The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EAULOR AND PROVE OFFICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. mail ioill be at the “ in New York or $0 12 / California Eun cents Ber Cony, 9 $i THE FAMIL JOB PRINTING executed with newtness, heapacss and des- patch Volame XXVII.., AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Caip or me Rect ‘wert—Star or the Dance. WALLACK'S THEATRE, 844 Broadway.—Turice Max. RikD—My Two Fatuers—Retursep Vouusteen. LAUR. B'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Faxcnoy, ou me WINTER GARDEN, Broad PEST. KEEN RACKNT. y.—Tue Wizarp's Tem. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—Jack Suxerarp on Lions: vack—OLp Hkios 4ND Youna Hants Joop For Noruisc. BOWERY THEATR IULAKT—PO CA-noN-TAS— 4ap Lil.—¥eLon's Dazan. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Ni B ery. —JULIAN—ROMRO AND cw AND MAIDEN—RiGH- 485 Broadway.—Mgoxi— Brow Bor. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Com, Nurr—Livinc W &c., at all hours —MoncumeanD— Afternoon and E} BRYANTS’ MINST Way.—O% To RicuMmonD. 3’ Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- CHRISTY’S OPERA HOWS: Soncs, Dances, Le.~Sanpy | 385 Broadway.—Ermiortan SON AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, No. 444 Broadway.—Sones, Buni xsques, Dances, tc. NATIONAL THEATRE AND MUSIC HALL, Canal street.—Sones, Daxcus, Bumiesgurs, 4c. GAIETIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.—Daawixa Roow Enteutanuxnts, PEOPLE'S MUSIC HALL, 45 Bowery.—Soxas, Dances, Buuiesques, tc. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 B: - ‘Open daily from 10 A. M. till 10 P.M. ner THE SITUATION. We have to announce to-day an important change in the military command in Western Vir- ginia, proving that our predictions as to the ob- fect of the President’s visit to West Point were perfectly accurate. Genera! Pope has received the supreme command of affairs in the Shenan- doah Valley, and will now be pitted against the rebel Stouewall Jackson. The forces under Major Generals Fremont, Banks and McDowell have been consolidated into one army, called “the Army of Virginia, and Major Gene- cal Pope has beem especially assigned by the President to the chief command. The forces under General Fremont constitute the first army corps, to be commanded by Gene- tal Fremont. The forces under General Banks conatitute the aecond army corps, and are to be commanded by him. The forces under General MoDowell constitute the third army corps, to be commanded by him. General Pope enters upon his new command with the prestige of former successes in the Mississippi Valley and in Missouri surrounding his name, which mo doubt will be s host in itself with the army of ‘the Shenandoah, recently involved in a somewhat wnuddeld condition of affairs, under the manage- ment of the political generals. A soldier of great dash, combining ® capacity for fustant action with fine strategical power, as ‘his conduct st Shawnee Mound, New Madrid and Mstand No. 10 evinced, General Pope is just tha waa for the position assigned to him. His ap- ointment, under the circumstances, and in the (prompt manner by which it was accomplished, is another evidence of the firmness, sagacity and in- depeudence of Mr. Lincoln, and will insure renewed eonfidence on the part of the whole North—rabid abolitionists of course excepted—in his capacity #0 bring the country safely through its present difficulty, and that speedily, too. We may look out now for some stirring times in Western Vir- ginia, and the expulsion of Jackson from that region. In connection with the appointment of General Pope we give to-day a brief sketch of the gallant ~icer's career, which will be found exceedingly ow vinterestmy, We are in poatesn28 OF some further particu- lars—which we publish—of the skirmish in front of Richmond, on Wednesday. The ground contend- ed for wasa swamp, scattered over,with clumps of brushwood, with an open country in front. The Thain object of the advance appears to have been to obtain a dry and healthy location for that por- tion of our army then encamped in a swampy and sickly region. In this General McClellan proved entirely successful, a8 but little more ground ‘Ge effects of their previous unpleasant position. The rebel camps in front of General Hooker's di- vision are now occupied by our troops. Our total Joss in killed and wounded in the action of Wednes- day did not amount to over two hundred—the killed being exceedingly small—while that of the enemy was much greater. General McClellan con- ducted the affair in person, and his presence stim- ulated the valor of the men engaged. We publixh to-day s very interesting and comprehensive map of the rebel defences and positions of their forces fo front of General McClellan's army previous to the late affair. A despatch received at the War Department yesterday afternoon from General McClellan, states that the affair of yesterday was perfectly successful; that we hold the new picket line un- @isturbed, and that all is very quiet on the banks of the Chickahominy. On Wednesday evening one of our gunboats moved up and shelledthe rebels on the Petersburg road, but without any casualties on the side of the rebels, according to their own account of the affair. ‘The official lists of the rebel losses at the battle of Fair Oaks have been published. Eighty-five regiments and battalions in all were engaged, sns- taining a loss of killed, wounded and missing of ‘five thousand, eight hundred and ninety-seven. With the exception of some details of the recent -expedition up the White river in Arkansas, and an engagement 0! gunboats near Grand Gulf on the Mississ: :, between Natchez and Vicks- barg, there ‘ing important to report from the West to-day. According to the Charleston Meroury every- “thing was quiet at Jamos Island on Sunday, but it <qaye that our troops wore busily engaged in throw- 26 © EF BHorks Whore. it is reported that the i steamer Memphis, a now iron veasel, from Liver- pool via Nassau, arrived at Charleston on Monday last, having on board Mr. Ward, of Alabama, late United States Minister to China, and a valuable cargo of British goods. the blockade is not stated. Our European files by the Arabia, dated ia Lon- dou and Paris on the Lith of June, contain ver- How she succeeded to run batim reports of the speeches delivered in the two liouses of the British Parliament on the sub jects of General Butler's late proclamation respect- ing the exhibition of rebel sympathies by the “ladies”? of New Orleans, and the idea of coalition between France and England for the purpose of “mediating” or intervening, in the governmental affairs of the United States, so far as relates to the suppression of the rebellion. The addresses of Earl Carnarvon, Earl Russell, Lord Palmerston, Sir J. Walsh and Mr. Gregory are more important in this shape than they appeared in our telegraphic synopsis from Halifax, published in the Heratp last Wednesday. Hence we give them in extenso. It will be remarked from the very full letters of our Paris correspondents that the Count de Per- signy arrived in London on the 11th of June, about two days before the debates occurred in the houses of Lords and Commons, and the essential point of the whole subject is to be found in the assertion that the Count was entrusted by Napoleon with the negotiation of the terms of a plan of ‘ media- tion” with England. The assumption obtained ® very general credence in Paris from the fact that the Potrie of the llth instant circulated the following paragraph in larger type than usual:—‘‘ We are assured that negotiations are about to commence in London to arrive at an understanding which may enable pro- posals to be made for a mediation in American affairs. If the negotiations in question succeed, the mediation of England and France will be ten- dered simultaneously, and in identical terms, to the belligerent parties.”” Senor Calderon Collantes, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, has officially and completely en- dorsed the action of General Prim in retiring from Mexico. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, petitions in favor of the passage of a bankrupt bill and the construc- tion of a ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi were presented and referred. A bill for the relief of the widow of General C. F. Smith was introduced. The bill granting the proceeds of certain public lands in aid of the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad was passed. The bill for the admission of Western Virginia into the Union as a State wes taken up, and discussed by Mr. Sumner. The bill recognizes slavery till the end of the year 1863; but Mr. Sumner moved an amendment,prohibiting slavery in the State, Pend- ing the question, the Senate resolved itself into a High Court of Impeachment, and proceeded with the trial of Judge West H. Humphreys, of Tennessee, charged with high crimes and misde- Meanors against the government. After the hear- ing of testimony, the President of the Senate pro- nounced the judgment of the Court, as follows :— “Tt is hereby ordered and decreed that West H. Humphreys, Judge of the District Court for the Weatern, Middle and Eastern districts of Tennes- see, be, and is hereby, removed from said office, and that he be and is disqualified from holding or enjoying any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.” The Court and the Senate then adjourned. i In the Honse of Representatives, Mr. Walton, of Vermont, offered a preamble and resolution de- claring, in effect, that the reporter of the New York Tribune who sent to that paper an article relative to the purchase by Congress of Gales & Seaton’s compilation of the proceedings of Con- gress is guilty ofa breach of the privileges ac- corded to reporters by the House, and directing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the facts. The preamble and resolution were adopted by a vote of 102 against 8. The Senate bill increasing the army medical corps was passed. No other business was transacted, the members of the House being in attendance upon the High Court of Impeachment for the trial of Judge Humphreys. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our correspondence from Nassau, which we publish in another column, would seem to indi- cate that some of our merchants engaged in trade with that island are indirectly, if not directly, furnishing aid and comfort to the enemy. The schooner Kate, referred to, appears by our marine list to have been cleared by Messrs. F. F. Montell & Bartow from this port for Nassau, on the Lith ult., with the following cargo, viz:—130 barrels of flour, 100 bags of corn, 50 barrels of pilot bread, 4 tierces of hams, 25 kegs of lard, 10 barrcis of alum, 6 barrels of Epsom salta, 25 boxes of cheese, 25 half chests of tea, 25 cases of sweet oil, 125 cases of mustard and pepper, | barrel of camphor, 20 barrels of kerosine oil, 50 bags pepper, 254 dozen wool cards, 6 wheelbarrows, 5,000 feet of lumber, 25,000 shingles, 1 case of chocolate, 120 boxes of oil, 300 boxes of soup, 14 boxes of cream tartar, 130 oars, 25 kegs of seda, 3 barrels of Rochelle salts, 25 barrels of potatoes, 30 slabs of spelter, 1 flask of quicksilver, 4 cases of paper, 5 cases of shoes, | case of indigo, 13 cases of matches, 30 boxes of tin, 50 dozen brooms, 4 packages of drugs, 1 case of thread, 1 can of fiuid, 1 can of bal- som copaiva—valued at $11,228. As this is one of our oldest and most substantial houses engaged in trade with Nassau, it is to be hoped that they will be able to up any doubts that may arise out of these proceedings affecting their loyalty. Captain 8. W. Hopkins, of schooner Daniel Wil- jams, arrived yesterday from Bermuda, brings us dates to the 7th inst. There was but Jttle of in- terest transpitjys, The crop of sugar would ‘poun tq 2bout 40,000 hhds., and would be all shipped by the last of June. The ceremony of laying the corner stone of the new Fregch Protestant church took place yester- day afternoon at five o'clock. The erection, which promises to be a fine, capacious edifice, is situated on the corner of Twenty-second street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The proceedings were very imposing, and @ large number assembled to participate im thom. The Rev. Dr. Verren offi- ciated om the occasion, and the religious part of the progtamnic yas well gone Meaty ioug to laying the corner stone several articles, to serve as mementoes for futare generations, were depo- sited in the box of the stone, after which the lid was securely fixed. A brilliant address was then delivered by the reverend Doctor, after which the Doxology was sung and the benediction pro. nounced, when the large and respectable assem. blege separated. Atthe meeting of the Board of Aldermen yes- terday, ® message was received from the Mayor, vetoing the resolutions and ordinances relating to the establishment of St. Joseph's Hospital, in the Central Park, for sick and wounded soldiers. A resolation donating $2,000 to the charitable fund of the Fire Department was adopted. A resolu- tion appropriating $8,000 for the celebration of Independence Day was read and laid over. The Board then adjourned till Monday next. ‘The business transacted at the meeting of the Board of Councilmen yesterday was chiefly rou- tine. |he chief fetture of interest was the adop- tion, -ver the Mayor's veto, of the resolutions complimentary to Mr. Thurlow Weed. An appro- priation Was made to pay $250 to each of the & , of the last Common Coua- . The Board adjourned to clerks, messenge cil, for extra serw: Monday. A meeting of manufacturers, dealers in and im™ porters of marble was held at the marble depot near the foot of Grand street yesterday, to ex- press their views in opposition to the extraordi- nary increase of the duties imposed upon unmanu- factured marble in the new tariff, which, if adopted, they say, will go far to destroy the trade, and to defeat the object of revenue from its importation. The meeting adopted suitable resolutions, to be found in our advertising columns, setting forth the facts involved, and expressive of its views on the subject, with a hope that Congress will reduce the rates imposed in the present bill as it passed the House, The Police Department yesterday issued a gene- ral order to arrest all persons violating the Excise law, as we stated in our Sunday edition. The Board of Excise held its Thirty-second session yes- terday, and up to that time two hundred and thir- teen licenses were granted. The licensees are the most respectable of the liquor trade, and have formed a society to protect themselves against the unlicensed dealers. It is a very extraordinary fact that there are over five thousand liquor places in the city, and onlytwo hundred and thirteen li- censes, What causes this is an important question. William H. Hawkins, the colored steward, wiil be hanged this day at the Tombs, between the hours of nine o'clock A. M. and four P, M., for the murder of his captain on the high seas. A partial eclipse of the sun will take place this morning, visible only in the Indian Ocean. The stock market was better yesterday, and a better teeling prevailed, in consequence of Gon. McClellan's despatch. In the afternoon an attempt was made to hammer the market, on the strength of rumors of fo- reign intervention; but {t produced no effect, stocks ciosing firm at an advance of % a°s; per cent. Money was worth 5 per ceut on call. Brokers asked 121 for their bills on London. Gold sold up to 1093 at one time, but was afterwards offered at 10914. Some of the Speculators are bulling the gold market with vigor and boldness, while the public are selling The cotton market was again excited yesterday, and the extreme views of holders tended to unsettle prices and to produce a wide range in quotations. A further advance, however, was established of gc. a 2c. per Ib. The sales embraced about 2,500 bales, on the basis of 364gc. a8Tc. and 38c. per Ib. for middling uplands. A cotton famine, both here and in England, may be con. sidored as fairly inaugurated. Under favorable private advices by the Arabia, combined with the high rates of exchange, flour advanced, in the face of higher freights, full Sc. per bbl., with an active demand, in part for,ex- port. Wheat, from the same causes, was quite active, and closed at an advange of 2c. a 3c. per bushel. Corn was also active aud at rather firmer prices, closing at 52!zc. a S4e. for old mixed, instore and delivered. Pork was firmer and in fair demand, with sales of mess st $11 a $11 12)4, and of prime at $3 75. Beef was duil and lard was firm. Butter and cheese were in good request at unchanged prices. There was an active movement in tallow, caused by the advance in sterling exchange, ana large sales were reported, includ. ing cy rendered, as high as 93jc. Sugars were quite firm and in good demand, with sales of 1,938 hhds. There was a movement in East India rice; 2,500 mats China sold at p.t., with 300 bags Rangoon at 43jc. a S3yc. Coffee was quist but steady. Freights were firm. @f, Wheat to Liverpool. in bull and bags, 10d, 3 1034d., and flour 3s. To London flour was taken at 3s. 1\¢d., and wheat, in bulk and bags, at 103;d. Flour to - gow at 3. 1};d., amd wheat at 104d. Tallow and lard to Havre were at sc. and wheat at 1éc. per bushel. British Insolence and American Power. The details of the news by the Arabia are of a much more decided character than the tele. graphic summary which we published on Wednesday seemed to indicate. Our Paris correspondence, too, throws great additional light upon the movements now going on in France and England. It appears that the pro- gramme is that France will take the lead in the “ mediation” or intervention scheme for the setthement of the civil war in America, while England secretly pledges her moral, and, if necessary, her physical, support: that the basis of the intervention is to be, if not separa- tion as a sine qua non, at least a decision of the question by the votes. of the people of the Southern States, each State to determine for itself what is to be its future connection— whether with the Northerm States or the South- ern confederacy—and that, to carry out this arrangement, an armistice should take place or six months—the proposition to be made at Richmond and Wasbington simultaneously in the middle of July—and in the event of the North refusing to accept the interven- tion the European Powers will immediately acknowledge the independence of the revolu- tionary States, and will also consider what further action it may be necessary and proper to take in the premises. These views are confirmed by the tone of the French and English press, as well as by the full reports of the debates in the British Parliament. The London Post, the organ of Lord Palmerston and of Count Persigny, in an article dated June 14, has the following very suggestive observations:— It is a matter of astonishment that long ere this some domand has pot been vie upon the yovernment to take sotne steps towards effecting a cessation of hostili- ties which have proved go disastrous in their conse- quences to titis nation. The time mag come, and that shortly, whou it will become the paramount duty of neutral States to interpose; but now,as at the com- mencement of the war, they are undoubtedly,bound to stand aloof. The language of Lord Palmerston is in singular harmony with this. He says:—“We have at present no intention of offering media- tion between the two contending parties.” And so Earl Russell in the other house:— “Certa‘nly there is no intention on the part of her Majesty's government to mediate at the pre- sent moment.” This implies that the time may soon come when England will “interpose.” Meanwhile, Nepolega Je te go speed, sete Manchester Guardian suggests. ‘The Kmperor would prefer to have England openly with him from the start; but she prefers that France shall bear the first shock resulting from the in- solent proposition. Meantime, the English popu- lation age to be rked np to the fightin point BY sucl A Slonted baring leat a friendly nation as those indulged in by the ministers of the Crown against the same people. The London Times suggests the mediation at of Napoleon and the Czar, while jgud holds back, and then goes on to sayza ‘If, as seoms more than possible, the resolution of the Sontherners avails to protract this war frou’ month to month, then the time must come when the intervention of Europe will be de- manded by the interests of humanity, and, perhaps, accepted willingly by the exhausted combatants.” In another article the same journal, representing, as it does, the oligaroby of England, thus sounds the warning note npon another point:—“It cannot be doubted that we are approaching a time when @ more im- portant question even than that of an offer of mediation may have to be considered by Eng- land and France. The Southern confederacy has constituted itself a nation nearly a year andahalf. During that time the attachment of the people to the 1ew government has been indubitably shown. Immense armies have beon raised. the greatest sacrifives have been NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1862. endured, the persistence of the South in the war through a long series of battles—some victories, some defeais—has shown the ‘force and consisteney’ which are looked upon as the tests of nationality.” The writer proceeds to observe that ifthe South claim its recognition as an independent Power, the precedents of the British and Spanish American colonies, of Belgium, and of Tuscany and Naples, forbid England “to question this right when asserted by the Confederate States;” and that “it is the duty of the British government to antici- pate this possible event.” For some time past British statesmen and their press have put a restraint upon their wonted hostility to the United States, They are be- ginning, perhaps, to forget the affair of the capture of their West India mail steamer, which so nearly involved them ina war with this country. They then blessed their stars that they escaped, as it were, out of the fire, At that time, too, they hoped that the insurrec- tionary States would succeed in their design. They are now disappointed, They see that the rebeHion, fomented by British gold and in- fluence, will soon be crushed, and they are be- coming desperate. Their long cherished pur- pose to divide the country they know will prove a failure, and hence their rage and their insolence to the American republic. Lord Palmerston, for example, has the au- dacity to say that the English government will consider what is the proper course for it to adopt with regard to the proclamation of Gen, Butler at Now Orleans; just as if that wero any business of Lord Palmerston or of the British government. Earl Russell hopes that our government, for its own sake, will re- pudiate the act of General Butler. This looks somewhat in the nature of a threat, as much as to say:—“‘You had better of your own accord rebuke General Butler, or we will take you in hand, as we did in the case of the Trent.” Is England to be- come censor general of the manners of all nations in peace and war, and to punish them if they do not square with her ideas of pro- priety? Such impudence and presumption can find no precedent save in the folly of the British monarch who stood on the sea- shore and ordered the waves to recede; but they flowed on in their majesty, and poor Canute was soon compelled to escape from their power. But let England rest assured that by any European coalition she can form she will be as unsuccessful in her designs against the independence, the unity and integrity of the American republic as were all her coalitions for the dismemberment and destruction of the republic of France. At that time France had no naval force with which she could cope with her rival. Yet she held her own, But the navy of the republicYof the United States is more than a mateh for that of Britapnia, which so long ruled the waves; and whereas France was surrounded in close conti- guity by England and her allies, the field of operations in America would be separated from the fue by a vast ocean three thousand miles wide. How much less, therefore, is her chance of success against a republic mightier than France, and that has remained unconquered ever since she had an existence. Let British statesmen therefore beware of what they do. The cup of their iniquity is nearly filled. They have come second best out of two wars with the United States; out of « third, perhaps, they would never come atall. The Southern fleet is completely used up. We have a powerful naval force left almost unemployed. With this reinforced, as it will be next fall, by a tremendous addition of iron- clad gunboats, we will be in a position to an. nihilate the navies of England and France, and of all the maritime Powers of Europe. Canada and the BritixhWest India islands would fall, like ripe pears, into the lap of the American repub- lic, and Great Britain would cease to owna foot of soil in the New World, while perhaps Ireland, taking advantage of her tyrant’s diffi. culty, would at last work out a successful revo- lution, and leaye “the sister” island alone in its glory. Gevxerat. Burier’s Stare Pavers.—The Tri- bune has been giving credit—through the medium of its New Orleans correspondence— to Assistant Adjutant General Strong, of Gene- ral Butier’s staff, for the authorship of the able documents of his Commanding General, which have evoked such universal commendation in every quarter. General Strong, however, who is now in this city on leave for a short time, gives, in a letter to the 7ri/une, a quietus to the malicious insinuations of that sheet by posi- tively asserting, over his own signature, that all the documents issued from headquarters were written by General Butler himself; and he adds that he wishes to state, “what he sup- posed was well understood, that no staff or other officer in the fine Army of the Gulf ever had the opportunity or the ability to furnish brains for the Commanding General.” This effort of the Trilune to ignore the ability of officers who have no affiuity with its ultra abolition doctrines is but another proof of the contemptible part it is playing in the present orisis; and we are glad that, in this instance, it has met the rebuke which it merits from the able and ‘honest soldier who despises to accept an honor falsely thrust upon bim at the expense gf his superior ofilcer. ' Tus Newsparens or tHe Corroy Srares Aoarsr Jerr. Davis—The newspapers of the cotton States are fierce fh their denunciation of Jeff. Davis and his government, as playing the part of despots and baving mismanaged the way, The fools threw off the government of the United States, whose yoke was easy and whose burden was light, on the ground that ir was tyrannical and unjust. They have now found a real despot to. their cost, and they are doing their best to shake him off and dethrone him. But he still sticks to them like a leech, and will not let them go while there is a drop of blood left in them. He wields an army, and | while it stands by him be can despise the jour- ‘tata who did so much to produce the rebel- ay a pit him where he is—on their backs. lg ap Iie the fable of the horse which r case is Tike =m man against his sup- sought the assistance of tu. tok thr) cna posed enemy, the deer. The hore. r pon bis baok, and with hie aid dor. "ed the deer, and then proposed that the man should a mount; but the man declined to do se, and firmly kept his seat, making the horee his slave to this day. If the horse had only sense enough to understand it, his strength would soon enable him to get rid of man’s tyranny: and if the dupes of Davis in the cotton States knew enough they would fling him headlong from the saddle, where, with whip and bit and spur, be makes them bleed, and is driviug them to vordition. President Lipcoln Quictly Disposing of the Abolition Radicals. Some three weeks ago Mr. Senator Sumner addressed a letter to an nbolition friend in bos ton, in defence of President Lincoln as a friend of the anti-slavery cause. In this letter, which we publish to-day, Mr. Sumner declares. from his private conversations with him on the sub- ject, that Mr. Lincola “has no sympathy with Stanly—Provisional Governor of North Caro- lina—in his absurd wickedness” of closing the negro schools and delivering up fugitive slaves; and furthermore, says Mr. Sumuer, “could you have seen the President, as it was my privilege often—while he was con- sidering the great questions on which he has already acted—the invitation to emancipation in the States, emancipation in the District of Columbia, and the acknowledgment of the in- dependence of Hayti and Liberia, even your zeal would have been satisfied;” and that es- pecially upon this first proposition Mr. Lin- coln’s “whole soul was occupied,” because he considered it “just and beneficent, while it promised the sure end of slavery.” Mr. Sena- tor Sumner, therefore, appeals to his friend, as an abolition radical, to “stand by the adminis- tration.” These positive assurances of a radical abo. lition Senator are made upon the authority of his private conversations with the President. How are we to believe such testimony? Of course the President cannot descend to the task of a denial or an explanation of his pri- vate conversations. Knowing this, Mr. Sumner may have colored his report to suit his custom- er; nor do we think that the man who can boastingly parade before the public his private conversations with other men is to be trusted, We suspect, however, that it was this encourag- ing letter of Mr. Senator Sumner, as much as anything else, that resulted in the application of the wet blanket on Friday last to a visiting abolition committee at the White House. This committee was from an abolition society of broadbrims, long faces and shad bellied coats, known as Progressive Friends, and it was a mixed committee of old women fanatics in breeches and would-be men in petticoats, jncluding Thomas Garrett, of Delaware; Oliver Johnson, of New York; Alice Hambleton, Dinah Mendenhall, William Barnard and Eliza Agnew; and they were presented .by Senator Wilmot, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Oliver Johnson read their memorial to the President, which was in substance an ap- peal fora decree declaring slavery abolished throughout the United States. The President was glad that his Progressive Friends were not office seekers; for these gentry had given him a world of trouble, and next in the order of embarrassment came this question of slavery. But what good would a decree of emancipation do in our revolted States, when we cannot even enforce the constitution there at present? If a decree of emancipation would do the work, Jobn Brown would have done it at Har- per’s Ferry. Master Oliver Jobnson, however, returned to the charge, insisting upon a decree of emancipation asthe one thing needful to end this war, urging that God desired an end to slaverv, &c., when, in his quiet but decisive way, Mr. Lincoln gave his Progressive Friend “a Roland for his Oliver,” in the palpable hit that “perhaps God’s way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view was different from theirs.” At any rate, the President assured them that he should endea- vor to do his duty; and so, wiser than they came, these Progressive Friends went their way. It was handsomely done. Abraham Lin- coln, in this matter of getting rid of troublesome and impertinent visitors, stands ahead of Andrew Jackson. During the old United States Bank war Old Hickory, from time to time, was waited upon by all sorts of begging and threatening committees in favor of the bank. They were all useless; but, while they could not budge him a peg from his fixed purpose, they seldom failed to get him out of patience, and into such exhibitions of temper as were greedily seized upon by his enemies, and worked up into all sorts of dis- paraging reports and caricatures. President Lincoln, on the other hand, while as firm as General Jackson in his adhesion to his own well considered line of policy, never permits his ting abolition committees, however im- pertinent or domineering, to disturb his equanimity. In bis genial and kindly way he kears them, and then, in some amusing com- parison, anecdote or expressive hint, gives them to understand that while he is grateful for their advice he will follow his own judgment. Our opinion is that the results of this visit of these Progressive’ Friends to the White Honse show that Mr. Senator Sumner, in his letter, does not faithfully represent the position of the President on this slavery question. Mr. Sumner, however, is a candidate for re- election to the United States Senate, and doubt- less has been aiming to spread abroad the im- pression in Massachusetts that he and the President are rowing side by side in the same boat. But the suppression of General Fremont's emancipation proclamation ia Missouri, and of General Hunter's abolition edict in South Carolina, show the true position of the Presi- dent, and that Senator Sunmer isa horse of another color. The people of Massachusetts, who support the conservative Union policy of the President, have sense enough to know that it can never be identified with the destruc- tive abolition disunion fanaticism of Senator Sumner, and we hope that at the appointed time this will be proved in the defeat of Sumner, and in the election of a Senator in his place from Massachusetts better qualified to speak for President Lincoln, and better fitted, to represent the people of Massachusetts, Wino cordially support the adwinistration. Sa ea, - Coxsenvaiive acs moe West.—One | of the alleged grounds of Southern secession was the passage of the “Personal Liberty bill,” verbally nullifying the Fugjtive Slave law, by eleven Northern States. Wisconsin now comes forward nobly, in response to the resolutions of Maryland, and repeals the Personal Liberty bill. This is a grand and important movement in the right direction, showing that the West is sound on the negro question, and prefers the ame, oration of the black race. The action of the State of Illinois is also very significant. § A " The vote of tw People om ihe propositions submitted to them for {ve of the amendments to the State constitution fs as follows:-— ition denying the right of guffrage to negroes Pe Pribicing them from holding office is adopted by an almost nine: nbs voto of the state, ni oponition to exclude orgroes from coming into ne ato is adopted by « nearly two-thirds vote. Here is proof positive that the Western States ™ ee ee a emeeranmeeemmcemceie mena | do not sympathize with the romantic and fae natival ideas of the radicals in the Kaster@ States, headed by Greeiey and Garrison, Veechs er and Cheever, Phillips and Sumner, Wilsom and the rest. It isa glorious response to the Union sentiment of the South, and will do ime mense good, while it will bruise the abolition serpent’s head and crush out its vitals. Tuk Tax on’ Manoracreres,_Some doubt still remains in the public mind relative to the tax on manufactures. The decision not to tam the stogk of goods on hand previous to the day on which the act takes effect was not receded from, except as follows:—When such good@ shall have been manufactured, but shall not have been sold by the manufacturer, or re moved from the factory for consumption os sale, prior to August 1, 1862, they are to be subject to taxation. If a manufacturer bas his factory filled on August 1, with goods made prior to that date, he must pay the tax thereon when he sells them. If he has manufactured and sold them previous to that date no tam is to be paid thereon. Such, at least, is ous understanding of the law. This is a most important provision, and one which excited much comment and discussion in both houses of Congress before the bill waa referred to the conference commitiee. Many members wished to impose the tax on all ar- ticles, whether manufactured before or after the passage of the act. It was decided, how- ever, not to do so, but to exempt goods as above stated. The effect of this provision will be to exempt from taxation goods which have been purchased of manufacturers by those who intend to sell them again. The manufacturer will be required to pay duty te the government on goods he may make im future and on those which he has not sold and delivered previous to the day on which the aot goes into effect; while the storekeeper, whole sale or retail dealer, who may have a stock of manufactured goods on hand, will not be taxed. The intention was to make the law prospective in its operation, not retrospective. In sections 41 and 81 of the Tax bill, as printed in our issue of Tuesday, July should have been changed to August. The telegraphie report of that day was incorrect, and hence the error. Tue Mexican Improgiio.—The news of the reverse sustained by the French arms in Mexte co has reached France, and it is worthy of note that, while there is an unwillingness te believe that such a humiliation has occurred, there is no symptom of that universal sym pathy which it might be supposed such a dise aster would arouse. We quote in proof of this an article from Le Temps, of Paris, which we publish this morning among the details of the European news just received. From Spain we learn the important fact that General Prime conduct has been fully endorsed by his governs ment. This action of the Spanish Cabinet, however, amounts to very little as a proof of honesty or disinterestedness in the Mexicam question; for it is well known that the popular voice of Spain is opposed to any undue inter+ ference on the part of their government im that quanter. Besides, now that the game has been taken out of her hands, a good oppore tunity is afforded her of crying out like Mae er ‘Thou canst not say I did tt If Spain desires to get credit for honesty im the juggle between her and her worthy allies in this Mexican matter, we cau only aay thaS when the wily master of France undertook to play the game alone Spain lost the oppore tunity of proving the sincerity of her declare» tions. But we cangratulate her on the turm events have taken. It is much better for her reputation that the temptation was removed, so that when the serious charge against Europe of treacherous and dishonorable conduct to- wards Mexico comes up for trial she may be in a condition to prove an alibi. The declaration of Senor Calderon Collantes, that Prim did his duty in withdrawing the Spanish forces from Mexico, is a personal come pliment to the General, and nothing more, an@ by no means absolves the government from ny secret plans or wishes it may have chere hed in regard to its ancient colonies, om whose anarchy and “hasty emancipation” its press and politicians are constantly harping Estiwarep Stock or Cotton in Eurors.— We publish below a comparative statement of the stock of cotton now on hand in Hurope, with that which was on hand at this time last year. The deiicit, as will be seen, is very large. and if a supply is not very soon obtained it is obvious that the cotton factories of Europe must generally stop working:— ON THe Let OF JUNE, 1862, AS COMPARED WO THE same HME, LAST _YRAR, Hamburg, bales Bremen. Gexerat. Boturk ano toe New Onngans Consus.—It will be remembered that, in his correspondence with the foreign consuls at New Orleans, General Butler refers to the se- cession military organizations in which some of these consuls have an interest.- From the Mo- bile Register of May 31 we clip an advertise- ment of ofie of this style of military corps:— “AUTENTION-- FRENCH CONSULATE GUARD. _ Attend a meeting to be held on Monday, 2d day of Jone, at the office of Lieutenant Pillichoddi, at five o'clock P.M. By order of the Captain CHARLES BROD ATTENTION—-GARDE CONSULAIRE PRANCAISE. Meoting Lundi, 2 Juin, #6 heures P. M., chez lo Liewte Pillichoddi, Par ordre du Capitaine. CHARLES BROB. General Butler obviously rows very well what be is about. No doubt the Freach Cone sul at New Orleans was honored, or dishonored, in the same style as the Consul at Mobile, by having a rebel guard named after him. Ne doubt he patronized and assisted those revele, and very much regretted parting with them whon they skedaddled before Iarragut’s fleet. if foreign consuls sympathize with rebels, and real interests of white men to the visionary | aid to organize rebel militia, they must expect to be rapped on the knuckles by our Union generals. General Butler did no more to the French Consul than the President will do to tho French Emperor by and by, when foreigm mediation shall be attempted. panes AAA RES fiddent on the New Jersep The Recent beh TT " wore willed by the lata mea i las George E. Smith, of Boston, rasan oe Eastham eet ng to the Tighth Warsaclg st .