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

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Owing to the severity of the storm last night our telegraphic communication with the West and South was almost wholly interrupted, and hence much news of interest has been denied to us. We are, however, in possession of positive intelligence that Nashville is in our hands. A despatch from Cario states that General Buell occupies that city; and if this statement requires any confirmation, we have it in the fact that the Richmond Enquirer, in an extra published on Saturday evening, pub_ lishes telegrams from Augusta and Savannah am nouncing the evacuation of Nashville. Colonel Lee, who has just been released from durance at Richmond, also states that he ‘was confidentially informed by an official of the rebel government that Nashville had fallen into the hands of the Union army. With the fall of Nashville Tennessee is brought back to the Union, and the last grand stand point of the rebels in that State is lost to them. We publish to-day the Inaugural Address of Jef- ferson Davis upon ‘his instalment in the office of President of the Confederate States for the ensu- ing six years. It will be read, no doubt, with great interest. Mr. Davis admits that the rebe arms are suffering sad reverses just now, but he relies upon the expectation that the North must ultimately sink under the heavy public debt incur- red in maintaining the war. His chief reliance, however—apart from¢he “patriotism” and ‘“‘self- sacrifice” of the Southern people—appears to be placed upon the special intervention of Provi- dence, to whom he appeals in an humble prayer in the closing paragraph of his address. In alluding to the condition of Mary- land, he says that when that State is able to speak ‘with unstified voice,’ she will connect her des- tiny with the South. It is curious that the very day which brings us this inaugural of the rebel chief, promising so much for Maryland, should also bring us the news of the restoration of the State of Tennessee to the Union by the fall of Nashville; and it is still more significant that the news from Nashville was communicated to Davis while he was reading his address. The inauguration of Mr. Davis does not appear to have been attended with any enthusiasm what. ever, according to statements of parties who wit- essed it; nor is the instalment to office of the ‘‘per- manent” government received with much favor, éf we can judge from such language as the following, from the Richmond Whig of the 2ist, the day be- fore the ceremony took place. That journal says:— “Sadging by results so far, it (the government) is the most lamentable failure ‘in history, and sug- gests to the reflecting mind that the most signal service which that government can now render to the country is the surrender of the helm to abler and better hands. In view of the past, the pre- sent and probable future, the pageant of to-mor- row is @ bitter mockery and a miserable compen- sation for the rain of a free people. A child with @ bauble, an old man with a young wife, are par, tial illustrations of the deplorable folly.” President Davis has issued a proclamation for another day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, for the rebel cause, on the 28th inst. We give the proclamation in another column, The Richmond Dispatch of Saturday publishes intelligence of the Burnside and Goldsborough ex- pedition, from Suffolk, Virginia, and Norfolk, to the effect that our gunboats had ascended the Chowan river, on Thursday last, as far as Winton, North Carolina, landed the troops there and re- duced the town to ashes. The rebel journals, how- ever, it will be remembered, stated that our troops had burned Elizabeth City and other places, whereas it proved that the act of vandalism was performed by the rebels themselves, and it is therefore probable that the same is true of the town of Winton, By the arrival of the fine transport steamer Con- stitution at this port yesterdaygfrom Ship Island, we have interesting news of the proceedings of the Butler expedition im that quarter. Several valu able prizes have been captured by our boats in the waters of the Gulf. Qur correspondence from ‘he expedition will be found in another column. Major General Halleck has issued @ very im- vtant amd very sensible order from « headquarters, in St. Louis, to the 1s of Missouri, relative to slaves and uf property. He urges moderation upon his ors with regard to the inhabitants of the -stuern States, forbids the destruction of pro- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1862. perty, the stealing or conoealment of slaves, and enforces the necessity of proving to the Southern People that our army enters their domain, not to violate the coustituiion in the minutest point, but to maintain it, and to restore peace and safety to the country. We publish to-day a fall list of the released pris- oners of the Union army who arrived at Baltimore yesterday from Fortress Monroe. They pumber in all three hundred and forty-sevew officers and privates, most of whom belong to the Tammany and California regiments. They comprise all the prisoners held in captivity at Richmend, with the exception of a few too sick to move. The whole party, after enjoying a hospitable reception in Balti. more, proceeded to Washington last evening: They describe a strong Union feeling existing in Richmond, The prisoners at Charleston and Co- lumbia, including Colonel Corcoran, will be sent on in a few days, and may arrive at Fortress Mon- roe on Thursday or Friday. General Wool had an interview with the rebel General Howell Cobb, off C....ey Island, on Sun- day, relative to =-otiations for the exchange of privuers. The interview lasted an hour, but the particulars of their intercourse have not been made known. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, memorials asking for the recognition of the independence of Hayti, that the exportation of ship timber be prohibited, and for a grant of land in aid of a railroad from St. Paul to Lake Superior, were appropriately re- ferred. Mr. Wilmot urged speedy action on the bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia. The joint resolution respecting compensating railroad companies that have received grants of land for the transportation of troops was taken up. Owing to the disarrangement of the telegraph by the storm of last night, we were unable to re- ceive a report of the final proceedings of the Senate, and consequently are uninformed as to the disposition made of this latter bill. In the House of Representatives Mr. Roscoe L. Conkling, of New York, offered a resolution de- claring the thanks of Congress due to Major Gen. erals Halleck and Grant for “planning” the re- cent movements of their respective divisions, and while expressing a desire that those who earned honors should wear them, indulged in some remark® decidedly prejudicial to the General-in-chief of the army. Messrs. Cox, of Ohio, and Washburne and Kellogg, of Illinois, objected to this method of assaulting the reputation of General McClellan, and the resolution was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. The Post Office Appropriation bill was passed. The House then went into Com- mittee of the Whole on the Indian Appropriation bill, and Mr. Shellabarger, of Ohio, made a speech on the subject of emancipating slaves. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our correspondent in St. Domingo City writes, under date of the 31st of January, that the Span- iards still held apart from intimate social inter- course with the native Dominicans. They had rented or leased lots of land on which to erect aristocratic mansions for their families. House rents had advanced considerably. In the mean- time wooden houses, ready fitted for construction, found s good market—a lot just landed, from Baltimore, commanding profitable prices. A government decree admits such material free of duty. Ship bread is also ordered for free entry into the ports. Copper ore taken from mines near St. Domingo City was found to be strongly impregnated with gold. The coal bedsof Samana promised a rich return to experienced miners. Napoleon had not yet appointed a French Consul in the city, or commit- ted himself in any recoguition of the new rule of Spain. The American “‘contrabands” left on Mr, Lincoln’s hands after the war can be taken, it is said, to the extent of four millions, on the island. They wouldbe set to work, and really develope the wealth of the country. There was no American vessel in port. We have news from Central America, dated at Truxillo, Honduras, on the 5th of February. Our correspondent states that the revolution which had lately convulsed the republic had just culminated in the assassination of President Guardiola. On the lth of January a conspiracy for a pronuncia- miento in Comayagua, the capital, was matured, with the sanction of Colonel Agurcia, commander of the government troops, who proceeded with two officers, armed with carbines, to the palace. Here he placed his comrades at the door, and called the President from his bed, when he was bayonetted, and subsequently shot in the arms of his wife, who ran to his aid. Guardiola, as a man, was not regretted. He was of low origin, low in- stincts, and of the most vindictive and sanguinary passions. He usurped the Presidency of Hondu- ras eight years since, by the aid of negro myrmi- dons, and held the country since under a cruel mi- litary despotism. He headed the Central Ameri- can crusade against North American free colonists in Nicaragua, and was defeated by the late Gene- ral Walker, at Virgin Bay, inthe year 1855. It was by his order that Walker was executed at ‘Truxillo. New gold mines, of great richness, had been dis- covered at Chontales, Nicaragua. The following table exhibits the losses of the Union regiments that were engaged at the battle of Fort Donelson:— Killed. Wounded. Eighth Illinois. 56 196 Ninth Mlinois 35 160 Eleventh Illinois. 7 180 Twelfth Illinois. . Seventeenth Illinois 4 20 Eighteenth Illinois. ~ 45 60 Twentieth Illinois. - 2 118 Thirtieth Illinois 19 71 Thirty-tirst Illinois 40 200 Forty-first Ilinois 17 130 Forty-ninth Illino’ 10 30 Twelfth lowa. 3 4 Second Iowa 38 160 Fourteenth Iowa. 6 60 Fifty-eighth Ohio -~ 3 Taylor's Battery. 1 4 Total........ Prisoners taken. oe —Making a total Union loss of 2,166. The rebel lose n killed and wounded and prisoners is estimated at 15,700. A quorum not being present last evening, the Board of Aldermen did not organize, and the Pre- sident pronounced an adjournment, subjectto a call. The Councilmen failed to meet for the same reason, and the President directed the Board to stand adjourned to Thursday next. The Grand Jury of the General Sessions found a number of bills against parties for keeping gam- bling houses, some of whom were arraigned yes” terday and pleaded not guilty, They were Wm Vosburgh, Benjamin Hock, Wm. Foster, Wm. Ros: seau and Charles Painter. The parties are on bail. Conrad Ten Eyck was placed on trial charged with disposing of a ticket for passage on the ship Great Western to John Mahan. In the course of the investigation it turned ont that the complainant’s name was ‘John Mahar,” where. upon the Recorder directed the jury to acquit the prisoner, on the ground of a variance between the proof and the indictment. Wm. H. Young, con- victed of grand larceny, was setenced to the State Prison for four years and eight months. Rosanna Griffin, guilty of an attempt at larceny, was sent to the Penitentiary for one year. The cotton market yesterday war in such condition views of buyers were 80 decidedly below those of sellers asto make prices somewhat nominal. The sales, in small lots, were confined im the aggregate to some 200 a 250 bales, closing nominal at 23c. for midling uplands, Preparations were making for some further shipments to Liverpool, and 100 bales were taken on freight at 5 32d. The 603 bales from Port Royal, consigned to Hiram Barney , Collector of this port, on a vossel consignod to Spofford, Tileston & Co, , were sold here in theseeded state, and embraced in small packages, giving a gross weight of About 21,000 Ibs., which, it was said, would be reduced nearly three-fourths by the removal of the seed in ginning it. The flour market was heavy, and closed at a de- cline of 5c. a 10c. per bbi., with moderate sales, chiefly to the home trade. Wheat was dull and inactive and the turn of prices was in favor of purchasers. Corn was also dull,and sales light at 63 a 64c. for Western mixed, in store and delivered. Pork was steady and tolerably active, with sales of new mess at $14, and new prime at $10. Sugars were comparatively quiet and prices unchanged, with sales of 200 bhds, Cubas. Coflee was firmer and more active. The sales (chiefly on Satur- day forenoon) have reached 12,000 bags of Rioat 183c. a 22c. for common to prime, which was an advance. Tho public sale of the prize cargo of the brig Sarah Starr came off yosteraay, under the direction of the prize commissioners, consisting of naval stores, &c. The par- ticulars of the sale are given in another column. There was more offering for freight, especially for English ports» while rates were unchanged. The Panic Among the Rebels—Reported Evacuation of Nashville. According to our latest information, direct from Richmond, “ an official despatch” had been received on Saturday by the rebel government of “ the fall of Nashville,” meaning, we suppose» its evacuation by the armed forces of the rebel” lion. Assuming this news to be true, we suspect that, unless in the interval our army keep a vigilant eye upon the great rebel camp of Ma- nassas, they will, when they proceed to beat the bushes in that direction, discover that their birds have flown. The rebels have evacuate Nashville rather than hazard the destruction of the city and all their immense stores of military supplies in the vain effort to hold the place against the heavy artillery of our land forces and gunboats. That line of intrenched camps and fortresses stretching across Southern Kentucky, beginning at Zollicoffer's camp near Somerset, and including between that point and Columbus, on the Mississippi, the late great camp of Bowling Green, Fort Donelson, Clarks. ville and Fort Henry, embraced the meagre rebel defences of Nashville. All these having fallen into our possession, except Columbus, that position has ceased to be of any practical value to the enemy, and Nashville, by several converging railroads, and by the Cumberland river, is completely at our mercy. We believe, therefore, that the rebels have eva. cuated Nashville, and are moving off their sup- plies, and that they are much more anxious now about getting away from Columbus with thei, heavy artillery than for an attack by our land and naval forces. With the rebel abandonment of Nashville, Tennessee is recovered to the Union, especially as the advanced corps of the column of General Thomas has reached the important strategical po. sition of Cumberland Gap. Columbus and Memphis are thus rendered useless to the rebels, and if not pressed too closely they will probably soon abandon both these places, in order to save the artillery and military supplies thereof from capture, and to move them down tosome more eligible position for a blockade of the Mississippi, within reach of the support- ing line of their interior army. Meantime, although we hear of no movement, hint or sign from Richmond that Davis and his ruling confederates expect soon to pack up and pack off in the direction of Montgomery, Ala- bama, it is quite likely that even now—Presi- dent, Cabinet, Congress and all—they are ready to start at a moment’s warning. With their army once called in or driven off from Ma- nassas, the rebel government the rebel- lion will not stop in their retreat within the boundaries of Virginia or North Carolina, but will be dispersed and broken up, root and branch. The only thing now to be feared in regard to the rebel camp of is that, with its railroad facilities of retreat, it will be able to make good its escape before the inter- vening space of twenty miles, between Wash- ington and Centreville, of hills of mud and val- leys full of water, can be passed by anything of our army except its lightest infantry. At all events, it is enough for the present to know that the prestige, the power, the hopes, the spirit, and many of the most essential de- fensive points of this rebellion are gone, pressed backward by our superior forces along its northern line, from Virginia to Arkansas ; it is also pushed back along the seaboard from Virginia to New Orleans, while its extreme rear, in the West, is utterly routed by the ad- vancing columns of Halleck and Buell. A few weeks, and, perhaps, a few days hence, the Southern confederacy of Davis & Co. will be reduced to the seven original seceding cotton States; and what then? Why, then, between our seaboard expeditions and our inland ad- vancing armies and gunboat flotillas, the delu- sive, despotic, destructive and inglorious reign of Jeff. Davis will be brought to a speedy and ignominious end. There is still, however, one way of escape for Davis and his guilty confederates from the ex- treme humiliation of defeated treason. As our fleets and armies crowd upon them, let the rebel chieftain, his Cabinet ang Congress, and all his soldiers who choose to follow him, push down through Texas into Mexico, upset the European coalition there, establish a genuine republic, and then, after a satisfactory probation, we may forgive the crimes of secession, and take back its apostles and devotees into the Union, with the rich and beautiful country which they will have saved from European domination. An immediate retreat into Mexico, and the libera- tion of that people from European bondage, is now the only chance of Davis and his fighting followers from the ignominious fate of defeated traitors. But in this retrograde movement, and in the great enterprise indicated, there is not only a way of escape, but a way to high renown, offered to Davis, his associate rulers and his rebel army. Thus they may wipe off the stains of treason and rebellion, and atone for this wickedness and folly, in saving our govern- ment the expense of buying off England, France and Spain from Mexico; and thus this rebellion may be ended on both sides in a decisive exer- cise of American power and in a perfect blaze of American glory. More Trovrie ror Poor Greetey.—We have another secession flag for poor Greeley to mourn over. It was captured at Fort Donelson, and belonged to a rebel company called the «“Blackland Gideonites.” As poor Greeley has an interest in black land-—Hayti, Liberia, Afri- ca, &e—and as he is popularly supposed io “belong to Gideon's band,” he can have the flag, if it belongs to his tribe, by calling at our as to render it difficult vo give reliable quotations. The | office, proving property and paying charges, What the Abolitionists Want to Do for the Country. When in last Apri! the President issued his proclamation against the rebellion, and called upon the loyal States for troops, he declared the object of the war and his own intention to be the fulfilment of the solemn oath he had sworn at his inauguration “to preserve, pro- tect and defend the constitution of the United States.” Under this proclamation the war was entered upon, and an army organized to enable the President to “execute ihe laws of the Union,” and bring back to their allegiance all rebellious citizens in the revolted States, just as the insurgents of Western Pennsylvania, at the time of the whiskey rebellion, were re- duced to subjection by President Washington, and the State was restored to its normal condi" tion by the force of the constitution. This was stated by President Lincoln to be his purpose at the opening of the war, and it is still his purpose, and the purpose of the generals acting under his authority. From this course he has never swerved till the present hour, nor does he intend ever to falter in it, sustained, as he is, by the army and a vast majority of the people- He wants to restore the Union founded by George Washington and his contemporaries, and to enforce the constitution ir. every State. What do the abolitionists want, as openly avowed in their organs? They want to destroy the Union, and to abolish the constitution in the Southern States. Through Senator Sumner: of Massachusetts, they have introduced resolu. tions in the United States Senate to this effect, Under pretence of emancipating the negroes, they undertake to annihilate the constitutional right of the Southern States to regulate their own domestic institutions; and the next thing in order will be to do the same for the Northern States, and abolish all State laws which make Qny distinction in political privileges between whites and blacks. The only Northern State which admits the equality of the negro with the Caucasian race is Massachusetts. But if Con- gress has power to meddle with the domestic in- stitutions‘and social laws of the Southern commu- nities it has the same power over the Northern States; in other words, it has the right to sub- vert{the constitution, though that sacred instru. ment declares that no changes can be made in it but by regularly called conventions of the people. It is only the people of a State who, by our system of government, can abolish negro slavery. In this way it has been abolished in all the Northern States ; and when the rebellion is put down in the Southern States the people thereof will have the power to do away with negro servitude, if, upon, consideration, they think free labor better suited to their interests. They alone are the judges in the case. By the progress of our arms, Maryland, Missouri an® Kentucky are already restored to the Union with their slave institution intact. Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina will soon acknow- ledge the authority of the constitution and the laws of the Union. Who will say that any dis- tinction about slavery can be made between them and the States already reclaimed? And if not, then upon what ground can the domestic institutions of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas be interfered with by Congress? Neither Congress nor the President, nor both, have any power in the premises, in the face of the express provisions of the constitution to the contrary- What the abolitionists in Congress, with Mr- Sumner at their head, and the abolitionists out of Congress, led on by Garrison and Greeley, desire for the country is political and social amalgamation, and some forty blacks in both houses of the national legislature. heir de- signs are, beyond all doubt, revolutionary. Let us see to what their measures wou!d inevitably lead. The following table, taken from the census returns of 1860, exhibits the free and slave population in the Southern States, together with the number of representatives to which those States are entitled under the constitution, and the number to which they would be en- titled if the abolitionists could only succeed in abolishing the constitution:-— ~uasaudes PUORPPY South Caroli El] RewsnceaneaHes Pein tere) a) Total .....+4 «+.8,434,156 8,999,363 It thus appears that the emancipation of the slaves would give the South fourteen additional members in the House of Representatives, making ninety-eight out of the two hundred and thirty-three of which that body is composed. It further appears that the slave population is 3,999,353, or wanting only 647 of being four millions. The census returns of free negroes at the South in 1860 are not yet published; but in 1850 they numbered 228,128, and, if we add for inc about twelve per cent, the total wilh 0 eek a vibes PS a million, thus making the whole black population about 4,250,000. By deducting a quarter of a million froiii the total free population in the foregoing table, the remainder is 8,184,156, being the whole of the white population. In proportion to their numbers, therefore, the whites would be entitled to sixty-four mem- bers of Congress, and the negroes to thirty-four out of the ninety-eight, or more than one-third of the whole. As in two States—Mis- sissippi and South Carolina—ttrey are more numerous than the whites, they would have a majority in the Legislatures, and elect two United States Senators in each. Of course the negroes would invariably elect the men of their own color. There would thus be thirty-four blacks in the House of Representatives and four blacks in the Senate. Just imagine these sable Senators and Repre- sentatives discussing learnedly upon some knotty point of international law, or dissecting the foreign policy of the government. Or fancy, if you can, without laughing at the absurdity of the idea, the honorable “gemmen of color’s trying to unravel in a Congressional debate the mysteries of finance, stocks, paper money and national debt. Such is the ridiculous appearance Congress would present to the world at the end of the war if Senator Sumner and the other monoma- niacs of both houses of the national legislature should be able to carry out their programme. Nor would this revolting spectacle be all, As the black population increase in @ Southern climate much more rapidly than white men, the negroes, in process of time, would outnum- ber the whites, to say nothing of the diminution of the latter and the immense increase of mu- lattoes or men of color which would result from emancipation and the consequent amalgama- tion of the two races. At last the Southern re- presentatives in Congress would be nearly all men of color, from an ebony black to a dirty whitish brown. This mingled breed would become inferior to the population of Mexico and South Ameri- ca, and intestine confusion, disorder and blood- shed would be the chronic condition of the Southern States. The North is free from this danger, because the per centage of black popu- lation isso small that cannot affect us. But when already in two States of the South the blacks outnumber the whites, and in the whole South constitute more than a third of the popu- lation, either the deterioration of the pure white race or the speedy extirpation of the blacks would inevitably result from the emancipation of the latter. To complete the picture it is only neces- sary to add that, instead of waging a war for the preservation of the Union and to bring back the Southern States, the white men of the North would then do what the Confederate States are now doing—go to war to drive them out of the Union. Alternate anarchy and des- potism would characterise the history of the country, and wars of races and mutual extermi- nation would go forward till the whites were well thinned and the blacks utterly destroyed. And this is what the disunfon abolitionists in Congress, headed by Senator Sumner, would lay up in store for the future of the republic of white men founded by our ancestors. The Aiders and Abettors of Jeff. Davis and His Treason. At the breaking out of the civil war the Northern secessionists and their organs were squelched by the strong hand of the govern- ment. But a worse element of disunion re- mained untouched, and is at this moment the greatest diffculty the afministration has to contend with. It is scarcely necessary to tell our readers that we refer to the abolition dis. unionists. Their newspapers and their orators, in Congress and out of it, have never ceased to abuse the President and his family, partly in revenge for the conservative and constitutional course pursued by the Chief Magistrate, and partly to intimidate him into subserviency to their revolutionary designs. They have con- stantly assailed the generals of the army, with McClellan at their head, because of their fidelity to the constitution and to the Com- mander-in-Chief of the army and navy. They have sown the seeds of dissension between the generals, and they have labored with all their might to demoralize the army. Thus they have aided and abetted Jeff. Davis and his trea- son. As an instance of this we may refer to the conduct of the principal organ of mischief and misrule, the New York Tribune, in surreptitious- ly publishing the report of Adjutant General Thomas about the disorganization of the army in Missouri, which was never intended to see the light, and ought not to have been made pub- lic. It was upon this report the removal of Fremont from the command was based ; and the effect of the publication was highly injuri- ous to the interests of the nation, as exposing to the rebels the disorders and demoralization of the army, and enabling them to recover for a time the ground they had lost. Shortly after General Halleck was appointed to the depart- ment from which Fremont was removed, the new general was fiercely assaulted by the Tri- bune and other journals of the same stamp be. cause he would not violate the constitution and trample under foot the policy of the govern. ment. Thus the Tribune tried to demoralize the army, and play into the hands of Jeff. Davis and his treason. What General Halleck has recently done, in concert with General McClellan, is the best answer to his calumniators. One of the Tribune's disunion fellow conspirators, the World, has open- ed a fire in the rear upon General Buell, whose brilliant strategy has not only forced the rebels out of Kentucky, but contributed in a high degree to the important victories in Tennessee. In the same way these abolition journals assailed as a traitor General Smith, to whose cool courage and abilities the defegt of the rebels at Fort Donelson, which caused their surrender on the following day, was due more than to any other man who acted a part on that bj field, Thus has the Tribune played into the hands of Jeff. Davis ; and if it had been paid a million of dollars out of the rebel treasury to aid the designs of him and his fellow traitors, it could not have done so more effectually. If it has not been paid it ought to be; for it has earned the wages of treason as truly as did Judas Iscariot when he betrayed Christ with a kiss, and then hanged himself. It too has treacherously embraced the cause of the country for the purpose of betraying it, and it will find out before long that it has committed political suicide. The purpose of the abolitionists is to prevent the restoration of the old Union with the com- promises of the constitution as it is, and they are moving Heaven apd earth and the place below for its accomplishment. Nothing they so much dread as the Union restored; for that would be the death blow to all their hopes. They have been the mortal foes of the Union for the last thirty years, denouncing it as “a covenant with death, and an agreement with Hell,” and they are now doing their utmost to prevent the healing of the breach which themselves Have made. They are the source of all our national troubles, and they are seeking to perpetuate them. They are playing the game of Jeff. Davis most effectively, and it will not be their fault if his treason be not crowned with ultimate success, and two second rate republics be permanently established in- stead of the one great, glorious and free go- vernment founded by the patriots of the Revo. lution. Butt Ren Roessect, iv Town Agam.—After wining, dining, bragging and blustering among the recently arrived British officers in Canada, Bull Run Russell has again returned to New York, with a large stock of new predictions about our affairs. «Asa London Times corres- pondent, Russell should have been in Tennessee and Kentucky instead of at Montreal and Que- bec. But, then, it is all for the best; for every one would discredit our victories if Russell de- scribed them. Barnum is after Russell with a large check. He wants to exbibit the LL.D. in the same cage with Commodore Nutt. Rus- sel] is the smallest man, morally and mentally (as the Commodore is physically), in the world: Moca Avo Anovr Noruna.—It was tele- graphed from Washington by the Associated Press reporter that, in his speech before the Railroad Convention, Secretary Stanton re- marked that the credit of planning and carry- ing out our gigantic campaign was due te General McClellan. The Tribune denied this report, whereupon the correspondent of the Associated Press indifferently rejoins that he was misinformed; This is much ado about nothing. Whether or not Secretary Stanton said what was reported is immaterial. The people believe that, as an honest, conscientious man, he ought to have said it, Tue Bucasoos or tHe Enonisn Press.— Secretary Seward and the New Yorx HERA are the great bugaboos of the English press. From the London 7imes, with its heavy lead- ers, all the way down through the English newspapers to the London Punch, with ite shabby wit,low sarcasm and serious caricatures, Secretary Seward and the Hiraxp are attacked because of their connection with the Trent affair. The Secretary did his duty, and we di@ ours. If we were not so thoroughly identified with American interests we should not be sc vehemently attacked by foreign papers. Sc fire away, Messieurs.- ; Commsa KevivaL in Bustvess.—We notice that the State stocks of Tennessee have rises seventeen per cent in the seven or eight days past, and Missouri stocks have bad a similas rise. This will be the case with the State bonds of nearly all the rebel States as they are brought back fnto the Union. From present indications it is apparent that not only in Wall street, but also in all commercial and business circles, the return of peace will inau: gurate the greatest excitement in trade ever known on this continent, Tue TriBvxE Cavine In.—In consequence % its disgusting attacks upon General McClellan and the family. of the President, that abolition organ, the Tribune, is caving in. We are in- formed that the Tribune’s subscription list is growing small by degrees and beautifully less; and there is not the slightest doubt that its sen- timents are as unpopular as they are dishonor able and unpatriotic. Tux Hancine or Gorpon.—The less said by the newspapers about the execution of Gordon the better. It is an affair which reflects no credit upon any one concerned init, and the more it# discussed the more unsavory is its odor. If one of those Northern fellows who declaim against slavery, while their capital is invested in the slave trade, and who not only aid in bringing the negro to this country, but do all they can te make his condition here more miserable, had been in Gordon’s place, there would have bees less room for regret. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON, Wasunorom, Feb. 24, 1962. PROPOSALS FOR IRON CLAD GUNBOATS. ‘Ton millions of dollars is the sum appropriated by Con- gress for the complete construction and equipment of irom: clad vessels for river, harbor and coast defence, ana for which the Navy Department invites propositions. It has determined to furnish no plans, but to leave submis. sion of them to the constructors, in order to develope the latest genius in designs best calculated for effective pur poses, and the department will make its selections ac cordingly. THE FUNERAL OF THE PRESIDENT’S SOM, ‘The funeral of Willie Lincoin took place at two o'clock this afternoon. . ‘The President's youngest son continues very ill, Columbus Not Evacuated. Sr. Lous, Feb. 24, 1862. ‘The Republican's Cairo despatch says that the reporte ‘about the evacuation of Columbus are entirely falsc. The rebels are still there in strong force. None of the garri- son has been withdrawn, and they evidently inteat making a desperate stand there. jteamers Chartered by Government: eee Puiaraurms, Feb. 24, 1862. Some twenty-five steamers, being all at present in the Delaware a Eohelkit rivera, wore eee 2 Re. vernment agent, and are to prepare immedi South. Tue city ico boat is Low the only steamer loft for towing operations. > ructive Fire Boston. re Feb. 24, 1862. decree alcatel ponessiay ing in Matthews’ block, a ive 8 grant between Commercial and Nerth streets, and Clark and Fleet streets. The block was totally destroyed. de to the high wind the flames extendod across Commerci strect to:Sargeant’s wharf, sweeping every building from the wharf. The fire is still burning. Loss estimated at $500,000. Amusements Last Evening. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE. ‘The new melodrama entitied ‘The Macarthy,or Peep o’Day,”” was produced last evening, for the second time, before a very full house. It is founded on Banim’s novel «John Doe,” and is in reality Mr. E. Falconer’s play called ‘Peep o’Day, or Savourhéen Delish,” which was FS; ace not Jong ago with considerable succes in Lon. don, the names of the charactors being altered, and afew other slight ges made, with a view perhaps to the evasion of copyright ¢ than anything olse. To de- scribe the plot in pore § sackey Soasiderable space; we shall therefore only indicate its outling. = “~~~ = ‘The scone is of course lai in Ireland, and the period is about sixty years ago, when the greaust antagonism prevailed between the people and their rulers, which gav® rise to numerous political conspiracies among tho pea’ santry and the practice of martial law on the part of the government. “The Poep o’Day Boys’ were a bande these conspirators, and their history is written in blood and supplies many sanguinary incidents in which the present drama plentifully abounds. Almost every type and phase of Irish national character find a p.ace in it, and its excellent portraiture, in this respect, invests it witha peculiar charm. The jolly priest, blind old harpist, the coy maiden, the fierce assassin, kre equaliy woll pictured, and, as a historical chapter, the play is not It gives us a tolerably accurate rea d during the torrible times to ork of art, it has without its uses. of the people of Ir which it has reference. But, as a w many faulls. Tt is astrangely romantic piece, but full of perfidy and atrocity, and the dramatist bas too often had to resort to eaves dropping. Thore is an atmosphero of insecurity about it,and the characters betray each other without soruple. The dialogue is also too prox and the action of the plot slow, Lutthe scenery is splen- did, without exception. Theevil genius of the piece is a tithe tor, an odious member of a detested class, who has tibertine designs upon one of his tenants’ daughters, and who, being folied in them by her brother, resolves to accomplish the ruin of the latter, and with that view entrusts him with certain treasonable documents, which, being found upon his person, lead to his transportation. ‘The libertine is thus left at liborty to persevere in his designs, and he not only succeeds in bring- ing her into a clandestine marriago which he afterwards repudiates, but makes love to her brother’s betrothed sweetheart, Tho exile returns, howover, after the lapse of soven years, determined on rev: . One of the tithe proctor’s plots is to entice his wife toa dark valley, overhung by cliffs, where he has gota ruffan in his pay to dig her grave. At this critical moment her or makes her ay ince, and swinging down from the summit of the cliffs by the boughs of a tree, rusher to her rescue. This is a seene, and the beautifal moonlight admirably subdues its harsher fontures. The roctor 1a algo concerned in @ treacherous device for the roreible abduction of the other girl, in which he is foiled by the «Peep o'Day ,”? by one of whom he is eventu- ally shot dead. Dey eed scoundrel vutlers, ‘and the inno- cent are trint t, Miss Koene, ae Mary Kelly, sua- tained a iffieult with great ability, and Mrs, Waller, as ‘Nol Brady, displayed remarkable powor and vorsatility. . Walior, a8 The Macarthy, and Mr. Raymond, as the Babby, and Mr. Marlowe, as McNea- ry, wero dashing and forcible, and tho charactors gone. Tally wore well sustained. Tho play may be pronounced ‘an unqualified success. CLARK'S DENEFIT AT THE WINTER GARDEN. Mr. J, 8. Clarke made his farewell bow to a Now York audience (for the present, only, lot us hope) at the ‘Winter Garden last evening, in the comedy of ‘Sudden Thoughts,” and the farce of tho “Rough Diamond.” ‘The audience was very large, and the applause hearty and deserved. This evening ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’? will be produced at the samo theatre, As one theatre, ome ‘athenum, one Bowery circus and one minstrel troupe will soon be playing “Uncle Tom’? in New York, we hopo, in advance, that all parties concerned may have joy of the profits from this dramatization of an abolition hovel.