The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1862, Page 4

4 ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1862. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORD SNErT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE NW. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volame XXVII. - AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, GARDEN, Broadway.—Jans Suoxs—Buack +++ Me, 3& NIBLO'S Eve Suman, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Naiap Qussn—Santiret or Tue Mout. WAaLLACK’S THEATRE, No. 844 Brosdway.—Tux Honer- moom. LAUBA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Our Auzni- cam Cousin. MEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Soorro—Picust GUaRO—ViYING DUTCASAN. BOWERY THEAT! Bowery. _ _Crmous. Afternoon and Evening. | —STICKRNEY'’S NaviOnaL BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Day and ‘Bronigg.-Onpana—Hireoporaucs, Waacs, anp Oruxe Cu- BRYANTS’ MINST! jechanles? way.—Wao Stavck Bunty Partenson, ® 3 N CONCERT HALL, No. 539 Broadway.— Dances, Buatesques, &c.—Houpar in teanae CANTERBURY MUSIO HALL, -—Sonaa, persis mas, Segre Hall, 73 Broad. Dancxs, Bi —Niew GAIETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—Drawina Room Exranrainnznts, BALters; Pawtomians, Pances, £0. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway.—Sonas, Bat- ants, Pantomruxs, 4c.—Port@att PainTER CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45 Bowery.— Borvesques, Songs, Danous, £¢.—uigand 3 Oat. i PARISIAN CABINET OF WON! —— Open daily from 10 A. M. till 9 P. na bia bain NOVELTY MUSK i Bg iC HALL, 616 Broadway.—Buacesques New York, Saturday, January 25, 1862. THE SITUATION. Our new Secretary of War furnishes fresh evi- dence from day to day of his talents and foresight. The general order issued recently, approving the gallantry of the soldiers engaged in the battle of Mill Spring, upon which we have previously com- mented, ia followed now by an order from Mr. Stanton providing for the comforts of the brave soldiers of the Union incarcerated in Southern Prisons. Recognizing as the first duty of the War Department that of taking mea- ‘ures for the relief of the prisoners of war, he has ordered that two commissioners shall be appointed to visit the cities in the South where our officers and men are in confinement, and there to adopt such measures for their comfort at the expense of the United States as the rebel authorities will permit. Such @ course of action will bring consolation to hun- dreds of afflicted families in the North, will impress our soldiers in the field with the grateful assurance that their government will not desert them in the hour of direst need, and must necessarily stimulate thousands of others to enrol themselves in the service of a country which is thus mindful of their wants when the fortunes of war throw them into the hands of the enemy. Our correspondent at Somerset, Ky., furnishes a fall description of the battle of Mill Spring to-day, which will be read with intense interest, the de- tails of the whole action being carefully given. It: appears that General Schoepff did not actively participate in the engagement; the work was accomplished by General Thomas. The fighting on both sides was desperate, and the gallantry of the troops almost unparalleled throughout the en- tire day. The result was considered doubtful up to a late hour, when General Zollicoffer fell, but the victory and the rout were complete. We give 4 map of the field of battle in connection with our correspondence. We also publish to-day a map of the vicinity of Columbus, Ky., and the ground over which Generals McClernand and Grant made their late admirable and successful reconnoissance with the Cairo expedition. Every mile of the country, from the Ohio river to Columbus, was carefully surveyed; drafts and charts of all the roads leading from Cario, Forts Holt, Jefferson, Mound City, Marsac and Paducah, southward. Accompanying the map is a clear and most interesting account of the expedition, its objects and successes, from our Cairo correspondent. In every respect the recon- noissance was a highly satisfactory one, the results of which will be better comprehended when our troops again move in that direction. Despatclies received by the Norfolk Day Book from Savannah, dated the 22d instant, state that the Union troops took possession of Cedar Keys, Florida, on Thursday last, in which direction heavy firing was heard on that day. Cedar Keys, a small group of islands on the west coast of Florida, eighteen miles below the mouth of the Suwanne river, is a most important point, forming, as it does’ the Atlantic terminus of the railroad across the Peninsula to Fernandina. Being in the possession of our troops, the land connection between the Gulf of Florida and the Atlantic is completely cut Off. The islands are remarkable for their splendid growth of timber, valuable for ship building. Official despatches from Flag Officer McKe: , at Ship Island, received at the Navy Department yes- terday, put us in possession of the details of the late naval expedition to Biloxi previously reported by the steamer Rhode Island at Fortress Monroe, and published in our columns. It will be remem- bered that when the Rhode Island left the mouths of the Mississippi, three steamers had been des- patched to Biloxi, and that one of them was seen returning, with a schooner in tow, supposed to be & prize. It proves from Captain McKean's »aceount that the schooner was the Captain Sped- «dem, loaded with lumber, on article much needed at Ship Island for erecting stores. She ‘was captured by the Henry Lewis. The object of the expedition was to seize a rebel steamer, said to be at Biloxi, but she was not found there. The town was surrendered to our troops and the bat- teries destroyed. Nearly all the male population had abandoned it. We learn from Mobile that the rebel schooner ‘Wilder, from Havana, was captured by one of our cruisers off Fort Morgan on the 20th inst. She showed fight but had finally to succumb. The re- bels state that the Union vessel lost her ship's sig iin the contest, and that none of their men were Gamaged. No mention is made of the name of thes ‘Vessel engaged. The Richmond Enquirer of January 21 publishes @ lengthy editorial on the federal war policy, writ- ten, po doubt, for foreign readers, The rebel edi- tor seoms virtuously indignant at the efforts of the federal government te crush out the wicked rebel- | lion, and by a mendacious course of argument and statement attempts to show that the rebels are more sinned against than sinning. The Norfolk Day Book recommends the obstruc- tion of the rivers and harbors of the rebel States. Arrebel flag was recently taken from a staff in Lynchburg, Va., and torn to shreds, and the hal- yards cut into fragments. The Lynchburg papers are highly indignant at this ‘‘mean and despicable act.” The rebel newspapers advertise for Northern funds, for which a premium will be paid. The Burnside expedition, judging from the tone of the rebel newspapers, is creating considerable alarm among the rebels of North Carolina. The North Carolina Militia is to be called out forth- with, and placed ona war footing. The rebels threat- en that unless the militia turn out promptly draft- ing will be resorted to. The women and children have been removed from Goldsborough to Newbern, Geheral Wise has been placed in command at Roanoke Island. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, the credentials of Robert Wilson, appointed” Senator from Missouri, to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of the traitor Trusten Polk, were presented. The loyalty of Mr. Wilson having been questioned, Mr. Wilkinson moved to refer the credentials and certain other papers to the Judiciary Committee. Messrs. Davis and Pomeroy, however, testified that Mr. Wilson was a good Union man, whereupon the motion to refer was withdrawn, and Mr. Wilson, hav- ing taken the customary oath, took his seat. The resolution appropriating ten thousand dollars for the expenses of the House Special War Contract Investigating Committee was adopted. The bill relating to certain judicial dis- tricts of the United States Circuit Courts was passed. Bills creating two new bureaus in the Navy Department, and granting charters for banks in the District of Columbia, were referred. The debate on the resolution regarding the expulsion of Senator Bright, of Indiana, was resumed, and Messrs. Davis, Harlan, Sumncr, Cowan, Harris, Ten Eyck and Clark participated in the discussion. Without taking action on the resolution, the Senate went into executive session, and subsequently ad- journed, without transacting any other business. In the House of Representatives, the joint reso- lution appropriating ten thousand dollars for the expenses of the War Contract Investigating Com- mittee was adopted. The Senate bill appropri- ating twenty-five thousand dollars for the protec- tion of emigrants on the overland routes to the Pacific was passed. The bill providing more stringent regulations with regard to the sale of spirituous liquors to Indians was also passed. Mr. Fenton presented resolutions of the Legivla- ture of New York in favor of the enactment of a law to prevent frauds on the government in the matter of furnishing supplies. They were referred to the special committee on the investigation of war contracts. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was taken up, and the House non-concurred in the Senate’s amendments, in- cluding Florence among tie Consul Gencralships, and striking out Hayti, Liberia, &c.; consequently the bill will go back to the Senate. Mr. Blair's bill, providing for the liberation and colonization of the slaves of rebels, was postponed till Tuesday week. Both Houses adjourned till Monday. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. In the Senate of our State Legislature yesterday Several petitions were presented, mostly, however, of merely local interest. Favorable reports were made on the bills authorizing the loan of the na- tional funds deposited in the State Treasury, and in reference to the Erie Railroad. The bill increas- ng the powers of notaries public was passed. Among the bills of which notice was given was one to increase the duties on salt. A resolution was introduced instructing the Judiciary Commit- tee to prepare a bill to enable aliens to hold and convey real estate. Bills were introduced in refe- rence to State prisons and defining the duties of the Inspectors; to divide Brooklyn into five ju- dicial districts; in relation to the Marine Court of this city, and for amending the Brooklyn and Williamsburg Consolidation act. The bill making appropriations for the canals ’for the next fiscal year was ordered toa third reading, and that to regulate the dividends of fire insurance companies hgd progress reported upon it. In the Assembly a number of petitions were presented; among them were those in favor of the State assuming its quota of the national tax; for fortifications at the mouth of Genesee river, and for an arsenal at Ro- chester. The resolution from the Ways and Means Committee relating to the national tax, was taken up and discussed at length, but, without taking a vote on it, the subject was postponed and made the special order for Monday at seven o'clock. The steamship City of Manchester arrived a this port yesterday from Liverpool, whence she sailed on New Year's day, bringing the mails, pas- sengers and cargo, and nearly four thousand dollars in specie. She experienced a succession of severe storms and sustained some damage. The steamship City of New York passed Cape Race at ten o'clock on Thursday morning, bound for this port, and notwithstanding the rough weather and high sea that prevailed, she was suc- cessfully boarded by the press news yacht, her advices transmitted by the telegraph and placed in possession of the public, through the New York press, by a half hour after noon. The Cape Race telegraph station will be kept open, and all steamers from and for Europe intercepted by the press boat, except on occasions when life shall be endangered by the attempt. The Hamburg steamship Saxonia, Capt. Eblers, will sail to-day for Southampton and Hamburg. She will carry the mails intended to have been sent forward by the British ship City of Manches- ter. It will be very large. Accounts from San Francisco to the 17th inst- state that incessant and heavy rains had pre vailed for fifty hours previously, and Sacramento City, for the third time this winter, was in danger of being completely inundated. The area of land submerged is estimated at three million acres, mostly arable, and a considerable portion fenced and under cultivation. Nearly five thousand cat- tle and sheep have, it is believed, been drowned during the winter. As a compensation for these disasters, however, the unexampled storms and floods have washed the mining regions where the earth was previously upturned, producing great changes, and rendering a large increase in the gold yield of the placer diggings for the ensuing season highly probable. The Missouri War Claims Commission, which is compose’ of Joseph Holt, of Kentucky; David Davis, of Illinois, and Hugh Campbell, of Missouri, who have been sitting since the 6th of November last, have had before them five thousand eight hundred and seventy-five olaims—all of which were contracted during Fremont’s reign. About four thousand have been passed upon and one thousand three hundred ordered to be paid. The whole amount of claims is nine million six hun- dred and sixty-seven thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars. The notorious rebel bandit, Jeff. Thompson, is said to be in New Madrid, Mo., with a party of ragamuffins, who subsist by stealing from the sur- rounding country. Jeff. is Brigadier General» and his command has dwindled down to about hundred Toe eeemnent Messrs. Buckley and Lee, United States Marshal's aids, on a charge of being engaged in the slave trade on board the ship Montauk, which landed about twelve hundred negroes on the coast of Cuba. Donaldson was committed for examination. The third lecture on the ‘‘Elements of Social and Political Science” was delivered last evening at the Cooper Institute, by Judge Nott, before a large and highly respectable audience. The lec- ture, being a continuation of what has already been said by the gentleman in his discourse on govern- ments, was an eloquent and truthful dissertation on the good and bad materials which compose our political structure, and was received with marked applause at the hands of the audience. He dealt vigorously*with the horrors of secession and other topics concerning our governmental policy. Next Friday evening will be repeated his fourth lecture of the series, We have received a telegraphic despatch to the effect that several members of the Phila- delphia skating clubs were to leave that city last evening, at half-past six o'clock, en route for New York, and were expected to arrive at the Fifth Avenue Hotel before midnight. They intend to visit the upper pond of the Central Park this afternoon, but the storm of last night will no doubt prevent an exhibition of their skill on the ice. The shock of an earthquake was felt on the evening of the 23d inst., at Salem, Beverly, Lynn and Marblehead, Mass. At the latter place it shook the buildings. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 370 bales» in serarate lots, chiefly togpinners, on the basis of 33c. a 34c. for middling uplands, mostly at the inside figure, Large holders were not offoring to sell, preferring to await details of the City of New York’s newsor later advices by a succceding steamer. There was some talk of prepara- tions being made to ship scme lots of cotton to Liverpool under the supposition that the market there would be equal to if not reach above current prices here» while the high rates of exchange would favor the shipment. Flour was firm for common grades of State and Western, while sales were toa fair extent. Wheat was rather firmer and in fair request, in part for shipment, while prices were, as a general thing, without change of moment. Corn was firm and rather more active, with sales at 643{c. a 65c° for Western mixed, in store, and at 66c. delivered. Pork was rather better for new mess, with sales at $12 373, a $12 6234, and new prime at $9 25 a $9 50. Sugars were inactive but steady, while prices were unchanged. The sales ombraced about 150 hhds. and 390 boxes. Coffee was firm and quiet. Rice was firm, with sales of 1,200 a 1,500 East India, at 6c. a 63/c. per Ib. Freights were steady and engagements made to a fair extent, The Defence of Our Seaboard—General Arthur’s Report. The report of the Engineer-in-Chief of the State of New York, General Arthur, which ap- peared in yesterday’s Henan, is one of the most important and valuable documents that has been this year presented to our Legislature- It deserves perusal, not only on account of the careful analysis it contains of the condition of the forts and fortifications belonging to the federal” government, within the State of New York itself; but because the recommendations with which it closes, coincide precisely with the wishes of the administration, and especially of the Commander-ir-Chief of the United States army, with respect to securing a full and com- plete defence of the entire Northern seacoast. Thanks to the wisdom and forbearance of the administration, it is to be hoped that all imme- diate danger of a rupture between this country and Great Britain has passed away. Aecording to the latest intelligence, rejoicings were mani- fest among the people of England at the settle- ment of the Mason and Slidell question, and portions of the press were ready to anticipate a happy restoration of those amicable relationg that existed before the outbreak of the Southern rebellion, and the recognition by Lord Pal- merston’s ministry of the Confederate States as belligerents. Nevertheless, every detail con- nected with the rendition of Jefferson Davis’ emissaries, from the time of their capture up to the present hour, is pregnant with warning to the American mind, and it would be madness to neglect the lesson that has been tanght us. The federal authorities, Congress, and the peo- ple of the United States, would be guilty of the maddest and most suicidal folly, if they did not henceforth throw off the apathy and supineness with which the hostility of the aristocracy of Great Britain towards our democratic institu- tions has hitherto been regarded, and unite in urgent and energetic preparations to put the country in a condition, both at sea and on land, to withstand any attack with which it may be menaced. Whoever has been incredulous heretofore, must cease to doubt now, that the time must come, sooner or later, when mis- understandings between the two countries will assume a shape which may involve us in in- extricable difficulties, if we are not prepared for every emergency. Some of the London journals are already calling upon the govern- ment of Great Britain to recognise the indepen- dence of the rebel confederacy, premonitory to breaking the blockade of the Southern coast, and to the war with the United States which would inevitably grow out of such a monstrous and flagrant violation of international law. As speedily as possible, then, Congress should en- able our navy to contest the supremacy which the mother country has, until now, exercised upon the seas, and gird our seaboard with a circle of flame, impassable by the fleets and armies of any foreign enemy. What General Arthur recommends with re- gard to the State of New York, and especially with reference to the approaches to the city of New York, should be promptly undertaken by the general government for the benefit of the whole line of the coast of the Northern States, and as elaborate works for a proper defence of our seaboard would occupy many years in their completion, recourse should be had to barriers and obstructions, either floating or fixed, to arrest, in case war should suddenly break upon us, the course of heavy ships, and compel them to fight the land batteries. The means of mari- time attack have assumed such a magnitude, that every species of battery, armed with the best artillery we now possess, might prove in- adequate to prevent the passage of large steam- ers, of recent construction, with tide and wind in their favor. General Arthur believes that lines of obstructions may be created which, without injury to channels, will effectually pre- vent the passage of hostile vessels. He de- scribes how they should, be constructed, and enlarges, with valuable details, upon their necessity, in case war should become imminent. He recommends that ample appropriations should be made not only by Congress, but by the State Legislatures, for casting large guns, in order to complete the armament of existing works; for such temporary works as would be constructed for an emergency; and for the arming of vessels on the lakes. A profuse supply of ammunition and projectiles should also be prepared as rapidly as they can \e manufactured. Mailed steam gunboats for the lakes, built in sections convenient for transport- ation, are also needed. Surveys of all assail- able pointe are counselled, so that the general features of a defence may be determined; com- for the construction of works perfected. Legis- islative and Congressional enactments should also provide for the procuring of sites that are strategically required. The point of all others to which we desire, however, to call attention, in General Arthur's report, is his recommendation that the “militia of the State” (and this will equally apply to all of the States on the Atlantic coast, and bordering on the lakes) “‘at all places where itis practicable, should be trained to the management and firing of heavy guns.” Should we be involved, at any moment, in a foreign war the local inhabitants of districts would be required to defend themselves, and to man the fortresses on our coast. Volunteer regiments ought there- fore to be formed without delay, for the purpose of securing proficiency in artillery practice, and the means of doing so should be afforded to them by the government. There is no reason why, in New York, Boston, Portland, Philadel- phia, New Bedford, Salem, New Haven, and two score of other towns and cities, companies should not be enlisted. and sufficiently perfected in drill, discipline, and ordnance tactics, to enable them to resist invasion successfully, and beat. off in confusion any enemy that may dare to approach our shores. While on duty they will of course be paid out of the national trea- sury for their services; but, at other times there is no need that they should be so long drawn away from their usual occupationsas to interfere materially, with the ordinary avocations of life: We know that we are correct in saying that, while some such measure is earnestly de- sired by the authorities at Washington, and that they would further it by every means within their power, the people are not suffi- ciently alive to the imperative necessity of contributing their share to the general defence of the country. The Mason and Slidell imbro- glio should warn every good citizen, as General Arthur points out, that through the machina- tions of Napoleon and the efforts of the cotton spinners, peace with England may still prove to be of a very precarious tenure. Tae Financtan Mgascres Berore Concress.— The first of the financial measures before Con- gress needs alteration in at least two points. First—the interest of the six per cent bonds ought to be paid in coin; otherwise the notes based upon them will be depreciated. This may cost the government something more, but it will pay in the end, besides keeping up the national credit. Secondly—the payment of the principal certain in twenty years, or at some other fixed period, and not “after twenty years at the pleasure of the government,” is also necessary to the success of the measure. By making these changes‘in the bonds, the demand notes convertible into them will be kept near par, and for all purposes of internal trade will be as good as gold till the war is over, and after the war they will command a premium and be better than gold. The tax bill, too, ought to be pushed forward rapidly; for without that all measares of finance would be worthless. Demand notes, without a tax to pay the interest and redeem the princi- pal, would soon be little better than shinplas” ters. But let a tax of $250,000,000 be levied; and then the war securities of the governmen will stand A No.1. The people ‘of the United States do not want a permanent national debt hung like a millstone around their neck, keep- ing them forever under water. They desire to pay off their public liabilities as soon as poasi- ble. Let, therefore, one hundred and fifty or two hundred millions of demand notes be issued on this basis, and they will become a sound national currency. It will be imperative also to passa bank bill, authorizing the organization of new national banks, a measure which will compel the exist. ing State banks to take the new currency at par or be superseded. If they will agree to take the government demand notes at par, then their own small notes under five dollars will be retained in circulation. But if they resist the circulation of the government notes they must be crushed between the upper and nether mill- stones. A bankrupt law will crown all these measures, winding up all banking concerns which will not pay either in gold or in the new national cur- rency, and giving relief to honest traders who may be driven to bankruptcy by the sudden contraction or collapse of the banks. The whole of the financial measures ought to be brought forward and considered together as one comprehensive system, all of whose parts are in harmony and Will work with each other like the wheels, and cogs, and weights and pendu- lum which make up the mechanism of a first class clock. Rvsseit’s Prepicrions—We observe that LL.D. Russell, in one of his recent letters to the London Times, predicted that the Cabinet at Washington would refuse to surrender Mason and Slidell on the application of the British government. How accurate was his judgment in the matter the subsequent action of the Cabinet clearly demonstrates. We are afraid that Mr. Russell is earning for himself the repu- tation of being a false prophet. We all re- member how, when he first arrived in this coun- try, he predicted that the North would never rise to make war against the South; and how, last November, he predicted that before the elose of the year our banks would all be plunged into the vortex of general financial ruin, and, later still, how he declared that if Mason and Slidell were given up the Union would be dissolved from that moment. All his predictions of evil have, however, happily remained unrealized, and he is now left to reflect upon the folly of his own empty speculations. When he first came to this country he brought with him the prestige of a name intimately associated in journalism with the war in the Crimea and the mutiny in India; but since that time whatever reputation he had he has rapidly lost, and if he does not leave the country soon he will not have a rag of his former reputation to cover him. All his prophecies have failed, and all his efforts have been hostile to our government and country since he undertook to inform the readers of the British Thunderer of events transpiring in the United States. He has libelled, slandered and otherwise misrepresented us without seruple, and the result of it all is that on this side of the Atlantic at least his statements are held to be utterly untrustworthy, and he is personally held in the contempt he merits. Wayten Iumeptareny at Wasnixctox—A few more enlightened, practical men, like Repre- sentative Alloy, of Massachusetts, who was the first member of Congress to exhibit any common sense or practical knowledge in regard to the financial necessities of the country. Any one furnishing « few such men can have half a dozen ( yejort DEC. The Splendid speech of Senator Davis— “That Horrible Monster, Greeley.” The speech of Senator Davis, of Kentucky, in the Senate, on Thursday, was of the right stamp. Its premises, its logic and its conclu- sions were right; its utterance bold, loyal and true; its eloquence terse and telling; its de- fence of the President and the constitutional Policy of the war was admirable; and not less right, true and timely were its rebukes to the abolitionists and denunciation of “that horrible monster, Greeley.” It were a mere waste of words to demonstrate the incontrovertible fact that in effect abolition- ism and secessionism are the same thing, and that these detestable isms are equally inimical to the Union. “That horrible monster, Gree- ley.” Long ago Garrison pronounced the constitution “a covenant with death and an agreement with hell,” ahd Jeff. Davis himself could not hate that constitution more, or desire it to be more disgraced. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” Phillips, another leading abolitionist, congratulated his fol- lowers upon the secession of South Carolina, and lauded the scheme of a Southern confede- racy. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” The abolitionists are now giving aid and com- fort to the rebels by fomenting disturbances in the Union army, exposing Union plans and mis- representing the Union policy. “That horri- ble monster, Greeley.” Yet, in defiance of these facts, the Tribune, the organ of the abo- litionists, daily charges that the Northern seces- sionists are not the abolitionists, but the con- stitutional conservatives. “That horrible monster, Greeley.’” ‘ The Tribune itself is a proof that the aboli- tionists are disunionists. “That horrible mon- ster, Greeley.” Ita daily issues are filled with attacks upon the Union army, the Union gene- rals and the Union policy, and with treason- able revelations of the forces and destinations of Union expeditions. “That horrible mon- ster, Greeley.” | Now-a-days these aids to rebellion are covered with a thin mask of pro- fessed loyalty ; but just before the Bull run massacre drove its editor into a brain fever of fright, sent its business agent to the Heratp office to entreat our mercy, and subdued the paper generally, the Tribune’s treason was more rampant. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” We have lately treated our readers to a surfeit of Southern rebel poetry, and we give below a specimen from the Tribune of the screeds of the Northern rebels, which every once ina while break out in that journal—a foul eruption of bad rhymes :— THE AMERICAN FLAG. [From the New York Tribuno.} All bail tho flaunting lic! ‘Tho st-7s grow pale and dim. The stripes are se, ia ‘A lie the vaunting hymn. It shiolds a pirate's deck, It binds a man in chains, It yokes the captive’a neck, And wipes the bloody stains. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” ‘Tear down the Qaunting lie! Haif-mast the starry flagt Insult no sunny sky With hate’s polluted rag! Destroy it, ye who cant Deep sink it in the waves! Tt bears a fellow man ‘To groan with fellow slaves. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” Furl, farl, the boasted lie! Till Froodom lives again, To rulo once moro in truth ‘Among untrammolled men. Roll up the starry sheon, Conceal its blovdy stains; For in its folds are seen ‘Tho stamp cf rustling chains. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” Is that journal truly patriotic which sanctions such infamous abuse of our country and its flag? “That horrible monster, Greeley.” Is that journal true to the Union which applies to the glorious Stars and Stripes language fit only for the odious stars and bars of the rebelay “That horrible monster, Greeley.” Has any rebel poet ever so vehemently and bitterly as- sailed the flag of our Union as does this aboli- tionist of the Tribune? “That horrible mon- ster, Greeley.’’ No doubt the sentiments of this song of the Northern rebels will be largely appreciated in Dixie. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” The rebels are the men to “tear down,” “half-mast” and “destroy” our flag, and the Tribune is the journal to encourage them. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” It has fully earned the appointment of the official organ of Jeff. Davis’ government, and we hope that it will receive its reward immediately. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” A refer- ence to the Tribune Almanac, where the officers of the rebel Congress are given with, and in the same form as, those of our own, will show that it has already begun its rebel official pub- lications. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” There seems to us little difference in crimi- nality between the past practice of the Tribune in directly encouraging the rebels a7. its present attempts to discourage and hinder the Union forces; but its former utterances were undoubtedly more honest and open. “That horrible monster, Greeley.’ Thus we find it, long before the bombardment of Suinter, and when the Herat was urging upon Buchanan to call out seventy-five thousand militia and sup- press the rebellion, preaching in favor of let- ting Jeff. Davis alone:— [From tho Tribune, Nov. 9, 1860.) If the cPtton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting thom go in Bene The right to secedo may be « revolutionary one; but it exists, nevertheless. * * # ‘Wo must evor resist the right of any Stato to remain in the Union and nullify or defy the laws thereof. To with- draw from tho Union is quitaanother matter; and when- ever a considerable section of our Union shall deliberately resolve to go Out, we shall revist all coercive measures designed to keep it in. Wo hopo never to live in a ro- ublic wher one section is pinned to another by ayonets. “ That horrible monster, Greeley.” The Tribune is still true to its promise to “resist all coercive measures” designed to bring back the rebel States. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” As it dare not “ resist all coercive measures” openly, for fear of being suppressed, like the Daily News and the Day Book—which also sympathized with Jeff. Davis and “resisted all coercive measures”—it con- tents itself with insidious treason. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” The Tribune is a very great advocate of “ human liberty,” as it understands liberty, and upon the principles of “human liberty” it justifies its present opposi- tion to the government and assistance to the rebels, in this fashion:— [From the Tribune, Nov. 26, 1860.) If the cotton States unitedly and oarnes! withdraw peacefully from the Union, we think they should and would be allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel them by force to remain would be contrary to the principles enunciated in the immortal Declaration of Inde- —_—- contrary to the fundamental ideas on which oan liberty is based. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” Of course, as the cotton States now “unitedly and earnestly wish to withdraw” from their allegiance, to become the subjects of Jeff. Davis, and as they want to leave “peacefully” if they can, the Tribune still thinks that “any attempt to compel them by force to remain would be contrary to the principles enunciated in the n pendence,” of the wish to ortal Declaratic rebel “declaration of independence,” which ts Tribune doubtleas confounds with our own, just as it mixes up the national and the rebel Coa gresses. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” The Tribune is as consistent as the Devil im its wickedness; and by the light of these ex- tracts it is plain why the Tribune is always bampering and hindering our armies, assailing the President and his generals, and revealing the Union plans to the enemy, just as itrevealed and defeated the design to relieve Fort Sum- ter. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” It is the Tribune's way of assisting the rebellion and carrying out its ideas of “human liberty” and the Declaration of Independence, to which it again refers:— ; {From the Tribune, Dec. 17, 1860. a 0 at ane Pa colonists in 1776, we do not seo why it would not justify of Southrong from the Union the secession of five millions in 1961. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” This, it will be observed, is the very argu- ment used by the rebels themselves and by their English apologists. “That horrible mon- ster, Greeley.” “The United States seceded from England,” the Tribune says: “why may not the Southern confederacy secede from the United States?” “That horrible monster, Gree- ley.” Therefore it proceeds to aid the rebels by attempting to breed dissensions in our Cabinet and in our army; by sending abroad misrepresentations of our forces and their con- dition, and by maddening the Southern people by assuring them that if they allow themselves to be conquered all their slaves will be freed. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” That is the Tribune’s manner of trying to “tear down,” “half-mast” and “destroy” our flag. “That horrible monster, Greeley.” That is the way in which the Tribune endeavors to “resist all coercive measures,” and foil “any attempt to compel the rebels by force to remain.” “That horrible monster, Greeley.” That is its style of vindicating the “fundamental ideas of human liberty,” and the “principles of the Declaration of Independence.” ‘That horrible monster, Greeley.” And yet, in the face of a record so black with treason, this diabolical organ of the Northern abolition disunionists dares to professloyalty and accuse its conservative contemporaries of sym- pathizing with rebellion. ‘That horrible mon- ster, Greeley.” We trust, however, that the time is not far distant when “that horrible mon- ster, Greeley” will discuss his “ideas of hu- man liberty,” with Cheever, Garrison and Phil- lips, in the dungeon of Fort Lafayette. Is not Senator Davis right? Secessionists and North- ern abolitionists are equally working against the Union and the constitution, and should “be hung in pairs;” and we suggest that a first class “pair” would be Jeff. Davis and “that horrible monster, Greeley.” Greerey on THE War AnD THE Frencu Ruvo- torion.—The Tribune of yesterday says the American republic is now in the position of France at the time of the Revolution of 1798, and, like her, is revolutionary. This is a strange confusion of ideas. The American government is not in a revolutionary condition. It is the South that is trying to effect a revolution, and the government is trying to prevent it. The go- vernment and the majority of the people are conservative and not revolutionary. They simply desire the status quo ante bellum restored: Greoley and the abolitionists are revolutionary, and, instead of the restoration of the Union and the authority of the constitution, they want both abolished and a new government erected on their tuins. They are thus as revolutionary as the secessionists of the South. The people of the North are fighting not to establish anew revo- lution, but for the purpose of sustaining the old—the Revolution of 1776: The French, on the contrary, fought for a present revolution, which had just overthrown royalty and the existing order of things. The American government, as founded by Washington, Jefferson, Madison and the other patriots and sages who issued the Declaration of Independence anddrew up the constitution of the United States, is good enough for us, and we want no change fm it whatever; and cer- tainly we will not permit it to be changed by vio- lence, or in any other way than that which is prescribed in the constitution itself—regular conventions of the people. Whosoever at the North attempts to change it in letter or spirit by physical force, or even suggests it, ought to be regarded as a traitor, whose crime is equal to that of Jefferson Davis, Yancey, Mason, Slidell and the rest of thé Southern conspi- rators. Nor is there any necessity for the fusilades, noyades and bloody butcheries; without regard to age or sex, which characterized the French Revolution ; nor for the St. Domingo massacre which grew out of its fearful excesses. It is such examples as these—revolting to Christiani- ty and modern civilization—Greeley desires our armies to follow. But he is loth to risk the safety of his own hide, while he urges others forward to a war of emancipation and extermi. nftion. Why does he not apply to the Secre- tary of War for permission to raise and lead a black brigade against the enemy at Manassas or Bowling Green, Columbus or some other strong point, where he may have enough of blood without cutting the throats of defenceless wo- men, unarmed old men and helpless children ? Tue Leotstature Wurrewasuina tax Los- sy.—The Legislature has been debating for two days upon the delectable expose of its lob- by business, which we published a few days ago. With one or two extraordinary excep- tions, all of the debaters have devoted them- selves to the task of whitewashing the lobby, andeven the honorable Speaker, Henry Jen- kins Raymond, left his chair, came down upon the floor, and delivered a long oration in favor of organizing the lobby upon its own terms. The honorable Speaker defended the members of the Chamber of Commerce and the Trustees of the Dutch church, who were engaged in lob. by operations, upon the ground that they lob- bied, not as members of the Chamber and dea- cons of the church, but as private individuals! What is the difference, pray, between doing a dirty trick as a deacon or as 4 man, 80 far as the demerits of the act are concerned? We are afraid that we cannot expect much good of this ture. We anticipated as much when Raymond was elected Speaker. Tur Anwy More Sexsieie Tran Conoress.— The abolition journals are trying to get up a sensation because the Hutchinson band of abo- lition nigger singers were turned out of the camps on the Potomac for singing abolition songs. Our soldiers are more sensible than our members of Congress. The gallant boys of the army understand that they are to fight for Union aad the constitution, and will ne