The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1862, Page 4

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MELODEON CONCERT HALL, 539 Broadway.—Sox: Dances, BURLESQUES, &C.—CONTRABAND Convention. 9 CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 585 Broadway,—Soxes Dances, Buuiusques, &c.—Inaveueation Bau, r GATETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway,—Drawixa Room Enrertainuxnts, BALLets, Paytowinns, Farces, £0, | AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway. Danuur—Ra'ixoap—ContasionJoube Manigee ee CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HA) No. 45 Bowery, — Bontzsauas, Soncn, Dasers, he tne Cowsee em PARISIAN CABINET 0} ‘DER: road’ = Open daily trom 10 A. M. ull 9 P. M. retools a a SIC HALL, 616 Broadway.—Buruesquxs ¥, March 22, 1863, THE SITUATION. The news from General Banks’ division presents no important features. A portion of General Shields’ reconnoitering party has returned to Win- chester from Strasburg. It is reported that the | rebel General Jackson is near Mount Jackson | with his partially disorganized forces. Two new military departments have been con- stituted by the President, the first to be called the Department of the Gulf, which will comprise all the coast of the Gulf of Mexico west of Pensacola harbor, and so much of the Gulf States as may be occupied by the forces under Major General B. F. Butler, United States Volunteers. The head- quarters for the present will be moveable, wherever the General Commanding may be. The other is denominated the Department of the South, comprising the States of South Carolina, Georgia and Flerida, with the expedition and forces now uader Brigadier General T. W: Sher. man, to be under the command of General David Hunter. Affairs at Island No. 10, which has now become a point of interest, represent the rapid approach ofa termination to the tedious bombardment of that rebel stronghold. Up to Thursday evening our gunboats, Benton and Mound City, were play- ing heavily on the upper batteries, with a view to reduce them—the others by a determined advance- The fortiftcations are discovered to be very strong, mounting at least eighty guns, while a body of twenty thousand troops are | encamped on the main land, in the rear, completely out of range of our mortars. Five guns on the upper battery on the Tennessee shore have been dismounted, and only two left, which gave an occasional shot. The batteries appear to be provided with bomb proof casemates, as the men are seen to disappear when our shells ap- proach them. The extent of the firing from our boats may be conceived from the fact that on Monday last the gunboats threw 900 shot and shell into the enemy’s works and the mortars 300 shelis. A despatch to St. Louis, dated from Island No. 10, on Thursday, says that a iarge number of loaded wagons were then leaving the Tennessee shore, from which it was believed the rebels were making preparations for an evacuation of their works. General Pope allowed a rebel gunboat to approach within fifty yards of a masked bat- tery on Tuesday, and then. sunk her, kill- ing fifteen of those on board. He had previously allowed five rebel steamers to pass on towards New Madrid, and they are now between his batteries, unable to escape. Over a dozen rebel vessels, their floating battery and battering ram, are now above General Pope's batteries, and will certainly be sunk or captured. Meantime, the rebels have posted three regi- ments at Fort Pillow, between New Madrid and | Memphis. Pikes are being manufactured at the latter place to arm the new levies, of which not quite a hundred men have as yet responded to the call of Governor Harris, The Governor, however, has dis- appeared from Memphis, and the members of the le- gislature have followed his example. The city is said to be in a terrible condition. The Union men were abandoning the place, leaving all their property to be confiscated, as impressment at the point of te bayonet bad become general. Men were driven a the streets and from their stores and dwel- sto the rebel camps of instruction, and all who pe from the city with their lives were * away. Quarrels between the rebels Unionists are of daily occurrence in the and shots are freely exchanged between } iis state of things is but another evidence « miseries which this noholy rebellion hi uf upon the once peaceful and prosperous < of the unhappy Sonth. ‘ newa from Tennessee is important. De- ‘4 from Cairo state that our troops at Sa- sixty miles from Florence, Alabama, are good service. General Beauregard, with a of 15,000 rebels, recently from Pensacola, ig be at Corinth, and Generals Bragg and ‘ im have also their divisions in the same vi- On the night of the 13th inst. a body of the ‘vo cavalry put a part of General Cheat- forces to flight, and burned the railroad . Our army in that neighborhood is divided ive divisions, commanded by Generals Sher- McCleraand, Wallace, Hurlburt and Lanman. leas than 6,000 Unionists in the vicinity of Ba- v-anah are reported to have enlisted in our army recently, By the Karnak, at this port yesterday, our West Tadia files of the 15th of March show that the steamers Cecile and Kate, and the schooner Laura wrrived at Nagsan. N. P. between the 24 and 15th of this month. The cars f the Cecile—if she had any— a not stated the furnished th tte was in ballast, and the Lai with rebel lish sympathizers in the is! | journals of the Sth of March. ‘The United States | treusport Bliza and Ella, from Boston, with troops for Ship Island, put into Nassau on the 10th of March for water, which was supplied by our Con- sul inthe port, She sailed again on the 12th inst. All the English at Vera Crua, with the exception of about a hundred mea, have embarked, and were ready to start for England via Havana and Bermu- da. In connection with the expedition to Mexico, the Hpoca of Madrid, of March 1, has the follow- ing:—“We say it once for all, the three Powers have taken no resolution relative to the internal affairs of Mexico, and there exists no difference of opinion. If it suits the Mexicans to abandon the republican form of government, and to raise to the throne either the sister of the Queen, Prince Maximilian, the Count de Flandre, or any other prince, there will be no hindrance on the part of the governments.’” CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a bill was introduced to provide for a fair settlement of the accounts of the officers and men of the frigate Congress and other ! naval vessels. The bills providing for national foundries, armories and arsenals received some consideration, and were referred to a special com- mittee. The bill for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia was taken up; but, the smoke from the army bakeries .in the basement of the Capitol becoming offensive to the Senators, the debate branched off from the legitimate subject to that of smoke, and in that element the debate ended for the day on the bill under consideration. A message was received from the President recom- mending a vote of thanks to Commodore Dupont for his eminent services. The Senate then held an executive seasion, and, on its conclusion, adjourn- ed. In the House of Representatives’ the bill.to se- cure pensions to all persons employed on board of gunboats was passed. A joint resolution was adopted authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to have the steam frigate Roanoke iron-clad and otherwise strengthened. Some debate ensued on a proposition to adjourn over till Monday, but the subject was dropped and the Senate’s amendments to the prize law were taken up and concurred in. The House then went, into Committee of the Whole on the Tax bill, the range of discussion on which, though somewhat wide, did not extend be. yond the spirituous liquors and ales sections. Some amendments were adopted, which are no” ticed in our regular report of the proceedings, and various humorous remarks were indulged in, when the committee rose and the House adjourned. Both houses adjourned over till Monday. MISCELLANEOWS NEWS. By the steamship Karnak, which"arrived at this port yesterday from Havana on the 15th, via Nas- sau, New Providence, on the Mth inst., we are in possession of some later intelligence from Mexico, reaching down to the 7th inst. The Engksh, it seems, have withdrawn from the tri- partite alliance in Mexico, and all their forcea, excepting one hundred, who only remgined to “defend the British flag,’ had been embarked for England. They had sold all their mules, harness, &c., to the French. The French andSpan- ish forees still remained in Mexico. Sickness among the troops still continned. Rumors of bat. tles in the interior, between the insurrectionists and the forces of Juarez were rife, but they needed con- firmation. From Havana we have further accounts of rebel steamers running the blockade of our Southern ports. It is said that the English Consul at Havana is doing a thriving business by trang- ferring the escaped vessels to British ownerships. From Nassau we learn that a vessel with a portion of the Eighth New Hampshire regiment’on board, put into that port for water on the 10th inst. The United States line-of-battle ship Vermont, which sailed 24th ultimo from Boston for Port Royal, S. C., and which was seriously damaged during the severe gale she encountered imme- diately after leaving Boston, has at last been heard from. Captain Townsend, of ship Ger- mania, which arrived yesterday from Havre, re- ports:—‘March 13, latitnde_36 deg. 28 min., longi- tude 63 deg. 10 min., passed a ship’s mainmast, apparently but a short time in the water; had been cut away. Same day saw a United States seventy- four gunship (no doubt the Vermont), with a gun- boat alongside. When first seen they were lying with all sail furled, sea smooth, with alight air from the west. Towards night both made sail, standing 8. S. W. In the Senate of our State Legislature yester, day, several bills were passed, among which were the following:—To exempt the Vassar Female College from taxation, to improve the Central Par, to regulate the sale of hay and straw in this city and Brooklyn, to repeal the Church Property act of 1855 (this by 19 yeas to3 nays), and to amend the law for the proof of wills. The bill to define the crime of murder, and dividing it into two degrees, was also passed, by 18 yeas to 5 nays. A bill was introduced authorizing the city of Brooklyn to raise over one hundred thousand dollars to assist the families of volunteers; and, by unanimous consent, the bill was read a third time and passed, In Coinmittee of the Whole, the bill to provide for paying the canal indebtedness, in- cluding the enlargement expenses, was ordered to a third reading. The Grinding Committee report. ed several bills complete. A majority report was made from committee in favor of amending the law relative to the pay ofthe district court judges of this city. The bill to create the office of Re- ceiver General also received a favorable report, as well ag that to incorporate the Forty-second Street Railroad. In the Assembly the bill to amend the charter of Brooklyn was passed. A favorable report was made from the committee, among various others, upon the bill regulating telegraph companies. A bili was reported to enable the city of New York to pay the expenses incurred by equipping and sending to the field volunteers to fight for the Union and the constitution. The New York Court House bill was also reported complete. It autho- rizes the raising, under certain conditions, of one million of dollars for the erection of a Court House inthis city. The majority of the Special Commit- tee on Excise and Prohibition reported against a prohibitory amendment to the constitution. A minority report was also made and the House then, in Committee of the Whole, took up the subject, and an extended and animated debate en- sued. The Select Committee of the Senate have made two reports dividing this State into new Congres- sional districts. The districts in this city are laid out, on a majority and minority report, as fol- lows:— Dit Majority Dist Minority 4—Wards 1, 2,3,5,8 and 4—Wards 1, 2, 3,6, 8, 14 ow i. Mitte ost ate and 15, and Govor- ar , 7 and 13 ‘ , 6—Wards 1h and 17 de, OT 5—Wards 4, 6,7, 19 and 13. 6—Wards 11 andi 7—Wards 9, 12 andel3 8—Wards 20 and 21 9—Warda 12, 19 ¢and 22, and First Assembly district of Wostchos. ter county. Lysander C. Tubbs, Postmaster at West Shanda- ken, and Bara Spier, holding a similar position at West Lebanon, in this State, were brought before United States Commissioner Henry yosterday on 7~Wards 10, 14 and 16 &—Wards 18, 20 and 21, 9—Warde 12, 19 ond and’ Blackw: jad Randall's NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARGH 22, 1862. spective offices. The prisoners were each held to bail to await the action of the Grand Jury. Valentine Mazzini was fined $750 by Judge Ship- man yesterday for a contempt of court in disobey- ing injunction order—$500 to the parties com- plaining and $250 to the court, The stock market was dull and the speculative list lower yesterday morning, chiefly in consequence of the want of news; but was better ia the afternoon, closing very steady. Governments continue in steady demand. Gold was unchanged in price, and rather active. Ex- change was very dull; bankers’ rates, 11134 @ 112 for sterling, and 5.0595.10 for francs. Money was fairly active al 6.47 per cent on call. The cotton market exhibited a firmer tone yoaterday, and holders manifested more confidence. A bid of 27 }¢c. was made for a line of 500 bales strict middling uplands, and refused. The influences brought to bear upon the market and the deprossed prices during the week proved ineffectual. The sales embraced about 250 bales, closing buoyant on the basis of 27c. a 273¢c. per pound for mid- dling uplands. The flour market was rather firmer, while sales were moderate and chiefly to the home trade. Wheat was inactive and prices irregular. Corn was rather firmer, with sales of Western mixed at 58¢. a 59c., i0 store,and at 6lc. delivered. Pork was heavy, with simited sales of now moss at $13 60 and of new prime at $10 6234 © $1075. Sugars were steady, though less active; sales embraced about 450 hhds. Cubas, at rates given in another place. Colfee waa quiot, though steady; lot of Jamaica (259 bags) sold at 20%;c. A sald pounds chickory was made at 8c. Freights were rather firmer, with more offering. The Demands of the Crisis and the Short- comings of Congress. Under the wise, conservative policy of Presi- dent Lincoln, and in pursuance of the compre- hensive military plans of General McClellan, our brave defenders of the Union, on the land and on the water, in a rapid succession of de- cisive victories, have expelled this great rebel- lion from its chosen boundaries and its chief defences, and have reduced Jeff. Davis and his vagrant government to the last extremities of confusion and despair. Nor can the shadow of adoubt be entertained that, with our over- whelming land and naval forces, as now organ- ized, equipped and disposed, the final over- throw of the rebel armies, from Virginia to Louisiana, is close at hand. All that we have achieved has been done under Mr. Lincoln’s policy of “masterly inactivity” on the slavery question, and it has succeeded and is succeed- ing so beautifully that no honest Union man can wish to see it disturbed to the end of the Meantime, however, in looking into Congress we do not find that cordial co-operation with the administration which is desirable upon this point, of letting Southern black slavery take care of itself until we shall have suppressed this Southern white rebellion, A very large proportion of this session in both houses thus far has been expended upon impracticable: and visionary abolition schemes and projects in reference to the black slaves of the South, which could have*been much,better appropri. ated to the consideration of” the financial and commercial difficulties of the country. The special message of President Lincoln on emancipation problem puts this whole question of slavery upon a broad, constitutional basis, to which no patriotic politician or citizen can ob- ject. The adoption of the President's sugges- tions by the two houses of Congress is all that is needed to put this disturbing slavery agita- tion at rest, at least to the end of the war; for, until we have an end of this war, we cannot imagine that any slave State, even of the bor- ders, will be sufficiently re-established in law andorder to legislate in favor of emancipation. The President’s emancipation message, there- fore, may be properly construed as a delicate appeal to Congress*to suspend the agitation of the slavery question until the end of this war; and we trust that this interpretation will at once be adopted by the two Houses. There will be a vast amount of work yet required to perfect the great Tax bill of the House Com- mittee of Ways and Means before it can be- come a law; but no time should be wasted upon abolition abstractions, when every individual in the country is anxious to have this question of taxes reduced to dollars and cents. In the next place, this rebellion has broken up and disorganized our commercial and all our busi- ness affairs to that ruinous extent which can only be repaired by a general bankrupt law ; and then, again, in order to harmonize our duties upon foreign imports with our domestic taxes, resulting from this rebellion,‘a complete revision of the tariff is demanded. Such a bill is under way in the appropriate committee room of the House, and will soon be reported ; but in the mean time there is other needful work required,upon our financial and commer- cial affairs sufficient to justify a complete sus- pension of the discussion of abolition abstrac- woth bill for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, it is true, proposes only the exercise on the part of Congress of a clearly expressed constitutional power; but, such be- ing the case, We see no reason for a lengthy de- bate upon the subject. The expediency of the act, if propozed two years ago, would have been a very serious question; but it matters little now whether slavery is abolished or re- tained in the District of Columbia, for in all the border slave States the removal of this pe- euliar institution will become the first consider- ation with the re-establishment of peace. We have had enough, however, of slave confisca- tion bills, and bills for the reduction of our re- bellious States back to the apprenticeship of Territories, and a little too much of such phi- lantbropic schemes as the colonization of con- trabands in some new Liberia, and their em- ployment in government cotton planting on the abandoned sea island plantations of their rebel masters; and we apprehend, also, that the time has not yet arrived for the benevolent teaching of those sea island contrabands in the mysteries of reading, writing and negro equality, under the auspices and at the exe penso of the government. Finally, it is due to Mr. Stevens, of the House Committee of Ways and Means, to say that he is working industriously to push on the legiti- mate financial and commercial legislation of the session which the exigencies of the country demand, and we hope that henceforward, at least to the end of the war, the everlasting negro will be kept in a back seat in both houses of Congress. The Abolitionists Among Their Colored Brethren and Sisters. The great emancipation, educational mission- ary society, which left hore for Beaufort, 5. C., in the Atlantic, a couple of weeks ago, to teach wash, clothe and convert the unbappy contra- bands whose masters have seceded from them, arrived very safely at its destination. In another column we give an account of its doings and its prospects. It secms that those mutual suspicions and jea- lousies, reproaches and recriminatfons, which are the bane of all missionary societies, and which maké the lives of Chadbands, Stigginses, from Charleston. 8... | charge of tampeniog with the maila in queie ca. | Mes. foljebvg and Mis, Pacdigeles 4 buctbon ta them, have caused a great deal of trouble to the persons connected with this latest attempt to furnish the sons and daughters of Afriea’s sunny clime with red flannel shirts and pious, prayer-printed pocket handkerchiefs. The mis sionaries from New York disagreed with the missionaries from New England as to the size of the shirts or the religious denominations to be advertised upon the handkerchiefs; and 60 this educational society was in hot water all the way to Beaufort, and arrived more sea sick than harmonious. Axrived and landed, however, these devoted friends of the blacks set to work heartily, and began to try to make an impression upon the thick, woolly heads of the lost sheep around them. Shakspere is currently reported to have asked, “What's in a name?” and to have added, sneeringly, ‘a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” However this may be with roses, the Beaufort missionaries do not believe it true of negroes. The first reformatory step, therefore, was to call the slaves by new names. Darkies would not do, nor negroes, nor niggers, nor contrabanda, nor blacks, nor chattels, nor irrepressibles, nor Greeleyites, though all of these names have the sanction of custom and good usage. No, the slaves must be called brethren and sisters, and the missionaries, male and female, acknowledge the relationship. As might naturally be expected, this familiarity has bred a great deal of contempt among the darkies; for if a slave cordially despises any- thing, it is the “white trash” which becomes his associate and intimate. Consequently,"there is very little work to be got out of the Beaufort negroes now; but colored prayer meetings are all the rage, and the shovel and the hoe are laid aside for the fiddle and the hymn. Un- fortunately our missionaries are working upon the negro at the very spot where he least re- quires cultivation. Any darkey can sing, after his own fashion, and in much better style, on the whole, than the missionaries can teach him. There never was a lazy slave ona plantation who did not think himself a martyr, a la Uncle Tom, because his master preferred a little cot- ton picking toa great deal of “I'm gwine to glory, halleluyah.” Helping negroes to sing, therefore, is the very worst way to get them to work, and we have already too many negro minstrels in the world to hope that all the emancipated slaves will be able to support themselves by vocal efforts. Now that it is settled that contrabands are to be called brothers and sisters, we advise the missionaries to get the two sexes separate and distinct as soon as possible. If they should meet with any Topsys, who were never born, who never had fathers and mothers, and who grew up wild, this classification may become more difficult than they probably ima- gine. When it is finished, let them set the sjayes pt work, and keep ba at it, reserving . psalm singing at pless-the-Lord-ing until Sunday, and strictly enforcing the divine com- mand, “six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work.” Very probably, after a week or two of experience in this line, our missionaries will see the necessity of plantation overseers and of the whole old educational system—whips in- cluded—in vogue at the South. Of pious, snivelling Uncle Toms they will find plenty among the negroes; but of ambitious, indus- trious men and women, very few. It. is not at all unlikely that the result of this practical experiment will be the conviction among abo- litionists that, although a few slaves are fit to be colonized, and can take care of themselves, yet the far greater portion of them are best off as they were when abolitionism disrupted the Union and left them homeless and masterless. Most people hold that opinion already. Butt Roy Russeut. as a Srock GamprEer.— Bull Run Russell has played many parts since he came to this country. In the character of a correspondent be made a dead failure. As a gentleman he was equally unsuccessful. As a prophet he won the very worst reputation pos- sible. As Bombastes Furioso, at Lord Lyons’ theatricals, he greatly distinguished himself, for the part just suited him. We have now to consider him in the character of a stock gam- bler. The following brief telegram, disinterred by the Judiciary Committee of the House, and sent from Washington on the day that all news of the settlement of the Trent affair was sup- pressed by the government censor, tells the whole story:— Sauce Woop, New York Hore, New York—Act as though you heard some very good news, for yourself and me, as soon as you get this. W. H. RUSSELL, Who “Samuel Wood” is no one can tell. Some suppose it to be Samuel Ward, an Ame- rican; but he is too much of a gentleman, we should think, to dabble with any such dirty business. Others, with more reason, say that it is probably a Mr. Wood, another London Times correspondent, who made a laughing stock of himself during the Prince of Wales’ visit, and had all his letters forestalled by our telegraphic correspondence. It is this cor- respondent Wood, very probably, for birds of a feather flock together, and blundering Wood and Bull Run Russell are twins. “Act as though you heard some very good news for yourself and me,”’ says Russell. Now, the only good news to be heard at that time was the peaceful settlement of the Trent affair, and the “act” which Wood had to perform was to invest all his and Russell’s money in stocks while they were low, and sell out again as soon as the “very good news” was made public and stocks went up. We presume that Wood did as he was told, and that both he and Bom- bastes made a very good thing out of the “very good news.” This gives us the clue to all Rus sell’s doings and writings since he came to this country. Undoubtedly he has a friend like Wood in London, who “acts” there for himself and Russell, whenever a private note transmits him some “very good news.” Russell misrepresents the Union cause in his letters, and stocks go down, and his friends buy for themselves and him. A Union victory sends stocks up, and Russell’s friends sell out for themselves and him. So on ad infinitum—a disunion letter from Russell and stocks go down, a Union victory and stocks go up. How very nicely all this has been arranged? How unnecessary is it for Russell to follow the army and see battles, when he can make a for- tune by telegraphing to Wood, from Washing- ton, every time he hears of “some very good How adroitly he humbugs the British public by writing doleful letters for the Times, } which induce stockholders to sell cheaply to his doar friond, who has been informed priva'te- ly, by the same mail, that the Times letter is designedly wrong, and thas its false intelligence will bo contradicted inn day or two. Stocks up and stocks down. “Mason and Slitlell will never be given up,” says Russell in the Times. Ast though you heard some gery good news,” says Russell in the telegram to Wood. Isn't this sharp practice? Now, the Herauy announced a week before- hand that Mason and Slideil would be given up: Russell’s Times letter of the same date said the contrary. As the Herat and the letter reach- ed England together, Russell’s London friend probably made very little at thattime. But Russell himself speculated upon our accuracy by making his little arrangements with Wood here in New York. We wonder if this same telegram explains all the strange conduct of the London Times. Is tho whole Times estab- lishment only a stock-jobbing, swindling affair? 1f not, how will its editors justify their conrse towards this country, and how will they regard Bombastes Russell, who has deluded them? nw up and stocks down. We shall wait and William L. md Wendell Phil- Par nobile fratrum! It was stated yesterday in our news columns that William L. Yancey was arrested in the disguise of a sailor on board a schooner, trying to run the block- ade into a Southern port, and that he is on his way to Fort Warren. To-day, however, we have a despatch to the effect that Southern advices had arrived at Nashville to say that Yancey arrived at New Orleans, and madea speech, avowing that no help could be procured from England or France, and urging retalia- tion by stopping cotton cultivation. A later despatch from the engineer of the United States gunboat Water Wftch, states that the gunboat captured the schooner William Mal- lory, with Yancey on board. Which of these reports is true we are unable to deter- mine; but we trust the arch agitator of the South is on his way to the fort in Boston harbor, and we think he ought to be accompanied by another gentleman, who re- sembles him very much in his personal ap- pearance, manners, character and eventful history. We mean Wendell Phillips, who is the great chief of abolitionism and Northern disunion, as Yancey has been the chief of secession and Southern disunion. Both have played into each other’s hands, and both have been so far successful in their schemes. It is worthy of remark that both are polished gen- tlemen, highly educated scholars, and remark- ably eloquent orators. Garrison and Greeley are the vulgar tools of Phillips. They are the two hewers of wood and drawers of water— the scavengers who have always done his nig- ger work. Phillips stands at the head ofall, like Satan over the rebellious host of Pandemonium, There isan old Eastern traditiomef the He- brews that when the devil entered the garden of Eden he assumed the.form of a young man, with auburn hair. this is the color of the hair both of Yancey and Phillips, indicating that they are chips of the old Block. Till they commenced their labors, some thirty years ago, the country enjoyed fartony ahd peace. ‘But they entered dur po- litical paradise—one at the Northern end and the other at the South—and artfully introduced those elements of division and disunion which have at last culminated in actual disrupiion and civil war. Yancey has been aman of blood from the beginning. He murdered his uncle. That Wendell Phillips is also bloodthirsty is very evident. At the grave of John Brown he pronounced a funeral oration which proves him to be a man of blood, and the theme on which he delights to dwell is the ‘bloody massacre of St. Domingo and the nigger chief who led the infuriated savages to the indiscriminate slaughter of the men, wo- men and children of the white race. He is filled with delight at the breaking up of the ‘Union, for which he admits he has been work- ing for the last thirty years, and he openly avows his undying hostility to the constitution, But he literally revels in the prospect of servile insurrection and the bloody butchery by negro hands of the white women and chil- dren of the South. To this terrible consumma- tion is he continually stimulating the fanatical abolitionists of the North; and he would die happy to-morrow if he could only first see the bloody tragedy performed by his instruments. Yancey contemplates with equal satisfaction the work of his own hands. As Phillips or- ganized anti-slavery societies and conventions to carry out his plans, so Yancey set on foot Southern commercial conventions, which were nothing else than secession assemblages, under the pretence of promoting the interests of com- merce. As Phillips maligned and misrepre- sented the South, so Yancey maligned and mis- represented the North, inflaming the passions of the people and exciting their hatred to the constitution and the Union which linked the two sections together. When Yancey consum- mated the Southern revolt he proceeded to London, and there addressed the fish women of Billingsgate, in order to stir up their enmity to the Yankees. Having failed in his mission to kindle a war between England and the United States, this Cataline now returns to the country he has destroyed, and we hope he is cap- tured by one of our cruisers, and that a cell will soon be assigned him in Fort Warren. To the same cell his brother parricide—Phillips—ought to be sent to keep him company. They could there, as brethren, dwell together in unity. They are birds of a feather—men of kindred principles and of kindred spirit, and whose lives have been equally devoted to the destruc- tion of their country. In death they ought nog to be divided. Poetic and political justice points out the same fate for both, and demands that Wendell Phillips and William L. Yancey should swing from one rope. Tus Srrexcru or THe Repvsttc.— When. the present war broke out the European journals It is dremarkable fact that ' ordeal which has done so much to test the real strepgth and permanence of republican institu- tions. We shall emerge with a proud con- sciousness of having vindicated our great and glorious cause, and shown of what republicans are capable when the stake is the integrity of their republic, and with fresh vigor and un- diminished strength resume our march of pro- gress. History has been making fast since we took up the sword in defence of the Union, ané we have solved a problem in a few months that the events of half a century would have failed in doing under ordinary circumstances Among other things we have inaugurated @ new era in naval warfare, which will, after a short time, leave the existing navies of the world almost useless, and give us an iren- clad fleet which will enable this country te successfully resist, if necessary, the combined forces of Europe. But Europe is likely to have too much trouble at home for a considerable time to come to think of provoking a foreign war, The elements of reyolution are still smouldering on that continent, and just now they are threatening to burst into flame. In France, in Russia, in Italy, in Spain, in Aus- tria, the same ominous signs are observable, and’in Greece a bloody insurrection haa already commenced. Louis Napoleon’ has already shown his apprehensions of the im- pending danger, and hundreds of arrests have been mado. Thero is, indeed, every prospect that before long monarchy and imperialism will be subjected to a trial which will test their strength to the full, and we shall be surprised if the result does not demonstrate republican government to be the strongest and most per- manent of Bs v. -mnb, ohana Tue “Horrwie Monster” GREELEY AND THB “Lie Vian” Rayonp Farsiryinc Hie tory.—The meanness and malignity of poor Greeley, of the Tribune, and the “Little ViNain” Raymond, of the Times, have been too often exposed in these columns for us to feel any emotion but increased contempt at a new and flagrant instance of the spleen and malice of these fellows, and of the manner in which they strive to revenge themselves upon the relativea and friends of their political opponents. It seems that the editors of the Tribune and Times will even falsify history, in order to gratify their petty spites against a young gentleman whose only fault is that he is the son of the editor of the Henap. Among the vessels which took part im «s@ seizure of Fernandina, Florida, by our navy, under Commodore Dupont, was the armed schooner Henrietta, Lieutenant James Gordon Bennett, Jr., commanding. A!though stationed upon revenue service at Port Royal,S.C., Lieut. Bennett and his gallant comrades—Mr. Barker, of Long Island, and ason of Shepard Knapp, Esq., of this city—could not resist the oppor- tunity of striking a blow for tho Union, and accordingly obtained permission of Commodore Dupont to make the Henrietta one of his little expedition. They were disappointed in their anticipations of a baitle, for the rebels retreat ed; but the Henrietta, with her commander and crew, was in the flect, ready for any emergency, and participated in the occupation of Fernandina and the restoration of Florida to ber old allegiance and her old flag. The correspondents of the Tribune and Time® are no doubt gentlemen, and mentioned the Henrietta in their reports, just as they would mention any other vessel, without inquiring who or of what party was the father of her com- mander. But the editors of these papers, with a meanness which is unparalleled, cut out of their correspondent’s reports all mentionof Lieutenant Bennett and his schooner, and eves went so far, we believe, as to tamper with the official report of Commodore Dupont and sup- press that portion of it relating to the fact that the Henrietta was one of the vessels of his at- tacking fleet. There could be no smaller exhi- bition of malice than this. The young gentle man whom Greeley and Raymond take such pains to keep from public notice is, fortunately, above their enmity and has no need of their aa- sistance. He went to the wars of his own ae cord, and all that we have to do with the matter is to pay twenty-five thousand dollars for the schooner he gave to the government, and to re- gularly cash his drafts for the wages of his crew, since the abominable conduct of Congress has left the United States Treasury without. money to pay our brave sailors. ‘The obvious intention of this suppression was to keep from the public any fact disproving the: charges of secessionism made against us by the mean fellows who control the Tribune and Times. We are willing. to compare our loyalty, whether in deeds or words, with that of the editors of these abolition organs. Has either Greeley or Raymond de- voted his only son to the service of the coun- try im these perilous times? Has either Greeley or Raymond given a new schooner, costing twenty-five thousand dollars, to the revenue department of the navy of the country? Has either Greeley or Raymond donated three thousand dollars to the Union Defence Committee to arm and equip the Union soldiers? Has either Greeley or Raymond cashed the drafts upon the government for sailors’ wages in order to relieve the National Treasury, emptied by fanatical extravagance? Has cither Gteeley or Raymond devoted -his newspaper wholly, entirely and without reser- vation to the: support of the government and the restoration of the Union? We have dono all this, and have hitherto said nothing about it, because we prefer to male our patriotism practical ; because wo do. not care enough about abolition lies to take the trouble of dis- proving them; because all those persons whese- opinion: we value have never doubted or questioned: owr loyalty. But are the records: of Graeley and Raymon@.equally clean? Why, then, do they take such pains to misrepresent. us? Why do they tamper with reports in ordar to comceal even @hint of oar patriotism from the pablic? Cannot their ingenuity con-- ceivo-of a plan by which they may atteck the Henaxp and, yet treat Lioutenant Bennett with, the ordinayy fairsess due to an officer and way by Oye eatenent Bennett's personal servicey, For the sake of their own honor we essrs, Greeley and Raymond may poi Vee Metscriminate fy wo do, and coase theiy falsifications of histor and tamperings wit’, offidial reports, even if they must coutinue tiyeir falsehoods about the Herat. ae an ah Pa Sivoutan Ox Drt—That all the viola t- tacks on General McClellan which have &ppbar- ed in the Tribune have originated % con’ tions with General Wadsworth, ‘now Military Governor of Washington. Qen this arias be true? We, are very unwilling a ietces: th; Kd sincerely ‘cust it hes 9 foundation, were almost unanimous in crying out that the republic was dead. The English journals in particular chuckled over what they called the failure of democracy in America, and in the face of facts they persisted in declaring that the government of this country was utterly pros- trate and powerless to help itself. Since then, however, their assertions have been disproved and their prophecies contradicted by events that have shown us to be powerful where we were represented to be weak, and shown to the world that republicanism is the strongest of all, forms of government; for we have firmly re sisted shocks wnder much lighter than whieh many of the goveraments of the Old World have been swept away. We have, moreover, conducted a great war ontirely on our own re- sources, and owr commercial prosperity has meanwhile suffered no. check. Our exports have, indeed, during all this time been unusually, large, our agricultural resources have been amply developed and our manufactorios Jiave beon attively employed. We are now gradually emerging from tho