The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, THUKSDAY, NOVEMBER 2%, 1861, NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. OORNEB OF FULTON AND NASSAD ST®& ACADEMY OF MUSI PORMANCS. Aflernoon ai WINTER GARDEN, BroadwayeAtt Harrow Eve— MAGio Joxu~Bauney Tux Baron, WALLACK! IEATRE, No. 844 Broadway.—Macic Mar- Biage—THe aot. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Savex Sox. NEW BOWERY, -Afternoon—Bait Rixaue oF Bosrox—Day Arrsk tua Weppixc—Srecrrx Burpagroow— Four Lovxes. Evening—Buut. Rox—Scaooumasren—Last Lags—Raising tax Winn. BOWERY THEAT! Crmous, Afternoon and Bowery.—Sricewer's Nationat vening. BARNUW'S AMERICAN MUS : auvs, Wace, axp Orgex Cuntositixs. BRYANSS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Bury. way.—Cuaw Roast rd 5B ‘Afternoon and Evening. HOOLEY'S MINSTRELS, Stuyvesant Institute, No. Grosdway.—Ermtoruax Sonas, Danoes, be. sAfioraons = HALL, No. 609 Broadway. sdtBLODEON CONCERT eS Soren, Daxoxs, Buaizsevss, £0.—Esuzaayps. Afternoon CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 685 Broadway. Danone, Beucesaues, 4c.—New Year Cavus. Afternoon Co GAIETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—Daawina Boon! renew nnd Bavuxrs, Pawtomsuss, Faaces, &c. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway.—Sonas, Bar. gel &0.—Miscainvous Niggee. Afteraoon CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45 Bowery, Songs, —l é atk be pnp peng Dancus, 4¢.—Baicaxn’s Oats. Alter. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDER: Broadway.— Open daily from 10M. tI 9. - atteraoon sae Evening NATIONAL MUSIC HALL, Chatham street.—Bi = = ne ‘Dances, &0.~Masquenapy Baru. ‘Afternoon pBLODEON, Brookiyn.—Soxus, Danoxs, Paxtostues, New York, Thursday, November 28, 1862 ‘Mr. Wruiam B. Saaw 1s no longer a correspondent of thie paper in Washington. ° THE SITUATION. We give to-day some details of the late surprise of our reconnoitering troops near Vienna on Tucs- day. Several of those reported missing have re- turned, reducing the list from forty-five, as at first reported, to twenty-eight. The bodies of two of the Union men kifled in the skirmish were found yesterday and brought into camp. The intelligence received by the government by the Inst mail from Europe, is very satisfactory. It is reported that the rebel agents, who have been straining every point in both England and France * to accomplish their designs, have utterly failed. Tt was stated upon good authority that Messrs. Yancey and T. Butler King were. proparing to re- tarn home, evidently probably expecting that they would be succeeded by Messra. Slidell and Mason. A portion of the First Pennsylvania Cavalry, under Colonel Bayard, proceeded yesterday morn- ing to Drainsville to arrest aome known rebels in that town. After accomplishing their mission, snd while returning, they were attacked by about fifty rebels from @ thicket where they were con- eealed. Colonel Bayard attacked them in return, Killing three, capturing five more and dispersing the rest. The expedition of General Burnside, which is gow fitting out for an attack upon the Southern coast, hee already assumed formidable pro- portions, though under way but a very short time. An account of it, so far as organized, with the officers, regiments and vessels composing it, appears in another column of to- day's paper. Ten regiments have so far been ‘assigned to the expedition, of which eight are now at Annapolis. The troops have not yet been brigaded, and of the Brigadier Generals, only one has, up to thistime, been appointed—General John G. Foster. Captain Howard, late of the United States Revenue marine, accompanies the expedi- tion, with a naval brigade, and Commander 8. F. Hasard, United States Navy, is attached to the staff of General Burnside as Naval Officer and Director. ‘This expedition, like the one which has pre- eeded it to Port Royal, is doubtless destined to make an impression damaging to the rebel seaboard. ‘The transport Constitution, with General Butler's expedition—of which we give a highly interesting sccount to-day—arrived at Hampton Roads yester- day all safe and in good condition. No news of the affair at Fort Pickens reached Fortress Monroe yesterday by the steamer bearing & fag of truce to and from Norfolk. It is evident that the rebels are not disposed to give any further information on this subject, at present. Everything is quiet in General Banks’ division on the Upper Potomac. The General himsclf was in Washington yesterday in close consultation with General McClellan. ‘The government has appointed an efficient Board Of Officers to superintend the mounting of cannon on all the permanent fortifications of the country. This Board consists of Brigadier General Totten, Corps of Engineers; Brigadier General Ripley, Ordnance Department; Brigadier General Barry, Tnited States Volunteers; Brigadier General Bar- Bard, United States Volunteers; Colonel Hunt, ; United States Army, and Captain Rodman, Ord- wBance Department. The Board will meet in Wash- Yngton at such time and place ss may be designated by the senior officer, and the janior members will Tecord the proceedings. 4 curious despatch from Halifax, which ilhus- ‘trates very forcibly the vagaries to which the tele- ‘graph is sometimes liable, states that the Hima- Asya, British steamer, which arrived there yester- dey, reports thatthe Trent, from which Mason and Slidell were taken, bad reached England before ‘the Himalays left, and that a British frigate had Ween at once despatched to this country. It is ‘Upneceasary to say that the arrival of the Trent at the time atated is simply an impossibility. Our news from Missouri represents Gen. Price &¢t Pleasant Hill with 25,000 men. Nothing of any \ importance has occurred in that department since | last advices. | By the Canada, at Halifax, we have European | @dvices to the 17th of November. The portion of | tho news which refers to American affairs is inte- | resting. ‘The tripartite treaty against Mexico had been @Ublishod in the London Gazette. \priioles. ‘The fourth provides that President Lin- It contains five coln shall be furnished with a copy, aud the Minis- tera of the contracting Powers now in Washington are authorized to conclude it, separately or collec- tively, with the United States. As delay, how- ever, may jeopardize the success of the expedition, the operations of the Allied Commissioners are not to be interrupted after the fleet has reached off Vera Cruz for Mr. Lincoln's sigeature. It was thought that the French war ships for the Galf would 84 semble at Havana between the 15th and 20th of December. Sir James Fergusson, M. P., is rather hurt at the idea of being classed as an English spy during his Tecent tour to America. He disclaims the charac- ter earnestly, pleads that of a ‘‘gentleman’”’ promi- nently, and leaves his constituents to imagine that he enjoyed the opportunity of conferring with the American commanders on both sides during his journey. The cotton crisis was felt severely in England, and many workmen had gone on ‘‘strike”’ as & means—a very.strange one, certainly—of prevent- ing a reduction of wages. The London News, noticing this fact, enumerates about forty failures of manufacturers already, and states that when the artisans’ “trike” produces a good many more there will be no wages at alj to be had. THE NEWS. Thanksgiving and praise to the Great Ruter of the Universe will “occupy the attention to-day of the people of Now York, Obt0, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiaaa, Maryland, Rhode Isiand, Winois, Delaware, Vermont, town, Kontacky, Now Jersey, Michigan, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Western Virginia, New Hampshire, Kansas, ‘Washington city. The day will no doubt be faithfully observed, not only by the people in the above named States and localities, but by the soldiers who now repre- sent them at the seat of war. We claim for the patriotic and devotional proclamations which will be found fa another part of this paper an attentive perasal, and promise that the reader will be fully rewarded for the time thus appropriated. The law courts do not hold.any sessions to-day. The Canada, from Liverpool the 16th, and Queenstown the 17th inst., arrived at Halifax yes- terday, on her way. to Boston, and the mails of the Bohemian reached this city from Portland at the same time. The news is two days later. ry Cotton remaiged firm in Liverpool; prices were unchanged, but the market had an advancing ten” dency. Breadstuffa were inactive. with few sal Consols closed in London on the 16th inst. at a 94 for money. It has been found that over thirty cotton manufscturera failed lately in England.” Some of the operatives had gone on a “‘strike” as a means of opposinga "he Gan of wages. ‘The Russian army in Me Caucusus had been de- feated with great loss by the Circassians. Poland was still convulsed. The Russian troops were in- sulted daily, and the Archbishop of Warsaw had been arrested for insulting General Luders, who commands the force. France hoped for much financial relief from the new budget of M. Fould. Italian affairs were not materially changed. The Brazilian mail af Lisbon brings datea from Pernambuco of the 2ist and Rio Janeiro of the 25th of October. Sales of cotton 101/800 at Per- nambuco; 3t Rio, coffee, sales of good first at 64600. The stock is 160,000 bags. Cotton is quoted at 9,000 reis. The following table shows the number of officers and men the United States had engaged in the va- rious wars and frontier disturbances: — Men. |. Revolutionary war....:...s. ++ 235,811 War with England, 1812 to 181 440,413 Semitiole war, 1817 to 1818. 5,498 Black Hawk war, 1832 40 4,540 Florida war, 1836 tp 1842. 1,621 28,333 Oredk disturbances? 18:6 t . 14 11,680 Southwestern disturbances, 1836. 161, 2,643 Cherokee country, 1836 to 1837 238 3,690 New York frontier disturbances, 1833 to 1839 1,013 Mexican war, 1846 to 1948. 70.129 Captain Windsor, of the British brig Argyle, which arrived at this port yesterday, from Barba- does 1st inst., reports that the United States war steamer Iroquois was at Paramaribo, Oct. 23, cruising for the privateer Sumter. The United States steam frigate Niagara, which is reported to have engaged the forts in the hands of the rebels at Pensacoia, carries twelve eleven inch pivot guns, which throw shot weighing one hundred and seventy pounds, requiring fifteen pounds of powder for each discharge. She can discharge at the same instant at one object, with one hundred and eighty pounds of powder, over two thousand pounds of metal. General Bishop Leonidas Polk, who commands the rebels in Tennessee, has lost, that reputation for truthfulness that belongs to reverend gentle- men generally. In his account of the buttle of Belmont he tells his master, Jeif. Davis, that the Union forces numbered seven thousand five bun- dred men, while our official reports make the total number two thousand and seventy-two. f Ameeting was held at Frankfort, Ky., laat Sa- turday, composed of Union men: who were ‘‘op- posed to the propositions of John Cochrane and Simon Cameron for the emancipation of the slaves of those who are at war with the United States, andthe arming of such slaves in the war against the Southern people.” We have not learned what action was taken. The schooner E. Sheddon, lying at the foot of Beckman street, East river, is now taking in cargo for Hatteras Inlet, for the Union men of North Carolina. It consists of flour, pork, beef, molas- ses, boots, shoes and dry goods. Any donation that may be sent will be received, and as such for- warded. Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts, delivered an oration last evening at the Cooper Institute, before avery large and intelligent audience, including some hundred ladies, on “The Rebellion, [ts Origin and Mainspring.” He was introduced by Mr. Wm. Curtis Noyes, who presided, and who made a speech on the occasion, which we give, together with some extracts from the oration. ‘The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday, but no business of public importance was trans- acted. From the weekly statement it appears that the number of emigrants whoarrived here dur” ing the last week was 1,420, making, a total of 64,213, who have arrived during the year, against 98,180 up to the same time last year. The number of inmates on Ward’s Island is 792. The trea. surer’s report shows a balavce in the bank of $10,346 50. The special meeting of the Board of Education called for last evening to finish up the large amonnt of business in arrears-did not take place, in conse- quence of a qnorum not being present when the roll was called. The largest shipment of breadstuffs for Europe ever made et this port in one day was on Tuesday of this week, when 404,283 bushels of grain and 28,598 barrels of dour were cleared at the Custom House. The market for beef cattle yesterday, though with- out any very marked change, was rather dull, and for some kinds prices ruled lower. The receipts were heavy, and, as the offerings were chiefly composed of interior, prices of this description were lower, quite # pumber of sales having been made at 434c. The range was from 41%4c. a S%e., but the general selling prices for ordinary to good stock were 7c. asc, Milch cows ware steady, Veal calves were rather dull and scarcely so firm, prices varying from 4c. @ 6c. Sheep and lambs were rather dull, Gad prices were 2c. 4 50c. per bead lower, vary- tng from $2 a $4.8 $5 per head. Swine were again in enormous supply and prices were somewhat lower, varying from 3c. 0 3%0. The total receipts were 4,638 beef cattle, 100 cows, 606veala, 12,147 sheep and lambs, and 32,199 wine, The cotton market was active and Armor yosterday. ‘The chief cales wore mado to spinnors,and ombraced Gbout 2,200 bales, which closed on the basis of 26c. per Pound for midditeg uplands, The four inarket opened Steady, with a fair demand within the provious range Of prices; but, under the iafluence of the Cana- da’s nows, the market grew dull, and fell of for common and medium grades fully 60. pet barrel. Whoat was 1c, 2c. per bushel lowor, ‘The concession indyoed targor operations, with free Gales here and to arrive. Gorn was also depressed by the news, and closed about Ic. per bushel lower. Pork was active, at $12 50 8 §18 for old aud new meas, and at $8 5009 for prime. Sugars were activeand firmer, and closed from 346. to X40. por Ib. higher apy the week"? sales. The transactions weat far to relieve the market of common refining goods. The sales embraced about 4,000 hhas. , 1,600 boxes aad 3,600 bags (Pernambucos) at rates given in another column. Coffee was Ormly bold, with limited sales, Freights wore rathor firmer, with more offering. Sumner on the Stamp—The Conspiracy of Revolutionary Abolitioniem Against the Government. ‘The Hon. Charles Sumner, the famous orator of the Satanic abolition school, which first in- troduced into our happy republic the elements of dismemberment. and dissolution, as the old serpent introduced sin and death into the gar- den of Eden, held forth last evening at the Cooper Institute before the Young Men's Re- publican Union of New York. His audience wore abolitionists of the true blue stamp, and the design of his harangue was to stir up in this city mutiny and rebellion against the govern- ment in the interest of General Fremont, around whom the revolutionary forces of fanatical Pu- ritanism have been gathering ever since he i3- sued his proclamation emancipating the negroes of Missouri. At St. Louis a rebellious demon- stration was made in his behalf; at Cincinnati the-mutineers followed suit, as our readers will perceive by the accounts which we copy in this days Henao from the local papers. The ob- ject of Sumner’s speech last evening was to pave the way for the demonstration to be given him in this city, as announced and advocated in the New York Tribune. The rebellious movement against the govern-’ ment, which for several weeks has been insidi-' ously and stealthily developing itself in various parts of the country, now at length culminates in New York.. Sumner artfully introduces the name of Fremont, by whose system, he says, the rebellion may be crushed, or by “the grander system of John Quincy Adams.” The system of Fremont is emancipation; the system of John Quincy Adams is not only emancipa- tion, but the arming of the slaves against the white race, after the example of the tragedy at St. Domingo., Sumner would begin with the system of Fremont, and cap the climax with that of John Quincy Adams. He announces with satisfaction that the cry, “on to freedom,” has at last been adopted by the Secretary of War, and he identifies Mr. Cameron’s policy with that of Fremont, in order to show that the Cabinet is divided, and @ portion of it against * the President, who, under his own hand, quashed the proclamation of Fremont. This is an insidious blow at the head of the govern- ment, and is only preliminary to the audacious step of superseding him at the first opportunity in favor of some ambitious usurper. But Mr. Cameron's official letter of instruc- tions to General Sherman is totally perverted from its natural and obvious meaning. There is not one word in it about the emancipation of) Slaves. He simply says, if negroes, whether i they are slaves or not, should offer their ser- vices, the General wil employ them in bis trenches, or in such other work as he needs their labor; but he is neither to set them free nor to arm them. He is to keep them to the end of the war, when Congress, probably, will compensate the loyal masters for the loss of their services during the war, and after it, of course, they will receive back their servants. As for the staves of rebellious masters, that is left an open question, which it will be time enough to decide atthe end of the war. The act of Congress now in force forfeits them if it can be proved that they have been used in the public service of the enemy. In reference to those not found em- ployed in his trenches or fortifigations, but yet the property of men known to be in arms against the United States, the law is silent, and Congress will have to dispose of them hereafter. What we would recommend is not to emanvipate them, but to divide them among the most meritorious of our troops, either to be held by them as slaves, i¢ they think proper to settle at the South, or, if not, to be sold for their benefit to the loyal men of the slave States, But, meantime. under no circumstances are the fugitives owing service te be set free or armed against the white race. Where the negroes are so numerous, in some instances exceeding the population of the whites, to emancipate and arm them would result in the most horrible barbarity, from which humanity revolts—the mutual ex- termination of both races, including the loyal whites of the South an@innocent women and children. It is only the most intense and bloody fanaticism that could conceive such an idea, Blacks are not fit to be trusted with the use of arms, nor are they fit to exercise the franchises of freefhen in the same community with the Caucasian race. The proposition of Sumner shows that he is no statesman, but a crazy fanatic, fitter for bedlam than for the Senate House of the United States. Taking the most favorable view of the case, and supposing that mutual destruction of the two races did not spring from emancipation of the blacks, no one doubts that amalgamation would follow, and with it the deterioration of the blood of the na- tion, dragging it down to the level of the races of the Mexican and South American republics and entailing the same unbappy destiny. When Mr. Sumner refers to the annals of an- cient Greece or Rome for illustrations he be- trays his ignorance of the philosophy of the history of those countries. He says the eman- cipation of the negroes of the South by procla- mation would be like that of “old Caius Marius when he landed on the coast of Etruria, and, according to Plutarch, proclaimed liberty to the slaves.” There is no parity; for the slaves of that time were white men, of the same race with their masters, and equally fit for the high- est freedom. They were for the most part re- duced to slavery by becoming captives in wars, and their servitude was a mere accident of for- tune, and did not arise from inferiority of race. Experience proves that in no other condition is the negro so useful or 80 happy as in the service of white Christian men. Set all the negroes free at the South, and they would relapse into barbarism, as they have done in Jamaica. They would aot work for a living, aud they would become « burthen upon the white population, festering sore of vice and crime in the midst of tho community. Mr. Sumuer says he hears a voice aaying that the war, with all its terrible consequences, Proceeds from tho abolitionists—that they are “the authors of this terrible conflagration.” We hope what the orator heard was the still emall voice of consciense, for never did voice apeak go true. In common with all his incen- diary tribe, he holds that negro slavery is “the origin and mainspring of the rebellion,” and that “the goverment must strike directly af that.” This is to Jibel George Washington and the founders of the government, to denounce the constitution which they made as a bond of per- petual union. The protection of slave property is guaranteed forever in that instrument; and it is the parricidal attempt of Sumner and the abolition party to nullify the compact which has led to secession and the war. They have continually denounced the constitution as a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. They conspired with the British aristoc- racy to break up the Union, of which the constitu- tion is the bond, and they are now engaged in a Satanic conspiracy to’ frustrate the success of the war for the Union, and to split the Cabinet and the North, just as they have already split the republic, into two fragments. Their design is to-rally a Northern rebellion against the government around the person of Fremont, just as the secessionists have raised a Southern insurrection around the standard of Jefferson Davis. Both rebellions must be put down; but first that which is the cause of the, Southern insurrection, and is now the most dangerous to the extetence of the govern- ment. Till the head of the serpent of abolitionism is crushed by the heel of Abe Lincoin there can be no salvation for the South, and no hope of redeeming its rebels from the fatal error and delusion inta which they have been led by the anti-slavery propa- gandists and sympathizers with John Brown. The Army, the Nigger Question, and the Coming Election. From the beginning of the war up to the present time, the abolition journals of the Northern States, and especially the Tribune and Evening Post of this city, have been engaged in covertly assailing and lampooning the adminis- tration, and endeavoring to bring the President into discredit, for no other reason than that he tas persevered in maintaining the patriotic policy of restoring the Union to its pristine in- tegrity, on the basis of the constitution and the laws, as they were bequeathed to us by Wash- ington and the fathers of the republic. Their view, on the contrary, has been that the con- stitution is a “league with hell and a covenant with death;” that it ought to be discarded al. together; and that the exclusive object of hos- tilities with the Southern States should be to faise the negro toa position of equality, and perhaps of superiority, to the white man, and put arms into his hands to accomplish that pur- pose. Every speech that hus been uttered: every unauthorized proclamation that has been issued and every document that has been pub- lished, tending to ostablish this infamous theory has been speedily seized upon by them, lauded to the skies, and recommended to the approval oftheir readers. On the contrary, Mr. Lincoln and his advisers have been bitterly abused be- cause they have failed to sanction such incendiary absurdities, and an affiliated weekly sheet has gone so far as to denounce him as “the slavehound of Mlinois.” Not contented with the mischief they have alreatly achieved, these papers and their adherents are now exerting themselves to sup- plant Irish and German labor in New York by substituting emancipated blacks in their places, and to raise Mr. George Opdyke, a partisan of the most ultra of their diabolical schemes, to the Mayoralty of the city. If the programme of the abolitionists of New York were carried out, anarchy would soon prevail throughout the country, and it would soon be utterly impossible to carry on the war. They maintain that slaves should be armed against their masters, raised to the dignity of soldiers, and mingled together in the same ranks with the brave native American, Irish and German patriots who are enlisted in the glorious work of crushing out rebellion, and re-establish- ing the institutions that have been imperilled by treason. What a hideous state of things to contemplate! We should have crops of nigger. lieutenants, captains, majors, generals, and major generale, and who knows but Greeley, Garrison and their associates might not even lobby some woolly headed producer of rice and sugar into the post of Commander-in-Chief of the American armies! This is no fiction of a diseased imagination. It is precisely what might be the natural and necessary consequence of the adoption of the shameful policy which such papers as the Tribune and Evening Post would foist upon the country. Fellow soldiers must occupy a relation to each other of perfect equality, and the project of arming negroes which these journals advocate, would entitle them to the same privileges of promotion that are enjoyed by the whites. The conservative, law-abiding citizens of New York are called upon to endorse with their approval this de- grading plan for reducing the nation to bar- barism. and the anti-slavery faction hope that, by electing their candidate for tlfe Mayoralty, they can make it appear to the world that this great metropolis has degenerated into a down- ward progress towards such horrible amalga- mation and abolition sentiments. The name of soldier has, hitherto, been con- sidered as identieal with that of gentleman. Military discipline has been looked on as all jowerful to metamorphose into culture of mind id body the radest and most impracticable materials. The abolitionists demand, however, that this shall cease; that our gallant troops shall be encompassed with such disgusting cle- ments, and identified with such barbarons asso- ciations, as to drag them down to the ground, and reduce the American army to the condition of brutes and savages. What white company, with a single particle of self-respect, would submit to be officered by a coarse, low minded sensual Hottentot, whose only destination by nature is to cultivate cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco? Or what white man, possessed of esprit de corps, would move forward cheerfully against an army with a filthy nigger at his right hand, and another at his left? Yet this is the condition of things to which the Tribune and Post would bring us, and Mr. Opdyke, their Mayoralty candidate, is pressed forward with the most frantic zeal, because it is supposed that his elevation to influence will be a step in advance towards the realization of so revolting a scheme The charter electiga which comes off next ‘Tuesday, will trike s death blow at all at- tempts to abolitionize New York city. By voting for Mr. Wood, who is a man of enlarged national views, and whose comprehensive ad- ministrative intelligence has been proved by several years of executive experience, our mer- chants and mechanics, manufacturers, and moneyed men will prove themselves worthy of the high character for intelligence and dis- criminating patriotism they have always en- joyed, and our laboring classes, especially among the Irish and Germans, will show that they do not intend to be supplanted in their daily occupations by emancipated slaves, while they themselves are either driven into exile or the poorhoase. Tae Nortasry ReseLiion AGanst THR Go- VERNMENT—THE DeMONSTRATIONS TO FREMONT at Civonati ap Sr. Lovis.—On another page we publish, from the Cinctnnati Gazette and from the St. Louis Zeming News, most alarming accounts of the progress of the abolition rebellion against the go- vernment in the West; and by the report which we publish of Sumner’s speech last night at the Cooper Institute, as well as from the re- cent articles in the Tribune, stirring up a Fre- mont demonstration in this city, it will be seen that it has aiso reached the Eastern sea- board, and there is no telling where it may atop. The camspiracy has ite ramifications all over the North, and the government ought to look to it in time. The secession conspiracy was allowed to gain headway by the imbecile course of Mr. Buchanan, till at leng# nothing could squelch it but a terrible war. We hope Mr. Lincoln will not allow the Fremont rebel. lion to gain a similar ascendency. Let him crush it out before it is too late. The proceedings of the meeting at Cincinnati are as treasonable as those of any meeting that ever took place at the South. A series of reso- lutions were passed censuring the administration for superseding Fremont, and Rev. Mr. Con- way, in speaking to the people assembied, inti- mates that, as their ancestors defied George TIL, so would they defy Mr. Lincoln and his “imbecile administration.” The reverend traitor had the audacity to say that the standard unfurled by Fremont was “a higher standard than the Stars and Stripes.” Where were the Union men of Cincinnati when such foul re- bellion as that was openly preached and tole- rated among them? All depths of degradation, he says, are possible with this administration— “the infamous, sneaking, crawling policy which replaces the electric watchword sounded by Fremont for this great nation.” Nor is this all: Germans and native Americans would unite to root out by violence whatever obstacle lay in the way of universal emancipation, liberty and equality to all, black and white. “The policy of the administration,” ad4s the rebel, “will be swept away, or else the administration itself.” Are the horrors perpetrated by the Jacobins of the French Revolution about to be inaugurated among us? The language of the testimonial to Fremont at St. Louis is pregnant with significance. It states that the sword presented to him is “to be wielded for the reorganization of a great and free country.” Coupling this with the whole spirit of the address, and with the tone of the meeting at Cincinnati, it evidently suggests that Mr. Fremont at some future day will take the field as an insurgent chief against the govern- ment. Jf Mr. Lincoln and his administration permit this atrocious conspiracy to proceed anether inch, and do not seize the ringleaders and send them for safe keeping to some fortress, they will only have themselves to blame should the abolition rebels proceed hereafter to carry out their threats. Tus Tarun Wise Mex ov Goraam.—Mother Goose, of blessed memory, tells us that once upon a time ‘Throe wite men of Gotham Wont to sea in a bowl; And if the old dame had been present at the Cooper Institute Taxpayers’ meeting the other evening she would have added that these three ‘wise men weve James Gallatin, Hiram Ketchum and Alderman Dayton, and that there was a fourth man among them hardly less remarkable for wisdom, of the name of Chittenden. Mr. Gallatin is a Wall street financier, and, like many other well intentioned financiers, is a very wise man in his own conceit; but if he is as ignorant in matters of finance as of our cor- poration politics, he is not quite up in wisdom to the standard of Solomon. According to Mr. Gallatin, Mayor Wood was one of those “traitor leaders who were not ashamed to avow from high places a wicked design to take this city out of the Union and deluge our streets in biood:” but, fortunately, as we are next told. “the people never trusted him, nor would they trust him now if he could make trouble.” Why, then, all this uproar if he is powerless to make any trouble? But again, year after year. under Mayor Wood, our taxes have become higher and higher. But does anybody suppose that under Mr. Opdyke, or Mr. Gunther, or anybody else, we shall hgver for years to come, a reduction of our taxes? Will not the old fable of the fox and the flies afford us some light on this subject? Mr. Chittenden declares that our city govern- ment is the most infamous in the world, and that if it cannot be put down by ballots it must be put down by bnilets. This declaration covers the idea that if Mayor Wood shall be re-elected we shall probably have a bloody re- bellion. But all such notions are very absurd. Moreover, the purification of our city govern- ment will require a much larger work of re- form than the election of anew Mayor. [f you do nothing else but elect a new Mayor, you may elect a new one every Saturday morning, and Mr. Chittenden’s tax bill will still increase. Mr. Ketchum is a lawyer, and he spoke like a wise lawyer in saying that the loss of an elec- tion is not a sufficient cause for a rebellion. But Mr. Ketchum has a grievous complaint against Mayor Wood. What is it? Wood de- feated the re-election of Judge Woodruff and Judge Hoffman, after securing them the Mozart nomination, and after each of these hopeful nominees had paid out his money to Mozart for electioncering purposes. ‘Served them right.” It was none of their business to pay out their money in such an election for electioneering purposes. “But,” says Mr. Ketchum, “ our Le- gislature would not trust Mr. Wood any further than they could fling a cat by the tail.” Where, then, is the danger of his re-election, if he has no power now, and has uo prospect of getting any? What says Mr. Ketchum ? Mr. Alderman Dayton, smelling of manure, came in at the tail of the meeting, gathering up the corruption rubbish of the city government by the caitload. According to his showing Fernando Wood and Tammany Hall are play- ing posdum belora the public, while (hey ara, privately dividing the fat jobs and spoils of he Corporation with each other, and it is agreed between them that Wood shall be re-clected Mayor. If this be go there is an end of the ar~ gument; for Tammany and Mozart combined can walk over the course. At all events, it im very plain, from the terrible hue and ory of Messrs. Gallatin, Chittenden, Ketchum an@ Dayton, that Mayor Wood is ® strofg man im ‘this community, and that among the political cliques of the city opposed to him there is hardly strength enough to put him down. This point will be settled on election day, rain oc shine. CITY POLITICS. German Mayoralty Ratification Mass Meeting. GRRAT ENTHUSIASM AMONG THE TROTONS—THE MRE ELEMENT REPRESENTED—THE MAYOR DOWN OW THUS SABBATARIANS—A GOOD TIME COMING VOR OLD KING GAMBRINUS—LAGER BIER AND WHISKEY AD LABITOM—SPRECH OF MAYOR WOOD, ¥TU., BIC. Yesterday evening a mags meeting of our German Population in favor of the re-election of Fornaudo Woed for Mayor was held at the Volks Garden, in the Bowery. ‘The attendance scarcely warranted the application of designation “mass,” as characteristic of the numbers aa- sembied on the occasion; but what was wanting im num- bers was made up in earnest speeches from the platforms aud great enthusiasm ou the part of the auditory, The demonstrations of the latter, indeed, alone indicated at times to those on the platform that so masy perssae were presont in front, 60 donee were the Olouds of te- beacco smoke that arose from (he meerachaums ia the tm tervals of the cheers. Dr. Faeeu, after the usual reading by the Secretary of the list of President and Vice Presidents, spokoin a atrae exceedingly pleasing to bis hearers, as was ovidenced’ by the appiause which broke from the clouds ia front. Mr. Wan. Van Guirumpack next took the stand, aaa while addressing his almost invisible hearers, Mr. entered, and was received with immonse cheering. brought with hima acoession to the meeting, ia the and form of his ‘supporters. The the Mayor, in esse and , i aghort time dispelled clouds which prev’ hang low over the crowd bad front, and which hed tert it a matter of doubt whether ion or a reality. apeaker in ponseasion @f the stand, after rosiating most energetically for a time, was at last forced to retire and make room for Mayor Wooo—Who, on preaeuting himself, wan received with boisterous cheering. When silence was reatored be said:—Follow citivens—I appear beforo you to-night, a8 with the intention of pleasing your ear with fine wore, not to indulge in eloquence, but to taik o little com- mon sense to you. (Cheors and cries of ‘Good for you.) T have ever regretted any attempt to continue distinctive ationalities and national prejudicen. Thave always bea and believed that whem once the man into the citizen te merged his nationality, and he anit ‘wore dissolved into the gonera! commnnity, mien § other appellation, rights or privileges toon ‘those apportained to every other man in, the commanity. (cboors.) While, however, it was the duty of mea support the goveroment, they had a perfect constitutional right to criticise the actsof the government and the Iawa under which they lived. ‘The people of New York had been deprived of their rights. The city, uwolixe that of free Hamburg, poxsessed no inunicipal rights whatever. The naked fact is that if these oppressive acta had been submitted to the people for ratification they would unanimously reject them. Thoro is in the Lagislature at Albany a great proponderating power over us, exercised by men, tov, in every sonsem the word foreign to ws, and opposed to us in every element eae every characteristic which goes to make a great and tree people. ‘These men. we find, make laws for our govern- ment, while they take care that these same laws Ghall be inoperative as against themselves. (Cheers and ‘That's so.”) We have no longer the right W make our owe laws, Wo have no longer the right to tax oursclyes—We must ask permission of the Legislature at Albany. We have been deprived of the right to appoint our own pe- lico; to build our own court houses; to lay oat our’ public parks, or to say what shall be the legal observances Of tho Sabbatn. | (Ureat 7) ‘wo havo not the right to say who shall be licensed or wi shull not he licensed. We can no longer say who shalt deal in malt liquors or spirituous liquors, nor have we longer a voice in those domestic atrangemonta which every community controls, except those who live in,des- potic countries. (Cheers.) We have beon deprived of those rights by the Logislature—a Logislature which, im my judgment, is a curso not only to the city but to the ‘State and tothe whole country. (Faint cheors.) But, feiow citizens, the day of deliverance ia at band. (cheers ‘A downtrodden people will no Jonger Lie silent and qui under oppression of this character. | bolieve that the ood senye of the people of this city will restore to mp Rose rights; will restore power to the government of the State; will restore the power of the Chief Magistrate of the city—(Cheera)—restoro to the peg of New York the right to make these laws which apportaim to their own social indulgence, and restore to oa that right which every community enjoys, those peculiar lawa which mogt tue. sceaidin dint of “ sae people to be governed. (Loud oheers.) I've authority for saying that these Fights Wi) D* restored—(‘‘Good for you!”")—thet the times Coming, before oven next spring, when be Tani lature at Albany will restore to the Mayor of New ‘ork the right to govern the city of New York according—{the close of the sentence was lost in cheers.) And i it be my good fortune to be re-elected to this office, I can Bay to you that if those duties devolra upon me, and if have the power of controlling any of these socia! and ge- mestic relations, J here pledge mysel! to allow tho fullest Wiborty to all consistont with the safety and good of the community. (Loud cheers.) 1 am opposed to dictating to any man whether he shall drink water, or lager bese, ox rum. Bice) cheering and cries’ of “coud” aad +Brayvo, am to compelling any man to go chisch on Sundaf$ if he chooses to go anywhere else, (Continued applause.) I am to im; unjust taxation on any man, though he does sell an article mis chievons im itself. J-am opposed, alao, to raguiating by Jaw what a man must eat and what he must drink, amd rh ye must wear. (Loud cheers and crien of “good I will Jot a mau’s safoty horvafter depend entire matter between himself ani his God, fo T deag it All this will leave to the individual, Jn short, we: peating what I said before—all of these social matters— all of nl Jeavo to bimseif. 1 ask him only to couform to iaw—I agi ‘him not to doprive his neighbor of hia property—I ask hiss to be peaceable and orderly, and aoher—I ask him wot to violate any of the rights of the community. In short, = ask him to conform only to the regulations necessary to the safoty of the commmnity. But T go no farther, am@ so Jong as you do this,o long are yuu entitled to protection of the government and a‘) those inatie Tights whi d-and oature has vouchsafed to man. (Cheers.) I have referred to a party which | denominate ‘au abolition party=— party that has Drought this countey te the verge of rain and destrnction and precipitated upom tavivil war—(Cries, ‘That's 40"")—a war which, if we Gory: it. is more than any nation has been able to de under ilar cireumstances, A party that is in favor ef free +slave that be may rid tive South of slavery and & labor in competition with the white labor of th. Aparty who gives all its gympathy to the ck and has none at ali (0 spare for the poor white mem of the North. A party who will oppress you by the im- terposition of unjust taxation and exuction—who wilh grind you down to the carth—who will compat you te work for fifty cents a day, and even witbbold that from youit it can by fraud. (Cheors.) And yet these mem have hearts, but not for you, but for the negroes of the South. (‘That's so.) Ttell you that go jong as thie warty rules the country there is no peace Cor the country. n are not only in favor of prosecuting tho war, are in favor of perpetuating it aud proongiogthe ney are in favor of the war x0 long 4s a dollar of th public money is to be expended and iu the expenditure: they can participate. They are in favor of tho war ao long as Flavery exists on the continent, and they will pro~ secnie it so long as x drop of Southern blood is to be shed, y are themselves removed from the vers.) ‘They will get Irishmen and privans 1 fill up he regiments and go forth ta defead the country, nnder the idea that they will themselves re- main a! Lome to divide the a:ount of plunder that is te be distributed. (Cheers.) If this party get possession, of the city government God help you. "(Choors and jaughter.) They have driven the Union to destraction, and thoy are now battling steadily against the old Empire State itself, which, if it falls, ! repeat God help us. uy friends of New York, false abohitionism roles in our mide, ani ] tell you, instead of the laws wo now ljve under, we willhaye others of ten thousand fold severity if they succeed tn getting possession of this democratic city of Now York, as they have got possession of State. And if they who have already done so much in Albany torid youof your rights. Jt they who in Washingtom plunged the country into civtt war, and who wrung five hundred millions of dollars from the thews and sinews and the industry of the coantry, so that they might have contracts, and 40 that they might abolish slavery and shed the blood of Southern men, did this before, what would they not. do when, in addition to the power, they got control of the city in’ adding to the loud of wretched ness and misery under which the country already labors. (Cheers.) Ihave discharged my duty hitherto for the public benefit, withont reference to birth or nationality, without reference to religion—wbich fs # matter between aman and his God—and f will only say in conclusion, that I have no doubt of a glorious triumph on next. (Cheers, and cries of “That's so.) [have no Houbt that the people of New York are conservative and national, and that they are democratic, and believing that they are conservative, and national, and democratic, } cannot believe that they are ready to yield up thoir rights, they are wilting to yield up this mporitim of the Amerian continens the worst euemies of the country, suol. (cl are now alflicted wit " ‘er.”’) Relieving this, 1am convinced that New York will sustain my action without referance to public merits or demerits, and feeling coniident, us { have ever felt com- fident that the lion hearted democracy of Now York will stand by me and the principles T represent, T think that on Wednesday morning you may say Chat all is gato, that New York is secure and that contidence ead order is once more restored, Thave great hope that your representa, tive in the City Hall may be xn instrament in God's hands to bring about national imisy aud national peace. Cheers, amid which Mayor Wood resumed his aeat Brief addresses in German wera thon tnada, and the ae somblage disparand The Crew of the French Corvette Prongs Boston, Nov. 27, 861 ‘Thirtoon officors and aixty six svamon of the Freach corvathe Prowy loft im bho Niagara to-day ‘any one to step in between me and my Maker. - SS eee Se