The New York Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1862, Page 6

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New York, Tucsday, May 27, 1862, es THE SITUATION. The news received at the War Department up to eight o’clock yesterday evening, contained no ao- Count of the particulars of the retreat of Genera ‘Banks’ forces from Winchester to Williamsport. Despatches from the latter point have to be sent to Hagerstown by mountain messengers, where they are again forwarded by telegraph. Hence their transmission is necessarily slow. The official despatch of General Banks, received yesterday, refers only to the crossing of his forces safely over the Potomac. Some interesting de- Scriptions of the affair at Front Royal are publish- d in another colamn from an officer of the First Maryland regiment, who was present inthe action. Latest news from Washington states that three hundred ten of that regiment—which was report- @d to have been cut off to forty—have come in @afe to headquarters. , The rumors that General McDowell had aban doned Fredericksburg and retreated to Washing- ton, which wore ciroulated in the city yesterday, are entirely without foundation. In all proba- bility General McDowell will give s good account of himself very soon. Farther than this {t is not desirable @ say. At latest accounts yesterday he had advanced six miles beyond Fredericksburg. The rebels evacuated their camp on Saturday night, and withdrew their pickets Sunday morning. The Harris Light Cavalry scoured the eonntry on that day, for fifteen miles from the Rappahannock, ‘und found none of the enemy. Thus it will be Been that Genoral McDowell is advancing instead of falling back. One of the most remarkable effects of the late ews from General Banks’ column was the sudden fresh uprising of the North, at the mere intimation Bhat the national capital might be in danger. The call of the President for additional troops from the Governors of the different States was responded to by nearly half a miNion of men, who offered thoir services within twenty-four hours after the procia- mations were issued. We witnessed an evidence of the alacrity with which the call was answered in this city yesterday in the case of the Seventh wegiment of militia. Colonel Lefferts only received ‘the order of the Governor at eleven o’clock on Bunday might to march next, day, and at nine o'clock on Monday night he started for Wasliing- ton with a full regiment, thoroughly equipped, mid the enthusiasm and plaudits of « vast multi- tude. Several other regiments of the militia, as ‘will be seen by our news columns to-day, will fol- low them with equal promptitude. The Sixty- finth, without waiting for orders, offered them- welves at once to the Governor, and orders were received by their commandaat, Major Bagley, last night, to march for Washington to-morrow even- ing. Instances like these spesk volumes for the loyalty and devotion of the Nerth. It will be seen by our correspondence from New- bern, N.C., that negotiations have been entered into between Generals Wool and Burnside and the @ebel Generals Hager and Holmes, whereby four- een hundred Union soldiers, now held as prisoners of war, are to be released and sent home te their Panuilies. | The news which comes to us through rebel Gources to-dey is highly intersting. Prom the Petersburg Whig we learn that on the 19th eigh” Ween of the Monitor's crow went ashore at City Point and wore surprised by the rebels. Nine of them, it is reported, were made prisoners, and the balance rushed to their boat and pulled for the Monitor. Of these nine, cigut were killed oad the femaining one lost an arm. Great slarm existe in Richmond, as wil be seen by extracts from Richmond papers, pwblished in this iague,in anticipation of the coming battle, which must decide the fate of that city. Two Hundred thousand dollars have bees appropriated by the Virginia Legislatare to remove the “‘wo- fnew, children and decrepid persons resident at tie peat of government’ to @ place of safety. The Pebels under General Joe Johnston are now en- amped within «© few miles of Richmond. The Jatest rebel advices would favor the idea that s Bes; crate defence isto be made against the ad- ance of the Union forces. Th revel accounts from Corinth say that their Wpreperations are complete.” One repert says hat “+ battle is imminent,” while another speaks lof “the cantlous policy’ of General Halleck in ooping for the prevent whore he can receive the a NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1862—TRIPLE sid of his gunboats, and doubts that any Dutile will soon occur. Both agree, how: ever, that the rebels are at a loss to un derstand General Halleck's plans. General Price now commands the rebel advance im that quarter. If the Southern journals are to be believed, “a spirit of emulation has been born in the various Tegimenta that will result in deeds of valor com- Pared with which Shiloh was only # parade.” Rebel details of the battle at Farmington are given, according to which it resulted in an “‘an- ceremonious rout” to the Union troops. Nothing important is given from the Virginia valloy. The rebel journals complain of the surveil- lance exercised over them in this particular. The Richmond Dispatoh says that “‘little has been al- lowed to transpire of the movements of our troops n the valley. For some cause or other, a more than usual caution with regard to operations in that quarter has existed.’’ The Lynchburg Republican gives the rebel details of the fight at McDowell, and says that “Northwestern Virginia is now nearly free from Union troops.”” From the Mississippi flotilla the rebel accounts inform us that a demand was made by the Union commander for the surrender of Vicksburg, the Mayor of which city replied, ‘‘that he was unpro- tected, but would never surrender.” All was quiet there on the 19th. The gunboat fight near Fort Pillow is represented as another rebel vio- tory, but the accounts are meagre. It says:— “Our sharpshooters literally mowed the enemy down.’’ The news from Charleston gives us the particu- lars of the declaration of martial law in that city. The Charleston Mercury, in anticipation of an at- tack there, puts the query:—‘‘Is not Charleston to be defended?” and a correspondent, speaking of a contemplated surrender of the city, says: —“If indeed, this decree is written in the Book of Fate then let us know it at once, that patriots may have the chance to die before so terrible a doom shall overtake them.” Several other items of interest from rebel papers will be found under the appropriate head. The European news by the Kangaroo and Hibernian, telegraphed from Cape Race, is dated to the 16th of May—five days later than our ad- vices by the Scotia. The Canada, at Queenstown and Liverpool, had reported the capture of New Orleans by the Union army; and, her news being subsequently confirmed, the event was very widely commented on by the London journals. The fact produced no influence on the Liverpool cotton market at first, but Ameri- can descriptions of the staple experienced a de- cline at the latest date of the Kangaroo. Is is acknowledged by the London Times thatthe taking of New Orleans isa great triumph for the North. That paper says that the United States Ministers in London and Paris had been ‘‘told to assure the governments that plans are being ma- tured for mitigation of the blockade.” The writer entertains no doubt of the sincerity of the intention of the federal Cabinet in this direction, and states that, with the fall of New Orleans, there is “‘an end to the blockade of that city.” Only one thing was wanting, in his opinion, and that was that ‘‘cotton should come down’ to New Orleans. Should the rebela destroy the stock, he adds, “it is hard to see what is gained by the cap- ture.” The London Post and Herald—the organs of the Cabinet and extreme aristocrate—were inclined to underrate the value of the achievement, so far as commercial benefits to Europe were to be expected from it. The impression in Manchester, at the latest mo- ment, was to the effect that the fall of New Orleans would bring forward more cotton. The Opinion Nationale of Paris—Prince Napo- jeon’s organ—says that M. Mercier's visit to Rich- mond had reference merely to a French tobacco stock. The affair was still, however, the cause of much political speculation in Paris. Count de Persigny had, it was said, been sud- denly ordered from Paris to London, his mission having reference to the cargo of cotton and naval stores brought by the steamer Economist from Charleston to Liverpool. The subject of the distress of the artisans and workmen of Lancashire had been brought before the British House of Lords, without any referense to the American question. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, a memorial was pre- sented frem citizens of Southwest Missouri, asking protection from rebel guerilla bands. The bill le- gtlizing the acceptance by the President of alj troops thus far mustered into service was reported back from the Military Committee. Mr. Sumner offered two resolutions in relation to slaves—one calling on the Secretary of War for infomation as to the execution of our generals of the act of Au- gust, 1861, freeing slaves empleyed in any manner by the rebels to assist the rebellion; the other ex- tending s general invitation to afl persons, withous distinction ae to celor, te come forward and aid the government in putting dowa the rebellion. Mr. Sumner also offered a bill te repeal the Fugt tive Slave law and to prohibit slavery in the Ter- ritories, forte, arsenals, dockyards and all other places under the special jurisdiction of the national government. A joint resolution wes offered to compensate the officers and crew of the Varuna for their recent losses. Mz. Howe introduced a bill, which was referred, providing for » more effective mode of procedure with obstinate rebels in places taken possession of by the Union armies. A dis- cussion took place om the subject of the transfers of troops from same of the srmy corps to give strength to others, and especially with refercace to the recent weakening of General Banks’ army, thereby aecessitating hia retirement to the Pote- tac. The Tax bill was taken ap, and severat amendments were adopted. Pending the vote on an amendment to reduce the tax on tobacco from twenty to fifteen conta, the Sonate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, the Cenflaca- tion bill was taken up, and some discussion ensued. ‘The bill was somewhat amended, and finally passed, by eighty-two yeas to sixty-two nays. The bill to give freedom to slaves employed in the rebel service Was Dext taken up, and a debate on it took place, Various amendments wore offered and re- jected, ond finally a vote was taken on the pas. sage of the bill, and it was defeated, by seventy. eight noe to seventy-four yeas. The Heuate bill for the relief of the colored seamen who recently ran the rebel steamer lleuter out of Charleston | harbor, an] (olivered her to our blockading tect, was thon passed, when the House adjourned, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Kangaroo, from Liverpool the 14th and Queenstown the ith instant, passed Cape Race last Saturday night, on her yoyage to New York, and the Hibernian, from Londonderry on the 16th instant, passed the same point on Sun- day, on her way to Quebec, Both vessels were boarded by our news agent, and a report of the news—which is five days later—telegraphed from St. Johns, Newfoundland, is published in the Haravp this morning. Lord Palmerston’s government had been de- feated in the House of Commons by a majority of one recorded against ministers on the second read_ 42g of @ bill for the abolition of church rates, Garibaldi, as President, and other members of the Italian Association of Emancipation, had forwarded an address to Lord Palmerston, expressing their “joy and gratitude” at his speech, “‘full of meaning,’’ recently delivered to the House of Commons on the Italian question. Garibaldi and his friends use the significant words, “You (Lord Palmerston) have recognized the fact of Napoleon's occupation of Rome to be a flagrant violation of non-intervention. Lord Palmer- ston had promised, to a deputation, a govern- ment consideration of the claim of the Galway steamship line to a renewal of the Atlantic mail subsidy. It was said that Prussia had ordered some military movements threatening to the go- vernment of Hesse-Cussel on the German question, Victor Emanuel had an enthusiastic reception in Messina. It was reported that a military conspira- cy in favor of Poland existed in St. Petersburg. Consols closed in London on the 16th inst. at 93%4 8 93% for money. The bullion in Bank of England had decreased by $1,725,000. The Liver- pool cotton market was dull and downward on the 10th instant, after experiencing a decline of three. eishths to one-half of a penny on American descrip- tions, and one-eighth of a penny in Surat. Bread- stuffs were flat and still lower, from a decline. Provisions were heavy. The members of the new Cabinet of Canada were sworn in on Saturday last. It is composed of the gentlemen whose names we gave in Sunday's Hearawp, with the exception that Mr. Evanturel is substituted as Secretary of Lower Canada fot Mr. Loranger. There has been another destructive fire on Long Island. On Saturday afternoon, about five o'clock, Suffolk county was again visited by a large fire, whichcommenced in the woods about two miles east of Suffolk station, and near the Long Island Railroad. The wind was blowing fresh at the time, and the fire increased with great rapidity during Saturday night and all day on Sunday, until evening, when, the wind subsiding, and through the exertions of the inhabitants, it was checked, after destroying an area of several miles of valu- able wood andtimber. The loss is very large. The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening, and transacted considerable routine busi- ness. A number of reports of committees were presented and laid over. After a long debate, a resolution proposing to set apart the Infants’ Home—now occupied jointly by the Northeastern Dispensary and Ladies’ Home—for sick and wounded soldiers, exclusively as a hospital, was referred to a special committee. The Mayor sub- mitted a communication received from the Homeo- pathic Medical Society of the County of New York, tendering their services to the authorities of this city “to take charge of any hospital which may be placed in their care, and to treat therein such of our volunteer goldiery as may prefer their method of cure.” The paper was referred to the Committee on National Affairs. A communication was received from the Comptroller, asking for an additional appropriation of $12,000 for the com- pletion of the new Court House for the Fourth Dia- trict Police Court, which was referred to the Com- mittee on Finance. The ordinance from the Com- mittee on National Affairs, for the relief of the fa- milies of volunteers, which was discussed in the Board of Aldermen, was laid over. The Comp- troller sent in a statement of the disbursements made in the several Senatorial districts, from the 3d to the 9th inst., being the day on which pay- ments were discontinued. The aggregate amount ‘was $28,139. An appropriation of $1,000 was made to the Homeopathic Dispensary. Benjamin De Forrest, a bookkeeper in the em- ploy of Duncan, Shermen & Co., bankers, of No. 11 Nassau street, was arrested yesterday on 9 charge of embezzling sums amounting in the ag- gregate to $10,569. His employers allege that these embezzlements have been going on since January, 1860. The accused, who is a man of fa- mily, was committed for examination, by Justice Brennan. The bulls and bears of Wall street got so excit- ed yesterday over the recent intelligence from the seat of war, that the police had to be called upon to restore order. Mr. Alexander M. Stanton, an outside operator, was arrested for obstructing the sigewalk at the corner of William street and Ex- change place; but, on being brought before Justice Brennan, he was discharged. In the General Sessions yesterday, @ jury was empannelled to try an indictment found by the present Grand Jury against Robert W. Butler, proprietor of the American Music Hall, 444 Broadway, for a violation of the Concert Saloon act. After consultation with Judge McCunn and Mr. Brady, Assistant District Attorney Stewart moved to postpone the case till this (Tuesday) morning, for the purpose of giving the counsel for the defendant time to prepare a special plea, which may summarily dispose of the case without trial. If this course is pursued, a demurrer will be filed, and the matter will"then be brought to thé Supreme Court, where the constitutionality of the law will be tested. A number of the “ pretty waiter girls” were in attendance, and, as soon as the Court adjourned, they were surrounded by » horde of dissipated but well dressed loafers. Seventeen of the mutineers on board the Victo- ry, during her last voyage from Liverpool to New York, were brought up yesterday before Commis siener Osborn. The examination was commenced’ and adjourned to this morning. Im the cave of Martin against Butler and ethers, an action on # note of the Chicago Railroad Com- pany, tried in the Bepreme Conrt Circuit, it should have been the Court directed a verdict for de- fendants, instead of for plaintiff ‘The stock market opened panicky yesterday morning, im consequence of the repulse of General Banks and the news from Washington, and @ decline of 181% per eent cecurred. At the decline a fresh inquiry for stocks arcee, and the market rallied im the afternoon % a 4 per cent, closing steady. Money was active in conse. quence of the shifting of leans. We quote call loans at @aSper cent. Exchange wes higher: 114% for bank ore’, Gold rose to 106 The bank statement, in another column, shows an increase of $659 367 in lane, $002,003 im specie, and $2,506,085 in deposite. There are no farther developments im regard to the affair of the Indiana bonds. The legal officers of the State are expected in town to-morrow evening. ‘The cotton market was again actlve and higher yester- day, and closed at an advance of 1c. por lb. The sales embraced about 2,000 bales on the basis of 300. por ib. fer middling wplands, The stock on band was much re. éuced in amount. Flour, before the Kangarco’s newn, ‘was firmer and rather higher for common grades, with astoady demand. After ite reseipt it exhibited bes buoyancy and activity. Wheat alee exhibited more firmness aud activity at the commencement of ‘Change, but the foreign news tomled to slacken business and to moderate prices. The sales, however, were pretty freely’ made. Cora was firm, witheut any decided change in prices. Bales of Western mined were made ai 47¢.0 480, for pew, and at 480. © 500. # 66340. for do., in store aod delivered. Pork was steady, though sales were moderate at 244 & $12 26 for mews, closing at the jatter figure, and prime et $9480 7. Sorars were in gocd request, with sales of 1,400 bids. and 325 boxes at fall prices, Onifoe was steady ‘ile sales of Rio wore ight ‘A sale of 1,000 bags of was made for oxportat p. ¢. Freighte wore rather heavy, though | without chasge of taoment, while engagements were (air. The Repulse of General Ba: Lesson Which It Teaches. ‘The repulse of General Banks from the \val- ley of Virginia can only be regarded as. very unfortunate event, That he has made ® mas- terly retreat, after having been brought several times in collision with the overwhelming forces of the pursuing rebels, is apparent from the distance of sixty miles or more traversed by his little army in two days. He has thus, in saving his army from capture, done more than could have been expected of him under the circum- stances. But he has succeeded, not only in saving his troops, but his baggage trains, which would have been more valuable to the scantily supplied rebels than the capture of three times the number of his men, without their supplies and transportation. General Banks, therefore, may be justly considered as having skilfully discharged his duty in this retreat; but still the rebels have doubtless secured valuable military stores, to a considerable amount, at Front Royal, Stras- burg and Winchester ; and, in recovering the control of the great valley abandoned by our troops, the rebel guerillas may be expected to be prompt and merciless in their acts of ven- geance and plunder against all those of the local population accused or suspected of Union sentiments and sympathies. The extensive region conquered from the rebellion, and the success- ful labors therein of General Banks of the last three months, in behalf of the Union, are lost in this single overwhelming dash of the enemy upon his unwisely diminished forces. Whatever, down to this event, may have been the programme of the War Office in reference to the co-operative movements of the army of General Banks and that of General McDowell, it is very evident at length that the government comprehends the necessity of instantly revising its plans to defeat the real movements of the enemy, now so clearly disclosed. Mr. Secre- tary Stanton may have acted prudently in strengthening the army of General McDowell; but he must now be convinced that the army of General Banks, instead of being reduced, should have been strengthened at the same time. The rebel army at Richmond and thereabouts occupies a central poiat, which gives it a great advantage in striking out at any exposed column of our forces around the en- closing circle of our advanced lines of occupa- tion, and the column of General Banks in the Shenandoah valley was thus ina particularly exposed position. Unquestionably the rebel authorities at Rich- mond were immediately informed of every regiment withdrawn from his army, and in this way the rebel army of Jackson was rein- forced in season to drive back from the Shenan- doah valley our four or five thousand troops there (originally thirty-five thousand) in double quick time over the Potomac river. We presume, however, that Mr. Secretary Stanton, in reducing the army of Gen. Banks, was satisfied that Jackson had been finally driven off; that his forces were moving across to join the rebel camp in front of Gen. McDowell; and it is alto- gether probable that the rebels industriously circulated some such idea, in order to deceive our generals and our War Office and to lead them astray. At all events, we have been out- generalled again in the Shenandoah valley, and have lost it temporarily; but we do not appre- hend that this rebel raid will amount to any- thing more. This disaster, too, will soon be amply re- paired. The government is thoroughly aroused, and Mr, Secretary Stanton, always represented as wide awake, is now undoubtedly so. Within the present week, we dare say, he will have thirty or forty thousand troops within support- ing distance of Washington and General Banks, independently of the army of Gen. McDowell. With a third of this aggregate force against any possible rebel foray, however bold and despe- rate, Washington fs seoure within its encircling fortifications. We have not the remotest ides, however, of # rebel foray upon Washington, but avery strong impression that within the next two or three days the rebel Jackson will receive such news from Richmond and the Potomae as will move him again, if not cap- tured or cut off, up the Shenandoah valley as rapidly as he came down. Taught the wholesome lesson, by this repulse of Gen. Banks, that itis dangerous to presume too largely upon the distance or weakness of the enemy, and that our rear should always be protected, we doubt not that our Secretary of War, under the instructions and personal super- vision of President Lincoln, will promptly re- pair damages, and put an extinguisher upon the rebel guerillas of Virginia, by pushing them, after the fashion of Gen. McClellan, to the wall. é Exousn Views or tae Cartors ory Naw teans—The news ef the fall of New Orleans appears, from the advices received by the Kangaroo, to have produced marked impres- sion in England. Nothing but the bare fact of its capture had reached there when the Kan- garoe left Liverpool, and, of course, no accurate conception could be formed of the difficulty and magnitade of the undertaking, and of the desperate gallantry with which it was effected. Still the importance of the recapture of this, the principal ootton port of the South, by the federals, seems to have been fully recognized, altbough the secession agents and their organs in the English press were industriously eceking to depreciate ite effect. When Charleston, Sa- ‘vannah and Mobile fall into our hands, a few weeks hence, it will considerably modify the tone of these latter. Every pretence for foreign interference will then have been removed, and, finding the game is up, journals which have beon hitherto so violent against us will proba bly see the wisdom of taking the opposite tack. ‘We expect, in fact, to find the English tories becoming our very good friends and leving cousins as soon as they see that we are likely to have a little leisure to devote to a conside- ration of the score that has been secamulating between us. That time is fast approaching, and therefore we give ourselves but little oon- cern as to what they may say of us just now. BuNE.—The newspaper correspondents turned out of General Haileck’s camps have been making an unnecessary fass about the matter, and publishing « card, which the Tribune re- views with s sour stomach and many bitter words. The correspondents ought to have stayed at the rearof the army until» battle was fought, and they could have obtained just @ much news thereas in camp. As for the Tritune, its trouble about the affair seems to have been taken only for the purpose of indulg- ing ine fling at the Herat, whose tolographio report of the battle of Pittsburg Landing it calls “essentially false.” On the contrary, this re. port was cesentially true, and pes been cog: SHEET. » amd tme | firmed by subsequent accounts. Besides, the Tribune copied the report into an extra, paying ® part of the telégraphing expenses, too. Mr. Gay, the leading editor of the Tribune since Dana left, says in his published letter that poor Greeley is “compelled to copy from the Heap” all the reliable news, because his own Correspondents “send him nothing.” This has soured Greeley towards us; and now he not only steals our news, as he did Beauregard’s despatch, but abuses us for obtaining it for him to steal. Let him get good humored, however, for the first payment upon that gun manufac- turing contract is due in afew days. His pock- ets are now as empty as his head, and therefore is he bitter against us; but he will feel better when he gets his contract job plunder. Mean- while, our reporters are in their right places, 80 ‘that the Heratp will report General Halleck’s army movements, and the Tribune may “copy from it.” Passage of the Confisea' House of Repres Yesterday, amidst the echos of the guns of the enemy on the Upper Potomac, the House of Representatives absurdly passed a Confisca- tion bill by a vote of eighty-two against sixty- twe. It is like Nero fiddling while Rome was burning. It is the discussions of such bills in Congress, and the foolish proclamations of generals, that have revived the sinking cause of the rebels and brought them back to the vicinity of Washington and Maryland. The whole course of Congress since the opening of the seasion has been worth more than two hun- dred thousand men to the insurgent leaders, Bat for the proceedings of the abolitionists in Congress and out of it the rebellion would have long since died a natural death. Their business appears to be to heap fresh fuel on the expiring flame. The best recruiting sergeants of the rebels are the abolition demagogues in the halls of Congress. A short time ago Sena- tor Wilson proposed to stop enlistment and re- duce the army by two hundred thousand men. From our report of the proceedings in Congress yesterday we perceive he now wants to add two hundred thousand men to the seven hundred thousand already raised, making in all close upon a million of men organ- ized for the war. Had it not been for the disloyal course of the abolitionists in playing into the hands of the rebels, fifty thousand men would have sufficed to restore the Union and peace. If they continue in their present course, and are not put down by an indignant people, he must be a very far-seeing and profound phi- losopher who can prediot the end of the war, or measure the disastrous consequences to the American republic and the human race. Only two things were necessary to be done— one was to whip the rebels in the field, and the other was to supply our army with the sinews of war. The first is not in the line of, the brawling fanatics in Congress. They would prefer that the honest, hard-fisted democracy should fight the rebels, and be so killed off as to diminish their numbers atthe ballot box, while the abolitionists should enjoy the spoils of office and revolutionize the government. But if the fanatics and fools in Congress are very re- luctant to fight, they have at least the power of supplying with money a patriotic army ready and willing to pour out its blood like water for the Union. Here again Congress is at fault. It will not pass the Tax bill, so essential to the finan- cial credit of the country and the ultimate suc- cess of our arms; while it wastes its time in discussing and passing foolish bills for confis cating the property of rebels of which we have not possession, which is about equal in wisdom to the project of emancipating the alaves before we are in occupation of the territory where the slaves are to be found. The proverb of count- ing the chickens before they are hatched is prudence, compared with the aetion of Con- gress. It is not only reckoning without its host, but doing its worst to defeat. the calcula- tions of our generals and their armies. Let the rebels be first subdued, and the au- thority of the federal government established ip the insurgent States, and then the question of preventing a recurrence of rebellion is in order, Most certainly to hold out beforehand a sweep- ing measure of confiscation, making no distinc- tion between leaders and their deluded follow- ers, is not the way to put down the rebellion, for there is no inducement left to the rebels to yield ; on the contrary, every temptation is offered to them to resist to the last, and this, no doubt, is the secret of the bill now passed. The design is to prevent the restoration of the Union. But the spirit of the people is sudden- ly aroused by recent events. Let disloyal mem- bers of Congress beware. Even such donkeys as Andrew, of Massachusetts, already perceives the rising storm. Jt was but a day or two sgo that he threw cold water on the call of the government for additional troops. Now he is ready to send it more men than it wants. Let Congress take the hint’ Let the Senate post- pone the Confiscation bill to a more convenient season, and let it promptly pass the Tax bill, containing a few articles of universal consump- tion, and not a long list intended to beget a host of collectors as destructive to the people's substance as am army of locusts. Let Congress do this and go home. The people are sick of its folly and its treason to the cause of the na- tion. There isa reckoning ia store for every man of the present Congress, as there is for every member of the Cabiact. Let the ad- ministration be purged, and let the unsound part be cut away, lest it taint and corrupt the whole. Our only confidence is in the firmness, patriotism and common sense of | Mr. Lincoln. Heretofore he has proved true to the country. Let him plant one heel upon the neek of the abolition serpent, and crush out its vitals, while with the other he bruises the head of secession. The people will support him to the last extremity, and he need have no fear of the frowns or threats of factions radical chiefs, whose motto, like that of the secession- ists, is “rule or ruin.” Smvootme Tae Trreune Into Tx Sovm.— The harm done to the Onion cause by such abo- lition journals as the 7rilame is incalculable, Not only does the TrPame endeavor to divide and distract the loyal North, but it is used as a means of exasperating and exciting the robels. Seceseion sympathizers at Baltimore take good care that the Tribune, with ite abolition articles and reprints of Sumner, Garrison and Phillips’ abolition letters and speeches, shall be smug- gledinto the South, where these tirades are read to the rebel soldiers aa expressions of Northern feeling. The people here know very well that the 7rfrne represonts only a class of people so disreputable, contemptible and insig- nificant as to be unworthy of notice. The rebel leaders at the South, hewever, take care tha, the Southern people shall not be informed of fais Cagt. Consequontly, gi) Southerg Union men agree, ag our Nashville correspondend states this morning, that their chief obstable in convincing disloyal people that the North and the government are not abolitionized is the , and such abolition organs, and the abolition speeches which these journals publish. The Tribune Association may wish to prolong this war, in order to keep its gun manufactory at work; but we think that it will very soon be com- pelled to find means to accomplish this object other than its present policy of dividing the North, ala Governor Andrew, and exasperat- ing the South to desperation by continually tampering with slavery. More Fighting—Lese Tatxing! Sharp stones, not grass, nor hard words, nor soft remonstrances, brought down the boy whe- was robbing the farmer’s apple tree. Har® fighting, and not loud talking nor’ silly legisla tion, must put down this rebellion. If Heenam had been occupied, during his fight with Sayers, in discussing the social institutions of England with some one outside the ring, carrying on the prize fight and the argument at the same time, he would have been very easfly defeated im both. If this nation cannot be satisfied to whip the rebels first and se‘tle the slavery question afterwards, we are very much afraid that the rebellion will never be put down, and that slavery and the nation will expire together. More fighting and less talking is the order of the day. There never was a Congress with » plainer road before it than the Congress now assembled at Washington. We are in a state of civil war. Our government-has to. be sustained, and a ter- Tible rebellion put down by force of arms. Our Congress, therefore, should be a fighting Con- gress. Every measure not relating to the war, not assisting the Union armies, not necessary te the maintenance of the goveroment, should be laid on the table, kicked under the table or summarily voted down. Every act accessory to the war should be passed with as little de bate as possible. These are plain, common sense rules, which should govern ull legislation. now as abselutely as the rules of addition and subtraction govern all arithmetical calcula- tions. The Tax bill suppties us with the sinews of war, and should be immediately passed; but is it? The Confiscation bill can only be carried into effect when the war is over, if, indeed, it can be carried into effect atall, and should therefore lie over. But no; Congress finds o nigger in the Confiscation bill and keeps debat- ing about him, while the important Tax bill is neglected. Is that the sort of legislation for times like these? The President has ca'led for more troops, and from every quarter the militia is preasing on to tho field, and the new regiments are being recruited. The emergency is sudden; the ne- cessity urgent. Yet we see Andrew, of Massa- chusetts, holding back the soldiers of that State in order to have a little taik about the nigger. Yet we see journals like the Tribune attempt- ing to divide the North and discourage recral ing by writing articles about the nigger. Vain is the consideration that the Union must be saved or lost by fighting, and that the govern- ment now needs fighting men. These peeple prefer abolition to the Union. They call them- selves loyalists, and yet place themselves in the path of the government, and insist that, before anything else is done, theslavery question must be settled; that, before the Union is saved, the President must declare his pro or anti slavery policy; that, before any more troops go into the field, the government must be abolition- ized. Fortunately, this class of people: is neither large, respectable nor influentials but it is disgraceful to the country that one such journal as the Tribune or the Anti-Slavery Standard, that one such orator as Phillipa, Cheever or Garrison, should be found in it at such a time as thia. Particularly is it disgrace" fal that these pariahs should find a champioa in Andrew, whose official position gives his words an influence which neither his abilities nor his opinions deserve. Several States have been wholly or in part reclaimed from the rebels, and are now to be reconverted to loyalty. North Carolina, Ten- nessee, Kentucky and Missouri are in this chrysalis stage. The Union men in these States are trying to reclaim the disunionists. They unanimously testify, as in the letter of oar Nashville correspondent elsewhere published, that the abolition letters and speeches of such men as Sumner, Wilson, Lovejoy and*Hickman are the great stumbling blocks in their way. Accounts from the rebel States agree in assert- ing that Tribune editorials and abolition speeches are smuggled into the. South, read a the head of rebel regiments, and employed by the rebel leaders te goad the people to mad- ness. Yet such editorials are written, such speeches are made, in the loyal States and by professedly loyal mes. Governor Andrew's tion will madden every rebel whe reads it or hears it read. It is as treasonable a document as one of Jeff. Davis’ messages, and as untrue as one of Beauregard’s proclamations, It emulates the treagoa of the Hartford Conveny tion. It is as encouraging a signal to the rebela as the blue lights burned by recreant Yankees were to the British fleet during the war of 1812. The articles of the abolition papers and the speeches of sbolition orators, in and out og Congress, are no better and no worse. They all unnerve loyal men. They all strengthen the rebels. They are all, therefore, criminal, disloyal, treasonable. In civil war, as in reli- gion, he who is not with us wholly and uncond> tionally is against us utterly and injuriously. Our people and our government must appre- ciate these facta. Onr Oongress, our publie men, our journals and our orators must either do nothing sad say nothing, or act and speak directly for the Union cause, Then we shall know who are friends and who are foes. Slave- ry must be left to teke its chances with the other domestic institutions of the South We are not yet half waked up to the requirements of this war. When we become se. alive to its responsibilities as to devote every energy to ite, succersfat prosecution, then wesball speedily orush out the rebeHion and can chatter about slavery at our leisure. Now there must be an end of abolition harangues and philanthrople schemes for benefitting the niggers, whom some people regard as of more importance than the country. More fighting and ees talking is re- quired if we desire to have @ country to live and to talk in this time next year. Tan Lee Sam toe Berrer—Has poor Gree- ley made @ political contract with Fernando Wood? If so, then we can readily understand why the Tribune stirs up Wood so frequently, If not, why don’t the Tribune let Wood alonet Fernando would be perfectiy burmless if lef to bismaaif, > tate, eae