The New York Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1862, Page 6

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THE SITUATION. ‘Tho most prominent feature of our news to-day Ss the eurrender by the rebels of Island No. 10 to Commodore Foote, the full details of which, and the entire history of the investment of that rebel Btrenghold by the forces of General Pope and the squadron of Commodore Foote, upon which public Mttention has been fixed for some time past, we give in another column. A fine map of Island Be. 10 and its vicinity, comprising the Missia- wippi civer from Columbus to Memphis, accom. Panies the description referred to. | After a stubborn resistance the rebels sur- Bendered the Island at midnight on Monday. General Pope crossed the river from New Madrid, ‘with his forces, to the Tennessee shore during the day, in boats sent to him throngh a canal cut for tue purpose, and this hastened the surrender of he island. General Pope has captured six thon. band prisoners, including three rebel generals, one lhundred sicge guns, several field batte- vies, large quantities of small arms, tents, wagons, horses and provisions. Not a man was lost on our side in achieving this Buccess. It is worthy of remark that, as far back 8s the 8th of March, the New Orleans Delta boasted that General Beauregard had put the island in an impregnable state of defonce against any naval Rat the evacuation of Columbus was regarded by them not only as a military necessity, but as a matter of little consequence, in view of the strong | position which Island No. 10 afforded for the de- | fence of the Mississippi and New Orleans. How far his calculations have failed the result proves. + Another brilliant victory for our army in the | Bouthwest has to be added to the capture of I-land | No. 10. A despatch from General Halleck was re- | ceived at the War Department yesterday, announc- fing that the forces of General Grant at Pittsburg Landing, oa the Tennessee river, eighteen miles from Corinth, were attacked on Sunday, by an @verwhelming body of rebels who advanced from Corinth, ander General Beauregard, and that the Batter were repulsed in the utmost confusion. battle lasicd from early morning until late 2 the afternoon, when ‘he rebels were completely Fouted and fled, General Crant following them in Fapid pursuit. ‘The loss is said to be very heavy | | the Hibernian. force that could be brought to bear upon it, and | aden wn both sides. A private despatch from one of Beneral Grant's staf officers represents that it was | Phe most desperate battle of the campaipn. ‘This | may be considered the opening of the Pict at Corinth, and may be safely toon os on pagury of the final result, if, indeed, ele pan now be brought (o a stand at that 1 We give an iuteresting account to-duy of the Movements of our army vear Yorktown, the ad Wwance of our troopa and the ine Wothing concerning the pro te of their march. & that vicinity yesterday bas reached us, except | hat preparations wore making to attack the rebel paticries. A te ph line has been com pleted General MoCletlan’s Leadquarters, noat York wu, COMMuUnicating with Fortress Monroe, The hel batteries abandoned nt Ship Point prove to fave been very fore bie. The guns were Pemoved, bot the barr remained intact. Oor ar vl Vorktown and iv sucoundives, which we dings of the army | NEW YORK HKKALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1862.—TRIPLE SHEET. continued to fall all the afternoon, varied with | The Union Flag Over Island No, 10— publish in another column, will give our readers & comprehensive idea of the Peninsula apon which movements of the most vital importance in the pro- gress of the war are now taking place. A despatch from General Wool to the War De- Partment states that at two o'clock yesterday af- ternoon the Merrimac, Jamestown, Yorktown, and four tugs were at Craney Island. Upon the whole, we have reason to rejoice at the news of to-day. The fall of Yorktown is in all probability but a question now of a few hours, The capture of Island No. 10, now accomplished, was a foregone conclusion for y days, and the defeat of Beauregard and Jofmston in an attack which was undoubtedly intended as a surprise upon our army has been converted into a disastrous de- foat by the sagacity of our Generals and the valor of our troops. So the war against rebellion goes bravely on. From victory to victory the banner of the Union is pressing on even to the Southern confines of the rebellious States. A man named Henry Hotse writes to the Londoa Times, announcing himself as the sole commercial agent of the rebel States in Eagland, He pledges himself not to abstme or counterfeit consular functions ili the confederacy ig officially dealt with by the British government; but he is prepared to give every informatiag to all comers. It thus appears that the Mason ambassadorial mission has dwindled down to a commercial agency, The London journals of the 2éth, 26th and 27th of March have comments on the news report, brought to England by the Arabia, of the naval engagement between the Merrimac and Monitor. Some of the writers appear to have caught apa very muddled sort of notion of the facta, and all of them claim a victory for the rebel monster. The editor of the London Post labors under the delusion that the Union States government had two iron war vessels opposed to the Merrimac; for he alludes to the ‘“ Ericsson battery’ and ‘the Monitor’’ The con- fession is made that a complete revolution has been effected in naval warfare. It isacknowledged that the day of “ wooden walls’’ has passed; but the British still cling to the idea that huge iron ships, of the class of the Warrior, will carry every- thing their own way, like tho oaken moasters of old—an opinion which may be dissipated sooner than they imagine. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, several petitions in favor of the passage of a uniform bankrupt law were presented and referred. The bill allowing the Attorney General and Secretary of the Inte- rior to fix the salaries of District Attorneys was taken up, but laid aside, and the consideration of the bill confiscating the property of rebels re- samed, when Mr. Heuderson, of Missouri, made @ speech in opposition to the proposition. Bills regulating the pay of the navy, and confirming the act of the President in accepting the services of certain volunteer engineer corps, were introduced and referred. Afler an executive session the Senate adjvurned, In the House of Representatives, a resolution that Congress adjourn on the third Monday in May was referred to the Ways and Means Committce. ‘The consideration of the National Tax bill was then resumed, and, all the amendment having been acted on, the bill was passed by a vote of 125 yeas tol3 nays. A bill establishing certain post routes was reported back by the Committee on Post Offices and passed. A joint resolution extending to officers and men in 4ii the military departments the provisions of the act securing to officers and men in the Missouri or Western Military Depart- ment their pay, bounty and pensions, was adopted. A bill in relation to the competency of witnesses in equity and admiralty cases was recommitted. A bill to punish and prevent the practice of polyga- my was referred to the Committee on Territories. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our newspaper files by the Hibernian, at Port- land, reached this city from Boston yesterday evening. The pi are dated to the 27th of March, and contain ne highly interesting de- tails of our telegraphic report published in the HERALD yesterday morning. Mr. George Peabody's letter, vesting the sum of $750,000 in the hands of trustees, as a free gift, to ve employed in ameliorating the condition of the poor of London, with the reply of the trustees, will be read withinterest. Garibaldi hae address- ed a letter to the priests of Italy, calling on them to struggle against the temporal and some of the spiritual powers of the Pope aspatriots. A report of the latest condition of the silk trade in France is also given to-day. The exhibit of the strength of the iron-armored navy of France-now ready for service or far od- vanced towards completion—published in the Henan this morning, coustitutes one of the most important items of the Buropean news received by A careful analysis of the statement enables us to present our readers with the signifi- nt facts which it embraces in tabular form. It in the same sentence. shown that the Minister of Marine has now at his immediate disposal the following iron-clad ves- sels, vizt— Guns 26 C = No. Vessels. 50 670 570 600 Ship Prince Imperial A corvette 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 8 4 ‘There are ou the stocks in the different ports of France and approaching eompletion:— Total 4,320 5,700 10 M4 1,500 6 ‘ . 40 3.800 60 Iron-spur ehip...... »” 420 1 Total 724 11.220 rr A recapitulation gives the following result as the strength of the monster iron-armed fleet of the French monarch, viz: No. Guns. Men ig complete and Anishing., 8 4,280 ( cocks and well forward. 7 fest nan Grose total 500 The steamer Blac stone, Captein Barston, ar- rived at this port yesterday morning from a cruise | in search of the United States ship Vermont. Cap- tain Bareton left New York March 23, and ran as r east as latitade 39 deg., longitnde 59 dog., roised between the meridian of longitude 64 and and between the parallels of latitude Sand i4 deg. north, and saw nothing of the Ver- 9 deg. west, nuot, March 27, latitade 38 deg., longitude 62 eg. 10 min., spoke Britich brig Dasher, of Mali- 4x, bound south; next day passed through @ antity of wreck stuff. March 29, had @ heavy gale from the ni st, which lasted thirty-six | ae s. April a heavy gale, commencing at the south and setting into a gorthwest gale, ins | creasing to. es thiited coal, provisions, | fe. April 6 VY gale from iorthwost, | with rain, (hunder and | and a very heavy sea. This winter inter make itself long remem bered for snow storme. j’eople had begun to fee! satisfied that summer was about to sot when yesterday snow wade ity appearanos, and in early, | rain and hail. A most unpleasant epidemic of sore throats and colds is sure to follow yester- day's weather. In the Senate of our State Legislature yeater- day, the Assembly's amendments to the New York County Court House stock bill were concurred in. The Congressional Apportionment bill was again discussed, and finally referred to @ select com- mittee of three, to report complete. The bill to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors was re- ported to the Senate complete; also that to reduce taxation in this city, by applying the surplus revo- nue of the sinking fund for the payment of the interest on the city debt. A resolution requiring all clerks of boards of supervisors to send in to the State Comptroller, by the 15th of December next, an account of their expenses, was adopted. The bill authorizing the formation of in- land navigation companies was ordered to a third reading. In the Assembly, a num. ber of bills were passed. Among them were those to establish regulations for the port of New York; to confer steam boiler inspection on the Metropolitan police; to amend the act to provide for collection of demands against vessels; appro- priating $10,000 annually to the Poople’s College, and $5,000 a year for two years to the Troy Uni- versity; to license ballast lighters in this port; ‘amending the Brooklyn Consolidation act; aath. ‘rising the King County Supervisors to raise money to build a new court house; amending the act au- thorizing the laying of double track railroads in Brooklyn, and providing for the reorganisation of- the militia and the disciplining of the National Guard of the State. This last was passed by the decisive vote of 81 yeas to 15 nays. The announce- ment of the surrender of Island No. 10 was re. ceived with great enthusiasm, the members jump- ing to their feet and giving repeated cheers. The booksellers’ trade sale opened well and spiritedly yesterday, an unusually large number of “the trade" being present, and the bidding spirited during the whole morning. After dinner, before recommenciug the sale, the auctioneer read the despatch announcing the surrender of Island No. 10, causing great enthusiasm, which manifested itself in rounds of applause and a more spirited hidding for books, especially among the Western buyers. The day's sale was very successful as far as prices were concerned. To-day's catalogue em- braccs some splendid invoices from first class houses, including Sheldon & Co., Carleton, late Radd & Carleton; Scribner and others, of this city’ Childs, of Philadelphia, the venturesome publisher of Parson Brownlow’s book, for which he gave the author $10,000 for the copyright; Gould & Lincoln, Lee & Shepara and others, of Boston, besides seve- ral other houses of repute. To-day's sale is ox- pected to bring high prices. A regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors was held yesterday, Elijah F. Purdy, President, in the chair. A communication was received from iis Honor the Mayor, vetoing the resolution adopted at the last meeting of the Board, allowing the bitl of John Kelly, late Sheriff, amounting to $9,446 43, for official services during the quarter ending on the 3ist of December last year. The communication was ordered to be entered on the minutes, and to be advertised in the Heratp and other newspapers, The subject of remitting taxa- tion on the personal property of John Paret, amounting to $50,000, was again taken up, and, after some discussion, laid over. The Board then adjourned until Tuesday next, the 15th inst. ‘The Board of Commissioners of Health met at the Mayor's office yesterday. A memorial was pre. sented from the Medico-Chirurgical College, on the subject of a free use of Croton in cleansing the gutters. Tho necessity of public urinals and pub- lic accommodations for bathing, at a low charge, was presented, and referred to the Resideut Phy- sician, Dr. Sayre, and Daniel B. Delavan, Esq., the City Inspector, as a special committee to ma- ture the matter and present their report to the Board at its next meeting, in such shape as will be suitable for presentation to the Common Councij foraction, It was also resolved that the report- ers for the press be allowed to publish such parte of the proceedings of the Board as shall be deem- ed proper in the discretion of his Honor the May- or and the Clerk of the Board. The criminal calendar of the United States Cir” enit Court was opened yesterday, before Judge Smalley. Mr. E. Delafield Smith, United States District Attorney, moved the arraignment of seve- ral prisoners whose indictmenta have already been announced. Amongst them wore Brown and Winslow, charged with dealing in the slave trade. They pleaded not guilty. The Court then proceed- ed with civil business, during which the announce- ment of the surrender of Island No. 10 was hand. ed by Mr. Nelson Chase to Judge Smalley, who im- mediately interrupted Mr. Dudley Field in some remarks which be was making, and read it to the jury, who clapped their hands. The Court Temarked that sucha proceeding was not proper, but at the same time stated that the Court was, it- seif, as much in error in reading the despatch as the jury were in exhibiting their feelings at the an- nouncement. In the United States District Court yesterday, before Judge Betts, Mr. Woodford, United States District Attorney, moved for the examination of sailors in the case of five hundred and sixty bar- reis of rosin seized by Commander Rowan, of the Burnside expedition, at Newbern. This oase is of great interest, as involving the question of the right of the navy to make prize captures on land, when acting ia conjunction with th® army. The case of the Sunday liquor setiers, which was adjourned till Tuesday, when it was expected Judge MeCunn would render a devision upon the constitutionality of the law, was again postponed till Saturday, the reason assigned by the Judge being that he disliked to interrupt the proceedings of the court which was in session. Wall street wag active and excited yesterday in con- sequence of the good news from Isiand Ne. 10. Govern. ments advanced % per cent, Stale stocks wore also higher, and the general fist was animated. At the second board there was quile @ demand for some of the popular railway shares. After the second board a pause in the advance took place in consequence of the myste. rious deepatch inthe Norfolk Day Book referring tow defeat of our army at Corinth, There is nothing new in the money market, and ra on London is quoted 112)¢ 5.00 a 5.0214. The exports of prodace for up $2,297,152, against $2,005,889 same week The cotton market yesterday experienced a sudden turn for (ue better, while it was more active, and elored at an advance of full \go per pound. ‘The sales to the trade embraced 2,500 bales, closing on the basis of 28. a 28 4c. per pound for middling uplands. The government public gale of the Magnolia’s prize cargo of 1,000 bales drew together ii and spirited . compa- ny, chiefly spinners the prices realized, quality considered, were in advance of those nrrent in the brokers’ offices. Of the whole lot, one firm, Messrs, Reynolds & Co., of Providence, parcbased 900 bales, within the range of 23 gc. a 29%%0, for inferior to strict middling uplands, ‘The latter quality was com+ paratively emall in amount, A sale of soe island, from Port Royal, is a/tvertised by Messrs. Burde & Co., for to-morn The catalogue comp 4 of very irregular woight, varying from 80 Ibs., While uplands average about 460 hs. to the alo, Thefloor market was heavy, and for some graiee about Se. per bbl. lower, Wheat was innctive and sales limited, at price# given iu another place. Corn wae with out change of moment, while sales were more active | Pork was unal jes moderate, ab $19 n $15 12), for new moss, aud at $10 26 a $10 50for new prime. Su gare were firm and in fair demand, with sales of 4004 500 his. , 880 boxe and 5,000 bags of Menila, Cotes quiet, ‘The stock comprises 84,219 bags of fi 188,387 packnges of all kinds, Freights were hoavy and lull. Among the engagements to Liverpool were in bulk, at @i4., and wheat at 494d. in balk, and in siip'’s baga at & and bacon at 155, Te London pacon aul lued wore at 206 was and | Defeat of Beauregard and Johnston— No Position for the Rebels Which Can- mot be Turned. The surrender of Island No. 10, aad the victory of Generals Grant and Buell at Pitteburg Landing, within eighteen miles of Corinth, where Beauregard and Jobns- ton met a terrible defeat, are the leading features of our war budget this morning. Those irrepressible amphibious fighting Union men of the West, having undertaken the task of reopening their right of way down the Missis- sippi to the sea, will unquestionably perform their work against all impediments. Neither islands nor bluffs, however well adapted for defensive purposes by nature, and however skilfully strengthened by art and armed with heavy artillery, can stay the progress onward to New Orleans of our splendid soldiers and inland seamen of the West. Commodore Foote, our gtaboat champion of Fort Henry and Fort Danelaon, and Gonéral Pope; the hero of New Mafrid, and their associates, have added a new wreath 4o their laurels with Island No. 10, and |. charges of the most damaging character. the brilliant victory at Pittsburg landing; ‘and, in all probability, before the end of this event- ful month of April, they will celebrate the crowning triumph of their grand campaign with Commodore Porter and General Butler in New Orleans. Where are the rebels now to make a stand? The wise observation is attributed to one of their favorite loaders, General Sidney Jobn- ston, after bis compulsory evacuation of Nash- ville, that there is no defensive position for them within the “Confederate States” which cannot be turned by the superior forces of the Union. He was right. The fact bad been de- monstrated to his full conviction in the turning of the strong position of Bowling Green, a hun- dred miles east, and of the “impregnable” po- sition of Columbus, sixty miles west, by simply cutting in between these two places at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. By this process of turning them the elaborate and costly defen- sive rebel works of six months’ labor at Co- lumbus and Bowling Green were rendered untenable, and were found abandoned on the approach of the Union forces. And so, with General McClellan in front, and with our occu- pation of Nashville on the one side, and of Roanoake Island menacing his rear, though hundreds of miles away, Gen. Jo. Johnston was turned out of Manassas. Finally, by avery neat and masterly example of turning their position, the rebel forces, between two days, have been expelled from Island No. 10. Such are the practical results of that compre hensive system of military combinations, by land and sea, organized and putin motion by the directing genius of Gea. McClellan. Asa disciple of Gen. Scott, he telegraphed the old chief at Washington, last summer, the day be- fore the victory of Rich Mountain, that on the morrow he might expect the report of another Cerro Gordo operation—-that is, the defeat of the enemy by turning his position on the top of the mountain; and, according to promixe, the work was done. In exiending this important feature of the art of war—the turning of the enemy’s position—to all the operations of this grand campaign of 1862, the country may well be proud of the directing mind, chosen by President Lincoln, under which thie campaign was organized and inaugurated, while we do not forget the honors due to the War Depart- ment and to all the meritorious officers, sol- diers and sailors in our land and naval service. But where can the rebels now hope to make a successful stand? It was hoped that, with their idol Beauregard at their head, they expect to reverse the tide of victory at Corinth, Miss., and to give us there the check of another Bull run defeat; that Corinth is a splendid defensive position, where the converging and cross fires of cannon and musketry, from hills and moun” tains, can be made to annihilate an attacking force, hotvever large or courageous; that Beau- regard has also an army of fifty or sixty thou- sand men of the fiercest fighting materials of the South around him, and that his reinforce- ments by thousands are pouring in every day. But theve is another side to this picture. The victory of Generals Grant and Buell on Sun- day, which drove General Beauregard back in confusion towards Corinth, has changed all the scene, and has dashed the hopes of the rebels for From intelligent sources we are informed that a large part of this great rebel army of Corinth is com- posed of mere striplings, raw recruits, and badly armed; that there are whole regiments of pikes and shotguns. It is impossible that this hurriedly collected and badly equipped rebel army, dispirited and demoralized by a succession of crushing rebel defeats, can stand against anything like an equal force of their disciplined, well armed, en- thusiastic and victorious adversaries. Assum- ing, too, that the fugitives from Island No. 10, wnd that even the rebel troops at Memphis, will push forward now to a junction with Beaure- gard, his retreat from Corinth will only be rendered much the more disas- trous and deinoralizing to the rebel cause’ a successful defence of the Mississippi. #0 | Briefly, the bottom has been knocked out of the tub of this rebellion, and all its contents are adrift upon the waves. Before the rebel army of Coriath will haye recovered from the dispiriting loss of Island No 10, and this disaster of Sunday, they will hear of the loss of Richmond; and then we predict a stampede among the Sonthoen Confederate rulers, military leaders, demagogues and firebrands, in southwosterly direction towards the “sacred soil” of Myxigo, sad thea all the remaining strongholds of the rebellion will fall with little or no resistance. Meantime the suffering pro- ducing classes of the Southern people will rise against the destruction of their cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco, and save themselves from beggary and their peculiar institutions from ruin by a timely submission to the Union. Let us rejoice at this cheering prospect, and that in President Lincoln we have found the true and trusty pilot demanded by tho orisis to save the country. The Latest Report About Fremont and His Missouri Operations. We have received a copy of the re- port of Mr. Holt and his two associates, appointed by the President to inquire into the claims of the contractors in Mis- sourl who supplied General Fremont with various articles which he required for his army. We have had before the report of Ad- jutant General Thomas and the report of the Van Wyck committee, exposing those contracts, and the report of Fremont himself, which ut- terly failed to throw light upon the subject. Now we have the most remarkable report of all by Mr. Holt; aot:only confirming the alle- gations in the former reports, but bringing new We intend shortly to publish it inextenso. Mean- time we may advert to one point. Passing over the loans, voluntary and forced, from the banks of Missouri, amount- ing to about a million of dollars; the pur- chase of tents at extravagant prices; the swindling contracts for horses and mules; the intervention of fraudulent middlemen; the fat jobs in the purchase of steamboats; the exor- bitant charges for the telegraph and railroad transportation; the extraordinary dealings with Childs, Pratt & Fox; the building of mortar boats at double their proper price; the ridicu- lous claims for the roofing of the barracks; the Paducah pontoon bridge, erected at a cost of $125,000, and found to be worthless; the Cin" cinnati contract for the building of railroad cars; the contraets for munitions of war; the dealings of Beard, the Californian, in forage; the building of useless fortifications at out- Tageous prices, amd advancing the money be- forehand without security for the performance of the contract; and last, not least, the Gene- ral’s personal extravagance, rivalling that of princes, at the expense of the people, and his miserable failure in the war—passing over all these points, we come to that point of the testi- mony which lets {n a flood of light upon Fre- moat’s ideas of government. From the testi- mony of Colonef Andrews, it appears that Fremont regarded the government at Wash- ington as mere “red tape,” to be dis- regarded; that he was at the head of the people, and would carry out such measures asthe people wished. In other words, that he was aself-constituted dictdtor, or, at best, the nominee of a handful of abolitionists; and, to use the language of the “Little Villain,” that he had a perfect right to “supersede the Presi- dent.” Hence the contracts he made in disre- gard of the President’s authority and the War Department, and his disobedience of the Presi- dent's order to publicly retract his unauthorized emancipation manifesto. In fact, it seemed as if “the coming man” was about to overthrow democratic government and establish the king- dom of Fremont the First upon its ruins. The assamption of regal retinue and state heralded the reign of the new ruler, who bad declared that bis confidence in republican institutions had been “somewhat wavering.” But.asudden pull of ‘red tape” brought up Fremont with a short turn, and when the critical moment came to do or die he failed. All his courage oozed out of the palms of his hands, like Bo'» Acres, and the abolition em- bryo king quailed before the majesty of the republic. But the history of his case is very instructive, as showing what are the revolu- tionary ideas of the abolitionists, their jour- nals and leading men. If democratic insti- tutions escape from destruction, and if a mo- narchy is not founded upon their debris, it is only because the radical faction are not suf- ficiently numerous to carry out their designs. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Neither have the leaders the necessary pluck for revolutionists themselves, nor have they the people at their back. The days of abo- litionism ave numbered, and a terrible retribu- tion awaits its organs and champions at the hands ef an indignant people, whose patience has been abused till longer endurance is iin- possible. The day of reckoning is at hand. Nopt.cass Osiior, Severs! E nglish lords have recently been hauled up by the courts at the other side for lending their names to swindling joint stock concerns, by which a number ot unsuspecting persons have been defranded of large sums of money. These men belong to a class whose organs ave constantly assailing the good faith and soundness of financial and com mercial enterprises in this country. The moral is instructive. Feanren EXTRAVAGANCE AND > Frat bs IN Con- reacts ror Arws—Trom one of the Blue Books, published by Congress, containing all the purchases of arms and all the contracts for the same, from April 12, 1461, to January 11, 1862, it appears that the aggregates are as follows:— Kind of Arms. Muasketa and riffe: Carbines fur ca’ Pistols... Sabres and swords. . Total . The estimate by the military Conlracted for. 5,800 40 Pur chased, 16,157 19 Mai $46,144,665 authorities of the number of small arma required was 300,- 000, in addition to those in the arsenals—an estimate of arms founded upon an estimate of 194,240 hajf a million of soldiers. But when it wa, decided to increase the army by 200,000 more. then halfa million of small arms became neces- sary. Yet four times this number were pur chased and contracted for—more arms than would be sufficient for all the armies of Europe, more than would be necessary for the country jf the war were to last till the crack of doom. Then the muskets and rifles, of which 2,159,957 were contracted: for and purchased, cost the government $19 each, whereas the average t, according to the most reliable testimony, ought not to exceed $12 50. The transactions of Secretary Cameron for muskets with Boker & Co., of Cliff stveet, New York, foot up $2,910,000, at the rate of $18 each, though these weapons, contrary to the agreement which required one calibre, had eleven different varieties of calibre, and 17,839 of them were utterly worthless, while to 15,525 were attached oft bayonets. Mr. Molt settled the trans- use l@ss & action for the government by striking off the account $1,400,000, still leaving the firm $26, % 000 profit. Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, has countermanded the contracts for excess of arms beyond those required, and for this he deserves great credit, as he will thus save the ment and the couatry about $35,000,000. What & black catalogue of contracts is that with which the name of Simon Cameron is identified since the war began. Tus Mora. Senrucent or THE Psorue—Ta Pouricians ap tax Soupiens.—The countey has been brought to the verge of ruin by the Politicians. They have corrupted the fountains of legislation and polluted the purity of the administrative department of the government. By the game of spoils and plunder which they have been permitted to play they have brokes up the Union at last, and involved the people in a civil war which is depopulating the coum try, destroying a vast amount of its property, impeding the operations of trade and com merce, arresting the progress of manufactures, and curtailing the agricultural productions ef the great West, to say nothing of the loss te the whole community of the great staple crops: ef the South. In addition to these losses « tax of the most severe kind must'de ‘levied upon every interest and ell manner of property en@ -in- ‘come. And now, when ha ow ca ee redaced to this condition by Se politicians, they hail # as their harvest time, and are robbing and cheating the government in shcddy contracta, in boots and shoes, in breeches, in horses an@ mules, in steamboats, and in everything per taining to the necessities of the war. In truth, the war is a godsend to them, enabling them to perpetrate all manner of villany. They are making a great fuss about the negroes at Port Royal, while they overlook not only the condition of the negroes at the North, but the poor families of the brave soldiers who are now removing the evils which the politicians have wrought, and saving the country from utter destruction. It is not to any statesmanship is Congress or elsewhere, not to any wisdom ie the press, that we are indebted for the salva tion of the republic, but to the rank and file of the army antl the officers educated at West Point. And the victory will not be complete, nor the harmony. of the Union restored, tilt these honest men drive the public robbers out of place and power and cut up corruption by. the roots. The men who have saved the coum try, and not the politicians who have ruined it, will be best entitled to places of honor, trast andemolument, and the people will support their claims. This war, therefore, will develop a new order of things. The men who are now fight- ing the battles of the country and are pouring out their blood like rain will take the place hereafter of the scoundrels who have brought @o much of disaster upon the republic. The moral sentiment of the people is roused againal the politicians, and will not be satisfied tilt they are swept away like chaff before the whirlwind; and they will not, for the present generation at least, be permitted again to com trol“the destinies of the republio. TurnIxG THe TaBL¥s—AwMERICAN Iupxorene vIk3 AND EnGrist AmEnrtiEs.—At one time the English journals used to lecture us roundly om what they were pleased to term the coarse and undignified tone of our newspapers, and the scenes of violence enacted in our legislative assemblies. Matters have changed since then. Our political troubles have had the effect of chastening our tempers.and cor recting our ill-breeding, whilst our cousins af the other side have been picking up our bad habits as fast as we have been getting rid of them. Surely never did any newspaper ex- cesses of ours equal in violence and ruffianisas the conduct of the English press towards this country, from the breaking out of the rebellion down to the settlement of the Trent affair. And as to the decorous bebavior of Engliéh. legislators, the British public had, the other day, a pretty sample of it in the conduct of two noble lords, one of whom had filled, and the other of whom is at present occupying, the highest law office under the crown—that of Lord Chancellor. To a charge preferred by the for- mer, in the course of debate, that his successor liad done intentional injustice to a 1.umber of clerks who have been removed from the Insol- vent Court, the keeper of her Majesty's con- science replied that his accuser “lied, and did so knowingly.” Before ihe English obtained » penny press such scenes and such language, oa the part of public men and newspapers, were unheard of. By-and-by we shall be ina posi- tion to assume towards our former Mehtors the task which they formerly so freely and un- sparingly exercised towards us. Navat Deawaric Exrotanment.—Ihere is to be ® gala time at the Academy of Music in this cityon Thurs: day evening next. The survivors of the crews of the frigates Cumberland and Congress will on that occasion give a grand aud attractive representation for the bonefit Cr of the nd orphens of the brave men who loss thelr lives on those veesele daring the cantest with the Merrimac, The men who are to appear iu this novel performance are being drilled every day at the Brook- lyn Navy Yard, In order to fit them for the parts they will bave to sustain. They are about sixty in number, and the entertainment to which they are to contribute will be ag anique and interesting as can woll be conceived. M ‘and all the other delights of the Opera House will contribute to the success of the undertaking. There te not the least doubt that there will be am ovorflowing house Personal Intell Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, passed through this city yesterday en vente (or Washington, Governor Morgan returned to Albany yesterday, Mons. and Madame Serranbi, aud Mile, Kenneth, from Havana, ere stopping at the Everett House, tw aud; John G, Kellogg, of New piateohe? Face, tiitiedelphia, art toot ana tue athbore,of Albany, are stopping atthe Clarendom Hote}. re. Hh gent, and He Devens, Ripley, of Loui Samuel \ugtield, are stopp! voort Ho Jing, of Missouri; Madison Sloat, of Ver. ton, of Hlinois; Lieutenant 1, Tiffany, volunteers: O. P. Cranston, of Chicago, York, ar batoppitg al the Lafarge and Peter Erben, of Ne House. #. RB. B. Fldricige note: Charter P. Indiana; H, H. Kim! Paul: Jobns 8. Wille, of -4 janes zs Gardner WA, Bane, of tat , of California, sopping at the of the United States Army ; George Hieinjng and wire, of Hartiord; J. “Sew York: R. Bs Knight, of Provi: Urea. and John Crouse, of Syra: fs tapping ne he =. Nice Hotel Dr. B. Lew' yor Ww of San Feanaisce,