The New York Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1861, Page 6

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The President and Captain Dabl- gren went down the river yesterday on the trial trip of the Pensacola. The names of Colonel Tho- mas Francis Meagher and Colonel Asboath have been sent to the Senate for confirmation as Briga- dier Generals. A report was prevalent in Washington that the Mason and Sildell affair has beon adjusted, but no Getails of sack news have reached us. The report that the rebels had thirteen thousand men at Dranesville proves to be incorrect, our re- Connoitering squadrons failing to find them; but it has been ascertained that there are about ten thou- Band of them near Parkhurst's Milla, about midway between Vienna and Dranesville. By our despatches from Missouri we learn that as Soon as the intelligence of General Pope's cavalry having driven in the pickets of General Rains teached the camp of the rebel General Price, the Btmost consternation prevailed, and a sudden flight took place in great confusion. The army ‘made direct for the Arkansas border, burning the bridges behind them, including the new bridge ‘built by General Fremont over the Osage river. The last accounts of General Price and his troops were that they had passed hurriedly threngh P Springfield en route for Arkansas, from which Btate they are not expected again to emerge. Aresume of the successes of the Union army in Missouri for the past two weeks shows that we hhave captured 2,500 rebelg, including seventy com- Missioned officers, 1,200 horses: and ules, 1,100 stand of arms, ten tons of powder, 9 hundred ne- @roes and an immense amount of commissary stores and camp equipage, and all this with the foss only of a hundred men killed and wounded. ‘The-resalt of the campaign is now about completed by the dispersion of Gen. Price’s army and their Might into Arkansas. This is not a bad record for our army in the West. Our news from New Mexico is of a cheering cha- racter. Colonel Canby, who is in command of the military department there, has retaken the two forts on the Messilla border—forts Cray and Stan- ton—and was at last accounts on his way to Fort Fillmore, some months ago surrendered by Major Lynde, who has been dismissed the service in con- poquence. Colonel Canby is driving the rebel ‘Texans before him, and intends to press on into Arizona. By the Edinbargh, at New York, and Nova Bootian, at Portland, yesterday, we received files of European journals with full details of the fo- feign news tothe 13th instant. So far as the re- Ports relate to the position of the American ques- fion abroad, they are very important and sig- ificant. * The compilation published in the Heaaxp this Morning shows that the consideration of our pre- Bent and future relations with England, as modi- fied and likely to be altered by th® rent affair, engaged the attention of cabi- jets, statesmen, legislators, merchants, clergy- Jurists and newspaper writers in England, , Ireland, Scotland, Portugal and other coun- almost universally, A powerful party in ‘was apparently organizing in opposition Bo Lord Palmerston’s attempt to retain office on strength of the anti-American excitements, hile it is evident that the best interests in eat Britain were alarmed at the prospect of a between ¢he two countries, The English * peace party,” together with many popular pul- it oratora in that country, condemned the idea of ans and it is quite apparent that her toiling Jmaases have become impressed with the notion bat the attitude of our Cabinet will, in the ena, Sonofit their condition, This feeling on their part is to be’ readily observed in their impatience to éraw forth an exprésaion of opinion on “America” from the member for Lanibeth, when he evinced a disposition to pass over the matter, as a Parlia- mentary topio, in silence. The change of tone in the Frenoh journalists on the subject of an alliance of Napoleon with Eng- land against the United States oxcited consider. able agitation in London, and the organs of the aristocracy are enraged at the prospect of the French Emporor leaving them to fight the battle of the rebel slaveholders and foreign monarohy themselves. In this state of mind the London Ha- rald alludes to the Lincoln Cabinet, the New Youre Herawp, the Dublin Nation, and the “scum” of New York, all in one breath, jombling their con- sure up with remarks about John Brown, Captain Wilkes and the American constitution. ‘The latest articles from the Paris papers are not calculated to assuage the English people, for in one of thom—supposed to be from the pen of M. Thiers—Joff. Davis’ message is designated asa “acandal” and “blasphemy.” The French critics show that England's policy is purely selfish, and that the Emperor and Prince Napoleon were influehoed in their policy by this consideration. “Indeed, we are led to infer from the papors that the Prince ox- pressed as much to General Scott during their lengthyfinterviow, previous to the General's em- barkation onthe Arago. Portugal inclines towards England, ae was to be expected. The Irish Orange journals—which have already accomplished so much ruin at home—urge England on to war; but every exponent of the talent, in dustry and morality of the country are in favor of the Union restored—if it can be—and the repudi- ation of England's pretensions to interfere on the American continent. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We have received copies of the Now Orleans Picayune of the 15th inst., and the Richmond Dispatch of the 25th inst., from which we have collected and publish to-day such extracts as will give the reader a good insight into the situation of affairs in the rebel States.. The Richmond paper, greatly fear that the United States will surrendo; Messrs. Mason and Slidell to British authority. The rebel Congress, now in session, has passed a general appropriation bill, which has been ap- proved by Jeff. Davis. Sixty millions of dollars is particularized for army purposes, and four millions for the navy. They have also passed a naturalization law, which ex- tends its provisions to all persons not citizons of one of the Confederate States who are engaged in the naval service of the confederacy during the war. The Bowling Green (Ky.) correspondent of tho New Orleans Picayune states in a recent letter that one thousand men are constantly engaged in working on the rebel batteries at that place, and that they were considered as impregnable against the assaults of Union troops. The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail ef the 12th inst. states that incen- diary attempts are quite frequent in that city. The Mississippi Legislature has a plan under consideration to advance rebel planters $25 per bale on cotton. News from Fort Smith, Arkansas, of the 12th inst., states that the body of loyal Indians, under Opothleyholo, encamped on the border of Arkan- sas, had lately received large accessions to their numbers from the Creek, Cherokee and Seminole tribes. They would soon attack a large rebel force under Colonel Clark, which was encamped at Big Bend, Arkansas, aid five miles from their camp. We have news from Hayti to the 28thult. The death of President Jeffrard's mother, at ninety-four years, is reported. The flags of the foreign ves- sels were put at half-mast. Speaking of the arrest of Slidell and Mason, the Opinione Nationale says:— “However great the irritation of the North, itis not probable that the federal government would run the risk of a war with England; but if the federal commander has acted, as stated, from supe- rigy orders, it would appear that this war has been Tricusty resolved upon by the federal govern- ment.’ Very satisfactory reports are given in re- lation to the welfare of the Louisiana and other emigrants to Hayti. Among these latter emigrants are persons from Canada, Virginia, Ohio, Mary- land, Kentucky, the Carolinas, Missouri, Tenves- see, Georgia and Florida. They are all intelligent, and can read and write. It is stated that the United States government had got authority to establish a coaling station at Curacoa. The Haytien re- public is at peace. The difficulties with Spain are arranged, Hayti having to pay $25,000 indemnity. The Governor of the State of Aguascalientes, in Mexico, Senor Estevan Aorila, has taken active measures to put the State in a condition to resist the invaders. The Legislature has passed resolu, tions declaring undying hostility tea Spain. All Mexican, who shall, directly or indirectly, aid, auc- cor or aasist the invaders will be treated as traitors to the country and punished accordingly, and their goods be confiscated, and the value applied to the prosecution of the war. The schooner Olive Branch, which arrived at Aux Cayes, Hayti, on the 29th ult., from Boston, when to the southward of Bermuda, was ehased by a hermaphrodite brig, showing English colors in distress; but the Olive Branch outsailed the pri- vateer and escaped. A large number of men were seen on the deck of the brig. The November mails from the West Coast of Africa have reached England. Several influential men had taken up the question of the cultivation of cotton in the Bight of Benin. Some difficulties had arisen between the French and the natives of Gaboon, in consequence of which the former were about to take energetie action. The Dublin Freeman's Journal, of the 11th inst. says the Spanish government have contracted with a company for eight mail steamers, averaging 2,000 tons each, to ply between Cadiz and their West India islands. Havana is the head port of call abroad. The compamy are bound to ran two ves- sels a month from Cadiz, starting on the 15th and 25th of each month, to include small branch steamers of 500 tons each, from Havana to ports in the Gulf of Mexico and other places. The first { of this line of mail steamers, the Prince Albert, left Liverpool on Thursday morning last, to take her place on the 10th January, 1862, from Cadiz. The brig Jeune Adele arrived on December 9, in the roadstead of Cherbourg, France, from Cazone, in the Gulf of Mexico, with a cargo of dyewoods and leather, but as on the voyage she lost three men by yellow fever, she was sent to the lazaretto in the Isle of Tatihou. The number of emigrants who left Havre during the month of November was two hundred and eighty, all for New York. James H. Hurlburt, belonging to the First Con. necticut regiment, who was taken prisoner at Bull run, was unconditionally released at Richmond in consequence of the services he rendered after the battle to some of the wounded rebels. He has re- turned home and brought with him a number of mapa of the country and of the defences of Rich- mond, which were drawn by a Union man in that city. ‘is had them concealed in the lining of hig pantaloons. 6 The pilot who took the steamship Europa to sca from Boston harbor says she did not stop at Fort Warren, and that no boat cither came to her or left her after she got under way from her wharf. It is, therefore, very evident that Messrs. Mason and Slidell did not go out in the Europa. William Lloyd Garrison, the notorious abolitionist, is announced to deliver a lecture on the war, at the Cooper Institute, in this city, on Tuesday evening, January 7, Tho ‘friends of the slave’ are. invited to“fill the hall and give him an enthusiastic wel- oome."” We give below a comparative table of the losses on both sidos at the recent brilliant engagement near Draneavillo, Va, The rebel loss is made up from the Richmond papers:— Union. Rebel. om 43 143 ; “4 MoAb ss cvmninsosvgectsivesss 4G 230 A fleet of seven steamers passed Cincinnati on the 24th inst., bound South, all loaded with troops. The story of “Lieut. Hurd, of the Second Maine regiment,” about the escape of himself and Col, Corcoran from the Charleston jail, during the conflagration, was undoubtedly a hoax. ‘There was no Lieut, Hurd in the Second Maine regiment, and a despatch from Charleston to ‘the Richmond papers states that no prisoners escaped during the fire. The Board of Aldermen met last evening. Al- derman Cornell called from the tabre the resolu- tion appropriating $7,700 for the equipment of the Eighth regiment, Alderman Dayton moved to amend by making the sum $2,700, which amend- ment was immediately acoépted by Mr. Cornell, Why so large a sum should have been sought for, and such a comparatively small amount eagerly accepted, created some surprise. Atalleventsthe city treasury has been saved $5,000; but where that nice little sum was to have been distributed we have not ‘as yet’’ found out. The case of WilliamC. Hornfager, charged with perjury, which has occupied several days im the first part of the General Seasions, before Judge MoCunn, resulted yesterday in his acquittal. Thomas N. McGill was arraigned for the murder of his mother, Charlotte A. McGill, by throwing her from a window, and a jury empannelled to try the issue whether ho was sufficiently sane to be required to plead to the indictment and to be placed upon trial. The jury found him insane, whereupon the City Judge ordered that he be sent to the State Lunatio Asylum, at Utica. In the ether branch of the’Court before the Recorder Joseph Minno pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fourth degree, he having been indicted for throwing a decanter at Christopher Colwell, which caused abscess of the brain and finally produced death. He was remanded for sentence. Red- mond McManus was placed on trial, charged with murder in the first degree in killing William Ho- gan by @ pistol shot. The occurrence took place on the 6th of April at a saloon in the Bowery. All the evidence went to show that the firing was purely accidental, whereupon the jury at once convicted him of manslaughter in the fourth de- gree, he having manifested carelessness in the use of the pistol. The prisoner was remanded till Saturday, when those who have been convicted during the term will be sentenced. Mr. Chase's letter to the Collector of the port, stating that the late act of Congress raising the duties on coffee, tea and sugar went into effect on the 25th inst., ‘and applies to all goods of the above description in warehouse, as well as current importations,”’ was the subject of mach discussion yesterday in mercantile circles, expe- cially among that class immediately interested as holders of the articles subject to the increased duties. This movement of the Secretary of the Treasury was unexpected, and took the merchants by surprise. Several of whom declared that they would only pay the duties on goods already en- tered and bonded under protest, ‘The cotton market was quiet yesterday, owing in some degree to the holidays, and the consequent absence of spinners, and leas disposition to speculate amidst the un- certainties regarding our foreign relations, Holders still manitusted usual confidence, while snlea were limited to some 150 « 200 bales in small lots, on the basis of about 870. for middling upland, Good to strict mid- diings were scaroe and nomina! at 40c. The flour market was heavy and sales moderate, at unchanged prices, Wheat was inactive, though unaltered in prices, The scarcity of room in foreign vessels, and the onhancod views of American shipownors, tended to check pur- chases for export. Corn was algo less active, with salos of shipping lots of Wostern mixed, from store and afloat, at 62340, 8 68c. Pork was heavy and rather easier, with sales of meas at $12 a $12 6234, and of prime at $8 50.5 $9. Sugars were in fair demand and prices firm, with sales of 800 hhda, Cuba and 10,500 bags manila, at rates given in anothor column. Messrs. Stowart’s prices for their refined goods will be found elsewhere. Cofiee was firm but quiet. A small sale of Jamaica was made at 21xc. Freights were firm, with a fair amount of ea gagomenta. The Abolition Jobbers Fleecing the Go- vernment. The leading organ of abolitionism in this city has an editorial article, under the caption of “Job and Rob,” in which it assails “ the vile brood of jobbers who hang about the rear of the Union armies, and are scarcely less dan- gerous and no whit less detestable than the malignant and audacious enemies in front.” Our amiable contemporary describes “the trea- sury as bankrupted,” and “our country all but dying,” from “‘the ghoul-like rapacity” of the jobbers, “who lie in wait for changes to hecome public robbers’”’—men who, under the circum- stances, are guilty of “the blackest treason.” The following fs the fearful sentence of Ficld Marshal Greeley upon the intensely black traitors:— Ofteial imeompetence, laxity and villainous, complicity form the manure heap in which this most hateful and destructive of vermin is quickly and multitudinously generated. The provost marshal of each division should shoot the detected peculator, but hang his official accom. plices on a gallows go high that the spectacle would be edify ing to fifty brigades and admonitory to Ave thousand contractors. Now, it appears from the Congressional report of the Van Wyck Committee, which lies before us, that “the official incompetence, laxity and villainous complicity, forming the manure heap out of which the most hateful and destructive vermin are generated,” are an abolition hot- bed, and “the vermin” are of the same origin— “plackest of traitors.” All the other plunder- ing transactions are picayune affairs compared with the jobs in which the radical republicans and emancipationists have had their fingers. What, for instance, is the sum of two hundred dollars, pocketed by Rev. Sidney Corey, of this city, out of a horse contract with the govern- ment, compared with the weighty operations in St. Louis? Let us advert to a few of them as specimens. We begin with the fortifications of St. Louis. According to the committee, “the circumstances surrounding this work are of the most extraor- dinary character, and are marked by extrava- gance, recklessness, insubordination and fraud.” In the first place, it appears, from the state- ment of General Curtis, that no fortifica- tions at St. Louis were required; and the government appear to have been of the same opinion; for the Secretary of War, in an order dated on the i4th of October, declared them unnecessary, and ordered them to be discon- tinued. Had they been necessary they might have been built, as the committee suggest, by the soldiers, without material cost to the government, the same as at Washington, Cin- cinnati, Cape Girardeau, Bird’s Point, Cairo, Fort Holt, Paducah and other places. They were not authorized by the government nor planned by any engineer officers of the United States Army, nor were any such officers consulted in ang way. The work was designed and executed under the supervision of Major Franz Kappner and F. tassendeubel, both foreigners. The former played tie part of “Chief Engincer,” and the latter of “Colonel Commanding Engineer Corps.” These appoint- ments were made by General Fremont, and not by the government, The other engineers, ao- cording to the testimony of General Curtis, were “generally Hungarians, Austrians and Prusstans.”” ‘ In all there were ten forts, the first five of which were built by the day’s work (the most costly mode), at a cost of $60,000. The other five were of smaller size, and, accerding to the testimony of Kappner, could not, at-the very utmost, cost above $60,000 more. The last five were commenced, all of them to- gether, under the supervision of Major Kapp- ner, on the last day of August or Ist of Sep- tomber. On the 25th of September Brigadier General McKinstry, under the special orders of Major General Fremont, entered into a contract on the part of Fremont with E. L. Beard*a Californian who had followed tho mag. niflcent Pathfinder to St. Louis. What is the nature of this contract? “To construct all the fortifications required by the engineer In charge of tho work for the defence of the city! of St. Louls.” Thus « contract was made for constructing five’ forts already been expended. By the day’s work the whole ten forts would have cost not more than $120,000. What did the same work cost by the contract between Fremont and his friend Beard? Two hundred and forty-six thousand dollars ($246,000)—more than double the amount---was ordered to be paid on account. One hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars ($171,000) was actually paid on Fremont’s order. The re- maining $75,000 would have been also paid, but for the fact that the Quartermaster at St. Louis, Major Allen, bad declined to pay, in con- sequence of the order of the Secretary of War to discontinue the work, and not pay any more money on account of it. In the face of that order, dated October 14, which General Fremont suppressed, he issued an order on the 19th of October to Major Allen to “turn over to Mr. Beard, out of the first funds received from Washington, the sum of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000), for work done on the forts at St. Louis.” Major Allen very properly sub- mitted the question of payment to the Quarter- master’s Department at Washington, and receiv- ed in reply an order to disregard all orders in- consistent with the order of the Secretary of War. The fact is that every dollar taken from the Quartermaster at St. Louisa for the building of these forts was misappropriated, being an arbitrary and illegal diversion of the funds in- tended by the government for other purposes. Well do the committee observe:— fa the wholo range of their investigations your com- mittee havo found nothing 60 alarming as the defiance of Jaw and the disregard of suporior authority, as manifest- ed by the Com: ‘ing General of the Western Depart- ment, not only in this connection, but in connec- tion with the “arbitrary and illegal diversion of funds from the Paymaster’s Departmont and the Sub-Treasury at St. Louis, which is horeaf- ter referred to. Whenever tho action of a general in the field, disregarding alike law, army regulations and the authority of his govoramont, shall be permitted to pass without challengo and without rebuke, then in- deed may it be well considered that constitutional liberty is at an end, and the will of a military commander is sub- stituted for law. Why, instead of vague, general denunciation, does not the Tribune direct its fire at the mark thus set up for it by the investigating commit- tee? Let us goa little into detail to show how Beard’s bill would have been swelled up to more than thrice the amount the work might have been done for if proposals for a contract had been advertised for. Hon. Mr. Wisner, former Mayor of St. Louis, testified, from actual knowledge of the cost of such work, that fifteen cents per yard would have been a good price for the excavations, embank- ments and sodding on the fortifications. The price agreed to be paid by the Fremont-Beard contract is $2 50 per yard, er nearly seventeen times a good price! What would have been paid in the end on this fat job, had not Fremont’s hand been arrested by Secretary Cameron, it is impossible to calculate. The payments ac- tually made were in advance and on account, and without any security for the fulfilment of the contract; and, what is still more extraordinary, $151,000 were paid to Beard before the date of the contract, which is 25th September. The pay- ments were made as follows:— First payment, August 29, 186 = $10,000 Socond payment, September 2, 1861 2 "15,000 Third payment, September 6, 1861. 69,000 Fourth payment, September 6, 186 66,000 Fifth payment, October 3, 1861 20,000 Total of payments «$171,000 “Thus,” say the committee, “the money ap- propriated by Congress to subsist.and olothe and transport our armies waa, in utter contempt of all law and of the army regulations, as well as of superior authority, ordered to be diverted from its lawful purposes and turned over to the cormorant Beard.” But, while he had received $171,000, he only paid the poor German laborers who had been employed on the work $15,500; and with the balance in his pocket he ts found following up the army, and in the confidence of the Major General, who gives him orders for large purchases which only could have been legally made through the quartermasters, and which afforded the rapacious contractor further opportunities for plundering the government. Meantime the laborers, whose families were clamoring for bread, were besieging the Quarter- master’s Department for their pay. In the case of the hardware firm of Child, Pratt & Fox, goods were purchased from them by General Fremont to the amount of $800,000: not merely in the way of their own trade,but in every variety of article, including blankets and clothing. There was no contract. They were left to charge what they pleased. They were sufficiently moderate to make it only 35 per cent too much, or about $280,000 on the whole trans_ actions. In the purchase of horses and mules in Gene- ral Fremont’s command the committee “found that the most astounding and unblushing frauds had been perpetrated.” The original owners of horses or mules would not be permitted’ to sell direct to the government. The sales were made by go-betweens. The maximum price of caval. ry horses and mules allowed by the government was $119, for artillery horses $150. Those maximum prices’ were paid in every instance, though the cavairy horses and mules were pur- chased from their original owners-at from $65 to $110, and the artillery. horses at $136: The difference went into the pockets of the go-be- tweens. The favored individual who had au- thority to buy either inspected the.horses him- self or appointed his own inspector. Among the artists engaged in these transactions was one Jim Neil, who “paid for the horses himself, was the purchaser and inspector of horses, and he branded them himself.” Another man named Brady, a friend of the Quartermaster, shared $20,000 as his profits with one Elleard, who presented a car- riage and horses to Mrs. Fremont. It further appears from the evidence that Governor Bar- built; and five: ‘others on which twenty-five days” work ‘had: ston, of Wisconsin, went to St. Louis to obtain a coloneloy, for which he agreed to pay $5,000 to “the Tyooon,” for the express purpose of making $20,000 on the purchase of,a thousand horses for his regiment. It was a regular game to condemn a whole lot of mules, and then turn round and buy them out at a reduced price and turn them in to the government. The California gang of patriots were six in number, who ho vered like sharks about the headquarters. They were E. L, Beard, A. 8. Selover, Joseph Palmer J.C Woods, N, ©. Worth and Leonidas Haskell. The last named hero was one of the parties so highly favored with authority to purchase horses. It was no wonder that a board of offi- cors at Warsaw, appointed to examine the horses sent there from St. Louis, found “seventy-six fit for service, five dead, and 830 undersized, under and over aged, stifled, ringboned, blind, spa vined, and inourably unfit for any public ser” vice,” Vouchers totally or partially false wore among the most notable means by which: the government was awindled. For hay and oats, never bought or sold, such vouchers were issued. In other oases very inferior blankets, purchased at from $1'18 to $1 45, were paid for at the rate. of from $2 37 to $3 85. In New York, by order of General Fremont, 25,000 condemued, worth- less Austrian muskets were purchased, at a cost of $166,000, which could not be used, and 5,400 Hall’s oarbines, sold by the Ordnance Department, as unfit for service, at $3 50 each, were afterwards bought by Fremont’s order at $22 each. Suoh are the jobs in which Genoral Fremont and his friends were engaged during the last fall, All other jobs are but bagatelles compared with them. Who can doubt that the proclamation he issued was to cover up and divert attention from these beautiful transac- tions? Fremont is the standard bearer and chosen chief of the thorough-paced abolitionists. In his interest the Tribune, and the other radi- cal journals, and all the orators of the faction, threatened the government at Washington with rovolution, first, when Mr. Lincoln ordered him to change his abolition proclamation; and, se- condly, when he removed him from his com, mand, not only for the reasons disclosed in the roport of the Investigating Committee, but on account of his military incapacity. In combi- nation with mutinous journals and mobs at the West, Greeley attempted to get up an aboli- tion Fremont demonstration in this city, but on mature consideration concluded it was safer to abazdon it. If there be any hanging, there- fore, of “the blackest traitors,” we trust the rope will be put around the right necks. Tho Position of the Border Slave States. There is a very general misapprehension of the position of the border slave States in the present war. It is believed by many that Mis- souri, Kentucky and Virginia are hostile to ua, because these are the principal battle grounds on which the federal forces are contending with the rebels, and because greater progress has not been made in re-establishing the federal authority in those border States. There might be some force in the argument if it were true that the rebellious forces now occupying pai of Missouri and Kentucky, and the greater por- tion of Eastern Virginia, were raised in those States. But, so far from this being the, case the rebel armies in Virginia, Kentucky and Mis- souri hail for the most part from the cotton States, and advanced into the border slave Stated in pursuance of a settled plan to save their own States from the ravages of war, and to carry on the hostilities at the expense of their neighbors, and, at the same time, to make the area and population of the confede- ration appear to the world so much larger than they really are. The insurgent chiefs thus seem to be on the defensive in the border slave States, and claim sympathy from mankind on the ground of being invaded, whereas it is evident that they are the invaders. Wherever their armies occupy and control Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, of course the latent Union sentiment, now crushed down by an iron hand, cannot be developed) but let that pressure be only removed, and the Union men will spring up on every side, a8 if from the ground, like the army of Cadmus, which grew from the soil in which he had sown the dragon’s teeth. So soon as Halleck drives Price and McCulloch, with their myrmidons, out of Missouri, that State will become as good a Union State as Maryland is now. The same will also prove true of Kentucky when the Union forces shall sweep beyond its southern border, like chaff before the wind, the invaders who now occupy strong positions on its soil. And when McClellan makes his forward move- ment through Virginia, the Old Dominion will be found as true to the old flag as she ever was. In February last Virginia decided, by a vote of 100,536 against 45,161, in favor of the Union; and the Convention at Richmond, which subse- quently voted for the ordinance of secession, did so under the terror of a mob collected from every part of the State. Kentucky, even after the battle of Bull run, decided, by 83,157 against 16,005—-an aggregate majority of 67,000—in the election of her Legislature, in favor of the Union, though secessionists had been secretly foisted into her previous Legislature, and her Gover- nor’s sympathies were evidently with the rebel- lion. Missouri, like Kentucky, had a secession Legislature and a secession Governor, owing to the operation of a secret conspiracy to elect such men, at a time when the people were not aware of the designs of the traitors. But when Governor Jackson and the Legislature, who professed armed neutrality, revealed their true character, they were repudiated, in Febru- ary last, by a vote of 101,300 against 51,500, being two to one in favor of the Union. How Jackson and his runaway rump Legislature, afterwards meeting in a southern corner of the State, voted'it out of the Union, is known to our readers. In those States the men of property were opposed to secession ; and only the men of no property, and the reckless youths in the towns who were without employment, and to whom revolution would be a godsend, were in favor of the rebellion. Even in Tennessee the vote had been 67,630 for the Union, and 54,156 @r secession. But Tennessee was subsequently taken out of the Union by her Legislature. In North Carolina the Union vote had been 47,269, secession 46,672 ; but, under secession pressure at a later date, North Carolina gave way and joined the rebel confederacy. ©The popular will of the whole slave States, as revealed by the voters before coercion and a reign of terror set in, was decidedly in favor of the Union, and against secession. The aggre- gate of the vote stood thue—633,793 for the Union, 486,554 for secession. When the federal armies advance at all points into the South, then will the same majority for the Union be developed once more. - _ Senator Hale has his suspicions t.* there is 8 screw loose in the State Department, id that President Lincoln and his Cabinet are n° to be trusted with the settlement of this Maso." Slidell affair, lution calling for the official correspondence on the subject, our New Hampshire abolition radical ventilated his peculiar ideas upon na tional honor. On Thursday last, upon a reso? He had been informed through the publio press that the Cabinet. had under oconsi- deration “a proposition fraught with more evil to the country than anything that had yet mark- ed its history, and that was the surrender of Mason and Slidell to Great Britain. By doing this we would yield all that we had gained in the war of the Revolution, and would be humi- lated to second rate Power.” War, he con- tended, would be infinitely preferable to such a surrender; and then he proceeded to show that in addition to this formidable Southern rebellion we are abundantly able to cope with Groat Britain, and should “thank-God that we are the instruments in His bands to work out His owa I. cause.” To. this flaming littte harasgue’ for -war, tt is somewhat’ remarkable that Senator Sum- ner was the man who stepped forward and quietly rebuked the hot haste of his abolition associate. Mr. Sumner, however, from his po- sition on the Senate Committee of Foreign Rela- tions, spoke as a man having some authority. He admonished the warlike gentleman from New Hampshire that he was a little too fast— that it was not known that England had made the arrogant demand alluded to—that it was possible the administration had been consider- ing the alternative of arbitration, and that while the matter was in safe hands we might also an- ticipate an amicable adjustment. But why this implacable war spirit of Sena- tor Hale? It is difficult to explain, ex- cept upon the abolition war programme of “emancipation or separation”—a programme which makes “the integrity of the Union” a secondary question, and the abolition of slavery the primary and paramount object og this war. In this view Mr. Hale may have drawn these conclusions from a war with Eng- land at this crisis, to wit:—that it will either compel our government to declare a crusade against slavery, and to arm the slaves of the South against their rebel masters, or, finally, after an exhausting struggle, compel us of the loyal States to recognise a separate nationality for our revolted States, and that in either case there would soon be an end of the Southern institution of slavery. This theory, too, is plausible; for o war with England now might drive us into a crusade against Southern sla- very, to say nothing of the otheralternative; and we know that our radical abolition faction are moving heaven and earth to divert the govern- ment from its war for the Union to a war for the extirpation of slavery. It.is very clear, then, under this view of the subject, that Mr. Senator Hale, as a defender of the national honor, is not to be relied upon; for he belongs to that radical abolition school which would abolish the Union iteelf in order to abolish slavery. Senator Sumner, on the other hand, though extremely radical in his» anti- slavery notions, is more intimately identified in his official relations with the Cabinet on this subject than Hale, and is bound by these rela- tions to respect the confidence and the respon- sibilities of his position. For once, therefore, we are gratified to announce Senator Sumner as on the right side of the question. Resea Views ov THe Magon-Suipe.t Avram.— On the receipt of the first warlike news from England touching the Mason-Slidell affair, the organs of the rebel government at Richmond were thrown into ecstacies of rejoicing. They were juhilant—they elapped their hands, and shouted that the day of their deliverance was at hand—that England was coming to the res- cue—that the Lincoln government had gone too far to recede—that there was no alterna- tive left it but to fight England, and that, consequently, her powerful fleets would soon reopen the ports of the South, take off the’, cotton, bring in all the supplies so much needed by the Confederate armies, and recognise and maintain the independence of the “Confederate States.” This jubilee, however, was of very short duration. The rebel organs at Richmond are now playing a tune as doleful as the Dead March in “Saul.” They have discovered that the Lincoln government will submit to be “ de- graded by England,” in order to accomplish “the infernal purpose” of crushing out the independence of the South. In a word, the rebels are already beginning to despair of their chances of success through an invitation from our government to England to come to their assistance. We have only to say that we have no idea that “Honest Abe Lincoln” will be guilty of the folly of allowing even a pretext to England for this sort of intervention. Peace with England for the present, and three months, if not so soon as a month hence, she will be convinced that the Southern confederacy of Jeff. Davis and his fellow conspirators is myth, a delusion, and a snare. Inrormation Strut, Wantep.—We are still very much in want of information about the nine ignorant individuals who distinguished - themselves by ‘signing a set of resolutions about the Heratp, on board the steamer City of Washington, on the 19th inst. The names of these nine men are— John H. Tobitt, C. Y. Swan, M. D., ‘Thes. H. Van Tassel, W. H. Walmsley, B. B. Daly, G. W. Pitcher, F. Berthond, Jobn B. Lowe, Does any one know who they are? Having had a day’s diligent search and found them not, we begin to believe them myths. Are they really entities, or have they only asupposititioug existence? If they really are men, we have a right to know about them; for they have been meddling with our business, and we are justi- fied in inquiring what weight their names and opinions carry with them. Is it possible that Swan, M. D., is not?. That Van Tassell is only a name? That Pitcher does not exist? That Tobitt ia not to be? That Walmsley is a fictitious character? That Berthond is a nom de plume? That Lowe cannot be found? That Whiteley ise nonentity ? We want information abont these names and the people to whom they belong. Gan any of our readers enlighten us? So far we can fing nobody who ever knew or heard of the illus- trious nine. Tae Destruction or Horses at Wasutnc- Ton.—The recent fire in the government stables at Washington, by which a hundred and seven. ty-flve horses were destroyed, has shown the in, adequacy of the arrangements there for extin. guishing such ggnflagrations, Had the federal oe —— es % Semator Hale on the Mason-». “dell Afnizg ' ; ¥