The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERAL 3aAMES GSRDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERIS cash in advance. Money sent by mail tilt beattha tk oy Che sender. Nona but Bank Uills current in New York taken ZHE DAILY HERALD. too centeper cop. $7 par anniin. TH! WEEKLY HERALD, escry Saiurnay,at atecente eopy. oF ES per annum: the European ddition avery Wert at’ s+ cents percopy: $A per anni to any part of Grea Bi te part of the Continent, bot te include postage; the tion on tha Yet, 31/h and alot a each month ateie or $2 75 per annum. LY HEKALD, on Wednesday, at Sour cents per YOK, containing important ¢ scorld; if used, wilthe | Connaronnents ann | bl LETTERS AND PAvK wmaus correspondence. Wedone | EMENTS veneicet every day: advertisements tne | Weeety Heratp. Pasay Began, and in the ? Buvopean Editions, | ING executed with neatness, cheapness and dee | Volume XXV@....., AMUSEMEN’ THIS EVENING, ACADE, . Irving place.—Raoute? Lien rving place.—Rsoute’ | | | NTE )'8 GARDEN, Broadway —Pror, Hurrwans, RDEN, Broad: Baron weLanes or Kins Stt Broadway.—Ur attue | nuaun away. Lire Tove NEW RO Ne a Tuas sounne aan —— placed at the disposal of the Procurear Imperial, ChOWERY THEATRE, ower at | ont charge ofcarrying s prohibited weapon called BARN ; | ‘steel knuckles.’ ” Srents Broadway.—Day and | ang. MALE, AND UrTHuR Cu. ANTS’ MINSTR aul all, Cs Santo in Mal etic nNooL i Brosiwa ene ae NIBLO . 539 Broadway. LLETT A, t a se steamor Hendrik % Broadway.—Sonas, | 0 ° BOM ALUEAU, Albany, in a very dangerous sit The river GAIETIFE now, thorefwre, be comsidered az closed for Room Eat ALL, SIC Hi ke ROPOLITAN CONC TALL, Dancus, Panors, Buntesauis, ke 600 Broadway.— PALACE CC P AL u NGS, Dane: No, 45 Bowory.— 2 UF THe CHiMSicx. | PARISIAN CABINET ( 563 Broadway, | Hon. Thomas W. Clerke, Chief Juctice of ; : iste Open daily from 10.4 M. 3 oe preme Courtand Wim. Ps Stewart met Hey bale ons pr ‘@ a . ees BONAE MUSIC MALL, Chatharn street—Buxurs- | of the Board of Supervisors: 2 he Secretary of a his report,-pttased | Nov HALL, 619 b: Hoard of Commissioners 28 ¥ resobved gen Com 8 the ‘neces f more railway any » O16 Broatway.—Bearrsamns, | proprietors and editors of the dail} communication belwéen' Washington antBalti- New York, Thursday, December 20,1861. THE sIruarTion. | * army of the Potomac celebrated Christmas | ° aterday very generally. No duties were re- quired of the men except dress parades, and pri- vate din of th Th day y a » Speeches and music were the order y in many of the reg ai ments, genes was received yes y from Dranes- a ville, to the effect that a terrible panie ensued among the rebels upon the late attack of General McCail's division. They fled precipitately in all direction, ving their dead unburied. The citi- zens of Dranesville performed the rite of sepulture, giving to exc brings the information st separate grave. The party who $8 that he saw them buried, and that they numbered one hundred and sixty-five in all. Among them were some twenty officers, including Gen. Stewart, who 1 a sommauded the rebels, and Colonel Tom Taylor, | and will now advocate the ca whose head was completely shot away. These Pflicers were identified by the names om their wander clothes, and by papers found on their per- Jons. A squadron of General McCall's cavairy, who hage just sited Dranesville, also report hav- ing counted one hundred and sixty-five fresh mouwla where the dead rebels were interred. No progress was made ye and Slidell affair, over, L lay in the Mason | The British government, how- not presented any ultimatum; the Cabi net has not had any consu n yet on the ter, nor have the negotiations real ed a point at, which any con The m now ef ation can be held. chaune! to Charleston harbor is fectually blockaded by our stone flect. work of sink the ghalers commenced on the | 19th inst., and on the night of the 2 th fifteen of | graves, thus ing all egress and 1. ingress to | Charleston by that chan: over the bar by the vessels of our blockading | 1 Rquadron from Port Roy aa each old hulk ar correspo: a full and graphic account of the an- tire operation, and will be found of the highest.in terest. We have received interesting account: Nassau, N.P., to the Uth insta to be the ceed ie rannin That port agpears rendezvous of the rebel vessels titat suc- | he blee w of Charleston. The sloop Noank ai nd schooner Prince of Wales (since captured) a ved there on tive 7th, de steamer Taabel on the 8th and the steamer Gurdon on the Oth—el! from Charleston; the first, eamed witha + cargo of rice, and the others loaded with cotton. ‘The steamer Gladiator, fr yool, loaded with qnuuitions of war for the rebels, bad also arrived at | m Li . Nassau, together with a brig from the same port with a cargo of salt, whick patin for a pilot to as- gist in runuing the blockade. authorities woyld make some show of opp: tho landing of the cargo of the Gladiator, as they hhadtefused to permit the schooner E. W. Perry, It was supp delphia, to Qischarge her cargo of coal, her to lay rican steamer, supposed to be a gunboat, | arrived off Nassau on the 11th. | The Cordon is said to have unthe blockade, and | off the port. An | being dreadfully bad on the coast, she has not yet , o’vlock on Monday night, The Eastern telegraph | from Albany 472 Broad | blocked up wi sloop Batchelor, hs which onr informant came, sailed S9om Albany on Sa arrive here until ax Fatty, plished is forty World, wiexh left he more in the canse of the other section would be unconstitutional wards of two hund refer contain, ac following number of slaves:— c Eastern Shore Vi which was destr the Adj canip, 60,540 men, divided as follows: The | on The fleet was towed | Pir Over three hundred eloss seamen liye en- | tered the naval serv ruin Gloucestay, Maga... P the close of the ‘gshing season. | from | | ! | | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1861. ers were in all cases patriotic. The firm decision of government was applauded, and hopes were ex- pressed that the national honor would be vindi_ cated. A Paris letter of the 7th instant says the Meuse afew days back took on board, at Lorient, the Seventeenth and Eighteenth batteries of marine artillery for Mexico; but on account of the weather heen able to leave. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The steamship Niagara, from Liver;.ool 14th and Queenstown 15th inst., passed Cape Race at eleven lines, after having been down two days, resumed work to some extent last night, but were able to forward only a brief synopsis of the Njagara’s news. The detnils will come to hand to-day via Halifax. The advices by the Niagara are to the same date as those received by the Persia. Later accounts have been received from St. Domingo, in Paris, which afrm that General San- ana has not only remained faithful to Spain, but is ‘boring actively in the administrative reorganiza- n of the country. In his qaality of Captain neral he received, on the 19th October, the visit | ities, who charged him to transmit to the Queen of Spain their compliments as respectful subjects. The Jo al du Havre of December 6 sayss— ‘The police arrested here two evenings back twelve American sailors, for making a disturbance in a public hovse. One of them, named Snow, has been I t 1 A gentleman who arrived in this city yesterday eports that the Hudson river is nicefrom Hudson to Albany. The rday last, and did not trip usualy accom. s. The steamer New ou Monduy iast, wae unable New re, aod the o proceed fu e beew but eight ained umsbstracsed 8 during the presen ing of the eorner stor® of the new Court House in the Park is* to take place to-day athalf | quired. past two o'clock P. M swith appropriate esremo- | is another railraat: preject that is me less: im | | teresting and deserves the atiention offCongress { TUG, National Highways—A Postal and Mili- tary Road from New York to Washe ington, « By recent intelligence from Washington we perceive that some of our lawmakers, as well as the Executive, are evidently alive to the fact that in the present age war is simp’ a question of transportation. Nicholas an -xander, Emperors of Russia, found that ue case in 1854-'5; for had there been a .way from Moscow to the Crimea all the armies of Western Europe could never have driven the Cossack from the stronghold of Se- bastopol. , The President, in his Message, recommend- ed Congress, as a military aud commercial ne- cessity, to construct a railway at once from some point in Kentucky, through Eastern Ten- nessee, to a connection with the railroads of Western North Carolina for the purpose of ana- tional military road. By telegraphic intelligence which we published yesterday from Washington ‘we Sind that the committees of Congress to whont was referred that portion of the Pre. sident’s Message have under consideration a plan for the connection by railroad of the great Centres of the railroad systems of the’North and South, This plan meets the appreval of the President, to whom it has been suggested by General Leslie Combs, of Kentucky. It con- templates the coauection, by a direct railroad, of Chattanooga, Tenn., with Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnatti. To complete (his connection it would he necessary to construct about tito laadred and twenty miles of railroad overa prasticable route. The surveys and” estimates have already been made by eompetent en- ginect* Chattanooga is the great railroad | centre of the South. It ie the point of conver- gence fer railroads already construeted from all the privetpal cities on (he lewer Migsissippi, the Gulf of Mexieo and the Soutiern A@antic. As el point it is of immense importance. bf the immediate u abundance ef coal, iron and copper. The whole ofthe Southern railroad has the same , and (heextension of it lo the Ohiw river, vishin a loyal State. would enable the govern- ment at any timdto lring to the paint of diptri- bution whateyar mi y force should be ree x highly important ; but there tent be in v3 for depos within the corner stone, t If the abolitionists should sxeceed in their endes ors to make our present struggle a war of ipation, the loyal people in certain. localiti: re now fighting harder { ryking ands rion than those of any UT I A | tion to 4 nd slaves, valued at the lowes ollars. ‘Those por ing to the census of 1860, the | Delaware. ... Total... The Bridgeport (Coun.) F¥ ‘ ar, the office of ed by @ mob ia Axgust. last on jonism, has again been started, | of tha Union. Ls count of its sec The State of Minois, according to te report of eral, has now in theefeld and in ch Mills, at Mor ed by fire on the 1th inst. one thousand besh tred weight of oatme ak w Loss $20,000, of rebel cay e burn- mended by a Tennessee | ntucky. upon mblein— Jamin, left Concor 2 28th uit, for Bowling tandard w: larg i in bela re ie 2 head and cross bo The boiler of a locomotiv Railroad exploded ne ing the engincer. 6 Baltimore and arent at Lo the jared on ikis tho post o ndson of the sixth P iv of the second Pres ident, dent of the is now 1 ort New Orl ny they have “birt ean rebels tyand twenty theasand at the fort: t four of the pla LAND. The facts cort ay Will be pon the | ained in the our Lora | | | | lent, published in w cols He does not ‘no! ad by the Trent pon road with intere excitement px as in- | glish people to go to war The tary party, in conjunction with the stof the rmment and Yiberal por- | ve made the 1m aad the gove the pi have bwen dragged into d monstrations against which their better rebels ag: Taey have, however, to co with the tide, and i only requ idences conciliatory spixt on the part of the go- “ynment io praguce as violeat a reaction. ee Impressions are confirmed hy the some of the Giplomatists themselves, as entered some Southern port, with a cargo ef salt, coffee aud West India frnit. | ‘The steamship Niagara, from Liverpool, passed Cape Race en route for Halifax ou Monday night, with dates to the Lith, the same dote ar the troop ehip Persia. The death of Prince Albert occurred wt eleven o'clock on Saturday it, the Lith inet. His disease was typhoid fever. The Paris Petrie says that all the great Powers consulted by Great Britain on (Ww arrest of Mason aud Slidell, and that they ail concw in declaring the conduct of Captain Wilkes to be o violation of the rights of neuvals. A letter from England to Galignani, of Paris, #ays:—On Sunday, December 1, at several of the | eburches and chapels in Not gham Europe have been | tig pr iatercourse. They do not appear to be very sanguine of aid from Eng- land, it being their opinion that between Lord Patmerston and Mr. Lincola there will not be wach difficulty in coming to an arrangement. Some extraordinary statements of Mc. Yancey’s | are qitoted in reference to conversatious said to ‘have been recently held by him with Louis | Napoleon and the Fronch Minister of Foreign Affairs, We do not attach the least credit to them, and we allude to them merely to show that ibe cause of the rebellion has not been much advanced by the English difficulty with H us. Itisto France, it seems, and not to Eng- land, that the rebel agents look for the raising of the blockade. If they place faith in the Delphic utterances of the Emperer and his allusions | ministers they are more credulous than we took the @oteme Alonitria | Commande GESTION Lo from: the political capita’ #e- tae commereics bitne, of” Hlinois, each ‘gone notice ome the’ Will !amstaia: tem commeenial patch, wor are: as isoluted and be entirety aey i } | starve while subjecie: | weet fron of | Fite Lramgh Washington } eto # junoifon with the Orangs amt | Railroad. The wand of the 1 aChie! is app reate fucilies Mr military trou vile half a contine:st has to be com army ol 760,090 men. ative ent isembers of Cong went in these 1g | rortatiom y quered lay To ade: “acormmmendations, dit I capital of the Mr Van Wieck, of New Ydek; aad Mr. Wash- nf Gf the sessiomy of bilis for thee! omot a military en@ poet road “from | nthe District of*Gobembia, to the city wf New “oul.” This ix horns, snd bliin the bul we are ¢ in a tale. the country i snecessfal — effort y# Coumndee! nant newa, and | sreqjiring des- ram. Washio gton, @hessiegra) oh. as theinemnwy « Ecc opinwemme nic of no conseq@nenes, wer night | pena all: and | > iwattic i e dead letter. millions vem aitions have oO eoteabli jonal »work.. auerespondence sts f the Roeky, wer place fon and comp ome’ our to erect gor gown and ¢ Dlie bei! x@ seat cf eramnent ., and yek, for mest public purposom tae eapit al is well nich ible, With the Pot « lo no-vaiivewd com muni- | Northen At cam We sent, exce ation with, the Le ondtie tefrei, luggage cretes of th ress ¢ ompa vevt railroad to F cedevins or Hagers- he-Raltimore and @hic Railroaddorn unt © of anil very ights, aptare by rebel son the Poto~{ days sinces we: reported tha} ‘two vessels oy.ihke rebet steamer 4 with stores coal for the p Baltimore Phiindelphia, 2 tolding the ric gk, owiled by coari est one dol to who rust buy dine suppers ov eka 9 the Villanons queran- tine of two or thees. hours in the ones toyeas on the greai repute b n the Nostaond the South vse | ee nvl avevage time for passengers. an | metls between New York and Washingon—twe bundred and foxty waites—is at least Ghinicen | Compar,this to the railway ¢me tables | ing from the capi of Euroyean conne A parvilel ca yen ia the | Great Westery, Railn of Leadon | to the we to Bristol, Plymouth and 1 the same as this line of con New York. Th y day at the | ho-trains reach Bristat—one hundred and | twonty miles—in two hours anda quarter, fn- chuliag stopp: and Exe one hundred and eighty miles—in three hours and a quarter. an, exp ‘ | hour 13 CY rate af, sixty } At that rate of speed we should have | pascongers and mails carried between | New York and Washington in four hours, How tong will it he before the tender mercies | of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, and the pie pediers and peanut sellers of Phila. delphia and Baltimore will grant us a road li that? From London to Liverpool the trains run daily—two hundred miles—io four to five hours; to York from London—two hundred miles—in five hours; to Ldinbu four hun- dred miles—in ten hours. The Great Northern (of France) Railway—Calais and Boulogne to Paris—runs forty-five miles an hour; the rail- way from Paris to Marseilles, forty miles an hour, and from Paris to Bordeaux, forty miles an hour. The traveller going east from London or Paris to Leipsic, Berlin or Vienna, finds a series of similar roads, and without any breaks @ branch road’ ftom the NavyYard | | Georgetown, and seers | | muitiate me; tivus, and every Serator and represen’ na- |” | would stamdhus— } more 5 | ostiregted ; " , tier of populows. States immediately behind Net Lelpsic and Dresden to Berlin, and up the vc | Pense. We give in another column a itter 9m | no Bibles among Cummings’ “army supplies!” ley of the Ethe to Bodenbach and Vienna, and on | the subject, carrying out to a great extent our | No wonder the World has such a tremendous to Pesth, in Hungary, and to Trieste and Venice, on the Adriatic, consists of continuous tracks, without one single break or vacancy in a large or small town, or in crossing a river, and over which passengers and mails are carried daily at a speed of not less than forty miles an hour: With all the little and big States and Principali- ties of Germany and Central Europe—not even at the crossing of the great and navigable stream of the Rhine at Cologne—has any local interest or selfishness attempted to make a chasm ina great railroad route, in order to levy a tax on the letter writing and travelling community. And yet these are distinct nationalities, who have fall and absolute power and right, instead of being States and cities of one common country. Shall this great country be outdone by the slow coaches of Central Enrope ? How Jong will Congress, by a penny wise and pound foolish policy, negleet to provide for one or two great highways to the national capi- al? Ifa country ever needed such a steam ighway at any time, and over eny line of con- yeyance, i is now, between the beleagnered capital of the country and the great agricultu- rai regions aad the commercial centres, whence the army, the’ capital and the civil servants of the nation draw their supplies. Had such a road, with a double track, been in existence, running on the outskirts of Philadelphia and Baltimore, and crossing the Delaware and Sus- quehanna by permanent iron bridges, double the cost of it would! have been saved to the’ reasury in the price’ of supplies, expense of anspertation and the losses eansed by delay important army movements since January There is no use in talking of the present vinted arrangement, with its cgeless chasms avd delays at Philadelphiv and Battimore, or the circuitews route by way of Harrisburg, with the same delay at Baltimore, aad extending the stil & is between threshundrediand four ed miles, as a railway om between 4 nai Washington and the Southwest. Those members of Congress who? first move in the matte willl make the coustry forever in- ich Tt should be done; but where theve'is a way; and the country, and peace, warts a road, without intsr- iplion, theYshell fwanmsport passengers, m: his Worle’ newspaper. Cum the pubfiovand tis World transactions is fully com. pleted; for the World has alweys been wenk in a pecuniary as well as literary point of view. debted totham. We will not nowesnggest the Ganhanit ‘Cibeatinis to go ns the Worlay| ™en. Since they:first eame to the country they t v More confiding Cummings, to work fifteen days for an aogratefal public, receivo’and ask ao compensation therefor, and submit’to the cross- A examination-of # Congressional commiitve bev |) S¢andals they could'gather respecting persons: ides of what is wanted. Cammf{ugs and the World's Fifteen Days @t the Public Crib. Napoleon the Grand had bis one hundred | mings 0” circulation, for Cummings, a practical business aan, managed it! No wonder the World is no long“? such a very profitable concern, for Cum- ly had fifteen days to nibble at the days in France; Fremont, the magnificent, had | Public chees®! No wonder Cummings is now his one bundred days in Missouri ; Cummings | 8°ing to and the World had fifteen days at the public | Wel! for the time crib. Very preity pickings the three saints, four clergymen, six deacons, one Cummings, and numerous pious cheats, who compose the World establishment, Lad from the $2,000,000 of government funds subject to their order, For fifteen days thoy lived like fighting cocks or ancient monks. Fremont was extravagant, but Cummings beats Fremont. Besides, Fre- mont won’t tell what he did spend, and we learn of it only through second parties. Cummings has had the great advantage of giving aw aecount of his own reign before a Congressional com-, mittee. The report of the committee does not at all impeach Cummings’ integrity, but it makes very evident his claim to the title of* Cummings, the Confiding. Mr. Alexander Cummings, the report clares, was a pablisher of the World newspaper; and “had no general acquaintance with bust ness in New York.” This statement is rather tautological; for if Mr. Cummings had been pos- sessed of a “ geneval acquaintance with busi- ness in New York,” what would he be doing in such # concern as the World newspaper? In- experienced as he was, however, Cummings was appointed, during the trying times of April last, to purchase supplies for the army and for- ward them to the capital. The committee de- lares that, without calling into question the personal integrity of Cummings, “his want of fitness for the position is: very manifest.” In other words, Cummings managed the public business with no better sucess than he had When it is added that no compensation from parallel between: his received the govermment, troops and national supplies at least forty miley | gides! } an hour, or imsix howrs from here tooWashing+ ton, V reed apon as comprok fal to Congress, py 1 lesielate ures? be tal ‘ing the interference en “for the comstric- | tm of a donble Saek raitzead for postal, mili- tom and other purposes, from New York to ning ton.’ io ig a move in the > right vnetaietd for the agtion of a body like the ‘hamber of Commerce, an@ we hope the Beerts of. Poute and Chum #ers-of Commerce in Beaton, tland, St. Louis; + Cinoinaati, Chicago, New loons, and other tewns-ané cities, will at onee nm. We shall expect to +see in ite- House of Represe town ike Northern, Mastern and Western Ste a measures of such national im- Probably the painful personal vences of every member of Corg reas ad the discomforts of the journeys over yneaent line of conveyance will add scime~ ing i the patriolic wikh te see a sweepil fox {fiaken up at omce the road could be inishovl in six or eight smnths, and a great share Ais cost saved in the mowing of troopsardin uilllary transportation We commend to the pecial attention of owswity and State membérs ho-memorial of the Chamber of Commerce. . re mm or CanapaA and Otr #3.—Cs aaa is divided from the hy New. New Hampshire, 3 pe and and in the ovent 4 ‘with Fng’and the burthen veuld } i upon then: ai. defending the country vom invasion or in ¢ eying hostilities ovew the 8 vation will show how the v. themselves, The cen could sus and wv aie could offer Canada, taken th following number of inbabiteats in tane census ets . border* gon New Fi Kew York The n oreximity to the Cans eding to the census of 1860, shew. the fol- ada ‘yere are, between cighteen and 3 { age, 470,000. nm In the border Sta! ne are 1.18% if Assit ing the hal! of thet number, e,;ane in ten, as the very be brougt Canada, fighting men.. Border Stages, Layhting The teh men of thus in propertion to the Tian. five to two. be more than # mateh fe Canadys. The fighting men of New Yark, as one in ten of the popuistion, 9,000, or, in the xj the mmilita: pu » of the Canadas, of snore than thgec to two, And if Englad:should land an ‘avading vy in Canada to gyite with the forges of the province in marching over our [rsatior. the States coli be easily supported by the would order dour Etunphreys, who did Lis writings, kept such boeks an Giseetion, and a mest appropriate und legiti- | mings kept his+ accounts rather loosely and of aiding the rebel cause and enlisting British |; “took no vouchers "—and wasalso “ authorized to make purchages.’” clerk?” asks ther gominitice. notiknow him,zor where he lived, nor any- thing:about him aske. the commiitse: him 5 mings; but by whem Cummings had. heard it was warm down South: | Nay, even ale, porter and sry@ll_ beer—tnd 49. them. In the evens of war, however, that would not be ef all likely. Cajada and Eng- land would be only too glad to maintain the lefensive by kud, whatever paxt British “wood- , en walls” might ectin the drama. Bar more like- ly would it be that the iuvasion should proceed from this side of the line; and if it should Be at tempted there can be litde doubt that this time it would prove a complete suecess, and the Union Jack would soos cease to wave in either of the two Canadas, Union with our States which border them is their manifess destiny, and the consummation is only a question of time. nme Tececrarn Live Atone que Coast—Our snggestion in regard to a, ¢elegraph line along the Southern coast we get hope to see carried at towns, rivers or frontiers. From Ostend, out. It will cost a pretty large sum; but its ere made to the insull to ous flag and the eriticat | thom to be, making ell due allowance for the | Antwerp, Brussols and Paris the yailway sy:- | advantages to the government in 4 military and Position of o'r Th timents of the preach- lespocateneess of their case, tem through Aix-la-Opapelle, Gologne, Hanover, | naval point yr yiew will probably cover the ex- | {Vorld beputia concer, »! During uis« fifteen days supremaey—for he’ see heb the: Chamber of Commerc} was controtféd’ by no one, gave no bonds, and staken the abject wp with great vivor, anc’ |) did just as kepleased—Cummings expended the é % : 5 nsive and powerful |{nice little sau of two hundred and fifty thon- | Stiles of graphic descriptions. sand dollars. It ig too much to sey that he aud asking that“im. | pent this money recklessly, but he certainly tit most confidingly. To aid in lis expen- , Cummings took a clerk named John papers-as Le could find—ond Cum- “Did you know: this Cummings did “Where did you find him?” Cummings didn’t find recommended to Cum- recommended) Cum- “cannot steao.’’ Cummings was too con- z.to care about @ recommendation, and re- minds aa of the banker who picked upoa loafer on the street and made him a cashier. The re- sult iacboth cases wes about the same. Cum- mings».with the assistance of his clerk,, pur. chased clothing—dimen pantaloons and straw hats to-éle amovat of over $21,009.” Why linen unmentionabtes-and straw hats? Beeanse he wass Did Cummings -corsult with any one-as to the-| propriety of introdweing straw hats and,'linen trowsers into. the army? Not until he had pur- chased twenty-oneetsousand dollars worth, and then he-shrewdly vesolved to buy no more. In | the samo eon{idingymanner Cummings charters a | ship. Diddies know anything about ;the ship, | her tonnage, boilers, jibboom, main hatchway mnast: ha Not at all... Cummings her owner said she was, “supposed the own He forgets what he paidsfor her. 1,008 or $1,250 a day”—a trifiing | difference: Was not t rathew extravagana “Yes,” says Gummings, “ihe price was conside but then he “supnosed the own Contiting Cummings ! But Guennings comes out n line, smd rather pr ing. Ue Lad experioace there, as pat manmbasnot? He does. not do his Kile markeling in New York, howgver, but gooe up in the cvuntay to Albany, C@terinined to have i imi bniter fresh. Ae buys provisions Gorning & Co., a wok known dare He aaticipates won er by explaining in- nousiy that it was‘ dard bread’? %p pur- eaedof the hardware dealers. Our soldiers ainiy Sound it very tywd. Cummirge. never the provisions, ang thinks a many, named idsom came and off@red to buy chem for He didn’t kngw Davidson; nt then Qavidsom told him ‘that he weg, familiar with that kind of business,’ ond he em ployed Davidson for devith. Still confiding Cum- mings! Coming, 98 Cummings. does, from the pious World esuglishment, wo.aze surprised ta find no Bibles, prayer or hymn books among his army, supplies. Hi might have proqured thes af some coat, merchant, and, we are rather Ajgyosed to blejue him for this omission. Lican, pantaloons and no Bibles or miz: took the Al, a knew. was ‘ett ed ver knew. strongest in, she 3 himself 1gon fami’ hymn Looks! ‘This neglect; @f the soldia’s morals is aisecious. But Cunymings did not sit his beer, ere is the litde bill:—“280 ¢azen pints of gja-and porter, Squintals codfis, 390 boxes having, 6 barretyof tongues, 2barrels of pices, 26 casks ef Seoteh: ule (imported), 10 casks of Lon- don paxter (imported).”” Total, includipge lot of rejected carbines, abwat $35,000, This reminds us of Falstaff’s farmpas reckoning:~Sauce, 4d.; sack (§. ¢., ale and porter), two gallons, 5s. 8d; wachovies (i. e, codfish, tongues, herrings and pickles) and sack after supper, 2s. 6d; bread (hard, from Atbany), a halfpenny.” Weill may we exclaim, with Prince Hal, “O,Smonstrous! But one halfpeany worth of hart bread to this imtole~ rable deal of imported ale and porter”—and no Bibles} It was enough to intoxicate the entire grand army and the whole World corps besides, “Strong drink is raging.” This earth will never need an example of unsuspecting, confiding innocence while Cummings exisis, and it is a great comfort to know that be still lives and is connected with the World newspaper establishment. No win der, then, that the Wand has Seav'y editorials, for porter is a heavy drivitt 2y4 wonder the Yas, for the were Euroe, for he nibbled exceedingly ehad! Conflding Cummings! The British Press 2 American Affairs. * The London journals ave been very malig- nant and intemperate in ve discussion of the affairs of the United States sivce they received intelligence of the capture of M,.son and Slidell; but, with all their bluster and strong language, they have not shown a more deeps'eated hosti- lity towards this country than they Lave exhi- bited without intermission since the conNnence- ment of this war. A great deal of this il feel- ing is owing to the letters of the newsp.Rer correspondents they have sent over here—aid particularly those of Bull run Russell, of the London Times—who, before being despatched on this mission, were mere pothouse reporters, ae. | Without any of the instinats or qualities of gen- tlemen. Such men as Woods and Russell brought out letters of introduction to gentle- mev here, who treated them courteously and proffered them hospitality; but, with im- pudent vulgarity, instead of treating these eivilities with a correspeyiding return of potiteness, thore’ who had offered thet were the very men’ that thary were the first toringalt through the medium gf their cor- respondenee. In so doing they a'splayed a total alsregard of decency, and reniisr,ed them- selves unworthy members of society. .Men who are so far lost to a sense of the comnentional obligations: of life are unworthy. of tle slight- est personal consideration, and‘ earn fir them- selves merited contempt. But if thei? sins against society extended no fusther than this they might possibty be overlogked, hows ver much they right be personally despised. TA ey are, however, far'more serious. It is on natioval grounds that the’ publie’ fia 3 a right to complain of the conduct of these * have done nothing but make bad blood be+ tereen England end America. In their’ letters they have retailed! all the lies, slanders- andi on this side of the Affanti. And these; ofte’of™ them—we allude to’ Rusvell—has dished up like: the veriest pemsy-a-liner, who aspites to imilate Dickens ins the production of! a And’ as better or worse sample of penny-a-lining shan his letters from tho* United States could‘ not'be found, nor, indeed;-a’feebler imitation of the «writer whose mannerisms he copies. ‘They have, moreover, divectly and indirectly* isisrepreseated North and South, with the view* sympathy in its favor; and they have said more * toeerve the purpose of the conspirators against the: Union than any of the emissaries of the Soutidyn confederacy abroad: The harm these correspondents have done is fnvaleulable; and they are still at their mischievous work. But this ought’ net to be allowed (0 continue. They are+tho worst and most despicatile of spies, and immediately after the settlement of our present’ difffenlty with England the gov- ernment ought to take mensures com- peiling thom, as such, to leave: the country. Nothing can be said in extenuation of what they have done or what they ‘are still doing. They are hostile to the republi¢; obnoxious to individuals,.and without respecbvither for them- selves or others. They have shown an utter disregard of truth, justice sod’ gentlemanly fooling, and are clearly unfit to inform the peo- ple of Europe of the important events now transpiring ox this continent, inasmuch as they make a habit of distorting everything to suit their own trumpery views or prejudices, and succeed only in misleading those whom they are paid to. inform. We quotean old phrase when we say that it will be a gaed riddance of bad rubbish when such scribblers as these have to take their departure, for theyrare the root of much evil, and it will not be their fault if they do not addite the bitterness of fosling already existing between the two great sections of the Ecr% oF Cop Uron Our. Sonpiers.—Our hingtom correspondents faform us that our soldiers ef the Potomac army are beginning to fer egnsiderably from tie eold weather. i surprising, when they are ercanvass. From ihisxsry circumstance, . % we are satisfied thas Gen. McOlellanis ; contemplating a forward movement, and haga vo idea that the return of apriag will find his < cumy still stretched elang the windy hills: of Faidax. He knows, from the experience of; Napotgon, that an army in.cnotion, bivouacking- tbe open sky in the dead of winter, suffers; jess from disease «than an army ever 30, ‘established in winter quarters. Companey. for »xample, the saftey of the British army, in iis winter quarte afore Sehastopoliwith: ther remarkable goeds health of Napoloon’te, legions in that wintexaarmpaign of Auxerlitz, Vast bodies of men enclosed or hutted for-twoy oa three months in tho same place inavitably, toa greater or less. axtent, produce infectiouty and malignant disouders. Hence, no doubt, the shifting of Reauregard’s central cohypn foom Manassas to Cenfreville, and the. contimaal movements of ‘he enemy from ene, point to another along titeir general line of occupadion, Let us be pationt, There are goadweasems for the retentiow, of our Potomac ezmy undiew can- vass at this time. The climate, as you 9 south. yard, becemes warmer, and leg huts fre not conveniey} articles of transpartation,, vas Gexuyat Scorr as a Mepiton.—In connec: tion wih the report that, before teaving Paris, General, Seott had along interview with tha Price Napoleon, and that the @eneral was the hearer to America of the. Freneh Emperor’s de- siva for the maintenance of peace between Bng~ land and the United States, the National Tntuliy -geneer thinks it possible that Louis Napolegn may consider “qhe danger of war so inzajaent as to justify his making an informal proffer through Gen, Scott, to whi-h the lattenattachea so much iwportance as to think he will serve his country by submitting it in pewon to our government.” The sterling old patriot may be ex- pected in Washington in a day ox two, and then we shal) probably learn definitely that where tgge is so much smoke there is also some fir, Ocr Crry Tueatrss.—All the theatres and places of amusement in this eity—the Academy ‘of Music, Wallack’s, Winter Garden, Laura Keene's, Niblo’s, the New Bowery, the Bowery» Parnum’s Moscuum, and Ateen or twenty other | piates—were crowded to excora lagt night, Ts