The New York Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JanEs— ‘GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICEN. W. CORNEK OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8T3, cidka'te condor ‘Nona bet Bunk bills current in New York THE DAILY HERALD, two centaper copy. $T per annum, THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturtiy, ut sy conte copy, oF $3 per annum; the European Biition every We cents $4 per 3 oe fy tt os contnee al ale ange far pty ot 4 hoot lst a/cach month eh cea $2 7 Tie fe Rae HED TEKALD, on Wednceday, at four conte per WOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, °E, emtaining important news, from any quarter of the warld: 4 used, seilt be ly paid for, ag-Oue FoREIGN DENTS ARB Parnobianty Ruquustap 10 Sear att Lerrers anp Paca- ano NOTICE tak-n of anonymous correspon.ience, J camimuniontions. MADVERYISEMENTS venerced every day: advertisements ine aerted ithe Weenie HunaLD, Fawity Hnnaiy, und ta the California and European JOB (PRINTING eoecuted with neatness, heapncss and des pa jo. 179 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Natiowa, Guszp— Divasrissement. WALLACK'S THEATRE, 86 Broadway.—Inisauax Iv Martzs—Lasson ror Hussanps. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Faxcuon, on tum Oniccer. WINTER GARDEN, “Broadway. Bos Bor. NEW BOWERY Laas Porn. Bi ea: ‘RE, Bowery.. 1sM—BSixD BOWERY THEATRE, Jace Sui OLYMPIC ents ey No, 485 Broadway.—Kina Rexn’s Davoutes—Anpyr B: BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brosdwav.—Com. Nver—Living Waatx, &c., at all houra—MonGumeanp— Sevag Cumixs—Howxst Mizxwam. Afternoon and vening. .—-DARNLEY—SPIRIZ OF EPFARD—SAVAGE AND TRE MAIDEN. BRYANTS’ Lypalgyid Mechanics’ Hall, 473 Broad- way.—Un Bato iv Mascuxro. CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, 535 Broad: ETHIOPIAN Sos, Dances, 40.—~Fiazt Foor Jaxx. aa . DODWORTH'S HALL, No. 806 Broadway.—Mum. Da Vituur’s Vocat axp Instrumental Concent. AMERICAN MUSIC BALL No. 444 Broadway.—Soncs, Burissques, Dances, 4c. NATIONAL THEATRE AND gp HALL, Canal street.—sones, Dances, BURLESQURS, GAIETIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.=Daswixa Roos ENTERTAINMENTS. PEOPLE'S igs HALL, 65 Bo 45 Bowery.—Soxcs, Dances, Burtesquss, PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 863 Broad: eel Open datly from 10 A. M. tll 10 P. M. oe Sew York, Monday, June 30, 1862, THE SITUATION. The news which we publish to-day from before Richmond, although somewhat ambiguous, and evidently curtailed under the censorship of the War Department, is indicative of some important movements on the peninsula. A grand military triumph is announced, and the fall of Richmond is confidently predicted. All details are shut off from us, for some good reason no doubt. Generals Jackson, Price and Beauregard were said to be in Richmond, and s rumor prevailed in the camp of the rebels on Thursday that Jackson had turned the right wing of Gen. McClellan's army, but there isno confirmation of any such story. The rumors cireu- lated yesterday that General McClellan’s army bad met with a reverse are entirely untrue. Every- thing in his command goes on steadily and favora- bly. The publication of the details of operations going on in front of Richmond is not considered by the War Department consistent with the public in- terest, and, therefore, they are withheld fer the present. That important events have transpired within the past few days on the peninsula is not improbable, and in addition to these there are otheT movements on foot which indicate that the crisis of the rebellion has arrived, and that the government is determined to inaugurate vigorous measures to carry out certain new plans of the President, and with this view consultations of the leading men of the country are about to be held in this city im- mediately—probably to-day or to-morrow—which, no doubt, will result in*the adoption of measures that will bring this rebellion to a speedy close. The remarkable military events which have lately characterized the progress of our arms are not only of themselves highly important as tending to settle our domestic difficulties, but they are calculated to strengthen in a permanent manner the military and naval power of the country, and to inspire confidence in the public mind as to the ability of the government, not alone to sustain itself, but to meet successfully the machinations of European Powers should they be rash enough to assafi us. The clergy of Tennessee are obstinately rebel- liows, with the exception of the priesthood of the Catholic Church, who are devotedly loyal to the Union. The feading clergymen of the Methodist and Baptist persuasions refused to take the oath of allegiance at the conference in Nashville, and many of them wore sent to the Penitentiary as im- penitent rebels, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. There are three European steamships due at American ports to-day. One of these. should she arrive first, will bring news five days later than that received by the Arabia. The vessels sailed from British ports in the following order, viz:— From. Bor. “outhampton..New York. ...New York. Anglo-Saxon. a The United States steam transports Virginia, Captain Snyder, and Jersey Blue, Captain Jacka- way, arrived last evening, the former from Wash- ington, D. C., and the latter from Newbern. They bring no news. The Jersey Blue brings a Tew pas- sengers, principally soldiers on furlough. Our loss at the battle of James Island, S. C+» was as follows: Killed, Wor Missing Total... A large proportion of those reported mi ‘were undoubtedly killed and left on the field. Brigadier General Schayler Hamilton has been compelled by sickness to leave his command at Corinth, and he is now on his way to this city. It ‘was necessary to carry him on board a steamboat at Pittsburg Landing on a litter, The Adjutant General of New Hampshire, in a general order, says there are no sinecure offices to be disposed of in the Ninth regiment of that State. No person will be commissioned unless he has per- formed actual labor in recruiting and forwarding the organization of the regiment. The men are to be armed with Windsor rifles and sabre bayonets. The War Department has released from Camp Douglas, Chicago, the following named rebel sur- geons:—Drs. Martin, Dupree, Saudek, Crowell, Caldwell, Taliefore, McDowell, Driver, Redwood, Oliver, Johnson, Kennedy, Felton, Foxey, Elkin, Greenlee, Williams, Rothrock and Bolan. Jayhawker Jennison, of Kansas, who was strongly recommended by General Hunter and the abolitionists in Congress for a brigadier general- ship, has written © letter explaining the reason that he does not go intuserviee He says he en- listed to crush slavery, oud whca the government adopts that policy he will be again a soldier, and until that time he will remain s citizen. Jennison thinks he has been the subject of persecution, be- cause the government would not permit him and Jim Lane to go largely into the nigger stealing business. George Brier, a deserter from the Third Virginia rebel cavalry, into which regiment he had been impressed, enlisted in the Eleventh New Jersey regiment on Friday last at Newark. He served the rebels about eight months before a chance offered for escape. The remains of Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr., who died of @ wound received during the engagement before Memphis, were buried in Laurel Hill Ceme- tery, Phiiadelphia, on Friday last. The Legislature of the embryo State of Deseret, now Utah Territory, has elected to the United States Senate William H. Hooper and George J. Cannon, What are the politics of these gentlemen we are unable to say, but believe they are far from being of the Vallandigham stamp. The Legisls- ture also elected the following State officers :— Secretary of State, David H. Wells; Treasurer, David O. Calder; Auditor, William Clayton; At- torney General, Aurelius Miner; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Elias Smith; Associate Jus- tices, Zerubabel Snow and Seth M. Blair. The negro boy who was recently spirited away to Canada by the abolitionists of Detroit, under the idea that he was a fugitive slave, was kidnap- ped from Hon. Daniel Mace, of Lafayette, formerly a member of Congress from Indians. The boy was born of free parents, and had been bound to Mr. Mace until he became of age. The salt company of Syracuse, New York, has advanced the price of salt thirteen cents per bushel, to cover the government tax. Col. Charles Doubleday, of the Second Ohio cavalry, formerly in command of Fort Scott, Kan- sas, has resigned his commission. Col. Doubleday is a cousin of Brigadier General Doubleday, who was in Fort Sumter during the attack on it by the rebels. He isan old soldier, and was Walker’s Commissary General in his Nicaragua filibustering expedition. The warm weather appears to have set inin earn- est and permanently. The heat on the last two days has been most oppressive, the thermometer getting almost up to the nineties, and promising to stick to that unpleasant upward tendency for some time to come. The appearance of things yesterday was decidedly dog-dayish. Everybody was in a sweat, and lumbered along the streets half dead and alive. Shady spots were at a premium. Straw hats, white pants, light coats and no coats at aly were ‘‘all the go,” while umbrellas and parasols were also brought into requisition very extensively. While sweltering away up here North a¢ such an uncomfortable rate, one can easily imagine what our poor soldiers must be suffering down in Dixie, The Central Park was well attended yesterday during the early part of the day; but owing to the intense heat of the afternoon the number of visitors at that time was not so large as usual. The new arbor to be erected on the concourse or ter. race is fast approaching completion, and the founda- tion for the pagoda, or new musicstand, has been laid. Both will, when finished, prove attractions and ornaments to the Park, - Rev. Mr. Green, a colored clergyman from Maryland, who served half of a term of ten years to which he was sentenced in the Maryland peni- tentiary, preached last evening at the Shiloh church. Rev. Mr. Garnett introduced the speaker, and stated that he had been imprisoned for reading a book. Mr. Green then addressed the audience, detailing to them how he had been arrested and sentenced to imprisonment because he was one of & body of men foumed into an association for cor- respondence with the North relative to slavery. Having been imprisoned for five years, he was re- leased through the influence of petitions, on pro- mising to goto Canada, and he now appealed to the audience to give him pecuniary assistance to enable him to proceed to Canade. A collection was taken up for this purpose. Some of the finest wheatfields to be found in Virginia are inthe Shenandoah valley. It is said it is the intention of the secession farmers in the valley, if the Union forces retain possession of that section, to burn their crops, instead of har- vesting them. They will probably change their minds when the grain is ripe. The exports of breadstuffs from this port to Eu- rope during the last week were 533,318 bushels of grain and 24,479 barrels of flour. ftocks were steady on Saturday, without much activity in business. Exchange fell to 120 a 1203;, and gold to 108%. Money was in demand at 6 a 6 per cent. The gold export of the day was nearly three millions. The usual trade tables for the week will be found in the money article. ‘The cotton market was again firmer and higher Satur- day, with sales of about 1,500 bales, closing at 3814 30c. for middling uplands, chicfly at the inside fig Fine qualities were measurably out of market, while supplies of all kinds were extremely light. Flour was less buoyant and active, and, owing to higher freights and some concession in foreign exchange, the common and medium grades of State and Western wore easier, while the higher class ef extra brands were unchanged. Wheat was heavy and fell off from Ic. to 2c. per bushel, while the sales were toa fair extent. Corm was also easier, with sales of old West- ern mixed, In etore, at 633gc. a 5c. and 6c. for winter yellow. Pork was in fair demand at steady prices, with sales of mess at $11 25, and of prime at $8 75 a $8 8745. Sugars wore frm and in good request, with sales of 1,800 bhds. There was some movement in coffec, and sales of 6,000 @ 7,000 bags of Rio were made on private terms. Freights were firmer, and wheat was taken to Liverpool in bulk and bags at 11d. Flour was reported at 3s. a 38. 3d. Rates were also firm to London, Tue Necroxs or Orv Viraiia.—The Frede- ricksburg (Va.) Christian Banner of the 24th of April says that in that quarter of Old Virgi nia “the stampede of negroes continues with in- creased numbers;” that on “last Thursday one hundred and fifty crossed over to the north side of the Rappahannock river;” that “they are going, going, and will soon all be gone;” and the editor strongly denounces all this as the work of “the demon of secession, and seces- sionists feel it, and are drinking the bitter cup to the very dregs.” All this is very true; and from these facts it is apparent that if our aboli- tion disorganizers wil! only let this thing of slavery alone the workings of this war will re- move it as fast as is consistent with the safety of both races in the South from the hazards of an exterminating work of slaughter between them. Tan Max To Bac Turm.—A great deal has been said about bagging Stonewall Jackson after his raid down the valiey of the Shenandoah. Banks, Fremont and McDowell have been all trying to do it. But the man to bag them first and Jackson after is General Pope, who so dis. tinguished himself in the campaign in Central Missouri, then in capturing New Madrid and Island No. 10, and afterwards in his sharp skirmishing with Beauregard at Corinth, and his successful pursuit and capture of w large portion of the rebel army after Its retreat. Pope will make the fire fly in the valley of the Shenandoah. Tus Conreverate Sorprers Desertivo aNp Taxino Tae OatTa or ALLeaiAaNce.—We learn by an extract from a Memphis paper, published in another column, that in that city there is ® complete rush to take the oath of alle- giance to the United States, and that two-thirds of those who took it were Confederate soldiers. Are not the days of Jeff. Davis’ kingdom num- bered? NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1862, Sr tT Cale maa [toe Gmeneam ENGL |S Oar T-Bar Mon a aes UT EE Cae. cy Hea, aie tb aladaihdiom On 7 West. The Personal Liberty bill in Wisconsin has been repealed. It was a contrivance by which the authority of a law of Congress for the res- toration of fugitive slaves was set at nought, and the provision in the constitution of the United States on whieh the law was founded rendered null and void: It set up aclaim of “liberty, fraternity, equality” for negroes, and provided for an organized resistance, under the color of a State law, to the rights of white men in sister States. Bills of this kind, which passed in some ten or eleven Northern States, under the agitation and malign influence of the radicals, were attended with the worst consequences. They produced heartburnings and bitterness in the Southern States which prepared the way for the designs of the secessionists, and of which they adroitly took advantage in order to fan the flame of disunion kin@led at the North by abolition hands. The repeal of the Personal Liberty bill, which had dragged down white men to the level of an inferior race, is an omen of good for the Union. It is like the dove bearing back to Noah’s ark from the waste of waters the olive branch, in token that the flood had subsided and that there was hope for man. The country has been deluged for upwards of a year with fra- ternal blood. The act of Wisconsin is the holding out of the olive branch to the South, and an invitation to lay down its arms and re- turn to the protection afforded by the constitu- tion, whose guarantees Wisconsin will hence- forward respect. Had the Southern States, in- stead of being guilty of the suicidal folly of resorting to arms for redress of past grievances, and for security against future ills, trusted to the justice, patriotism and Union principles of the men of the North, the revolutionary abo- litionists would have been long since crushed by public opinion, and the South would have been saved the devastation and horrors of war. An appeal to the sword was just what the radicals wanted. It was playing into their hands and paralyzing the friends of Southern rights. The people of the South fell into the trap laid for them by the fanatics and harpies at the North, who fomented war for the double purpose of plundering the nation and of carry- ing out visionary and utopian ideas of negro equality. The conservative portion of the people could neither permit anarchy nor dis- union, and hence they identified themselves with the war for the very purpose of defeating the Satanic purpose of the abolitionists, which was to effect a permanent separation between North and South, or to degrade sovereign States of the Union to the position of conquered provinces, deprived of local self-government— the vital principle of the American system for two hundred and fifty years. Wisconsin has nobly come forward to vindicate that principle by undoing the evil work which she perpe- trated ina moment of misguided passion. It is the begtnning of a new era—the dawn of a conservative reaction setting in at the great West, which was never fanatical at heart. The same returning sense of reason, the same healthy spirit, has recently been develop- ed in illineis, and we have no doubt that it will extend over the whole West, and that the East, catching the happy contagion, will extin- guish the last spark of the baleful fires of fa- naticism which have been lighted up among us by political incendiaries. In Illinois a new constitution has just been submitted to the people. The majority of the convention which framed it was democratic; but the radical re- publicans, by misrepresentations, induced the people to vote against it as a whole. Some of its most important pro- visions, however, were submitted and voted upon separately, and triumphantly car- ried, and now stand the fundamental law of the State. Among these were two proposi- tions:—One to prevent any more negroes coming into the State, which was adopted by a two-thirds vote; the other, denying the right of suffrage to the negroes already in the State and prohibiting them from holding office, which was adopted bya vote of nine-tenthsof the people. These provisions were partially con- tained in the old constitution, but are now ren- dered more explicit and decisive. Thi» gives the death blow to negro worship in Illinois; and we trust similar measures will soon be adopted in Ohio, thus routing the bigot Wade and his fanatical followers, horse, foot and artillery. We hope this Union sentiment, springing as it does directly from the pure fountain of our laws and government—the con- stitution of the United States—will swell into a deep and rapid stream, permeating Massachu- setts and the whole of the New England States, overthrowing Sumner and the other pro- pagandists of political “false doctrine, heresy and schism,” trom which the peo- ple ought not only to pray fervently to be delivered, as from a_ pestilence, but ought to put their shoulders to the wheel and render the conservative reaction gloriously triumphant in every State which has departed from the ancient landmarks, or even faltered in its allegtance to the greatimperishable char- ter of American rights aud liberties—the bond of a Union which ever know dissolution. Sumer or Ocr Gov Cror.—The steamers which left this port for Europe on Satur- day took out with them the large sum of $2,949,000 in gold. It might appear from this fact that this country was being depleted of specie; but when we remember that gold is, after all, only one of our regular crops, it will be seen ina different light. Gold, in fact, is our third best crop. Cotton comes first, then breadstuffs and then gold. We have exported in one year as much as $160,000,000 worth of cotton, $70,000,000 of breadstuffs and $69,000,000 of gold. The reason of the present large export of specie can be easily accounted for. For the past year the London Times and other British journals have been exercising all their ener- gies to break down the credit of the United States and depreciate American stocks and se- curities. The consequence is that our stocks are returning to the market here. But where- as they were paid for before in cotton and breadstuffs, and as we have no cotton to send now, and the demand for breadstuffs is supplied for the present, we fall upon our third crop— gold—to mevt the emergency. Moxey M.xixo on Corrox—We tunderstand that since the difficulty in obtaining cotton has become so great, any parties who have succeeded in picking a little of it up in small quantities in Memphis and other points along the Mississippi have notted a profit of a hun- dred and ten dollars bale on it, by putting | it in order for shipment in this city. A snug sum to make out of the exigencies of the times, Ir Crearzs.—The Tax bill has at length passed both houses of Congress, and only awaits the signature of the President to become a law. It is to take effect on the lst of August. The people will therefore soon see the national tax- gatherer approaching their doors for the first time in the history of the nation. Public atten- tion thus far has only been directed to the long list of articles to be taxed and the schedule of rates; the manner and mode of collecting the tax has attracted but little notice. Our readers will see by those sections of the law which pro- vide for putting it into operation, which we published the other day in the Herap, that it provides for a small army of office holders, with good salaries—a feature that will create no little commotion among the office seekers. In the first place, there is to be a Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue at Washington, sur- rounded by his necessary assistants and clerks, to be the centre of all operations. The Presi- dent bas the power to divide the different States into districte—the number in each State not to exceed the number of representatives in both houses of Congress. For each district there are to be appointed an assessor and col- lector, with assistants. These districts are to be subdivided into convenient districts, with deputy assessors, collectors and assistants. This will create several thousand new offices, at the disposal of the national administration, with salaries ranging from one to four thousand dol- lars per annum. A new scramble for office will immediately take place; the party idlers and party runners will be on the qui vive for the spoils, and will soon be on their march to Washington, besieging the President for an appointment. There will be plenty of those who will be full of pa- triotism, under this incentive, ready to serve the government under this law, however much they may have detested shouldering the mus- ket in the country’s defence; and we may ex- pect soon to see those scenes that were enacted in Wasbington upon President Lincoln's taking the helm of the government re-enacted in every particular. The squabbles between the differ- ent factions will be renewed with all their former vigor. This will no doubt be the ab- sorbing subject at Washington until the ap- pointments are disposed of, even to the exclu- sion of the army at Richmond. In view of the large number of offices created by this bill, the scramble that will take place to obtain them, with the spoils attached, and the importance that they should be filled with a better class than usual, the President should forthwith establish some national prin- ciple asa basis or guide for their selection. He should mark out such course for his action as will prevent these important positions from falling into the hands of another set of inefficient officials like those in possession of our custom houses and post offices throughout the country. The public will judge of the law a great deal by the character of the men who execute it in their midst. Let us, then, have men in every particular competent and conservative, and not of that class which will furnish work for a Congressional investigating committee in every tax district, like our Custom House in this city. Tae CLERGYMEN oF TENNESSER anD New Yorx.—In another column this morning our readers will find an interesting and amusing account from our special correspondent at Nashville of the interview between Governor Johnson and the Nashville clergymen, whom he has required to subscribe to the oath of al- legiance. It will be seen that these white- chokered rebels were greatly perturbed at Governor Johnson's demand, and were finally allowed a week's time to consider the matter. They then refused to take the oath. This was to. have been expected. In morals, he-who hositates is lost; in loyalty, he who hesitates is a traitor. The clergymen of Nashville have proven themselves rebels, and they ought not to be trusted, even if they should take a thousand oaths of allegiance hereafter. As a companion piece to this re- fusal of clerical secessionists to take the oath, we should very much like to see the clerical abolitionists here at the North obliged to swear to support the constitution. Governor Morgan, or General Morris, the military com- mandant of New York city and vicinity. should attend to this matter at once, and haul up Cheever, Beecher and our other abolition clergymen immediately. These men have de nounced, ridiculed, hated, assailed and tram- pled upon the constitution, and have blas- phemed it by calling it “a covenant with death and a league with holl.” Let us see if they will swearto support and defend such an instru- ment. Who believes that they will? And yet, if they will not, in what are they better than the rebel parsons? Come, here is the touch- stone of loyalty. Let it be applied. These abolitionists have served the Devil in God's livery and preached treason from God's pul- pits long enough. They should now be obliged to change either their opinions or their calling. EvroreaN MANUPACTCRERS AND THE New Tanrirr.—The pa:sage of the new prohibitory tariff now before Congress is generally ao- cepted as a certainty. Now, therefore, is the time for the poor, broken down manufacturers of England and France to come to this country, bringing their machinery and their artisans with them, if they like. This republic will soon recover from the temporary affliction of the rebellion, and will exist a thousand years, united, happy and prosperous. The nations of Europe are old and decaying, liable to crash down at any moment and bury industry be- neath the ruins of revolution. Hitherto this continent has been the elysium of foreign labor- ers, many of whom, coming to America poor, ignorant and friendless, have achievsi wealth, position and influence. Now is the tim. 24 an emigration of foreign brains and foreign capi- tal; for the United States is about to assert its independence of the world in manufactures as in everything else, and those who occupy the ground here first will reap the greatest har- vests. Letthe English and French manufao- turers reflect. Without the American market for their goods, what will become of them if they stay where they are? And yet this war and its results will separate Europe from us more effectually than if the Atlantic were to dry up and become @ desert. Only ruin can await foreign manufacturers at home. Success and wealth invite them to this free, republican, democratic country. Way 13 tae War Derartwent Strest?—Of late there have been no Praise-God-Barebones bulletins from the War Department, What is the cause of this? Where is the spirit of Crom- well? Where is the spirit of the Lord? Piarinc wtrs Naroson—From the recent news from Europe itis evident that British statesmen are playing a deep game with Napo- leon. But he sees what they are about, and has seut over Count Persigny to throw dirt in their eyes. Ever since he commenced building his iron- clad ships and making preparations for war on an extensive scale they have become alarmed. thinking these preparations were intended against England. an idea in which they are not far wrong. Hence they have been anxious to see his thunder expended upon other nations. They went into the Russian war with him, and slso the Chinese war, for the purpose of con- ducting the lightning away from Great Britain. They contrived that he should go into the Mexi- can war alone. They went with him a certain length, and when they found him fairly com- mitted to the struggle they leave him in the lurch. They want to do the same in the case of the United States. They are urging him to go forward alone; but he insists on having England with him. It is diamond out diamond between him and the slippery Palmerston. He is too sagacious to enter upon such an enter- prise as intervention in the United States with- out England. Assoen asshe finds him inex- orable, she will then, perhaps, consent to make asecret treaty with him; but she is very likely to abandon him at the critical moment, as she did in the joint expedition to Mexico. If she plays that game, as it is very probable she will, Napoleon will turn his arms against her instead of the United States; and if he does, her fall is certain. France and England are ina bad way. The condition of the people in both is revolution- ary. As for France, revolution is as periodical with her as the tertian or quartanague. There is a revolution with every new generation, and the time, therefore, for anuther eruption of the volcano is now at hand. Napoleon must do something to avert the threatening catastrophe. A fight with somebody is his only resource. The war with Mexico will take some time to finish, and after that he will'pick a quarrel with the United States if England joins him; if not, he will pick « quarrel with England herself. The American republic is indifferent as to what they may do. She is prepared to meet one or all of the European Powers so soon a8 her own domestic troubles are at an end, and even sooner if the despots of Europe should force the strife upon her. Tus Union axp Tue Revet Orricers—A Conrrast.— While the progress of the rebellion has thrown upon the uppermost wave of the great tide of war a host of officers, military and naval, in the service of the government, whose talents have become conspicuous, and whose names will go down to posterity covered with glory, those officers who have abandoned the flag under which they formerly earned a brilliant reputation have fallen into insignifi- cance. They are either heard of no more or some disaster has befallen them. For instance, there is Lieutenant Maury, whose fame was world-wide as a navigator and scientific discoverer. What has become of him now? He is lost in the depths of a treasonable conspiracy, from which he will never again rise to the point of honor and use- fulness from which he fell. Lieutenant Hart- stein, who was distinguished by the service of delivering the Resolute to the British Queen, is mad in a lunatic asylum in South Carolina. Commodore Josiah Tatnall, whom all de- lighted to call the father of the American navy, and whose expression when aiding the English in China, of “blood is thicker than water,” is ever memorable, has just been tried and censured by a rebel court martial for blowing up the Merrimac. Then we hear that General Gustavus W. Smith has been stricken with paralysis and rendered unfit for service. It is not long since General Philip St. George Cocke, one of the most accomplished gentlemen and the most, prized in his own section of country, became disheartened with the rebel cause, and, going outside of his camp, committed suicide. Mason and Slidell, we need not say, are now perpetual exiles from the country against whose interests they conspired. Disregarded and unacknowl- edged, in strange lands they must pass their days. ‘ These examples are striking, and prove that the way of the transgressor is hard, and that the fruits of treason are bitter. Asouition Norta—Secrssion Sovra.—Some of the republican journals—the most stupid of them especially--nre constantly reiterating the statement that abolition has had nothing to do with secession. On the contrary, it has had everything to do with it. Abolition and secession are twin brothers; but abolition is the elder of the two. The abolitionists made the South love slavery; for had it not been for abolition agitations slavery would have been abolished in the border States yearsago. The abolitionists at the North suggested the idea of a separate Southern confederacy by inces- santly clamoring that slavery was a disgrace to the nation. The abolitionists gave the rebel leaders their protext for uniting the South- ern people as they could never have been united upon any other pretext. The abolition- ists encouraged the rebols by avowing that they would not resist secession, and were glad to have the South go out with its slaves. The abolitionists, having thus caused, are now prolonging, this war by every possible means, and especially by attempting to transform it into an abolition crusade. Therefore we say that abolitionism and secessioniam are insepara- ble, and should die together, if the Union they both assail is to survive. Bromine or 4 Counter Revonvrion In THE Sovru.—We observe from many of the South- ern papers that in the spproaching elections for Congress candidates, calling themselves “Confederate candidates,” aro offering them- selves for the suffrages of the people. This would imply, of course, that there must be “Union” candidates in the field. Is the ques- tion of rebellion, then, to be decided at the ballot box, and not on the battle field? It looks very like it. This we take to be the be- ginning of @ counter revolution in the South- ern States. Wao Anke Orricers and Wro Arr Nor?— Our streets continue to be filled with gentlemen wearing the uniforms and shoulder straps of army officers. Why are not these parties with the army? Since the War Department has is. sued a peremptory order for all officers on fur- lough to join their regiments, it is only fair to presume that none of these persons in uniform, who are in robust health, and therefore not on the sick list, are renlly attached to the army, but are either dismissed or discharged from the service, if they Were ever in it at all, amuse the old fogies of the day, the political Rucewr Evronts 10 Gatvanme gue Ovo Pod ural Panrigs.—Several attempts have beem made by flie politicians, both in this State ang at Washington, since the lst of last April, to resuscitate the uld political parties and place their ghosts before the people. After @ grea’ deal of tribulation an address was issued by & legislative caucus at Albany, and a co:nmitteo appointed to carry outa plan there inaugu- rated to give new life to the republican party. The address was remarkable only for its entire treatment of issues long since dead and buried, as the only thing that bas since been heard of it was the meeting of the committee with the republicans in this city, and attempting te hoodwink the public by talking about fusing. Next in turn came a manifesto signed by four- teen members of Congress,“styling themselves democrats. Their address bore all the signe and evidences of an antediluvian document, and has never been heard from since it was promulgated. We presume that its authore built an ark, after the model of Noah’s, of an- cient history, for the purpose of preserving it. Following this came the conservative move- ment in Washington, which is nearer right than any of the others; but that, being all about the negro, fails to meet the issues of the present time. Since that there have been all manner of schemes got up under the pretence of party, but in reality on personal grounds, all of which have more to do with electing some person to office than they have with the interests of the country. All these movements may do very well to © women of the present time, or the spoils- seekers in our midst; but they will never suit the American people, now that they are fully awakened by the war to the true interests of the country. A mighty revolution has swept over the country during the past fourteen months, and its practical results are being brought home to the people; and they who ex- pect to rally the people on old party creeds, or the issues long since dead and buried, will find that there is no power in the one or virtue in the other. Ever since the fall of Fort Sumter the loyal Northern States and the people of all par. ties havo united in their support of the President- in putting down the rebellion. The only ques- tions that now divide parties are those of finance and the mode of reconstructing the Union. All the other issues will be secondary and sink into insignificance before these. Caucuses may meet and adopt addresses, party leaders may issue their proclamations and sound their party calls; but they will be of no avail. The power of the old parties is fast fading away: @ new era has dawned upon us. At present we are engaged in an extensive war, and the publio mind is all absorbed in its prosecution. They first desire to see the wambrought to a success- * fal issue and the rebellion crushed. Until then all other questions are of minor importance to them. When our gallant generals and brave soldiers have accomplished their work, then the public will take care of the politicians who remained at home plotting our ruin while our armies have been fighting for the country. In the meantime the politicians may hold their, caucuses and conventions; but they will find when election comes, that their labors have been fruitless. Sxnaror Siuuoxs iv Trovsie.—Senator Sim- mons has been caught accepting five per cent commission from a green Rhode Islander for obtaining « government contract. This dis- covery may be very bad for Simmons; but the official reports of Holt, Van Wyck and Thomas show that he ‘has only adopted the usual practice of Congressmen and poli- ticians. In deserting the straight paths of ancient virtue, therefore, Simmons has plenty of fellow Senators and Representatives to keep him company, and can justify his action by nu- merous precedents. If any trouble should come of this exposure, Simmons should go up to the White House, or the Soldier's Home, an@ get President Lincoln to write a special mes- sage endorsing his five per cent commission, upon the ground that it is in conformity with the acts of other Congressmen and with the proceedings of such distinguished patriots as Thurlow Weed and two anda half per cent Morgan. Tue New Stats or Deseret.—The Mormons have organized those portions of the Territory of Utah which they occupy into “the State of Deseret,” and have appointed Brigham Young their Governor, and have elected Senators and a Representative to Congress. In the meantime Congress has passed an act abolishing Mormon polygamy, and the probability is that there will be some trouble with Brigham Young upon this “peculiar institution” of the Great Salt Lake before he is recognized as the head of a new State. President Lincoln, however, we hope, will so deal with the Mormons in this matter as to convince them of the error of their ways and bring them to a reformation without the use of gunpowder, especially as it appeare that in all other respects the Mormons are faithful supporters of the Union. The Atlantic Steamship Trade. TONNAGE OF THB CUNARD AND INMAN MAIL VESSELS. Our enumeration of the steamships of the Cuvard mail and merchant fleot, published in the Heratp on Sunday, embraced all the vessels employed by that company im every quarter of the globe, se fai known 0 us ate cortain date, We inadvertently included the in the number, not recollecting at the moment that she now belongs to the Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia Steamship Company. In the second table then given we omitted to mention the names of several of the yessols of this company (Toman line), all of which carry the United States mails on the days of the late Collins line. The antiexed table shows the strength of the Cunard ‘and Inman Atlantic Mail Steamship lines Feapeotivelys | viz OUNARD VESSELS IN ATLANTIC TRADE. 4,000 Canada 8,300 Europa Scotia. Persia. Arabia Africa Asia. City of London. City of New Yor City of Ruitimore. City of Washingt City a Manchester. Arrivals and Departares. a ewaran, N. 0,—Ste tamer dere Biue—Mr B M Fowler Newse t woe tO , Lientenant Joha Pye ate at Yotun ef; "Lieutenant D Ariormuster ew airy; Mr Hen Ca ear New York rer hid 3o ark, Lat - ire Dogs ee '8'N North, ronenatend, Georg Sergeant J C Gindden, Will Ba Mere George 8 mith, George 8 Allen, F A Blaisdell, Simon M, Belcher. Bri a ceroae aw JM Wagner, Baron Vin’ stack ark Sohn, Westey—A Renort, FA Miller, Mr- Benort, of meet phia, died on board, of cong) 10 POND AM , Babe p on, 08