The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1862, Page 4

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A rumor was circulated in Washington yesterday that a battle had occurred at Bowling Green, Ky., in which the Union troops were defeated; but there is not the least foundation for the report, nor is it at all probable that any portion of our troops in Kentucky have reached Bowling Green yet. The story is doubtless one of those canards habitu- ally promulgated by the rebel sympathisers in Washington to damage the national canse. Our correspondents at Point of Rocks and Baltimore to-day furnish a highly interesting ac- count of the state of affairs in General Lander's department on the Upper Potomac, and the efforts of the rebel General Jackson to cut off the supplies from the West to Washington by destroying por- tions of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The map which we publish in connection with this cor- fespondence will illustrate the movements and pur- poses of the rebels very clearly. There is no official news of the Burnside Expe- dition; but from rebel journals received at Fortress Monroe on Saturday we receive the vague infor- mation that the United States transport Louisiana had gone ashore and was burned, to save her from falling into the hands of the enemy. Where this alleged disaster occurred, or when, is not stated, so that the affair may be cor. sidered exceedingly doubtful. It is certain that the Norfolk Day Book of Saturday ‘has not a word about the Burnside expedition, cither regarding its landing or its non-arrival at any point in that vicinity. ©n the subject of the late battle at Somerset, Ky., the Southern journals at last admit the fact of the defeat of the rebel army and the death of Zollicoffer, the wounding of Ge eral Crittenden, Colonels,Powell, Battle, Stoher and Cummings, and the loss of all their horses, tents, equipments and eleven guns, together with three hundred men killed. Our Baltimore correspondent has had an inter- view with a gentleman who arrived at Baltimore on the 24th instant, from the South. He was in Richmond on the 19th instant, and represents affairs in that city as in a miserable condition. The soldiers rolled around the city without let or hin- drance, visiting drinking saloons, gambling hells, and doing all sorts of infamous deeds, from high- way robbery to murder. The Europa at Hulifax brings news from Europe to the 12th of January—three days later. The advices are of a very important character, reveal” ing, as they do, the excellent effect produced in the Cabinets, and amongst the peoples of the leading Powers of the Old World, by the surrender of Mason and Slidell to England, as well as by the report of the mode in which it was accom- plished by the Lincoln government. The London Post, the organ of Lord Palmerston, acknowledges that doe reparation has been made, and intimates that the law of neutrals at sea will be recon- sidered. The Paris Moniteur officially expresses the ‘‘setisfaction” felt in France in consequence of the act, while we find that the news produced an advance of one per cent on the Bourse. The Journal de St. Petersburg, the organ of the Rus- sian empire, congratulates Mr. Seward on his “apright” and “intelligent” policy in the case, ‘and states that the affair will form a starting point for « general revision of the law of neutrals. The Russian journalist demands that England be re- qeested to give a solemn guarantee that she will dn fatare respect nevtrals and neutral rights. ‘The Paris Monitewr, with most of the London journals, condemn the Stone fleet blockade of Charleston or other harbors. The London Times bitterly denounces Mason and Slidell personally, and hopes that no ovation whall be given to the “fellows.” Engiand, it is ea:4, does not care for them, and would have done jest oo mach on the same grounds “for two pogroes.” ‘Tae United States gunboat Tuscarora was off Gowhampton, with steam up, and ready to slip g@nohor at & moment's notice, watching the pri- i NEW YORK HERALD, the port. A very exciting time was expected should the pirate commander venture in the path of Commander Craven, United States Navy. Tt was said that the Sumter had sailed from Cadiz for Southampton, leaving her prisoners in the hands of the Spaniards. ‘The Europa has not brought out any troops oF war material, and it was said that England would not forward any more to Canada by the Cunard mail steamers. The movement of troops for North America had not abated, however, but it was very likely it soom would, as the London papers were beginning to count up the cost of the display; and | the London Times had jest informed John Bull that, so far, he had spent two millions of pounds sterling — ten millions of dollars—at the very least in exhibiting his power to retain the colony if assailed. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Europa, from Liverpool on the 11th and Queenstown on the 12th instant, reached Halifax on Saturday night last, in the midst of a hurricane. She brings news three days later than that brought by the City of New York. The Liverpool market was quiet on the Lith in- stant, with prices unchanged from an upward tendency. Breadstuffs were flat, with the excep- tion of corn. Consols closed in London on the Ith instant at 9344 a 93% for money. Dresden city has been visited” by a severe shock of earthquake. It was said that the Czar of Rus- sia had demanded of the Pope to condemn the con. duct of the Polish clergy, and that in case his Holiness refused the Emperor would recognise the new kingdom of Italy. The Italian Chambers had resolved to support the Ricasoli government. The steamship Karnak arrived at this port yes- terday morning, with advices from Havana dated on the 18th, and news from the Bahamas dated on the 26th instant. The news from Havana has been anticipated by the Columbia. The rebel steamer Kate, of Charleston, entered the port of Nassau on the 18th inst., having made the run from Charles- ton in forty-three hours. She had the rebel flag flying, and carried eight passengers and three hun- dred bales of cotton on freight. The United States gunboat Flambeau was in the harbor at the time, and left the next morning. The settlement of the Trent difficulty was regarded with pleasure at the Bahamas. A United States steamer was reported off the Berry Islands, watching, it is said, for the steamer Kate, mentioned above. The pineapple crop of the Bahamas promises to be exceedingly plentiful. Advices from Turks Island of the 13th inst. state:—Business here is very dull, and, although the last year’s crop of salt is nearly all sold, it has barely paid the expense of gathering it. An early gathering this year is anticipated, as there has been but little rain; in fact, if the present weather continues, there is likely to be some taken in during the present week. The general health of the island is good. This city has been visited by two serious fires since Saturday. We gave the particulars of one yesterday. We now give those of the second. At six o’clock on Sunday morning a fire burst forth from the four story building No. 43 Fulton street. The wind at the time was blowing strongly from the northwest. The whole of the premises ap- peared to be in flames at once. Thegbuilding was occupied by David Woods, wire clothYind bird cage manufacturer. From this building the fire ex- tended to the rear of several stores on Pearl street, also to the Fulton Bank, across the street, and be- fore the fire could be subdued six large stores on Pearl street and two on Fulton street were burned down, together with their contents. The interior of the bank was pretty much destroyed, leaving the walls standing. We have not bad so disas- trous a fire for many years. The total loss may be estimated at about $200,000. We give a particu- lar account of the fire in another column, with a small diagram showing the location of the de- stroyed buildings. Mr. Samuel Engler, who has been ordered out of Missouri by General Halleck, was a strong se- cessionist, and a loud talking and bragging rebel sympathizer. He was a merchant, doing a large wholesale business in St. Louis, and when the thousands of poor and destitute Union refugees, who had been robbed and driven from their farms and homes in Missouri by the marauding gangs attached to Sterling Price’s rebel army, entered St. Louis and sought protection, General Halleck levied an assessment of ten thousand dollars on the rich secession citizens for their support. Mr. Engler's quota was four lundred and fifty dol- lars; but he refused to pay it, and dared the military authorities to interfere in any way with him or his property. The military police then seized upon a wagon load of star candles belonging to Mr. Engler, valued at about six hundred and fifty dol- lars, and conveyed them to the military headquar- ters, to be disposed of on account of the assess- ment. Then followed the proceedings which were announced by telegraph yesterday. Mr. Engler sued out a writ of replevin to recover his candles from the Provost Marshal, when General Halleck stepped in, and ordered all concerned in producing the writ to be imprisoned, and Mr. Engler to be banished from the State, aud not allowed to return without special permission. There are a few more left of the same sort in St. Louis, who will pro- bably learn a little wisdom from Mr. Engler's experience, and also of the character of Major General Henry W. Halleck. It is said that the rebel thief Floyd's brigade, which" has recently joined Buckner at Bowling Green, Ky., does not contain over two thousand men. The order to disband Rankin’s regiment of lancers, at Detroit, Mich., has been countermand- ed, and an effort will be made to convert it to the artillery branch of the service. There are eight hundred men in camp belonging to the regiment. There were twelve hundred sick soldiers in the hospitals at Washington, Alexandria and George- town on the 17th inst. Lieut. Frank E. Brownell, the Ellsworth Zouave who killed Jackson in Alexandria, has been or- dered to open @ recruiting station at Oswego, Y., for the regular army. The City Council of Baltimore have passed a reso- lution ordering all disloyal teachers in the public schools of that city to be dismissed, and Union teachers put in their places. The St. Paul (Minnesota) Chamber of Commerce has remonstrated against the repeal of the Cana- dian reciprocity treaty. The Toronto Leader is still struggling to get up ®@ war between this country and England, for the especial benefit of its rebel employers in the South. At last accounts General Sterling Price had not taken St. Louis, and General Simon Bolivar Buck- ner had not seized Louisville. The time is up. Mrs. General Lane was presented with a carriage, valued at $1,000, by citizens of Chicago, on the 23d instant. The duties of the four or five Custom House In- spectors at Albany are hereafter to be discharged by one man. Several thousand persons visited the Central Park yesterday, with the hope that there might be skating. In this they were disappointed; for,al- though the ice was strong, it was in no condition for use, As the half melted snow all around the Park had @ very smooth, strong and slippery sur- face, slides were started at all points, and the po- lice had more than they could do to prevent so pal- pable a breach of the Park regulations. Men and women, boys and girls were sliding everywhere as soon as the officers had gotten out of sight, and as the wind yaa yery frogh many hag to slide egalaet their will. The breeze was healthy, invigorating larly insisting on for the last seventy-five years. This is one point obtained. The question of | the North and the South. With the North and unruly; but everybody seemed to enjoy it, es- pecially the feminines. The prospect for skating to-day, should the wind still keep in northwest- erly direction, is very great; but, in the uncertain condition of things in general, and the weather in particular, down town folks will have te depend on the signal flags for definite information relative to the raising of the ball. The steamship Roanoke, formerly of the Vir- ginia line, will leave this port for Havana on the 5th of February, from her pier, No. 13 North river. She has been’ thoroughly overhauled and refitted for this trade, and is now in perfect order. Under her present officers she will no doubt become a great favorite on this route. In the list of shipping arrivals at this port yes- terday is the prize bark Jurgen Leorentzen (Da- nish), Reimer—Prize Master Lieutenant Geraud— Rio Janeiro fifty-six days, bound to Havana for or- ders. She has a cargo of 4,800 bags of coffee; was captured December 26, in lat. 7 N., long. 38 30 W., by the United States ship Morning Star, in conse- quence of some informality in her papers and her destination being supposed to be New Orleans. ‘The sales of cotton on Saturday embraced about 300 bales, all to spinners, and in small lots, on the busis of 83c. per Ib. Some chance lots were reported under and others above this figure, Largo holders were still hold- ing off. Flour was firmly held for most grades, while sales were quite limited and prices unchanged. Wheat was firmer for good to prime qualities, while sales were made to a moderate extent. The inclemency of the weather, combined with a desire for. details of European news, tended to check sales. Corn was quite firm, with sales of Western mixed at G5c.a 66c. in store and deli- vered. Pork was firmer, with sales of new mess at $12 50 8 $12 75, and new primo at $9 50. Sugars were stoady, while the sales embraced 417 bhds. and 270 boxes, at unchanged prices. Coffee was quict and sales limited to some 600 bass Rio. Freights were rather firmer for English ports, with a fair amount of engagements. The prevailing stormy and inclement weather interfered more or less with business transactions generally, especially with outdoor operaticas, Important from Europe—The American Rebellion. The Europa arrived at Halifax yesterday, with news from Europe to the 12th of the pre- sent month, being three days later than the in- telligence previously received. This news is of considerable interest and importance to the American people. Our previous advices by the City of New York informed us of the recep- tion in England of the news of the release of Mason and Slidell, but did not give us any in- timation of the effect produced on the public mind, other than that which had been developed by the publication of an article from the New York Heratp on the solution of the question, Now the Europa brings us tidings of the full expression of public opinion in England and in Europe on the surrender of these two miserable rebels; and we are glad to find that it is one of intense gratification and satisfaction, not only in England, but throughout the Continent; and the reception of Mason and Slidell will be of the character intimated by us some time since, in reply to the unfounded anticipations of some of our abolition papers, who have prophesied their splendid welcome in England. Speaking of the reception due to the late rebel envoys, the London Times says that “they are about the most worthless booty it would be possible to extract from the jaws of the Ame- rican lion, as they have long been known as blind and habitual haters and revilers of England,” and expresses the hope that English- men will not give “these fellows anything in the shape of an ovation. The civility due to a foe in distress is all they can claim. England has returned them good for evil; and even now, if they can, they will be only glad to entangle her in a war with the North. England would have done just as much to rescue two negroes. Let Mason and Slidell, therefore, pass quietly on their way, and have their say to anybody who may listen to them.” No language can possibly be stronger or more severe than this, coming, 00, from a source whence the rebels expected so much sympathy. Nor is the Times singular in its opinions. The satisfaction expressed by one paper is shared by all. But, curiously enough, the British war preparations are not diminished. This, however, is not of great im- portance. The government may have taken contracts which must be concluded, or be im- pelled by other motives into which it does not now much concern us to inquire. in regard to the proposition of Mr. Seward, that all the Powers of Europe should now agree upon some definiie principle of public law re- garding maritime rights, the British government hesitate. and desire time to consult the law officers of the crown before coming to any de- cision. They are perfectly satisfied with the action of the Washington Cabinet, and have sent word to that effect, which will dopbtless be a bond to keep the peace for some time to come. But they do not like the idea of being caught in any trap that may be laid for them by Mr. Seward or any other diplomat. An article which has just appeared in the St. Peters- burg Gazetle—a Russian official organ—urging the maritime Powers to accept the proposition of the American Secretary of State, seems also to have excited the caution of England, and in- duced her to take time to consider the question, But there is another point in the Europa’s news, in connection with the rebellion, which is rather important, and which will be the means of enabling the American government to settle an interesting question of maritime warfare. In the war between the United States and Eng- land in 1812 the British authorities on the Northern lakes attempted to block up one of the American lake ports by sinking at its en- trance vessels laden with stone. They failed; but still they undertook to do it. Again: we find in Scott's history of the wars of the elder Napoleon that the English home government, in order to prevent the escape of a French fleet from Boulogne, attempted to close the harbor by sinking vessels filled with stones at its entrance. In this they also failed; but the record stands against them. In both of these cases the ports to be destroyed by the English were foreign ports. But now that the American government undertakes to block up ports be- | longing to themselves, by exactly similar means to those employed by England, the British, press denounces the act as one belong- demned by all the civilized Powers of the world. The Paris Moniteuwr takes the same ground as England. Now, as this idea of astone blockading fleet was borrowed from England, who used it against France, and as France now denounces it, in common with England, there is no reason why we cannot do the same thing in regard to the closing of our own harbors with stone that we have done with respect to the rights of neutrals on the ocean in time of war. England insisted on searching every vessel that came in her way during her supremacy of the seas, and taking from them all supposed British subjects, When we did the same thing she objected; and the result now fs that she has at length endorsed the great blockading ports by stone vessels remains to be settled. The original idea belongs to Eng- land. We borrowed it of her; but now she complains of it, as she did of the Trent affair. If we commit her to a positive arrange- ment on this question, it will be another im- portant concession to which we can hold her ever after. But we shall see. Thus it appears that the American rebellion is not only purifying the great principle of republican government, and settling it on a firmer basis for all time, but it is tending to the examination and definite arrangement of im- portant questions of international law for the future benefit of all the nations of the earth. The Future of the South. Continual foreign immigration, and the inevi- table social changes, revolutions and adapta- tions which it produces, keep a nation fresh, vigorous, progressive and powerful. Internal migrations, or the emigration of inhabitants from one section of the country to another, make a nation identical, homogeneous, consist- ent, united. Continual foreign immigrations and domestic emigrations have given the loyal North ern States a nationality, with its concomitants of anational character, natienal ideas, national pride and national progress... The want of these external and internal migrations has kept the disloyal South provincial, prejudiced, bigoted and retrogressive. The North is like its great ocean lakes, with tides, with constant agitations, with perpetual movement and variety. The South is like its own swamp lakes, stagnant, noisome and malarious. For fifty years past foreign nations have been pouring into the North swarms of immigrants, recuperating the brain, the bone and sinew and the pocket of the country. These immigrants have assisted in developing the resources, stimu- lating the enterprise and building up the pros- perity of the country. Some of them came here poor, and their struggles to rise in the world bred that intense and spirited competition which is the soul, not only of business, but of all real progress. Some of them came rich, and gave a tone, a refinement anda relish to society, pa- tronized and taught us to patronize the arts, and led the nation to appreciate the higher cultures of civilization. Some, who were all hands, built our railroads, digged our canals, erected our buildings, delved our minerals and laid the substrata of our greatness. Others, who were hands and head combined, went into business, joined one trade or another, or pushed out West and cultivated waste farms and began cities. Still others, who were learn- ed and intellectual, developed our literature, established or improved our schools and col- leges, and gave usa free and an independent press. Native born Americans sometimes Jed, sometimes followed, but always join- ed with and emulated’ these efforts. The North was made bustling, stirring, alive The North became the nation, and added to the wealth, to the importance, to the power of the nation. The North reclaimed the wilderness, turned almost all the produc- tion of land and water into treasures, and moved the world with its energy and the time saving, labor saving inventions its restless, tireless energy devised. All this while the South has had little or no foreign immigration, and has been content to passively produce her staples and remain at a atand-still in every other point of view—having no popular education, no original literature, no independent press, no inventions, no discoveries, no arts, no national character or force. All this while, too, the North has been mad® individual and concentrative by its vast domes. tic emigration. Families from the Eastern States have settled in the West. Families from the extreme Northern States have moved to the Middle States. Families have sent their sons and daughters back from the West to the ast, and from the Middle States to the North again. Thus a continual interchange of population has been maintained, and with it !\.s come a na- tional unanimity and identity Hampshire men join that State to Ilinois. Chicago thinks with New York. New England shares her sons with the great West. Scarcely a Northern family but can number a representative in almost every Northern State; und the result is that the Northern States are one great family. But how is it at the South? There has never been much domestic migra- tion there, just as there has been but little foreign immigration. Comparatively few fumilies have left the South to settle at the North, and fewer still have left the North to do any constant work or steady business at the South. What is the result? In the first place the South has been kept at adead lock. Here people are moving about, changing from city to city, or from a good dwelling to a better one. There the same families live in the same towns, and, indeed, in the same houses, for generations. Here a business man has to be sharp, active, vigilant; for every day brings its new com- petitor and its new change. There the same man keeps the same store, with the same rivals ‘as at first, for years upon years. In the few in- stances where the Northern electricity has touched the South—at New Orleans, for in- stance, at Louisville or at Baltimore—we find progress; but otherwise there is only a sta- tionary state of affairs. Again, from the want of this domestic migra- tion between the North and South comes the lack of cordial identity between the two sec- tions. With such different manners and cus- toms, in society, literature and business, the greatest amount of domestic interchange would have been necessary to identify and unite the North and the South; but instead of the great- est amount we find really none at all. The comparatively few Soudherners who come North in the summer, or the few Northerners who go South in the winter, do not alter or mend the matter; for they make no permanent impression upon either section, | and, in effect, carry their own sections with ing to the barbaric ages, which should be con- | them, as an Englishman carries Great Britain all around the world, and can see no good in anything not British. Hence arise the mutual misunderstandings, misconceptions, jealousies, hatreds, fanaticisms, oppositions, misrepresenta- tions and abuse between the North and South. which have continued for many years, and cul- minated in a causeless rebellion and a bloody civil war. Foreign immigration has aided to make the North strong; the want of it has kept the South weak. Domestic emigration has made the North united; the want of it has made the South a rebel, and, as we already see, from rebel newspaper gramblings and rebel State quarrels, a rebel discontented with herself. What then? Why, this war, like a strong medicine, is at MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1862. of these discrepancies and differences between strong and united, and the South weak and divided, there can be no doubt of its result. Then, of the six hundred thou- sand soldiers we have sent to the South, it is Perfectly reasonable to suppose that an im- mense number will settle there, as the tri- umphant Gauls settled in Italy, or the Normans in France and in Britain. Thus will be inau- gurated, on a grand scale, the internal emigra- tion between the North and the South. Thou- sands of friends will join the thousands of sol- diers colonized at the South. Northern energy will open means by which foreign immigrants may lucratively employ themselves at the South, and then they will go there. Northern precept and example will vitalize the South, and gradually but surely reorganize and im- Prove it. Thus the slavery question will take care of itself, if we but take care of the war; and the South, instead of being in the Union, but separated from it by Mason and Dixon’s line—as China is in the world, but shut out from it by her great wall—will, in the future, be of the Union, and a part and parcel of its greatness, its progress, its prosperity, its achievements and its glory. The Business of Some of Our Newspa- Pers, and Their Useful Information to the Enemy. Our readers are aware that there is a sort of a treaty existing between the government at Washington and the newspaper press of the loyal States, by which the government, relying upon the good faith, honor and loyalty of the press gang, has been giving, and is stil! aiord- ing them, many exclusive privileges and facili- ties of information concerning the movements and plans of the army and navy. The Asso- ciate Press of this city is particularly interested in this agreement; and, while we of the New Yorx Heratp can boast of having adhered to it fuithfully, we have the right, and it is our duty, to denounce the baseness of some of our contemporaries in this matter. A correspondent of the New York Times was, the other day, sent home in disgrace by Gen. Sherman, from Port Royal. The Times and the Trilune have been endeavoring, by various cock and bull stories, to show that said corres- pondent is an injured innocent, and that Gen. Sherman, or some provost marshal or sutler, or somebody, has been playing the despot in re- dressing some petty personal spite or some bagatelle of wounded vanity. But the truth is, that this Times correspondent was sent home because he had been making himself intolera- bly useful to the enemy in disclosing the plans, movements, &¢., of the land and naval forces of the United States in South Carolina and Georgia. We understand that the peculiar en- terprise of said correspondent at Port Royal had resulted, in several instances, in furnishing to the rebels, through the Times newspaper, in- formation which defeated the designs of Gen. Sherman. In this connection it is somewhat remarkable that, since the issue of his con- servative proclamation to thé people of South Carolina, Gen. Sherman has been pronounced and treated as a military failure by all our abo- lition organs, on every available occasion. Nor do the “little villains” of the Times stand alone in this disgraceful service of publishing information for the benefit of the enemy. That curious nondescript of a paper, the World— that queer and stupid compound of saint and sinner, pedagogue and ignoramus, spoilsman and patriot, public sentinel and public plun- derer—seems to defy public opinion and the government in its impudent disclo- sures concerning the Burnside expedition. The details of this expedition, as published in the World, including the contemplated points of attack in North Carolina, may, with the de- tention of the squadron near Hatteras Inlet for a few days, enable the cnemy so to time the ap- proach of our forces, aud to measure their strength at every point of assault, as to enable the rebels seriously to disappoint the reasona- ble expectations of the government. We can assure our readers that there is no merit of en- terprise in these premature disclosures of the details of such important expeditions as that to Cape Hatteras, and that to Port Royal, and this last one to the inland seas of North Carolina. In common with our faithless associate contem- porarics of the Times, the World, the Tribune and Evening Post, we of the Henan were pos- sessed of all the details of these expeditions in season to break our faith with the government to the advantage of the enemy; but having no abolition animosities and no personal revenges to settle with this or that officer of the govern- ment or the army, and being cordially devoted to the conservative war policy of the adminis- tration and of General McClellan, we have found it a pleasing duty to keep our faith with the government. We have experienced no diffi- culty in awaiting patiently the proper time for the publication of many important facts in our possession touching the plans and movements of our army and navy. Weare amply rewarded in various ways, including an increase in our daily circulation without a precedent or a paral- lel in the history of the newspaper press. We have only to say, in conclusion, that the late Port Royal correspondent of the Times, in being sent home with a flea in his ear by Gene- ral Sherman, has been properly punished for his folly, and that a case or two of exemplary punishment to such offenders in the premises as the responsible conductors of the Times, World and Tribune would vastly contribute to the success of our movements by land and sea upon the strongholds of this rebellion. Tie War anv Brockave Prices AMona THE Repets.—We have been favored with the read- ing of an interesting private letter from an in- telligent subject of King Jeff. Davis, in which we are assured that a great Union reaction is quict- ly at work all over Secessia, and that the “aw. ful war prices” of everything down there ex- cept beef and bread ure contributing power- fully to dissipate the delusions of a Southern millenium in a Southern confederacy. The writer in question gives the following specimens as the average prices of certain indispensable articles throughout the rebellious South:— Quinine, per ounce, $10. Opium, per ounce, $3. Gunpowder, per pound, $3. Common boots, per pair, $16. At this rate, with the fall of a single one of the main army props of this rebellion, the whole fabric will come to the ground in a mass of ruins. The skies have cleared up, the ground is hardening. A few days more of such weather will usher in # succession of events that will electrify every loyal heart throughout the Union. This rebellion is hound to come down principle thas the Unkteg pion es been rouw | cngg ike gecgnnasy camnlt and the complaia cure | ovain » qeaenal. collapee, The Southern Blockade s Great Political ia Question in England. ‘The surrender of Mason and Slidell, although it has resulted in a satisfactory settlement of the Trent affair, may, after all, exercise but lit- tle influence in securing perfect harmony be- tween Great Britain and the United States. There is a strong party feeling in England antagonistic to the continuance of the Southern blockade, and this party is concentrating its forces to coerce the Palmerston administration into a recognition of the Southern and the reopening of our ports. Already vio" lent attacks on the stone fleet have appeared in some.of the English papers as a preliminary movement. That the efforts of this party will meet with determined opposition from the pre- sent government we well know, but that the question of recognition will be violently agita. ted in Parliament on its meeting, early in February, is highly probable. The question is one out of which the tory party will endeavor to make as much political capital as possible, by oreating a feeling in favor of the recognition and urging the government to its accomplish- ment. The recognition would only be asked for with a view to the further step of breaking the blockade—an act which would involve the violator in a war with this country. Mere re- cognition, although unfriendly to the United States, would not be an actual casus. belli; but the forcible reopening of our ports would be an act of direct hostility which we could not overlook. England, then, in adopting such a course, would do so with the full knowledge that it would involve herin a great American war. Louis Napoleon, who is strenuously exerting himself to induce England to assume that attitude of hostility towards the United States which would entangle her in war, very likely tries to blind her to the danger, as well as the consequences, of a conflict between the two nations. See the allusion to the stone fleet in the Moniteur in another column: But he must be regarded in so doing not only as the enemy of both, but of the civilized world. His designs are purely sel- fish. With the English forces engaged in this country, and those of Spain in Mexico, there would remain no insurmountable obstacles to the extension of his power on the continent of Europe; for while he, aided by Victor Emanuel, made war upon Austria, and dictated terms to the rest of Germany, Russia, in consideration of not opposing him, would take possession of Con- stantinople, and cut off the overland communica- tion with India. Thus, in Central and Eastern Eu- rope, France and the Power of the North would be simultaneously engaged in destroying the balance of power for their own aggrandize- ment. What could England do at sucha time to oppose this tide of invasion? Her own greatness would be destroyed, her own existence imperiled. France and Russia would become the dominant Powers in Europe, and, with the peace of the world so far destroyed, it is impossible to tell how far the work of conquest would proceed. For our own part, we do not believe that the Palmerston administration will either yield to party clamor or become a prey to the machina- tions of the Inscrutable of the Tuileries. It will consequently expose itself to the danger of a defeat, in which event it will have the option of resigning or of calling for a general election. Probably it will have sufficient faith in the sober thought and good sense of the people at large to prefer the latter; and, if it does 80, we have little apprehension of the party in favor of war with the United States being installed in power. The Palmerston government, being thus restored to public and parliamentary con- fidence, will adhere to its present course of neutrality. It is only in case Palmerston goes out of office that we fear the blockade will be broken. Even if the present adminis- tration should be led to acknowledge the con- federacy, we feel sanguine that so long as Pal- merston is at the head of affairs he will use every effort to prevent Great Britain committing such a piece of political folly, not to say suicide, as going to war with the United States when there is neither: reason nor object for it. The want of cotton cannot be alleged as an excuse for such a course, as the supply in the Lancashire warehouses is still large—larger than it was at this time last year—and, with the diminished demand for the manufactured ar- ticle, some months must elapse before there can be any outcry for the raw material. On the whole, therefore, although we antici- pate a period of great political agitation in the English Parliament on the blockade question, growing to some extent out of the affair of the Trent and ite discussion, we are sanguine, judg- ing from the complexion of the news by the Europa, published this morning, of being al- lowed to put an end to this rebellion in our own way, without any interference on the part of foreign nations. Tae Inapequacy or Our Postar System.— When we institute s comparison between the postal systems of Great Britain and the United States, the utter inadequacy of our own to meet the public wants is as striking as the efficiency of that enjoyed by the people of England. In the matter of town and city delivery the English system is especially excellent. “Letters, may be posted in London at any drop letter box about the streets without any extra expense, and every hour during the day they are called for, sorted at the district office, and immediately sent out for delivery. If posted just before the time of collection, they will be delivered at va- rious points of the city in less than an hour af- terwards. No prepayment of inland letters is required, and there is a uniform rate for all printed matter, including engravings. With us, however, our city collection and delivery of letters are simply an absurdity. It is true there are pillar boxes for their reception about town; but they are called for at such long in- tervals, and subjected to so much delay before they are flually sent out for delivery—when the postman levies an additional two cents upon them—that the public find the Post Office too unsatisfactory to be resorted to in any but spe- cial causes. Moreover, there is a tax of an extra cent upon country letters put in the street boxes, without the prepayment of which any letter will be sent to the Dead Letter Office at Washington. Hundreds of thousands of letters have throughout the country from time to time been deposited in ignorance of this rule, and, instead of reaching the hands of those for whom they were intended, have been consigned to oblivion and flames at the General Post Office. With respect to printed matter we have many different rates; and, as they are unknown to the great majority of the public, tho hopeless confusion of the arrangement is apparent enough. What we require are a more expedi- tious gity delivery—say hourly between ten A,