The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HER: JAMES Gorpon ‘BENEETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OPFIOE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. beg the sic. “Somat "hah Sis rvon! a Noe Fone ig / fo cant copy. $7 per annum. es Smee fie Lae ilih ond tao ech to cats on Wednesday, at four conts per CE, containing important Of the worlds Wf toad wilthe for. Forzian ety Haeturenn To Beat aus Lunvene amo Pick AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—lits Last Lags—Mons, Ma.LBD—KEN TUCK. AN. GARDEN, Broadway.—Ssaious Faxity—Naud a WAILACK'S THEATRE, No. 544 Brosdway.—Town axo Counts. GAURA KBENE'S TIRATRE, Brosdway.-0ce - cam Vow sey sale ries BOWERY THRATRE, Bowery. —_ ‘TRE, Bowery.—Sricxnar'’s Nationa BOWERY THEATRE wery. Kann vaks— GUsBo—YANRBE oo salliona i RBAnD BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Cox Norr—Livine Htrrororamus, Waatx, £ I hours. 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The attack of the Burnside ficet on Roanoke Island seems, from news received at Fortress Mon- roe, to have continued all day Saturday without any definite result, as far as can be gleaned from the rebel accounts. It is significant and pro- phetic of our success, however, that the rebsl authorities admit the loss of at Teast one or more of their gunboats. The intelligence brought to Fortress Monroe, ia the firat instaace, by theJlady who conveyed it from the rebel General Huger's office in Norfolk, appears to have:beéu misapprehended. She stated that it was the rebels and not our forces who were ‘twice Tepulsed:"" This would, of course, change the whole aspect of adairs, and strengihens the con- viction that General Burnside is now, or soon will be, in possession of Roanoke Island. ‘We give additional particulars to-day of the late brilliant victory at Fort Henry, Tennessee. A despatch, received in St. Louis on Sunday, states that the rebels were encamped at a point not far from the fort. The services of General Halleck and General Grant in this affair have been properly soknowledged by the Secretary of War and the i Commander-in-Chief, General McClellan. ‘The !at- ter has sent the following brief and pithy despatch to General Halleck:—“‘Thank General Grant, Piag Officer Foote, and their commands, for me.” Commodore Foote has sent to Chicago for two handred men for the gunboats, and says if they are furnished speedily he will attack Colambus’ take it, and sweep the Tennessee river. j Brigadier General Stone was arrested in Wash- ington on Sunday morning at two o'clock by » | posse of the Provost Marshel’s force, and <ent | | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 1862. become with the difficulties of his situation that he has sent agents to the Governors and other tary authogjties of this State and Mississippi, ursing on the 3ist of January, ct 92% a 92% for money mili- | 4 severe storm in the Irish channel had caused much damage to shipping. Lord Palmersto” had solicited his Parliamentary supporters tobe punc- them to reinforce him as soon as possible to the | tual in their attendance at the opening of the full extent of their abilities. In this State steps to that end have already been taken, bat it would be imprudent to disclose the description or strength of the reinforcements that are about to be for- warded to him." | ‘The America at Halifax brings news from Europe | dated to the 28th of January, four days later than that received by the Nova Scotians | By the arrival of the Jura at Portland last aight, however, we have dates of the 30th and 3iat ult.— five days later—from which we learn that Louis Napoleon, in his address to the French Corps Legislatif on the 27th, stated that although the civil war in America compromised the commer. cial interests of France, yet as long as the rights of neutrals were respected, they should confine themselves to the earnest wish that the dissensions in this country would soon be brought to an end. The Jura brings intelligence of the arrival of Mason and Slidell at Southampton. No enthusiasm was manifested on their arrival. Earl Russell, in a despatch to Lord Lyons, rejects Mr. Seward's doctrine of the rights of neutrals, as laid down by him in his correspondence on the Trent affair. The London Times again warns the British Cabinet against active intervention in American affairs, and says that England can afford to wait, This seems to be enunciated in rather an unfriendly spirit towards our government, for the writer adds that the federals and confederates are spending about ten millions of dollars a week in looking at The Times also alleges that England has been true to her position each other across the Potomac. on neutral and maritime rights all through the dis- cussion of the Trent affair. Some of the London journals, as well as a num- ber of the Paris papers, inveigh against the block- ade, but in both cities several newspapers upheld the action of the government in Washington. A despatch from Algiers would lead one to sup” pose that the Sumter had fought and destroyed a vessel off that coast; but it was not credited, as the privateer was about Genoa at the time re“ ferred to. The Spanish authorities at Cadiz say that they merely sheiteted the Sumter when she was in great distress in consequence of an accident. The Nashville was still at Sontzampton, but it was romored that she was ordered to quit that port. Commander Craven, of the Tascarora, had been accused of anchoring his vessel off Osborne, in “‘ discourtesy’’ to the Queen. The gallant of- ficer had denied the charge in a public letter. The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs bad sub- mitted the subject of the invasion of Mexico to the Cortes defending the plan of the government. He had, however, no cheering news to communicate. General Almonte was in Paria, waiting to retarn to Mexico with a detachment of troops and sailors. CONGRESS. In the Semate yesterday, the resolutions of the Legislature of New York in favor of allowing each State to assess ahd collect its portion of the na- tional tax were presented; also the resolution of the New York Chamber of Commerce relative to the national finances; alsoa petition asking amend- ment of the laws regarding pilots and pilotage. A petition was presented from citizens of Maine, asking Congress to drop the negro question and attend to the buaivess of the country—to sustain the Presideut and General McClellan, aad support The Military Committee was as to the expedien- s military road from Peint Douglas, Minnesota, to Superior City, Wisconsin, Notice was given of hill to establish a national foundry. A bill con- cerning contracts and ovders for government sup- plies was appropriately referred, The bill to in- corporate the Ceorgetown and Washington Mail- the constitation. divected to inquire cy of covstrneting roxd Company was taken up. The bill was | seasion. Napoleon had received the new Papal Nuncio, His address to the prelate proclaims a fair religious spirit, but does not harmonize with the idea ef supporting the temporalities of the Pope. His Holiness did not appear inclined to yield the point, however. The Prussian govern- ment had an executive difficulty with the Arch- bishop of Posen. His Grace defended the conduct of the Poles towards Russia. The Russian govern- ment had made very liberal concessions to the Jews. Satisfactory news had been received ia England from Japan. The government of India had given additional facilities for the export of cotton. The French had gained new victories in Cochin-China. In China proper the rebellion was dying out. No business was transacted in either branch of our State Legislature yesterday. There not being a quorum inthe Senate at the hour of meeting, the few Senators present resolved to afjourn for the day. In the Assembly the journal of Satur. day's proceedings was read; but nothing further was done, and that body also adjourned till to-day. A Toronto paper says the aqueduct of the Wel- Jand czaal could be destroyed by half a dozen men ina few hours. This canal passes around Niagara Falls on the Canada side, and if the aqueduct were destroyed all water communication between Lake Ontario aid the upper lakes would be cut off. Ex-Governor Joseph A. Wright, of Indiana, is talked of as the successor of Jesse D. Bright in the United States Senate. Mr. Wright is a de- mocrat, and was at one'time very strong in his par- tisan feelings. The old whig papers used to say that Bright was never right and Wright was not bright. Mr. Hackley appeared before the Street Clean- ing Committee yesterday. He denied taking ad- vantage of any loose clauses in the charter, and be- lieves that cight out of every ten persons are highly gratified with the present condition of the streets. A full report of the proceedings is given elsewhere, and will amply repay perusal. At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen last even- ing, the report of the Central Park Commission was received, and one thousand copies ordered to be printed. An interesting synopsis of the docu- ment is given in another column, ‘The Board of Councilmen held a short session last evening. The Street Commissioner was di- rected to have all encumbrances in Battery place, and also on the Battery enlargement, removed forth- with. Mr. Hogan offered a series of resolutions directing the Street Commissioner to advertise for proposals to enter into 8 contract for the comple- tion of the Battery enlargement, and instructing the Corporation Counsel to commence proceedings against the present contractor for the recorery of damages, by reason of the non-fultiiment of the contract for the Battery enlargement. Mr. Hayes presented a resolution, which was adopted, re~ questing his Honor the Mayor to withhold his sig- nature from all warrants drawn in favor of Andrew J. Hackley, until he deems, in his judgment, the terms of the street cleaning contract are complied with. The ice im the Central Park was in very fair condition yesterday, and was patronized by a large concourse of skaters. Should the present weather continue, we may yet hope for many more days of skating this season. We have already had thirty-one days of that sport on the Central Park, twenty-seven of which have been on both ponds. Last year we had but twenty-seven days’ skating altogether, and vone at all after the 10th of February. We onght to be thankful for small favors. The trial of Frederick Leever, charged with killing Thomas Ryan, on New Yeer’s night. at the saloon of the accused, was commenced yesterday in the General Sessions, before Reeorder Hoffwan. | It appears that Leever was the proprietor of a | dancing saloon in James street, and that while his ' guests of both sexes were enjoying themselves a j row took piace, which assumed serious propor- tions, and during the affray Ryan was fatally shot. Messrs. Brady and Spencer defend the prisoner. ‘The case will be finished to-day, and will probably end in a verdict of one of the lower grades of menslaughier. According to the City Inspector's report. there were 422 deaths in the vity during the past week — an increase of 33 compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 56 more than occurred | daring the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 2 deaths of alcoholiem, 3 of diseases of the hones, joints, &c.; 92 of the brain } to Fort Lafayette, where he arrived yen | amended so asto give three per cent of the re- | and nerves, 8 of the gen , itive organs, 12 of the z ,” | cepts of the road for the support of public shools, | heart and blood vessels, 164 of the lungs, throat, terday afternoon. The charges against Gene’ | o4 then passed. The report of the Conference | &e.; 3 of old age, 19 of diseases of the skin and ral Stone appear to be of a very serious character. They are embodied in the following summary: { First, for misbehavior at the battle of Ball's Blatt; | second, for holding correspondence with the { enemy before and since the battle of ; Ball's Bio, and receiving visits from | rebel officers in his camp; third, for! treacherously suffering the enemy to build } a fort or strong work, since the bettie of Ball’: | Bluff, under his guns without molestation. Fowr!/ — | For a treacherous design to expose his force to } capture and destruction by the enemy, under pre | teace of orders for amovement from the Command. | iag General which had not been given. ‘It ix said i that a Court Martial will be called to try these | charges against the General. ‘The extracts from the Southern papers which we | publish to-day will be found highly ing, both os. regards their speculations upon the projects and probable success of the Burnside expedition, and other matters of @rave importance to the future of the Southern confederacy. The Richmond correspondence interest Of the Charleston Mercury deacribes the article in | the London Times on Mason and Slidell ax ‘a blow between the eyes” entirely unlooked for. ‘This sa- gacious writer, however, endeavors to interpret the tone of the Times in a spirit entirely friendly to the rebel States, by « species of logic not very « cleat aor sabstantia!. steamship Calhoun, which was attacked by onr squadron while running the blockade on ber trip from Havana to New Orleans, and was abandoned and set on fire by her crew, was not burned us re- ported, but fell into the hands of the Vaion vessel eatirely anburt, and with « cargo valued at $300,- 090 on board, incliding forty tons of gunpowder & large quantity of rifles and munitions of war. How imminent the condition of the rebels st Columbos is considered may be gathered from the following statement in the Charleston Courier: “The aathorities at Columbus have information from a source apon which dependence ia placed, hat the federals are now making such dispositions of their forces in Kentucky and Missouri as will enable them to bring overwhelming numbers Against Columbus, and at the name time march a powerful column down the west hank of the Misia hij The great rise in the Ohio, Camberland and ‘Tenneanes rivers will facilitate their movements in hontucky. The attack is appointed to take place Within @ fortaight. So improused has General Pork According to the New Orieans Delia the rebel { | inquire into the expediency of establishing a na- | tional s#vings institution und govermm | 4 i } Committce authorizing Home Guards in Missouri and Maryland was agreed to, and the bill passed. The resolution directing the Finance Committee to agency was taken up. Mr. Simmous proceeded to explain the obj of the scheme, bat guve way for an executive session, during which a number of military ond civil appointments were confirmed. io the House of Representatives the 5 pith authorizing the iseue of ten millions of dotle demand Treasury notes was passed nnspim Mr. Crittenden, by unan prese cousent, nous | « petition from Philadelphia, sigoed by the first men of that city, proposing that on the 22d of February Washington's Farewell Address be read in one of the houses of Congress, by the President of | the Senate or Speaker of the House, in the pre- | sence of both branches, and that the Presi- dent, the wembers of the Cabinet, ex-Preai- | dente of the United States the Judges } of the Supreme Court, the offieers of the | army and navy, and all distingnisbed citi- printed in pamphlet form aod largely distributed: that the address or portions of it be read at the ead of (he armies aud on shipboard, as the higheat ineeutive to onr brave d nders. The petitioners also pray that Congress pase a joint resolution to carry the above into eflect. My. Crittenden offered @ joint resolution to reter the petition to a alert cowmittee of five, and that they report thereon An amendment, that the Declaration of Sadepen- dence, and Secretary Stanton’s order ta the army | after the victory at Mill Springs, be remd at the same time, wae agreed to, and the resolution adopted, The Senate resolution anthorizing the detail of three naval officers to inspect transports in the service of the War Department war adopted. ‘The report of the Committee on Elections relative to the claim of Mr. Segar to represemt the First district of Virginia in the present Congrése wax disenased at some length, and then lvid aside till to-day. The Senate's amendment to the bill aa thotizing the parebase of ¢ seed for distribn tion, 90 that $1,000 could also be expended for tobacco seed, wae concurred in, and the Honse adjonrned, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steomship America, which left Liverpooi on the With and Queenstown on the 26th of January, reached Halifax yesterday. The Jura, from Liver- pool 20th, and Londonderry stat nit., arrived at Portland yesterday press that the Ameriea went aground on a mud bank ip Queenstown harbor from Sanday (iéth) to Tnesday, the 29th January. The advices by these arrivals ave sight days later than those received by the Now Scotian The Liverpool cotton market closed firm on the 56th ultimo, with an advance of one-quarter of a penoy. Brendstuffs were dul! aud downward, and provisions beavy. Console clowwd in London i i be iuvited to attend: that the proceedings of } the day, including the prayer and the address, be | Mr. BE. Cunard informs the | and was ‘ao } eruptive fevers, 6 premature births, 42 of diseases { of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 19 of general fevers, 12 of diseases of the winary organs, | unkuown, and 9 from violent causes. ‘There were 312 natives of the United States, 4 of Mngland. 76 of Ireland, 16 of Germany, | Lof Scottand, and the balance of various foreign countries. | The cotton market yesterday, under the influence of the America’s uews, wae rather heavy, while the sales embraced avout 200 bales, including « portion known as wol rotten on the basis of 2c. a 30¢. for middling js. The flour market wes heavy and inactive ua- | der thy news. amd fell off be. per bbI., especially | for the common aad mediam graces, Whent was irre | guinr nod inactive for inferior qualities. Prime to | choiee lore were i Sight supply, and prices quite firm Corn was easier, while valee were moderate at Gic. hice. lor Western mixed i@ store and delivered. Pork was unchanged. ht nd cloved at | $1225 for old do. , FL | for ty prim and Sugars were steady, with sales of and 81 pores. Coffen was steady but quiet. Freights were in- | changed and engagements fair Svos. More ANTiAStavery Aurratios.—That | abolition agitator, Dr. Cheever, is busy all } over the country at his diabolical work, and | fitx about from w York to Harria- | burg, aod from Barrisbarg to Washing: | tom, like an evil spirit. It reflects vo credit j upon Congress that Cheever is allowed to preach in the House of Representatives. He is one of the fanatics who have caused this war, aod what he calls his “sermona” are in reality abolition harangues, as offensive to thes Al- mighty as to the conservative public. All pub- lic baily should be closed against this villanous agitator, and the newspapers should refuse to publish a word of his disnnion orations. He and his co-agitulore should be left severely un- noticed until the government prepares cells for them in Fort Lafayette, or until they strangle with their own bile-—as they would soon if they were prevented from voiding it in public. Tun New Grrr Crarver.—A new gity char. ter is upon the stocks at Albany, we notice, It is not exactly what we desire, but, as far as it goes, iv very good, We will take this proposed charter a* the first instalment of the good things to come, however, if it is only hurried along. But why should there not be a clause inserted in it giving the Mayor the entire con- trol of the police? We have, st last,» good * efficient and honest Mayor, and we should give ‘him a chance to show his qualities by giving | him some power and some authority. But, | above all, this charter business must be hurried ! up. We waat the new charter hy spring, so | that, during one summer at least, we shall have | evn atroote and « healthy city Southern Troubles Concerning Bag. | Our Washington Correspondents and land—The Rebellion Hard Aground. Among the Southern rebel newspaper ex- tracts which we publish to-day, an editorial and a Richmond letter of the Charleston Mor- oury, in reference to the position and purposes of England upon American affairs, will be found extremely interesting, and suggestive of the impending collapse of this hopeless rebel- lion. In the editorial in question our doleful Charleston contemporary frankly opens his mind in the declaration that “the people of the South have never comprehended the odium which is unceasingly attached to their inatitu- tions (slavery) in England.” But then they are consoled with the assurance that “not all England will approve the brutal and wanton assault upon Messrs. Mason and Slidell by the London Times,” but that a large portion of the English people are open to conviction, and that the government may possibly still be made to recognise the power of cotton. The 's Richmond correspondent also flatly confesses that the British journal referred to, in contemp- tuously designating Mason and Slidell as “those follows,” and in putting them on the same level as “two negroes,” “has given us a blow between the eyes which was not expected;” but then, on the other hand, “Punch is heaping endloas ridi- cule on Yankeedom.”’ Upon the whole, how- ever, our Richmond rebel philosopher con- siders the Southern confederacy as enveloped jn very dubious English fog. “We look to cotton,” he says, but English statesmen look “to the vast movements’on the continental chesa- board” of Europe, and are therefore afraid to move to the relief of Jeff. Davis until they can see their way a little more clearly before them. In the next place, from the standpoint of this Richmond Southern confederacy apostle, this Spanish invasion of Mexico, with the co- operation and under the management of Eng- land and France, and the designs of England upon Centra! America and the Isthmus of Panama, are decidediy alarming. They fore shadow a transatlantic balance of power on this continent which spoils the programme ofa great, independent, progressive and expanding South- ern pro-slavery confederation, and which possi- bly my bring about a combination of the United States with the Southern confederacy to check these Buropean encroachments on this side of the water, and to prevent English domination on the isthmus of Panama. * “The possibility” of this thing, it appears, “is studiously con- sidered in the closets of Downing street.” Ac- cordingly, English intervention in bebalf of deff. Davis becomes a matter of very question- able expediency, and is not to he counted upon at Richmond. But we have a very important item of infor- mation touching the desperate extremities to which Jeff. Davis and his ruling confederates are driven to secure the intervention of Eng. land. ‘They have tried cottoa, and ali the blessings of free trade in every shape and form best calculated to influence English cupidity; but they have failed. The “odium which un- ceasingly attaches to Southern institutions” in England stands in the way. And what then? Simply this, that in their desperation the emis- saries of our Southern rebel government have been making overtures for the intervention of England upoa the humanitarian equivalent of the gradual abolition of Southern slavery. {0 other words, the leaders who conirived, or- ganized and precipitated this rebellion against the government of the Union, to save, protect and extend the institution of Southern slavery under an independent filibustering pro-alavery confederacy, are now ready to sacrifice the whole South to England, slavery and all, in order to save their villainous necks from the halter. Let this fact, which has pot yet been ven- tilated by the newspaper organs of Davis, be made known to the slaveholders of the South, and the delusion that they are fighting against the Union to save their peculiar institation will vanish. As the matter now stands, the Euro- pean armed intervention to settle the affairs of Mexico utterly destroys the Southern con- federacy projected by Yancey, Davis, Toombs, Mason, Slidell and company. Their coufedera- cy comprebended the rapid absorption of Mexi- co, Central America and the West India islands. and the monopoly of their tropical products under slave iabor in the markets of the world. ‘This dream is ended, and now the question re- curs, what safety will there be to Sonthera sfa- very out of the Union, overshadowed by the anti-slavery power of the North on the one side, and by a Enropean anti-slavery protectorate or sovereign Governor General over Mexico on the other side? We answer, that henceforward the peculiar institution of the South is doomed outside the Union, under any European agree- ments whatever for Southern independence. Our abolitionist disorganizers understand this thoroughly in their cry of “emancipation or separation;” for they have carefully studied it out that the separation of the South from the Union will not stop short of the abolition or extirpation of Southern slavery. The only alternative, then, of safety to our revolied States is to return at once to the ark of the Union. The tederal constitution will protect them and their domestic institution against domestic disorganizers; and the two sections of the Union reunited will at once be strong enough to enforce the Monroe doctrine of European non-intervention in Mexico, Cen- tral America and the West India islands, and in Canada and the adjoining British provinces, too, if necessary. At all events, the rebel Newspaper extracts upon which we have founded this article are strongly suggestive of the failure of Southern cotton and a Southern free trade confederacy, as bribes to entangle Jobn Bull in a war with the United States; and as the rebel leaders, without European assist- ance, begin to realize their hopeless situation, the sooner the Southern people turn them adrift and return to the Union the better it will be for Southern cotton, Southern rights. Southern slavery, and all the living Southern victims of Davie and his confederates, and their extor- tionate and exhausting Southern despotism. ‘lye, Misston to THe Sovrs.—The rebels, we observe, have refused to receive the commis- sioners appoiated to inquire into the condition of the Northern prisoners at the South. This is a watter of little consequence, however. We have the satisfaction of knowing that, although they may not just now receive the gentlemen in question, they are sure to receive Burnside, Thomas, Buell, Porter and others, who may be expected to make their appearance in the con- federacy within « very short time, and after that the question will be satisfactorily decidot for all who may follow the War Department. . In another column we publish an order of the Secretary of War ordering the arrest and confinement in Fort McHenry, of Mr, Ives, one of our Wi correspondents, for intrud- ing himself into the office of the War Depart- ment with a view of obtaining information about military movements prohibited to the public, and for threatening the department with the hostility of the Hxnaxp in the event of such information being withheld—a course of con- duct which has led the department to the con- clusion that Mr. Ives, under the cloak of beinga correspondent for a New York paper, was play- ing the part of aspy to the Southern confede- racy—a conclusion which derives somo color from the fact of Mr. Ives having a brother an officer in the Confederate army, who, previous to the rebellion, held a commission in the army of the United States. ; All the knowledge we have of this transac- tion is what is contained in the order of Mr. Secretary Stanton; and, if the information upon which that order is based be cor- rect, wo have no boesitation in saying that the Secretary of War bas acted with a prompti- tude which we highly approve, and with a fideli- ty tohis trust which is worthy of imitation by all others in authority. If Mr. ives has impro- perly sought for military secrets at the War Department he has transcended hia duty to the Hexatp. We need not tell our readers that we have never left any stone unturned to procure for them the earliest and most reliable news. But to accomplish this we haye never adopted any meaus not etrictly legitimate and in accord- ance with the rules of propriety; and since this war began we have never published a line from which the enemy could gain any information respecting the future movements of the army. While we witnessed in other journals the pub- lication of such intelligence, we withheld it from the public, though in possession of the facts long before, because we would not permit our columns, in any shape or form, to give to the enemy. Allthe military and naval com. manders can boar witness to the truth of this statement. Our invariable instructions to our correspondents in Washington and elsewhere have been to obey the orders of the depart- ments, and not to write anything in their despatches or letters about the future move- ments of troops or the destination of naval ex- peditions, but to send us the best avd earliest intelligence of what had been done—intelli- gence of which the enemy was already in pos- session. If any correspondent should act other- wise, that is his misfortune, and not our fault. As to the threats referred to in Mr. Stauton’s order, we need scarcely say that such were not authorized by us, and that it is not our habit to threaten. If any correspondent should so far forget himself as to pursne such a course, he must know that his threats could not be carried out, and that he only makes himself ridiculous. If Mr. Ives has done 60, he deserves punish- ment, thongh perhaps the severity of that now inflicted exceeds the measure of his offence. That be attempted to act the part of a spy is scarcely credible, and the suspicion seems to be based entirely on two grounds, aeither of which is sufficient to sustain it. One of these grounds is entirely untrue, and the other is a non sequitur. It ia stated that Mr. Ives is a Southern man. This is not a fact. He was born and brought up in the city of New York, and isa son of Dr. Ives, a professional gentle- man of high reputation, and well known in this city thirty-five years ago. As to the other point, about his brother being in the rebel army, we hold that, though it may excite suspi- cion, it does not really amount to anything. One of Mr. Crittenden’s sons holds a command in the Union army, and another lately com- manded the rebels at the battle of Mill Springs, At the capture of Port Royal, one brother, Drayton, gallantly commanded a gunboat in the* naval expedition, while another brother commanded the insurgents on the land. In- stances of this kind might be multiplied, and the same thing occurs in all civil wars. Too much stress, therefore, ought aot to be laid on such a circumstance as this. As yet we have heard only one side of the story; and the other season for arresting Mr. Ives aaa spy may be as groundless as that which assigns that he is a Southern man. It is possible that Mr. Stanton may have acted upon erroneous information. But if he has not, we have not only no fault to find with his decision, | but heartily wish’ that a little more vigilance and viger had been exercised hy the govern- ment before in preventing the publication of accounts in other New York papers of the Sherman expedition, the Burnside expedition, and of those projected by Commodore Du- pont subsequent to his capture of the rebel forts at Port Royal—intelligence which is known to have put the enemy on his guard, and to have prevented important succe: which might otherwise have beeu achieved. Leaistation Uron Orrices wirn Perqui, sires.—We believe that it is proposed in the Legislature to make the Shrivalty and County Clerkship offices of salary, and to deprive the Sheriff and Clerk of their immense perquisites. This is a» move in the right direction, and all the public offices should be conducted upon the same just principle. Every agent and employe of the government should receive a fair, stated ‘alary, and be independent of perquisites. Perquisites or fees are simply « necessary tax | and projecting impudently into the street, are an architectural abomination. They are objec- tionable, also, upon sanitary principles, for they seem expressly designed to keep the rooms intensely warm in summer and intensely cold in winter. They have a show window look decidedly inappropriate in a private dwelling, and should be consistently left to the tender mercies of those storekeepers who exhibit patent rocking horses or fancy coffins. Necessity of Immediate Taxation. Now that the Treasury Note bill has passed the House of Representatives, the Tax bill ia next in order, and ought to be reported imme- diately by the Committeé of: Ways and Means. It is the only solid foundation on which to rest the Treasury Note bill and the other bills which constitute the series of financial measures essen- tial to the existence of the government. Itis only from the proceeds of the Twx bill that the interest on the bonds which are to be the basis of the Treasury Note bill can be paid; and provision be not made for the payment of the interest the bonds will soon become of doubtful value, and the Treasury notes will be ruinously depreciated. The sooner the Tax bill, there- fore, is brought forward the better, for it fs thie alone that will create confidence in the sbcuri- ties of the government. Why should the com. mittee hesitate to produce the bill? It is one of absolute necessity, demanded for the sus- tainment of the credit and good faith of the aa- tion. Upon it, moreover, depends the succese of the war. Our naval and military operations are of a highly encouraging nature, and every omen indicates a triumphant issue to the pro- gress of our arms. But money in abundance is needed at every step; without it nothing can be done; both army and. navy will be paralyzed; all the ground that has been gained will have to be abandoned, and all the blood and treasure expended will be in vain. Now, moncy without iaxes is impossible, and not a moment, therefore, ought to be lost in per- fecting the necessary measure for organizing a *| comprehensive system of taxation. It is true that the imposition of direct taxes by the federal government is a new thing in this country, and many mombers of Congress will probably deem it unpopular. In this they are mistaken. But if it were true, there is something more unpopu- lar still, and that is the surrender of the Union cemented by the blood of our ancestors. With out sufficient taxation the surrender must be made, and then wo to those whose duty it was to have supplied the means of carrying on the war, but failed in the hour of need. The bill ought to be so framed that its opera- tion will reach all kinds of property and income, and thus the burden, being equitably distributed over all, will be scarcely felt by any particular ~ class. A tax of two hundred millions would be only about two cents every day for each indi vidual; and far more than that amount is abse- lately wasted_in every domestic circle, For the last thirty years we have squandered in super- fluous dress alone more than two hundred mil- lions per annum, and during that period the same amount has been lost by waste of food and injurious indulgence in drinks. We are the most extravagant nation om earth. No person who has not travelled in Europe can have any conception of the difference in economy between us and Europeans. By the nicest calculation they re gulate their expenditure according to their income, and if the income is large still there is economy, and wealth is accumulated instead of being dissipated in folly. We, on the contrary, never make any such calculation, and scatcely ever think of the morrow. The chief reason of this difference is that in Europe it is hard to make money. In this country, on the contrary, it is extromely easy. What is easily got is easi- ly gone. Wé have a fruitful soil, of illimitable extent, and a good climate; our egricultural productions are of great value, and our trade and commerce are widely extended. Hitherto we have been free from taxation, and we scarce- ly knew what to do with our money. Now we have something to do with all that is redundant. Our national existence is at stake, and it will require but a small exercise of economy to effect such a saving in our personal expenses as will be ample to preserve and defend it. The facility of obtaining moncy in this coun- try has not been favorable to the growth of either public or private virtue. It is one cause of the profligacy and corruption of our politi- cians in large cities. Profusion is the order of the day, and to keep pace with the times they plunder the people in order to keep fast horses and fast women. ‘We shall now be compelled ta adopt a style of living more like Europeans, and the morals of the community and our oa- tional affairs will ve in a more healthy condi- tion. Thus adversity will not be without its salutary uses. Another good result from vigorous taxation will be that the people will henceforth take a greater interest than they have done io publie affairs. Koger in the pursuit of money, they have too long neglected their duties to the republic to which they owe their freedom and protection. Now that they must put their hands into their pockets to pay the tax gatherer they will he more likely to lock sharply after the expenditure of the public money. They wil) watcb and visit with their indignation al! waste and corruption, and will not stand such enormous plunder as has taken piace since the beginning of the war. Had an adequate tax been laid on in the beginning, the shoddy specu- upon the public in return for the facilities ibe | ators im ay ei and brs awe in Mis- | souri and elsewhere. would pot have dared to offices afford. Su, like any other tax, they should be paid into the treasury for the benefit of the public, and not diverted into means for the rapid enrichment of the agents and office- holders. George D. Morgan, a government agent, made $90,000 in four months out of government perquisites. Was that just’ Should not the government have had the benefit of this great profit, and paid Mr. Morgan a reasonable salary for his labor? Our County Clerk and Sheriff are said to make thirty or forty thousand dollars a year each out of the perquisites of their offices. Is this a just compensation for the services they render! Is it not, on the con- “trary, ten times too large asum’ Let the Le- gislature go on, then, and inake these and all other offices salaried. The State and the public will gain largely by the reform. Iurrovements ws American Arcarrecturr.— Notwithstanding the hardness of the times, there are evident signs that a great many new build- ings will be erected during the coming spring and summer. We hope that this revolntionary era will be blessed with many improvements in American architecture; and, among other things, we recommend that houses be built with wider halls and broader stairs, and that the nuisance of bay windows be forever abated. Thos bay windows, ag wide aa the houag itself, | deeds in the would then have been impossible to have practised such gi- gentic cheating in horses nod firearms; Cummings would bave bad no chance of being entrusted with the expenditure of two millioay of dolar | to gat rid of some $200,000 of i, withont sufficient vouchers; aor would another sharp fellow be able t shave the govero- ment of $300,000 by a two and # half per cent to which be was not entitled. Let the Tax bill be therefore proceeded with immediately. Jt will do good in every way. It will prove ow’ strength, and silence the sneers of Europe. There is no nation which can beat taxation better, and none to which it can do so little idjury. England, in ber old age and decay, cay pay $380,000,000 per anoum. The resources of this young republic are fresh and boundless, and it will task them bat little to yield two hundred millions » year to sustain the glorious fabric erected to liberty by our forefathers. ‘The blessings which we all perpetrate such face of the people. It enjoy under our matchless constitution have come down to we withont money and without. joe. When we have t make some sacrifions for their preservation we will “Ber to value them mere highty than wa, boo. fore,