The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1862, Page 6

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MELODEON — HALL, 539 Broadway.—Soncs, Daxcxs, Buaiesques, &C.—ContkasandD CONVENTION, CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 585 Broadway.—Sonas: Dancus, Burixsquxs, &c.—[xavcuration Bali, GAIETIES {ang ROOM, _ Broadway.—Drawina Room Extartainuxnts, Battets, Paxtomimes, FaRcrs, £0, sens v AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway.—Jxa.ous DagKxer—RaiLRoaD—CoLLision—JoLLy MILLERS. CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45Bowery.— Buncesaves, Soxas, Daxoxs, a0.—Two Crowns. \ MBXICAN MUSEUM, 663 Broadway.—Day and tng—Couizerion or Canvap Wax Frovazs ) “7t Even: " PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Brosdway.< Opendally from WA MUSE Me Broadway sovErer roto es — HALL, Broadway.—Buniesquss TRIPLE SHEET. “New York, Tuceday, March 25,1 1862, THE SITUATION. The Burnside expedition is working out its pur- poses with great effect, and is carrying out the pianos which General Burnside, in his report from ‘Newbern, described as those Inid down for him by General McClellan before the expedition left Anna polis. Immediately upon the capture of Newbern General Burnside started an expedition to Beau- fort, N. C.; but upon his troops arriving there they “found the city evacuated by the rebels, Fort Ma- con blown up by the retreatng enemy, and the rebel steamer Nashville burned to pre- vent her falling into our hands. Such is the end of ‘this troublesome vessel which for so long occupied the attention of both continents during her sojourn in English ports. We had information several days ago that the British vessels Alliance and two others were at Beaufort, awaiting an opportunity to run the blockade. It will be interesting to know what haa become of them—whether the rebels have de- stroyed them together, with the Nashville, or whether they have fallen into the hands of General Burnside. The expedition to Beaufort left Newbern on Thursday last in steamers, and went partially down the river, and on landing struck the railroad, and took up the march for Beaufort with hand cars from Newbern, loaded with ammunition and baggage. A few days before the gunboat Stars and Stripes went outside and assisted the biockade, lest the Nashville might try to escape to sea when the troops come inland. In this the gunboat was successful as the result proved. General Burnside then sent a force with eeveral gunboats to Washington. No opposition ‘was made to landing. Our troops occupied the ‘town, and the Union flag is flying on the Court House. Our pickets extend about eight miles from New- bern towards Goldsborough. The inhabitants of ‘Newbern are gradually returning to the town and taking the oath of allegiance. Washington is the capital of Beaufort county, and lies on the left bank of the Tar river, about 40 mile* from Pamlico Sound, and 127 miles southeast from Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina. It has a population of two thousand. Vessels drawing eight feet of water can readily ascend the river to Washington. Quite a considerable export trade in turpentine and tar was done from this tewn pre” vious to the outbreak of the rebellion. On another page will be found an excellent map of the whole scene of Burnside’s operations on the North Carolina coast. The House of Representa tives very properly passed a unanimous vote of thanks yesterday to General Burnside and Com- modore Rowan for the gallant services rendered by them at Newbern. Such acta deserve public commendation. Later despatches from Winchester relative to the battle and victory of General Shields states that the rebels were driven back to Strasburg “‘like frightened sheep.’’ But little fighting was done in the vicinity yesterday. By the surgeons’ re- port we lost from seventy-five to one hundred killed and two hundred and sixty wounded in the action of Sunday. The rebel loss is not accurately known, but our surgeons say that they found two hundred ‘and twenty-five of them dead on the field. The fist ofpour killed and wounded has not yet been obtained. Among the killed, however, are said to ‘be one colonel and fourteen captains and lieuten_ ants, and among the wounded ten are offers of different grades. The scene of the battle"ind it, meighborhood is illustrated in our map to-day. Ourdatest news from Island No. 10, up to Sunday Hight, reports that the firing still continued from ur boata, but that many of the rebel batteries i mysteriously The upper bat- tery on the Island was completely falling Xo pieces under our fire. The fampe, on shore evidently be Ahinnef Out by the constant movement of the roel taRsp rte Indicated that the iroops wore ere silent. continuous were NEW YORK HERALD, TUKSDAY, MAKCH .25,. 1862.-TRLIPLE SHEET, withdrawing from the place. The river was rising 80 rapidly that its banks were overflowed, and some of the lower rebel batteries were submerged. They made efforts to erect new ones, but the effec- tive fire from out mortars prevented them. All these facts look like a speedy abandonment of Island No. 10, By the Hansa we have news from Europe to the 12th of March, three days later. Our newspaper files contain full reports of three important debates which took place in the English Parliament—the subjects under discussion being the efficiency and commercial effects of the Union blockade of the rebel ports, the rights of bellige” rents and neutrals at sea, and the intent and pro- gress of the allied forces against Mexico. In the House of Lords on the 10th inst., Lord Stratheden called the attention of the peers to the blockade of the ports of the Confederate States, and moved an address for a copy of any corre- spondence on the subject subsequent to the papers presented to the House. He brought forward his |, motion, he said, for the purpose of affording Lord Russell an opportunity of explaining the policy pursued by the government on ‘the question of the blockade. Lord Russell ex- pressed his conviction that the policy pursued by the government had obtained the approval of the country, and said that from the first the blockade of the Southern ports had oc- cupied the attention of ministers, who had had two questions to consider—first, whether the proclamation of a blockade had been made by sufficient authority; and, secondly, whether the means employed had been sufficient to blockad® so large an extent of coast. In regard to the first point, the proclamation had been issued, as laid down by Lord Stow- ell, by the sovereign authority in the per- son of the President of the United States; and, in respect to the extent of coast’ England had formerly proclaimed a block- ade of a coast not much inferior in extent to the number and size of the vessels which had eluded the blockading squadrons, much exaggera- tion existed, many of these vessels being only coasters of small draught running from creek to | creek. He could not give the papers moved for, for the simple reason that none such existed. He hoped the North would consent to a peaceful separation of the South, which would be followed by the gradual abolition of slavery. Mr. Horatall, member for Liverpool, with Messrs. Cobden, Bright and other liberals, advocated a revision of the maritime code, defining the rights of neutrals and belligerents at sea during war. They seemed to require an amplification of the treaty of Paris, on the bases of the proposition of the late Secretary Marcy, to the extent that mer- chant vessels.of anenemy could carry even con- trabands of war into the ports of the enemy, and that neutral fiags of commerce should be really free flags. The Attorney General and Sir G. C. Lewis denied the position of the free traders, as well as its expediency; the first law officer of the crown asserting that the Treaty of Paris was not binding on the contracting parties in case of war between any two or more of them, as they would then seize both the ships and goods of the enemy wherever they could find them. The English government again asserts that they joined in the alliance against Mexico merely for the protection of English life and property in the republic, and to enforce the payment of the debts. The affairs of the Allies appear to be confused, not- withstanding the Parliamentary explanation. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, resolutions from the New Jersey Legislature, asking Congressional ac- tion with reference to the defences of the.coast of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, and in favor of State loans for the purpose, were referred. A memorial from the Philadelphia Board of Trade, urging a reduction of taxes on manufactures, was presented ; also resolutions of the Kentucky Legis- lature, asking a reduction of the tax on tobacco. Both were referred. Resolutions from the Ohio Legislature, opposed to the settlement of the re- bellion except upon unconditional surrender and condign punishment of traitors, were referred. Resolutions from the Maine Legislature, endorsing the course of the administration, and in favor of confiscating the property of rebels, were re- ferred. Bills to promote the efficiency o¢ the Engineer Corps, and for the removal and con- solidation of the Kansas Indian tribes, were intro duced. The joint resolution in favor of affording pecuniary aid for the emancipation of slaves was taken up, and opposed by Mr. Saulsbury, of Dela- ware. Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, offered a substi- tute, declaring slavery to be exclusively within the jurisdiction of the people of the several States, yet that when any State determines to emanci- pate its slaves, the federal government shall pay a reasonable price for the slaves and the cost of colonizing them. The subject was then laid aside, and the bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia was taken up. The question was taken on Mr. Davis’ amendment, to colonize the slaves, and resulted in a tie vote. The Vice President voted in the negative, and the amendment was rejected. A debate on the merits of the bill then ensued, which was continued until the adjourn- ment. In the House of Representatives, the credentials of Joseph 8. Segar, as representative from the First district of Virginia, were referred to the Committee on Elections. A resolution was adopted directing inquiry as to the expediency of working the Western gold mines for the benefit of the government. A resolution was offered asking why the release of Colonel Corcoran has been de- layed, and urging that no further exchanges of prisoners of war be made until the Colonel is set at liberty. The resolution was laid over. A bill providing for the payment of the public debt was introduced. Resolutions tendering the thanks of Congress to Lieutenant Morris, the commander of the Camberland during the action with the Merri- mac; also to General Burnside, Com. Rowan, and the officers and men ander them, for the skill with which they carried out the instructions of General McClellan, were referred. A resolution appropriating $50,000 for testing plans for render- ing vessels invulnerable, was referred. A bill to organize the Territory of Arizona, with the Wil- mot proviso applicable to all Territories, was re, ported by the Territorial ‘omamittee, A motion to lay it on the table was lost by a vote of 49 yeas to 76 nays. The subject was then postponed till Monday. The Tax bill was taken up in Committee of the Whole, and several amendments agreed to. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. were The Hansa, from Southampton on the 12th of March, arrived at this port yesterday afternoon, and our files by the America, dated to the sth of March, reached this city from Boston yesterday gyeuing. By the Hansa we have details of nows from Europe three days later than the telegraphic reports of the America, already published. Consols rated in Londom at noon on the 12th instant at 93% a 935%. American securities were firm. The Liverpool cotton market was firm, with- out change in prices. Flour was sixpence per barrel lower, and dull. Pork was heavy, at the prices last reported. Garibaldi has assumed an active lead in Italian politics. He presided lately at a meeting of popu- lar delegates in Genoa, when he made a stirring speech, and swore an oath to deliver the provinces from oppression. Ex-President Miramon, of Mexico, was at Cadiz, on his way to Madrid. The agitation in Greece and Herzegovia was still very embarrassing to the King and the Sultan, The French Legislature remained excited by the dis- cussion of the Papal sovereignty question. The steamship City of Baltimore, from New York, arrived at Holyhead at nine o'clock on the morning of the 8th of March, with her engines disabled. Insurances had been effected at Lloyd’s on the vessel at.greatly advanced rates, and some offers of high premiums had been refused a little time previous to the announcement of her safety. From correspondence from New Mexico to the date of March 6 we learn that it ia expected by the military . officera at and near the headquarters of the department, that the rebels were then ex- pected to march directly upon Fort Union and Santa Fe. From the calculations made by the commander it is expected the forts will all be thoroughly reinforced before the rebels can pos- sibly reach them, The Mexican volunteers are not to be depended upon, therefore all calculations have had to be based solely upon the Anglo-Saxon force under Col. Canby’s command, Fort Macon, of Beaufort, North Carolina, which the rebels have destroyed, cost the government in its construction four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. It mounted sixty-one guns, and was ca- pable of garrisoning three hundred men. The ar- mament cost forty-nine thousand dollars. General M. L. Bonham and General S. Jackson have both resigned their commissions in the rebel army. There were 11,214 bales of cotton and 15,996 hogsheads of tobacco in New Orleans on the 25th ult., the value of which, at present prices in the North, would be about two millions five hundred thousand dollars. The New York Court of Appeals will meet to-day in Albany. In compliance with the joint resolution of Con. gress, two hundred men’commenced operations on the United States sloop-of-war Roanoke yesterday She is to be razeed and converted into an iron clad battery, similar to, and more formidable than, the Merrimac. From the progress which was made on her yesterday it will not be long before she will be ready for service. The Board of Aldermen held a long seasion last evening, and had the subject of the harbor defence before them. The Mayor sent in a message and an ordinance on the matter, and five merchant citi- zens were named on ballot as part of the commis. sion of seven to see to the proper disbursement of the $500,000 to be appropriated for the purpose. The Board of Councilmen will, however, have to concur. The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening, and transacted considerable routine busi” neas. A resolution was presented, requesting tic Mayor to opena correspondence with the Post- master General in reference to the establishment of an up town post office at ornear the junction of Broadway and Sixth avenue. It was referred to the Committee on National Affairs. Mr. Hogan offered a resolution directing the Committee on Wharves, Piers and Slips to offer such propositions as may be deemed necessary to place the wharves and piers of this city in such a condition, as to con- venience and security, as will prove worthy of the high reputation of this city as the commercial cm- porium of the western world. The paper was re- ferred to the appropriate committee. The Com- mittee on Ordinances presented a report amending the ordinance relative to constructing vaults, pro- viding a sliding scale of charges for the construc- tion of vaults. The minimum is thirty cents and the maximum two dollars per foot, leaving the price to be charged, in each particular case, to the Croton Aqueduct Board, depending upon the lo- cality and the purpose for which it is to be used. Mr. Orton, inan able speech, urged the adoption of the amendment, stating that if the proposed al- terations were made over $10,000 annually would be saved to the city. The ordinance was almost unanimously adopted. As the tax levy for the present year is now be- fore the Legislature for adoption, it may not be uninteresting to state the various estimates of the Comptroller and both branches of the Common Council. The Comptroller’s original estimate of the amount of money necessary to carry on the city government for 1862 was $2,869,407; his amended estimate is $2,765,508. The Aldermen's amended estimates are $2,909,907, while the Coun- cilmen’s estimates are $2,676,393 58. About a dozen of the segar manufacturers of this city assembled last evening at the Westchester House, for the purpose of hearing the report of their delegate to Washington, Mr. J. Cohen, rela” tive to the tax on segars. Mr. Cohen stated that from a want of unanimity between those com. posing the general tobacco trade and the segar interest, nothing could be effected, and he there- fore advised the meeting to drop the subject for the present. This was agreed to and the proceed: ings terminated. Deputy Marshals Rosbeck and Peele arrested a negro named John Thomas yesterday, at Burling slip, he being one of the crew of the Ocean Monarch, which was abandoned at sea. The authorities de- sire to investigate the circumstances that led to the disaster. The colored man says that when he and his companions left the vessel the captain wag in the cabin, and that there were nineteen feet of water in the hold. The steamer Atlantic, which leaves to-day for Port Royal, takes out the United States Paymasters— Majors Paulding, Mason and Bart—with $850,000 to pay off the soldiers of General Hunter's new mili- tary department. They are accompanied by three Assistant Paymasters—Messrs. Kavanagh, Burt and Jackson—to facilitate the payment of the troops. According to the City Inspector's report there were 417 deaths in the city during the past week— a decrease of 18 a8 compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 5 more than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 6 deaths of alcoholism, 1 of disease of the bones, joints, &c.; 83 of the brain and nerves, 7 of the generative organs, 12 of the heart and blood vessels, 149 of the lungs, throat, &e.; 4 of old age, 29 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 5 premature births, 62 of dis- eases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 2% of uncertain seat and general fevers, 11 of diseases of the urinary organs, and 15 from vio- lent causes. There were 281 natives of the United States, 9 of England, 83 of Ireland, 3 of Scotland, 33. of Germany, and the balance of various foreign countries. ‘Wall street was not very active yesterday, though the whe of the stock market was strong. Governments were in demand at an advance of one-eighth per cent, Money was in fair demand at6a7. Exchange was dullat 112. Gold was quiet at 101!¢ a 191%. The bank state. ment shows a decrease of loans equal to $8,007 470, and an increase in coin of $1,250,340. The cotton market was quite firm yesterday, with sales of about 1,040 bales, closing sti at 8c. a 233g. for wtddling uplands, and with an rd tendency in prices. Flour was quiet but stoady, with moderate sales, chiefly to the home trade while prices were without change of moment. Wheat yminal for most descriptions, and salos quite . Corn was unchanged, while sales of mixed, in sire, #, wore made ab 63)K0. & G0C.4 Aud at 000, 9OOKG., dg: livered. Pork was casier, but in better request at the concession, with sales of uew mess at $13 25 a $13 37%, and at $10 508$10 75 for new primo, Asaleof new mess was made, deliverable in June, at $13 50. Sugars wore steady, with sales of 850 hhds. at private sale, and algo 181 do, Porto Rico by auction, and 310 bags on terms givon in another place. Coffee was quiet, and prices, in the absence of sales of moment, were nominal. Freight® were steady, with moderate engagements. The Rapid Progress of the War—From Victory to Victory. The victory of General Shields over the rebels near Winchester, Virginia, under the command of Generals Jackson, Smith and Long” street, and the occupation of Beaufort, North Carolina, by a detachment from the army of General Burnside, have now to be added to the catalogue of the brilliant achievements of our arms which have followed the development of General .McClellan’s skilful, comprehensive and overwhelming combinations. From vic- tory to victory, how gloriously goes on the good work of putting dowa: this beleagured rebellion. : ‘The dispersion of the rebel force near Win- chester disposes of those outlying detachments from the rebel army ef Manassas, The object of these guerillas was to harass the army of Gen. Banks, and to compel him to retain in the val- ley of the Shenandoah a large force, and thus to weaken, as far as possible, by this diversion, our Potomac army in the wake of the main rebel army under General Johnston. It ap- pears, too, that Jackson, under the idea that Shields had passed up the valley, expected to slip into Winchester without opposition ; but the temptation to secure the booty of our mili- tary stores at that point induced him, we sus- pect, to trust to information which otherwise he would have rejected. At all events, in attempt- ing to play the hazardous game of Sterling Price—of running off to parts unknown and rushing back when least expected—Jackson, like Price, has been caught, cut up, and finally routed. This, we suppose, finishes the fighting of the rebels in the rear of Manassas, and leaves their scattered fragments of the Shenandoah valley no other alternative than the abandon- ment of their hopeless cause, or a hasty flight to the retreating army of Jobnston. General Burnside’s occupation of Beaufort was inevitable after his victory at Newbern; and the burning by the rebels of their piratical steamer, the Nashville, although it has cheated us out of that expected prize, is a good rid- dance of a bad customer. Fort Macon would probably have been spared if its rebel garri- son could have carried off its stores of gun- powder and fixed ammunition; and here, too, their loss is our gain. We presume that, to an extent sufficient for the purposes of this war, the fort can readily be repaired; and mean- time, in the possession of Beaufort, we have gained the only available harbor on the dan- gerous coast of North Carolina for vessels drawing over twelve feet of water. Beaufort bar has seventeen feet at low tide, and the har- bor, north and south, is connected with the navigable sounds of that remarkable coast. Beaufort, in fact, is equal to all our other ac- quisitions in North Carolina; for it commands and secures them all, and renders the work of securing Wilmington and Raleigh comparatively easy. The North Carolina coast being substantially cleared, Charleston, in South Carolina, is now, perhaps, the only important break in our pos- session of the Atlanticseaboard from Norfolk to Mobile; for it is probable that our flag is now flying over Savannah, and Gen. Bragg, in evacuating Pensacola, has doubtless abandoned it to our forces at Fort Pickens. It is believed, toe, at Washington that New Orleans has been recovered by Gen. Butler; so that, perhaps, at this moment the only Southern seaports of any account left in possession of the rebels are Nor- folk, Charleston and Mobile. The fate of the first may be sealed now upon avery short notice by Gen. McClellan, and our re-occupation of the other two may be hastened or delayed to suit our convenience. At the same time, while our armies of the West, in overwhelming numbers, are pushing forward in Tennessee and Arkansas, the gunboat expedition under Com. Foote, with the land forces of General Pope, are steadily progressing in the work of reducing Island No. 10. It will thus appear that Jett. Davis and his confederates in the rebel government at Richmond cannot move forward an hour too soon, if they would secure a safe point at which to cross the Mississippi river en route to Mexico. If they delay a week longer on the east side of that river their retreat may be cut off, in that and in every other direction, by our encircling armies, fleets and flotillas. Davis and his ruling colleagues, we repeat: must be quick, or, from certain events which will surely come to pass very soon in Virginia, they may find themselves in their flight without an army and without a supporting party, even in the cotton States. The war, like one of our hotly contested Presidential elections, having taken a certain direction, is carrying everything before it, and resistance is useless. Another Union victory or two and the suffering people of the South will rise and proclaim that they have suffered enough for the hopeless enterprise of Jeff.* Davis, and are resolved,that there shall be an end of it while yet the golden doors of the “old Union” remain wide open to receive them. We expect that the citizen of New York, be- fore the Fourth of July, will have the right and the liberty restored to him of an inland journey from Washington to New Orleans without a passport and without interruption, and that United States Treasury notes will be accepted as a legal tender even in payment of subgcrip- tions to the Charleston Afercurm The Abolition Cry of Blood, Blood, Blood! More Blood! The daily attacks of the Tribune upon General McClellan for compelling the rebels by strate- gy to evacuate Manassas, shows convincingly that the abolitionists are a faction of blood. For this they thirst and pray, and their cry— the cry of which they never weary—is blood, blood, blood! more blood! If four or five thousand or more lives had been lost in driving the rebels from Manassas, the Tribune, as the guiding light of these bloodthirsty fanatics, would have rejoiced, and the cruel hearts of the factionists would have been gladdened, like to those of the brutal King of Dahomey and his satellites, at the sight of a multitude of slain and a torrent of human blood—the diabolical work of their own evil passions. The aboli- tionists thirst, like that sable monarch, the color of whose skin they wor- ship, for human slaughter—for human blood. The sacrifice of life is what they burn for, yearn for, cry for. They would like to see the whole South one vast hecatomb, and where there is.no. bloodshed there is for them no glory. They ignore the teachings of civiliza- tion and- humanity, and they have no faw but the fulfilment of their own'dark purposes. In aiming at the gratification of their own de-' sires they overlook the immense importance of strategy in a military commander, and have no regard whatever for economy of human life. They are wilfully blind to the fact that a vic- tory gained without bloodshed is a double vic- tory—a moral as well as a physical one—and especially in civil war. If this had been a struggle with a foreign foe instead of what it is, General McClellan might possibly have act- ed differently, but then only under certain con- ditions which may have been wanting at Ma- nassas. ButGeneral McClellan knew that in this case strategy was particularly important, and therefore he laid his plans for forcing the rebel retreat and insuring for the Union army a bloodless victory. The more we can accomplish in the same manner the sooner this war will be brought to a termina- tion, and the more speedily will a general re- vulsion in Southern feeling in favor of the Union take place. The greater the slaughter the deeper the hatred and the wilder the ex- asperation of the people, whose return to the Union is likely to be as much accelerated by a change of sentiment on their part as by great naval and military achievements on ours. But the abolitionists cannot see this. Nothing will satisfy them but blood. If, however, General McClellan was, as they say, at fault in allowing the peaceful evacuation of Manassas, what have they to say to General Halleck for driving the rebels from Columbus without striking a blow, or to General Buell for allowing Bowling Green to be evacuated in the same peaceful manner, or to General Pope for not giving them a little more blood at New Madrid, or to Commodore Foote and’ Gen. Grant for permitting the rebel garri- son, all but sixty men, in Fort Henry to escape; and last, but not least, to General Burnside for entering triumphantly into possession of Beau- fort and suffering Fort Macon to be blown up without a drop of bloodshed? How atrocious all these must be if General McClellan was so bad. What a pity there was not a little more bloodshed to gratify these bloody abolitionists. The blood of ten or fifteen thousand men would have filled these thirsty leeches with satisfaction. As it is, they are left to reflect that these victories, like McClellan’s, have been gained without contributing to slake their own evil thirst for blood, blood! more blood! but considerably to restore the recreant South to the Union, which in its folly it forsook, and which they, in their fanatical zeal, have never ceased to undermine. APPOINTMENT OF GENERAL HUNTER TO THE Departmxest or THE Sovta.—General Hunter has been appointed to the command of the Department of the South, comprising Florida, Georgia and South Carolina; and General Sher. man, who formerly commanded in South Caro- lina, is now subordinate to General Hunter. This isa good appointment, and its fruits will soon be visible. General Sherman, though a very good officer, seems to have done nothing in the military line since the occupation of Port Royal. He has been more engaged in the pro- secution of romantic philanthropic ideas about the negroes than in overthrowing the rebellion- The object of the war is to put down the white rebels, and not to occupy the troops or gene- rals with visionary projects about blacks. General Sherman, instead of marching upon the enemy, has become entangled with fanatical missionaries and their silly dreams about the amelioration of the negro race, the truth being, that this race everywhere at the South are more civilized, more moral and Christian—in a word: far better off in body and soul—than the same race at the North. In the South the negroes have had somebody to take care of them. In the North it is otherwise; and we see how wretched and degraded the Northern negro population generally are. As soon as the negroes of the coast of South Carolina are left without their natural guardians and protectors, owing to the events of the war, they show how helpless they are, and how unfit to shift for themselves. Will missionary efforts remedy this? On the con- trary, they will be likely to render the negro worse and worse. If the negroes had anything in them they would cultivate the plantations themselves, and thus produce abundance of food, instead of coming to our troops, in vast multitudes, for rations, and adding to the ex- penses of the war. What is wanted for the lazy negroes is not missionaries but a little coercion, to make them work. They ought to be all compelled to oultivate the abandoned farms till the war is over, and then the State could take charge of the shiftless creatures. We trust that General Hunter, who is not only a good soldier but a sensible man, will set the matter right; that he will put an end to a sys- tem which is likely to lead to great mischief, its smallest evil being to clog and embarrass the operations of the army. If he would pros. per in his department; by all means let him banish the missionaries. Tux Tax But—Prorosep AmeNpMENT.—It is stated that the cause of delay in the Tax billis an objection to the taxing of so many articles instead of limiting the burthen to a few in general use, as is done in England and France, where taxation has become ascience. It ap- pears that Mr. Chase has a bill in preparation, limiting the articles to be taxed to some twenty in number used by the whole community. This would certainly be less vexatious to the people than the bill already reported, while it would be equally productive, and at the same time it would eflect a saving of twenty-ive per cont on the collection. Let this bill be passed, and let it be done quickly. Notan hour ought to be unnecessarily lost by delay. ‘The Herald, the Tribune and the Reve- nue Cutter Henrietta. We have not the slightest intention of enter- ing into any controversy with the Tribune upon the subject of the suppression by that journal and the Times of all mention of Lieutenant James Gordon Bennett, Jr., and his revenue cutter Henrietta, in the report of Commodore Dupont and the letters of their correspondents giving an account of the occupation of Fernan- dina, Florida. We prefer facts to words, and we have all the facts on our side. Besides this, we have had too long an experience with these fanatical abolitionists, and have too recently seen General Cullom’s official report cut, and General Burnside’s praise of McClellan, un noticed by them, for us to expect anything like common honesty, justice or fair dealing on th® part of these journals and their editors. To our charge that the Tribune and Times had suppressed all mention of Lieu- tenant Bennett's co-operation in the taking’ of Fernandina in their correspondents’ zeports, the Tribune repties that its cor “gout it: nething of the kind,” and therefore it “could 7 have suppressedit.” This we do not believe:, but we make the correction, ag we have, of courge, no means of ascertaining what wad or was not in the Tribune’s report as originally written. To our second charge—that the Tribune and Times falsified history by cutting out of Commodore Dupont’s official report the words relating to Lieutenant Bennett and his cutter— the Times says nothing, which is a confession of guilt; and the Tribune says “we printed it (the report) on Thursday last as we received it, word for word as it appeared in the Herarp of that day, and there is not in it the least men- tion of Mr. Bennett or his yacht.” This ia either a silly prevarication or a deliberate untruth; for Commodore Dupont’s report, as sent’ to the department and reprinted by us, does mention the Henrietta, as may be seen by reference to our files. The Tribune’s assertion that it does not shows very plainly one of two things—viz: either that the Tribune’s copy of the report was tampered with by the Tribune's own correspondents before it reach- ed here—which is very improbable—or that a portion of the report was purposely sup- pressed by the Tri:une editors, which we think to be the true state of the case. We are con- strained, therefore, to believe the Tribune guilty of wilful meanness and deliberate falsi- fication of official records, and to regard ita de- nial only as a specimen of its characteristic and usual style of explanation, retraction and apology. The motive of this suppression, thus impliedly acknowledged, was simply to keep from the public any fact which would disprove the oft- . repeated slander of the Tribune and ‘Times that we sympathized with Jeff. Davis and the rebels, Greeley and Raymond knew very well that no man would be silly enough to believe such stories if it were announced that we had sent our only son to the wars, for the sake of the Union; ~ that we had given a schooner, worth twenty- five thousand dollars, to the revenue service; that we had donated three thousand dollars to the Union Defence Committee, and that we were paying, in advance of the government and for the relief of ita treasury, the well earned wages of Union sailors. If the Tribune and Times had published, or even hinted at these facts, where would have been their at- tacks on the Heratp? What would have been their readers’ opinion of the past libels of these slanderous sheets? How could the abolition disunionist Greeley and. the job- bing Raymond have withstood so odious, so disastrous @ comparison? How would any future lying in regard to us be possible? Ah, No! The Tribune and Times editors are too much afraid of the truth, both in regard to those whom they slander and in regard to their wicked selves, to risk putting anything so dan- gerous as truth in their newspapers. This wae the real point of their suppression of Lieuten- ant Bennett's name, and this was the real point of our reply. Upon it the Tribune and Times editors may impale themselves at their leisure- Reset Barsarities.—The details furnished by our Washington correspondent of the mu- tilations committed on the bodies of Colonel Slocum and Major Ballou, who were killed at the battle of Bull run, make the blood boit with indignation. Coupled with the scalping of Union prisoners at Pea Ridge, the fashion- ing of drinking cups and spoons out of ‘the skulls and tibia of our dead, the general poison- ing of wells in their retreats and the laying of mines for the wholesale destruction of our troops previous to the evacuation of their strongholds, these facts demonstrate on the part of the rebels a savage and demoniac spirit, such as is usually only to be found amongst the most barbarous tribes. They will make the cheeks of every Englishman and Frenchman tingle with shame at the bare idea that it could have been contemplated for a mo- ment to lend the aid and countenance of their governments to a movement, the actors in which have proved themselves so utterly destitute of reason and self-control. Even towards each other the rebels seem to be devoid of all feeling of humanity, as witness the disgraceful in- difference of their surgeons to their own wounded at St. Louis, which elicited from Gen. Halleck such a severe order the other day. What a difference does their conduct present from that of our Northern soldiers. We have yet to learn the first instance in which an indig. nity has been offered by the latter to a wounded prisoner, or where anything but respect has been manifested by them towards the dead. The civilization of the North and South has been placed in strong contrast by this rebellion, The result shows that if we were to leave the South to carry out its aspirations of inde- pendence and _ self-government, the uncon- trollable passions of its people would soop reduce it to a condition of barbarism. Is Anytuine Bene Done To Reret. Tae Men- rimact—Is anything being done to meet the fu- ture attacks of the fron-clad rebel steamer Merrimac upon our ships-of-war, or to prevent her escape to sea out of Hampton Roads, with a view to the raising of the blockade of « ¢ different ports of the South, or perhaps ev pay a visit to Washington and New York? do not believe that alone she could accompli» very much; but it is stated that there are other jron-clad vessels at Norfolk ready, or nearly ready, for action, and probably the Merrimac ig waiting for these to accompany her. Be. sides, it is stated on what appears to be pretty good authority, that three similar vessels are being fitted out, and are nearly completed, «¢ Mobile, New Orleans and other Sonthora porte