The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1862, Page 2

-- ere i OUR PARIS AN BERDLIN CORRESPONDENCE. Opinions in Europe on the Southern Rebellion, &e., &e., &e. Our Paris Correspondence. Pans, Dec. 27, 1861. to bp @ very strong one, But the poliey of Great Britain has @ver been to bully the weak end knuckle to the strong. Why, it she can carry things with so highs hand, did not she espouse the cause of Portugal in the Charles et Georges affair off Mozambique? 4 more fia- grant breach of international law was never committed than that of the French against the Portuguese; yet Eng. land stood with folded arms, knowing too well with whom she would have te measure weapons. Portugal is almost as Scotland to England—on all other occasions her closest ally—yet she could forget it ail when it was convenient to do 80. ‘The Court of France is in full mourning for Prince Albert's death. But nothing is allowed to cast agloom on this pro- verbially gay season of the year. The shops are putting out Hinglond's Immense Preparations for War—Her Hatred ‘0 | their nourcautes, their bijouterie and wonderful specimens” the North American Republic—the Violation of the | of the national ingenuity, with all their wonted Queen's Proclamation—The Hostility of France to Ameri- | enegry, ca—The Coming Recognition of the Southern Confederacy by Both Powers—Prince Napoleon on Our Side—A First Warning to the Debats—The Government of France Gnd the Voice of the People, dc., dc. From all‘appearances England will force upon the ‘United States a war. Her preparations are of so menac- fing @ nature, 90 truly warlike, as to cause the world to appreciate the steadmess, the malignity of her determi- _ Ration. She finds the United States engaged in a deadly penflict, hampered by a civil war of the most trying and unnatural kind, and at once she seizes upon the first pre- text to endeavour to destroy a Power that she foars and hates. She will, sho thinks, wipe away the stain of her former defeats; while her hated rival is alreaay at war, she will strike a deadly blow. France and Austria ap- Prove of this course; they have, unasked, signified as Mauch to the Cabinet of St. James. Of course they have. ‘They hate and fear that great republic which is a living ‘gad growing reproach to their despotism and tyranny. ‘They will hound on England; for, be she victor or van- quished, they gain thereby. The Powers they feared will be crippled, and their accursed governments less in danger from the deserved anger of their people. Eng- Jand, who, bad you spat in her face a few months since, ‘would have calmly wiped away the insult, murmuring @emething about “hearty cousins,” now jumps at any pfetext to commence a war of extermination against you. If war there should be, who will have been directly re- Bpomsible for so great, so awful a calamity? None other than Captain Moir, of the Trent, for direct!¥ violating his Queen’s proclamation, and Commander Wil- Hams— vaporing, bullying Williams, the would-be hero that ‘‘aa, ved Miss Slidell from the bayonets of the blood~ thirsty snarines of Lieutenant Fairfax.” The English governme at owes itasa duty to the United States and itself to cas), hier those officers for their contemptof British law. But ivf along England, backed up by France, has been eagerly) awaiting achance for a blow. The unac- Countable qub\ %t of tho United States troops, their frequent Feverses, all th\ ose things emboldened England; she thought she detected wm akness, and determined she would at dnce Strike a decisive, blow. How the London journals shout with joy over M.. Thouvenol’s despatch to Mr. Seward, and his circular {> the Powers of Europe in favor of Eng- Iand’s, aggressive | manner towards the United States’ The Morning Chra\ nicle and Telegraph say that the de- spatch to Mr. Sewa: | 4is written as though by an English Minister, while the | ttter does not failto point out how im that despatch t »¢ French Minister (more shame fo him) epeaks of the United States government @s the “federal gove tment,” the “Washington Ca- but never | a8 the government of tho » always, since the conimence- rebellion, assured you that in as inimical to yoy, and present was my information upon that 3 for a moment tostate that I nublished in ydur other Paris 3 is for you,” “Louis Napo- he will never allow her to 4 positive remarks upon the ‘d from the grossest igno- vod here. Some of the said 2 occasions, flatly contra- + that France t is, its ‘se of the North. Events Dinet United States. 1 han ment of the Southern i France the governmeut w events prove how correct * will here wondered to see , “Fra on such like an ‘Proceed, EH " E f +] E & i E ! i I that they stated posi- a right to doubt. So peace-at-all-pricece ‘Tespondents. Bow more u &3 E 3 T hope reliable information. aters, and will recog- vent ingland has done ar; instructions have ‘ies, announcing to \ the Mediterranean in fact, she is to \ 8 will’ be fatal \ Ui take Maine and “. “May not they ‘eof the colonies to likewise, and \ ican pation may id_ strike them . they are more surely honor snd to succeed ice. Ido nog ink of Louis ’ tremendous ii £ H hd age aul f wes we are ore while in offend the organ, still ticles now 1 cause to \ ormwood hat most ay. The tiraruin, 1 | Japporcs Louis Napolen \ '- This § as mor | * The ‘of the North,andit as to intimidate this jeurnal that this it ha | + boen given. One more, and they ace now given without "byme Or reason, and tho goverument can at once su s the Debats. Of course the shareholders will force thee titors to be more careful. Arrests and condemnations for | Press offences have now become so frequent as to prove Low Es is the feat felt by the governmentatallath “8 brutality of fear alone would cause such urhem cases as those of the Courrier du Limanch: avd L'ém ; seems to have become beside b “ re will be stormy sessions this Legislatif: for, in the case of k ni States, the government is goi the will of the people, and there wi enough to say 80, Pants, Dec. 27, 1861. 5 é f 4 f E é i { i i i publication of M. Thouvenel’s despateh, it is beginning te be thoughé that the United States will return the rebel ‘Commissioners, as acting under an overpowering force. France, by ite government, dose not absolutely teke part Giroux out-Herods himself. Such garnitur® de cheminee, such ueteri, bub!, and work in the ‘new Algerine marble, which resembles pine Gow baster and Derbyshire ware, were never before seen. tion” in prices is the order of day; and really some of the clocks, other ‘things fitted up with similar o extraordinarily cheap, A very beautiful in , with am exceilent cl , Warranted of perfect works, is offered for forty-two francs. The bronzes are truly magnificent, and be has also some exquisite original paintings the jowest price of which is a thousand francs. ‘The litt mas—more with regard to the jour de lan than to that reat festival—are now lining whole sites of uulevard, from the church of Le Madelaine down to Faubourg &t. Antoine, a distance of some three miles. To appreciate the pleasure these little magazines aord you must come to Paris. It seems strange that when the ordinary shops are always full to the brim of every imaginable toy for children, these little warehouses of second rate articles shouid still retain their popularity. But to the Parisian mind they are ever new. For a year they fall back into aw, to spring up again with Tenovated lustre. What they offer one year is pretty much the same a8 the next; but the novelty is in the minds of the visiters. The fond memory of what they were the year previous has served as for other expectations, and when they appear, de noro, both old and young are ready to give them the credit of having fulfilled such expectations, whether they have or not. 1 ‘are enormous. Every- bod, 5 few, return empty hand- ed. The children, fresh emancipated from all scholastic thraidom, are seen toiling to their homes, with difficulty balancing either bags of bon bons or drums, mechanical instruments, oranges, Liliputian balloons, horses, carts, beer barrels, and whole services of dinner and tea ware. The familias is obliged to lend # hand, while tho maternity holds with one hand her muff to her nose, to prevent the rubicund effect of the frost,and with the other guides the youngest of her fry. Trumpets sound the alarum from one end of the fair city to the other; drwms make an incessant roll, and detonating squibs per- tually shock the nerves of septuagenarians, who for the ite of them cannot prevail upon themselves to keep at home at this holiday season. Christmas day, ordi- narily #0 partially observed in Paris, was this year quite a dies festus. The shops were all closed, and in afternoon all the world was afoot; and judging from the imultiplicity of provender laid mm the day before from all the comestible shops, I should judge that there was hardly less fasting here than on your side the Atlantic. Ono great scene of attraction wus the Bois de Boulogne, where the lakes were frozen over, and admitted thousands of skaters. The long frost of last year has been instru- mental in introducing this accomplishment much more than formerly among the Freuch population, and yes- terday’s expertness proved the proverbial ability with which the modern Gaul can adapt himself to every spe- cies of nouveaute, whether in dress or amusement. The weather ‘continues frcsty. The thermometer marks 31 1.3 Fahrenheit. «fhe remark made in Mr. Russell's last letter to tho London Times—‘‘considering the animosity of the South towards England, and the sympathies which connect a large mass of the democratic party with the Southern politicians, it is not quite beyond the range of possibility that a compromise or truce might arise, in which the republican party would be either defeated or forced to desperate extremities, and that eventually a reconfede- ration might be effected, the animating principle of which would be resistance to the enomy”—has created peculiar interest in diplomatic circles in Paris. Last night, among parties in close proximity to the Court, I heard very strong sentiments ex- pressed in favor of the most rigid neutrality. “Good God,” said one gentioman in the hearing both of Persigny and Prince Napoleon, ‘will France be so mad as to aid England in crushing a mari- time Power which, if suffered to dovelope itself, must neutralize the might of England on the only arena where she is reaily formidable. Should it happen that the North and South shail be ready to compron:ise their pro- sent quarrel in prosence of their hereditary foc, for France the advantage would prove so inestimable that not a yoice, much less a hand, should be raised against her. Itis all very well for Austria to take the oppor- tunity of curry ing favor with England and exhibiting her littie spite to America, but France can never so act.’” The words were spoken loudly, and seemed to meet with the genoral concurrence of ail’ present. Iam not at liberty to give the name of the speaker; but it was one of the warmest partisans of the government, and a mutual friend of Prince Napoleon and the Count de Persigny. Oh, if the South would but see its error and joiu the Presi- dent in maintaining the dignity and honor’ of a common country, what an opportunity is tho present? Never again in its future history can such an occasion be hoped of raising Amorica—the once more United States—to proudest position ever enjoyed Ly any nation since the and a Fi 4 out because ‘transiently, to the rale of a Northern adjust the difficulty between North and South South. to separate. pencoabiy, or to. roniga 10 80) or her the solinpeeel stipremac} pein Union, or, flaally, to concede to her all the rights she expected’ to’ acquire ES Southern confederacy, or at a compromise, which would enable the South to re-enter the Union, we do not pre- tend to divine. During the present stato of effervescence at the North, however, it would be useless to recommend either of these courses. To merge the animosity against the South in the stil! more violent hatred of Engiand isa fearfully heroic remedy that reminds one of the traditions of antiquity. It would be excusable if it were the only means left in a democratic community to divert the ‘waves of popular passion from a rock on which they are about to wreck the country. Let us cast a rapid ce at the second actor. It would be a master stroke if Napoleon IIl., by pretending to favor the South, should have seduced into an- ticipating him, as’ she did in Italy. In that event he would not offer to mediate between England and America, but between the government at Washington and the Southern confederacy. If his and Seward’s efforts should succeed in effecting & compromise, Fr would have saved the Union a second time, the renown of Lafayette would be eclipsed, and a close alliance formed between the Tuileries and the White House, and England exposed to crushing humiliation. But Soward and Napoledn are pitted another master in political intrigue. It remains to be seen what ecards he will play out. Lord rston will seek and perhaps find his allies in the fren: ambi- tion of the Southern statesmen. He may succeed in ob- structing a compromise between the North and South, and thus prevent the restoration of the Union. Then England wili apparently have an easy task, if she com- mences a war with the North. But then we may see the naval power of France coming to the assistance of the Stars and Stripes against the British fleet, and then the struggle will assume proportions which set all further calculations at defiance. This last passage deserves particular notice, as it coincides with tha change recontly observed in the tone assumed ‘by tho French press in discuss- ing the Anglo-American question. Your Paris cor- respondent has probably already mentioned an article in the Opinion Nationale, saying that it would be absolute madness for Franoe to allow the Amorican navy, her natural ally, to be destroyed by the British, her natu- ralenemy. It can hardly be supposed that so evident a trath can haye escaped tho observation of a Louis Napo- leon. A £8. D. View of Secretary Chase’s Re- sah ae the English Look at Our ational Debt. {From the London Times, Dec. 26.] ‘American finance is assuming a character so truly un- paralieled and marvolious that wo must bespeak the careful attention of our readers to the details just re- ceived. We should premise, too, as adding to the woh- ders of the case, that everything appears ‘to be done on principle, The Americans arena spending and borrowing in any ignorant or heedLss spirit, but with a perfect know- Tdge, according to their own statements, of what they are about. The Presidcnt himself, in his message, t0 Con ross, after remarking on the “‘signal s' "* which ‘attonded the ‘‘opera'ions of the Treasury ,”” proceeded tocomment on the @hject as follows:—‘Much of the national loan has been taken by citizens of the indus- trial classes, whose confidence in their country’s faith and zeal for their country’s deliverance from its preseut peril have induced them tocontribute to the support of the government the whole of their limited ac- quisitions. Thia fact imposes peculiar obligations in disbursement and ¢mergy in ac- tion.” How far those ‘obligations’; have been fulfilled in the charges or results of the past’ campaign we shall not ere inquire, bat advance at ores to the “principles” which the Secretary of the Treasury lays down as those which onght todistinguish American financefrom budgets ‘on the European model. ‘The idea of perpetual debt,” says he, “is not of American nativity, and should not be naturalized.’’¢ This is wi, sound doctrine, and its ap plication, we should hayo thought, would have consisted in incurring as little debt as possible, and preventing the accuinulation of a burthen which is found by experience so hard to be shaken off. We should have expected Mr. Chase to go to work, like Mr. Gladstone, with a resolution to make the year's sevonue support as far as pagsibie the yearn expenditures, without the supplement & a loan. Very dillevent, however, are the conc'usions of the Ame- ‘hs wholo systom expressed in a on t» prod::ce enough for ordi- the creation of the world. “Why will ye dic, 0, house of israel.” icy saialls Our Berlin Corresponden: Brau, Dec. 24, 1861. Ministerial Crisic—Opening of the Chambers—The Berlin Algemeine Zeitung—Iis Remarks on the Anglo-American Difficulty—Seward, Napoleon and Palmerstm the Three Chief Actors in the Great Potitical Drama, de. ‘Things are going on strangely in this country. The King is dissatisfied with his ministers, the ministers with the King, and the peoplo with both. Ever since the elections his Majesty has been in a state of nervous irri- tability which exhales itself in speeches that, to say the least, are singularly ill-timed and undignified, and of which the most exaggorated versions are issued by the Kurz Zeitung party, causing a generat fecling of annoy- ance, and lowering the character of an aged and hitherto popular monarch in the cyes of his subjects and of Europe. The liberal members of the Cabinet are so mor- Qitied at this behavior that Inst week they had come to the resolution to throw up office, and for a moment M. Von dor Heydt—a relic of the Mantexffel ministry, who has all along been carrying on a covert warfare against his pre- sent eolleagues—was designated as the new Promier; bat fortunately the King began to be alarine! at the conse quences of such a step, and a reconciliation was effectet between Lim and his ininisters, which resulted in their re- taining their porfefruilles, How long this truce will continue | itis difficult to tell; but there isa general impression that | hoir days are numbered; and as they are the only ministry likely to be tolerated by the King who can hope to ma | nage the new House of Deputies aftor the strong admixture of liberal elements infused into it by the late e’octions, the advent of a reactionary Cabiuet would be tho signal for the dissolution of the House, and perhaps for a second coup deat after the patterns of 1849. But times have changed vory much since then, and such an tt would rouse quite a different spirit in the country to chat it did at that period, when the nation was still chansted by the revolutionary throes of the preceding oar. The Legislature meets on the 12th of next month, and | ‘Saflirmed that the King will testify his diegust at the with bullying Rngland, bat 80 identises herself with Eng- | see | tof the olections by refusing to open the session in Vand that the didierence ia more in appearanes than ro- | pan | ‘00. Tho first trial of strength between the parties ‘ality. The truth: is, the Emperor thinks he has dono | wes | | be the choice of @ president or speaker; but there enough io planting his dynasty on the throne of Fravee. | are: | ‘e280ns for believing that the democrats, not to pro- “Tho thing lienceforward uppermont im his mind isto per- | volm | royalty to the utmost, have resolved to abstain potuate that dynesty;and thas, he thinks, he can only | ‘rum | proposing M. Waldeck, and will loave the fleld clear manage by holding on with the Powor which seems the | toa, | candidate selected from among the supporters of strongest. gover oment. To make himself, by some meansor other, master of | ‘he modorate liberal party have just started a new ‘the situation, i always, tuo, the mrrer ceasing policy of Napoleon ik It gratities tne people of France that they Should always appear mece-sary. At some future day we ‘shall seo among the Emperor's ¢iaims to dynastic reve. come truly {| fontonic profundity, and author of an excellent Histes | ¥ of German Literature.”’ It is entitled the Berlin |,under the management of Dr. Julian Schiaidt, ly editor of the Letpsig Granstolen—a critic of rence that Lie voice atilled the qpar that was filling the | Algemen '¢ Zeitung, and contains in one of its first numbors Votwixt the whores Bf Amorica and Groat | am eayea | / Of the Anglo-American difficulty, which appears * Britain, and it will prove @ cheap manuor of extingwish. | tome te | be very ably written, and from which Ieubjoin a ing political capital. dow exter 08. ‘The Opinion Nationale. the organ of Prince Napoloon, | Aft brief summary of the last accounts from the on the’eubject ot M. Thouvenol’s despatch, has the fol. | United St et, and stating the impression produced by towing:--""We think that, if the Americans do reiease | them, tha @ rupture between Engiand and America is the Sbethern Commirsioers, their determination must | growing a 'y more inevitable, it proceeds as follows:— be attributed to other motives, beeause it is evident in thistr eyes, as well as in ours, from the very nature of tbe despatch, that the French government, in giving its support to England, will net commit the fault of taking ‘an active part in the struggle.’ Again:—'‘We take into our calculations the interesis of France, and we do not | four that the publie will reproach us for giving them a large part in our preoceupations. It would be superfluovs | to repeat here all the atguments which we have Giready brought forward in order to show the propriety find the wisdom of a policy of peutrality. We shall con fine ourselves to stating that the question of right is un. decided between England and the United States, and wo ‘edd that, in the midst of the uncertainties whic exist on that subject on both sides the Atiantic, it would appoar to ws much t Be regretted to see France, out of puro condescension to the Cabinet of St. James, break the bonds of friendship whicb have united her to the Amert- cans for the last eighty years, and replace in that great nation by sentiments of hatrod the gratitude she bas always felt lowards us since the day when we fought by her side on ‘all the Gelds of battle when she defended sqninat England the secred cause of liberty, To that, however, the intervention of France would inevitebly ea.” ‘Tho precedent which the Fmnarn cites of the steamer ‘Tront has been largely ennvassed hore, and js considered Through ut Europe there is « feeling that if such a con- flict shoul, | Break out it will scarcely end without a complete revolution in the political system of our globe. This conflict, with the above perspective opened by it, . Commands our anxious atigption even dur. ing the arduo labors of internal reform which engross more or iene all Statos of (he Kuropean continent. But before ai tempting to predict the results which this confiiet may l¢ ad to, it is necessary to un lerstand its ort or prompt payment of interest on the athe and asurplys fund within thirty years.” iy of | 3 enormous expendi. turo entailed by the civil 18 Wo)» paid with borrowed money , nothing being provided by tases except the inte- rest accruing on the debt and a sinking fund for its eventual extinction. The actua! operations of the Treasury have certainly decn in pretty complete accordance with tks programme. The estimated expenditure for the year onding in July, 1862, is about £109,000,000 sterling. Of this sum Mr. Chase bas got, or expecta to got, £26,000,000, and no more, by taxation; £40,000,000 be has already raised by borzowing money ; and £43,000,000 he has not yet raisod at all, but hopes to raise by borrowing more. The fele- ral government, therefore, having £109,000,000 to pro- vi rte wants of the current year, have deliberately resolved on providing less than one-fourth by taxes and ‘han threo-fourths by loans, aithough the Northern: tain 20,000,000 of people, singularly rich, as Mr. Chase declares, and hitherto all but untaxed, as their neossantly asserting. ‘As cases of this kind are never mado so claras by contrasts, we subjoin an example or two of our own po- licy in such matters, taken f:0m periods of marked im- Inthe yoar 1813, then being tho twenty-first t exhausting and singuinary war, omb:acing all 4% of Kurope, wo wanted £114 ,000,000 for the ser- ct tho country. This, it wil be seen, is indeed £5,000.006 more than the Amoricans expect to 000. pubic debt, existin sufficiont to oxting In other words, every | want before July next, but, as we had £40 600 of the sum to pay ‘for interest on ici’, aud were proposing to lend £12,000,000 inure tn subsidies to ot] we had been at war be thou; nations, not to mention at ince 1793, the difference can hacuiy ght moch aga'nst us in tho way of early extrava gance. owover, to meet this groat demand we raised 442,000,000 by pocmunent or ordinary taxation, and £31,- 070,000 by exiracrdinary taxes, imposed for the suppoct of the war; nor was it antil wo had thos produced £74,000,000' from our own pockets that we ven- tired in our needs to borrow loss than half as much, or £35,000,000. ‘Two years later those te-ribie figures were Btill further incroased, but again, with resulute constancy, we maintained the proportion between the two items of the account, We actually rais et, by ordinary and extraordinary taxos, £86,000,000 for the service of the year, and then, but then ouly, we bor- rowed £40,000,000 more. Ths average amount of fhe yearly loan from 1705 to 1816 was under £80, °, Ht will thus be seea that the Americans, being almost an untaxed people and full 20,000,000 in umber, a-o de- liberately borrowing in the very Orst year of a war twice a* much as we borrowed in our direst extremity, when we were barely 13,900,000 in number, and had groaping for ions under the pressure of taxation Next year they propose to borrow,cven according to their present ostimates, nearly ag much more, and, oon- sidering that Mr. Chase already fiuds the army twice as large, and the customs’ revonie onty half as large, as ho originally anticipated, wo may bo aure that his future es- timates are not likely to give him an agreoable surprive. A few months ago he thought the war, by judicious ma- hagement, wight be finished, for about £50,000,000, by the spring of 1988. He is now content to sp:culate on July, 1863, as the poriod of its possibio termination, and te rectum Unet £160,000,000 or so will have been spent upon it. But there is another, and an equally important, branch of the account to be considered. All this while, as very: thing is to be borrowed and nothing to be patd, of course the public debt will be mounting rapidly. Mr. Chase, to do him justice ples boldiy with this ugiy liability, and tells his rymen what the national debt of Northern America will be in July, 1803, or withiu two Years and a quarter after the first ‘rumors of war. We all overstate the probable event in putting round numbers, at £200,000,000 storlt though tho Xecretary's predictions would bring it ouly Ww £180,000,000 or #0. Now, as the public ‘tebe ot the United states was but about £13,000,000 on the Ist of duly, 1560, it follows that im threo years time at least £160,000,000, or eae of £50,000,000 a year will have boon added to it. We never mato such an addition during the course of our na. tional existence, and it took ua full seventy years, of which pearly half wero yoars of war, to accomplish that accumulation of debt which the Americans are achloving so briskly in six-and-thirty months. At the begining of the last century we owed £13,000,000 ; in tho your 1781, after ix years of the American war, we hast got to £182 000,000. ‘And this is but half the story. ‘The woight of a pablic debt ia measured not by its no- inuch a8 by the amount required for the Is it men ely blind passion that unwittingly plac uch enormous interests at atake, both on this side of the corean and on that? No doubt there is passion om both sides; but popul tf passion is easily allayed if the master minds who rulee tho destinies of nations exert their intlu- ence to appeasetinstead of irritating and inflaming it. ‘At the comenes ——— of the ‘er i apm cha. a oceny a the Aanerican, aci=cthe soul of the purertient of Frese Em lapoleon and Lord Paimers ton. It wil} be recatlectod that Immediately after the inay eet are Lincs the back ‘of Secretary ing for tne contest with the rebols was thueiasts. evasion of the Southern States, or aiming at a compro- id groat ali their demants. In the of hes Fi vee 9 prominent whom were OF , the Gorman citizens Union, who ro- gard the wat the South as a. eof humanity Detter than a traitor. partial observ Trost form a digeent opiaion of him. ni mit. If the federal States are really so for- to owe ouly £200,000,000 a year and a balf oy will have vide at lnast £14,000,000 for indebtedness which we did fod ail our waste, till the year 1796. But Mr. Chase contemplates the gradual and eperdy extine- thon of this det. By what means? This is the mont won erful feature in tho whole prospectus. It rosemblos nothing so much as those pitiable items ia a baukrupt’s account where @ or a libility is Jabolled with the memorandum, ‘ To be discharged next year.” How are snch debts to ‘be discharge! aud why at « future time ee ee ee exouse for crowing, a8 wo never yorrowed till we cuuld our tin ie farther, out what excuse has 5 Chase, and with what preemption can he conclude that the North eae will A ane 1863 and 1898 y nob pay at present? in point of fact, will be worse off then than now, o> tey ae paying it arent on fous, ‘Then 7 il be. payin toh ely tan . w only tne Sa coanan) abate Sed cake t on expenditure,” pults been | may provide, ar eel of the pablo quotas ni os on Present system of paying 80 very litt! rowing 80 very a we 2S Psion A sure that a “perpetual debt’? will not only. “naturalized” in America, but reared to dimensions of astounding tude with a rapidity utterly unknown in the Old World. ‘The Trent ey Carried Out {From the London Gazette, Dec. 23. Whatever yang the effect sara. ihe Cabinet of ington of the demands which Lyons bas been in- structed to make, thore is little in the of federal journals just reccived to lead to the hope that the American government will receive the neecful support in making tho required reparation for the violation of our taunt rights, and the recent insult to our flag. On the contrary, is seems to have been the prevail opinion, before the mail left New York, on the 12! December—by which time it had been asecertain- ed that the news of the boarding of the Trent had reached this country—that the offvct of that intelligence here was more favorable than could have been ex- pected, and that in the communications which had Detween our government and the American inister, the seizure of the commissioners had been ‘fairly and distinctly settled” in favor of the eorape yernment. It will somewhat surprise the law officers of Crown to find, that they get credit in America for the de- livery of an opinion the very reverse of that which it is weil wn they have arrived at,and on which the de- mands of her ty’3 government are actually baaed. Before this, no doubt, the New York public, and the poo- ple of the Northern ‘States generally, have been unde- ceived, and their government had to deal with the ques. tion of the violation of the neutral rights of this country, iu the brief but dificult form of an ultimatum preferred by the British government. Indeed, the more the case of the boarding of the Trent and the seizure of the South- ern commissioners is examined by the light of the few precedents which appear to bear upon it, the more clear- pipes position taken by up our government seem to founded on right and justice, and in accordance with the recognized maxims of international law, as adopted more especially in “the practice of the Ame- rican government. It must not be forgotten, that so far we have no official intimation of the views and determination of the federal government on this most !mportant question. ‘The House of Representatives has, 1t is true, spoken; but the President and his colleagues have, from whatever cause, withheld their opinion. If, however, thoy are guided by the recorded opinions of former American go- Vernmenis, they will find little difficulty in pronouncing very definitively on the question of the violation of neu- tral rights involved in the boarding and searching of ves- sels under the neutral flag, and especially of vessels em- ployed in the mail service of a neutral State. The public writers in America who have been diligently hunting up the cases of the Orozembo and the Mercury, cases arisin, out of the war of 1812, might have found a case mucl nearer to our time—so near that it mvst be in the recol- lection of every member of Mr. Lincola’s administration who pretends (o any political knowledge. In March, 1855, the American mail steamer El Dora/o was fired into, stop- ped and searched somewhere on the coast of Cuba by the Spanish war steamer Ferrolono. This outrage—ior a gross outrage it was—created surprise and indignation hot only at Washington, but throughout the United States. Mr. Marey gave expression to the opinion of the govern- ment, of which he was a member, in the following re- markable words :—‘The act of the commander of tho Ferrolono, as represented to this government, if done by the order of Spain, or sanctioned by her, must be regard- ed as the assertion to exercise a police over our com- merce upon the ocean, which will be resisted at every hazard by the government of the United States.”” Act- ing upon this view of the caso,a fleet was despatchod ‘by the American government to the Guif of Mexico, and instructions were issued to the commanding offi- cers, directing them that if any such outrage as that comfuiited in the Forrolono were again perpetrated “on a vessel rightfully bearing the American flag, they should promptly interfere, relieve the arrested American ship, prevent the exercise of tho assumei right of visitation or search, and repel the interforenco by force.” These instructions were sufcient. The of- fence wus not repeated, and reparation was demanded, and we believe exacted, from the S,anish government. ‘This case of the El Dorado was not only important in it- self, as exhibiting the jealousy of the federal government in respect of the inviolability of the neutral flag, but formed the immediate precedent on which Mr. Bucha: bau's government acted tn the subsequent affair at Sagca Ja Grande in 1858, fresh in the recollection of our readers, and which led to the settlement of the question of visita- tion and search as between this country and the United States. That affair was debated at great length in Con- gress, and the opinion of that deliberative assembly on tho question involved was thus solemnly recorded on the 16 h of June, 1858:—“That American yessols on the high seas in time of peace, bearing the American flag, remain undor the jurisdiction of the country to which they belong, and therefore any visitation, molestation or detention of sich vesse's by force, or by the oxbibition of foree, on the part of a foreign Power, is a derogation of the sovercignty of th: United States.”” This resolu- tion was not suffered to remain @ dead letter. Insiruc- tions followed close upon it, addressed to the officers ia command of the American force on the Cuban waters, and directing them in imporative terms ‘to protect all vorsels of thy United States from tho exercise of the right of search on the high seas, in time of peace, by the armed vessels of any other Power. These instruetions fobserred Mr. Toucey, Secretary to the Navy, in his oflicia! for 1858) have beea often repe: now reg: dare lod as standiag instructions to the pen the United Siates wherever employed. They ut the deck of an American vessel on the same footing as Ame- rican soil, tho iuyasion of which, under foreign authority, is to bo as strenuously resisted in one case as in the other. They regard such invasion as in tho highest degree offensive to tle United States, in- compatible with their sovereignty and with the frecdom of the seas, and to be met. and resisted by the whole power of the country.” Freee aro ———— of the Cabinet of Washington delivered juet Guree years ago. It is impossible to eon- galve any language more precio and ineligible, while i is in strict conformity wi @ principle low Congress, forndet pon a precedent, that of hase rado, which approaches more ncarly to that of the Trent than any case which has yet been cited. It is true these recorded opinions relate to the exercise of the right of search in time of peace. But when the Trent was board- ed and searched, and four passengers forcibly withdrawn from her, the fe England, snd they do not admit they were at war with the Confederates. It world almost seem as if this caso of the Fl Dorado, which must be known to Mr. Seward and other membors of Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, has been kept out of view, becavse it so exactly meets the case of the Trent as to be positively unanswerable. Woe have been at the pains to bring out facts because we fee! that no opportunity should be owing what has been the conduct of the Ame- ‘umeut and of Congress whenever the neutral rican g' rights of the United States have been believed to be in- vailod or compromised. For the maintenance of thoss rights successive American administrations have been ready to go to war, and they never had a case iu which the \i lation of thise rights was so premeditated antt so flagrant as that which forme the sabject now of a demand Totrers on the part of the British government. If, therevore, the (eceral government are disposed to adopt tho act of the commander of (he San Jacinto, they will do 80 in open disregard of that policy which every American government since the days of Maison, and the :telibera- tive boty of the States, have boon iho vociferous and un- flinching advecates. Monroe Doctrine—Its Relation to lish Point of Vicw. iy News, Dec. 26.] puzaled those who, with only an soquaintance with American afleics, wish to Mof the people of the United States, than their way of talking about acquiring Canada. [tis quite true that it is an established habit in Ame aspirants to promise Canaria to the cithi citizens to assutne that the juisiti only a question of time. It tsquite trac that sinco the existing American revolution: took form the American Leeretary of State ropeated his former assumption about the duty and expediency of annexing Canada; and that public men who should be wiser and more scrapu- jous than Mr. Seward has over sown himselfto be, have fatieu into his way of talking on this matter, When a leader of the aboitionists ike Mr. Wendoll Philips in- dulges in profligate tatk of that kind, Englishmen may woli ask what it can mean, aud whether the Americans imagine thie Canadians ready to make @ part of the re- public, or whethor they propose to seize the country first, and propitiate the inhabitants afterwards, VU. easonabie as tho talk of American orators is, it is intetiigibie to thure who kaew Canada a quarter of a con- tury ago, and who have known the United States since, Amprican andiencey linger upon b; hana, their orators and jougnal to drop iicitements which have unce been etfvetive, and very apt to believe what is convenient at the momont, Thus we hoor something about annexing Cenada every few weeks or months, though it soun * strangely tous ae it would to our Danish neighbors to fd our membors of Parliamont, or Lord Russell, or our teototal lecturers refer:ing to wu approaching time when Denmark would have becume English. How could euch a practice obtain @ footing in America? Cortainly not through the vanity of the republic, only or chisily. Great allowance is to be made for that’ com. placency of which we hear #0 much, and for the other Aspect of the same complacency—the sincere pity which the Americans feel for everybody who does not live under thelr government. They live far away from the old countries of the civilized world; they se% nothing in their own hemisphere to compare with thoir own prosperity; they are pot, as @ poople, conscious of the defects uf their own polity, nor aware Of any political ad- ‘vautages, or social superiority of any kind atnong nations whom they suppose themselves to have outstri as far in all ways as in the acquisition of wealth, ry are, in short, a young and successful uation; and thoy. have naturally taken for grantod (hat au old fashioned colony , hitherto slow in its growth, would be delighted to become ‘8 glorions group of states in their glorious Union, But this general notion and universal complacency would not haye sutticed without some definite facts to apport them, Meantime, the ascendancy of the Southern feetion hat fntrodncad a new policy of annexation for tho support of Slavery. Texas was stolev, Moxico was humbled, Con- tral Aumorica was being got ready, and Cuba attacked, with this object; and the Northern men, eapeciaily auti- slavery mon, made arrangements for adding @ free State to the Union for every slave Stato alded by the South. They would cut up their new North- west territory into dve states; and then there was Canada, where tens of thousands of fugitive negroes wore living already—Canada mast bo hat for the best anti-siavery and really repuvijean reasons. If the Mon- Foe dortrine was o hold good for the South, it must hold for the North too, Hence men who should have wiser and more serupulous have talked too often avorag: think we py ong possessing @ country which dovs not belong to \ All this, however, would havo been mere Ht then, as the t Canada {s now, if Canada had been then what it is now. We must remember how late- ly it is thata t) good understanding existed be- tween the great lil party in the colgny and the mother by the Americans, weig! wore with Beary frelahle, end, in ihe Atasrican markets they were met by protective duties; so that they suf- fered at both ends of their line of traffic, while their neighbors were profitting by the new free trade from which they were excluded. ‘This was astrong bribe to them to piace themselves’ under the same system which enriching the Americans, At the same time immigrants were po into the United States in preference to Canada, stimulating jea- Jousy on the one hand and emulation en the other. At ‘such a juncture there were no doubt many Canadians dis- posed to listen to invitations to enter the Topublic, and things were then said which aro quoted now by Ameri- cans, and received by hearers who have not kept up with the march of events, and have never been told how the Canadians enjoy thair virtual independence and self-go- yernment. The Reciprocity Treaty, however, turned the fortunes of Ganadian trade long ago; and the repeal of the Navigation laws fiirly opened the European market to the colonists. They and the mother country aro on @ good understanding. Their self-government has boen improy- ing, while that of the United States has been deteriorating through the evil influences of slavery; aud ovly discon- tented and batiled partisan leaders now revert to the old proposal of trying republican institutions, at the cost of merging the existence of Canada in that of a republic now ffering under a more formidable-adversity than Canada evor knew, ° No honest statesman, who is careful to understant what he speaks of, can ‘henceforth pretend to believe that Canada is disioyal to England, or envious of tho United States. Tho loss of primary liberties on the American site has been even greater than the gain of free government on the Canadian. Any implication with slavery, such as has always existed in the United States, and has been much aggravated within twenty years, is thoroughly odious vo the Canadians. It must be long be- fore tho progressive prosperity of the republic can bo restored, while present events indicate a turn of the tide of immigration into Canada. it is also fur from agrecable to tho colonists to be spoken of as a prey which the republic can appropriate at p ure; and they re- ‘sent the assumption that they must be willing to merge their political existeace,as soon as invited, in g system as yet vitiated by an evil which spoils its Working, andéwhich must break up the consitution, as well as the Union, before it can be got rid of. ‘The English race in Canada are ag pleased as the Americans to'work ont their own political course. When American statesmen and American citizens perceive this, as they soou will, there will then be an end of the insults to Eng.and, to Canada, and to the good senso and upright principle of’ the Ameri- can people which aspirants to the Presideutship and un scrupolous party orators still Venture to utter, for the OUR CAIRO CORRESPONDENCE. - Camo, lil., Deo, 25, 1862. Court Martial in Session—A Flag of Truce Sent Down the Floating Battery Near Columbus—General Paine Or” dered to Depart from Paducah to Bird’s Point, dc., de. A Court Martial is now im session here for the trial of Colone! Michael Lawler, of the Bighteenth Illinois regi- ment. The charges against him are voluminous, and if the half are proved it is probable he will have to give up his command, The Colonel is an old officer of Mexican war notoriety, is undoubtedly brave, and as true as atoel; but his great fault, 1 suspect, is want of disci pline. ‘The principal charge against him is for allowing his regiment to try and bang # murderer, while located at Mound City last summer, contrary to ex- press orders from General McClernand, the circumstances of which I wrote you at the timo. A fing of truce went down the river op Sunday as far ae Lucas’ Bend, five miles above Columbus, with eighteen of the Camp Jackson (St.Louis) prisoners. At Lucas’ Bend we found the rebel gunboat Grampus, who fired @ shot at us, which bad the effect of rounding us to, whem her officers came on board to know our business. Our expedition was under the charge of Colonel Webster, who very coolly informed the epauletted gentry of the Grampus that his business was with General Polk, and that he should de it only with him or his representative ; so Mr, Grampus steamed away down to the rebel camp, where she remained for four mortal hours, leaving us to while away the. time as best we could. {When the Grampus returned, I asked tho captain what had detained them so long, and received for an answer— You see the Bishop (General J mean) was preaching when I gat down there, and after service he had a communion and dress parade, and I could not got back any sooner.’ Colonels Smith and Rigdon came up on the rebel boat, and received the prisoners. ‘Last night four gentlemen from the South camo into mp at Bird's , and were imnediotoy. went over to headquarters. Two ‘of them were British subjects and were supplied with’ passports from the British Consul ag New Orleans. Theo other two were Northorn men who had been living South. General Grant examined them a while and aliowed them to goabout their business; but about midnight they were all arrested as spies and kept under guard until morning, but after a further examination wero discharged. They requested not to bo cateél in regard to the rebel force and fortifications down the river, as they averred they had given their severat affirmations to General Polk hot to divulge anything they bad seen or knew. But this.1 learn from @ conversation with thom:—Commodore Hollins’ famous Manassas has gone back to New Orleans; an iron-plated floating bat- tery mounting thirteen guus is auchored in the river, posite Columbus, where there are also three formi gunboats; sixteen ‘torpedoos,’? or submarine batteries, fave been sunk in the river ready to blow any federal fleet out of water; over one hundred heavy red are mounted atjColumbus, and there are from thirty to sixty thovsand troops’ there. This is confirmed by @ purpose of gaining over the vanity of the young nation totheir interest. Meantime, even such aslight review of the wrongs and relio's of Canada within tho memory of our own generation may serve to account for the y and wrongheadedness with which a politician and a agitator here and thore still undertakes to answer fur the will and the destinies cf the free and loyal people of Canada. INTERESTING FROM NEW MEXICO. Our Santa Fe Correspondence. Santa Fe, Doo. 8, 1861. The Military Spirit in New Mexico—The Territorial Troops in the Fitd—Kit Carsonant His Troops—Description y Kit Carson—Fot Craiy and its Garrison—Martial Law— ‘The Government Tax—Rumors of Insurrection Among the Natives, dc., dc. < Tho military excitement in this country rivals, and indeed surpasses that folt in the States, for not only have we ‘those fearful Texang’’ to combat , but also the dreaded Navajoes and Apaches; and not a day passes but that some scalpless bodies are found by the traveller lying beside the road, a drove of stock drivcn to the mountains, or some village corral attackad and plundered—ali done by tho Indians. The other day, while riding down to Fort Craig, we stoppod to lunch beneath theshado of a tall cottonwood, and while coiling up our lariats, preparatory “to mounting again, saw in tho grass, within a fod of our dining place, the bloody head of a dead Mexican. New Mexico bas furnished four regiments of volunteers’ and now has twelve hundred drafted militiamen also in the field. Ibero area few regulars in the Territory, sta tioned at forts Union aud Craig, and in Albuquerque and Sauta Fe; but in all they do not amount to eight hundred men, The Territory is divided into twomilitary districis. One, from Albuquerque south, is comma:ided by Colonel Roberts, whose headquarters are ct Fort Craig; the other, from Albuquerque north, is under the charge of Colonel Canby, whoso headquarters aro at SantaFe, and who his also the command of all the forces in the Territory. The volunteers are a:l cniisted as mounted men, but, owing to the great scarcity of horses, only two regiments are equipped as such. Tho contractors are now on their way to the Indian country and the States to remody the deficiency. volunteers, ski's Satoaed ATAU a ee him a company of Indians, whose services as scouts and spies azo invaluable, Romantic young Indies would bo quite disappointed with the appearance of the hero, could they see him. He is below tho modium height, chunky, has small grey twinkling eyes, with a heap of ‘wrinkl s branching from their corners; a fail, smoooth. well turned face; a good forehoad, irregularly placod and light auburn hair that reaches to the collar teeth of his cout, and is slightly silvered, covers his cars, is cut square ft all round, and urned under the ends. is soft, his words all spoken very slowly and deliberately ; his Inugh is a deciied treble; his talk is full of “thara’? and “whare,” and his whole appearance reminds you of gomne good Substantial Methodist minister; and, like all persons who posters true meri and genius, he is very modest and unassum it Tlis voice t Cernig has tw ixtompanies in and around it, and, as it is only a “two company post,’ it is necessarily very much crowded. A few companies are stationed at & littie village eight miles below. It has boon strengthened in overy conceivable manner, and outworks, composed of trenches and sand bags, are thrown up mn every available place. The enemy is suid to be superior in the number and calibre of his artillery, but in commanded by Colonel } Craig received orders to m tow and retake Fort Fillmore more than two weeks since, but have delayed for tack of transportation. However, they are now daily ex- pected to move, aud Majors Rousse: and Duncan, aud Hateh’s battery, go with them, Santa Fo and Alba- querque are under martial law, and the g woli stocked with persons more or le Mexicans, in the beguuiog, responded nobly to the call of Governor Copuolly, and their hereditary aud rate hate of the Texans, whom they regard as the iucarna- tion of all that is diadolics!, e-ntributed to their alacrity; and a love of the Union, whos) blessings and benciits, in elevating them from the craghing and degrading power which the few rich families in the country exer- cised over them, contributed also to their readincss, But there is now some di-satisfaction among. them féegarding the courge government is pursuing towards in the matter of their corn and wheat. It sends out wagons with eu escort of soldiers, offers the farmers three dollars a fanega (two bushels and a half) for their corn, and if they refuge to se:l it is taken by force. The same course is pursued in obtaining wheat. ‘ihre dollars a fanoga is of- fered for wheat, which is mach too low, asinany Americans say; bat it is conceded that when the matter is roverred tv Colonel Canby—who everybody says is @ perfoct gene Heman, a noble man ‘aud soldior—he will al- low them four and a half or five dollars for their wheat, and a@ dollar extra for their corn. These prices may seem oxo: bitant to Eastern farmers; Dut it must bo consideret that everything vegetable that is produced bas to be consiantly irri, af, and the land, except hat in the river bottom, is to» poor to thistles. Government, vory reasonably, says people whom they are defending, and among whoin they yearly disburse millions of money, hoard thelr means, rotise {¢ diepese of aor corn, speculate upon their wants, and prey upon Revessitios of those wl tect and nourish them. wes Tho old monoyed familics of the country hoard and gather al) the specie, hiding it in their houros in earthen Jars, or bary it in their grounds, Government very ro- cently assessed them for ceriain amounts, and they came forward very relunctautly and responded, seme of the merchants in Santa Fo endorsing for the ‘ornmont, knowing vory well that the money when paid to the sol” dicrs will flow back again into their coffers immediately. ‘There have been one or two rumors of an insurrection among the natives, aud one man was arrested in Socorro; bat not much fear is felt. Every American feels hopeful, and is resolved to put his trust in God and keep his pow. der dry. We all watch most anxiously fur nows, at hope our papers will come more punctuaily. John G. Davis, Ex-M. C., Not Gone South, Rockvite, Ind., Dec. $1, 1861. I find going the rounds of the now: in the tele- graphic column, under the head of *‘¥rom Fortress Mon- roe,” the following despatch:— ‘John G, Davis, a mom- ber of the federal Congress from the Seventh district of Indiana, had arrived at Hopkinsville, on bis way to Rich- mond, but for what purpose is not stated.” J avail my- self of thia method of stating to the public that I have not bee. outside the limits of this county at any time during the last two months, nor out of this State since my return from Washington jn March last, except 6n two ovcasions attending to my private affairs in Eastern Illi. nois. Nor have I, at any time, contemplated visiting Hopkinsville, Kentucky ; Richmond, Virginin, or any other @ South ou business of Tr: kind of character what- er. Itherefore mince tho above despatch totally and maliciously faise, and leave the public to judge of the rebol prisoner brought in to-day from near Belmont, and coincides with former reports. ‘The last of the steam tenders to our gunboats arrived to-day from St. Louis, and the general impression is that they don’t amount to any certain sum in whole numbers. ‘They certainly look to be a stupendous waste of money; but time will tell. ee General Paine {s ordered from Paducah to take com- mand at Bird’s Point. This looks like business again. OUR ST. LOUIS CORRESPONDENCE. Sr. Louis, Mo., Jan. 2, 1962. More Prisoners—Gencral Schofield Active—Activity of the Army— The Situation” —Order for Release of Generah McK instry—His Arrest— Good Things’’ for the Victims of Pope's Essay—Attempt at Smuggling—Geneval Sigel to Return—Fears of His Resignation, éc. Arumor was current in this city yesterday morning that General Schofield had captured a thousand rebels near the line of the North Missouri Railroad, and would shortly send his prize to St. Lovis. The story grew out of the fact that General Schofleld went several days ince to the vicinity of the late railway destruction, im pursuit of 4 rebel force a thousand strong. Last evening information reached headquarters that he had succeeded in capturing, near Martinsburg, fifty or more who were engiged in the recent outrages, and among thom were two notorious ringleaders—Colonel Jones and Colonel Jef Owons. Full particulars of the cap. ture haye not yot rei hed the ¢ity; but it is that it Was ocnibed hues Ta Sh er yy rebels having been surprised and induced to make ® prompt sarronder. They are to be sent hereto undergo an examination, with reference to their connection with the railroad destruction. Much anxiety is shown, both among Union men and robels, to kuow what will be the fate of those convicted of the abovementioned crimo. Some time ago three mon, concerned in burning the Big river bridge on the Iron Mountain Railroad, were arrested, tried and found guilty. The ringleader of the party was put under sontenco of death, but before the time appointed for exceution ho died of binek measion, and thus thwarted the ends of . His two com- panion’, though found to be guilty, were per} 4 through some legal prestidigitation, to go “at after taking the oath of allegiance. The adminis, tering of the oath to traitors i# looked upon by the intelligent loyalists as a great farce, and especially sowhen bridge-burners are allowed to parti. cipate in its benefits. We havo been. waiting patiently for a few summary oxamplos to be made, and when these are given outrages will be checked. If tho fifty outlaws now in the hands of General Schofield are convicted, and meet the fate promised them by General Halleck, a new era will dawn upon us. It is quite certain that moasures havo been taken by this department to rid Missouri of the presence of the rebels in any considerable bodies, General Prico's army now numbers some ten thousand men, and is at Spring- field, baiting on its way to Arkansas. I am rovealing ne «secret whon I giate that the cavalry force sent out from Rolla a few days sinco is designed to operate upon thi® rebel army, in conjunction with the force of infantry which marched reeontly from Sedalia and Tipton. Very soon after ‘his reaches New York you will hear ofa battle with General Price, or his rapid and precipitate retreat into Arkansas, probably the latter, as his laxative highness ig too shrewd to be drawn into an engagement when he does not desire it. In either event we hall seo the prac- tical workihg of the sound policy that has controlied the ooo 4 of Missouri since tho removal of General remont, ‘Ihe papers of this morning announced that a peremp- ba? Kan d had been received for the release of General McKinstry, who bas been for weeks confined iu tho St. Louis Arsenal, His counsel, Judge Kram and Reverdy depron, , have lately ‘aja the matter before the President, who profatsed that if should be attended to, and the order in qitegtion ig probably tho result of their labora. General MeKinstry's atrest was made on the 13th of No- vember last, by order of Geuoral » and, thougls he has since been in close cOfinemont, no official infor- mation hag beon given —— the caiso of his arrest. The committee was lately after Alexander Lerrerey with a sharp stick was instrumen- of adiiy may be the charges bape General McKinatry, but proper that he and the public should know thot Since the list of the prisoners sent hore by General Pope has been mado out, their {riends aro allowed to send in various articles for their comfort. The secesslouiste of St. Louis have opened their hoarts to a wonderful ox- tent, and those who claim that (eneral Halleck’s orders: (13 and 24) are unconstitutional, and who contribute with groat reluctance for the support of @e from the Southwest, aro found scnding gifts in “4 dance to the traitors recently caught in arms against govornment. One secessionist sent a wagon load of visions and wines for the wee of the prisoners, and many families and associations of ladies evinced their sympathies by donations of cake, jellies and licacies that are not supposed to be included nary army rations, Yosterday a roast turkey ed, neatly stuifed and ready for the table. excitod suspicion, and on examination the maius of the ouce proud bird were found to contain select assortment of small dirk knives. The maritime Principle that contraband goods taint the veeset is which they are carried was ap)lied in this case, and ite Application resulted in furnishing ® good supper to ® ase of the guard. A few loaves of broad presouted oa ‘wesduy last contained @ fine array of burgiar’s tools, which possibly by accidont had become mingled with the dongh while it was in preparation for ing. These little attempts at contraband supply render fie guard exreedingly Vigilant, and it i# not likely that any escape ‘will bo made, So far the p:ixoners bave shown no signs of insubordination, but, on the contrary, are orderly and cheerful. . General Sigel is expocted to reach this city to-mortow, he having been relieved of his by Gonoral Cur- tis. There aro rumors that he will ronlga. and should he do a0, some of the best field and line in the West will filow his example. His friends complain that he has not been ‘ly treated in boing suporsoded in the command of the army at Rolla just at the momont when ho was about to make a decisive movement, Sines thie war comm Genera Sigel has shown as touch military talentas any officer in (he army, and it will be most deeply to be lamented if anything should occur to deprive us of his services. Somo of our 4 ticularly those of the regular army—manifest a ed hatred of General Sigel all other motives of him or them who would, in timos like the pre. sont, fabricate and put in circulation such a base and wieked eon LS arged on a aoe private citizen, 1 freapectfully request you such other rs as hay published the above ‘h to publish thecard ___ SOHN @. DAVIS, Cireait Court, NOTICE TO THR BAR. Jax. L.—Judge Shipman announce this morning, and wished publi¢ notice to be given to the bar, that he would call the calendar of jury cases on Tucsday morning noxt, the 14th inst., for the of setting down cxges for trial, aud that ail anaes’ not aot d that sot down on day ‘would be put over the term. ee reat and German ‘eommanders, based solely on the ground that they are of einer a this point fs full of floating ioe, and navi. or > Hon above St, Louis has almost entirely ceased. Moate fr daily for Cairo and way points. GENERAL ORDERS—NO, 1. Heapquariens Drrarrseyt or Missount, i ing on war in epennn grat piey on pied 1, In carry! ry occu or threatened to bo attacked by en enemy, whether within or without tho territory of the United Lan are ‘imes and mili be mishablo by ccurts martial which aro not triable or ead which are not within the jurisdiction of any existing