The New York Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1862, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Hamuat, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Do1—My NxicHor’s reaeaors THEATRE, No. 844 Broadway.—Lovx ror *. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Ovur Awxri- ean Cousin. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, ~ Bowery.—Moxmr—Cuan- Loree Petrie 1 OUNG Am ior BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Sricunzr's Nationa. Cmous. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Evening, —Onpixa—His Wi ‘Orme Cu- pt rOPOTAMUS, WHALE, AND UTHKE UU- BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hal Broad sway.—UN Batto in Mascures. siden HOOLEY'S MINSTRELS, St . Broadway.—Erazorian Soncs, Dances, aa NO OP MELODEON CONCERT HALL, No, 539 Brosdway.— Bonas, Dances, Buaxsavas, &c.—Diana. CANTERBURY MUSIC HAL! Dances, Buxcxsques, NOVELTY MUSIC a I somes prey HALL, 616 Broadway.—Bortxsquxs, 585 Broadway.—Sonas, 4c.—Mons, Decma.uxxan, ‘The most important feature of the news is that which relates to the concentration of troops at two important points, northeast and northwest of rebeldom, for the purpose of marching upon the Supporters of that doctrine en masse. One of these advances is to take place from the depart- ment of the Missouri, as may be gathered from the important intelligence received from St. Louis. A special despatch had been received at that city from Cairo to the effect that 25,000 troops were concentrating at the latter point, and when all had arrived, 3 column of from sixty to seventy thou- sand strong would move to Paducah, under Gen. Grant. The destination of the force is said to be Nashville, where they will unite with Gen. Buell’s column. The united forces will then proceed in a southerly direction towards New Orleans. This ‘movement was expected to take place within six days. Another movement has already begun ina direc- tion nearly opposite to that just mentioned. Half of Gen. Burnside’s expedition sailed only yester- day morning, and the other half was ready to de- part by three o'clock in the afternoon. This force ‘wiil rendezvous in Hampton Roads, after which it will sail for some at present unknown Southern port. Several thousand men will move upon the rebels in this direction. The navigation of the Potomac river has been somewhat impeded by floating ice, but communiva- tion has been kept open by the steamer King Philip. The Stepping Stones passed the rebel batteries without molestation on her way from the lower to the upper flotilla. It was thought probable that the rebels withheld their fire for the purpose of attacking the Pensacola when she Went to sea. From Fortress Monroe we learn that the rebel batteries at Craney Island had been practicing their artillery during the whole of Wednesday Big Bethel was reported to be again in the posses- sion of the rebel forces. The steamers Connecti- cut and Phenix had sailed for Port Royal and the Rancogas for Hatteras. The remainder of the ews was unimportant. ‘The newspapers in the whole State of Missouri have been, by order of the Provost Marshal Gene~ ral, paper publishers not sending a copy of each issue to the Provost Marshal's headquarters, at St. Louis, will render their journals liable to suppres- sion. The city papers of St. Louis do not come under the restrictive order. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Louis had be- come divided in consequence of trouble existing placed under military inspection, and news- regard to the Trent affair was then taken up, and Mr. Sumner, of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, delivered an elabo- rate exposition of the policy of the govern- ment as regards the settlement of the recent diffi- culty with Great Britain. The galleries of the Senate were densely crowded with spectators, in- cluding the diplomatic corps, excepting Lord Lyons, to hear the speech of Mr. Sumner. At the conclusion of Mr. Sumner’s remarks the Iron Clad War Steamer bill was taken up, and the pro- posed amendment of the Naval Committee, that the ships be built under the direction of the President, instead of the Secretary of the Navy— which amendment, if adopted, would be an un- qualified censure of the Secretary—gave rise to a long and interesting discussion, in the course of which the Secretary was rather roughly handled. Finally the debate was brought to 4 termination by Mr. Wilson’s offering a resolution, which was adopted, requesting the Secretary of the Navy to report to the Senate the facts in regard to the em- ployment of George B. Morgan to purchase ves- sels,and the amount of compensation paid him, and the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, bills to estab- lish an arsenal. at Springfield, Illinois; to punish frauds on the government, and providing for the payment of interest, in certain cases, on claims against the government, were presented and re- ferred. The bill abolishing the franking privilege was then taken up. A bill of this character, said Mr. Colfax, has on several occasions passed the Senate, but never before received favorable action by the House Post Office Committee. It was now reported unanimously, with one exception, by the committee. After considerable debate, a motion was made to lay the subject on the table, and on this test vote the opponents of the bill were de- feated by a vote of fifty-one against seventy-eight. Without further action the House adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. In the State Legislature at Albany yesterday considerable business was transacted. In theSenate, among the petitions presented was one praying that the State assume the collection of its portion of the national tax, and another, that the Supervisors of Kings county be directed to provide for the families of Volunteers. Among the bills of which notice was given was one to incorporate the New York City Cab Company, one to regulate the con- cert saloons in this city, and two to amend the acts in relation to fire and life insurance companies Concurrent resolutions were introduced requesting the President of the United States to provide for an exchange of prisoners of war. The presentment of the Grand Jury of this city relative to the con- cert® saloons was laid before the Senate by the presiding officer. A Health District bill for New York and Kings counties, the same as that passed by the Assembly at the last session, was introduced. In the Assembly notices were given of bills to provide for the support of volunteers families by a State tax; to amend the charter of Brooklyn; to amend the Registry law; to amend the law in respect to elections in this city; in relation to volunteers who have distinguished themselves in the war; to provide for the State paying her volunteers; to amend the Revised Statutes; to regulate fire insurance companies; to alter the map of New York city; to amend the charter of Brooklyn, and numerous others of less interest. A bill was introduced to provide relief for the suffer- ing people of Ireland: also one to extend various streets in this city. A resolution was offered in regard to the waste of time by our Senators and representatives in Congress in useless discussions, instead of attending to the business of the country. The steamship Kangaroo, Capt. McGuigan, from Liverpool at three o'clock in the morning December 25, and Queenstown December 26, arrived here at two o'clock yesterday afternoon. Her news has already been forestalled by other arrivals. The Kangaroo has been very much detained since pass- ing Cape Race by heavy head winds; which fact somewhat accounts for her late arrival at this port. An advertisement has appeared in the Montreal journals calling for tenders fer bills, to be drawn at thirty days’ sight, on the Lords Commissiouers of her Majesty's Treasury, to the extent of £50,000 sterling, the proceeds of the bills to be deposited with the Bank of Montreal to the credit of the Senior Commissariat Officer. The weekly statement of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction was presented yesterday, and shows that the number of persons admitted to the institutions during the week end- ing January 4 was 1,560, making a total of 7,782 remaining there on that date, a decrease of 21 on the preceding week, and a deerease of 754 up to the same date last year. This is accounted for in consequence of the large number of men who have enlisted and gone off to the war, and who are now filling honorable positions and serving their coun- try on the banks of the Potomac and elsewhere. Intemperance among females is very much on the increase, the majority of those sent on the Island between the Union and secession members. The former retired yesterday and formed a new corpo- ration, as a Union Chamber of Commerce, entirely independent of the old body. Our Baltimore correspondence gives us an im- portant piece of information relative to prisoners taken from on board privateers. By that it would appear that the Cabinet are opposed to any punish- ment being inflicted upon the rebel privateersmen, or their receiving any different treatment from that of other prisoners of war. It further appears that all the demonstrations made by the rebels opposite Hancock are merely to prevent the Union troops rebuilding the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad between Harper's Ferry and Hancock. It has been reported by a gentleman from Gal. veston, Texas, that cotton has been transported through the extreme Southern States to Browns- ville, in that State, and from thence shipped to Matamoras, in Mexico. It is further stated that the said Mexican port has been wade an English military and naval station. If so, Great Britain could, without apparently infringing on the block- ade, obtain all the cotton she might want from the Bouth. We give the statement for what it is ‘worth, reminding our readers that the means of transit from other parts of the South to Browns- wille are anything but efficient, convenient or expeditious. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, the House resolution in wegard to bonded sugar and coffee was passed, by @ vote of twenty-three to fifteen. Mr. Hale pre- pented # petition from citizens of Pennsylvania, pilleging that ‘great frauds have becn perpetrated on the Treasury by the appointment of Mr. Cum- mings by Mr. Cameron, and the appointment of Mr. Morgan by Mr. Welles,” and asking for such legislation as will prevent similar frauds in future. ‘Whereupon Mr. Hale introduced a bill to punish fravds on the Treasury by @ fine to the amount of mouey fraudulently obtained, and imprisonment, st hurd labor, for not more than ten years; also, that any officer of the government convicted of fraud be discharged and punished, and ever after held ineligible for any office. The Subject was referred to the appropriate com- piittee. Bills providing for a Signal De- partment of the army; to regulate the pay of army officers; organizing the staffs of the divisions of the army; regulating the appointment of chaplains and to allow Jewieh chaplains, and to increase th elerical force of the Adjutant General's office, were presented by tho Committee on Military Affairs. The communication fr.m the Secretary of State in daring the last few months having been females who were picked up in the streets in a state of iutoxi- ition. "The General Committee of Tammany Hall. elect. ed for the ensuing year, organized last evening, after a prolonged contest, in which thirteen wards were disputed, and the Aldermanic faction defeat- ed their rivals of the opposition, placing the con- trol of the Tammany Hall organization in the handé of the ‘* Ring”’ for the nominations and elec- tions of Comptroller, Corporation Counsel, &c., next fall. In our columns to-day will be found an interest- ing letter from Colonel A. Hamilton, on the subject of our negotiations with Great Britain, in which is predicted a satisfactory termination of our difficul~ ties. The suit of Dion Bourcicault against Messrs. Fox & Lingard, managers of the New Bowery theatre, to recover $2,500 damages for performing the play of the “Octoroon,” which was the alleged copy- right property of the plaintiff, was commenced yesterday before Judge Shipman, in the United States Circuit Court. The cotton market was quiet yesterday, with #0 littl, doing as in some degree to render quot:tions nominal. We continue to quote middling uplands at 36c., while the sales were limited to some 100 a 160 bales, in separate lots. The stock is now so low as to make the range of assortments quite limited. The flour market oponed dull, but it gathered strength towards the close of ‘Change, while rales were moderate and prices without change of moment, Wheat was y, while sales were moderate. Corn was more active and rathor firmer for good sound shipping lots of Western mixed, with sales at 66c. a 66i¢c. delivered. Pork was more active while prices were unchanged. Sugars were in steady request, with sales of 300 a 400 hhds., 1,300 boxes and 6,500 bags Ma- nila, Coffee was steady, with sales of 3,500 bags Manila ‘and 1,300 boxes Havana at rates given elsewhere. Whis- key advanced to 25c.a26c. Spices were firm with a tendency towards highor prices: Freights wore steady with @ fair amount offering. Ex-Presipent FintMors ON THE Press, THE Crisis anp THe War with Eno.anp.—In o speech delivered at Buffalo, a few days since, ex-President Fillmore took occasion to charge the preas with involving the country in a war with England. It is an old trick of played out politicians to attack the press, just as broken down sots abuse their old, best friends. It is acts which create wars, and the press is not at all to blame in the case. The press did not make Captain Wilkes board the Trent and seize Mason and Slidell. Ex-!’resident Fillmore may consult his mirror if he wishes to see one of the politicians who have brought about the crisis which rendered such an act as that of Captain Wilkes necessary. It was lillmore who first introduced the slavery question into New York State polities, and thus indirectly aided latent treason. Lx-l’resident Fillmore might as well leave the press alone. It has killed him pol iti- cally, and dead men should tell no tales, un- less they be truc ones, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, The Rights of Congress and the Duty of the Executive. There is a Jacobin faction in Congress which, notwithstanding the lesson of Bull run, still persists in directing the movemen® of our army- This faction, in every possible way, avails itself of every opportunity to declare its lack of faith in the war policy of the administration and in the competency and loyalty of our generalsr who are known to be opposed to the foolish and diabolical abolition scheme of making this war for the Union a war for the extirpation of Southern slavery. For example, Mr. Roscee L. Conkling, of New York, availed himself the other day of his reso- lution of inquiry concerning the Ball’s Bluff disaster to express his doubts of the loyalty of General Stone, and his suspicions of bad ma- nagement on the part of General McClellan, as the responsible General-!n-Chief of the army- To the first resolntion of the House upon this affair at Ball’s Bluff, General McClellan, through the Secretary of War and the President, had sent im an unsatisfactory and evasive answer, as charged by Mr. Conkling, and, falling back upon the constitutional rights, prerogatives and dignity of the House, he demanded another and more appropriate answer to the inquiry in- volved in said resolution. Of course, upon an appeal to the rights and dignity of the House, Mr. Conkling carried his point; but it does not follow that the President, or any executive or military subordinate, is thereby bound to im- part information which, im being divulged at this time, would be calculated to prove prejudi- cial to the public service. Upom military as upon diplomatic affairs, or a3 in regard to any other proceedings of the executive branch of the government, either house of Congress haw the undoubted right to call upon the President for information; but the uniform:rule in resolu- tions of this sort is, that he shall only give the information desired to the extent to which he may deem it “ not incompatible with the public interests.” Now, the answer communicated to: the first resolution of the House on this Ball’s Biuff affair was substantially to the effect that it would be “incompatible with the public-inter- est” at this time to give the information desired. And Mr. Conkling’s affectation of vigilance:in the: matter of the rights and dignity of the House | turns upon a paltry quibble. The simple truth is, that, as General McClellan does not endorse || the abolition war programme of the Jacobin faction of Congress, they have commenced the: game ef supplanting him. No doubt there is a justifiable curiosity on the part of every mem- ber of Congress to know precisely the objects of that movement upon Ball’s Bluff, and the: causes of that extraordinary disaster; and a similar desire exists to know exactly how it was that General Fremont failed to come up to the relief of General Lyon at Springfield, and to the rescue of Colonel Mulligan at Lexington; and what were the exact causes which prevented General Patterson from cutting off the junction of the rebel Johnston’s column with that of Beauregard at Manassas; and why it is that the rebel blockade of the Potomac has been permit- ted to continue undisturbed so long. But, as a full and eomplete answer to Congress upon any one-of these subjects at this time would proba- bly disclose some important facts which it is best for the present to withhold from the enemy, the reader will appreciate the good sense of General McClellan in declining to enter upon any specific disclosures in regard to this aifair at Ball’s Bluff beyond the facts already known. It is easy also to understand why any military leader in front of the enemy should be jealous- ly vigilant against communicating any facts or plans or information of any sort from his army calculated to be useful to his enemy. General McClellan has the confidence of the President and the country. He will be sus- tained by the President and the country against any unreasonable demands for information. on the part of the Jacobin faction of Congress. He has our army, from the Potomac to the Mississippi, admirably equipped and arranged in connection with our land and naval forces along the Southern seaboard, for a grand and overwhelming system of combined operations. We shall not be kept much longer in suspense. We shall soon have the most satisfactory justi- fication of the present apparent inactivity of our army in a succession of crowning vic- tories. While we are gaining strength mean- time, by delay, the rebels are daily becoming weaker and weaker, and nearer the turning point of a general collapse. A single decisive re- pulse of any magnitude will be the signal for this general collapse of the cause of Jeff. Davis and his exhausted Southern confederacy. The conservative loyal people of the Union have no fears that McClellan and our army and navy will disappoint the just expectations of the country ; and the public confidence in “ Honest Abe Lincoln” is unabated. But there are seri- ous apprehensions afloat in regard tothe Con- gress which is now in session at Washington- The treasury is in danger of bankruptcy in the absence of some wholesome legislative mea- sures for its relief ; our currency is threatened with another flood of irresponsible shinplasters, in the absence of a solid cash basis for the pa- per issues of the government ; our business men of all pursuits, prostrated by the unforeseen ca- lamities of this rebellion, call for the relieving intervention of a general bankrupt law ; and yet the House of Representatives continues to agitate the slavery question and abolition in every shape and form, and continues to pry into the secrets of the army and into the political status of our army officers in regard to slavery, as if there were nothing else to be done. We earnestly call upon the House of Repre- sentatives to attend to its own especial duties in regard to the indispensable finan- cial measures demanded by the extra” ordinary drains of this war, amounting to six hundred millions a year, and to drop the question of slavery for a while, and leave the Pre- sident and our generals and naval officers to ma- nage the movements of our land and naval forces. Let the two houses reform and retrench our ex- penditures as much as they can consistent with sound policy; but let them, of all things, con- sent to suspend the agitation of slavery until we are provided with the ways and means to secure the government and the country from the general ruin of a sweeping financial reval- sion. It is useless for the abolition Jacobins of Con- gress to attempt to graduate our army officers and army movements to the war programme of an exterminating crusade against Southern | slavery. Nearly all our generals and the bulk of our army repudiate this programme. Upon “flonest Abe Lincoln’s” platform our army is united and harmonious. Let Congress leave it so yet alittle longer, and attend to the duty | of providing the sinews of war, and we shall eur armies may conquer the soon be relieved of all doubts for the future in the general collapse of this sinking and stag <er- ing rebellion. Lincoin’s Administration im the Legis- lature. There can be no better time than the present for the Legislature of this State to put itself upon record in favor of the conservative ad- ministration of President Lincoln. By 4 curious conglomeration of petty intrigues, the Legislature has elected as its Speaker @ man whose loyal antecedents are at least questionable. AI\ over the country the abolitionists are makipg a desperate fight to su- persede the constitutional policy of the adminis- tration and obtain control of the government: It is just the time, therefore, for the destruc- tives and the conservatives of New York State to show their relative power, and to settle, at once and definitely, the question whether the greatest State in the Union is for or against the constitution and a constitutienal war. To make public this decision without doubt or delay, a resolution should be introduced into the Legislature endorsing the war policy of the President, and approving of his disavowal of the abolition proclamations. of Fremont and Phelps. We have no intention of arguing that the President is right and ought to be sustained; for we believe that the loyal people of thi® State are convinced of that fact already. Nor are we about to defend the President in his ac- tion in regard to Fremont; for events in the State of Missouri especially have already decid- ed that. But it is most fit that the Legislature should express to the President the general con- servative approval of his course, and thus strengthen him against the ardent attacks of the Jacobin clique. This would be the first result of the passage of such a resolution, and in a crisis like this, when every possible effort is being made to turn the administration from the path of duty and safety, ne ene can properly estimate the beneficial effect of such an ap™ proval and of such encouragement. The peo- ple approve the President’s acts, and there is no good reason why the Legislature should not give official expression to this approbation. But, besides this, the indirect effect of such a resolution would be to range:the conservatives and the destructives upon opposite sides, and enable the people of the State and of the coun- try to distinguish who are and who are not really loyal to the Union and the: constitution. All conservative men are now trying to foster the Union spirit in the South by every proper means. It is upon this Union spirit they rely for the re-establishment of the former eordial relations between the two sections; for Hi, but only a revival of Southern Union feeliig can bring us back our country as it was. Now, it is well for us to distinctly understand who are with us in this matter, and who are in favor of conquering the South only to destroy it and to abolish slavery. This information can only be-obtained by placing such a resolution before the Legisia- ture; and we trust that, for the sake-of the ad- ministration, for the sake of the Southern Union men, for the sake of all constitutional conserva- tives, and for the sake of our country, such a resolution will be offered, unanimously sup- ported and adopted. If such a resolution shall Ge opposed by any members, we shall then kaow who are friends and who are enemies of the Union, and can deal with them accordingly- Tue Coast Strvey.—A decision of the House €emmittee of Ways and Means, striking from the Treasury estimates the reduced appropria- tion to cover the expenses of the coast survey Quring the next fiscul year, has excited some little dissatisfaction among our merchants. We are surprised that the motives which actuated the committee are not better appreciated. If we are to carry the war to a successful termina- tion it can only be by cutting down every item of expenditure that can be dispensed with for the present, and devoting all our resoarces to the speedy crushing out of the rebellion. With nearly the whole Southern coast in the hands of the enemy, we can afford to suspend for a sea- son operations that can be resumed later with more advantage. Besides, we have just now more urgent use for the vessels and officers en- gagedin them. We have not too many of either for the purposes of the blockade or of the expe. ditions which are being fitted out against the Southern coast. The true policy of Congress at the present time is, we repeat, to cut down or omit altogether from ihe present estimates every appropriation which is susceptible of cur- tailment or postponement. Even the sum allo- cated to the defrayment of the expenses attend- ing the representation of our industrial interests at the great London Exhibition might with pro- priety be withheld. A beginning has to be made somewhere, and by economizing expendi- tures which, though legitimate, are not indis- pensable, we shall be the more readily enabled to put a stop to the corruption and wasteful extravagance which characterize other branches of the public service. AtaRm IN Inpta.—By our latest European advices we observe that the British government has a prospect of fresh trouble with the Sikhs, and that the batteries of artillery at Bombay, on the point of embarking for Eng. land, were stopped by pressing despatches from Bengal. When we remember the bloody conflicts between the Sikhs and the English under Lord Gough, and what formidable foes the former proved themselves to be, this intelli. gence is significant. It is true that we are without particulars of the circumstances which have aroused the apprehensions of the British authorities in India; but, from the state of feeling prevailing among the Sikhs for a con" siderable time past, there is little doubt that they are ripe for open revolt, in which event it will require all the energy and resources of the government to control them. No more dangerous insurrection could occur; for the turbulence and fury of this section of the na- tive population of India are only second to their military skill in battle. We therefore sin- cerely trust, for the sake of humanity, that no such outbreak as is threatened will occur; bug we cannot at the same time close our eyes to the possibility of Great Britain being soon again involved in an Indian war. Now, or yesterday, she was anticipating one, and a great one, in the West; but suddenly all eyes may be turned to the East, where we may see her, with her Oriental dominions in peril, battling desperately with a dangerous enemy. How would it be with England and her Indian possessions if such an outbreak took place during a war with this country, when her forces were drawn away and unavailable to quell it? There would simply be an awful massacre of the English in India, and the three presidenties would be lost to her forever. Let her, therefore look well to the East while she frowns upon the West. 1862. rrr Satam Advertising His Sinners. the feelings of the whole country, as weil The truths that there are many ways of ac- as the aching heart of the sovereign. complishing the same object, and that the longest way is sometimes the nearest, are as old and as firmly established as the hills, and ‘are especially applicable to newspaper puffery. There are puffs direct and puffs indirect; puffs by imsimmation and putts by inference; puffs by eulogy aud puffs by opposition. All of these kinds of puffs are used in advertising, and Satan, whe understands puffery very well, em- ploys each of them as it may suit his purpose. In attempting to seduce one person, for in- stance, Satam advertises himself directly by exhibiting the wonders of the world and the glory of them. When he issued his first adver tisement, in the garden of Eden, he made use of the puff insimsatory, and so sobd his apples and poor Eve together. The puff direct, how- ever, Satan seldom uses nowadaya It is too common and too transparent, and is the sole resource of indigent country edftors and over zealous supporters of secumd rate political candidates. Like a true’ master of the art, Satan delights in the most - difficult and artistic puff—the puff of opposition. “Such a thing is. charmingly wicked,” he says; “people really ought mot to do it;” ama, of course, every one is tempted to try the charm- ing wickedness for himself. “This is a very bad place,” Satan says; “you ought not to go in there, though it is very attractive and very fanny;” and forthwith every one’s curiosity is excited, and in he goes to see what this attrae- tive bad place is. This is an old and favorite dodge of Satan’s, and we are not surprised to find him playing it, in regard to the concert. saloons, through his pet organ, the World—a journal which wears a hypocritical mask of’ piety, but inwardly and really isa compound of Satan, sulphurous India rubber, Cummings, sin, depravity and pickings from the public crib, The World has already been convicted of being Satan’s organ upon circumstantial evi- dence; fore¥ery one knows that, with its little circulatiow and slim advertising, it never could have existed thus long without diabolical sup- port. Besides, it showed the cloven foot very -plainly in that Cummings affair; for Cummings deposed that he was a publisher of the World, and carried out the World's ideas by dipping his sticky fingers inte the public treasury and expending,large sums for porter and ale, and not a cent on Bibles and Testaments. That the World should, therefore, take care of such bibulous places as the concert saloons are said to be is not to be wondered at; for thus Satan is simply advertising his own sinners. Now the Heranp knows nothing directly of the con. cert saloons; for we'deal with them as with any other places of amusement licensed by the Mayor and sanctioned by law. From the accounts of the World people, who, since the era of Cummings’ ale and porter, seem to spend the best part of their time in such institutions, we infer, however, that drinking and pretty waiter girls are features of these saloons. That they are-sufficiently Satanic to be puffed in the World is saying a great deal against them, in the estimation of respectable folks. In the name ofall that is good and decent, therefore, we protest against the-daily editorial advertising of such places in which the World indulges. If they are respectable concerts they need no such Satanic puffery, and if they are haunts of in- famy the World should either cease: inducing people:to go to them or they should be sup- pressed by the Grand' Jury. In several articles the World, while professing to oppose, has really advertised these concert saloons, and endeavored to so stimulate the curiosity of its readers as to make them visit these places of doubtful amusement. It is Satan at his artistic puffery again. Yesterday, for example, it gives the names and locations of several concert halls, and describes their “mir- rors;” the waiter girls “painted with some slight care;” the show pictures “painted in course dis- temper;” the display of “bunches of ribbons and clusters of flowers; the minstre] “with quadrangular patches upon his knees, and # banjo extemporized from a pumpkin;” the “pirouettes” and “re- dundant gestures of leg” of “the dancers,” with much more of this sort, caleulated to excite in- terest and attract public patronage to the con- cert halls. With this stuff is adroitly mingled a little spice of hard names and apparent abuse} but the young and the unwary notice only the seductive and alluring descriptions, and the abuse suffices only to save the paper from the condemnation of unthiaking parents and guar- dians. A little reflection will make evident to the dullest person the advantages of this style of puffery. The curiosity it excites causes some people to go; the appenis to the worst passions which it insinuates seduce others; the attractions of sin which it vividly depicts allure the young man about town or the youth anxfous to “gee life,” while its purposely weak denun- ciations keep no one away who would not have stayed away if the article had never been written. So it is plain that, by this sort of ad. vertising by opposition, Satan reaches classes he could seduce im no other way, and at the same time does not injure his clients’ business in the least. On the contrary, the managers of concert halls openly rejoice and grow rich upon such editorial puffery, and pay the price demanded for such notices gladly; for it is sel. dom they can get their advertisements into so conspicuous a portion of a newspaper as the editorial page. Again we repeat that, if the concert halls are respectable, Satan of the World should leave them alone to honestly divide public patronage with other places of amusement; and, if really disreputable, they should no longer be sus- tained by the World's continuous and seductive editorial advertisements. Tue Heraty anv THE SuRRENDER OF Mason any StipeLt.—It will be remembered that a week before Mr. Seward wrote his celebrated letter to Lord Lyons respecting the affair of the Trent we announced the intention of our government in the matter, and the terms which would accompany the surrender of the prison- ers. This intelligence, and our editorial en- dorsements of the proposed action of the Secre- tary of State, no doubt reached England several days in advance of the despatch of Lord Lyons in reply to that of Earl Russell. The English press would, of course, quote our remarks on the subject with avidity, and peace with the United States would at once become a foregone conclusion in the British mind. All war prepa- rations would be at once suspended, and the eagerness with which the public and the Foreign Office would await the report of Lord Lyons would be considerably less than before. The effect of the Heraty’s tone and statements would immediately impart confidence in mone. tary and commercial ¢irgles, aud soothe Tax Exousn Press anp THE New Yorx He- RALD.—The mails received by the Bohemian and the Kangaroo show a marked abatement in the English war fever. Perhaps one of the strong- est evidences of this is the disposition mani_ fested by the London journals to lavish upon in- dividuals and journals on this side the abuse which had before been so liberally bestowed on us as a nation. The New York Herat, of course, comes in for its share of the vituperation thus freely in \ulged in. ‘“ Despicable paper,” “viperous print” and “dirty tool” are amongst the mildest of the highly seasoned epithets ap- plied to it. The leading journal of America, and the newspaper of the largest circulation in the world, is described as on a par with the publications that emanate from Holywell street, Where are the good manners of the writers that formerly used to lectuve the press of this country on the proprieties and amenities of journalism? When the abolition of the newspaper stamp duty was first broached, the ‘ear was expressed that it would have the effect ef degrading the character and tone of the English press, by im trodueing into it a class of writers of low asso~ ciations.and habits. The result has amply justi- fied the prediction. Judging by the language held towards this country, its institutions and statesmen, it is impossible not to arrive at the conclusiow that it is now managed: by a set of pothouse journalists and penny-a-liners without the least of prineiple or self-respect. But what is most amusing im the Billingsgate: which has been showered upon the New York Fleravp and its proprietor is the funny inconsistency and extravagance of its averments. We are told on the one hand that we have been the’ means of provoking all this ill feeling between the two countries, and: om the other that our influence is “infinitessimal.” Itis through us, neverthe- less, that Northern men are induced “to torture their prisoners of war, to threaten to murder the wounded, to seek to block up the highways of nature, to plot to foster a new slave: trade, and'to aim at lynching England into a new code of international law.” We did not know that our influence: went to quite this extent; but the future historian will! no deubt accept the fact as thus stated. Adl that remains for us to ask of our transatlantic contemporaries is, that they, wil! do us the similar justice when they find the sur- render of Mason and.Slidell by our government anticipated and: advocated in our columns'a week in advance of the fact. Tatx anp Action.—After all the excitement and declamation of the British people, the va- poring of their newspapers, the special councils of the Cabinet, the-opinions of the law advisers of the Crown, and British indignation generally, in consequence: of. the seizure of the rebel en- voys, the insignificance of the action taken in the matter contrasts: amusingly with the loud and hostile demonstrations which followed the first announcement of the intelligence: which affected them to, such a wonderful pitch of fury. What is the actual result of all the indignation meetings and other expres- sions of popular, legal and diplomatic opinion, by which the world was led to believe that war between England and the United: States was imminent? Simply that ten. thou- sand men, or less,. have been sent to British North America. Now, supposing that circum- stances had led to a declaration of war, of what use would such a force as that have been, either in defending or invading? We could have poured more than that number into Canada in aweek. But, fortunately, Great Britain will have no particular need of them so far as the United States are concerned, and therefore the effect of the homeopathic instalments of troops will be just as good as if she had sent the whole army, including the two majestic guardsmen who protect the portals of the Horse Guards in Whitehall, and who are notoriously the admi- ration of all the nurse maids and. small boys in the neighborhood. Warrewasuine IN THE Cuamper oF Com- merce.—The highly respectable colored gen- tlemen who are engaged in the noble pro- fession of whitewashing are very indignant at the late attempt of the Chamber of Commerce to interfere with their occupation, It seems that Messrs. Duer and. Phelps had a diffiulty in the Chamber last week, and Phelps called Duer “a mean, miserable, quarrelsome, imper- tinent, intermeddling fellow,’” or words. to that effect, to which Duer responded’ by calling Phelps “a liar.” At the last mecting the Chamber attempted to. whitewash the affair, and both gentlemen, or fellows, withdrew and apologized for their offensive remarks. The Chamber does not whitewash as well as the colored gentlemen, however; for if Duer and Phelps were correct in the opinions they for- merly expressed of each other, then they falsify truth by retracting now; er, if they were wrong at first, then they really deserve to be called hard names for indulging in such vil. lanous misrepresentations.. Each horn of the dilemma is sharp; but the gentlemen must suffer from one or the other. The Chamber must decide which is which, and will find this subject more knotty than the currency ques- tion. There is a lie somewhere about the Chamber, and a committee of investigation ought to be immediately appointed to hunt it up and turn it out. Genera. Sicet.—The report that General Si- gel has resigned his commission, and is about to return to his former occupations at St. Louis, will, we trust, turn out to be unfounded. Al- though it has obtained credenee amongst his friends, we still indulge the hope that his sense of duty will have prevented him from carrying out the intention which, it is stated, he seriously entertained. The country cannot afford to lose just now the services of an officer who has shown himself as disinterested and patriotic as he is able. From the time when his masterly retreat from Springfield pointed him out as a leader of strategic pretensions, down to the pre- sent moment, the breath of calumny has not dared to impeach his integrity and devotion to the cause of the Union. He is said not to be popular with the officers of the regular army; but this, if true, which we doubt, is compensat- ed for by the affection and respect of all those who have served under him, and by tho admi- ration and esteem of the country generally. We sincerely hope that General Sigel has been induced to reconsider the determination attri- buted to him. He is too good a soldier and too sincere a patriot not to feel that it is neither the part of the one to question the decisions of his military superiors nor of the other to allow a tem- porary disappointment to withdraw him from the duty which he owes the repubiia at this solemn, crisis of its affairs.