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

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CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, —Sox Dawogs, Lunixsgues, &0.—inv ee aati va GAIETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—Drawixa Swrewtanoonrs, BaLtsts, Pavtowianag@ances, &0, AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway. Dantay—itaittoad—Cotiisios—Juuur Maueas. OT CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45Bo' - Burigsques, Sowas, Dancus, 40.—Lxar as - ror.» PARISIAN CABINET OF WOND: road; Open daily from 10 A. M. ug P.M. cystine i SHEET. New York, Saturday, April 26, 1862, TRIPLE THE SITUATION. There is nothing important to report from York- town. Everything goes on there vigorously and actively. The weather is fine, and the prospects of & grand action draw nearer. From the Rappahannock we have some interest- ing inteHigence received through our special cor- reapondence from Fredericksburg. The good order and condition of the troops of Generay McDowell, occupying Falmouth and Fredericks- burg, are most excellent. The gunboat Yankee, which arrived yesterday at Washington from the vicinity of Fredericksburg, reported that a few days ago the Anacostia, while passing Lowry’s Point, on the Rappahannock, was fired upon by a small body of rebel infantry. She threw a few shells at them, which caused them rapidly to dis. perse, The flotilla is still actively engaged in seiz- ing rebel craft. In all it has cafMured sixteen tebel schooners. The Norfolk Day Book of yesterday contai-- a despatoh from New Orleans, dated the 234 instant, to the effect that there had been a heavy and con- tinued bombardment of Fort Jackson all night, and that it was still progressing. The rebels in the fort represeat themselves atill cheerful, with an abiding faith in ultimate success. They stated they were making repairs as best they could. Their barbette guns were still in working order, though most of them had been disabled at times. They + assort we have fired 25,000 thirteen-inch sholls, of which one thousand fell in the fort. They think that our ammunition must soon become exhausted but assert they can stand it as long as our troops can. The rebel Major General Mansfield Lovell is represented as saying that the bombard- | ment was terrific. We give to-day a map of Fort Jackson and the defences of New Orleans, accompanied by a de- scription of that vicinity and the circumstances connected with the impending condition of* affairs j there, which will fully repay perusal. By our correspondence from the Mississippi river we are put in possession of a large amount of interesting news from that quarter. The rebels had cut through the levee on,the Arkansas side of the river, and thus flooded the country for a dis- tance of thirty or forty miles, and destroying a vast amount of property. This was done to pre- vent the advance by land of General Popo’s forces; but the resultis certain to be fatally destructive to the interests of the Southern people in that vicinity. CONGRESS. Inthe Senate yesterday, resolutiona uum the } Legislature of Ohio, concerning the rebel prisoners at Columbus, Ohio, saying that the loyal feelings of the people of Ohio had been outraged by the ’ fact that the rebel prisonera at Camp Chase were ; allowed to retain their slaves by Colonel Moody, thos practically establishing slavery in Ohio in the name of the "people of Ohio, and ¢0- lesonly protesting against this outrage upon the loyalty of the people of Ohio. The resolu- tions were accompanied by a note from Governor Tod, saying that Colonel Moody did not permit it, | but that the negroos had been sent there as pris- i oners, and that Colonel Moody was obliged to take i care of them. Mr. Wilson said he should call the ' subject up on Monday. The bill establishing a line of armed sicamers between San Francisco and Shanghac and Japenwas passed. A bill pro- tecting United States ollicers from suits growing out of arrests of disloyal persons, was referred to ’ the Judiciary Committee. An executive session ' was held and @ mumber of army appointments confirmed. In the House of Representatives, the bill pro viding bounties for the widows a» 1 teers was discussed, and Mr. Daw: ended the Government Contract Investigating Committee from the assaults made upon them during their Both Houses adjourned till Monday. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We have the official reports of the killed, wounded and missing in the First ond Fourth divi- sions a the battle of Pittsburg Landing. The First division was commanded by G John A. MocOlernand, end the Fourth by General S. 4. Hurlbut. The following is the revapitulation:x— lst Div, 4th Div. Total. 261 308 559 1,367 91417 «(9,784 . 236 175 411 TOM). ces ereeeececees 1,864 1,900 3,764 0 é The Uniontown (Kentucky) News, formerly a se- ry Cosb journal, about seven months ago was forced Gy att. Sad Pied to suspend, for the want of patronage. The re- bels having now been driven out of that seotioa of the State, and the Union sentiment firmly re- established, the editor has again started his pa- per, but has the hardihood to say that he is yet & secessionist, aud to adwit his cowardice by stating that he will support the Union only because he is compelled to do so, This fellow should be watched. The secessionists in Nashville seem determined to keep up a show of feeling against the govern- ment. Many of them say they will man the house- tops and shoot down our soldiers when the oooa- sion presentsitself for them to do eo with safety to themselves, . The “fire in the rear’ of General Halleok is getting very warm. As soon as ho left St. Louis to take command of his forces at Pittaburg Land: ing, the abolition papers opened on him, ahd they are keeping up the aftaok with their heaviest guns. The Cincinnati Gazettahas charge of the battery in that quarter. Mr. John C. Bull, of tho firm of Bull & Graham, commission merchants in St. Louis, with his whole family, have been placed under arrest and confined in their own house, with orders not to leavo it. Their offence was displaying a secession flag. Among the wounded soldiers who arrived at St. Louis on the 18th inst,, onthe ateamer Empreas, was a woman who bad followed her husband to the War and received a gunshot wound ia the battle of Pittsburg Landing. On the way up the Mississip- Pishe gave birth to fine, healthy female child, which was named Empress. Her husband was killed in the battle. Our correspondent at Bridgetown, Barbados, writing on the 1ith inst., says:—‘‘ The weather for the last two weeks has been very favorable, being attended with copious showers of rain, which are of the greatest benefit to the growing crops. But very little sugar remains in port. The crop has yielded about 55,000 hogsheads. The growing cane is very"fayorable. Fresh water and stono ballast are plenty and of the best kind. Several light vessels have come here and left for parte unknown, after throwing overboard their ballast. 1t is ru- mored that several large vessels, deepty ladeu, dur, ing the last four or five months, have been seen off this island, and the conjecture is that they have discharged their cargoes into those schoon- ers, which have, in all probability, proceeded to the rebel States, at the hazard of running the blockade. Business is dull and the island i, healthy."’ The census returns from Barbados, as taken on the 7th April last, exhibit a population amount- ing in the whole to 135,930 persons; making an increase during the last ten years of 16,750. The new crop of sugar is said to be of good qualit; and the shipments to latest dates amount to:— Sugar, 2,096 hhds., 122 tierces, 426 bbls.; molasses, 26 puncheons, 18 bbls. The publie health is gene- rally good, but some cases of smallpox are report- ed as existing in one of the parishes. The bark Candidate, which sailed for London on the 27th ult., took out four packages containing articles for the great exhibition. They consist of the fruits of the island, in wax; the flowers, in feathers, and the tiower, or, as it is termed, the arrow, of the cane, in its natural state; sholl work, and speci- mens of indigo, ochre fibre, and starch mado from the sweet potato. The Paris correspondent of the London Herald, writing on the 3d of April, says the seventeen millions of francs assigned by the extraordinary budget to the navy are thus divided—12,500,000f. for the “ transformation‘? of the ficet, and 4,500,- 000f. for the building of docks sufficiently large to receive the vessels now constructing. According to the returns of the chief constable of Manchester, England, made up to Tuesday, April 3, upwards of eight thousand workmen are totally out of employmént in that city alone, while nearly double that number are on short time. A Brussels letter has the following:—The pre- sent manufacturing crisis is the subject of general preoccupation. The city of Ghent is the place most seriously affected. The situation of Lyons and Saint Etienne cannot be compared to the hor- tible state of misery into which the civil war in America has plunged the workmen of Ghent. The St. George’s Society of this city did not this year celebrate the day dedicated to their pa- tron saint in their usual manner. It has been cus- tomary for the “‘ jolly Englishmen” to sit down to a “jolly good dinner” on the evening of the 23d of April; but this year they have dispensed with that part of their celebration. The cause of this action has been officially stated as follows:—“' On account of the death of his Royal Highness Princo Albert, the members of the St. George's Society forego their usual festival on this day.’’ In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, before Jndge Barnard, David Loftus and John El- lis were tried for a felonious assault on Martin Wa- ters, in a groggery, on election day, by striking him with the butt ends of pistols. It appeared that the accuser was as rough aa the accused, and had offered to fight them with the same weapons. Upon the whole of the evidence, the jury did not think that there was any retributive justice due to Mr. Martin Waters, and they acquitted his equally desperate assailants, John Morris, the militia man, who has been a terror to male civilians and civil maidens, in the peremptory extortion of money for militia fines from parties who are iegally exempt from duty, was arraigned yesterday, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, on an indictment found against him by the Grand Jury. The accused pleaded not guilty, and said that he was acting under the law of this State. No particular day was named for hia trial. It will be well for the militia authorities over the river, in the model Gity of Churches, to take warn- ing by this act of our Grand Jury. Instances have been furnished us where parties who have paid exemption fees are still summoned for duty, and threatened with all the and penalties of militia despotism, even to the confiscation of their bed and bedding, if they do not attend drill or step up tothe “captain's office.” This humbug has been long beyond endurance, and it is well thatthe law is about to interfere. An action was commenced in the United States Circuit Court yesterday, before Judge Smalley, at the suit of William Grovoner, against the New Jersey Railroad Company, for injuries sustained in September, 1860, through the alleged negligence of the defendant's servants. Itappeared from the evidence that the plaintiff’s foot was so injured that his medical attendant found it ary to remove some of the small bones. The case will be resumed this morning. ‘The stock market was inactive and dull yesterday, Governments declined %. Toledo, which has been the most active stock on the list for the past fow days, fell to 40, and then rallied to 4144. It is supposed to be much oversold. Money is abundant at 6 6 per cent; exchange steady at 112% @ 112% ; gold, 101%. ‘The cotton market was firm yesterday, while the sales embraced 1,400 a 1,500 bales, closing on the basis of 29340. @ 90¢, for middling uplands. A good portion of the sales were made ¢o spinners and to go out of market. The prices closed at 20%c. @ 800. Tho four market was firmer, though Joss activo, and closed at an improvoment of 5c. per bbi., and for some brands more, Whoat was firm, but somewhat ir- regular, while gules were moderate, Corn was less ac- live aad prices rather easier, with sales of Western mix, @i at Soc. @ 59¢., instore and delivered. Pork waa j0e8 active, and prices were rathor easier, with sales of New mess at $12 25 a $12 60, closing at the inside figure, Boot and lord were firm, The contract for the following army supplios was awarded as annexed, viz:—Bacon+ 790,000 Ibs. at 70. por Ib.; bacon, old, 240,000 Ibs., at 6340. per Ib.; pork, mess, 2,000 bbis., at $1269 0 $18. Sugars wero firmer and more active. The sales ‘embraced 2,200 hhds., 115 boxes and 8,590 bags Manila, on terms given in another place. Coffee was quiet. A sale of 600 bags Laguayra wap made at 16%0., in bond, for export. Freighte were steady, while eogage- teats were moderate, APRH. 26, 1962--TRIPLE. SHEET, Waste of the Public Time in Con ‘Tae time of members of Congress is paid for by the people, to be used in diligent-and falth- ful legislation. Their time, therefore, during the session is public property, and they have no right to waste it. That they not only equan- der their time in the halls of legislation, but employ it mischievously against the interests and dignity of the nation, is too evident to all who read the morning papers. The debates of both houses on Thursday, which we published yesterday, are oxamples of this pernicious abuse of a public trust. Mr. Benjamin Wade, Senator from Ohio, in a speech outside of the Senate Chamber, had described Mr. Vallandig- ham as “a man who never had any eympathy with this republic, but whose every breath is devoted to its destruction, just asfar as his heart dare permit him to go.” Mr. Vallandigham rose in his place in the House of Representa- tives and said : “ I denounce, and I epeak it ad- visedly, the author of that speech asa liar, a scoundrel and a coward.” Mr. Blake thon charged the gentleman with “ false pretonce.”” Mr. Vallandigham ssid he was ready to meet his colleague outside. Such is the anseomly Personality of men who profess to represent himself by indulging in the most absurd rant, and using language of a treasonable nature in a moral if not ig a le; yonse. He tidiouled the idea of any o1 paling to the constitution for the pro! nm of slavery; for slavery was “the progeny and firstborn of the arch fiend;” it was “rebollion,” it was “a monster,” “an infernal assassin,” and, said he, “it shall be slain in the name of my country and my God:” “either slavery or the republic must perish.” How the members of the House could have patience to sit listen- ing to such a farrago of fanaticism and treason 4s beyond comprehension. It is ‘almost folly to waste serious argument upon what is so ridi- culous. But we would simply quote the words of Mrs. Glass in her receipt for cooking a savory dish of game:—‘First catch your hare; then,” &. Let Mr. Lovejoy first catch the slaves, afd then the question of setting them free will bein order. Neither silly talk about emancipation nor even resolutions or acts of Congress can do it. The country where the slaves dwell must first be in our possession, aud the slaves must be ready and willing to abandon their masters, before their freedom could be forced. As far as our troops have yet penetrated there is no evidence of any such disposition. The inhuman proposition, there- fore, introduced into Congress, to arm the slaves against the whites of the South for another St. Domingo -massacre, would utterly fail. But-if a forced emancipation, through blood and slaughter, were. practicable, the question would then arise, Is that the best way of restoring harmony between the North and the South? and every sane man must answer.in the negative. The only effect of such speeches as that of Lovejoy is their tendency to give aid to the rebels, by driving to their side the loyal men of the South, and uniting the whole popu- lation against the federal government, thus rendering the restoration of the Union impossible. But Mr. Lovejoy says he takes the position that “either slavery or the Union must perish.” The meaning of this is, that if slavery is not abolished the abolitionists will render the Union impossible: Are they nos, therefore, a8 much traitors to the Union and the constitution as the secessionists? The protection of the institution of negro slavery is one of the conditions in the bond— it is part of the solemn league and covenant. By violating the condition and breaking the covenant we would justify the rebellion at the South; for, in the language of Daniel Webster on this very subject, “a bargain broken on one side is broken on all sides.” It is gratify- ing to find that the sentiments of Lovejoy have very little weight in the House of Repre- sentatives. For instance, Mr. Rollins (repub- lican), of Maine, who followed him, repudiated his perfidious doctrines. Let us, he said, sfand by the resolution adopted at tho extra session, “that the war is not waged in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or for the overthrow of the institutions of the Southern States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the constitution and the laws in all their dignity, and that as soon as these purposes are accomplished the war shall cease.” He com- plimented President Lincoln for his patristic eflorta to preserve the Union. He was for punishing all the guilty leaders and holding out inducements to the deluded to return to their allegiance. He was opposed to ultra measures. Safe the Union at any cost; and to this end he believed the constitution was amply sufficient. This is the language of common sense, -com- mon honesty and common decency, which the Lovejoys are continually outraging. To the same effect, on the same evening, in the other branch of Congress, was the excellent speech of Mr. Collamer (republican), of Vermont. These gentlemen redeem New England from the disgrace of the Sumners, and Garrisons, and Phillipses, and prove that, after all, some- thing good ean come out of Nazareth. Mr. Collamer contends that thisis an e: of a free government before the ther it can be successful in hours of whether it can succeed according to stitution and tho laws. If it is depart therefrom, and resort to the of despotisms, it is a confessian, principles of the government are to carry us through the struggle... State governments, he argued, necessary for our system as government, and the system wo failure without them. Consequently must restore those State governments, or else we do not restore the system as it ever we do, we must keep withid of the tonstitution. But the co cognizes slavery a8 a State institution, over which the federal government has no control, It recognizes the right of the wiite master to the services of his negro slave, and it says that no man’s property shall be taken from him but by due process of law. Tho consti- tution provides that only in the court of convic- tion, after a trial by jury in the State where the offence is committed, can any mén be deemed guilty of treason, and to convict him there must be two witnesses. Only after such trial and conviction can he be deprived of his pro- perty; and even then he can only lose his own life interest. His family cannot be deprived of their legal rights by his guilt. Tho consti- tution expressly provides that there shall be “no bill of attainder or ex post facto law,” and that “no attainder of treason shall work cor- ruption of blood or forfelture excopt @ueioz the life of the person attainted.” The pro- positions now before Congress would boggar a whole people, including the women ead obil- dren. Mr, Collamer denies the right of Con- gross to ride over those prohibitions of the Constitution and to usurp the power of the go- vernment. He reminds his party that they pledged themselves not to interfere with sla- very in the States. Tho course proposed he held to bo ® breach of plighted faith as well ag an indireet violation of certain provisions of the constitution, Even if Congress had the constitutional power to infliot this punishmont, and if the execution of such a penal law wore practicable, the. injustice of it would be evi- dent from the fact that, while the rebels es- tablished a de facto government over the South- ern population, the foderal government were unable to render'the people any proteotion, and consequently forfeited their right to punish them for obedience to the usurpation. The duty of protection and allegiance arg ‘ Consequently only the leadors in the rebellion are justly Mable to forfeiture of their property. Well does Mr. Collamer ob- serve that it is beyond his comprehension how the road to peace runstbrough any suoh avenue as general confiscation ; and well, too, does he expose the inconsistenoy of claiming this as a war right against belligerents while we refuse to recognize them as such. Martial law does not give the; right; for that only operates within military lines, and is temporary in its na- ture. It is not within the province of Con- gress. It belongs exclusivoly to the Executive and the generals of the army. It can only havo effect in the States actrally in insurrection: and in such parts of them as are under the 00- cupation of our troops. There can bo no martial law in the loyal States ; and when the States now insurgent again become loyal and return to their allegiance, martial law will cease to operate and the constitution and the civil law will be supreme. Let Congress, therefore, instead of wasting its time in un- profitable discussions about the negro and in personal altercation, leave the conduct of the war to the Executive and the generals, and hasten the Tax bill, by which alone the war can be eventually sustained and the credit of the country sayed from disastrous collapse. Newsrarer Atracks ON SECRETARY STANTON.— The Secretary at War is being sharply pitched into by the newspapers for his conduct in connection with the censorship of the press. It is worthy of note that the journals that thus assail him-are the organs of the party with whom he has been lately accused of coquetting. For ourselves we have no complaint to make against Mr. Stanton. Although his course in regard the presa has been marked by somo eccentrisities, more especially in the high- flown bulletins in which he has issued his orders, we are not disposed to quarrel with them. Due allowance should be made for the unusual and critical character of the circum- stances that called them forth, and for the absence on the part of the government and the public journals of a proper undetstanding as to their respective duties towards each other in the altered condition of the country- These mistakes, such as they were, have in no way affected the Heraup. Secretary Stanton bas not sought to interfere with us, for the simple reason that we knew too well our duty 3 the conductor of a patriotic journal, and had too well instructed our correspondents and agents, to afford him an opportunity of doing so. It is true that in one instance a correspondent of ours fur- nished the subject of one of these bulletins; but that was not through our fault, but through that of the War Department in entrusting him with more than he ought to have known, or than. we ourselves would have cared to confide to - him. His indiscretions would, however, have been amply punished by his being turned out of doors, or by his being left to us to deal with; for he was not a Southerner by birth, was certainly neither a spy nor a traitor, and con- sequently did not merit so severe g punishment asincarcerationina government fort, All these complaints about the censorship, however, are now without a basis; for it is at prosent in the hands of the military supervisor of tele- graphs, who appears te understand tho exact limits of his duties, and has made arrangements that ought to prove satisfactory to the press. Whether they will content our republican con- temporaries is, however, another question. They seem to be disposed to treat Secretary Stanton with as much asperity as they do poor Secretary Welles, who is an amiable, good na- tured sort of man, although, as every one acknow- ledges, utterly incompetent for his present po- sition. Notwithstanding the difference in their capacities, the measure of hostility against them seems to be about the same. In fact, were it not for Wendell Phillips and the Henatp, Secre. tary Stanton would ke without a defender reRations of Srain i Hayti—It appears from regent intelligence that Spain, having seized the republic of Dominica, is now pro- ceeding to annex the republic of Hayti, under pretence of a dispute about the boundary, and thus to clutch the whole island. We invite the. attention of Mr. Sumner to these proceedings. He is chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Ifa big fat nigger, worth $1,500 in South Carolina before the rebellion broke out, is to represent the black empire of Hayti at Washington, why not protect its independence against the tyranny of Spain. Let a dozen iron-clad gunboats be fitted out and sent to drive the Spaniards from the whale of the island, and let only one government exist in the island, and blacks and whites amalgamate on a footing of perfect equality. If the white man is to be brought down to level of the negro here, let us have the thing in Hayti. If the principle is good, let us go through with ft. Anti if if is right for the white men of the Uniited States to kill each other dn thousands in a dispute about the blacks of the South, then, the Spaniards in order to realize the same de- lectable nogre fraternity and equality in the island of St. Domingo. =~ Tus Money Exrexpep t% THe ALBANY Lovsy.—It is understood the lobby at Albany had a dull season this year. Business has been hard with them. There have been only a few measures which they could squeeze any currency out of. It is estimated that only from eighty to one hundred thousand dollars were received by them this year. This is a mere bagatelle compared with that of previous years, It is rumored that many of these philosophers will spend their summer recreation in a canal boat, and oome to the next Legislature for canal damages. ere to be consis{ent, let us kill a goodly number of ‘Tho Gun Manufactory of Greetey & Co. Fagin, the Jow, awell known character in one of Dickens’ earlier novels, was the presid- ing genius of an association of rogues and ras- cals, whom he educated into knavery,and upon whose illicit earnings. ho managed to subsist. When justice at last overtook this rascal and tutor of rascals, however, he could be made to realize neither his own crimes nor the punish- ment which awaited him. Bill Sykes must swing—the Artful Dodger was trapped—yes, he could understand that; but, for himself, he had done nothing wrong; the evidence against bim was “pure fabrication;” he was & good man, with no “personal controversies,” and no harm could happen him. +A man named Wiikinson—whom, perhaps, poor Greeley has unfortunately forgotten—once used part of Fagin’s history to illustrate the character of his old master, Thurlow Weed. But, all things considered, Fagin’s coat fits Wil- kinson’s new master, Greeley, much better, especially as Weed never professed to have Fagin’s lack of memory. Greeley, like Fagin, is the presiding genius of an association, and arranges lio jobs, just as Fagin planned, arranged and executed private- robberies. Like Fagin, rogueries, and, when hard pushed, he is extremely apt to put all criminal responsibili- ties upon the shoulders of his associates and dodge the confessional by a flood of “s’ help me Gods.” He tried this game in regard to the Matteson one thousand dollar draft, He tried it again in regard to the “Forward to Rich- mond” articles, and had the insufferable assu- rance to attempt to divert the atorm of public reprobation from his own guilty self and turn ig upon his subordinates, the mere pupils in his Fagin’s shop, the Tribune Association. Again, in yesterday's Tribune, poor Fagin Gree- ley tries this same unmasterly stroke of policy. His reply to our scathing expose of the fact that the Tribune Association isa gang of public jobbers, with a contract for muskets to be de- livered in 1863, is substantially this :—First, that he “does not know Mr. Almy by sight;” and, second, that our statement is “a false as- sertion” and “ gross fabrication.” Lot us look at the evidence, honest Fagin, and@ see how this old gamo of shifting the responsibility will work this time. too, he nover can recollect his In Secretary of War Stanton’s official reply to a resolution of the House, passed Decomber 23,1861, in relation to the purchase of arms by Greeley’s find the wholo story of Greeley & Co.’s job- bery md the official documents to prove it. On page 165 and section 68 of Secretary Stan- ton’s letter is the following application for a pet General, Fremont, we contract:— Nuw Yors, Doc. 12, 1861, Sin-—The Eagle Manufacturing Company, of Mansfield, Conneticut, by their treasuror, duly anthorized, will con: tract with the government to manufacturo, subject to the inspection and approval of inspectors duly appointed, twenty-five thousand muskets of the Springileld pat- tern, to be delivered weekly in New York, at twenty dol- lars each, with tho incidemaj charge of boxes, &c. The de- livery shall commence on o: the Grst day of Ma. next, and the payments to be tage on delivery of eac! invoice. Yours, &e., A. H. ALMY, Treasurer. Col. Taomas A. Soorr, Assistant Secretaryof War. This Mr. A. H. Y, who signs himself Treasurer of the Eagle Manufacturing Compa- ny, is the commercial or dry goods editor of the Tribune, and a shareholder in the Zribune Association. Of this gentleman poor Greeley says yesterday:—“A Mr. Almy has occasionally written a dry goods report for this paper (the Tribune), and been pajd therefor (doubt- ful), and that is all the connection he has, or ever had, with the Tribune.” Now, however “occasional” the Tribune's dry goods reports may be, Mr. Almy has certainly written them for some time past. He has been receiving a salary from the Tribune, and bps spent a great part of his time at the Tribune office. If he does not do so now, it is because the Eagle Manufacturing Company demands his time and attention. Does Greeley pretend to deny these facts, pray? If so, allow us to in- troduce to his notice Mr. Snow, tho financial manager and money reporter, and Mr. Wilkin- son, the Washington correspondent, of the Tri- bune, who make their debut in the following extract from page 166 of Secretary Stanton’s letter:— ‘The following words are written On tho first page of the above proposal — Maiter of Mr. Sow, of the New York Zridune, mentioned by Mr, Wiiklason, Attachod to the proposal the following telegram :— New Yorx, Dec. 10, 1861. Eagle Manufacturing Company JA. H. Almy, Treasurer, Irepresent, has no contract, It ie orgapized under an existing charter to carry out eentrack you are nogo- tiating. Colonel Soott’s Eagle Company is anothor con- corn. SNOW. Samont Winxrngon, Ebbett House, Washington. Poor Greeley will hardly dare say that ho “does not know Mr. Snow by sight.” He will scarcely be able to cut the acquaintance of Mr, Wilkinson as summarily as he has that of Mr. Almy. Mr. Secretary Cameron evidently knew, if Greeley does not, who these gentlemen were, and Le served them accordingly. Ho was in- formed, if Greeley was not, why Fitz Henry War- ren was removed and Wilkinson was appointed to represent the Tribunein Washington. He was ewd enough to understand that “the matter of Mr. Snow, of the New York Tribune, men- tioned by Mr. Wilkinson,” must be atiended to, or the Tribune would resume tho assaults made upon him through Warren, and which just ceased upon Wilkinson’s appointment, Therefore he ordered that the Eagle Company should have the contract applied for, and on page 165, section 58, of Stanton letter we find the order of the Secretary of War to that effect, as follows:— Oxpxance Ovvice, Waainwatox, Dec. 24, 1961 Sm—By direction of the Secretary of War | olfer you anorder for twenty-live thousaud muskets, with appon- 3, of the Springfield pattern, on tho following terms and conditions, viz:—These arms aro to be furnished with the regular appondages, and are to be in all re- identical with the standard rifle musket made at ingflold, Mi to interchange with it and with each other in all their parts. They are to be subject to Inspection by Unit- ed States inspectors, in the same manner that the Springfield arms are inspected, and none are to be re- coived or paid for but such as pass inspection an upproved by the United States Inspectors. These twenty. five thousand arma and appendages are to be be doli- "| ‘vered at your armory as follows, viz:—Not less than five hundred in each of the months of July, August and Sep. tomber , 1962; not less one thousand in each of the months of October and November, 1862; not less than gne thousand five htindrd in Deceraber 1862, and aii two thousand per month théreafter, “un! eutire twenty-five thougand shall have been and you are to haye the right to deliver more rap than according to the number of arms ‘before specified, if you can do go. , In the case of any failure ty make de- liveries to the extent and within the times before apeci- you are to forfes the right to deliver mpegs for tho spec or, At transferred to ae | is to be ther forfeited. Paymente are to be made in such funds ag the Troasur: Department may provide, for each delivery, on cortiti- cates of iuepection and receipt by thr United States in- spectors, at the rate of twenty dollars for each arm, including appendages. All these arms and appendages are to be 4 by you in boxes of the regular pattern, with twenty muskets and appendages in each box, for which a fair price, to bo detormined by the United States inspectors, will be allowed. Please signify, in writing, your acceptance of non-acceptance of this order, on the torms and conditions before stated herein. Respectfully, your obedient servant, JAMES’ W. RIPLEY, Brigadior Goneral. From the telegram already given, signed by Saow, addressed to Wilkineon, left by Wilkin- BO SOB Dore aWweT Alo son with Cameron, and pinned by Uameron to tho original proposal on file in the War Depart ment, it appowrs that there are two Bagle Manufacturing Companies. One is located af Providence, Rhode Island, and the other—~ Greeley’s own—at Mansfield, Connecticut, The latter company, Suow says, was revived, under anold charter, for the sole purpose of fulfilling. this contract, which Wilkinson was to obtaia, Colonel Scott had somehow or other identified the two companies, however, and General Rip- ; ley made the samo mistake. Perceiving this, Snow sends back the acceptance of the com tract, accompanied by a to Sam. (Wilkie son), as see page 166 of ton’s letter:— S—Your order for te manufuatar of 26,500" ena id pattern, is accepted by this coms tcoording tthe spocitodtiona of your proposals ef Tre Both tna .° Your bbedient servant, A. H. ALMY, ‘Treasurer Eaglo Manufacturing Company. ‘The foregelng acceptance was accompanied by the fel lowing note:— Sam.—I enclose the acceptance of the Manufacs Propesition to Eagle ae The poi, was nadreited to }» Rhode: intlead of Manatell, Gogaosieut” Wil You uave. Uhl within corrected? (No signature.) This closes the record, and loaves Greeley & Company with a fine contract, paying them five hundred thousand dollars caah, an@ about two hundred thousand dollars profits for a lot of muskets, the first of which are te be delivered in July next, when tho war wilf doubtless be concluded, and the balance ome time next year, when all the government cam do with the muskets is to sell them again at'@ dead loss. This is Greoley’s idea of publie economy. The facta are official, and cam neither be disputed nor denied. They prove that these reprosontatives of the Tribune the financial, business and editorial controllers of the paper—are openly interested in a pale pable job. They show that a fat contract wag the price paid by Cameron to seoure the cee sation of tho Tribune’s assaults upon hind for Warren was removed about December, 1861, the very timo that this contract scheme was oarried into effect. They démonstratée that,in order to accept this contract, Gree ley & Co. resurrected an old, “ oxisting’® charter for a manufacturing company in necticut; and, by Cameron’s own endorse ment, it fs evident that the Tribune Assod ciation and the Eagle Manufacturing Cont pany are identical. For Greeley to say that he knows nothing of these facts i simply ridiculous and absurd. He profits bx them; he turned Dana out of the Zribune om account of his refusal to allow a journal to be thus degraded, and he can escape neither thq responsibility nor the disgrace of a partick pance in this job. By the light of this record how singularly clear are the motives which have led Fagia Greeley to defend the swindlers who sur rounded Fremont in Missouri. Poor Greeley. waa afraid that if Fremont was investigated his own jobbery would be discovered; and so it has proved. The same motives, and others connected with another Tribune atookt holder and his real estate at Perth Amboy, ine duced Greeley to defend Secretary Welles, two-and-a-half per cent Morgan and all. From the Bes Moines Improvement Company to the Eagle Manufacturing Company, from a on¢ thousand dollar draft to a five hundred thour sand dollar contract, Greeley has progressed rapidly in jobbery. It is about time now that he should ceasé to add hypocrisy to his othe transgressions. It will not do for the presideng of a nest of public jobbers to wear the white coat and white choker of a reformer, and prate about economy any longer. In one of hi¢ hypocritical moods Fagin Greeley once advised that all public jobters should be hung. We heartily approve the motion. Some Horr Yer or Secretary Wettes.—% Woe have received the following agreeable note from Captain Ericsson:— stil oat New Yor, April 25, 1862, E9Q.-— Sm—In your remarks on the administration of the Navy Department in to-day’s Hxnatp, you have inadver- tentiy done the Secretary of the Navy great injustios relative so the construction of the Monitor. A more prompt and spirited action is probably not on record i= 8 similar case than that of the Navy tment asre gard the Monitor. The committee of naval command ders, appointed by the Secretary to decide on the of ginboats iaid before the department, occupied me Jess than two hours in explaining my now system. Im about two hours more the committee had come toa de jsion. After their favorable report had been made te e Secretary I was catled into nis office, where I was detained less than five minutes. In order not to lose = time, the Secretary ordered me to ‘go ahead at onoe.!* Consequently, while the clerks of the department were engaged in drawiog up the formal contract, the irom which now forms the keel plate of the Monitor was drawn through the rolling mill, I sm, respectfully, your obedient servant, J. ERICSSON. This is good, and we are glad, to know the fact. statement was made on excellent aut! out Capt. E’s note settles the point, Now, if Mv. Welles has been so decided in the case of the Monitor, is it not charitable to sup- pose that he has been equally so in other matters connected with the navy, and that his activity has been interfered with by slow sub. ordinates? We should begin to have hopes of making something out of the Secretary if he were only a little younger. Weare promised in one of the papers an expose from the Secretary’s own pen in regard to the management of the navy, and that he in- tends to place himself rectus in curia in all matters about which he has been so much abused, Well and good. Let him come out with the document? Meanwhile, for the sub stantial vigor of the venerable gentleman, as testified to by Captain Ericsson in the case of the little Monitor, we presume Honest Old Abe will keep him in the Cabinet a little while longer. Tue Revers’ Srratecy ror Tazm Own Iv svny.—It has always been considered a mark of good strategy when a besieged military force takes advantage of rivers and other bodies of water to impede the advance of the foe, or an invading army uses the same to cover its move- ments. Putit scarcely can be considered se when, as we are informed by our despatches from the West, the besieged force injures itself or the country itis defending by turning the force of a mighty river like the Mississippi over its own grounds to such an extent as to cause ite own friends to offer it “all they possess to have their families removed from their houses, which the water threatens to carry away.” But dostruction appears to be the only strategy of the robels; for as they go the olenients fire and water are pressed into the service to mark their course. _— Narorzow’s Mexican Portcy.—Tho course of Napoleon in Mexico, as developed by our latest intelligence from that country, is curious, He deals with England and Spain as if they were his vassals, and he goes on without them. His superiority in iron-clad gunboats enables bim to treat them with contempt. By this expedi- tion he will dessle the Frenoh with the idea « .