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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU ar TERMS cash in advance. anaes omnt tepel, aG hentia 1 risk of the sender, Nome out bills Current in New York | taken ‘TBE DAILY BERALD. two cent sper copy. $7 per annum. «No, ST Volume XXVII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Coutazy Bawa. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—\ »oLs Tow’s Castm. WALLACK'S THEATRE “, No. 344 Broadway.—A Cuaz :on fuk kur Lou, LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Ma- Oamimy; OR, THR Paer cr |» Pn BOWERY TUEATKG, bowery.—Carrors or Fort Lis 10 BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Smcaner's NaTiomat Crmous BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Com Norr—Living Hirrorotamus, Wmaus, £o., at all hours.— Onbuva, ufiernvon and «reuing. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 72 Broad. way.—Cmaw Roast Bere. HOOLEY’S MINSTRELS, Stuyvesant Institute, No. 65 Broadway.—Fox ix 4 F'x—Ermiortan Songs, Dances, ac. MELODEON CONCERT HALL, 539 Broadway.— Dances, Bumtasues, £0—.0.010r Lire O% Bisckwnee CANTERBUKY MUSIC HALL, 585 Broadway.—Soxas, ANOS, BURLKSQUES, 40.—0'FL.NNIGAN 4T THE Fk, GATETIES CONCERT ROOM, Room ENTMETAUNMENTS, BALLETS. Broadway.—Drawina "ANTOMIMES, FARCES, £0, AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway.—Sonas, Ban- its, Pawromines, &0.—Pomtmair Paintan Hs CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. wery, — Buniesquxs, Soncs, Daxces, &0.—i wo Otowme PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 663 Broadway.— Open daily from 104. M. ug P.M. on sie NOVELTY MUSIC HALL, 616 Broadway.—! Sones, Danozs, £0. searmeperd New York, Thursday, February 27, 1868. DAILY CIRCULATION OF THE NEW YORK HERALD Sunday, February 16.. Monday, February 17. Tuesday, February 18. Wednesday, February 19 Thursday, February 20.. Friday, February 21.. Saturday, February 22. 104,016 118,080 118,968 117,720 113,328 112,896 + 118,800 DONE sic tiniceord teen eeeeeerseceencesesees 803,908 Average daily circulation......... AE 114,829 The above figures, which can be verified from our books, give the circulation of the Nsw Yor Henatp for the week just past. We believe that it more than equals the aggregate circulation of all the other daily papers in this city, and of course it far surpasses that of any one of them. The ad- vantages which the Heap affords to advertiser are self-evident. THE SITUATION. Ne movement took place yesterday in the Army of the Potomac. The sanitary condition of the camps is represented as most encouraging. No sickness prevails to create any apprehension, or to show that the health of the troops is not of s highly satisfactory character. The average num- ber of cases in the hospitals, in fact, does not ex- ceed that of any civil community in ordinary times. A despatch received at St. Louis yesterday, from Fort Donelson, says that a boat just arrived from Clarksville reports the evacuation of Nash- sille. The Union citizens of that place sent a boat » Clarksvifle, which towed one of our gunboats ‘pr their protection. The rebels, with Governor Narris, retreated to Murfreesboro’. And the lat- er worthy, it appears, burned all the State docu- ments before leaving. General Grant has declared martial law over West Tennessee, with the under- standing that when a sufficient number of citizens of the State return to their allegiance, and show a desire to maintain !aw and order over the terri- tory, all military restrictions shall be withdrawn. Postal facilities are now extended to Clarksville, and the mail bags will follow the flag of the Union into Tennessee. The Murfreesboro’ pape:s contain a fierce war speech of Governor Harris. The previous rumors of Governor Harris’ desertion of the rebel cause in ite extremity, may have originated ina state- ment made in Chicago by parties who arrived from Fort Donelson, to the effect that General Grant had an interview with Governor Harris’ near Clarksville, and that the Governor stated that, if General Grant would cease hostilities for three @ays,he would have the American flag floating from every fortified place in Tennessee. The more recent accounts, above alluded to, however, go to show that Governor Harris re- mains unchanged in his treasonable sentiments and purposes. By way of Fortress Monroe we have news from Roanoke Island up to Sunday, but it is not im- portant, with the exception of the temporary fail- ure to lay the telegraph cable across the bay in consequence of the heavy gale, and the juss of the steamer Hoboken, which was engaged in the en- terprise. White flags arc said to be flying in large numbors at Nag’s Head and its vicinity. * We learn by way of Kansas City that the Union sentiment in New Mexico is growing rapidly. The proclamation of the rebel chief Sibley produced no effect in rallying men t® the bad cause of which he is the repre- sentative. On the contrary, nearly all the arms-bearing citizons have tarned out to protect the Union flag. Groat enthusiasm prevailed in the counties of Bernalillo, Benicia, Socorro, and in the ‘upper counties the militia have turned ont in large Bumbers. The Texan rebels, under Sibley, were at Fort Thorne, fifty miles from Fort Craig, on the 17th iostant, and advancing on the latter place. Their supplies were scarce, their transportation poor, fend (» vir only alternative was either to £ ht or to Starve, CONGRESS. . In the Senate yeeterday, petitions in favor of a | General bankrupt law, and for the emancipetion of Glaves, wore presented nnd referred. A memorial frow the New York Academy of Medicine, against the «mployment of homeopathic physicians in the % was prese: ‘ed. A bill estvbtishing a rail- ro.) °.d telegraph line from the Missouri rivet to th sifle Ocean was reported from the Speciai Co ittee on that subject. dhe bill providing for th .cevpation and cultivation of certain cotton jauds im the possession of the United States was tkeo ap ‘ud discussed. Mr. Brown- é moved {9 fofer ft te the Judiciary | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1862, hour expired, and the bill was laid aside. The consideration of the question of admitting the new Senator from Oren, Mr. Starke, whose loyalty is questioned, t) seat in the Senate was then resumed, and Mr. Sumner made a speech ad- verse to the claimant. Messrs. Cowan, Davis, Wilmot, Carlile and Sherman participated in the debate, but no definite action was taken on the subject. The bill fixing the number of members: of the House of Representatives under the new apportionment was amended so as to make the number 249, and then passed. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Voorhies, of Indiana, asked leave to offer a resolution com- mending the sentiments and policy of Genera; Halleck, a8 announced in his General Order of the 23d instant, already published, as eminently wise and patriotic, and in strict conformity with the constitution, and that the war should be conducted in accord- ance with the same, and that the thanks of Congress are tendered to General Halleck for said order, and for his military achievement as commander of the Department of Missouri. Mr. Lovejoy, of Ilinois, objected, and the resolution was consequently ruled out. Mr. Van Wyck offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing the Contract Committee to inquire into the amount of money received by the federal officers in New York; as to the ownership and rents of the bonded warehouses; the contract for the delivery, &c., of foreign goods at New York, and when said con- tracts were made, by whom, and who are now in- terested therein. Mr. Van Wyck announced his retirement from the chairmanship of the Govern- ment Contract and Revolutionary Pension Com- mittees. The case of Mr. Upton, who claims a seat as representative from the Fairfax district of Virginia, was taken up, and discussed till the ad- journment. The House concurred in the Senate bill fixing the number of Representatives, unde, the new apportionment, at 249. US NEWS. The two houses of our State Legislature at Alba- ny reassembled on Tuesday, after a recess of a few days. In the Senate on that day no business of particular importance was transacted. Yesterday, jn the Senate, a considerable portion of the session was occupied in Committee of the Whole over the bill defining the duties of the Port Captain and Harbor Masters of this port. The bill authorizes the Governor to appoint a Port Captain and eleven Harbor Mas- ters. After much discussion and the adoption of some immaterial amendments, it was reported complete and ordered to a third reading. The bill to amend the Brooklyn city charter was referred to the Brooklyn delegation, to report complete. In the Assembly, on Tuesday, the Canal Auditor's annual report was received; also a communication from the Superintendent of the Onondaga Salt Springs, stating his inability to inform the House, ag desired, of the names and number of employes, and the wages paid, in the past ten years. The bill requiring county treasurers to pay into the State Treasury by the 15th of March prox. all the State taxes in their hands, and providing heavy penalties for derelictions of duty on their part, was debated in Committee of the Whole and had progress reported on it. In the Assembly yesterday a number of bills were noticed for fature introduction, among which were bills to amend our city charter and the Registry law, to reduce the fare on city railroads, to legalize the primary elections, and to amend the charter of the Tammany Society. The Annual Canal Ap- propriation bill for 1862 was passed. Bills were introduced to increase the pay of non-commis- sioned officers and privates in volunteer regiments five dollags per month, and providing additional regulations for the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Resolutions were adopted requiring the Metropolitan Police Commissioners to report to the Legislature all the particulars with regard to fines imposed by them, and also the number, grade and pay of all persons in their employ, All the game laws of the State were referred to a committee of five, to report a gencral game law. The Bank Superintendent's annual report of the condition of the saving= banks of the State was received. The Public Defence bill was made the special order for twelve o'clock to-day. The German Journal, of Frankfort, of the 4th of February, enumerates some of the injuries in- flicted on the people of Germany by the inunda- tions mentioned in the Hzratp last Monday. The Journal states that the Main has fallen two feet, and is seventeen and a half fect above its ordinary level. At Mentz the quays and the adjoining streeis are inundated, and the Rhine continues to bring down a quantity of articles of all kinds which Lave been washed away. The Iser, the Danuber the Neckar, the Elbe and other rivers still overflow their banks, and the communication on several railways has been interrupted. Small rivers have been transforined into torrents by the melting of the snow. The villages in the neighborhood of bon are completely inundated, At Bamburg considerable damage has becn already deve. The theatre at Dresden has been closed in consequence of the overflow of the Elbe. ‘The last of a series of lectures before the Young Men's Literary and Social Union Club was deliv ered last night at Clinton Hall, by A. Oakey Hall, Esq. The subject of which he treated was entitled “Ancient Breach of Promise Case—Dido versus Zineas.”’ The lecturer described this famous case, which has been so graphically dealt with by Virgil in his “4 .”’ The style of the lecture was purely hyperbolic, and consisted principally of in- terrogatives and answers, after the fashion of a legal trial. He brought fortu the names and cha- racters of the principal gods in the heathen mythology, as lawyers, jurymen, witnesses, &c., occasivnally adapting their acticms to some living personages of our own day, with a very happy effec.. As @ racy, pungent, witty and recondite literary composition, the lecture deserves the highest commendation, and it received the ap. plause of an appreciative audience during its de- livery. Last evening Rev. Dr. Vinton delivered an able lecture on the ‘‘Cause and Cure of the Rebellion” to a large audience, at Irving Hall, a brief report of which will be found elsewhere. Gen. Robert Anderson, Hon. George Bancroft, Hon. Luther Bradish and ovher prominent citizens were present. The U.ited States steam transport Matanzas sailed yesterday morning for Port Royal and Ship Island. She has a full cargo of eubsistcnce stores and ammunition. ‘The slave cases and the trial for murder on the high seas, in the United States Circuit Court yes- terday, were of great interest. Mr. Edwin James made a powerful speech for the alleged murderer, and succeeded in acquitting his client. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Re- corder Hoffman sentenced James J. Wall te im- prisonment in the State Prison for four years and six months, he having been convicted of man. slaughter in the second degree, in shooting Owen | Phelan at Harlem. The Grand Jury have found ndictments of arson iu the third degree against Wilitar Perley and William G. Lambert, Jr. Yesterday Lembert appeared before Recorder Hoffman and entered into bail in the sum of $2,500, his father becoming the security. They are charged in the indictment with felpniously burning goods, wares and merchandise in the building No. 869 Broadway on the 22d of April, 1260, with an intent thereby to defraud the Ifome Insurance Company. No business of public importance was transacted by the Commissioners of Emigration Yesterday, From the wi ly statement it appears that the num, ber of emi, 8 who arrived here during the week ending on the 26th instant was 372, making a total of 2,529 during the present year, against 3,940 up tothe same date last year. The number of in. balance remaining in the bank to the credit of the Commissioners is $4,962 80. The market for beef cattle was more buoyant this week, and with a good deinand and moderate receipta prices have advanced half a cent per pound, varying from 6c. a 9c. a 9340. a10c. Thecat- tle were generally of a good quality, and sold fast at the advance. Milch cows were dull but un- changed. Veals were steady at 4c.a6c.a 6)4c. Sheep and lambs were rather more active, and Prices varied from $3 50 a $5 50 a $8, according to quality. Swine were active and higher, varying from 4}4c. a 4%4c. for corn fed and 3%e. a 4c: for still fed. The receipts were 3,329 beef cattle, 116 cows, 301 veals, 4,700 sheep and lambs and 9,188 swine. ‘The cotton market yesterday exhibited more tone and firmness, with more stability and evenness in prices- ‘The sales embraced 1,000 bales, closing on the basis of 280. for middling uplands. The flour market was without important chenge in prices, while the demand was fair, chiefly from tho home trade. Wheat was dull and pricos irregular, while sales were light. Corn was dull, while sales wore made to a moderate extent, embracing West. ern mixed at 62c. a 64c. in storeand delivered. Pork was active and higher, chiefly for future delivery. Sales were made on the spot at $14 26 a $14 3734 for new mess, and $10 6234 a $10 75 for new prime. For June and July de- livery sales were made at $15 for new mess and $11 for new prime. Sugars wore steady, with sales of 700 a 800 hhds. and 16,000 bags Manila, Coffee was firm, with sales of 2,800 bags Rio on private terms, and 1,000 ‘o. at 19340. a 200. Freights were unchanged, while engage- ments were made toa fair exient. The English Government and the Eng- lish Press on American Affairs. The diplomatic correspondence that we pub- lished yesterday from the Blue Book, which has just been laid before the House of Commons, in relation to the questions that have arisen be- tween the governments of England and the United States, in connection with the civil war in this country, throws fresh light on the influ- ences that were exercised to provoke hostilities between the two countries, and thus bring about the recognition of the South. To complete the effect of these disclosures, we have the em- phatic denial of Lord Derby, the chief of the tory opposition, of the expressions attributed to him in the report of his speech in the House of Lords at the opening of Parliament, in which he was made to advocate an early recognition of the rebel confederacy by England. In taking into consideration the state of poli- tical parties in England, the temptations which the American question held out to the opposition, and the distressing circumstances that rendered the efficiency of our blockade a matter of very reasonable cavil on the part of an administra- tion sorely pressed on all sides, we cannot help being struck with the generally upright and candid spirit that pervades the correspondence of the British officials, and which prompted the recent declaration of Lord Derby. To Lord Lyons credit is especially due for his correct appreciation of the delusions under which the leaders of the rebellion put forth their claims for recognition, and which have led so many in Eu- rope to favor their pretensions. Still more to his honor is the feeling manifested by him at the near prospect of an abrupt and unfrie::ily ter- mination of his diplomatic functions. “To con- ceal the distress that I feel,” says his lordship, in a despatch to Earl Russell, “would be impos- sible, nor would it, if possible, be desirable.” Again, in expressing his unwillingness to make any demand for reparation that, on the one hand, might prove to be inadequate, or that, on the other, might render more difficult a satis- factory settlement of the question, by being un- necessarily great, he gives utterance to these generous sentiments:—“I am unwilling to de- prive any explanation or reparation which the United States government may think it right to offer of the grace of being made spontaneously. The American people would more easily tole- rate a spontaneous offer of reparation, made by its government from a sense of justice, than a compliance with a demand for satisfaction from a foreign minister.” It was through this deli- cacy and conscientiousness, we need scarcely add, that the settlement of the Trent affair was so easily and quietly effected. The least im- prudence or haughtiness of bearing on his lord- ship’s part would have led to such an outbreak of public feeling here as wou!d have rendered it exceedingly dificult for Mr. Seward to make the reparation demanded. Such being the spirit and tone in which the correspondence on this and other questions a gg out of our domestic troubles has been conducted, it becomes a matter of wonderment how the two countries should have been so nearly iuvolved inwar. To the English press we have to look for an explanation of the fact, for to it all the violence and ill feeling display- ed towards the North are traceable. The rebel- tion had no sooner broken out than the English journals, with two or three honorable excep- tions, seemed to be seized by some malign and unrecountable influence, which converted their previously moderately amicable feeling to- wards us into bitter hatred, and prevented them secing anything except through a Southern medium. The I'rench press exhibited the same dislike and contempt towards us—a fact for which the early misfortunes of the cam- paign were assigned as a pretext. No one, however, could reasonably expect that a purely commercial end agricultural community should all at once display the militacy qualities that it takes years to develope in other countries, What, then, was the motive of the fierce parti- sanship thus exhibited? We know not, unless it be explained by the corrupt antecedents of such men as Measrs. Yancey, Rost and Maun, the rebel Comuissioncrs. It is known that they took large sums of Southern gold with them abroad, and that they mede lavish use of it in their cultivation of both the English and French press. Whether their operations were confined to dining and wining its editors, or were extended to subsidizing the journals them- selves, we have yet to learn. Much of the for- mer we know was done; but this would not furnish aeo'ution to the course of such jour- nals as the London Jimes and the Paris Patrie. Considerations more potent must have influ- enced them, or they would not thus forfeit their claims to public respect and risk their | circulation. ‘ake, for example, the conduct of the London Times in the instance of Lord Derhy’s speech. Can any one doubt, after the previous course of that journal, that it de- signedly misrepresented his lordship’s expres- sions in order to represent him as advocating the immediate recognition of the South? It is not merely a political sentiment that Induces a journal in the positign of the Times to thus commit itself. The service sought to be r dered belongs to that class which only mone ean buy. If these conclitsions reflect seveyely on the y journals to which we'refer, it is their Touit, not | ours, A course more inconsistent, more un- principled or more utterly reckless has never been pursued by public writera. It is wo be Pending thi motion the morning | suntes semaining og Ward's Jelend (@ 794. The | hoped that the rebuke given them by the | moderation of the Amerlean government and press, and the falsification of all their foolish predictions, will have the effect of recalling them to some sense of shame and regard for public opinion. A War Debate in the Rebel Congress “Monsieur Tonson Come Again.” The recent war debates in the rebel Con- gress, which, from the reports of the Richmond papers, we have !aid before our readers, are very interesting and suggestive. Foote—Governor Foote, General Foote, the Hon. H. S. Foote, the immortal Foote—of Mississippi, and then of California, but now of Tennessee, whose native element is hot water, has been getting up another sensation. As a dashing and persevering sensation expounder of Southern chivalry, Foote is only excelled by Governor Wise. Asa member of the United States Senate, Foote was always on the floor, always entertaining, always punctilious, and always in a stew. As a Unionist, though at first victorious over Jeff. Davis and secession in Mississippi, Foote was finally floored, and then he left in disgust for California, that happy refuge of used-up politicians. But there, fail- ing with his Know Nothing dark lantern to find his way back to Washington, Foote wiped the gold dust of the Sacramento off his feet, and re~ turned to the valley of the Mississippi. There he has been bobbing around; now raising Jesse among the fire-eaters of a Southern commercial convention, and then spreading himself for Douglas; here to-day and off to-morrow, until at length he turns up in the rebel Congress at Richmond, a representative from Tennessee, as rattling, rampant, irrepressible and implacable as ever, and still the evil genius of Jeff. Davis, haunting him like his shadow. And so we find that no sooner is the rebel “permanent” Congress organized than Foote pounces upon the administration of Davis. He offers a resolution declaring that, whatever pro- priety there may have been heretofore in the defensive war policy of Davis, it is now the duty of his government to “carry the war into Africa,” “to assail the forces of the enemy wherever they are to be found, upon the land or the water, with a view to the most ample indemnity for the past, and the most complete security for the future.” Foote does not like the idea of waiting to be eaten up. W. W. Boyce, of South Carolina, late a man of mark in the Congress of the United States, sided with Foote. Those South Carolina men, whose hearts are in their desperate work, are the fellows to look their danger squarely in the face. Boyce was for offensive warfare, and was for holding on to all the slave States; for, said he, “we cannot afford to give up one inch of Southern soil.” He referred to the drunken boast of the rebel Secretary of War, Walker, on the falt of Fort Sumter, that within a month the Confederate flag would be flying over the city of Washington, and said, substantially, that, instead of alarming the North by this threat, the rebel conspirators should have done the deed while talking peace. Boyce was right about this Southern blowing and braggadocia, because in the very outset it utterly ruined the chances of this rebellion. For three months before the fall of Fort Sumter, and for three weeks after the battle of Bull run, thisSouthern conspiracy might have succeeded in a European recognition, by the seizure and occupation of Washington and Maryland. But from the day that General McClellan had reorganized our broken army of Bull run, the game was up with Jeff. Davis. From the day when we of the loyal States had no longer any fears as to the safety of Washington, the handwriting was upon the wall against the rebel govern- ment at Richmond. The earnest South Carolinian, Boyce, thought it was high time for the Confederates to fight upon some general plan; that they had been fighting at random long enough; and he named Beauregard and Toombs—the bombastic, bois- terous and barbarous Toombe—as the two men to form a plan. Now, while we must admit Beauregard to be a good officer, we know nothing of Toombs as a military leader, except from the plan of warfare which he recently urged upon the women and children of Georgia. That plan would make it their duty to burn their own houses over their heads, to lay waste by fire the cities, towus, hamlets, villas and cottages of the South, their stores of provisions and their growing crops, their fields and forests, with the approach of our advancing forces, But as this pian of Toombs, though partially adopted in South Carolina, is no better than that of the man who set fire to his barn to save it from the bands of the sheriff, we suspect it will not be suflicient to defeat the grand cn- circling plan of McClellan. But, to return to Foote. He is always full of the wonders of some prodigious mare’s nest which he has just discovered. So, in this case, he never vould endorse the rebel Secretary of War (Benjamin) and their Secretary of the Navy (Maliory). Foote had found them out; and no doubt, in this instance, he has substan- tial ground for his declarations; for Benjamin is understood to have commenced life as a thief, and Mallory had the reputation of a loose charac- ter in Washington. Foote, so far from endors- ing these two men, “intended to make one day developemenis that would astonish at least some. body;” for “he had facts, startling facts, which he intended to bring to bear on the subject.” And so Foote continued at great length to de- nounce that defensive policy of his rebel con- fedcrates which has resulted so dirastrously to their cause, and to advucate the policy of push- ing the war to Thilade'pbia, New York and Boston. To pursue this plan, Mr. Jeukins, of Virginia, mildly suggested that the rebel army would have to be increased to double its pre- sent numbers. But energetic, ¢o-ahend military champions of the South like Genesal Foote look with contempt upon such trifles as overwhelm- ing numbers, artillery and resources on the side of the enemy. To sum up, we discover in the vilent con- flict of opinions developed in the rehel Con- gress, by the fearless and terrible General Foote, and in the doubts, disr:oy and despair betrayed in thi policy of the South, that the rebel government, with anc ber such overhanling, wiil be very apt to be up inarow. Jt is now in the wrang- ling, disjointed and disordered condition of the councils of the Jews when their sacred ety of Jervenlem was besieged by Titus; and we think it highly probable that another onslaught upon Be. jamin by Foote will very materially shorten the dying agonies of the rebellion. Let Foote bring out his “startling facts,” let the honest people of the South see how they have been betrayed and deapoiled by an impudent con- spiracy of robbers and swindlers, and there will be an end at once to this beld imposture of an impudent Southern confederacy. disenssion of the future war | Mexico and European Intervention. It is evident that England is beginning to see the designs of Spain and France with re- gard to Mexico, and, as these form no part of the compact between the three nations, she is very properly unwilling to countenance them. The designs in question are in their character somewhat antagonistic as concerns her Catholic Majesty and Louis Napoleon. The cherished object of Spain is to reconquer the country and make it a Spanish colony; that of France is to overthrow the republic and establish in its place @ monarchical government, placing the Archduke Maximilian, of Austria, on the throne, in consideration of the latter annexing Venetia to the new Italian kingdom, in which evant, of course, Napoleon would stipulate for the transfer of the island of Sardinia to France, make Rome the capital of Italy, by withdraw- ing his troops, and settle matters generally to his own liking. In this way he would be ministering to the national passion of the French people for territorial aggrandizement, and increasing his own popularity at home. But Louis Napoleon is not the farseeing man that we credit him to be if he does not recognise in this programme innumerable dangers,not only in Europe, but on this continent, and if these are not sufficient to deter him from its adoption. When Spain, planning the conquest of Mexico, proposed the treaty under which the three Pow- ers are at present acting, Napo'econ saw that he could make something out of it, and readily as- sented to the proposition. The issue of the war in the United States might have then appeared very doubtful to him, and in the event of a di- vision of this republic he had little to fear fro the United States, But since that time the as- pect of the struggle has materially changed, and all doubt as to the ultimate triumph of the federal arms, and the restoration of the Union to its former integrity, is dispelled by our recent victories and the immense preponderance of resources at our command. Had it not been for the fact that we were engaged in acontest at home, the European coa- lition against Mexico would never have been formed. It was known that for the time being we were unable to thwart the plans of the Allies, and under certain contingencies it might be found very convenient to havea large European squadron near our own shores. But, although we are still engaged in that contest, it will not be long before we sheath our swords in vic- tory; and then, with an army of half a mil- lion of men, we shall be perfectly prepared, if requisite, to take a hand in the Mexican game. It is this knowledge, more than anything else, that will operate upon the mind of the Emperor of France, and he will be unwise, indeed, if, for such a doubtful advan- tage as that arising from the fact of Maximilian being King of Mexico, he risks the interruption of friendly relations with this country; for the United States will never tolerate a Hapsburg in Mexico, any more than it would allow Mexico to become a colony of Spain. It is very possible that the latter Power may persist in her attempts towards this end, but vainly; for if the Mexicans fail in defeating her, they will find friends in the United States, and we shall have a fair pretext for annexing the island of Cuba; and it is the continued posses- sion of this colony that furnishes Spain with trade and means for carrying out the scheme of conquest which she has lately commenced to put into practice. She began by the conquest of San Domingo, and if let alone she will try to conquer all South America. She is making a desperate effort to revive the grandeur of her former history; but she is doomed to disappoint- ment. The United States will take care of Mexico, the Tripartite treaty to the contrary notwithstanding; and the elements of discord already existing among the Allies themselves will make this a tolerably easy matter. Tae ATTACKS OF THE TRIBUNE ON THE Pres DENT AND His Fammiy.—Every day there is some malignant attack upon the President or his family in the columns of that rabid organ of abolition, the New York Zribune. The fol- lowing, published in yesterday’s number, is a specimen “Why don’t you dance?” blithely inquired an eminent funeticnary of a leading Sevator, ata recent social fes- tivity in Washington, “I never dai in a bovieged city,” was the quick and stern reply. The allusion is to an ordinary reception given at the White House, at which there was no ball but this story about dancing was fabricated as a peg on which to bang an imputation both upon the President and his family, and, at the same time, to wound General McClellan by representing the city of Washington as be- sieged. Nothing but malignity of the most rancorous kind could describe the capital of the republic as being in a state of siege. It might just as well be said that New York is besieged. At a time that the British govern- ment and the beads of all parties in England are freely admitting that the Southern rebels have not proved their capability of maintaining their independence, their Northern ally, Gree- ley, comes to their assistance, by showing that not only do they hold their own, but that they have the capital of the United States, with the President, his Cabinet and Congress, be- leaguered. Thus does the Tribune play into the hands of Jeff. Davis and his associates. But there is one consolation, and that is,that nobody in England will be likcly to give cre‘lit to the assertions of that journal, in the face of notorious facts “known to all men.” Tue Trieune Sreauixe tan Henaty’s News axp Eprrortats—Yesterday the Tribune, not content with taking from the Meratp its news of the previous day, containing a report of the jrauguration of Jeff. Davis, his inaugural ad dress, his proclamation of a fast, aud other in. teresting intelligence from the South, published a number of our old editorie's, running back more than year ago. We are glad to find that that journal, in the absence of fresl. news, ders these articles better worth a place in tumns than anything else ‘¢ could fill them | with, We hope it will continue to publish such matter, and that hereafter it will insert our editorials at full length, and not in a garbled form, in order that its reeders may have a cor- rect idea of what the Ti .D says. Among them we would sugyest for publication an arti- cle in Tuesday’s number with the caption “What the Abolitivaisis Want to Do for the Country.” That articie «.ows what Sumner, Greeley & Co. want to #0; but they will never be able to put forty niggers in the House of Representatives and four in the Senate, to vote with them that black is white and white bisck on future political isuer They must try their hand at some other mode of manviacturing a majority in Congress, or they wil, bs ow oiped by those coming events which, are now oastiig their shadows before, . Government ConTro. or THE TeLEGRAPHS—A Sror ro Tus Game or AsoLiTionst TRarrors,— Secretary Stanton’s order forbidding the trans- mission of military intelligence by telegraph unless authorized by the government supervisor appointed under the powers vested in the Presi- dent by the recent act of Congress will glad- den the heart of every loyal man. It was im- possible that any great combined movement of our armies could take place in Virginia without the adoption of this precautionary measure. No step could be taken in advance without ite being instantly telegraphed to New York, and being as promptly transmitted to the rebels, The control assumed by the government over the different lines is in no sense of the word a censorship, inasmuch as it merely applies to military movements, and does not interfere with news of any other description. It has been necessitated by the conduct of certain mean and contemptible abolition journals, such as the Zribune, Times, World and Post, which have been in the habit of regularly furnishing information to the enemy of the movements of our troeps, in violation of an understanding with the government to the contrary. It will not in any way affect the Herat; for we have never deviated from that understanding, be- lieving it to be our duty, as it is our pleasure, to go hand in band with the authorities in every- thing calculated to promote the great task en- trusted to them. It is satisfactory to know that henceforth it will not be left to the good faith of traitorously inclined journals to keep silent on the information that may reach them in con- nection with the movements of our army. They will be subjected to penalties for the in- fraction of the government regulations which will be equivalent to a total suppression of their country circulation. Tan Conreperacy at Home AND ABROAD.— The appeal of Messrs. Yancey, Rost and Mann (the reputed Commissioners of Jeff. Davis’ bogus confederacy) to Earl Russell was pub- lished in our columns yesterday, and figures largely in the Parliamentary Blue Book. In cool audacity of lying it surpasses even Jeff. Davis’ inaugural, and its misrepresentations are as numerous as they are malicious. These Commissioners represent that the rebels have won every victory; that Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee are true to the South, and that part of Mlinois is out of the Union. Our blockade, they insist, is only a sham; and, on the whole, they consider the confederacy an established fact. In reply, Earl Russell ob- serves that he cannot see the confederacy in that light, and gives Yancey & Co. the cold shoulder. It is amusing to notice, however, the nicety with which the Confederates suit their case to the prevalent feelings at home and abroad. Here they tell us abolition drove them out of the Union, when, in effect, the abolitionists only gave them a pretext for seces- sion. In England, where abolitionists are popular, the rebels represent that it was ad- verse legislation which compelled them to leave, when, in fact, the South has had uninter- rupted control of the national legislature for - the past forty years. One lie is as great as the other; but certainly the Father of Lies him- self could hardly adapt them so well to the circumstances and opinions of the parties ad- dressed. Passage or THE Treasury Nore Bui—Waat Next mv Orpen ?—The Treasury Note bill has finally passed, has been approved by the Presi- dent, and is now the law of the land. The.sub- stance of it is that it issues $150,000,000 of Treasury notes, which are a legal tender for public and private debts, except for the interest due upon them and the bonds into which they are convertible, which must be paid in coin, and the customs duties to the government, which must be paid in specie—the effect of which provision is to keep gold in the country, and at the same time indirectly to increase the duties on imports. The notes may be funded at any time in six per cent twenty year bonds, but redeemable at the pleasure of the government after five years from date. On the whole the bill is good, and the principal features in it are what we recommended. But Congress may pass as many Treasury note bills as it pleases; they will avail nothing without a Tax bill em- bracing every species of property and income, including a uniform tax upon newspapers. This bill ought to have been ready long ago, and passing the Treasury Note bill before it is like putting the wagon before the horse; but better late than never. Tug Orentxo or THE Cotton Marxet.—The government is still receiving small supplies of cotton from Port Royal; but in avery short time * we shall be in possession of from a million and a half to two millions of bales. Savannah and Charleston will soon be in our possession, and at least half a million of bales are stored there. The Burnside expedition may be relied upon for another half million. At Memphis all the cotton grown along the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, in Northern Alabama and in part of Arkansas, is centred, and will be captured with the city. The Southern cotton will reach New York very quickly, and the Western cotton will be transported here by the railroads. We expect, then, to be able to give Europe the usual supply of cotton this year, and at the usual time. We think, also, that the price, now risen to an average of twenty-four cents, will then fall to the usual amount. Tum Betie’s Srnarmcea at Wartack’s.—For the first time in sovora: years Mra. Cowley’s piquant, amusing and excelieatly written comedy, the “Bolio’s Strategom,’? was prodaced at Wallack’s last evening. Tho audience was extremely large aud appreciative. The plot of the yoy is the device of a bolle, who causes her indifferent b-trothed to dislike her by assuming to be an awkward, silly hoyden, in order that ho may fall in love with her ata masquerade, in her real character of an accom- plished lady. Mrs. Hooy, as the belle, surpassed herself. Mr. Charles Fishor,as the ploazantly deceived lover, was admirable, Mr. Biake played Hardy well, but was alter nately too forgetful and too extemporancous. There ty another plot in the comedy, in which a party of fashion~ ab'es attempt toallare tho innocent Lady Touchwood— excellently acted, but bad dressed, by Mrs. Sloan— {ato frivol'ty and even crime. In thi: + lfesars. Rey~ nolds, Norton, Floyd and Parkes appe » good advan, tago; and in both imbroglios Miss Morant and Mr. Lestog Wallack acted second class parts with first rate ability. ‘The play was well pyt.upon the stage, excellently repre- sented, and was 50 warm'y received that wo are sure the public agree with us that it has been too tong shelved, It vill be ropoated Saturday. ‘Tae GormcnaLK Contenta.—In addition to several new ccMipositions to be played by Mr. Gottschalk, the “‘Lacts dj Lauamermoor”’ will be given to-morrow evoning at tho grand gala concert at Niblo's. Miss Kellogg will ap- poar for the first time on this occasion in the role oy Lucia. NS Court Calendar=This Day. 4 aur Gourt—Cimcorr.—Part1—Nos, 418, 1567, 1788 \ 1053, A8v0, 368, 1148, 1962, 4010, 1090; 1192, 1108), 1264 1900, 1280, adil >