The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1862, Page 6

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CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 585 Broadway.—Soni Danoxs, Buniesques, Ac—Inavudwation Babee i GAIETIBS CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—D: Roow Ewteetauents, cee Pawroutmns, Fancuse 8. AMBRICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway. ‘Dauaes—Kastnoad—Couuision Jory MintEeg, ee . CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT BALL, No. ~— Buwszsques, Sonas, Dances, £0.—Two towns ce PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDE = Open daily from 10 A. M. til 92. M. a hig NOVELTY MUSIC HALL, 616 1 = a HALL, Broadway.—Buaiesqcrs TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Tuesday, March 18, 1863, THE SITUATION. News of two more victories inthe West reached ‘as last night. Island No. 10, on the Mississippi river, is ours, and the rebels are thus virtually Swept from our inland seas, and the water route to New Orleans may be considered open to our drave armies of the Southwest. This cheering citizens of St. Louis, in @ speech from the balcony of the Planters’ Hotel, ina few brief words snnouncing that ‘Island No. 10 is ours, with all the ammuni- tion and transports the enemy had there.” He also announced that we had won another victory in Arkansas, in which three rebel colonels were ptured. The Western lines of telegraph having losed immediately upon the transmission of this wa we are not in possession of the details of ther affair. The snpouncement, however, is for to-day. | The reconnoissance of General Stoneman’s force on the track of the rebels from Manassas extended several miles on the Orange and Alexandria Rail- road to Cedar creek, and fell in with a retreating force of the rebels—cavalry, infantry anda battery of artillery—which they drew across the creek. ‘The appearance of the road indicated a thorough rout of the enemy. Our troops suffered somewhat from the severe snow storm of Saturday, some of the sol-diers being drowned by the flooding of the creeks. The greatest activity prevails at Gene- ral McClellan's headquarters, and every anticipa- tion is entertained that a powerful blow will be fetruck by his magnificent army against some point on the enemy’s lines. In our correspondence to-day will be found some very interesting details of the late capture by our troops, under Commodore Dupont, of Fer- mandina, on the Plorida coast. Two excellent ‘maps illustrate the position of the port of Fernan- dina and Fort Clinch, together with the city of St. Mary's, Georgia. Nothing of importance reaches us from Winches- ter. A few skirmishes took place yesterday with some straggling parties of rebels, who seem to be etill hanging around that neighborhood. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, a petition was pre- sented from this city asking Congress to cease agitating the slavery question; one was also pre- sented asking for the emancipation of the slaves. The Military Committee reported a bill for the or- ganization of the army corps staffs. A resolution was adopted that the Territorial Committee in- quire into the expediency of having the Indian Merritory included within the limits of the State of ‘Keosas. The Committee of Conference on the bill for the purchase of coin made a report, which was agreed to. A resolution that the Naval Committee report on the expediency of an appropriation for testing iron-cladding for vessels-of-war was adopt- ed. The joint resolution giving the President pewer to assign officers to military commands swithout regard to seniority was discussed and sent back to the Military Committee. The Post Office Appropriation bill was considered; and amend ments agreed to authorizing a more frequent than semi-monthly mail between San Francisco and Crescent City; that all American vessels shall carry to foreign ports such mails as the Postmaster General may deliver on board, and that vessels coming from foreign ports shall receive any mail matter from Consuls, the compensation for which gervice not to be more than the nsual postage. The bill was then passed. The proposition for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia was taken up, but postponed till to-day. The Jur diciary Committee reported back the House bill to facilitate judicial proceedings in cases of cap- tured property. The Senate then held an execu- tive session and adjourned. + In the House of Representatives, the Senate joing resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to re- ceive moneys appropriated by States for the pay- iment of the volunteers of such States was adopted, The Conference Committee's report on the bill army sutlers was concurred in. A j advertisements ine © NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1862,—-TRIPLE SHEET. to recent charters of vessels, and the compensa- tion allowed for the same, was adopted. The Military Committee were instructed to report some Plan for securing to the sick and wounded soldiers better medical treatment. The District of Colum bia Committee were instructed to inquire into the circumstances connected with the recent arrest in the District, and transfer to and imprisonment in Baltimore, of two persons, in alleged violation of the constitution. The House then, in Committee | of the Whole, took up the Tax bill, when a debate ensued, after which the House adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Roanoke, from Havana on the 13th inst., arrived at this port yesterday, bringing | highly important news from Mexico. The prelimi- nary treaty of Soledad, agreed upon between the | Mexican and Allied commissioners, had been as- sented to by President Juarez. By this treaty the Allies were permitted to occupy three inland cities» and Vera Cruz was to revert to the Mexican au. thorities; but at latest advices, and when the allied troops had commenced to occupy the three towns named im the treaty, and when the Mexican flag had been again hoisted in Vera Cruz, and the Mexican officials were returning to resume control there, the English officials became dissat- isfied, and it is said that the English forces will be entirely withdrawn. Trouble had also occurred between the French and Spanish = General Prim was to be paseded Oe com- mander, and thé affairs generally of the Allies seemed to be in great confusion. Two battalions of the Spanish forces had been withdrawn and had arrived at Havana. Accounts from the interior of Mexico report a battle between the insurrection- ists and the forces of Juarez, in which the latter were defeated. Mr. Allen, bearer of despatches to the United States Minister at the City of Mexi- co, Mr. Corwin, had been murdered between Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico. The schooner George Hoffman, Captain Jones, arrived at this,port yesterday evening from Port Royal, S.C. She left that Warbor on the 5th o¢ March, and experienced very heavy weather, with northerly gales, on the passage. Our special cor- respondents on the Southern coast furnish very interesting reports of the organization and pro- gress of the Union fleet destined to act in the in- land waters of Florida, as well as of its success in the reduction and capture of Fort Clinch, the Pal- metto Fort and the city of Fernandina. The de- tails of this service prove the cool judgment with which the plans of our officers were matured, as wellas the gallant spirit in which their orders were executed. Th ling of the railroad train, carrying fugitive rebels from Fernandina, by the gunboat Ottawa, resulted in the killing of two men, by one shot, at the moment they were sitting in company with ex-Senator Yulee ima baggage car. Yulee jumped from the car and ran off in his fright. Quite a number of curious rebel documents, found in Fernandina city, are published elsewhere, as well as a complete list of the inhabitants who remained in the town when the federal force took possession of it. The new Cunard steamship China, which was ex- pected at New York last week from Liverpool, was detained from sterting oh her passage by the Admiralty surveyors, who ordered some altera- tions to be made before permitting her to proceed with the mails. The Africa, which arrived on Fri- day last, came instead of the China. Our Bermuda files of the 11th of March chroni- cle the latest movements of the division of the British West India fleet then stationed off the island. A severe storm—the white squall—had just visited the town of Hamilton and the adjacent country, doing damage both on land and along shore. Her Majesty's ship Landrail spoke the American ship Hyperion, twelve miles east of Bermuda. She had lost her topmasts and foremast, and under jury sail was working in for the island. She had also the crew of the Mohawk on board. She de- clined receiving any assistance, which was offered. Both houses of the Legislature at Albany held short sessions last evening, but no great amount of business was transacted. The Senate was con- sidering bills in Committee of the Whole. The chief feature in the Assembly was a discussion on & proposition to request our representatives at Washington to vote for the abolition of slavery ia the District of Columbia. The matter was sent to the Federal Relations Committee. Notwithstanding the uncertain result of the late severe battle in New Mexico, it is represented that Fort Craig is well provided against any contin- gency. It has astrong position, and has a garri- son of over five thousand men. There is alsoa military depot at Fort Union which contains five hundred troops. At Albuquerque there are four hundred volunteers, with two months’ provisions for six thousand men; and there are two or three companies at Camp Connelly and Fort Garland. No fears need be entertained about New Mexico. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 435 deaths in the city during the past week— @ decrease of 21 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 38 more than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitalation table gives 5 deaths of alcoholism, 7 of diseases of the bones, joinss, &c.; 97 of the brain and nerves, 3 of the generative organs, 14 of the heart and blood vessels, 156 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 7 of old age, 46 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 1 premature birth, 41 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 39 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 8 of diseases of the urinary organs, and 12 from violentcauses. There were 304 natives of the United States,4 of Eng- land, 84 of Ireland, 4 of Scotland, 30 of Germany, and the balance of various foreign countries. The stock market was dull yesterday. Goveraments were bigher, but the general railway share and State stock list was rather lower. A startling rumor is started every ten minutes by the speculators, and, in the absence of reliable intelligence, the public seem disposed to wait @day oftwo. Money continues easy at six per cent. Sterling exchange (bankers’) sold yesterday at 1113. ‘The banks show an increase of $336,406 in specie, and a decrease of $2,432,372 in loans. The monthly tables of the trade of the port for the month of February, and the eight months which have elapsed of the current fiscal year, will be found in the money article. ‘The cotton market was quiet yesterday and prices un- changed. No sales of moment transpired, while hold. ers manifested no want of confidence, and were not diaposed to press sales. The dulness in domestic cotton goods in the hands of commission and fobbing houses tended to check free operations om the part of spinners, while stocks of cotton with them and in this market were very low; aad should any material demand spring up for goods in the West on the opening of navigation, now close at hand, we may expect to see a atrenger and more active demand for raw cotton. The flour market was dull and quiet, and gales could not bave been forced without @ concession of full 6c. per bbl. Wheat was heavy, while sales were moderate, and prices favored purchasers, Corn was beavy, with sales of Western mixed, io etore, at S8c.a S9., and delivered at 60c. Pork and dull, with sales of new mess at and of ne e at $20 75, Sugars of 1,800 bhds. and 57 boxes at rates given emewhere, The Mesers, Stuart's quotations for thelr refined goods will be found in another place, Coffee wasquiet, A lot of 950 bags Jamaica was reported sold at p.t. Freight engagementa were light and rates somewhat irregular 1 A Voice Prom Texas—We publish in an- other column a letter from Texas, depicting the sufferings of Union men in that State, and call- ing for help from the North. This is the most extreme of the Southern States, and yet even there a conservative element exists, sighing for deliverance from a yoke of bondage, and wait- ing for the coming of the federal army to co- operate with it for the redemption of the State from secessionism and its restoration to the old Union, under which the country has Seeakgtiga of inquiry of the Secrotary of War as | known nothing but prosperity. - - ee I ee President Lincoln and His Conctliatory No-Party Policy. The conciliatory no-party policy of Presi- dent Lincoln, in his military and civil appoint- ments since the outbreak of our Southern re- bellion, has done wonders in giving unity, energy and efficiency to the Union sentiment of our loyal States. Aocording to the established rule of his predecessors, since the time of Washington, he organized his administration upon the basis of the party electing him; but this rebellion, which combined all parties in our revolted States against the government, practically wiped out all party lines in our loyal States in the great task of maintaining the government. Thus recognized 2s the official chief of all parties in the North, President Lincoln bas responded to this general movement in a broad and comprehensive policy eminently successful in encouraging the support of all parties. In the appointment of his Cabinet, Mr. Lin- coln, under the circumstances surrounding him at the time, had no other resource than the par- ty which had elected him. His first object was to harmonize and consolidate that party. The séveral rivals and factions which had competed for the Chicago nomination were thus gathered around him, and blended together in his minis- try. Thus he was prepared to conduct his ad- ministrtioa,@ tke oeal hen af the epubis can party, when the bombardment of Fort Sumter broke into pieces and scattered to the four winds all the parties of the last Presiden- tial campaign. President Lincoln’s first war proclamation was tantamount to an official notice to the country to this effect, and as old line democrats, and old line whigs, and Know Nothings, and what not, came volunteering by thousands in answer to the President's calls for soldiers to fight the battles of the Union, he showed his appreciation of this patriotic support in the appointment of our army leaders from the remains of all our late political parties. Our old fighting democratic party is thus represented in the army by General McClellan, General Buell, General Halleck, General Sher- man and others—a numerous array; but they are supported by a proportionate body of democratic volunteers among the subordinate officers and privates of the army. Nor has Mr. Lincoln stopped here in his grateful recogni- tions of the party-sacrificing patriotism which has brought such large numbers of the old democratic element of the North to his assist- ance. He has made an old fashioned democrat the head of the War Department itself, one of the three inflexible Union men who, as members of Mr. Buchanan’s Cabinet, after the igno. minious expulsion or retirement of Cobb, Floyd and Thompson, saved. the late administration from absolute shipwreck, together with the government and the country. Those three inflexible Union men of Mr, Bu- chanan’s recognized Cabinet were: Dix of New York, Holt of Kentucky, and Stanton of Penn- sylvania. These men were among the leaders, in 1860, of the conservative democracy against the election of Abraham Lincoln; but from the political revolution effected by this rebellion we find Stanton now Mr. Lincoln’s Secre- tary of War, Dix the commander of our military forces in Maryland, and Holt, with an- other old line democrat—Robert Dale Owen— entrusted by Mr. Lincoln with the final exami- nation and judgment upon many millions of money in the claims of army contractors: Thus it would appear that the best materials of the old democratic party of our loyal States have been absorbed into the party of “Honest Abe Lincoln’s” administration. And the same may be said of every other party of 1860. Under this happy and prosperous state of things, in reference to the suppression of this rebellion, all parties and classes appear to be satisfied except the radical abolition wing of of the republican party. They have been rais- ing a terrible hue and cry against McClellan ; they have howled considerably against Halleck, and they have not spared Buell, or Sherman, or Dix, for refusing to make the Union cause in this war secondary to the cause of negro eman- cipation. For a time this noisy and restless abolition faction were apparently satisfied in having a man after their own hearts in com- mand of the army in Missouri; but the follies and extravagant expenditures. of Fremont were too much even for our amiable President. Fremont was a military luxury in Missouri, too costly to be endured, and so he was very properly superseded. Mr.,Lincoln, however, anxious in any reasonable way to appease the clamors of the abolition element of the country supporting him, has magnanimously given Fremont the opportunity to redeem his late follies and blunders, and to distinguish himself in the field, in his new command over the Mountain Department of Virginia. It is unnecessary further to pursue the evi- dences of President Lincoln’s conciliatory policy for the sake of the Union. Party creeds: and party principles and antecedents, he has placed upon the common level of devotion to the Union cause. His generous course has won for him “ golden opinions from all sorts of men,” and bas made our native citizens of all parties, our adopted citizens of all nationali- ties, and our religious people of every church, s harmonious body in support of his adminis- tration and the enormous burdens of this holy war. We have reason to congratulate the country that the right man is in the White House, for the trying ordeal of this gigantic re- bellion has been found in the person of Abra- ham Lincoln. Army Sanitary Reoviations.—Great com- plaints are being made at Washington and else- where of the neglect of proper sanitary regu- lations in the military camps. It is notorious that thousands of putrid carcasses poison the atmosphere in the neighborhood of the federal capital, and that no efforts are made to abate the nuisance, This is not the case on the Po- tomac alone, but wherever our troops are or have been encamped. Now such a state of things ought not to be suffered to exist. There is no occasion to add to the losses in actual warfare those of pestilence, and there is no sooner way to foster the latter than by exposing putrid animal matter to the sun. When the carcasses of horses and other brutes can be turned to commercial advantage, it seems strange that the military authorities should permit them to go to waste. In Australia millions of sheep and cattle used to be slaugh- tered every year for the mere sake of boiling down. Hence the great export of tallow, hides, horns, woo! and bones from that coun- try. Surely there are great knackers and tallow manufacturers who would purchase the car- casses alluded to; but if not so disposed of, there is no excuse for not burying them, there- by allowing them to fertilize the earth instead | of poisoning the air. Is the American Republic Afraid of the Maritime Powers of Europe? The New York Tribune, which denounced our righteous war with Mexico and sympathized with that country when it was the enemy of the United States, now proposes to abandon her to her fate when she is our friend, and when, in violation of our long cherished Monroe doc trine, she is assailed by three of the maritime Powers of Europe, for the purpose of subvert ing republican institutions on this continent and placing a scion of royalty upon a throne to be erected upon the ruins of the inde pendence of a free country and amidst the wreek and debris of democracy. In yesterday's number of his cowardly journal Greeley de- precates the idea of the American republic “interfering under any conceivable circum- stances between Mexico and the Western Powers,” because it would “plunge the nation into a foreign war of incomparable magnitude, the end whereof no man could foresee,” and because these Powers, “owning a large prepon- derance of all the naval force on earth, would seal all our ports within a month after we made war upon them.” To this balderdash the 7ribune adds that “we could no more endanger their West India pos- sessions than we could take Gibraltar.” Why djd not Greeley say we could not endanger Canada? And wai Aight, “we | % the Tribune to assume that with due pre; ions we could not capture Gibraltar? If iron- clad vessels of war had not been in- vented we admit that that fortress. would still be impregnable. But revolution in naval warfare wrought in Hampton Roads a few days ago has changed all that. Though the Tribune ignores the fact, it is not the less patent to all the world, and when the news of it reaches the Western Powers none will more thoroughly appreciate it than they, or better understand the futility of any attempt to block- ade all our ports with their wooden walls while we possess iron walls from which they can be burned or sunk. If we depend on our old oak ships, there can be no doubt that the united navies of the mari- time Powers of Europe might blockade several of our ports, but we question their power even in that case to seal them all. We have wooden ships which could teach the best of theirs a lesson in the art of naval war, as our heroes have often done before. But our getting the start of them in iron-cased vessels alters the case. Weshall soon have some fifty of these ships, which will be able to sweep from the ocean everything wooden that floats. Num- bers are of no avail against the iron armor; neither can stone fortifications resist the terri- ble broadsides that can be delivered under its protection. Consequently the West India islands are at our mercy, and even Gibraltar must succumb to such a force as we could bring against it, had we a sufficient object to induce us to attack it. Iron-clad ships have destroyed its prestige, andit is probable that before many years the once impregnable fortress will be in the posseasiot of France or Spain. In the event of naval war, the maritime power in possession of the greatest force of iron-clad ships, at the beginning of hostilities, will be able to retain her preponderance over her enemy. There is no doubt that Napoleon now possesses that superiority over England, and in a very short time the United States will have a preponderance over both Powers and Spain combined. If these Powers should not have evacuated Mexico by the time the war with the rebels is closed, we shall then be in « position to speedily compel them; and we will do it, too. We shall never allow the Powers of Europe to build up a monarchy side by side with our re- public to undermine it; and if they do not speedily desist from the attempt, we will not paly drive them out of Mexico, but from every portion of the North American continent and all the islands which geographically belong to it. “Westward the course of empire takes its way.” Someruino More or Tae Esows or THe Min- cio.—Onur readers will remember, with a pain in their sides, the extraordinary leading edi- torial which appeared in the New York Times one fine morning during the late: Italian war— that article of dignity, gravity, learning and whiskey, in which “the elbows of the Mincio,” “the sympathies of youth,” ‘the British Cabi- net,” “an American squadron,” and “the forti- fications of Paris,” were all incoherently jum- bled together in the famous “Austrian quad- rilateral.”” “Monsieur Tonson has come again.” On Sunday last the “Little Villains” of the Times, evidently from the same hand, and un- der the same inspiration, gave us a romantic editorial chapter on “The Mouth of the Poto- mac,” far surpassing in its contempt of geo- graphical faets “the elbows of the Mincio.” The romantic editorial article in question, entitled “The- Romance of War,” is a sophomo- ric description of the late: wonderful sea fight between that rebel marine monster, the Merrimac, and that little Union “cheese box on a raft,” the Monitor; and thus the scene of this contest is located by the learn- ed Mincio geographer of the New York Times: Hear him:— The telegraph, it must be remembered, put New York almost in the pesition of a spectator. The scene is bis- toric—the beautiful outlet of the Potomac, where the earliest English colonists sailed to discover new treasures in the Western wilds, and close to tho river by which the foundation of Virginia was laid. Fortress Monroe, with its flock of shipping on one side, just beyond the ruins of the once beautiful Hampton; still further on the white tents of Newport's News, and the Bulls and spars of the ill-fated frigates at anchor. Think of that—‘“the beautiful outlet of the Potomac,” with “Fortress Monroe,” &c., on one side. But our quadrilateral contemporary will have it so; for again, towards the close of his touching discourse—as if to rub it in—he: H “Such to our children and to posterity will be the romance of this most dramatic battle at the mouth of the Potomac.” “The mouth of the Potomae.” Look again, Master Quadrilateral, and you will see that the “mouth of the Poto- mac” ts pretty well on to a hundred miles north of Fortress Monroe, and that the scene of “this most dramatic battle at the mouth of the Poto- mac,” was in fact at the mouth of James river. We insist upon it that posterity in this matter shall not be entangled among the “elbows of the Mincio.”” Irox-Ciap Suirs.—The promptitude with which the Naval Committee in the Senate has recommended the appropriation of fifteen mil- lions to the construction of iron-clad vessels is a good sign that the lesson taught by the Moni- tor and Merrimac is not lost sight of, and that we shall not be slow to profit by it. That no time will be lost by the Senate in voting this sum for the purpose in question, and that the work will be executed with as little delay as vossible, we sincerely hove Important from Mexico—Prospect of an Amicable Adjustment with the Alites. By the arrival of the Roanoke from Havana we have the text of the preliminaries agreed upon between Generals Prim and Doblado. It con- firms what we stated a few weeks since, that the attitude of the Mexican people and the Prospect of the immediate suppression of the rebellion here would render the Alles ready to back out of the troublesome and dangerous enterprise which they have taken in hand. In this document it will be seen the Com- missioners of the three Powers disclaim in the most formal and distinct manner that it is their purpose to attempt anything against the inde- pendence, sovereigaty and integrity of the Mexican republic. Satisfied with the assurance that the constitutional government possesses within itself the elements of strength and sym- pathy to enable it to maintain itself against intestine disorders and revolt, and that it does not need the aid ‘so kindly offered” to the Mexican people, the Commissioners agree to Proceed at once to the promulgation of the claims which they have to prefer in the names of their respective nations against Mexico. To facilitate the negotiations it is furthermore arranged that they shall be opened in Orizaba, and that during their progress the forces of the allied Powers aball occupy that city, Cordova and Tehuaoan, which latter stipulation, we learn by this arrival, has been since carried into Thus, after the enormous expenditure in- curred by the three governments in the fitting out of this expedition, it is now about to eventu- ate in the mere liquidation of their claims—an object that could have been just as well accom- plished by the presence of a few vessels-of-war at Vera Cruz. The project of placing @ scion of one of the royal houses of Europe on the throne of Mexico was no doubt at one time seriously entertained, but it was entered into under an entire misconception of the senti- ments and condition of the people. of that country. It originated with a few’ of the re- actionary party amongst the Mexicans them- selves—such as Miramon and Almonte—who misled the European Cabinets as to the feeling of their countrymen on the subject of foreign interference. The three Powers interested were naturally glad to seize upon such a chance of dealing a death blow to the Monroe doctrine at a time when the United States was powerless to prevent it. The turn that affairs have taken here, and the disappoint- ment of that support which they expected to meet amongst the Mexicans themselves, con- vinced them that they had committed an enor- mous political blunder, which, if persevered in, would not only expose them to the ridicule of the world, but be attended with the most dis- astrous consequences to themselves. 4 As it ia, the jealousies and suspicions which have sprung up between them in connection’ with this expedition have led toa very embit- tered state of feeling. Spain is offended that Austria should have been allowed to put for- ward the claims of a Hapsburg Prince to the Mexican throne. England is equally disgusted with France for seeking to convert the original objects of the coalition into a means of fur- thering the Emperor’s policy in Italy, and both France and Spain are angry with England for shutting down on their separate schemes. To render matters worse, the republicans abroad are making capital out of the selfish and unpringipled conduct of the three governments on thie question, so that, instead of their being enabled through Mexico to erect new thrones and dynasties on this continent, the probabili- ties are that Mexico will in the end contribute her share towards disturbing some of the thrones and dynasties of the Old World» This being the state of things, it is not extra- ordinary that the Allies should gladly seize the first decent pretext to come to terms with President Juarez. To put an immediate end to the occupation of the country and the presence of such dangerous visiters, the latter will, how- ever, require aid from some quarter. It is for the United States Senate to see whether the moment is: not now arrived when friendly as- sistance on our part, such as was projected by the Corwin treaty, may not be proffered with advantage to our own interests as well as to those of Mexico. ATTACKS OF THE TRIBUNE ON THE PRESIDENT.— Yesterday the following appeared in the Tri- bune, under the caption of “The Proposed Re- moval of Gen. McClellan,” and immediately under the General-in-Chief"s spirited address to the Army of the Potomac, the intention being to neutralize its force and throw cold water upon the enthusiasm it is calculated to ex- cite:— The reso.ution offered inthe Senate executive session on Friday, requesting the President to remove General McClellan from his command, and withdrawn by the mover after a debate which showed a unanimous pur- pose to pass it, will probably be renewed on Monday or ‘tuesday. There was no. such resolution offered in executive sessicn. It is a base fabrication, de- signed to wound the President through General McClellan. In another column the Tribune as- sails him for “the absence of warlike spirit and military energy and capacity,” and adopts the malignant epithet of Wendell Phillips, who calls him “a Quaker General.” Again: the Tribune, in commenting upon the: General-in-Chief’s ad- dress to his army, speaks of it as an “apology for the gigantic failure to capture the enemy and end the war at Manassas;” and adds that “it is evident from this address that General McClellan feels the weight of that enormous blow more deeply perhaps than any other man in the country; but notwithstanding that event the President sees fit to retain him in bis command.” Here is evident censure of Mr. Lincoln. From the beginning the Tribune bas never ceased to wound the President at every opportunity, sometimes openly, with an astounding audacity, and sometimes with a covert malice peculiar to that journal. In all the recent assaults on General McClellan in its columns it has been undoubtedly striking at the Chief Magistrate through the trusted General of his choice. The tendency of such assaults is to weaken the confi- dence of the troops in their General, and thus to contribute to the defeat of the army—a con- summation deveutly wished for by Greeley and the whole tribe of abolitionists, for nothing they fear so much as the speedy success af the war, because it will restore the Union and take away forever the occupation of the anti-slavery agitators. Itis no new thing for the Tribune to wish the overthrow of our armies. During the Mexican war one of its most pious and fer- vent ejaculations to Heaven was that the enemy might “welcome our troops with bloody hands to hospitable graves.” Such is the spirit of its attacks on the President and General McClellan during the present was ' + ————_—_—____ “The Party of Blood ‘Tribune and Liberator Its Organs. - In every revolutionary civil war there isa party which takes advantage of the general strife and confusion to gratify its insatiable lust for blood und crime. Rome had such # party during the contests between the patri- cians and plebeians, England had such a party during that series of civil wars which culmi nated in the execution of King Charles First France had such a party during those revolu- tions when the dull thud of the guillotine kept time to the savage music of the sans culottes the best blood of the nation deluged the streeta of Paris, and every lamp post was an extem- Pore gallows. Its peculiarities are a disregard of all principle, an irrepressible relish for slaughter, and a fiendish disposition to wat upon the weak, defenceless and womanly. Most significantly the French call this the party of blood. During our own civil war we call thie party the abolitionists. If to the brutality of the Roman gladiatora, the relentless fanaticism of the Puritanical Roundheads, and the ferocity of the Parisian gamins, you add as much cowardice as cruelty, the American abolitionist is complete. Indeed, the abolition party is composed mainly of dis- ciples of the Puritans and students of French red republicanism; but the personal bravery which distinguished, though it could not re deem, the cruel excesses of the Roundheads and the red republicans, is altogether omitted in the ebaragter of an abolitionist. The abolitionist would have blood, but he is not man enough to shed it in fair fight, as did Cromwell's bigote and the heroes of the barricades. The aboli- tionists demand that the hearthstones of the South be desolated with fire and sword, and denounce General McClellan for accomplishing victories with but little loss of life; but you will not find the abolitionists in the army; and,- much as they desire blood, they risk none of their own in battles for the Union. They prefer rather the safe car- nage of the pen or the rostrum, and war only upon those whose sex or position makes retaliation impossible. Our abolition party o blood is composed of such men as those whe mangled the dead bodies of Marie Antoinette, Madame Roland and Charlotte Corday. Wo men are the chosen objects of their vengeance They revenge themselves upon those wht thwart them by attacking mothers, wives ané daughters—not men. In another column, this morning, we reprint¢ few of the many slanderous articles, published by the abolition press, under the lead of the New York Tribune, in regard to the wife of th President. If we could spare the space we might fill our columns with just stich ineulting articles from’ abolition organs. Because the '{ President of the United States faithfully: ob serves his solemn oath to support the vom stitution—because this war is - conductes conservatively, and is designed not & destroy, but to restore the Union— therefore the disunion abolitionists are in ¢ fury of rage. They are neither numerout nor brave enough to openly attack ou. statesmen and our generals. They dare no write down President Lincoln, and even the Tribune contented itself with insinuations ane inuendoes against General McClellan unts he left Washington for the field. But th wives of the President and his friends are pow erless to retaliate, and upon them the abolition ists take revenge for the firm resistance of the President to schemes for slave insurrections blood and disunion. They have the will, # they but had the power, to supersede the Presi dent—as the Times and Tribune once advo cated—create a dictator and erect a gallow: for every man who is guilty of fidelity to the Union. Not having this power, however, they attempt the same result by other means. The press is their guillotine, and by it they try te break hearts, since the cannot chop off heads. Our readers have but to glance at the ex tracts to which we refer in order to discover the motive and the manner of these attacks. Theis occasion was the recent reception at the White House, when Mrs. Lincoin, in accordance with all national etiquette, extended her hospitalitiet to the representatives of this and other nations Mrs. Lincoln and the wives and daughters of the generals, senators and representatives pre sent at their reception, are denounced as heart less, immodest. and unchristian ; their dress manners and society are savagely criticised, and they are pronource 1, in the plainest terms, t¢ be unfit wives, mothers and women. Thus one abolition harpy calls the feception “ao entertainment for men and women ot questionable virtue,” and another com- pares it to “revolting orgies and mad carousals.” Mrs. Lincolm is. choicely termed a “Delilah,” and an “object of reproach and disgust.” The guests are described as “merry with wine,” “mad or demented,” and conducting themselves with “devil-me-care im- becility.” We might charitably suppose that these Jacobins are as ignorant as they are bru- tal, and have used words of which they did not understand the scope and meaning, but truth forbids such an excuse, The abolitionists talk much more than they darewrite, but it ie inthe same strain. The Hickman Committee meant only this when it insulted Mrs. Lincola even in the presence of death itself. There can be no mistake about such facts as these. It goes upon record as a part of the history of this rebellion that the abolition party, unable to effect the permanent dissolution of the Union, or to mould the President to their de- testable purposes, deliberately heaped insulte upon the President's wife and her friends, and thus emulated the worst and basest excesses of the old party of blood. Tue Moxtror—It is not generally known that this vessel, notwithstanding her light draught of water, enormous strength and weight of deck, side armor and revolving turret, carries upwards of one hundred thousand pounds of ballast to bring her down to her present fighting draught. The importance of this excess of buoyancy will be readily apprect- ated. The weight of the turret is upwards ot one hundred tons, and the gun-slides, composed of strong wrought iron beams, form part of the massive turret. The recoil of the guns will act cordingly be checked by such an enormous amount of matter that ordnance of any calibre may be employed. The Monitor, therefore, instead of being of limited capacity, is capable of carrying guns of the largest size that we can manufacture. These facts prove conclusively that we have as yet no idea of the real destruc. tive power of the new engine of war, the sudden appearance of which has startled this country, and will startle Burope still more. Suppose that the twenty-inch guns, which the Navy Department is now erecting furnaces t