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No official despatches from General Burnside’s fleet have been received up to this time, nor is it probable that they will be for some cays yet, as the General, no doubt, intends to keep his move- ments to himself until the plans of the expedition are carried out to completion. The intelligence which the rebels themselves have furnished, how- ever, is anfficient for the time being. That our success at Roanoke Island has been all that could be expected is certain. Despatches from Fortress Monroe yesterday assure us that a fearful panic ex- ists in Norfolk, where anattack is hourly ex- pected.. The opinion prevailed at Norfolk that had it not been for the treachery of the North Carolina troops Roanoke Island would not have been captured; but when we con- sider the superior strength and unexampled bravery of our troops, we can hardly attribute our splendid success to the defectior of any portion of the enemy. The condition of Norfolk is repre- sented as desperate. According to the statement of arche! fugitive ed np in a small boat, en- deavoring to make his escape, the city his been Placed under martial law, and | for volun- teers to defend it has received nu . v:dial response from the citizens. We regret to learn that the great Sawyer gun st Newport News, burst on Tuesday afternoon while being fired off, killing two privates of the aitssachusetts Twenty-ninth regiment and wound- ing five or six others more or less seriously. We learn by a despatch to St. Louis, dated yesterday, that Commodore Foote, with the gun- boats St. Louis, Pittsburg and Louisville, left Cairo for the Cumberland river on Tuesday night, and that the Carondelet was to join them at Pa- dncah, their destination being Fort Donaldson, on the Cumberland river. The rapidity of the cur- rent against which the gunboats had to stem would probably delay their arrival at the fort until yesterday, at least. At this season of the year the tributary streams which supply the great Western rivers discharge their waters with tre- mendous force, and the ascent of such small boats a3 Foote’s squadron is composed of must be necessarily very slow. Hence if we should not hear of the reduction of Fort Donelson for a day or two we need not be surprised. No despatches from that quarter were received at headquarters yesterday. The only important news from Genera. Banks’ division, at Frederick, Md., is that the rebels are concentrating their forces between Leesburg and Point of Rocks, and that they are erecting batte ries in that vicinity. Another important step towards the successful prosecution of the war was adopted in Washington yesterday, by the passage of the Treasury Note bill by the Senate with the ‘legal tender” clause inserted. The government is thes placed in pos- session of the sinews of war, and with the speedy paseage of the Tax Dill the hands of the adminis. be strengthened for the prescut emer- tration w gency, and the credit of the nation will be placed | upon a safe and satisfactory basis. Our correspondence from Port Royal, Tybee Island and Warsaw Sound, published in to-day's Harato, gives a graphic account of affairs at those places. The military and naval expedition to Warsaw Sound is slowly advancing, and the rebels, Dy the cid of Tatnall’s flotilla, appear to keep fully informed as to its movements. Telegraphic com- munication has been cut off between Fort Pulaski and Savannah. The steamship Winfield Scott, in attempting to raake an inland passage in the direction of Pulaski, ran ashore, broke in two, and is now a total wreck. be cost the United States $100,000. Te would call the special aitention of our read- ©: to the highly interesting letters of our corres. yo ontat Key West. From them it will be seen Union fleet in the Gulf has at last got at work, and rebel craft are being cap- tu holesale. The capture of the rebel e ‘alhoun has been already noticed in the it Her cargo was very valuable, and the veR sclf is being converted into a gunboat. Fle il prove quite an acqnisition to our Gulf fot, a8 “0 is very swift and of light draft. Le v gunbon' Itasca recently captured H Gulf the rebel schooner Lizzie no, Sarmorly the W. C. Atwater, of New Wes- | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1862. London. She bad a cargo of three hundred bales of cotton worth $65,000. When the Union officers boarded her the rebel crew were in the act of firing her, but the alacrity of our officers prevented the consummation of the plan, and the prize was secured entire. The late expedition to Cedar Keys hy the United States gunboats Florida and Hatteras has proved @ perfect success. The rebel fortifications were found deserted, but before they left they fired six schooners to prevent them from falling into the hands of our gallant “tars.” The depot of the Florida Railroad was destroyed. Nineteen rebel soldiers were captured. Our gunboats secured @ large quantity of contraband goods. The expe- dition was a very brilliant affair. A very serious and probably fatal accident oc- curred « few weeks since, by which Lieutenant Samuel Marcy, commanding the sloop-of-war Vin- cennes, was injured so that his life is despaired of. The particulars will be found in our correspon” dent's letter. The schooner J. W. Wilder was captured off Pensacola in the latter part of January, by the United States gunboat Cuyler. She was loaded with coffee, soap, &c. A few days after the occur- rence the British Consul at Mobile sent a message to Commodore McKean demanding the release of the schooner, claiming her as British property: blown on the coast by stress of weather. The de- mand was promptly refused. A portion of Porter's mortar flotilla had arrived at Key West. CONGRESS* In the Senate, yesterday, the Treasury Note bill with the legal tender clause, and the clause pro- viding for the payment of the interest of the public debt in coin, was passed by a vote of thirty to seven. It now goes back to the House for action on the Senate’s amendments, which may delay its passage: but we are assured that its final passage ll be pressed with vigor. A conference com- mittee was appointed on the amendments to the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation bill. A bill fixing the number of representatives under the new apportionment was reported. The “bill fixes the number at two hundred and thirty-nine. Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, presented a series of resolu" tions declaratory of the rights of the States and of the United States. The series concludes with the following :—‘‘ That no State, by any vote of seces- sion, or any other act, can abrogate her rights oy obligations, or the obligations of the United States to preserve her people. in all their rights, and guarantee to them a State republican government- That there can be no confiscation of any property or the rights of loyal citizens, unless for acts de- clared to be criminal. That it is the duty of the United States to suppress the rebellion; to carry the ‘sword’ in one hand and the ‘olive branch’ in the other, and to restore the States as they were before the war.” In the House of Representatives, a resolution was adopted authorizing the Secretary of War to pay the Hannibal and St. Joseph and Pacific rail- road companies for the transportation of troops, munitions of war, &c., according to the schedules issued by the War Department in July last. Five thousand copies of the Bankrupt bill were ordered to be printed. The consideration of the Naval Appropriation bill was resumed in Committee of the Whole. A clause requiring that naval officers shall be employed to charter and purchase vessels when necessary, and wherever their services are not available the compensation to other parties for chartering and purchasing vessels shal! not exceed five thousand dollars per annum, and at the same rate for a shorter pericd of service, was agreed to. The committee then rose and the House adjourned: US NEWS. In the State Senate yesterday, alarge number of bills were reported upon from the committees, principally, though, of only a local or private cha- racter. Among those receiving favorable reports were the bills amending the Revised Statutes rola- tive to trials by juries; in relation to hawkers and petilers, and providing for examinations of the ac- counts of the Canal Department and State Trea- surer’s office. The bil! relative to the Court of General Sessions in this city was passed. The con- current resolution providing for the appointment of a commission to equalize the tax assessments and revise the Tax laws of the State was called up, debated, amended somewhat, and passed. Bills were introduced relative to the public health of the Metropolitan district, and for the constraction of a pier on the south side of pier 1 North river. A concurrent resolu” tion to adjourn over from the 19th to the 25th inst. was introduced, and,” under the rules, tabled for one day. The annual report of the Regents of the New York University was presented. In the Assembly a large portion of the session was taken up in a debate over the motion to extend the powers of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, in their investigations of alleged cor- ruptions in this and the previous Legislature. The extension was finally granted them, under the restriction that their investigations should becon- fined to charges made under oath. A compli- mentary concurrent resolution on our recent splendid naval and military victories was intro- duced. The Speaker announced the joint com- mittee of nine on the reapportionment of the State into Congressional districts. By the arrival of the steamer Columbia we have interesting news from Havana to the 8th of Febra- ary instant. It was generally believed in Havana that the present Captain General would soon relin- quish the government of the island. His adminis- tration has been very successful, and general regret ia expressed at his approaching departure. No Jeea than half a dozen cargoes of Africans had been landed on the Cuban coast, and the unforta- nate creatures scattered throughout the island. The health of the island is represented as being good. The New Orleans Delta had been y handled by the government organ for dis- ting false reports concerning the Cuban edministration. The Diario de la Marina has oleo been expending its wrath on the New Youre Hrnabp. The news from Mexico which we publish this morning will be found to be of considerable inte. rest. There is no confirmation of the report of the defeat of the Spaniards at the National Bridge; but, nevertheless, large bodies of Mexicans were in arms in the interior, waiting to strike for the liberty of their country. The Spaniards, as usual, were endeavoring to take the load in everything. Our Vera Cruz correspondent writes that Prim, the Marquia of Castillejos, hag the ambitious design of bec-ming king or dictator of Mexico. The pro- clamation of the allied Powers had been sent to President Juarez; bat the action of the Mexican government had not yet been distinctly stated. It is supposed that Juarez will demand the with- drawal of the foreign troops from Vera Cruz be” fore entering into negotiations. No one expected that the Mexicans would conform to the terms of the Spanish ultimatum. Large numbers of Mexi- cans, armed with the lasso, were forming into bands to skirt the mountains and make themselves useful in case of necessity. Her Majesty's steam- er Plover was lost on the coast of Mexico daring a severe galo. i The United States storeship Supply has arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, having on board the crews of the Lizzie Weston aad other schooners. United States Marshal Murray sent some of his aids to take them i The British steamer Plover, whi ver, sever harg thas joat been prize | wrecked at Alvarado, in the Gulf of Mexico, was & new screw vessel, mounting five guna. She was cbmmanded by the Honorable A. L. Corty, R. N., whose commission from the Admiralty is dated in 1849. Our despatch does not atate whether the Plover was wrecked off the town of Al¥arado or up in and at some point of the river Alvarado, at 4 distance from ita mouth. Near to Vera Cruz are “a town and river both named Alvarado. The town is situated at the mouth of the river, and lies forty miles southeast of Vera Cruz. It has a population of sixteen hundred persons. Its harbor is com- pletely locked in by the land, and is inaccessible to vessels drawing over ten feet of water. The river Alvarado runs a very tortuous course from the centre of the State of Oaxaca, and expands into a lake just before falling into the sea. The Seventh New Hampshire regiment left their quarters in White street yesterday for the seat of war. As an evidence that the late Union victories in Kentucky and Tennessee are to be followed up, and the rebels closely pressed with overwhelming forces, we notice the following recent movements of the Western troops:—Two brigades belonging to General Thomas L. Crittenden’s column left Hen- derson, Ky., on the 10th inst. to reinforce General Wallace, on the Cumberland river, near Fort Don- elson, The Forty-cighth Indiana regiment, Colonel Eddy, left Cairo on the 10th for Kentucky. The Twenty-fifth Indiana arrived at Cairo on the $d. The #he Fifty-second Indiana left Indianapolis on the 7th for Cairo, The Sixty-eighth Ohio, Colonel Samuel H, Steedman, left Cincinnati on the 9th for Louisville. The Seventy-sixth Ohio, Colonel Woods, left Cincinnati on the 10th for Louisville. The Fifty-eighth Ohio, Colonc! Bausenwein, left Camp Chase on the 9th for Louisville. The Third Ohio cavalry, Colonel Zahm, nearly twelve hundred strong, left Cincinnati on the 10th for Louisville. A company belonging to the First Ohio artillery left Cincinnati on the 10th for Louisville. The Fifty-eight Illinois, Colonel W. T. Lynch, left Chi- cago on the 10th for Cairo. The Fifty-first Illinois, Colonel Cummings, were to have started for Cairo yesterday. The Fifty-seventh Illinois, Colonel S. D. Baldwin, left Chicago on the 8th for Paducah, Ky. Colonel Brackett’s Illinois cavalry regiment is ordered to leave for Kentucky next week. Waterhouse’s Illinois battery has orders to start immediately for Cairo. The Second Iowa infantry left St. Louis for Kentucky on the 9th. The Second Towa cavalry, the Third Michigan cavairy and the Second Indiana cavalry regiments, now at St- Louis, have orders to take the field in Tennessee. Richard Morrison or Schuyler Colfax will proba- bly go into the seat formerly occupied by Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, in the United States Senate. An extended report of the late prize fight be- The Rebellion a Fatlurc-The Duty of Union Men of the South. It must at length be apparent to every inte)- ligent Southern man conversant with the or- ganization, the objects, the calculations of the conspirators, the outbreak, and the subsequent history of this rebellion, that it isa failure, a bankruptcy which will never pay one penny on the dollar, a South Sea bubble on a gigantic scale, which has been the ruin of thousands of dupes, and which, if longer adhered to by the people of our revolted States, will bring de- struction upon them all, including their vital institution of slavery. We say that, from acalm and dispassionate review of this rebellion, from its initial pro~ ecedings at the Charleston Democratic National Convention of 1860, down to this day, such must be the conclusion to which every intelligent Southern man will be brought, however strong his sympathies for Jeff. Davis or his hatred of “the Yankees.” The calculations upon which the conspirators precipitated this rebel- lion upon us, with the election of Mr. Lincoln were plausible, and to Southern men, fearful of the increasing power and bloody designs of the abolitionists, these estimates of # Southern confederacy were extremély fascinating. First, the States had, each for itself, the reserved right of secession, and against its exercise the federal government would have no right to interfere. Secondly, if the new administrétion ehould resolve upon coercion, it would unite the South and divide the North; for the North- ern State righia democracy would never con- sent to coercion. Thirdly, the disunion con- spirators, including the “Southern rights” members of Mr. Buchanan’s Cabinet, had pro- vided for the extremity of war by disarming the government and arming the disaffected States; and furthermore, in the event of war, Southern army and naval officers devoted to the South would be found sufficiently numer- ous to break up the army of the United States, and to bring over to the South a considerable number of the ships of the navy, including the valuable fleet and the immense stores of ammu” nition, artillery and projectiles provided in Nor- folk through the sagacious arrangements of Mr. Buchanan’s War Secretary, Floyd. Fourthly, asimple Southern coup d'etat, after the fashion of the French republican revolution of 1848, including, however, if necessary, the expulsion of Buchanan or the assassination of Lincoln, tween Mace and King for the championship of | would place the Southern confederacy league England will be found in the Herap this morning. The writer is scientifically minute in his descrip- tion of the ring, the appearance of the men, their action, and the progress of the battle to its con- clusion, and we have no doubt but his effort will prove interesting to many besides the professional experts in the ‘‘manly art.” King was defeated, in the forty-second round, by being thrown heavily on the ground by Mace, who rolled over him. He was rendered insensible for a time, and on the evening of the 29th ult. layin avery precarious condition in one of the London hospitals, suffering from concussion of his brain, and, perhaps, con- gestion of his spine. About two o’clock yesterday afternoon a fire broke out in the third story of No. 226 Pear) street, occupied by J. Morrison & Co., dealers in lamps kerosene oil; damage estimated at about $10,000. The stocks of hardware in the ad. joining stores of Thomas T. Smith, Wm. Carr and others were damaged by water—the total loss esti mated at abont $25,000. The fire is alleged to have been caused by the careJessness of a tinsmith, while soldering cans filled with kerosene oil. A requisition was in course of signature for a | special meeting of the Board of Aldermen for last evening; but, a sufficient number of names not being attached, the call was incomplete. It is probable that the Board will meet this evening. A special meeting of the Board of Supervisors was held yesterday. The resolutions passed by the Board and forwarded to the Mayor respecting the issue of the County Court House stock were recalled for the purpose of amendment, and were again sent to the Mayor. A communication was received relative to the Sheriff's term fees of the Excise Commissioners’ fund, representing that they absorbed nearly half the amount received for licenses, aud would, if not inquired into in time, absorb the whole. The communication was laid onthe table, and the opinion of the Corporation Counsel willbe taken as to their legality. The Board then adjourned until Monday, the 17th inst., @t three o'clock. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 300 bales tospinners, on the basis of 29¢. a 30c. for middling to strict middling uplands. The flour market exhibited moro animation and firmaess, and some grades, including round hoop Obio,!were rather better, while sales were to a fair extent. Wheat was firm for good to choico,qualities, which were scarce; other kinds were unchanged, while sales of all sorts were moderate, Corn was unchanged, while ghe market was steady, with sales at 66c. a 66¢. for Western mixed, in store and delivered. Pork was steady, with some inquiry for future delivery, at $13 25; ‘ots on the spot sold at $12 874, a $13 for new mess, closing mainly at the inside figure. Sugars were more active and firmer for most grades. The sales embraced about 1,300 hdds., 300 boxes and 1,050 bags. Coffee war quiet, while sales were of @ retail character. Freights were ‘engaged to a fair extent at unchanged rates. ‘Tue Postrion ov Guxeras, McKinstry.—The friends of General McKinstry have assured us that the charges im Congress in General Thomas’ report, and in the report of the in- vestigating committee against McKinstry, are entirely ex parte and utterly groundless. No such charges have yet been made by the government, although General McKinstry has repeatedly demanded « court martial upon his conduct. His friends are very confident of his honesty and honor; contend that he should not be associated or identified with the crew of rascally Californians who flocked around Fre- mont in Missouri, and are sure that he is inno- cent and can prove himself so. We sincerely hope they may not be mistaken in their opinion. ‘Tar Ervwrency or Tan Navy.—Public atten- tion is generally directed to such exploits of our navy af the capture of Hatteras, the bom- bardment of Port Royal, the shelling of Fort Henry or the attack on Roanoke Island. But our gallant navy performs exploits quite as praiseworthy, though perhaps not so brilliantly attractive, as bombardments and engagements. A short time ago the rebel stoamer Calhoun was captured inthe Gulf of Mexico, and we thus obtained a new gunboat and $300,000 worth of munitions of war in powder, muskets and rifled cannon. Very recentfy, also, the Lizale Weston, with a most valuable cargo of three hundred bales of cotton, was captured by one of our blockading squadron. Yoster- day the storeship Supply arrived at this port, bringing a prize filled with munitions of war worth $125,000. Such a record as this shows that our navy is alive to its work, and as well for its efficiency as the more ox accounts of naval battles. Let the brave fol- lows who are upon the blockading servic member that their 4 are not fo oO ooked in the tmaid | raised by their brethren at Port Weary god \ Rosnoke 3 5 | rebellion, in i | thom all. Now is the time; for the rebe! lead uf the smoke and flame, | in possession of the capital of the Union, and thus enable them at once to command the re- cognition of foreign Powers, and to dictate the terms and the boundaries of a Southern con- federacy to the States adhering to their old government. But should all these calculations fail, and should the States committed to this programme of a new confederacy find themselves called upon to resist the consolidated strength of all parties in the loyal States, even to the extent of @ blockade of the whole Southern sea- coast, then “King Cotton” and free trade would infallibly secure for the rebellious South the armed intervention of England and France. There might be some little delay about it; but a few decisive battles, exhibiting the superior fighting qualities of the trained chivalry of the South against the “feeble and undisciplined rabble of Northern cities and Yankee factories,” would soon give to England -nd France the justification for intervention in half of Southern independence. Such was the schedule of calculations upon which a Southern minority, contemptible in numbers, but powerful as a body, from being organized, armed and desperate, were enabled to drag out and fasten ten other Southéfra States,as a tail to the secession kite of South Carolina. But how have all these beautiful and plausible, yet silly and shallow, theories of Southern independence turned out in being re- duced to a practical test?’ They haveall failed, from the beginning to the end, the State right of secession, a united South and a divided North, the disarming of the government and arming of the South, the great coup d’elat of the seizure of Washington, King Cotton. South ern chivalry and all. The government has rallied from its helpless situation. Weak in the ‘outset, disarmed, surrounded by traitors and spies, and groping in the dark, it is now strong, and sees its way clearly be- fore it. The government and the people of the loyal States have ceased to be troubled in their nightly dreams with visions of a rebel foray into Washington, and are anticipating an early opening to the United States mails, in- land, from the Potomac to New Orleans. The distribution of our well equipped and for- midable fleets and armies, from Kansas to Vir- |, ginia, and from Fortress Monroe to Ship Island, clearly indicates the speedy suffoca- tion of this rebellion. Somerset, Fort Henry, Roanoke Island, and the Union revelations of our late gunboat trip up the Tennessee river into Alabama, all point in the same direction— the overwhelming power of the Union, material and moral, and the exhaustion of this sinking Southern despotism of Davis and his confede- rates. There is no escape for it; and the sooner the suffering people of the South rise up and cast it off, and return to the protection of the Union, the better it will be for them. It is the duty of the Union men of the South, ® duty which they owe to themselves, their families, their domestic institutions and their immediate necessities, and their future safety, to rise up and shake off the shackles of this despotism of Davis. A prolongation of Southern resistance to the Union may possibly secure the intervention of England and France; but, should it come, it will be a fatal interven- tion to the independence, State rights and slavery system of the South. But we fully be. lieve. that before England and France can agree to interfere they will be relieved of every exouse and pretext for intervention by our fleets and armies; and in the meantime we sup pose we are moderate in setting down the re- sources of the revolted States absorbed by the rebel army at 4 million of dollars a day, to say nothing of the thre«cned lossof a whole cotton crop, the daily logs of contraband negroes, and the daily increasing distresses and confusion of Southern society Tho late gunboat reconnoissance of the Ten. neasee river confirms us in the conviction that there is « large dormant Union party of substan- tial citizens in all the revolted States. These Union men have only to unite among them- solves, and to rise and pronounce against this der to save their property, their cotton, their negroes, their domestic institutions and their State rights; for the Union will secu: re to resist } will not jon og) aye dongerans; t un ler th esent panic a popaiar Southe | legs, on + other band, ne m. De. | t white Mr. Senator Sumner proposes to decree the rebellious States as relieved of slavery and reduced go the subordinate condition of Territo- ries, Jeff. Davis and his colleagues are negotiat- ing to sell the South to England—slavery and all—for the mess of pottage of » Southern con- federacy. The Case of Mr. Maicolm Eves. We published a few days ago Mr. Secretary Stanton’s order directing the arrest and impri- sonment of Mr. Ives,and reciting the charges preferred against him. We received yesterday the following letter from Mr. Ives, who is now confined in Fort McHenry, and it is but fair that it should be published, in order that the case may be fully understood:— sama Gon mene, Font Moliaynr, Feb. U1, 1862 yn Sunday night I formed at Willar od son I bad not proviously if po da nel ny an gemce to give ine about some recent arrests, if I would step over te the Washington Herat office. As noon as I was Outside of the door he told me I was in custody, was brought hither by the next train to Baltimore, and have ‘been in Close confinement ever since. This morning the Baltimore journals were shown me, scat Pearesey necator a Saturday afternoon, at an hour whicn mace toss Kind enough to uame, and was afterwards received by Mr. Secretary Stanton, ‘I inquired of both ontlomon tteome arrangement could not be made by which appointments and removals iu the army could be published regularly and without uch. blunders as have occurrod in some of our newspapers; aud I suggested that the public good de- manded that inaccurate statements, “oalculated to deceive the friends of the parties concerned, should not app:ar. ‘Mr. Watson referred me entirely to Mr. Stanton, who, he said, reserved to him the power of treating such sub- Jects, I mado an impationt comment on the necessity ‘which the Secretary of War's engagements: created to prolong antochambering; but I did not imagine that my remark would be received aa insolent, nor as conveying & tnreat of hostility. On parting with Mr. Watson, he shook hands with me in a friendly manner, and I was unconscious of having morited or oxcitod his displeasure. ‘Yo the request from Mr. Stanton, of regular fists of new appointments, which [ proffered the more readily aa a similar one had been frooly acceded to, that very morn. ing, in another dopartment, I added strong remarks against the manner in which the relations of the Presi dent, the Commander-ia-Chief and members of the Cabi net with each other had been frequently misrepresented, and pressed the importance of his allowing tho Herato correspondents to ask freely for imformation from bira, which would enable them to contradict false rumors authoritatively. Mr. Stanton’s frankness, cordiality of manner, aad the confidence he had appeared to feel on previous aecasions, led me to speak with perfect unre- straint, and I expressod the wish strongly that the MaraLb might be given all the news possible, and how anxious [ waa to aid in keeping it in advance of other papers, and especially to enable it to maintain its promi nent position as a champion of tho administration, of the War Departinent itself and of General McClellan. If I failed in respect to Mr. Stanton, er addroased him with undue familiarity, I regrot it exeeedingly, and can only plead innocence of any sich intention: T was born in the Stato of New York; the brother who has joined the revel service, I have heid no communica- tion with for tyro years; nor have Tan acquaintance who isa seconsioniet to my knowle’g9; nor have I done or said anything which should lead mo to be snaprcted of being a “apy.” All my efforts have, on tho contrary, boon directed, ag an bumble attache of the IIkratp, to assist, under your direction, in the great work of restoring the integrity of the Union and crushing out armed treason in the most prompt andeffoctive manner, Neither have iever violated Knowingly any rule of the War Department. If T have contravened any regulation, it has been in ignorance. } think it right to state, howover, that the vory circum. stances my late errand ‘to Washington excited against me very bitter animosity i: the minds of certain individuals, and I was warned, on soveral ovcasions, that tho most absurd statements had been made respecting me, and that [had beon quoted as uttering sentiments which never fell from my lips. I ain morally sure that calumpious ropresentati'ns had bocn made to Mr. Stanton respecting me, previous to my interview with him of the 8th inst., and! attribute to them the erroneous eon. struction placed upon tay words by himself and Watson, and to the impression slander had loft on ¢ minds of those gentlemen, the greater part of charges contained in the order of the 10th inst. against“ MF trust that my loyalty and devotinn to tho Union and the constitution will speodily be made manifest to tho government, and that I shall then be released and en- abled to report to you in New Yori. With much re- spect, your obodient servant, MALCOLM IVES. Such is Mr. Ives’ story of the circumstances attending his arrest; and its tone is so different from that he is accused by Secretary Stantonof using inthe War Department that we imagine Fort McHenry has cooled the writer very greatly. We have but 9 word or two to add to the representations of Secretary Stan- ton and Mr. Ives. If Mr. Ives has his faults, he undoubtedly acquired them in the offices of the New York Times and the Journal of Commerce, with both of which papers he has had a long editorial connection. His position upon the Heratp he accurately describes as that of “an humble attache;” for he was never an editor of the Heratp; he had no control of this journal, and was, indeed, only an occasional writer, who contributed articles upon prescribed sub- jects, and in accordance with prescribed directions. We sent him to Washington for the simple purpose of making a single change in our corps of regular correspondents there. He had no authority from us to go to the War De- partment and make either such representations as those of which he is accused or those which he acknowledges. We have every respect for the War Department and the Secretary of War, and should as soon think of threatening Mr. Stanton or attempting to dictate to him as we would of allowing him or any other person to inter- fere with our business or dictate our opinions. For the rest, what we know of Mr. Ives is op- posed to the idea of his being a rebel spy. Ever since he has been with us he has professed the strongest loyalty to the Union. We hope that he may be able to make his inuocence ap- parent. Virne Chevalier Wikoff in His Glory. The Chevalier Wikoff is in his giory at last. | | proof that the influence which attracts #0 much He has got just what he wanted—comfortable board and lodging for the winter free of all pe- cuniary charge. For some time past Le has been going about Washington trying to geta contract of some sort from Secretary Cameron; but -nfortunately for him Cameron alway, humbugged him, and Wikoff was left out in the cold. The country lasat length, however, pro- vided him with a respectabie independence, and he will henceforth be able to walk officially up and down, to and from the House, the same as the Speaker, with that happy tranquillity of mind and conscience for which he has always been eminently distinguished. He will doubt- less enjoy his incarceration in the boarding house to which he has been consigned, and feel his recollections of old times pleasantly re. vived; for to him imprisonment is congenial, and a thing to which, from long habit, he has become cheerfully resigned. Was he not imprisoned with Prince Louis Napoleon, now Emperor of France, in the fortress at liam? And did he not taste the sweets of a protracted immure~ ment in a Genoese dungeon, remember- ing all the while—happy maon—that the great explorer, Marco Polo, had been there before him, and where else we know not. We are not aware whether he has ever been impri- soned with Lord Palmerston or any other of his particular foreign friends; but that he is capable of making himself perfectly at home in a prison, whether at Washington, in Tuscany or Timbactoo, we feel perfectly convinced Meanwhile the House of Representatives, to which he is indebted for the honor of this signal recognition, is not devoting its attention to the bank currency, the bankrupt law, or any ather of those vital questions which concern tho welfare of the nation. Oh, no ose things are much too trivial for its consideration, It wants to know how ax Heranp is managed, and how it cesds in getting early te enee of public eventa, In view of this, fore, and to be de- foated rdiole the Oheva. w Ye wilh a curiosity not ib yprisons een ncn ee a a NR . lier Wikoff for not answering what he knows nothing at all about. What could he have kaown or seen of the President’s Message before it was pub- lished in the daily newspapers? He might, or anybody might, have havarded a shrewd guess What more? However, facts are facts, as « certain old lady used to say, and there is uo disputing that Wikoff is at home in prisom again, and of course Louis Napoleon and Lord Palmerston, and the other great magnates of the earth whose friendship be has shared, wilt rally around him in his new winter qnarters, and the Chevalier may be expected’ to have « good time generally. The Greatest Intellectual Institution of the Age. By general consent, alike of its friends and its enemies, the New York Hxraup is decided to be the greatest intellectual institution and the electric moving power of the age. Our natural modesty would prevent us from assert ing so high a position for ourselves; but con- temporaneous and rival journals go unani- mously assure us of the fact, and so consist- ently act upon this decision, that it would be in yain for us to longer affect a doubt or refrain from announcing it. Tf anything, from an earthquake to an elec- tion, goes wrong in this erring world, the news- papers of both continents unite in blaming. the Herat as the cause of the mischief. If anything goes right, they leave us to infor that the Heap shall have the credit of the happy occurrence. For months past the English pa- pers have been blazing away at the Heraip on: account of the Trent affair, and we have been visited with the most severe condemnations be- cause our power and our influence have created all the troubie. American journals have thought it for their interest to republish these English attacks upon us, adding to them the spice of envy and indecent malice. The presses of France an@ Germany would probably have fol- lowed the example of our other contemporaries were it not for the fact that but very few of their editors understand a word of Wnglish; and those who are acquainted with our lan” guage are indebted to the Herat for their news, and swear by it,"as the old knights swore by their swords. We have no doubt at all that the papers of Peru, Chile and Bolivia are firing their popguns at us without ceasing, and ac- cusing us of having excited their little revolu- tions. The prints of Turkey, India and the Cape of Good Hope doubtless slash away at the Hrravp, and hold us accountable for every disorder, raid and disturbance. The young Hiysons who manage the rising journals of China and Japan of course pitch into the Hearn, rejoicing at that ignorance of their language which prohibits us from replying, and: confident—like many of their American imita- tors—that we can never survive their hostile blasts. Geographically speaking, all the world is constantly attacking or praising the Herat, and we reciprocate the compliment. But this habit of making the Heraup respon- sible for all events is carried to the greatest excess in our own country. For over twenty years past we have been accused of causing every revulsion in business, every bank suspen- sion, every election defeat, every political revo- lution, every social change, every religious re- form, which has occurred here. If we predict a crisis—as in 1857—we are charged with creat- ing it. If we refrain from predicting it, then we are guilty of neglecting the public welfare. if we oppose a candidate—Buchanan, for ex- ample—-our opposition is asserted to have elect- ed iim. If we support a nomination—like that of Fremont—we are told that our support de- feated it. If we leave all the candidétes to take care of themselves, as we did in the last Presidential’ canvass, we are blamed for not backing this one or fighting that one, and our neutrality is made the scapegoat for all the trouble. Every deceased politician will tell you that the Herarp killed him; and if we were an Indian we could adorn an immense wigwam with the scalps of political sachems and war riors of our own slaughtering. We con- coct or we explode social theories every now and then, and are one day accused by a pious journal of being an infidel, and the next day are sneered at by an infidel sheet for being # good Christian. We accept all this blaine as praise in disguise. Our enemies shoot down each other with these cross fires and leave us unharmed. In history we find that the best men were always the worst abused, and the principle will hold good when applied to newspapers. Our thousands upon thousands of subscribers ‘and numerous advertisers attest that our friends far outnumber our foes, and that the praise of the Heavy is not less lavish and unstinted than the blame. We strike a balance between the4wo, and are very well satisfied with the resdlt. But is not all this a comment is as universal as the comment itself? Now, the importance attached to the Huratp is ascribed, also, to every one who is, or who is supposed to be, connected with tt. If we change one of our Washington reporters it creates a greater furor of excitement than the dismissal of a member of the Cabinet, and all the other journals announce the event in large type, write editorial essays upon it, and pub- lish the biography of our presumed attache. A man can live year after year unnoticed and unknown until some one starts the rumor that he is connected with the Hrap, and forthwith he is afflicted with notoriety, and ali lis sayings and doings are duly chronicled. Take, for instance, the case of the Chevalier Wikoff- Here isa man who has undergone all sorts of adventurous tribulations, and written books about them. He has been the horo of a love chase and the pet of diplomatic ‘circles. He has been intimate with Palmerston, confidential with Napolegn, and the special envoy of our own government. He has been confined in the same prison as the Emperor of the French, been shut'up in the jail of Genoa, and is now a State prisoner at Washington. He has met with all sorts of romantic haps and mishaps, and en- countered most of the moving accidents of flood and field. The pablic has been most fully and most ably informed of all these facts by the Chevalier himself, and our contemporaric: know them by heart. But did all this make Chevalier Wikoff notorious and transform bim into a public character? Not at all. On the contrary, it was not until some one discovered that le was connected with the Henan that he found himself famous. We are very sorry to deprive the Chovatier of any merit he may have gained from the rumor ot his being an atfache of the Heraro; but, for truth’s sake, we most explicitly state that ho never had, and bas not now, any connection with the Haase Whatever. [ih moy be unkind to our tivals to dissipate so pleasant an illusion