The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1862, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, TERMS cash in advance ish o/ the sender. None but Ha taken Money sent by mait will be at the billa current in New York $7 per annum. containing important ld; if used, will be BG-OUK FORKIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE RegvEsten to Seat att Lerrems anv Pack- AGRS SENT US. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correapomdence, We do not d srory day: advertisements in- ‘Pamity Heeacp, aad in the Euditions. Cali oruia and Evro} JOB PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and de CONGRESS. treatment of the Union officers and soldiers by the rebels after the batle of Bull run, and whether the rebels have enlisted Indians in their service. Mr. Summer said it was evident we were in conflict with a people lower in the scale of civilization than ourselves, and he wanted record made for history. A bill providing for the better organiza tion of the militia of the District of Columbia was introduced. The Secretary of War was instructed to furnish the correspondence of Gen, Wool with the War Department relative to movements of his command at Fortress Monroe. The debate on the bill provi’ ¢ for the abolition of slavery in the District (\ombia was then resumed. Mr. Wright .0, spoke in opposition, and Mr. Fes- sender Maine, in favor of the proposition. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Place.—Itatian Orena— La Taaviata, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tax Hoxcasack—Prr- Pi rei WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Camitia, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Ne 644 Broadway.—Tux Rivas. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Ma- CARTHY; OB, THY PuxF Ov Day. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A.inx—Inisu Tiekk—Hipvex Hann. MARY PROVOST’S THEATRE, 485 Broadway—Mer- cuant or Vexick—Mmartia.e ANN. _BARNUM'’S AMERICAN E MUSEUM. Broadway.—Com™ Nurr—Living Hurrorotamus, Waatx, &c.. at ali bours.— Sadak AND Katadave, afverdoon and evening, BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broad. way.—Dows IN ULD A-¥=x. 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The circulation of the Heratp is now 80 large that, in order to work off our morning edition in time for early delivery, the public must assist us in sending our formsto press, by handing im their advertisements at an earlier hour in the evening. THE SITUATION. Our news from Strasburg is not very important. A party of rebels, 2,000 strong, showed themselves about two miles beyond our pickets on Monday; dut, upon afew regiments drawing up inline of battle, the enemy declined to try a fight. There was a little skirmishing between the pickets of General McClellan's army and those of the enemy on the Rappahannock yesterday, shots being freely exchanged on both sides. It is said that three of our officers—namely, Major Van Stein Housan, Captain Camp White and Captain Neu- atadter—were taken prisoners by the rebels. Thir- ty wagon loads of forage were secured by a recon- noitering party of our troops on Monday in that vicinity. We publish to-day the official report of Commo- dore Dupont, describing the occupation of Bruns- wick, Ga., by his forces. We learn by despatches from Chicago that affairs at Island No. 10 have not experienced any material change for the past dayor two. The river at that point is falling at the rate of several inches a day. From observations made it appears that the rebels have erected a large intrenched camp in the bend of the river directly in front of our gunboats. An embankment half a mile long has been thrown ap onthe shore, behind which sung are mounted im Jarge numbers. They are Yrasked as yet, and it has ot “been ascer- tained what artillery they have posted at this point. Several batteries, however, it appears, are plainly visible. Their intrenchments extend from the contre of the bend to the upper point of the island. They are constantly busy, both with steamboats and men. Our mortars were fired yes- terday and Monday every fifteen minutes. The shells were all thrown upon the island. The rebels made no answer, except an occasional shot at a transport. Occasional firing was heard yesterday in the direction of New Madrid, caused by engage- ments between the batteries, which are placed on opposite sides of the river below that place. More stirring news comes from Tennessee. De- spatches from Cairo yesterday announce that Col. Buford had on the day previous made a descent upon Union City, with the Twenty-seventh and Forty-second Illinois regiments and a part of the Fifteenth Wisconsin, accompanied by @ detach- ment of cavalry and artillery from Hickman, com- manded by Colonel Hey, and, after a forced march of thirty miles, fell upon the rebel encampments at seven o'clock in the morning, dispersing the entire force commanders Clay both cavalry and infantry. every direction. @ number taken prisoners. A large amount of spoils was captured, including 150 wagons, filled with commissary and quartermaster's stores. The rebel force were supposed to number 700 infantry and between 700 and 800 cavalry. By the arrival of the Oriental at this port yes- terday from Port Royal we have some very in stationed there, under the rebel consisting The enemy fied in and King, of Several of them were killed and teresting correspondence from that place and from St. Augustine, ernandina, Jacksonville and Hilton Head, which we publish elsewhere. Letters from our army in the Southwest state ‘that the rebel Generals Price and Van Dorn have | boon summoned in haste, by General Beauregard, | to Corinth, to assist him in the coming grand | battle expected there. 1 is also stated that the rebel forces in the West are ordered to concen Western Tennee w th av to ma 4 desperate resistance ja that vicinity | ing thy In the House of Representatives, a memoriaj from the Illinois Constitutional Convention, in fa- vor of the early enlargement of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, was referred to the Military Com- mittee. The consideration of the Pacific Railroad bill was further postponed till Tuesday next. Mr. Hutchins, of Ohio, asked leave to introduce a pre- amble and resolution setting forth that General Hooker, commanding on the Lower Potomac, had issued an order permitting certain slaveowners of Maryland to enter his camp and search for fugitive slaves, and requesting the Committee on the Con- duct of the War to inquire whether such order is not a violation of the Article of War recently passed by Congress, forbidding any officers to return fugitive slaves to their masters. Mr. Wickliffe, of Kentucky, objected to the reception of the resolu tion, and it was therefore not received. The re- mainder of the session was devoted to disoussing the Tax bill in Committee of the Whole. Mr. Colfax moved to strike out the sectton levying a tax on advertisements; but the committee re- fused. The section was, however, modified so as to assess the advertisement tax on the amount re- ceived for the same instead of the amount charged, while the tax is reduced from five to three per cent. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our European files by the Jura were delivered here last night. We publish to-Cay the articles from the English preas referred to by telegraph from Portland, on the subject of Mr. Lincoln’s emancipation message. The steamship Kangaro, Captain McGuigan, which sailed from Liverpool at noon on the 19th and from Queenstown on the 20th of March, ar- rived at this port about half-past nine o’clock last night. Her news has been fully anticipated by the City of New York and Jura. The Nord, of Brussels, of the 13th Match, ‘Says:—‘‘ We have announced the arrest of an offi- cer of the Sumter at Tangier. Our correspond, ence from Madrid gives us full details of this mat_ ter, and adds that public opinion had been so greatly excited by this cirSumstance that the United States steamer which had the prisoner on board, immediately after her return, received or- ders to leave the Bay of Algesiras.”” Our Bermuds correspondent, writing on the 21st of March, announces the arrival of the English merchant steamer Bermuda at Hamilton, on the day previous, with fifty tons of gunpowder on board. As all the movements connected with her were kept secret, it was presumed that the war ma- teriel was destined for the use of the rebels at the South. She had also some passengers, and it was rumored that Mr. Slidell made one of the number. The Bermuda was coaling fora start, and: it is to be hoped that the blockading fleet will keep a sharp lookout for her. The annual election takes place to-day in Rhode Island. Although there are three distinct party organizations in the State, there is but one ticket offered to the electors, and that has been put for- ward by the democrats. The republicans declin- ed to make any nominations for State officers, and the constitutional Union men endorsed the candi- dates of the democracy. The men to be chosen are the present incumbents of the offices for which they are put forward for re-election. The follow- ing are their names:— For Governor—William Sprague. Liewenant Governor—Samuel G. Arnold Seordary of State—John R. Bartlett Attorney General—Walter 8. Burgos. General Treasurer—Samuel A. Parker. In the Senate of our State Legislature yesterday, a number of bills were passed; but they were only of alocal or private nature. Among them was that for the incorporation of the Newburg Home of the Friendless. The bill legalizing certain acts of our Common Council was ordered to a third reading. The billto amend the Excise law was debated in Committee of the Whole, and the fees for licenses were fixed at $100 as a maximum and $20 as a minimum. The penalties for violations of the law range from $10 to $250, and the smallest quantity of liquor to be sold without a license is fixed at eight gallons. One or two other amendments were proposed and adopted, when the committee rose and reported progress. In the Assembly, the Public Defence bill was passed, bythe decisive vote of seventy- cight yeas to nine nays. It appropriates three and a half millions of dollars for strengthening the At- lantic and Northern frontier defences of the State, half a million of which is exelusively set apart for this harbor. The Annual Appropriation bill was also passed. The New York Harbor Mas- ters’ will was under discussion for some time, and was finally recommitted to the committee of nine, to report complete. The bill relating to the Kings County Com- missioners of Jurors was defeated. Resolutions of the Maine Legislature, congratulatory of the recent Union victories, were received from Governor Morgan. The Albany and Susquehanna Railroad bill was again taken up and debated, and after wards set down as the special order at the hour of meeting to-day. The select committee of investi* gation into the conduct of the Military Board, com. monly called the Shoddy Investigating Committee, presented the result of their labors in the shape of along report, which shows great waste of the public funds, and illustrates the manner in which the State has been defrauded in the fitting out of her brave volunteers. Since the commencement of the war twenty- three important battles have been fought, with the following result :— Union Loss. Rebel Loss. Killed | (484 Wounded....... 4,192 Killed and wounded 8,246 12499 Prisoners 31560 16,70 GNIAR, «nar scrnonere 18,502 93,485 Candidates are beginning to put forward their claims for office in Missouri, Four candidates for Governor are already announced—viz: Sample Orr, James H. Birch, J. D. Stevenson and orge W. Miller. They are supposed to be all Union men, and will run entirely on their personal popu- larity. i Bleven more ballots were taken in the caucus of the republican members of the Ohio Legislature for United States Senator on the 27th inst. The last ballot resulted as follows:—.Wade, 47; Delano: 41; Groesbeck, 1; Odlin, 3; Ewing, 3; blank, 2. The force of mechanics recently discharged from the Watertown (Mi: ) Arsenal have been again employed making ammunition, the govern ment having ordered a new supply. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday after- noon, Elijah F. Purdy in the cha A communica tion was received from his Honor Mayor, v ution passed by the Board and directing the Comptroller to lease the ind third floors of premises No. 400 Gr » of the Fifth District ¢ $1,000. It was laid over and ordered uthorizir econd 1 street the mrt, at an an nual rent of In the Senate yesterday, a resolution was adopt" ed instructing the Committee on the Conduct of the War to collect evidence in regard to the barbarous te be advertised for ten days. The Board adopted resolution that no supplies will be furnished to aay county offices or officers except upon requi. sitions approved of by the Board. The Comptroller sent ina communication stating that the title to the ground and building in Eldridge street is vest- ed in the Corporation of the city of New York: The resolution to hire rooms in the premises Nos. 47 and 49 Chambers street, for the use ef the Su- preme Court, at an annual rent of $5,000, was lost. The subject of petitioning the Legislature for a repeal of the present Excise law was taken up; and after some discussion referred to a specia committee, of which Supervisor Ely is chairman. The Board then adjourned until Tuesday next, the Sth inst, The first through train of cars over the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad will arrive at Wheeling this morning. A demonstration in that city is talked of to celebrate the event. The people in the northern and western sec- tions of this State are likely to be agreeably dis- appointed in their expectations of a great flood this spring. The snow is going off gradually, and so far there has not been a sufficiently powerful rise in the rivers and creeks to force out the ice. Some of the snow drifts in Vermont are so high that the farmers have been obliged to tunnel them to pass their teams. We give to-day in our maritime columns full and accurate list of vessels which have been aban- doned, reported missing, put into ports in distress, &c., for the month of March past. The number of disasters for the month is unusually heavy, and the loss of property has been immense. The number of vessels entered at this port from foreign ports during the month of March is 403, and the number cleared for foreign ports is 359. The North river steamer Isaac Newton, which has been all winter bound up in the ice at Cox- sackie, where she was caught last fall on an up- ward trip, started on Monday morning for New York; and the steamer New World, which wa caught in the same manner at New Baltimore, it was thought would start for Albany to-day. The harbor of St. Johns, Newfoundland, has been completely blocked up by ice nearly the whole winter. No mails have been received or despatch- ed for the last six weeks. The Connecticut river is open for navigation and for shad. The stock market was better yesterday, and closed with a stronger tone, especially on Erie, Central, Toledo, &c. Governments were without change. Gold has risen to two per cent, and sales were made at 2%; on time. Exchange closed very firm at 112 3;. Money was with- out change. The cotton market was firm yesterday, while the sales embraced 300 a 400 bales, on the basis of 27340. a 28c. for middling uplands. Flour was steady and in fair de- mand, chiefly from the home trade. Common grades were heavy, while the higher class of brands were frm. Wheat was inactive and sales light, while prime to choice grades were scarce and firmly held. Corm was more active and rather firmer. The chief saies were made at 58c., in store, and at 59c. a G0c. delivered, Pork was heavy, and sales of new mess were made at $12 75 $13, while prime do. was nominal. Beef was steady, whilo bacon and lard were active and firm. Cof- fee was quiet, and no sales of importance were reported. Sugars were steady and active, with sales of about 1,800 bhds., 759 boxes and 3,000 bags China. The Messrs. Stuart's quotations for their refined goods will be found imanother column. Freights were less buoyant, with more doing tor Liverpool, with heavy shipments of In- dian corn. Rates to other porte w: changed. The Vandalism of the Rebel Leaders and the Rebel Army—The Union the Only Refage of the Southern People. In the matter of straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel, the rebel Congress at Richmond has favored the world with a most notable example. After issuing a decree en- joining the burning of all cotton, tobacco, rice, &c., in the so-called Confederate States, which cannot be removed out of the way on the ap- proach of the armed forces of the Union, a resolution in the rebel Congress, providing cer- tain pains and penalties against the production of any cotton this year, except two or three bales to a plantation, was rejected on the ground of its unconstitutionality. The power to destroy cotton matured and gathered was clear enough; but the power to prevent the planting of cotton could not be found in the Confederate constitution, and therefore the proposition to make cotton planting a misde- meanor was rejected. These Confederate sticklers for constitutional law, even of their own making, have about as much respect for it as for the Koran or the teachings of Confucius or the Book of Mor- mon. The rebel government at Richmond is simply an absolute despotism of a league of the most desperate, unscrupulous and ferocious revolutionary conspirators of the nineteenth century. Jeff. Davis and his ruling confede- rates, civil and military, in their audacious en- terprise of aSouthern confederacy, know that if they fail they have no alternative before them but the extreme penalty of treason or an ignominious exile. Accordingly we find | them exercising without stint a power over the lives and property of the people of our | rebellions States as absolute and as frightful as was the reign, some years ago, of Dr. Francia, in his model despotism of Paraguay. Our readers will remember the late procla- mation of two of the chiefs of the provisional ; Confederate government of our revolted | States—Howell Cobb and Robert Toombs, of Georgia—to the people of that State,. and hew they urged upon the women and children to apply the torch to their homes and their substance, and to make the face of Georgia as blank and desolate as Sahara to our advancing armies. This ad- dvess was doubtleas regarded at the time, to a great extent, in our loyal States, as the produc- tion of a brace of exceptional barbarians, pre- paring, like pirates, to blow themselves up with their own vessel, in order to escape the cord of | the hangman. But a few indisputable facts (in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, was bapken to pieces by the fleet of the Burnside expédition, the rebel armed forces, before leaving the town» would have destroyed it by fire, but for the op- posing efforts of the citizens and the speedy approach of our troops. And so it was at Eden- ton and at Newbern. In regard to Newbern, a charming little city of five thousand souls, in the mean and foolish revenge of the rebel army there beaten in battle, would have been reduced to ashes but for the exertions of the inhabitants and the seasonable co-operation of our soldiers and seamen in the work of extin- guishing the fires which had been lighted. It was also against the remonstrances and prayers of the people of Nashville that Floyd, the run- away thief and traitor, destroyed the costly bridges there over the Cumberland; and, be- fore running off again, he would perhaps have addition to the late incendiary acts of the rebel Congress) will serve to show that Cobb and Toombs represent in their address the ruling spirit of the rebel government and the leaders of the rebel army. When it was first reported last summer that the beautiful little village of Hampton, near Fortress Monroe, had been destroyed by fire, in pursuance of orders from the rebel General Magruder, many of our charitably inclined citizens were disposed to doubt the unwelcome intelligence; but when the act was admitted and justified by Magruder as a military neces- sity, there could be no further doubt upon the subject. Magrader’s plea was that, if not de- stroyed, the town might have become the winter quarters of a detachment of our troops; but we apprehend that the real objects of this proceeding were to drive into the interior the inhabitants of Hampton and its vicinity suspected of loyalty to the Union, and to impress upon the people of the South gene- rally the idea of success or destruction as the only isene of this contest. This Hampton ex- periment, whatever its object, must have been factory to Magruder; for it appears that his st achievement has been the burning of the hatwlet of Big Bethel, running away himself, as | before, by the | Again, w hen nt of the conflagration the rebel guobgat fleet at destroyed the State Capitol itself, but for fear of some bodily injury from the unarmed citi- zens. The incendiaries of the rebel army at Memphis have raised the question of burning that place In the event of being compelled to Teave it; and, notwithstanding the emphatic proclamation of Mayor Grant to the contrary, we shall not feel satisfied of the safety of Mem- phis until we hear that its rebel defenders have evacuated it and spared it, or that they are sur- rounded, and will: have to spare the city to save themselves. In all these proceedings the reader will ob- serve the wide distinction between the inclina- tions and the wishes of the Southern people and the vandalism of their rebel government and their rebel armies. And this distinction may be readily explained. Joff. Davis and his ruling confederates, to save themselves, are prepared to despoil ard lay waste by fire the whole South; and while the officers of his armies are in the same dilemma, a large proportion of the privates, having nothing to lose; and nothing else to gain, are eager for the work of spolia- tion and destruction against the property of their wealthy neighbors. The testimony of Parson Brownlow upon this question is very suggestive, and he is an intelligent and reliable witness. The great body of the citizens of the South, on the other hand, though ready to make or to submit to very heavy contributions to the cause of their Southern confederacy, cannot understand how it is to pay them for such pa- triotic sacrifices by fire'as will leave their wives and children without a roof to shelter them, and without one day’s subsistence for them, as houseless wanderers amidst the malaria of Southern swamps and jungles. | Upon this broad distinction between the van- dalism of the rebel leaders and their army, and the situation and the necessities of the Southern people, we see the way clearly to their deliver- ance. We are strongly persuaded to the con- clusion that the expulsion of the rebel govern- ment from Richmond will, as if by magic, re- move all doubts upon the subject, and we are sure that this aforesaid act of expulsion is close at hand. ‘The Blacks at Port Royal—The Dangers of Bloodthirsty Fanaticism. Now that General Hunter bas proceeded to assume the command of the Department of the South, we have every reason to believe that dangerous practices which have been carried on in South Carolina will be abolished. No sooner does the success of the Port Royal expedition cause the white population to fly from the district, and the negroes to flock to the troops in order to eat the bread of idleness, than a morbid philanthropy in the three com- mercial cities of the North goes to work and gets up fanatical societies to take these blacks in hand, in order to feed, clothe and educate them, just as if there were not thousands of needy objects of commiseration and charity— men, women and children of their own race—at their very doors. The New York Freedman’s Relief Association, the Philadelphia Port Royal Committee and the Boston Educational Asso- ciation all appear to have the same object in | view, and that is to inoculate the ten thousand negroes at Port Royal with those ideas that can only tend to incendiary and insurrectionary acts, which, in the event of peace and the return of these negroes to their normal condition, would result in the murder of their masters and the massacre of their families. The gospel which it is intended to teach them is not that of Christ in the holy Evan- gelists, but the gospel according to Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Garrison and John Brown— the gospel of the pike, the assassin’s knife and the incendiary torch. One of the abolition sheets of this city exults in the thought that the effect of the missionary teachings proposed will be that the negroes, when the war is over, will “be ready to meet their tyranis with an organized resistance and ample means,” including, of course, arms and ammunition, and probably some white cut- throat leaders, animated by the spirit of John Brown, the murderer and horse thief. Thus are the minds of the contented negroes to be corrupted and poisoned by the machinations of the emissaries of darkness assuming the garb of angels of light, who, as stated by a Senator in Congress, “embrace the negroes at Port Royal and call them brothers and sisters.” It was in this way that the bloody tragedy in St. Domingo was brought about by the French fanatics in Paris, who, at the time of the Revo- lution, organized themselves into a society called Les Amis des Noirs—‘the friends of the blacks’’—in imitation of the British association for the abolition of the slave trade, which held its meetings in London, and hypocritically dis- claimed any intention of desiring more than an act of Parliament prohibiting the further in- troduction of African slaves into the British colonies, while they seized every opportunity to inflame the public sentiment against the planters, and excited in the minds of the slaves such ideas of their natural rights and equality of condition as should lead them to a general struggle for freedom through rebellion and bloodshed. One of them, Rev. Mr. Stockdale, in reference to the negroes, put these appalling questions:—“Should we not approve their conduct in their violence? Should we not crown it with eulogium if they exter- minate their tyrants with fire and sword? Should they even deliberately inflict, the most exquisite tortures on those tyrants, would they not be excusable in the moral judgment of those who properly value those inestimable blessings, rational and religious liberty?” Besides distributing pamphlets with sentiments of this kind throughout the West Indies, the British society caused a medal to be struck, containing the figure of a naked negro, laden with chains. The Amis des Noirs, of Paris, stimulated by the writings of the Abbe Gregoire, not only followed of the London fraternity, but went lengthe, and obtained from the National Assem bly, on the 19tb of May. 1791, a decroe emanci aber the example | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1862°fKIPLE SHEET. pating the men of color, which was the signal of revolt and the warwhoop of massacre, be- gun by the mulattoes, and afterwards partici- pated in by the full blooded negroes. The scenes which followed are too revolting for description. It was indiscriminate carnage to the extermination of men, women and children of the white raco, though Mr. Harlan, of the United States Senate, denies that any such war of extermination ever took place in any nation of the world. Not only was it extermination, but horrors heaped on horrors, unfit for publi- cation in a newspaper. And this is the model for imitation which Wendell Phillips, in his lectures, holds up to the blacks of the South, The National Assem- bly repealed the decree when it was too late. But the Jacobin party, headed by the bloodthirsty triumvirate—Danton, Robespierre and Marat—the latter with his journal, the type of Greeley and the Tribune— were becoming all powerful, and through these men the Society of Amis des Noirs once more acquired a fatal ascendency in the legislative body. On the 4th of April, 1792, a decree was passed that the National Assembly “acknowledges that the people of color and free megroes in the colonies ought to enjoy an equality of political rights with the whites, and that they shall be admitted to vote in all the primary and electoral assemblies, and shall be eligible to the Legislature and all places of trust.” Three commissioners were sent to carry out the decree, and secretly aided in the massacres, till at last they were appalled at their atrocity and extent. Were it not for fiendish white incendiaries the negroes would have remained peaceful and happy, and the fruitful island would have continued to prosper, instead of becoming a desolate wilderness, the abode of savages. If such horrors are not to be repeated in our own day, let the fanatical missionaries be pro- hibited from meddling with the blacks of South Carolina, and let them be put to labor in the plantations immediately, under military direction, not fanatical, as the best prevent- ive against. mischief; for the devil ever finds work for idle hands to do. The bloodthirsty Jacobins of the abolition school will move Heaven and earth to propagate their diaboli- cal ideas among the negroes, and, if permitted, will sow the seeds of future massacres on a scale of magnitude far exceeding the tragedy of St. Domingo. But we trust General Hunter will take good care to exclude all such evil communication from the blacks, and not per. mit their minds to be tampered with under any pretence. A vast responsibility devolves upon him, and upon all the generals in the army, and the country expects that every man will do his duty. This war is to restore the authority of the constitution among the white race in the insurrectionary States, not to take care of the negro or introduce among them ideas of equality and amalgamation of races. How 1o Eorr a Newsparer.—The “Little Villain” has so many irons in the fire that, very naturally, he finds great difficulty in keeping them all hot. Whena man’s mind is full of Albany lobby schemes, and among them that big thing, the Broadway Railroad bill, at the same time that he is busy plotting for a United States Senatorship, itishardly tobe expected that he can afford time for editing a newspaper. We were, therefore, not surprised when we read the two following very consistent para- graphs relating to the Merrimac, which appear- ed side by side in separate editorials in the Times:— Whatever mischief the Tho Merrimac is about to monster is todo will bedone run out of Norfolk again; jn Hampton Roads, where, and, though the Navy De- warned at last, the Navy partment assures us, witha Department has made pro- solemn nod, that rr) ba rd per arrangements to receive is in readiness for it and handle her. There is must be said that the pre- not the most trifling ground vious utterances of that de- for apprehension. partment have not been so Strictly verified as to afford any great confidence in its Present assurances. Upon which are we expected to place our trust?’ Meanwhile we must remain in a per- plexing state of doubt, but hoping for the best, on the strength of his positive assurance that “there is not the most trifling ground for ap- prehension.” As an additional instance of the scrupulous manner in whieh the “Little Villain,” who is troubled about so many things, performs his editorial duties, and the reliability of all he says, we may mention that the article: immedi- ately following the words last quoted ia an en- tire retraction of the statements made editori- ally, on a previous day, concerning Mr. Gre- gory, MeP., about whose antecedents the Times assumed to have special and particular Know- ledge. Imrortant-DEBATE IN THE Fence National Leaistateré.--We published yesterday the report of an interesting debate in the French Corps Legislatif upon American affairs. Upon that portion of the address to the Emperor which related to the civil war in.the United States, Jules Favre, supported by two or three other visionary philosophers, offered an amend- ment sympathizing with the American aboli- tionists, and suggesting the interference of France, so.as to cause the war to result in the universal. emancipation of the slaves of the South. In body of upwards of: 250 members the amendment was only voted fox by ten, thus showing how strong is the sentiment of France against any intervention in American affairs. It matters not what may be the opinion of the national legislature about slavery: its members hold that the do- mestic institutions of any portion of the United States are beyond their jurisdiction, and that they have no right to meddle with the matter. ‘This is the common sense view of the case, and, it is the view adopted at last in England, aften a great deal of impudent bluster. It is of little. consequence what the motives of those govera- ments are; but the fact itself is plain that thay have come to the resolution, that it is much het- ter not to touch us. They have probably dis- covered that the motto.of the republic is, like the legend of the Scoteh thistle—nemo impune lacessit. They are evidently satisfied that the government ean put the rebellion down, aad, af- ter that, perhaps, pat down any other nation who may improperly obtrude itself intea strife with whick it has no coneern. They keow now that it is eur resolve to maintain, atall hazards, the unity and ivdivisibility of the republic, and they have therefore concluded to let us aloae. Dervat or “Tne Leerek Virsa.’ —As will be seen by a telegraphic despatela from Albany in another column, the Defence bill proposed in the Assembly of this State has been carried hy a decided majority, notwithstanding the speech of “the Little Villain” against it. The Speaker of the Assembly ought to be the most influential man in the body. Yet it seems he 1 has wo influence at all, This looks bad for his chance of the Senatorship in Congress, upon which he has fixed hiseye. It is worthy of re- mark that the journalists who have mainly con- tributed to produce the civil war have the greatest abhorrence of paying a cent to support it. But the war for the Union will go forward to its consummation, and the defences of the State will be secured in despite of their oppo- sition. The bill will put the coast and lake shores in a state of complete defence. From the whole amount appropriated $500,000 will be expended on the fortifications of this city. The work is tobe done under the direction of the military engineers of the federal government, and, therefore, will not be labor in vain. The Abolitionists and the Mobs. In commenting upon the recent mobbing of Wendell Phillips, at Cincinnati, and of Samuel Aaron, at Burlington, our contemporaries appear to be in a dense fog as to the cause of these popu- lar outbreaks, and seek in vain to discover the philosophy of the proceedings. Thus the Tribune declares that it can see no reason why Phillips was mobbed, and asserts that he did not advocate treason; while the Times, in a long and labored article, endeavors teargue that those journals which denounce the’ aboli- tionists are responsible for the mobs. The assertion of the Tribune is faleified by Phillips himself, who said, at Cincinnati, that he “had been for thirty years an abolitionist, and nothing else, and for sixteen years a disunionist.” The theory of the Times cannot be true; for if those who expose criminals are responsible for the crimes and their results then is every one who denounces treason a traitor. The truth of the matter lies in a nutshell, and is just this: The abolitionists are djsunionists; the people are beginning to find this out; and mobs are therefore meting out that punishment which the government ought itself to inflict. For thirty years the abolitionists have beer assailing the Union. For sixteen years their attacks have been confeesedly directed towards so irritating the South as to effect a dismember- ment of the republic. The Tribune has beer aiding these schemes for nearly twenty years; the Times for nearly ten. When South Carolina seceded the abolitionists saw their hour of triumph and exulted accordingly, Wendel& Phillips and the Tribune leading the van. State after State followed South Carolina into the outer darkness of secession, and the aboli- tionists redoubled their rejoicings. All this while the government stood inactive, as if doubting its own power; the people wereamazed) and apathetic, as if distrusting that the mad- ness of the South could go so far. Observant Europe decided that the North would submit to the disruption of the Union, go intense was the calm of our government’ and our people, and so slowly was the great fact of secession appre- ciated. At last,in Apsil, the thunder of the rebel cannon, aimed at Fort Sumter, broke the- spell of inaction and initiated the storm of civil war. The:people arose like one man and'com- pelled the: government to:call out troops, to:de- fend Washington and to begin immediately the: work of subduing treason. Before the patriot- ism of the people abolitionism was dumb, and no voice of party or faction disturbed the harmony of cheers for the Union and its accom- paniment of the steady tramp of Union.sel” diers. By and by the abolitionists took courage‘and joined the organs of the peace party iman at- tempt to divide the North. The peace organs attempted to impede the army; the abolition organs more shrewdly tried the other extreme, and burried it onward. towards Richmond: be- fore it was prepared. The people raised mobs and suppressed some of the peace organs, and the government was forced by popular clamor to suppress the rest, just as it had'been forced into action against the rebels a short time -be- fore. Still the motives of the abolitionists were not understood, and they were still permitted to urge on an untimely and disastrous advance. To this end the abolition organs assailed the President and our generals, and even threat- ened to abolish both and make a military dicta- tor Finally, stung by abolition taunts and inuendos, the army was pushed forward to Ma- nassas, and: our brave soldiers were foolishly and uselessly massacred. Then came the-hour of danger for the abolitionists. Every corpse on that fatal field. of Bull run pointed its ghastly finger toward the offices of the abolition press. The Tribune, alarmed and menaced, issued its “JustOnce” confession, and implored the Heratn’s mercy. The-peo- ple, still slow to believe that abolitionism: was so vile and traitorous a thing-as it appeared— just asthey had been: slow to: believe in’ the reality of the Southern rebellion—were easily appeased, and’ thus. abolitionism obtained: a, new lease: of life: Since then it has grown, bolder and bolder, until lately it has attacked: the President, slandered the. Commander-in- Chief, uttered its treason in the very shadow of the Capitol, and’ in-everyy possible: way aided the rebels and: weakened the Union, cause. Now. what follows? Simply that: ab, lition~ ism has proved itself practically dis- unionism, and. that the: people. are begin- ning to fully. appreciate this- fact. Tho people see that the abolitionists furnished the rebel. conspirators. with the only pretext with which they.coula:entice tho- South, out: of the Union. The people see that abolitionism is. impossible without disunion; for the. South ia worthless without ite slave Inbor; end! withous the South and its old: institutions the Union: is. divided and obsolete. The-negroes are leaving ‘the South by hundreds, aad with them. goes. all Southern industzy, capital, produce, commeree and wealth. The negroes are coming here by hundreds, and with them come amalgamation, increased taxes, crowded poorhouses, a surplus of black laborers, the substitution of blacks for whites in-mamy. departments of industry, and consequent distress, misesy and starvation armeng oar poor whites. The people see that, bad as slavery may be, there is no possi~ ble way of getting rid of it just at present without the utter ruin of both North and South. Abolitionism has, therefore, come to mean simply the abolition of the country, and it is regarded as far worse than even secession; for that left us atleast a North, To neithor the abolition of the country nor to that other extreme of disunion will the patriotic people listen for a single moment. They want the Union as it was. Since the successes of our armies the abolitionists are the only persons who stand in the way of this consuyemation; and so the people have declared that the aboli- tionists must be silenced. They with mob abo- lition orators, as they mobbed peace orators, and suppress abolition organs, as they suppress- ed peace organs, until, as before, the govern: ment takes its cue from the people and crushes