The New York Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK: HEBRALD.| RENNER JANES GORDON EDITOR AND PRUPRUELOR OFFICE N. W. CORSER OF FULTON 2°} NASSAT OTS, | ZLLME cosh m advanes, Mone: fy moni wih hearths v1 aut tn Rew 3 37 neranian emis per comy. oF $: THE ratte feed comm nmical ane TISFMENT: Ww Y Volume XXViII...... AMUSEMENTS TiHIS E NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Cov.inen bawx—LHow to Pay cue thes? GARDEN, Broadway.—Pavi Par—Toopirs— WALLACK’S THEATRE, No, 84 Broadway.—Convow S8UcA NCE tA KEENW'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus Ma- uy; Ow, THY PREP CF DAY NEW BOWERY THEAT ANCOR) 66 ite ario—Kae. ROWERY THEATER, Bo Cieeus y-—Sticuner's Narrows BARNUM'’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Bi Norr—Living sy WHALE, « Bavad ane roadway. —Com BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mecuanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Omiw Roast Buse. HOOLEY'S MINSTRELS, Stuyvesant Institute, No, 65 way. —Etulorian Soxgs, Dances, &¢, MELODEON CONCERT Dances, Buaiesaces, &c. L, 539 Broadway.—Soxas, VICT a1 BON BLackwhat CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 585 Broadway.—Sonas, ‘ANOKs, BUKLESQTES, SO— FL XNCAN AT THe Paik, GATETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—Drawina vom Enxteetawaxnts, Batters, Pantoutmus, Farces, &c, AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 441 tats, Pan comimes, £o.— 414 Broadway.—Sowas, Bat- seRE Micat x CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT WALL, No. 452 — Buwuxsavxs, SnGs, Daxcks, L— 600 UtuwNS. PARISIAN CABINET OF WO: Open daily from 10 A. M. ung P. PERS. 563 Broadway.— NOVELTY MUSIC Bi i fy ms HALL, 616 Broadway.—Borirsqurs New York, Friday, March 7, 1862. THE SITUATION. The President laid before Congress yesterday a very important message on the question of the emancipation of slaves, which will probably tuke the ultra abolitionists aback who have been forc- ing their opinions in favor of universal emancipa- tion as the object of the war, upon the public, the President, the Cabinct and Congress, ever since the rebellion took a tangible shape. By public meetings, lectures and vio- lent speeches on the floors of Congress, the abolitionists have been endearoring to convert a conflict consecrated to the restoration of the Union and the vindication of the constitution into 8 raid upon an institution which it has been their favorite project for the last quarter of a centary to destroy, with a wanton disregard for the integrity, honor and prosperity of the country. But the President adheres strictly to the conservative doc- trinca of the constitution, while yielding to the exigencies of the present unnatural and uncx- voted crisis, in proposing to Congress the adop- on of @ resolution, guaranteeing to all the South- ra States which may desire a gradu:l emancipa- wa of their slaves, a full remuneration for the “aves so manumitted, thus giving the option to the border States now reduced and yet to be reduced to abolish slavery upon just and equitable grounds, if they find the institution burdcasome and unprofit- able. This propozal cannot to impress the conservative clement, both in the Northern and Southera States, most favorably. wrk The intelligence from General Banks’ division | continues of the most salisfactory ch. despatches from Charlestown yes that the work on the Baltimore and 0} Progvesses rapidiy, and that every point b Cumberland and Harper's Ferry is strongly pro- tected. Bunizer Hill was occupied on Wednesday by our troopa as the extreme outpost of the di. vision, and Smithfield, a towa seven miles northwest of Charlestown was taken possession of at the samme time. A squad of cavalry captured a rebel picket belonging to the Second Virginia in- fantry, near Punker Hill, yesterday. A futile at- tempt was made by a party of Colonel Ashley's rebel cavalry, on Wednesday night, to cut off one of uur scouting parties near Berryville. On Monday four regiments of rebel infantry, supported by a battery of four guns, attempted to fank Colonel Geary's force at Lovettsville, but were driven back. The sentimcut of the people in the vicinity has undergone s wonderful change. Supplies from the couniry are freely coming in to the Union camps. The provisions ceized under con- f.vation are rapidly filling up the army store- houses, contributing greatly to the comfort of the soldiers. The seizurcs on Wednesday amounted to 570 barreis of flour, and 200 bushels of wheat, in | T! bags, markod “Confederate States,’ but the pro* perty has changed hands, Activity still prevails on the Lower Potomac. A brisk fire was opeued by our flotilla yesterday | morning apoa the rebel forces at Agquia cre who were discovered by some of our gunboa be there in force. The alirm was instantly throngh the rebel camps, and the long roll re- sounded from Aquia creek along the river to Evansport, showing that the rebel forces in thot direction have bsea greatly augmented within a few days past. The rebel batteries opeued fire on our battery at Budd's ferry at el@ven o'clock yes. ‘orday, but did no damage after discharging somo virty shots. The steamer Yaukeo went in within half a mile the Virginia shore yesterday, and shelled anew | battery in process of erection in the rear of tho ition of the old rebol battery Point. The revels wore forced to promises, It is reported that a skirmish took place on Wed- merday on the Telegraph road, near Pohick C between @ party of Yexan Rangers acda: from General Henitzelman's division, which in the loas of one captain, one Ioutencnt anda at Freoston evacuate th } bat TICE taken of cnomymous eorresponience, Wedona newed enery tary; wtvartiser-nts ite | Pasty Uerarn, and in ia | with nedinecs, cheapness and le | shat the Union pickets in the vicinity of Columbus Ship Island of aa interesting character. The i health of the wenis good, although the weather is very hot, the thermometer marking ninety-five deprees in the shade, The detnils of the capture of the rebel steamer Magnolia, with 1,150 bales of cotton, by the South Carilina, while attempting to run ort of Mohile, is given in our Ship Island news. verhoard about two hundred and fifty ) ert re cargo consisting of 1,400 bales of the valuatle staple. She was bound for Ha- vana. The espiure of @ dozen or more oyster boets, on their way to New Orleans, will consider- the supply aad increase the price icious article in the Cresceat City of 1 despetch from Cairo yesterday states were driven in by some of the rebel cavalry lurk- inz in that direction, but, upon the woods in the neighbe:hood being shelled by our gunboats, the rebels took a hasty departure. Heavy Gring in the direction of New Madrid is gaid to have beca heard at Columbus on Wednesday morning at four NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1862. —— thisd reading. Im Committe of the Whole, the | Annual Appropriation bill wa debated at length, when progress was reported, and the subject laid over. ‘The Turks Island Royal Standard of the 25th of February has the following coacerning movements in the salt market:—‘Phree small cargoes have been shipped from the colony this weck, which is all that has been done in our salt market since last report. Advices from New York to the 27th ult. state that, in consequence of it being proposed ia Cougross to increase the duty on salt from 9c. to he. per bushel, the price had suddenly advanced from 23c. to 4c. Our last sales were al 7%4 Export duty, 4c.” ‘The schooner Target, Capt. Scott, which arrivec yesterday from Montevideo, brought as passenge two persons seat home by the United States Co sul at Montevideo, one of whom, William Fen wie is charged with the murder of the second mate of the bark Mary Lucretia, and the other asa wit- ness. The very boisterous weather experienced by the Hamburg steamship Sorussia oa her last trip from Europe, while proving incontestibly her a pirable seagoing qualities and great strength, ye a few slight repairs necessary, causing her depar- ture to be delayed from Saturday, the 8th inst., hor o'clock. The rebels are reported to musier 40,000 mon at the former’ place, reinforcements from Memphis, as well as Columbug, having reached there. CONGRESS. Ameseage from the President was received by the House of Representatives yesterday, suggest- ing the adoption of a joint resolution providing for co-operation with any State for the abolition of slavery, with pecuniary,consideration. The Preai- dent, in proposing this initiatory step, predicts important practical results therefrom. The docu- ment may be found in another column. On motion of Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, the message was referred to the Committee of the Whole. In the Senate yesterday, the Post Office Appro- yriation bill and the Postal Money Order bill were reported respectively by the Committces on Finance and Postal Affairs. A joint reso- lution tendering the thanks of Congress to Commodore Goldsborough and his offi- cers and seamen, for their gallant conduct at Roanoke Island, was adopted unanimously. The bill relative to the pay of Congressmen was regular day, to Wednesday, the L2ihinst., at twelve o'clock noon precisely. In nearly all the charter and town elections thus Important Message from the Presi@eat— The Emancipation Question, The President laid before Congress yes- terday a most important Message on the of the emancipation question, sug- gesting thé adoption of a joint resolution to the effect that the government ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt a gradual abolition of slavery, gi to such State pecuniary aid, to be used, in its dis- cretion, to compensate for the inconveniences “produced by such change of sysiem.” If the roposition contained im the resolution does not meet the appfoval of Congress, then, says the President, there is an end of the matter, But if it does, then it is important that the States interested should know the fact. In other words, if the border States, now redeemed, or partially redeemed, from the clutches of re- bellion, should be disposed to emancipate their slaves, it is proper that Congress should an- nounce to them, by the adoption of such a reso- lution, that the government is willing to aid them by paying a just-yalue for the slaves so liberated. Sueh a measure would most probably prove agreeable to the conservative fecling of the North and the South alike, substituting, as it far held in this State the Union democrats secm to have gained largely over the ultra republicans. In Cottarangua county the democrats have gained two Supervisors, and in Wyoming four. The de- mocratic candidate in Troy was elected by 534 majority; in Rochester the democrats succeeded in electing their candidate for Mayor, and bave also secured a majority in the Common Council; in Utica the result is the same, the democrats hay- ing elected their Mayor and five out of the seven Aldermen. Forty-six ficld officers of the rebel stripe, taken at Fort Donelson, errived in Albany yesterday, en route for Fort Warren. Mrs. William H. Norris, a female secesher, was arrested in Baltimore on the 3d inst., and will pro- bably soon have an opportunity to console with Buckner and Tilghman in Fort Warren. She charged with keeping a clothing storehouse in Baltimore for the Southern confederacy, and with sending various articles of comfort to the rebels during the cold weather. This arrest is what Jeff. Davis would call “seiziug innocent and de- fenceless women.” William Henry Hawkins, colored steward of the ship Lamergier, was placed on -trial yes- docs, a moderate and practical view of the question of emancipation in place of the ex- treme and impracticable views of the aboli- tionists. The progress of the debate on the Confisca- tion bill is developing the conservative, consti" tution-loving sentiment in Congress. It is a struggle of law and order against anarchy and revolution. The observations of Senator McDougall (opposition), of California, on Mon- day and Tuesday, are well worthy of, the atten- tive consideration of the whole people, and their endorsement by Mr. Cowan (republican), of Pennsylvania, is a most gratifying evidence of patriotism amidst the fierce passions of party spirit. “Shall we,” says tho latter gentleman, “stand by the constitution, or shall we open wide the field of revolution, and go back to the doctrines of feudal ages, and introduce feuds which centuries cannot quiet? That is what this bill proposes. Tho passage of such a bill will make the whole Southern people our ene- mies. The scheme of colonization is entirely impracticable. And further, the bill is directly taken up, and anamendment allowing twenty cents torday in the United States Circuit Court, before | in conflict with the constitution, for the preser- per mile for mileage was adopted. Further de- bate on the bill was cut off by a motion to go into executive session, which was agreed to. In the House of Representatives, the report o¢ the Conference Committee on the resolution pro- viding for the payment of Western war claizas was accepted, and the resolution adopted. The bill providing for the organization of the division stafls of the army was passed. The Committee of Ways and Means reported a bill to provide for the pur- chase of coin and for other financial purposes, which was laid over till to-lay. A synopsis of this bill may be found among our Washington despatches. A long defence of Alexander Cum- minzs, 2 contractor for army supplies, was read, and several specches ou the slavery and war ques- tions weve delivered in Commitee of the Whole, and the House adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. > By the 2 1 of the mail steamship Northera Light, we have late and interesting intelligence frem South and Central America. Thenews of the assassination of President Guardiola is confumed, The crime is snpposed to have been instigated by a high military officer. The President was murdered in broad daylight, in his own residence, and by an officer of his body guard, Pablo Agurcia. Certain perties are trying to prepare public opinion for a proposition to reannex Peru to Spain, and are said to be seconded in their endeavors by the Lishops and other leading members among the cler- gy. Asevere shock of earthquake was felt at Paita on the Sth of February, which fortunately passed off without doing any damage. The coffee crop of Costa Nica would be abort 95,000 quintals, ‘The province of Maracaibo, Venezucla, had declared ia favor of ihe United States of Colombia. Washing- ton's Dirthday was celebrated by the American residents in Panama by a dinner at the Aspinwall Hotel. Among those present were Colonel McKee, United States Consul; Captain MeDougal, of the Ini ij ting; Captain Griffen, of of the leading Ameri- Business in Chile is reviving, and abundant and promises well, The e said to be yielding better. the Duke de la Torre, will continue in the govern- rsent of the island. The grand balj given by Execilency at the palace was a perfect and bril- liant success, and our correspoudent has well de- seribed it. More Spanish troops were to be sent fi Rumors were current in Havana of a between the French and Sp h ans, in which the latter were victorious; but nt is not generally believed. General Uraga has been removed from the*command of ¢ Me narmy, and heroic Zaragoza placed 2 itshead. A considerable number of Southern ves- sels had arrived at Havana, having successfully elnded the blockading squadron. The opera sea- son was over, and everything was growing du'l. Our correspondent gives some futeresting statis‘ics concerning the tobacco crop. The health of the island was very goo., The steamship City of New York, Captain Petrie, from Liverpoot 19th alt. and Queenstown 20th; at five P. M., arrived here yesterday morning. She has 245 passengers and the mails. Captain Petrie reports having had very severe weather during the pass On March 1 he saw heavy field ice from priv ste om our side, The loss of the encey is not knowa. We hase oan] news ida frome fey a ane te latite 15, longitude 49, to latitnde 44 22, longi- tude 4906, end was detained fifteen houra by it. news by the City of New York has been an tic iat- d appr D ‘opt rt ordered Il was de- nal dis- ~ Th bated in Committee of the Wi position was made of it. A number of bills were voduced. Among them were bills to prohibit al! sales on Sunday except of meat, milk and fish, and eat nine o'clock in the morning; to the Grand Street aud Hoboken Worries a to appropriate $10,000 to the Troy A-bill waa introduced, and, by unani- nt, reported favorably, to compel all s ) United States prison- ¢ Ten Thousand Dolls ded soas fo make the j al fund, and then order- soinbly, conenrrent f the ihoad, ant Jniversit riment Lowd p act came fromthe Senate and was referred to a select comimittee of five New York mombors, The bill to complete the canal evtaryemont had | supreme laws of the land, to enforce the exe- as well might it do so as undertake to emanci- pate slaves in the Southern States, or to tura those States into territorial governments, It is | within the ineaning of the constitution; for if he Judge Shipman, on charge of having murdered Wm. Henry Adams, the captain of that vessel, while on a voyage from Liverpool to New York. The case is stiil on. The weekly statement of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Cortection was presented yes- terday, and shows that the number of persons ad- mitted to the institutions during the week ending on the Ist inst. was 1,608, and the number remaining there at that time was 7,949, a decrease of twenty- two on the preeeding week. Two hundred thousand barrels of ale are mant- factared annually in the city of Albany. Under the new Tax law:that city will pay on this article alone two hundred thousand dollars a year. Fire Marshal Baker last evening presented to the Board of Aldermen his semi-annual report for the six months ending November 30. The report, as usual, embraces some important suggestions, as well as valuable statistics. Ile refers to the stor- age of petroleum, and the dangers to be appre. bended in the event of fire. He also recommends the adoption of an ordinance to regulate or prohibig the keeping of large quantities of these oils within the fire limits. The aggregate number of fires for the past six months is ne hundred and forty-eight, being forty-two less than that of the previous half year, and fifty-six lees than that of the correspond- ing six months of the previous year. The total alleged losses amount to $734,869, the insurances to $2,721,025, and the actual sums paid by the under” writers to $530,658, which is $217,759 lesa than the amounts paid during the same period of 1860. Fif- teendeaths have been caused by fire during the past six months, There was very good skating on the Central Park yesterday, altho:gh but few persons took advantage of the opportunity. Should no change take place in the weather, the ball will be up at seven o'clock this morning, and skating allowed tili dark, The cotton market opencd with facveased firmucss yeeterday, and closed at a: further advance of tc. per Ib. Thy sales embraced about $99 a 900 bales s en the-basis of 2534c. a Y6c. for mildling uplands. Tho nus market was heavy, with moderate salea, and price So. per bbl. on tho lower and common grades 0 Whoat was inactive, whilo sales air, and for'gome wht ond Westora, ited and prices ire quatitios Cora was unchaagoy were made toa .air oxtont at Ode. 9 6: 1 in store and delivered, Pork was lees buoyany of casior to purchaso, with sales of now moes at 25, old al$i3 37% a $1359, $1975 a Sil for now rime, and $14 50 for nninspected mess. Sugars worn ti and active: the sales ombroeot 2,060 bids; fair siiwins goods Were sold as high as 62e., ant 219 boxes Coftsa was Oria'y bold, but quist: private terms. Frights wore steady aud rathor st esyrelilly to London; availiyte room was s | restricted. We re’ ewhat to another culuma Cor partic tare, Tur 1 or ie Trim Greeley argues that those who endorse the appointment of An- drew Johnson as Provisional Governor of Ten- nessee favor in effect the territorial scheme of Suinner; for, asks the Trilnme, if that be not the idea of she President, why HOt govern Toaaos- ace by martial law till civil law and order are restored: But this is just what the President is doing. Mr. Johnston is a military Governor, and, to make him so, has been appointed a Brigadier General. So far, therefore, Teanos- see is under martial law, and will contiaue #0 tili her people resume the functions of self government, which were paralyzed by a reign of terror, The whole State is not yet reduced to subjection, That is the work of Governor Johnson, and when it js accomplished the State its normal condition by the force of the coustitniion, neither the President, nor Congress, nor Governor Joloson, having any further authority to meddle with the State or- ganization when the people are obedient to the aesumes cution of which is the sole object of theavar. Tne Covetrretion st ENTION OF ILtinors,— The telegraph informed us yestorday that the Constitutional Convention of Miinois had di- rected the Legislature to enact laws to prevent any negroes catering tha te. Will Congress undertake to interfere with that action? Just cloar that the people of Mlinois du not re on of the United § nia o negro naa ctl wore a citizen they would have no power to prevent his settling among them. It is also ple'u that they do not believe the negro to be equal to the white man, and that thoy abbor fi fon. Yet a few desperate fanaties j feiture are expressly prohibited. But, if there | understane vation of which alone the war is waged. The bill is unnecessary, impolitic and totally use- less. The bill is unconstitutional, because the coustitution provides that no bill of attainder shall be passed, and no person punished for crime without regular proceedings in court. This bill is in fact a bill of attainder, and Con- gress has no power to pass it.”” This covers the whole ground. And what is Mr. Cowan's opinion about emancipation? He says:—“I protest against that section of the bill for Creeing the slavea, as an entire departure from the principles of the constitution, aud es- pecially impolitic at this time. Pecause we are in a war we ought not to make a law which was unconstitutional before.’ “What have the negroes done to secure freedom at this time, when the course of their masters seems espe- cially to invite them to strike for liberty? Nothing. They simply rely on their masters, like domestic animals, with a sort of blind in- stinct.” He concludes with “a hope that the bill would not pass, but that Congress would attend to the measures necessary to secure suc, cess in the great struggle in which we are cn- gaged.” This is the language of a patriot; and if all men in Congress had only so spoken and acted from the beginning neither civil convulsion nor disunion would exist to-day. There is one great result produced by this war. The eyes of millions white man, which can no more be removed than the col logistati eer or of his skin by any amount of ion. Itis the negro’s nature to be the ant of the Caucasian race. He “relies on his master,” says Mr. Cowan, “with a sort of blind instinct.” It is evident, therefore, that that part of the bloody programme which can- templated servile insurrection ‘fs already ex- ploded. The negro is happier and better off, physically, morally, ‘socially and religiously, under (uo miid Christian servitude of his white master at the South, than ke ever was in any other condition since the dawa of creation, or ever wiil be till the coming of the millennium. ‘To wave the negro to himself, and put him into competition with the white man, is to destroy lim as effectually as our civilization has dc~ stioyed the red maa of the forest, Servitude is the negro’s normal condition. It is calculated to preserve the race from extinction, and to render it hoppy and at the same time subser- i white mea should wage a war of extermi- nation against white men to the condition of blacks for the worse is an absurdity too great for the common séaze of any people, and much more 6f the intwili- | gent and practical people of the United Stites. | Mr. Lincoln recognizes tho fact; and therefore, even if the fanatics in Congress should sucecod in carrying their bill, it will be met with his veto. As to the unconstitutionality of the bill, both as regards the emancipation of the negroes and the wholesale confiscation of the property of the Southera peoplé, there cannot be a shadow of doubt. Bills of attainder and general for- was even the necessary anthority to pursue this course, Mr. Cowan shows that it would be im- politic and unwise, [t would “ make the whole people of the South our enemies,” Not only is it unconstiintional and unwise, but it is contrary to the law of nations and the modern usages of civilized war, which forbid the capture or forfeiture of au encmy’s private property. Lotus show the world that we can maintain the integrity of the Union ond pre- serve out free institutions without incurring the reproach of becoming barbarinas, or resorting to harsher treatment of the vanquished than the’storn but wise old Romana deemed neces- sary in the zenith of their * It is evident, however, by the Message which we publish to + that Mr. Lincoin thoroughly | the whole question involved in this stormy agitation on the contiseation of proper- fy in the rebel States, and that he has taken sensible and conservative view of it, witich ower, in Congr 4 ate attempting to force upon the Southern States a social and political condition progress reported on it. The bill for the more speedy pagment of Voluntecrs waa ordered toa which the Noribern States will not tolerate tor themselves, while it will undoubtedly provoke the indigna tion of the abolition erew, will be received | with satisfaction by the conservative element | both ia the North and South. of men at the North are opened to tie real char. acter of the negro, and they have discovered, from the experience of our treops and generals, what we have so long proclaimed to them in vain—the natural inferiority of tho negro to the his vessel at Glasgow }at the ports of the Bi The Walt Street Spceutators and Becre- | tary Stanton’s Receat Order, he Disunion Journals and the Tax BULL ‘The disunion abolition journals are display- Since the issue of the recent order of the | ing the cloven foot in the ease of the Tax bill. Secretary of War in regard to the publication | They have hitherte pretended to be in favor of of military news, the Wali street speculators | the war; but now, that they discover that itis » have been exceedingly busy iu inventing and | war for the restoration of tho Union, and not propsgating false reports of the movements of | for the emancipation of negroes, they searcely our forces. They have had Genera} Banks de- | disguise the fact that they would prefer to see feated, the whole Army of the Potomac ea- gaged in battle, and the Union troops every- it fail, because, in that case, being rid of the democratic Southern States, they calculate they where covered with disaster. It need hardly | would retain the federal government of the be said that there is no foundation whatever for such rumors, which are only designed to effect northern half of the republic and mejorities in Congress in their hands. If they could carry the rise or fall of stocks, and are encouraged | their emancipation and territorial schemes, they ratber than rebuked by journals inimical to | would have no objection to sec the war suc- Seeretary Stanion’s order. cessful; for then the retention of the Southerm These current rumors, however, are charged | States as subjugated provinces, to be ruled by by their inventors upon the order of the Secre- | satraps or proconsuls appointed at Washington, tary of War, and the public is told that the | would not interfere with the republican ma- government has made a great blunder in re- jority. But, finding that this is impracticable, stricting the publication of news, and is prac- their most earnest desire is that our generals tically abetting these frauds upon the stock | should make fatal blunders and fail, or that the market and the people. On the contrary, these | way should at first languish, and finally be cus rumors are net the fault of the order, but of a short for want of sustenance. Now, a tax bill is des gning misrepresentation and a popular m‘s- the very life blood of the war. Withoutit another apprebension of the order. ports kave always been circulated upon the Such bogus re- | campaign could not be carried on. Hence the radical disunion journals of New York denounce street, but have never obtained such general | ty Tax bill. To prevent taxation or to excite credence, simply because the people relied public odium against it is virtually to oppose upon the newspapers to expose and correct that the Secretary of War will not allow any- thing to be published about the war, and that, therefore, the stories circulated by the speeu- lators are just as likely to be true as false. authority the most undoubled, thatSecretary Stanton’s order does not prohibit the publica tion of any legitimate and correct news. whatever in the contents of journals truly loyal to deprive the enemy of information of our plans and of movements and operations neces- sarily secret. Our readers will find no differ- ence whatever in the scope, variety, minute- nees and freshness of the news in today’s imposed upon all journals the same loyal cau- made arrangements, through its military euper- transmitted with even grealer facility than ever. No soldier of the Union army can fall, in a rencontre however trifling, without the knowledge of the public; and if General Banks were to fight a battle to-night, or General Hooker's brigade meet with a disaster, or the Army of the Potomac or of the Mississippi advance, or a skirmish occur in Arkansas, our readers wou!d Icarn the fullest particulars of the affair from to-morrow morning’s Herat», or ftom our earlier extra editions. We repeat, therefore, that there is no excuse whatever for those who delude themeelves with false rumors upon tke theory that the news- papers cannot publish the news. Everything actually done will be as fully reported as ever, and only our customary caution will be ob. served in concealing what is intended to be done. Those who arsert otherwise, and thus give encouragement to fabricated reports, are either speculators who have stocks to buy or sell, or journalists who are inimical to Secretary Stanton’s order, because it prevents them from giving their usual daily insty!ment of trea- sonable information to the rcbels, Tue Ores oy Trape witd Tuk Sovta.— The capture of Fort Donelson, coupled with the occupation of Nashville by our troops, has re- sulted in the opening of trade between the whole of the section of which it is the ceutve— a section abounding in cotton and tobaceo. Al- ready $100,000 worth have been sent dowa the Cumberland to New York. The opening of the Tennessee, still further south in the same State, lays open the trade of Novi Alabama andthe river countics of Mississippi. And soon Mem- phis will fall into the hands of the Union troops, and then the whole State will be accessible to Northern trade. Memphis formerly shipped some three or four hundred thousand bales of cotton yearly; for it is the outlet of a very fer- tile and extensive district of country. This and other products formerly went down the Mississippi to New Orleans: They will now ascend that river, to be conveyed by railroad to New York. Along the Atlantic seaboard the same process js going forward, and soon | there will be an abunJance of ilo for the use of the Northern States. Threats are made the cotion and tobacco which are likely to fall suspect the owners will not surrender their the worthless promise of indemnification fr bill, will pass the Legislature, The elec the loss by the bagi éoniederacy. Ju many | year werd conduct the progress of the war—the offence for which them, But now the people are led to believe the Northern secession journals have been that there is no use looking in the newspapers ; equelched by the government. It is disToyalty to the Union, the constitution and the laws; and the republican journals ought to be served up with the same sauce as the organs of sece:sion. There is another reason besides a political There could scarcely be a greater mistake one which prompts the opposition of the repub- than this. We have repeatedly asserted, upon | jioan papers to the Tax bill. Itis of a purely personal and selfish nature. The tax will press heavily upor their tottering establishments, ang perbaps overthrow them. That would not be makes, and was designed to make, no chenge | much loss to the community; and if they were true patriots they would bear the personal loss and carefully conducted. It was intended only | ii, equanimity if it essentially contributed to the salvation of the country, and they would ndvocate the passage of the Tax bill forthe public good, though it were to injure them- selves for a time. But patriotism is something of which they never had the remotest idea; po- Herap as compared with the news in the is- litical partizanship is all that they recognize or sues of the Herarp published a month before gear tay in public affairs. tas it is this order was issued. We have the same liber- | that the Tribune, the Times and the World ta- ties as ever, and the Sccretary’s manifesto only veigh against the bill. But we trust that Congress, which has already tion in the publication of news which the delayed the measure too long, will pass it imme- Henatp has always impozed upon itself. So | gintely, without debate. Discussion will only far from cutting off or delaying the news of | cause injurious delay. If there are any pro- actual occurrences, the War Department has | visions which, by experience, may bé found un- desirable, or requiring alteration, they can visors, with the army correspondents and tele- easily be repealed or modified hercafter. There graphers, by which the correct accounts and | js only one exception to this, and that is the details of every battle and cki:mish shall be provision for collection, which ought to be struck out at once without debate, and the bill assimilated to the Twenty Millions Land Tat bill passed last August, and shortly to come into operation. In this itis provided that the several States should have the option of collect- ing the tax, and be allowed fifteen per cent for the same. This has been agreed to by every loyal State whose Legislature has been in session since the passage of the act, except little Dela-~ ware. It will be a gain of fifteen per cent to the people at large, instead of. throwing so much away upon a set of hungry politicians. This tax will cost the States nothing additional to collect. Their collectors will collect it at the same time with their own taxes; whereas if federal collectors were to collect it the fiftcen per cent discount would not be allowed, and it would probably cost the people double that amount in salaries for the collection. The same method ought obviously to be adopted in the new Dill. ~ os ie. 1 Lot tke measure be put through Congress as speedily as possible. Its passage will teach Europe another lesson. When we raisod seven hundred thousand fighting men, a navy of four hundred vessels, and five hundred millions of dotlars, the great Powers changed their opinion of us. They concluded we were a military Power which it would not be eafe to provoke. Let the bill be adopted at once, and Europe will sce that our financial ability.is equal to our military and raval capabilities, and it will be sure to accord us the full meed of respect which such power ever commands. Tuz Broapway Rawroav Jos.—Our readers have noticed the tremendous efforts for and against the Broadway Railroad job now in pro- gress at Albany. Mr. A.'T. Stewart and other well known gentlemen vehemently oppose the job, and offer a million of dollars to the city or State for the very privileges which the Legisla- tuve is apparently about to give away, gratis, to a set of men who have little or no interest in the welfare of our city, and care nothing for the inconveniences and losses which the passage of such a bill would entail upon us. We suppose that such a ratlroad that proposed would really be worth five millions of dotlars to the city; and yet these Albany jobbers impudently vient to the bappiness of the white man. That | im tho rebel Congress and elsewhere to burn | demand it for nothing. Certainly it would do us five millions of dotlars worth of injury, and change | into the hands of the Union troops. Butwe | ought never to be authorized at any price.” Yet it seems almost certain that this mammoth almost entirely by these instances, fo0, towns and districts will he sur- | pailroad schemers, and their candidates werd” prised Wy our advancing legions heferg the more violent secexsionisis can have time to aps ply the torch. The revival of Southern trade in consequence of the progress of our arms will be a great benefit to North and South, but particularly to the South, whose products were of little or no value because, there was no mar- ket for them, while at the same time the people smuggled into power. The “Little Villain” of af’ ipeaker was secretly elected to aid in this ter- rible 2windle. The silence of the pross has been secured by’ Slving journalisis thirty or forty thousands of dollats worth of stock in the rail- road, and the Hiratn ts the only paper in the city which is above all such corruptions, and is free to oppose this immense swindle. It is use- had to pay fabulous prices for shoes, salt and | Jess to waste argument against the bill upoa other necessaries of life. Their svfferings in consequence were very great. This siate of things is put an end te by the victories at Mill Springs, Fort Henry and Fort Doneison, result. | ing, as they do, in the restoration of the whole | of the magnificent State of Tennessee and por- tions of the adjoining States to the free trade } and commerce of the Union. ] A Commnert Ligutiouse Tax.—Ono of our | sea cuptains called upon us yesterday to inquire | why Secretary Chase does not recommend to | Cove oss a tax upon foreign vessels the use of out Tigh! owses and baoys? The captain sa,a that re ing in and of out, the lighthow ad bury assessments wy en onedourth of item would bo weury, and from this tax on foreign ships similar to that whieh, this rate, a ve added to the r | prer AG men who have more potent arguments in favor ofitin their pockets; bat we call upon the people to hold meetings throughout the city, and by immediate and unanimous protestations they may yet be able to save themselves from this curse of a Broadway Railroad. Warskey axp 1am Reset Governnent—Ivrer- yet Winsker in Viramia,—A Richmond correspondent of the Charleston Courier throws considerable light upon the whiskey question im Virginia. THe says that “within six months two bundred additional distilleries have beou ostublished in Virginia, and that they are buy- ing up all the corn, their profits being vo enore mous thet they can afford to pay the highest price for ti." He next descries the peculiar virtues of this corn whiskey upon the human system:—“St carbonizes (or burs into a crust) the mucous membrane of the windpipo, sets the brain on five, and sends a cold tremor througl the aystem.” .A soldier taking half a dozen if we are not mistaken, we have to pay not only tish islands, but of France, and at the German ports and clee- where. We submit the suggestion to the con- \ sideration of Mr. Secretary Chase. nips is drun’s for a week, and a eccond or third repetition of this experiment “drives tho breath out of his body.” ; Noxt, depicting the mischiofs of whiskev im