The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1862, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, per’s Ferry, and the appointment of naval cadets from the District of Columbia, were adopted. The resolutions of the Ohio Legislature regarding the keeping of slaves by rebel prisoners at Camp Chase, Ohio, were referred to the Military Commit- tee. The bill providing for the more conve- nient enforcement of the laws for security to keep the peace and good behavior was passed. petitions adverse to the Tax bill, and asking @ reduction of the proposed tax on tobacco, were presented. The Senate held an executive ses- sion and confirmed a number of military appoint- ments. In the House of Representatives the Speaker announced the following as the special committee on the confiscation of rebel property:—Messrs. Olin, of New York; Eliot, of Massachusetts; Noel, of Missouri; Hutchins, of Ohio; Mallory, of Ken- © MBRMS cash in advance. Money sent by mait will be at the Wi bof the sender. Bone but Bank bills current in New Yorks on. WOME DAILY H&RALD. two centeper copy, $T per annum. "HE WEEKGE HBRABD, every Satw iz cents pe to tincture postage; the f of each mouth, at siz ir Comernenty At, Mth and vy, or $3 13: per cntnvan. DULY MBKALD, on Wednesday, at four cents per Annem CORRESPONDENCE, containing important any quarter of the A; if used, will be Ba-OUR FORKIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE wee 2 gARES ¥ ae ere ida; edeertionmente ‘ie Beaman, of Michigan, and Cobb, of New é Cer SnAnD SON on Oe - Mr. Olin declined to serve, and it is NLENG executed with neatness, cheapness and des- | believed Mr. Sedgwick will be selected in his r place. A resolution was adopted calling Volume XXVIII for the official reports of the battle at Pittsburg Landing. The Senate bill for the recog- nition of Hayti and Liberia was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Secretary of War was requested to inform the House whether Judge Fetts, who sent a letter to the rebel Legis lature at Richmond, declaring his loyalty to that cause, continues to hold his court for Accomac and Northampton counties, Virginia, with the knowledge and consent of the federal military com- mandant of that district. A resolution that the Judiciary Committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reporting for punishing all con- tractors guilty of defrauding the government, with penalties similar to those for grand larceny, was adopted. A joint resolution was refer- red to the Committee on Commerce, au- thorizing the appointment of commissioners to negotiate concerning the Reciprocity treaty, and authorizing the President to give the necessary notice for terminating the pre- sent unfair treaty. The consideration of the report of the Government Contract Investi- gating Committee was resumed. Mr. Sedgwic of New York, defended the Secretary of the Navy from the charges of inefficiency brought against him; and Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, defended General Fremont from the aspersions against his official conduct. Mr. Ashley reported back from the Committee on Territories the bill to prevent and punish the practice of polygamy, and to annul certain acts of the Territorial Legislature of Utah establishing the same, and it was passed. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway,—Tar EXCHANTRES@, WINTEX GARDEN, Broadway.—Lapx or Lroxs, WaALLACk'S THEATRE, 544 Broadway.—Lapy or Lyons. LAURA KEENK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus Ma CeutMy; OR, Tux PREP OF Day. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Witiism Teut— Gm Es Veo. .uxkY—var or Lstanp No. 10. Brondway.—Angrt. or Mrp- OLYMPIC THEATRE, Wiewr—oLvan Born. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Cox. Norr—Living Wwaus, ac. at ali hours.—iior o' ay ‘TuUMs—100W OF “ALERMO, afternoon aud evening. ERBYANTS’ ML way. —.suGuEnp amu, MELODEON CONCERT HALL. 539 Broadway.—Tovxs- Bian fh HrORMANCES, SONGS, Dances, BuRLxsquzs, &c. 'RELS, Mechanics’ {all—472 Broad- CANTERBURY MUSIC HALi, 585 Broadway.—Sonas Dancrs, BORLKsQUKs, HO—Ahaw wove GAIRTIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—Drawixa Boow Enrextaments, BaL.ets, Pantomines, Faces, £0. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway.—Jzicovs Daxkxy—Raickoap—UOlLisivs—JOLLY MILLERS. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway. — Gpendaip ine Dee mr NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Sorrer Francarse— TieioaTe OU CoMEDIE HT Tragxpin—Les Dieux \ KUVES. JM. Brooklya,—Wooo's Minstaans ix Eraro- PIAN EN?s RTAINWENTS, + ATHEN BU Committee on Railroads to inquire into the pro- priety of requesting the Second, Third and Fourth Avenue Railroad companies to run their cars to the corner of East Conal street and Broadway, and the Ninth Avenue Company to run their cars to the corner of Park place. The Committee on Finance presented a report relative to the issuing of Central Park Improvement Stock, and after a short debate a resolution was adopted authorizing the Comptroller to issue from time to time, as shall be required, the sum of $333,000 of the above stock, The Commissioners of the Park were re- quested by resolution to inform the Board what the various bridges in the Park cost, A commu- nication was received from the Comptroller trans- mitting a certified copy of the law passed by the Legislature authorizing the Supervisors to raise moneys for the support of the city government. The ordinance was almost unanimously adopted, and was sent in to the Aldermen for concurrence. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 377 deaths in the city during the past week— a decrease of 18 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 45 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The recapitulation table gives 9 deaths of al- coholism, 41 of diseases of the brain and nerves, 7 of the generative organs, 22 of the heart and blood vessels, 153 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 8 of old age, 43 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 7 premature births, 48 of dis- eases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 54 of uncertain seat and general fevers, and 5 from violent causes. There were 252 na- tives of the United States, 6 of England, 77 of Ire- land, 1 of Scotland, 31 of Germany, and the balance of various foreign countries. The nows of the captare of New Orleans imparted buoyancy to the stock market yesterday, and govern- ments rose 144 a 34 per cent and the fancy stocks 34 a. Money was very abundant at 5 per cent. Exchange steady at 11214 a 3. Gold, 101% a %%. The bank statement shows an incraase of $6,718,095 in deposits, $2,016,562 in loans, and $626,416 in specie. ‘The cotton market, in the absence of spinners, as usual on Mondays, combined with Southern news, caus- jDg Speculation and doubts in the minds of dealers as to its bearings or influence, if any, tended to check sales. Hence transactions were limited and confined to about 200 bales, scarcely sufficient to establish prices. We quote middling uplands, on the average, at about 293¢0., with smail lots at }¢c. above and others as much below, this figure. Wo give the following statemont of the re-- ceipts, exports and stock of cotton, from September 1 1860, to April 20, 1861, just one year ago, from the cir! cular of Messrs. Wm. P. Wright & Co:— Total receipts at the ports to 20th April, 1861, bales 3,358,000 Exported to Great Britain. Do. to France........ MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The North American, from Liverpool the 17th and Londonderry the 18th of April, passed Cape Race last Sunday morning, on her way to Quebec. Our telegraphic news report from St. Johns, N. F., published in the Heraup to-day, is five days later than the advices received by the Persia. Consols closed in London, on the 18th instant, at 9324 a 94 tor money. The Liverpool cotton market was buoyant, with an advance of from one-eighth to one-fourth of a penny on American descriptions: The sales of the week footed up eighty thousand bales. Breadstuffs were firm at an advance, and Fhe market was upward at the close. Provisions remained quiet and steady. The Great: astern had been repaired and steamed to her anchorage at Milford. The Spanish government was taking steps to place its financial TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, April 29, 1862, THE SITUATION. The capture of New Orleans is fully confirmed from every quarter; but the official reports from Commodore Porter and Genera! Butler may not be ceceived at Washington for some days to come. The correspondence which we publish to-day from the Ship Island expedition, and all the infor- mation which we have received from every source, 0 to prove that all the plans foreshadowed more than a month ago have been strictly.carried out, end resulted with the success which we announced yesterday. We commend the correspondence re- ‘The exports from the United States to Great Britain the present year, according to a late Liverpool brokers’ association circular, were but 7,009 bates. Taking tho whole up to the present time, and they probably do not at present exceed 10,000 to 12,000 bales. ‘The flour market opened dull, at Sc. lower; but under the influ. ence of the foreign news the market rallied and recover- od the decline, and closed firm at Saturday's quotations, Wheat was firmly held, while sales were limited. Corn, duit aad lower, with sales of Western mixod at 57c. a 58c., delivered, chiefly at the inside figures. Pork was in gome better demand and firmer, with sales of new though closing some firmer than at the opening, was yel credit on a firm and respectable footing in Europe. Severe fighting had occurred between the Turks and Montenegrins. The latter were repulsed; but the loss was heavy on both sides. A number of. the insurgent leaders in Greece had surrendered to the government. The British authorities had dis- covered and suppressed a new and widespread conspiracy in India. It was said that Garibaldi would be appointed Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard of Italy. The steamship United Kingdom, from Giasgow 12th inst., passed Cape Race on Friday afternoon. She was boarded by the news yacht, and reports having had westerly winds. Saw no ice. News anticipated. The United States transport Fulton, Captain Wotton, from Port Royal, arrived at this port yes- terday morning, after a passage of sixty-eight hours. She brings no news, having sailed on the 25th inst., at five A. M., the Atlantic having sailed on the 24th. ¥ Twenty-two of the Illinois regiments loat in the battle of Pittsburg Landing—killed, 593; wound- ed, 2,678; missing, 185. It is curious to note the fatality that attended some of these regiments in the three days fighting at Fort Donelson and the two days at Pittsburg Landing. The following table shows the loss in both battles :— Fort Donelson. — Pittsburg Landing. Killed. Lie a mace eeteee ferred to to the attentive perusal of our readers. ft will be found, though reaching as far back as March 11, to embody the whole programme of the capture of New Orleans precisely as it was per- fected, even to the detailed action of the gun- boats and the landing of the troops. The maps which we give to-day fully illustrate the entire focality where our conjoined naval and military Dperations put us in possession of ‘the great sommercial centre of the rebel confederacy, the leading cotton port of the entire South. Rumors were in circulation in Washington yes- terday that the rebels are preparing to evacuate Yorktown, and that since the recent news has ar- sived they are terribly troubled as to their con- dition. The latest accounts which we have—up to Sun. day night—say that firing had been going on all lay in front of the rebel works. Our naval ves- vels, with their superior armament, were doing fearful execution on the rebel battertes, while the fire of the rebels falls far short of their mark. Skirmishing between the land forces is kept up wery brisk, and it cannot last many hours before a 7th illinois. . 4 7 general and terrific engagement will be brought Pes IMlinois 196 22 101 t fi hi . | 9th Iino: 165 58 278 oo. The details which we publish from our corre. Lith Iilinoi 200 13 67 spondents of the late brilliant attack upon a rebel | 12th Illin 38 41 146 vedonbt on the 26th inst., and the successful re- | 17th Illinois... 2 ise 7 er salt of the movement, will be read with interest. 20th Ilingis. .21 118 19 99 . fath Illinois... 2 10 2 173 The rebet papers are commenting freely upon 29 18 96 the possible chances of a defeat at Yorktown. The | 52d Iilin 6 26 14 —By the above it appears that the Illinois Ninth lost five hundred and thirty-six in the two engage ments, and the Eleventh regiment lost three hun- dred and fifty-six killed and wounded and two missing. As far as returns have been received of the vote recently cast in Western Virginia the following figures are shown:— Mobile News says:—‘Probably at least two hun- ired thousand of the best men Lincoln has under 3rms compose the forces which threaten the con- federates fn front and flank. If they have taken ap the advance line of march they must fight us, or retreat dishonored and defeated without a blow. Uf we decline to fight them, we must yicld Rich- <i For, Against. nond, and that is giving up Virginia. If we fight } pomstiterlon - ps4 on them and are signally defeated, Richmond and Virginia are lost, for nothing will exist to stem the Inpouring of the borde of victors. If we fight them and defeat them, we cripple, perhaps fatally, the war power and war spirit of the North.” The European news obtained from the North American at Cape Race, and telegraphed to the Hxeracp from St. Johns, Newfoundland, is dated to the 18th of April—five days later. The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society of England (Exeter Hall abolitionists) had addressed Mr. Adams, United States Minister in London, on the abject of the American war, recommending, of course, the extinction of slavery by our govern- ment asa pacificatory measure and radical cure. Mr. Adams’ reply was deemed in the main satis- factory; but the London Times reads in it the ex- pression of a non-committal policy on the question by the Cabinet in Washington. The British war ship Plover, in the China seas, reports the appearance of a rebel privateer off the toastof Borneo, The ocurrence was deemed un- fortunate for American trie jas the federal govern- Ment had not a vessel in thow waters except the Baginaw, which, it is said, is unaworthy, { The iron-clad war ship excitemenv«tiii continued {B England and France. The Prince % Joinville @as about to publish a pamphlet on the naval Févolation, io which, it is said, he will endeavor to show that auch vessels are not necessarily invi. ; "T ecoworzss. fe Senate yesterday, a communication rela- to the number and ages of the slaves in the of Columbia was presented and re-re- |. The bill organizing the Army Signal De- artment was itddinitely postponed. A bill to prevent the importation of adulternted liquors was introduced. Resolutions directing inquiry as to the gauodigney of spasoring the Armory at Hare pene It is surmised, on pretty reliable data, that Gen. Beauregard has now over one hundred thousand men under his command at Corinth. A large por tion of them are, however, raw recruits, brought in by conscription. it is reported that the woods in Western Ten- nessee are filled with loyal men, who were forced to flee from their homes to avoid the operation of the rebel conscription laws. General Pope, with nearly his whole force, ar- rived at Pittsburg Landing on Monday last, tore- inforce Gen. Halleck. The St. Louis Democrat learns that the wound received at Fort Donelson, by Commodore Foote, is becoming so troublesome that he will be com- pelled to resign. Edward Solomon, now Governor of Wisconsin, has issued a proclamation ordering Thursday, the Ist of May, to be observed as a day of rest and cessation of business, to commemorate the death of the late Governor, Louis P. Harvey. The Sons of Connecticut, organized for the pur- pose of ministering to our wounded soldiers in their passage through this city, held a meeting last night at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, R. H. McCur- dy, Esq.,in the chair. The subject of attending to the wounded belonging to Connecticut, as well as that of collecting and preserving the history of those from that State now in the field, was dis- cnssed in an informal manner, and will be dealt with at the next meeting of the association. Col. Almy, who is to have special charge of the wound- ed passing through New York, stated that some twenty-five Connecticut men had already been taken care of and forwarded to theirhomes, He also drew the attention of the meeting to the philanthropy of Mrs. Trueman Smith, of Stamford, *ho had provided for the wants of forty wounded soldiers in a most handsome manner. The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening. A resolution was adopted requesting the Street Commissioner to report by what au- thority telegraph companies have erected poles for wires im @ certain street of this city. Mr+ Gross offered @ resolution in favor of passing an ordinance creating @ fond of $500,000 for the relief of the families of the volunteers from this city, | which yas relvered to the Compjiice on National meas at $12 37!{ a $12 50, and prime do. at $10 a $12 25 Sugars were steady, with sales of about 800 hogsheads, closing, however, with less animation than was preva. lent last week. Coffve was quict; a small lot of common Rio for parching was sold at 18c. Freights were quite steady, while engagements wore moderate. Flour was taken to Liverpool at 2s. a 2e, 3d., and corn, in bulk, at 6s. 4d. Provisions were at 2s. 6d. The Tax Bill in Congress. The delay in the adoption of a tax bill by Congress is most prejudicial to the interests of the country, and calculated to seriously affect the national credit. The committee who have charge of the bill do not appear to understand the subject, and, what is worse, they refuse to be enlightened by the experience of the past, par- ticularly in the case of the two great nations of Europe. Instead of profiting by the blunders of those countries—blunders which they have long since rectified—our legislators are falling into the same errors, and beginning where England and France began nearly three quarters of a century ago, and blindly follow- ing in the track which they abandoned, just as if history had not been written for our exam- ple. The necessity for some tax bill is most urgent and imperious; but if the clumsy bill that has been so laboriously and slowly pre- pared be adopted. as it is, it will only be so much labor in vain, and will be repealed at the next session of Congress by the force of pub- lic opinion. Formerly the number of articles taxed in France and England was very great. Now they are reduced to about twenty or thirty, and the change is found to be far more productive of revenue than the old system, with less ex- pense for collection and less vexatious to the taxpayers. Instead of pursuing the same sim- ple plan, our committees in Congress propose to tax everything. The first effect of this me- thod would be to create an army of taxgath- erers, who would swallow up in salaries or percentage a very large proportion of the amount collected. In the second place, the an- noyance to,the public would be extreme. The odious and inquisitorial nature of the income tax in England rendered it so unpopular that it could not be continued. But not only is this a leading feature of the bill proposed, but the watch a man may carry in his pocket, or even what a lady may wear, becomes a subject of inquisition and investigation, to the infinite dis- gust of the wearer. Of course, in every system of taxation real estate must bear a heavy pro- portion. Its value is easily determined, the objects it presents are not numerous, and the collection is easy. Personal property ought to be subjected to taxation, but only when it is over an amount which will exempt the poor man from its operation. He is reached in house rent, which will be increased, and bya small tax on the necessaries of life, such as tea and sugar. The Chambers of Commerce of Boston and New York have pointed out the true principle of taxation. It is requisite, they say, for the convenience of taxpayers, for the prompt reali- zation of revenue, and in order to avoid expense in the collection, that the subjects of taxation should be as few as possible; that the neces- saries of life should be so universally and equi- tably taxed as to make the burden fall on all classes according to each man’s ability to pay; that the tax for necessaries should be as light as possible, while the luxuries of society and the enjoyments of the rich should be made to contribute a large share of the public revenue. Carriages, whiskey, malt liquors and tobacco ought to be taxed heavily by excise, while sales of goods and merchandise in general use ought to be taxed lightly. In the form of stamps a very large revenue could be collected—-stamps on newspapers, stamps on licenses and diplo- mas, on all contracts, on receipts for rent and other debts, on leases, deeds of assignment and mortgages, by a graduated scale, according to the value. Thus would every man be compel- Affairs. A resolution was adopted requesting the | ted to contribute in proportion to his means and the stake he possesses in the community. Let a bill of this kind be devised speedily. It ought not to take a week to complete it. And let Congress make it a law a3 soon as pos- sible, instead of wasting its time in interminable and unprofitable disputes about slavery and the negro. If members would only consider that they were not sent to Washington to legislate for black men, but for white, they would be more likely to take hold of the practical busi- ness of the nation, instead of wandering till they are lost in theoretical fogs. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Let the President, who is Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy, and let the generals under his command, deal with all negro matters in the field upon the strict principle of military necessity, and not an inch beyond. When the rebellion is put down, the slavery question will take care of itself. The Southern people will abolish it in due time if let alone. The firat Napoleon said that imagination ruled the world, and some one has since said that ideas control the destinies of the human race. It is more philosophical and correct to say that the facts upon which ideas are found- ed, and which give food to the imagination, are the reat rulers of the world. The collision of the South with the Northern States in mortal combat will convince it that the system of free labor, which has produced such results, must be preferable to its own, and it will thus re- ceive new ideas. Its eyes will be opened to the necessity of a change, and it will submit to its destiny. In this country election contests are very severe; great excitement is produced, and often even violence. But when the ques- tion is decided the beaten party submits with a good grace; and so will it be in this war. The South, having been well beaten, and hav- ing nothing to gain by holding out, when there is no longer any hope of success, will yield, confessing and deploring the error into which it had fallen, and which cost it so much of treasure and of blood. It will soon discover that it will gain more by get- ting rid of the odious name and form of slavery than by retaining it. The substance can be secured by State laws compelling the negroes to work for wages, and by this plan more labor at less cost will be obtained from them than by the present system, which has ar- rayed against it the prejudices of the civilized world. The slavery question may, therefore, be safe- ly left to time. Congress has no legal or consti- tutional right to meddle with it, and any action it may pursue on the subject will only compli- cate matters and render confusion worse con- founded. The important business on hand is to pass a comprehensive tax bill—a measure which is as neceseary to sustain our armies in the field as it is to uphold the financial credit of the government, and save the country from na- tional disgrace. Shocking Kevelations in Pablic Job- bery. . During the past week Congress has been de- bating upon public contracts and contract in- vestigating committees, and the subject seems perfectly inexhaustible. The debate was some- what wrenched from its original course, to. wards the close of the week, by the speech of Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, charging corrup- tion upon the committees which were investi- gating corruptions; and this speech elicited the masterly and crushing reply of Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, of which we have already pub- lished a telegraphic summary. In this reply, while completely vindicating his own committee, Mr. Dawes developed the fact that Mr. Stevens’ defence of the contractors probably originated in the connection of a relative, named Simon Stevens, with a ninety thousand dollar con- tract under Cameron. The retort was just and merited. It is indisputably proven by the numerous reports of investigating committees that the frauds upon the government, since this war be- gan, have exceeded by millions of dollars any previous corruption in this country. During Buchanan’s administration matters were bad enough; but since President Lincoln brought the republican party into power official peculation and contract jobbery have been carried to an unprecedented excess. There is hardly a department of the government which is free from corruption, and the War and Navy departments especially are perfect cesspools of iniquity and robbery. Of all the public buildings in Washington, the White House alone is free from the traces of official crimi- nality. On the floor of Congress are men who profess to represent the people, but who have robbed and are robbing their constituents of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Upon mus- ket contracts alone the late Secretary of War squandered forty-six millions of dollars, and we have no doubt that at least sixty or seventy millions more have been needlessly thrown away during this war, or expended, not for the public good, but for private aggrandizement. Such sad truths as these speak for themselves and require no comment. They must, how- ever, be put before the people in order to be understood, and it is for this that we have to thank the Congressional investigating commit- tees. Yet, although the people read and un- derstand, they do not by any means appreci- ate these facts. Atrue and genuine appreci- ation of gross frauds like those exposed does not come with reading or reflection, but with the payment of taxes. It will come to us soon. Mr. Dawes expresses this same idea when he says that, by and by, when the bone and sinew of the country is taxed to pay the expenses of this war, his constituents will ask:—“For what was this money expended?” Wedo not think it will be a satisfactory answer to rejoin:—“It was expended to make contractors rich, to re- ward personal and poligical services, to sustain decaying newspapers, to provide for poor rela- tions.” But what other answer have the govern- ment officials? Sixty orseventy millions of dol- lars have already been diverted from purposes of legitimate expenditure to enrich shoddy con- tractors, to pay two and half per cent ship brokers, to support Cummings’ World or Gree- ley’s gun manufacturing Tribune, and to fill the empty purses of brothers, nephews and brothers-in-law of officials. The very politi- cians who have cried most lustily, in and out of Congress, for public economy and public honesty, are now as black with corruption as the negroes whom they have so long worsbip- ped. The very men whose bitter and fanatical agitations have produced this war are the very persons who are making the war an excuse to rob the public Treasury for the benefit offthemselves, their relatives and friends, Mr. Stevens is not the only political abolitionis, who has a brother with a large contract; anfl wheter or not Mr. Stevens he innogeat of any NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1862.—TRIPLH SHEBT. fraud, it is very certain that hundredsof othdre” in the same predicament as he, are indubitably guilty. It may be well that the people do not yet fully appreciate the whole truth of this matter, and that our honest and sagacious Pre- sident deems it best to remove the official criminals, as far as is in his power, in such & manner as not to expose the official criminali- ties. If to-day the American people could sud- denly realize the real state of affairs in Congress and in the departments, official rogues would be scourged out of the capital with a lash ae keen as that with which Christ purged the tem- ple of the ancient public thieves, and the very government itself would shake like a reed before the blasting storm of popular indignation. No words, however strong, can bring this popular realization, and we can but educate the popular mind, by continual iteration of facts, to endure the truth more calmly when the tax collector, like a powerful magician, opens the eyes and clears the understandings of the peo- ple. When we have to pay hard cash out of our pockets into the purses of public robbers, we ‘shall see jobbery in a different aspect from the present. Tales of Dick Turpin and Claude Duval are most interesting and amusing read- ng; but when the highwayman claps his pistol to your head, and de- mands your money, the sensations are by no means so agreeable. In Europe, where heavy taxes hang like dead weights upon all classes of the people, our condition is much better understood than by ourselves. Basing their articles upon the reports of our investi- gating committees, the European newspapers, magazines and reviews teem with terrible pic- tures of our corruption, as if a contemplation of our misfortunes would console Europeans for their own. Though often and purposely exaggerated, there is much more truth in these European screeds than most of us are at present willing to admit. In good time, however, we shall be forced to see ourselves, if not as others see us, at least in a light sufficiently gloomy and repulsive. Then these official reports of investigations, conducted not by the opponents, but by the partisans of the administration, and designed for no party object, will be most use- ful, and the people will owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Dawes and his colaborers for the prepa- ration of these directories of corruption. When that time comes the people, guided by these official reports, will mete out to public swin- dlers, thieving politicians and jobbing journals a retribution as unexampled in its severity as is the present corruption in its criminality. Poor Greevey anp His Way To Make Monty.—Poor Greeley, fairly cornered by our exposition of his gun manufactory, declares that he will not “allude again to this matter” of guns. We might believe him were it not for the fact thatin his “ Just Once ” confession he promised never again “to allude ” to war criticisms, and did not keep his promise, In his allusion to the gun matter yesterday poor Greeley omits all reference to Stanton’s official report of the connection of Mr. Snow, money editor of the Tribune; Mr. Wilkinson, Washing- ton correspondent of the. Tridune,and Mr. Almy, dry goods reporter of the Tribune, with the Eagle Manufacturing Company and its gun con- tract, but contents himself with stating that Mr. Almy is not a shareholder in the Tribune. That is a fine reply to Stanton’s official docu- ments, is it not? We dare poor Greeley to republish the official papers in reference to this matter, and let his readers see whether or not “no shareholder in the Tribune is or ever was interested in Mr. Almy’s gun making com. pany or contract in any manner whatever.” We know that, in poor Greeley’s opinion, tell® ing the truth is not, to use his favorite expres- sion, “ the way to make money;” but we should judge from his present poverty that he has not found lying ‘‘ the way to make money ” either, and so we desire him to try truth for a while. We are by no means done with the share- holders of the Tribune, and shall certainly «allude to this matter again,” whether Greeley does or not. This gun contract is not the only job in which Tribune shareholders have been engaged since the outbreak of this war, We have proofs enough of artesian wells sunk into the public treasury by Greeley & Compa. ny, of Drummond lights making the darkness of corruption visible, of speculations in land at Pr nboy, and of other as palpable jobs, orga ers, to make poor Greeley sick of jobbery ; and then we shall administer a dose of the Cherry Pectoral, which a Tribune shareholder is trying to force into our soldiers, to add to his nausea, Let poor Grecley be patient, and he shall have his fill of evidence against him. Meanwhile, let him refiect a little before he again prates about his virtue, and remember, not only the gun business, but also his hypocritical agency in Dana’s discharge, his recent slanderous se- cret circular sent to our patrons, and the promptitude with which he at first denied the genuineness of Beauregard’s cypher despatch, published by the Heraup exclusively. If he has any shame left we imagine that a review of these few out of a thousand similarly disgrace- ful acts will suggest to poor Greeley either re- pentance or suicide. Joun Buy's AMERICAN Fruykey AGatn.—The Times of yesterday is silly enough to charge that the Heran, Kepress and Journal of Com- merce ave guilty of “latent treason;” the Hr- RALD because it warned the War Department of the designs of the enemy, and the Express and Journal of Commerce because they disagree with the Times in opinion. John Bull’s Ame. rican flunkey does as poorly at logic as at lob- bying, and if he can show no other evidences of “latent treason” than these he had better drop the subject and devote himself more assi- duously than ever to abusing this country and praising England. That great speech of his at Albany, upon the policy of England during this war, developed his true vocation; and since Russell, John Bull's Irish flunkey, has retired from the field, there is a great chance for Ray- mond, John Bull’s American flunkey, At Albany Flunkey Raymond disorganized the lob- by, and failed in every one of his legislative schemes, including the Broadway Railroad bill He was dismissed with a ‘grudging vote of thanks from the Assembly, the yeas and nays being called upon the vote for the first time in the history of that body. Ashamed to show his face in New York so soon after this terrible Albany fiasco, Flunkey Raymond, in company with several of his stock jobbing partners, has gone on to Washington to dabble in jobbery there a la the Tribune Association. Flunkey Raymond is a fair specimen, not of “latent,” but of fully developed teason; and, as he strongly aspires to fill Flunkey Russell’s place, the curbstone jobbers of Wall street may ex- ect to hear “ome Wry good news” from him, vefoge Long. pa j and executed by Tribune sharehold-, Mr. Lincota’s Emancipation Mesbage. | The English papers generally persist im their misunderstanding of President Lincoln's Message, treating it as if it were thrown out as abid and @ bargain. It really is a pity that our transatlantic cousins cannot take more liberal and more enlarged views of American affairs and the policy of our government. We need hardly repeat what we have already said, that the emancipation Message of Mr. Lincoln, which has resulted in a resolution adopted by both houses, and signed by the President, was neither a bid nor the suggestiog ofa bargain, but was simply thrown out fot the purpose of discussion, not as a political, but as a social moral question. Mr. Lincoln, in the true spirit of a wise conservatism, would bring back this subject to the position in whick it stood before the country thirty years ago im the slaveholding States themselves. At that pe- riod those States began seriously to think of, and to propose measures of emancipation, and there is no doubt whatever but that the very suggestions thrown out by Mr. Lincoln would have been acted upon and carried out long bee fore now, had it not been for the violent inter+ ference of the abolitionists, and their bitter in- vectives against men who were honestly bent upon remedying all that was evilin their posi- tion. ‘The question now arises, what should be done with the slaves wherever the policy of emanci- pation, a9 suggested in the Message, may be adopted? Colonization is certainly out of the question; it would not be possible to expatriate four millions of people. The idea may serve for a hobby; but, practically, it is an impossi- bility. Why not, we would ask, place them, after their emancipation, when any State shall have resolved upon the measure, under the power of the State where they reside, treating them as a distinct and separate class, un- der the protection of the laws, requiring them to work, and causing them to be paid for their work? Why expateiate so large an amount of valuable labor? Them let them be retained to work and labor asa class, such as they are, distinct from the whites, placed under strict but fair laws, specially enacted in view of their special position, re- quiring them to work, and protecting them im being paid for their work. This would be not only possible, but easy in accomplishment. They are a distinct people, and let there be spe- cial and distinct laws to govern them in each State, protecting them in their lives and pro- perty, but enforcing the necessity of labor. They would thus be a subordinate class of la- borers, yet their own masters, subject to spe. cial tutelage and control, without possessing any political rights, subject to arrest and punishment as vagrants in case they refused or neglected to work. They would depend upon their own industry and exertions for their live- lihood, and, it is to be belived, they would _ labor mere vigorously and effectively under the lash of necessity and the stimulus of ree ward than they ever can be made to do under the lash of the driver. We think there would be many advantages resulting from placing them in this manner as freemen under a sys tem of laws suited to their character—advan- tages which would be felt both by themselves and their former owners. Why, then, should not some such system as this be tried, rathet than impracticable schemes of colonization, which, even if practicable, are hardly desirable? Such a plan, judiciouslycarried into execution, would set them free as far as they are capable of freedom; it would remove the odium of slavery, it would enable the Southern planter and farmer to get more labor out of them at less expense, it would leave them to take care- of themselves and not depend upon other they would be under the stimulus of benefiting themselves, and we believe that in all respects it would be better for them, better for their masters, better for the State, and better in the eyes of the whole civilized world. At all events it would be more humane than any plan of forced and involuntary expatriation to other climes and other peo- ple, differing in language, habits and religion from themselves. ConGresstonal, INVESTIGATION IN THE CusTo® Howse.—Several of the newspapers have stated that the investigation into the affairs of the New York Custom House has been. suppressed and will not be made public. This, we are informed, is an error. It is not only not sup- pressed, but will be before the public in a few days, and probably result in the removal of @ number of officials now holding positions im the Custom House. This same committee,in their investigations last fall and winter, caused. the removal of a general and a change in the Cabinet. The same power that stood behind them then is now pushing the matter forward in regard to the Custom House, as a prelimi- nary movement to further changes in the Cabi- net, with a determination to purify the admin- istration in all its branches. Tut New Stave Trape Treaty—Seeps op Ferere Wars with Enotanp.—We: publish this morning the text of the treaty just concluded between the United States of Ame- rica and her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland “for the suppression of the slave trade carried on upon the coast of Africa.’? The whole document is of high importance; for it contains the germ of many a future collision between this government and the British na- tion. The two contracting parties agree that the ships of their respective navies—which shalR be provided with special instructions for that purpose—shall have power to visit such mer- chant vessels of the two nations as may be rea- sonably suspected of being engaged in this, nefarious traffic. The other instructions of the treaty are minute and categorical; but, in the simple fact that the right of search is mutually given to the ships-of-war of each of these two nations, we see serious difficulties and compli- cations that must arise between this country and Great Britain. Although there may bea good deal of glorification on both sides, this mutual agreement will assuredly be the cause of a naval war with England at some time or another. We feel confident that the right thug conceded to British naval officers will not al- ways be exercised in a proper manner, but in many cases will be exceeded and outraged. It will be our duty always to prevent any such excess of authority, and this will be a fruitful cause of trouble. Our own officers, too, will sometimes go beyond the limita defined by the treaty, opening the door to col lisions with our British friends. The spirit of rivalry between these two nations is se groat that we cannot coneeive how the new treaty, can be put into execution without bringing about hostilities between the two Powers at aqme fuipse Ste, The naval (gt which ik wilt