers in England and France. The movye- ment, however, could not possibly, in the pre- sent relations of our import and export trade, succeed, and the rate fell back yesterday. Where our exports for the last two weeks amounted to $7,000,000, and our imports to but half that sum, all such puny efforts to create financial trouble must be doomed to failure. Nevertheless, it might be well to look after this thing. Congress meets next Monday, and as Mr. Chase has had his attention called to this matter he will undoubtedly suggest some pre- ventive measures. Among them might be such a still further increase of tariff duties as would prohibit the importation of foreign goods, and thereby keep, under all circumstances, the bal- ance of trade in our favor. These financiers on the Stock Exchange and in foreign exchange will bear looking after. Tue Trisuye’s Derence or Fremont—Inpr- RECT ATTACK ON THE GOVERNMENT.—The Tribune of yesterday contained a very long and elabo- rate defence of General Fremont, in the shape of an editorial article, which is an indirect at- tack on the administration, and particularly on the President, who assumed the responsi- bility of removing him. Now that Mr. Lincoln has set his foot down, what can be the object of discussing the matter day after day, backing up the discarded General and reflecting upon the government? The only object is to in- flame the public mind and to excite mutiny and rebellion against the President and his Cabinet, by holding up Mr. Fremont to the world asa political martyr. But in his lengthy article of two columns anda half Greeley not only fails to make a good case for Fremont, but fully confirms the charge made against him of want of military capacity. It is clearly demonstrated that his plan was only playing the game Price, McCul- loch and the other Confederate generals de- sired. Had not his army heen quickly recalled it would have been all lost. But to abolition journalists, who are very brave ata long dis- tance from the enemy, this seems a matter of small account. Indeed, the sacrifice of an army may be. according to their theory, a very good thing. They managed to have one routed and demolished at Bull run; and if one or two more disasters like that could be brought about they calculate the result might be that we would then have a government with only one system of labor, and that all free. That is their dream, and they care little whether the government be great or small Hence they denounce all the generals who will not chime in with them—for instance, Mansfield, Sherman, Hunter and Halleck—and they are continually creating disaffection and throwing embarrassments in ihe way of the President. lest he should succeed in restoring the Union and the constitution, with sil their covenants and compromises. What Greeley & Co. want is a war of emancipation, involving servile insurrec- tion and such horrors as have never been wit- neszed on earth before or since the scenes of Si. Domingo. These mutineers ought to be put in straight jackets and gent to a lunatic asylum, or board and lodging ought to be procured tor them in some of Uncle Sam’s strongholds. It ia dangerous to leave them at large. Tue Shoppy CanpipaTe.—What is shoddy? It is a counterfeit cloth made of pulverized old rags. How does shoddy wear? It dissolves under a soaking rain, like a cout made of old newspapers. For further particulars inquire of | our New York Volunteers, or of George Op- dyke, shoddy inspector. Woop axp OppykE on THE Wanr.—What has Wood done for the war? He has sent off a regi. ment of Union soldiers. What has Opdyke done? He was one of the committee concerned in the shoddy inspection business. Vote for Wood. Nt Tar Tasiorro Recirasions.—This evening Mr. Tasistro will give one of his most popular entertainments at Dod- worth’s Hall, which cannot fail, under the peculiar cir- cumstences in which he now appears before the public, { goneral attention, Mr. Tasistro ,recites on this fe play of “Eamtot,”" which performance | was the subjectofso much comment and eulogy on the | I entertainiients, 23 rst intellectual and the nice public, rem rove powers of meanory exit Orry PoLrTrics. ee eeraat GUNTHER beans RATIFICATION MEET- G. 4 TAMMANY REVIVAL—A SPASMODIC EFFORT zanuaore SACKEMS—C. GODFREY Goxruea's Noe NATION FORK THE MAYORALTY xy: SPEECHES, ETC. enue Yesterday evening a ratification necting of C. Godfroy Gunther for Mayor was held in ‘Tammany Hall. There was ‘@ large attendance, and, for a time, one was reminded of the former days of Old Tammany. Nove of the speakers, however, ropresented the class of orators who used to wield the flerce democracy in the Old Wigwam. Little enthusiasm was manifested in the proceedings, though there were numerous bands, and any quantity of powdor expended in discharging the big gun which has #0 often awakened tho echoos of Tatuman, and shook the glasses in the Powter Mug. The mooting was organ- ized by the appointment of Mr, Devlin to the chair, who made a short speech, Judge Hearn read j cuse for absenco from James Brady, in bend tleman stated that Mr. Wood's modest accoptance of the Mozart nomination for Mayor reminded him of the man- ner in which Richard IIT. had beon seduced to accept the crown, after paving his way to it, and loaving the poop!a no other alternative, (Choers, and cries of “It's no go.”) Mr. Tomuinsox was then introduced to the mooting. He regretted to say that the people never seemed to Joarn experience from the past. Tho evils of the Old World wore falling on the people of the Now, Poace but ® fow months ago smiled over the land; today war And desolation rode ‘ampant over the country, Our fa thers had formed a government which they designed should be a government of empires—of a wholo and mighty continent—a government for the people. raised # temple to liberty, and among those who rai that sacred temple was Carroll, of rroliton, an Irish- man. That temple of liberty had been compromised. ‘The constitution itselt was founded on the principle ef compromises. Among those compromises was that which gave equality to the Jow and the Gentile; a compromise botween justice and mercy; @ compromise as variod ap the rainbow in the sky, as broad and comprehensive aa tho universo. Our fathers formed | democratic party. Other parties raised themselves into power, but they were parties of concession. Andrew Jackson’ and Clay were the leaders of the democratic party, and they wore for compromises, but not for concessions. Slavery was not the cause of the war—(great confusion reigned at this time at one end of the hall, and the speaker was compelled to take breath, of which at the moment he was almost exhausted)—slavery was not the cause, but it was the pretext of the war, while in the second Fden they were assailed by abolitiouism, 18 took possession of the pulpit and the press. It wus to be 8 power in the country, and traitors in the demoeratio party rose up under the title of free soilers to destroy the happiness up to that time enjoyed by the people. They sought to raise themsolves into power, and they made abolitionism a handle to aid them in thetr accursed at- . Heretofore the democrats North and South were (Capiain Rynders—Thoy’ll be brothors again. The band of a visible Providence bad through slavery blessed tho land. Slavery was uot written in t Constitution, because it was known that the black man should perish before the civilization of the white race, and it was thought better to let tho negroes die out quietly than to dash them to the wail by the rade arms of war- fare. The causo of war, he said, was the nomination of arepublican to the Presidential’ chair. Tho democrats had appealed to the republicans, suying that if they formed a sectional party they would destroy the Unton. ‘They followed a veiled prophet, and when the prophet was unveiled they found that they had brought a curse ‘upon the country, and it was then they a panied to the democracy to save them. They wanted to elect a na- tional democrat; but Southern secessionists prevented this, and now Southern secession and Northern abolition- ism had conspired to destroy the country. (Cheora.) ‘An appeal was here made for volunteer spéakers to go out and address the people in the street, whore a large crowd was assembled. Inresuming, the speaker said that ourfathers had made Atreaty of peace to last forever and ever—a treaty of peace between the North and South, between the an the West—and if they were to fight for fifty yoars, whatever side won, nothing could be gained, and nothing achieved equal to the God consecrated treaty of the Union. (Choers.) If the democratic party — sue- ceeded id ruling the clections the Union would be reconstructed. Every American, every mun loving the Stars and Stripes, should unite in electing the nominees of the democratic party. Who were the democrats, and what their organization? When Mozart Hall nominated oneof the most designing republicans for District Attorney, Oakey Hall, Fernando Wood became an ally of tho republican party. (Cheers.) No democratic party had a right to Nominate to office any opponent of their party. . (Chwers.) If they stood together in this contost and succeeded, then ere long would the democratic party re-establish peace and order, and happiness in the country. When Fornaude Wood took sides with the republicans he lost all claim to be considered a democrat. He, it was trno, had a st hold on the Irish people. (A voice—‘‘Because he’s a Know Nothing.” Laughter.) Much asjhe desired the recon- struction of the country, before he would sce our nationa- lity go. down, bevore ho would sco all that was worth living for and’ hoping for sunk into tho earth, he would walk with the feet of desolation over the South. (Cheers.) Before he would submit to traitors within, or to enemies: without, he would burn down the habitations of the land, and lovel the homes of the people to the earth, He would call npon the north wind to visit then with the ey hand of death, or make ono flaming Moscow of the cities of the North. (Cheora.) God grant that ve soon see batter days; God grant that the lightnings of heavensmite the traitors of the North and the South with simultaneous destruction; God grant that the tempest now beating upon the country: may pass away forever, and that out of the wreck of civil war the blessings of peace may emerge; that on the lof- tiest pillars of the grand old temple cur long lost divinity may proside with the bow of promise above ite brow, the flag of stars in its hand and the cross of Christ upon ite heart. (Chee Frequent calls were made for General Warnrircr, who, on presenting Limself in front of the platfurm, was received with three choers, Indis- position prevented Gen. Walbridge trom speaking, but he timent the apothegm of another famous e Union must and shail be preserved.!? (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. Rioxwam, of Albany, next addressed the meeting, ‘amid confusion and a genera! break up, Three cheers for Gunther were then given, followed by three for Fernando Wood, after which the’ mocting dis- persed. THE TAXPAYERS’ ASSOCIATION. RATIFICATION MEETING OF GEORGE OPDYKE FOR MAYOR. A large, respectable and highly influential mecting of citizens in favor of Opdyke for Mayor was held last even. ing in the Cooper Institute. Mr. James Gallatin was ap- pointed Chairman, and, in accepting the position, he made a speech in favor of Mr. Opdyke for Mayor, eriti- cising the official acts of Mr. Wood, ond reading tho cor- respondence between him and the traitor Senator Toombs, of Georgia, on the subject of tho ure of arms last wins ter in this city on their way to the rebellious States. He Lind no doubt that the Mayor would, if he had had the power, have forced the elty to join the traitors. Ho ap- pealed to the citizens of New York to resene th from the hands of worse than traitora, res and honesty in the administyation of the m ernment, and show themselyes worthy of 1 stitutions. To do this the t select the public office, No nm had more artfully de- ceived the peop! Ko had appealed to the worst pass ‘aged traitors and squandered the pubi the city taxes, $) long ax his influ uid be no im: ement in the s y. v hope of relief n Milling Wood's piace with @.a good man. That man Mr. Opdyke, (Loud and continaons cheors.) He numenced life a poor boy, and owed his present high position to his honesty, indwetry and great capacity. He had already served the’ public at Albany. In him they shonld have a Mayor who would administer the go- vernment without fear (A Tn honor- ing and elevating him they henoy stimulated him fo like efforts. or statement. of the Nominating Com. ead to the audience by Mr. John Living- A report cf the convention of one hundred and twenty delegates (0 nominate a candidate for the Mayor- alty was pregencod naming Hon. George Opdyke for that oilice, and asking that the nomination be unanimously ratiled, The report was atopted and the nomination ratified unanimously, Mr. Cuireéspen wae introduced to nud addressed the mecting. The great question bes ing, aud to be settled next week by the ball It was whether the people wou ministration of their municipal affairs. For several yeara this city has been governed #:batantially by one man and his clique; and it wag r ‘ed all Over the world a the moxt aborninably governed and persistently robbed city in the world. poaker had never had but oxe official interview with Mr. Wood. With the extremost politencss he referred him to his Street Commissioner, and on ap- proaching that magnate, rmed by a third party that the Street Co: ioner's signature, which he wanted, could be Hie demurred to that, and subsequently p ature of the official, by taking him in a mellow ition after dinner, and adding @ basket of good (Lay ater) He would not say that any of the wine ever reached Mayor Woodie table. There wasone way of putting 9 stop to municipa abuse, and that was by defeating Fernando Wood and putting inhis place George Opdyke. (Applanse.) Tho cleansing of the city from the corruptions of its muniel- pal government waa but secondary iu ‘mportance to the Crushing out of the rebellion in the Jand. This infa- mous government of te ¢ down. If not put down by v pnt down by buliete. (Cheers. ) Free men will not inch longer pat up wi the corruption, the infamy which have disgraced the city. government for the last five years. He believed that the time was coming when the property holders of the city would find themeelves completely impoverished, if a speedy change did not take place. In conclusion, he strongly supported the election of George Opdyke. Hig remarks were frequently applauded Mr. Hiram Kareucm was the noxt speaker. The best means, ho declared, of defeating Fornaudo Wood was by ting Goorge Opd, ‘The meeting broke up about ten ‘There ie no alternative. with the robbery, ck. MR. JOHN KERR DECLINES THE NOMINA- TION FOR MAYOR. eof the People’s Union and Rent Pryors? t ovening, a letter wasreceived from. ation for Mayor, which it v's lotter adv orig fc page.