The New York Herald Newspaper, March 26, 1862, Page 6

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The battle at Winchester, which General Shields 0 gallantly won, was a magnificent affair, and has been well followed up by General Banks, who pur- @ued the rebels through Strasburg and five miles beyond, in a terrific rout. General Banks had driven them into Strasburg jyesterday morning, and on yosterday afternoon he sent a despatch dated ‘Five miles beyond Strasburg.” General Shields was compelled to remain out of action in consequence of the wound he received on Saturday. The despatch says:—“The enemy are still in retreat, and our forces in hot pursuit. The loss of the rebels must have been enor- mous. They have abandoned wagons along the road filled with dead and dying; the houses on the route are found crowded with the wounded and dead; the dwellings in the towns adjacent to the battle fields of Sunday are also found filled with the wounded. The inhabitants aided the rebel soldiers in carrying off their wounded during the day, and in burying them quickly as soon as dead. Our artillery makes terrible havoc among the enemy in their flight, and the rout bids fair to be One of the moat dreadful of the war.” We give to-day some further details of the Winchester battle on Sunday—the general account of which we have before published—by which it will be seen that it was a hotly contested fight on both sides. During the day a@ curious incident occurred. When the centre and left wing of the rebel army were thrown into confusion, and a desperate effort was made to rally the right wing, ‘the Irish battalion in the rebel ranks, numbering a hundred and fifty men, when brought forward and ordered to fire upon the Union troops, refused to fire, and a rebel regiment immediately drove this gallant little band forward, but could not com- pel them to fire upon the Union army. Forty corpses of the hundred and fifty afterwards strewed the field. These Irish troops were undoubtedly pressed into the rebel service either by absolute coercion or the necessity of circumstances, but, true to the flag whose honor was entrusted to their brave countryman, General Shields, they refused to assail it, though their lives became the sacrifice to their loyalty. There appears to be some doubt as to the death of Captain Buchanan, the commander of the rebel battery Merrimac, who was reported killed in the action with the Cumberland at Hampton Roads. The Star, a paper published at Easton, Md., within five miles of Captain Buchanan's home, says that his family has received intelligence from Norfolk that he only met with a slight wound in the thigh, and that he is recovering. The United States transport George Peabody, which arrived here yesterday from Newbern, North Carolina, brought the intelligence that the rebel steamer Nashville was not burned by the enemy, but was captured by our troops. The United States steam transport New Bruns- wick, Commander Liscomb, which arrived here Vast evening from Newbern, confirms the report of the capture of the rebel steamer Nashville, and states that she has not been burned. She brings as passenger Major Stevenson, of the Twenty- fourth Massachusetts regiment, and about sixty sick and wounded soldiers of the Burnside expe- dition. Notwithstanding these statements relative to the fate of the Nahaville, we are constrained to he- lieve that the first reports of her destruction by the rebels are more strongly sustained, and hence we fear that she bas not fallen into our hands. A despatch from Kansas Vity yesterday states that a skirmish took place near Independence, Mo., on the 224, between the Sixth Kansas regi, ment and a band of rebel guerillas, in which the latter were routed. In their retreat they burned the bridge across the Blue river. Our troops lost two men, and killed seven of the enemy, took eloven prisoners and twenty horses, ‘We have some interesting news from the South to-day. The new Cabinet of Jeff. Davis is formed, aad we give the names and sketches of the gen- ne siz conts per $3 per annum; the Buropean Edition every Wednesday, rt of Great Britain, Torinclude postage; the ition on the Ist, Llth and 2lst af each month, at size or $2 THE FAMILY HERALD, on Wednesday, at four cents per \CK’S THEATRE, No. S44 Broadway.—War 10 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1862—TRIPLE SHEET. tlemen. Some regiments of the new levies had arrived at Richmond. Jeff. Davis has extended the rigors of martial law to the counties of Eliza- beth, York, Warwick, Gloucester and Mathews. Sixty-seven citizens (Union men, of course,) of Loudon county were sent to Richmond last week and lodged in prison. The latest from Fort Pick- ens is, that the guns of the rebels at Pensacola Were discovered to be pointed inland, as if they ex- pected an attack from our army on the land side. The number of rebels there is reported to be only three thousand. The rebels are hard at work on the fortifi- cations at Fredericksburg, of which place we give a map and a full description to-day. The rebels are still to be seen at Warrenton, near which a skirmish occurred with our cavalry recently. They are supposed to be a part of the rear guard of the Manassas army, waiting for orders. A report reached Washington yesterday, from Memphis, that the rebel battery at Fort Pike, near New Orleans, was taken by our troops. This fact, probably, gave rise to the previous rumor that the Union flag waa flying at New Orleans. By the Nova Scotian at Portland we have news from Europe to the 14th inst., two days later. It is said that a member of the British Cabinet declared to a deputation from the manufacturing districts of England that the war in America would be ended about June, by a peaceable separa- tion between the North and South, and that a treaty of peace would be concluded on the follow- ing bases, viz:— Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee are to return to the Union. The two republics are to have no land customs line. Search for slaves is to be prohibited in all the States. Slavery must disappear within thirty years. The London Times is opposed to a revision of the maritime war code, and argues that England must uphold her right to capture merchant ves- sels. The same journal again advocates a peacea- ble separation between the North and South. The Spanish government had refused to receive the rebel Commissioner, Mr. Rost. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, the bill in relation to administering the oath of allegiance to American citizens in foreign countries was reported back bY the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The resolution to transfer the superintendency of the Capitol exten sion from the War to the Interior Department, was adopted. The debate on the bill for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia was then resumed, and Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, made @ speech in favor of the proposition. Messrs. Saulsbury, of Delaware; Powell, of Kentucky; Ken- nedy,of Maryland, and Harlan, of Iowa, partici- pated in the debate. Mr. Saulsbury introduced an amendment that the negroes, when freed, shall be divided among the free States. In the House of Representatives the Senate bill Providing for the settlement of the accounts of the crews of the ships-of-war Cumberland and Con- gress was passed. The Pacific Railroad bill was made the special order for Tuesday next. In Committee of the Whole the consideration of the Tax bill was resumed. By the schooner Viola, Captain Haskell, we have dates from St. Thomas to the 13th inst. The health of the island was good. The United States ship Shepherd Knapp would leave for Boston ina few days. The United States gunboat Iroquois had just arrived from Curacoa, and was coaling. One hundred of the wounded at the battle at Newbern left Baltimore yesterday morning at eight o'clock for this city, en route to their homes. They consisted of fifteen officers and eighty-five privates. Most of them are Massachusetts men, but some are from Rhode Island and Connecticut. (0US NEWS. The Nova Scotian, from Liverpool on the 13th and Londonderry the 14th inst., arrived at Port land yesterday morning. Our European files by the Nova Scotian reached this city at midnight, and her mails early this morning. The news is two days later than that by the Hansa. The Liverpool cotton market was dull on the 13th inst., and the staple experienced a decline of one-half a penny per pound. On the 14th inst. the prices remained unchanged. The stock in port was estimated at 424,000 bales. Flour was still declining. Provisions were quiet, but steady. Consols closed in London, on the I4th inst., at 9354 a 9334. American securities remained firm. Three men who had been implicated in the Or- sini plot against the life of Napoleon left London suddenly, and it was said that the Palmerston go- vernment had notified the Emperor that they were suspected of harboring like designs still. Gari- baldi was enthusiastically received in the great as- sembly of the radical and reform delegates of Italy at Genoa. He advocated the idea of Italy assisting all the oppressed nationalities of the world. All the Greek ports in the Gulf of Argolis are placed under strict blockade by the King in consequence of the insurrection. Letters from Barbary report that the Sultan has not yet been successful in persuading the Riff tribe to surrender the land in the neighborhood of the Spanish fortress of Melilla. This is now the only stipulation of the late treaty with Spain which the Sultan is not in a position to fulfil. The mail steamer Champion arrived at this port yesterday morning, bringing us intelligence from the Isthmus to the lith inst. It is proposed to es- tablish a new steam line between Liverpool and Aspinwall. The Electoral Colleges, of Pern were about to assemble to decide who has been elected President of the republic. Anattempt had recent. ly been made to raise the frigate Callao, but with- out success. In Chile the wheat harvest is not abundant, although better than anticipated, and sufficient to prevent scarcity in the interior. Other crops promise well. The amount of hides will be small. In the State Senate yesterday, bills incorpo- rating the New York Homeopathic Medical So- ciety, altering the Commissioner's map of Brook- lyn, to prevent attempts at burglary and other crimes, and to print calendars of courts of record, were reported favorably. The report of the New York Health Officer was presented and ordered to be printed. Bills were passed respecting the powers and daties of, and regulating the proceed- ings against, boards of supervisors; that bona fide purchasers of wild lands be paid for improvements thereon, and to protect bridges belonging to the Bills to incorporate the New York Com- | Association, relative to lands under water in the city of Brooklyn,*fand to authorize the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad to lay rails of less weight than required by the general bill, were ordered to a third reading. Progress was reported upon the bill to reorganize the State Asylum for lunatic convicts. The pill amending the charter of the Loancrs’ Assovia- tion was lost, and an adverse report to the bill to repeal the law to exempt ministers of the gospel from taxation was agreed to. In the Assembly a number of bills reported by the Grinding Com- mittee were laid on the table. The General Ap- propriation bill was then taken up. The clause limiting the publication of the official State canvous to the State paper was amended, and the publica- tion ordered in two papers in each Senatorial dis- trict. The aporopriation for State Assessors was stricken out and the office abolished. An effort to strike out all the salaries of the public departments above the amount prescribed for each department by the Revised Statutes was lost. The Annual Supply bill was taken up in the Committee of the Whole and debated till the hour of adjournment. We learn from Captain Atwood, of the British brig Alice, arrived yesterday from Mayaguez, P. R., that on Monday night, 10th inst., a fire broke out in Mayaguez which consumed a great portion of the town, and the loss was estimated at two millions of dollars. The crops were good, but business of all kinds was very dull. Freights for foreign vessels for Europe, to a port direct, £3 58.; to a port for orders, £378. 6d. and £3. 108. No freights were offering for the United States. The Bermudian of the 12th inst. states that a serious affray took place on the night of the 8th, when an American captain named Kendrick—who kept a public house at Hamilton, Bermuda, and who had only been in the island a few months— shot a sailor of her Majesty’s steamer Aboukir through the chest, and a civilian through the head, killing him instantly. The seaman was recover- ing, and the captain was at once placed under ar- rest and a verdict of wilful murder reeorded against him. When the British sailors heard of the assault they went up ina body to destroy the public house, but were restrained by the Bishop of Newfoundland and some other gentlemen. The silver mines have undergone little change. A Coquimbo correspondent writes:—‘‘Everything in this province continues quiet. The railway has not yet started, as no locomotives have arrived. Business is dull, the mines having been lately much abandoned, and people generally seem in. clined to go on more slowly and quietly than they have previously done.” Part of the revolutionary party in Bolivia having been arrested, and others having fled from the country, the government is now occupied in administrative reorganization, and the army has been reduced to a peace footing, The ill-feeling in Lima against the Spaniards is said to be dying out. The crew of the Cumberland, which are now on board the North Carolina, desire to return their thanks to Captain Mead for his fatherly and cour- teous attention to them since they came under his charge. The captain has used every means in his power to promote their comfort, and has written to the Secretary of the Navy on their behalf. A train of cars was to have left Baltimore yes- terday for the Ohio river over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. No train has run the entire length of the road since the 19th of April, 1861. Large flocks of wild geese from Dixie passed over the Eastern States last week, on their annual visit to the Northern lakes. A Union congratulatory meeting was held in Fairfax Court House, Va., on the 22d inst. It was largely attended by persons from nearly all sec- tions of the country, and resolutions denouncing the rebellion and the traitors who instigated it were passed. It was also decided to form a home guard, with its headquarters at Fairfax, and the men who composed the gathering stated their de- termination to go to work and redeem the land that had been laid waste by the rebel army. Subscriptions are getting up in some of the Eastern cities to render relief to the families of the lost Gloucester fishermen. A Tegular meeting of the Board of Supervisors was held yesterday, Elijah F. Purdy, President, in the chair. The Comptroller sent in a copy of the ordinance passed by the State Legislatare authorizing the Board of Supervisors to raise money in anticipation of the passage of the annual tax levy by the issue of county revenue bonds. The bill of officer Dusenbury, amounting to $74.50, for expenses incurred by going to Canada in pursuit of George Mountjoy (of Hackley con- tract notoriety), was ordered to be paid. The bill of the Sheriff, amounting to $9,446, was then taken up, and, after some discussion, was ordered to be paid. A resolution of Elijah F. Purdy’s, that the Legislature be petitioned to repeal the present Excise law, was laid over for further consideration. The Board then adjourned until Tuesday next at three o'clock. The stock market was dull amd lower yesterday, in consequence of the absence of news from the Army of the Potomac. Government securities declined 3a %, and railway shares % a 44. Money was in fair demana at6a7. Sterling exchange closed at111\% 0112. Gold declined 4. The export of produce for the week was $2,236,613. ‘The cotton market was less active yesterday, andthe previous animation was checked by the news of the Nova Scotian, though it did not materially vary from that previously received by the America; the sales em- braced about 400 bales, in separate lots; prices were ir- regular, though not, héwever, quoted much below the range of previous figures. The flour market was heavy under the influence of the foreign news, and with moderate sales closed at ® decline of Sc. @ 0c. per barrel. Wheat was heavy and dull, while prices, in the absence of sales of moment, were nominal. Corn was lower but active at the concession, with sales of Western mixed at 5733c. a S8c., in store, and 59¢., delivered. Pork was in moderate demand, with sales of new mess at $1 4 $13 37)4, and of new prime at $10 50a $1075. A sale was reported of new mess, for June delivery, at $1350. Lard was firm and active. Coffee was quiet and prices nominal. The stock of Rio embraced $0,550 bags, and a total of all kinds mats and bags, of 130,004. Freights were steady and engagements fair. DeveLorpment or THE Uston SENTIMENT oF THE Soutu.—We published on Monday a curious statement from our Savannah (Tennessee) cor- respondent, respecting the persecution of a Union man and the terrible resentment he ex- hibited on regaining his liberty and being pro- tected by our troops. As one of the boats of the expedition up the Tennessee river lay at the wharf at Danville, the following occur- rence took place:— At Danville an incident occurred which naturally grew Out of the wrongs perpetrated during the reign of rebel terror. Other such will yet follow. A lawyer by the name of Wiitiam Green, an old citizen of Savannah, had remained a firm, outspoken Union man. Being to reach some point where he could be of assis the government, he Pad ». At Danville he was taken off the steamer by a vigilance committee, his hands tied behind his back and sent to Mempbis. At Memy) @ was thrown in jail, and remained there two months, when he escaped. Upon the departure of the expedition he obtained pas- sage on one of the transports. The first man he saw upoe landing at Danville was the chairman of the vigi- lance committee, Dr. Charles Elliott. Green at enc fronted him, ‘‘How are you, Charley?” ead he. hy, how are you, William?” ‘*You sent me to Nashville to be hung, because I hoiateda Union flag. I have escaped, and, God damn you, I'll kill you.’ Two quick blows fol lowed the threat. Io an instant a crowd of soldiers had ‘the doctor in their arms, and were rapidly carrying him to the river. But for the interference of Lieutenant Gwin, of the Tyler, the excited soldiers would have lost their captive in the river, Dr Filiett wasconveyed a prisoner on board the gunboat, to await an investigation. Now this may be regarded as a sample of what will occur throughout the South when the Union sentiment, so long repressed, is enabled, by the presence of our army, to assert itself. Before secession two-thirds of the population of the Southern States, with the exception of South Carolina, were Union men. Secession was carried by surprise and violence, and ever since a reign of terror has crushed the Union men. They have been compelled either to join the rebels or to remain silent, or, if daring to give utterance to their views, they have been put to death or imprisoned. But when freedom of thought and action is restored in the South there will be a terrible outburst of vengeance against the secessionis:s, and they will need the assistance of the federal troops to protect them from being torn in pieces, as was the case with Dr. Elliott. In order to prevent the massacres, confusion and anarchy which would spring from the vindictive feelings of tbe outraged Union men, it will be necessary for the army wherever it comes to interpose for the preser- vation of public order and to save the rebe’s from the hands of their own neighbors, evex in the cotton States. Effect of the American Civi} War Upon the Governments of Europe. We have news from Ewope to the 14th inst. by the Nova Scotian, and among the most interesting items is the intelligence that Mr. Rost, the Confederate Commis- sioner, had arrived in Madrid, but the Spanish government refused to receive him. Here is another evidence of the terror inspired among the crowned heads of Europe by the vigor of the American republic, by the success of its arms in quelling rebellion, and by the formidable army which the speedy termination of the war will leave without employment. The European governments will henceforth be very civil to the United States. But though this policy may save from the vengeance of our arms those who, imagining that the republic was so imbecile as to permit its own dismemberment without a struggle, exulted with premature rejoicings at the sup- posed dissolution” of the Union as a fortunate |' event for kingcraft throughout the world, it will not save them from the natural and inevitable consequences of our civil war. It is well known that the success of the American Revo- lution of 1776 gave birth to the French Revolu- tion, whose ideas overthrew monarchy in France, shook the thrones of all Europe, and have continued to operate in favor of human freedom to the present day. The conspirators at the Congress of Vienna concluded that they had snuffed out the principle of self-govern- ment propagated by the first French Revolu- tion, and had re-established the divine right of kings. But the second French Revolution of 1830 exhibited to the world the futility of such calculations. The revolution would not go backwards. Louis Philippe believed himself so secure, by the possession of a large standing army and by mighty fortifications around Paris, that he tried his hand at the game of re- action in 1848. The result was, that a bonfire was made of his throne and he escaped into exile in the disguise of a wig and a sailor’s peajacket. Again all Europe was rocked by revolution, and the shock of the political earth- quake is stil felt. Under the influence of the democratic ideas, rendered triumphant by the American and French revolutions, even the English oligarchy. were compelled in 1832 to make important popular conces- sions; for the nation was beginning to inquire whether there was any use in the House of Lords, as it formerly inquired whether there was any use in a king except to cut off his head by way of example to other ty- rants? By the same influences, Canada and Aus- tralia extorted immense concessions from the mother country. The consequences resulting from the success of the arms of the American republic in the present civil war will be as momentous as those which flowed from the war of independence, The English nobility, who put into operation the causes which led to the rebellion, and led to the war which is so soonto crush it and all the minions of despotism in Europe, calculated that the death blow was given to democracy, and that not only was monarchy sefe for all time to come, but that absolutism would be restored and the old manacles be forged once more for the people. And there can be no doubt that fora time the reactionists gained ground, and the hearts of the friends of freedom in Europe sank within them when they saw what appeared to them the evidént symptoms of the approach- ing dissolution of the republic. But how is the scene changed now? The tyrants are trembling and the people exulting at the success of our arms, the bright prospect of the speedy resto- ration of the federal authority throughout the Union, and the vindication of the strength of democratic institutions as fully equal to any strain to which they may be subjected. There is no example of any rebellion so formidable as this in the history of Europe, and there is no monarchy on the face of the earth could have stood against the shock. There are millions of moderate men in Europe who had hitherto resisted democracy from a belief that it wanted stability. But the American repub- lic demonstrates the contrary by such a prac- tical proof as was never given to the world in favor of the permanency*of any other form of government. The eyes of these conserva- tive men will now be opened, and they will join the mass of the people who will very soon embark in revolutionary movements in Eng- land and almost every country in Europe. The distress in the manufacturing districts will add fuel to the flame kindled by the Ame- rican war, and let no one be surprised if before the end of the present year all Europe should be in one universal blaze. Istanp No. 10.—At the last accounts the “Father of Waters” himself had come to the as- sistance of Com. Foote in the work of expelling the rebels from Island No. 10, while the muddy roads of Kentucky and Tennessee were drying up, thus facilitating the march of our land forces. How, then, with all the elements against the rebels—earth, air, fire and water—can they expect to hold on to Island No. 10? We expect, in good time, one of the most glorious reports of the war from Island No. 10. Trox-PLatep Vessets-or-War—It appears that since the instructive affair in Hampton Roads, between the Monitor and Merrimac, the inventive genius of the North has been turned to the production of an endless variety of iron- plated war vessels, and that Mr. Secretary Welles is almost buried in the mass of plans and specifications which have been poured in upon him. What we want now, however, is not any new invention, to be reduced to a practical experiment year or two hence, but a half dozen iron-plated vessels to meet those of the rebels at Norfolk and New Orleans, in the shortest possible time. Meanwhile, as it is apprehended that the Merrimac may soon come out again, with two or three other iron-coated steamers, and that the little Monitor may not be able to cope with them all, we again urge upon the government the simple and certain safeguard of sinking two or three or half a dozen old hulke in the month of Elizabeth river. The Monitor can take them there in the face of the rebel batteries. New Troors av tas Reser Carrrar.—The Richmond correspondent of the Norfolk Day Book reports that “new troops are pouring into this city;’ but those bodies of new troops at Richmond are very likely nothing more than the fragments of some of the old regiments from Manassas. We hype they will conclude tg stop at Richmond. ‘The Broadway Railroad Bill. The time for Speaker Raymond’s plan for re- organizing the lobby has passed. Like an ad- dled egg, it has been set upon too long by the committee, and turns out worthless. Mean- while the lobby has reorganized itself. It has taken the name and title of acorporation, and seeks a charter and a franchise. It calls itself the Broadway Railroad Company, and boasts of being a monopoly. It seems destined, like most monopolies, to be successful. It professes to hold the keys of legislation, and to own cer- tain legislators, whom it has elected expressly for its purposes. If not rich in money, it is at least rich in promises and stock. It threatens that no bill shall pass whose makers oppose the Broadway Railroad bill. It promises that all Bills shall become laws, that all jobs shall be duly authorized, whose makers and supporters will work and vote for the Broadway Railroad bill. It has purchased the silence or the assist- ance of almost every paper in this city. Thus rich, thus unattacked, and making all other laws and jobs thus dependent upon the passage of its own bill, the lobby regards its triumph as certain. So-it may be; but, for the sake of. justice and fair dealing, we doubt it. It ise fact 80 evident as to be undeniable that the people of this city do not want a Broadway Railroad, and are most strenuously hostile to any such scheme. The property owners along Broadway unanimously oppose the bill. There are no city men of any character and influence who ask for such a road. The parties who apply for this franchise are notoriously un- known and unheard of strangers, with no interest in this city, with no stake in its pros- perity and welfare, with no knowledge of its sentiments and wishes. They have the good grace to acknowledge this openly. They con- fessedly rely for success, not upon justice or merit, or the expressed desire of the public, but upon the members whom they have elected ex- pressly to vote for this bill; upon the opera- tions of the lobby; upon the self-interest of those who have other jobs on hand and cannot get them through until this bill is passed, and upon shares of stock in their proposed road, offered liberally to every journalist of any in- fluence, and accepted, we are sorry to say, by the editors of almost all of our leading papers. Such engineering is the very best proof of the positive injustice of the bill, and ought, of it- self, to kill it. So indeed it will, if the Legisla- ture has any regard for the interests, or respect for the wishes, of the people of this city. In times past, however, such regard and re- spect have been too seldom shown for any de- pendence to be placed upon them now. But, if the Legislature insists upon a railroad through Broadway, the people have another objection to this bill. It gives a valuable fran- chise away gratis. It robs the city of New York of a grant worth five or six millions of dollars, and for which one or two millions have already been offered. It deprives us of the right of building and running the road for our- selves, andof lessening our heavy taxes a million of dollars a year by its earnings. We insist that this is downright swindling and gross stealing. The legislators have no more right to rob the city of a franchise worth so much money than they have to pick pockets on Broadway. In effect, they do pick the pockets of every taxpayer in New York when they take from the city so feasible a means of re- ducing the taxes. Morally they are no better than the burglars and thieves who fill our prisons; nor does their guilt become less be- cause the amount of their stealings is greater. All of our criminals together have not stolen over a hundred thousand dollars in the year past; but the Legislature proposes to rob us of five millions of dollars in a single day, for the benefit of 2 parcel of unknown nobodies picked up in country highways and city by- ways and labelled the Broadway Railroad Company. It needs great patience to contem- plate calmly a fraud so monstrous, an iniquity 80 enormous, @ perversion of legislation so un- paralleled. What term is bad enough for men who not only consider, but actually proceed to endorse, such an atrocious swindle? We hope that, if there is any honesty in the country members, and any appreciation of the wishes of their constituents in the honorable gentlemen from this city, the bill will be voted down. The objections to it are twofold; First, that the people want no Broadway Rail- road; second, if the road must be endured, it ought to yield a revenue to the city and be en- trusted to proper hands. We hope that a mass meeting of our citizens will be held shortly to vigorously protest against the bill. Tae Frenc Tk.—Prince Napoleon has been creating a novel sensation in the French Senate, which turned that usually grave legisla- tive assembly into little better than a mob of angry and excited disputants. There were no bowie knives, revolvers or shillelahs brought into requisition—there was not even a resort to muscle—but the spirit evinced was the same ag if weapons other than words and gestures had been employed. Prince Napoleon rose to make a speech on the address to the throne, in which he warmly defended democracy, and in the course of bis remarks seriously offended many of the members, especially the ultramontanes, and severely replied to a former speech by the Marquis de la Rochejaquelein, to whom he attri- buted narrow and bigoted motives and a mere desire to gratify his passions and his ran- cor. It seems to us to have been hardly wise for a Prince of the Empire, in an assembly composed chiefly of members of the old families, including five prelates, to say that on the return of Napoleon from Elba he crossed through France, from the Gulf of Juan to the gate of the Tuileries, amid cries of “Down with the emigrants!’ “Down with the nobles !’, “Down with the traitors!” But the effect wa, greatly aggravated by the last word ¢raitres being mistaken for pretres (priests)—an error that the Prince did not discover for some time afterwards—and then corrected only to be con- tradicted. The agitation became greater when the Prince spoke against religious institu- tions, which would impose on France a return to the bigotry of the Middle Ages. The hostile clamor of the mem- bers increased, and finally the Prince, unable to make himself heard, was compelled to sit down. Similar scenes took place on several days, the last more ludicrous and undignified than the first. These excesses will tend very much to lower the character of the Chambers of the Empire. It was the violence of the Catholic party that provoked the taunts of the liberals; but the latter unfortunately exceeded even their woret displays, and both parties unit- ed to turn the Senate into a bear garden. This intolerance and invective cannot but, by in- viting cestrictions on the freedom of speech, injure the cause of liberty in France, and we ‘re sorry to see intemperance in place of moderation, and disgraceful squabbling instead of calm deliberation. ‘The Radical Abolition View of the Pre- sident’s Emancipation Message. We were right. The radical abolitionists can find nothing to admire, but everything to denounce, in President Lincoln’s late emanci- pation message. Lloyd Garrison, through his Boston Liberator, very flatly speaks out his mind upon the subject, in behalf of the whole abolition fraternity. Upon half a dozen spe- cifications in this matter he arraigns the Presi- dent, examines him, and condemns him, in very short metre. First, the style of the message grates harshly upon the dainty ear of Garrison, and he calls upon the Cabinet to “help the President to mend his phraseology.” Let the Cabinet take heed. Secondly, we are told that the resolu- tion proposed by the President “gives no reasom for such an anomalous overture to the slave States;” says nothing about any special exigency “rendering the measure necessary or expedient,” and that “upon the face of it it has ‘20 relation to the war,” is “without limite- tion,” and in all these" partioulars “is radi- cally defe .”” “No relation to the war!” ‘Garrison is very wide of the mark. The whole argument of the Message is directed to thia scheme of Voluntary and compensated emanci- pation in the border slave States, as a measure for the speedy suffocation of the rebellion in the cotton States; and Mr. Lincoln’s views upon the subject are so very consistent and con- vincing that we cannot avoid the suspicion of a deliberate perversion of them by Garrison. Third, “it (the Message) offers a bounty to all the States that are in Oonfederate rebellion against the government;” but “treason is not a purchaseable or nezo- tiable article, and traitors are not to be allowed to make terms, with a profit to themselves, by the government they are seck- ing to overturn.” So says Garrison. But the ex- perience of every nation, past or present, is against him in its concessions for the sake of domestic peace and harmony. Doubtless he would prefer the bloody extermination of all persons in the South committed in any way to this rebellion, except the slaves, and would have them elevated to the exclusive possession and political control of our Southern States, upon the abolition basis of “human equality.” In the fourth place and in the fifth, Mr. Lin. coln’s “gradual abolishment” does not suit our Boston high priest of abolition. He will be satis- fied with nothing sbort of “immediate emanci- pation,” be the consequences what they may. St. Domingo is all the answer that is needed upon this point. Garrison may prate from morning till night that ‘the President is at war with common sense, sound reason, the teachings of history, the instincts and’ aspirations of -hu- man nature, the laws of political economy, and the uniform results of emancipation;” but still the tree will be judged by its fruit. Of the fruits of Boston abolitionism we have had enough, in the ferocious and bloodthirsty dis- union demagogues and fanatics, and in the silly and disgusting long-haired men in petticoats and strong-minded women in breeches, with, which the country is infested. Lastly, the outspoken Garrison decrees that “the President, as well as Congress, in conse- quence of this slaveholders’ rebellion, and the dire extremity into which it has brought the nation, has now the constitutional right, power and opportunity to ‘proclaim liberty through- out all the land, and to all the inhabitants thereof,’” and that “neither the President nor Congress must be allowed to evade this solema duty by any dodge of this kind” —(meaning this emancipation Message). Here we have the whole case in a nutshell. In the outset of this rebellion the abolition war cry was, “emanci- pation or separation,” and the radicals of the republican party, headed by the New York Tri- bune, advocated “separation,” and simply be- cause they believed it to be the cheapest and shortest way to emancipation. “No union with slaveholders” is still the motto flaunted at the head of the Boston Liberator’s editorial matter; but now, with the backbone of this rebellion broken, the abolition alternative of separation is abandoned, in view of the opportunity and the power to enforce emancipation by convert ing this war into an armed crusade for the ex- tirpation of slavery. Of course, then, the President’s emancipa- tion message is scouted and “execrated and spit upon” by our abolition disorganizers, and they command him and Congress to “proclaim liberty throughout all the land, and to all the in- habitants thereof,” or to take the consequences. This is the issue between our disunion abolition faction and the administration. We stand by the President, we are in for the war, and we expect that the end of it will be the burial of secession and radical abolitionism in the same grave. Wespett Par.iirs Treatep To Rorren Eaas 1x Crncinnati.—By a telegraphic despatch from Cincinnati, which we published yesterday, our readers have seen that Wendell Phillips, in at- tempting to deliver one of his revolutionary lectures in that city, created a riot which re- sulted in his being pelted with rotten eggs, driven from the hall where he would not be permitted to speak, and finally escaped nar- rowly from a coat of tar and feathers, if not from loss of life,at the hands of the excited audience. It is worthy of remark that the people in the Eastern and Western States deal with the abolition demagogues in a very differ- ent manner. Here, where they are best known, they are regarded os no longer dangerous, and are accordingly treated with contempt, and are allowed to lecture to thin houses. This is the case at Washington, Albany and New York. The abolition lectures in this city were not at. tended by the people. Cheever, Garrison and the rest have been only beating the air. They could make no impression whatever, and were regarded as of little consequence. In the Western States, which have sent so many men to our war, and whose troops have accomplished such brilliant results on the Cum- berland and the Tennessee, the disunion agi- tators are viewed in a different light, and par- ticularly Phillips, who has been more talked ot in the newspapers than the rest, and is the chieftain of the disloyal faction. In the West they are regarded as dangerous lunatics, who ought not to be allowed to be at large, Here, for the most part, they are re- garded as harmless monomaniacs, whose tom- foolery is only laughed at by the bulk of the community. One thing is very clear, and that is that neither in the Kast nor the West is revo- lutionary abolitionism regarded with favor; nor can ils destructive, bloody purposes ever