The New York Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1862, Page 6

eo NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BUNNETT, EDILOR AND PROPRIETOR, OPFICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, py merit ill be at the urrent im New Fork Dr ececy seetured tg At sas conte por Ebtion We wet, both to in ch an Zsto/ cack month. at 2s Gonacsrost ALL Lerrnas fi om ty Reguwstkp 70.8 yp Pack: ‘NO NOTICE retiorn rejen dco ADVE: ous correspmilence, We donot advartigemonts ine and ia the red ovary say Fawity Heratp, MUSEMENTS THIS WALLAOK'S THEATRE we Sif Brondway.—-Haxpy ANpy—YouNG ActRes. Pa AND Bas. LAURA KEENB'S TREAT , Broadway,—Mar@ot— Karte O Smear, WINTER GARDEN, Broat vay,—Heao OF THE Famitye un Fenaie American Covein. NEW BOWERY THEA’ Bowery.—"ianttv@ Bro- rakks OF Rovt—=Givterkk's ?s1K—House Doa, € oREMORNE, GARDEN, Fenrteonth street and ROMENADE COMUERT AND NIXON’ tath AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Con, HD SEAL ke., ut all boura Youn ActRuss— » ALLEL nO And evening. CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, 585 Broudway.—Ermoriay Sonos, Dances, &o.—Fig. it rox Uneie Sam. WOOD'S MINSTREL ALL. 514 Broata are ~Eruiorias Sonas, Lancers, Ac —Down tx Our K-y-ay, AND ara HALL, Canal caus, Ko. GATLTIES Roos Earenr PEO?LE 8 Buriaxeur: ? HALL, 616 Broadway. -Duawixe JuiC WALL, 45 Rowery.—Soxas, Dawcas, PARISIAN C ABI NHS OF WONDERS, 463 Broadway.— TRIPLE. SHEET. New York, Wednesday, Jaly 16, 1862. DAILY CIE CIRCULATION. OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Wednesday, July 9. Thursday, July 10. Friday, July 11... 123,860 Saturday, July 22. «125,040 Average a Cirealation.....123,485 120,480 124,560 THE SITUATION. We have not recvived any news a8.to the move- ments of General McClellan’s army.: It is not pro- bable that anything of importance.has occurred within the past twenty-four hours. * We would draw the attention of our readers to- day to our map of the seat of war around Rich- mond, which shows accurately the scene of Gene- ral McClellan’s recent seven days’ battles, his new base of operations, and the battle field which has become historic for the great events which have transpired there and those which no doubt will occur before the rebel capital isin the hands of the Union army. All the leading points on the peninsu ®, and the rivers: which bound and inter- sect it, are carefully set down, and the map cannot fail to prove oi mich interest to the public at the present time, when the army of the republic is engaged in operations upon which so much de- pends, We devote a iarge portion of our space to-day to an account of the meeting held in Union square yesterday in behalf of the Union and in support of the government in its efforts to suppress rebel- lion. It was one of the largest, and, im many re- speots, the most impressive popular assemblage ever gathered tog r in this metropolis—not alone in point of numbers, but in enthusiasm, sin- gle iess of porpose and earnestness in the cause for which it was called. The ground upon which the meeting was held posscesed a peculiar significaucy. The spirit of the early days of the republic, the self-sacrifice, the swicring, the b und the snecess which marked that time of trial were represented in the subline figure of the Father of his country, at the base of whose statue thousands of loyal met Sf pledged then:clves to the integrity of the nation which he bad created. Thoagh montded im Uronse, and apparertly cold and inanimate, the living fire of Washing- ton’s great soul moved tarongh the ing masses of the pesple who surrounded his statue. Altbonzh Mayor Opdyke presided at one stand, and Professor Lieber at another, and many distingnishe! gen‘lemen at others of the bumerous platforms arouad which the people gathered by the thovernd, yet George Warhi: gion, with outstretched Lard and nncovered !.wad, pre- sided over ail, as thongh the genius of patriotism was breathed from Lhe liieless metal into the living hearts below, and a bolder aud werner pur- Dose was commun.cavod to them by the inspira- tion. The latest news ‘vom the Southwest informs us that General Hai.cck is at Corinth, w'tie his army in @xrelient coudition, The rei ol Genctal Dragg was said to have a lorye force fa the neigh enacing General i lleck, Ueueral Curtis bua ro With dis army atte: the rebels va the COR UERSS, In the Senate yeo.s Naval Committee reporied a reaelution, which was sdopted, re- lingaishing all right au) title of the Uuited States in Stevens’ tloating |aitery to the Leits of Noberi sustain heay- vorhwod hed Hele, Arkansas, »£ ag ols wey and defeating L. Stevens, Tne resotution cailiug for informa tion relative to the release of Livuienant Colonel Anthony, of Kansas, was adopied. A bill was introduced amending tie Articlus of War, by providing that army officers shal) furnish protection to slaves eutering the Union lines, and also that if loyal citizens lose property by this order they sbail be compensaled, The bill relating to letters of marque, prizes aud prize law was discussed und Laid aside. The Wil relative to calling ont the mi- Jitia was then taken up, and Mr. Sherman's amend mont, limiting emaucipation to those who enter the military service of the United Staies and to the slaves of revels, was adopted by a vote of eighteen against seventeen. Mr. Browning offer- ed an anmentment, which was adopted, declaring thet mother, wif children, of ncgroes enter- Pog te muitary service, stall be freed only when = ' they betong to rebels. was passed by a vote of twenty-cight agai NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESD AY, JULY ‘16, 1862.—TRIPLE § SITEET. After some debate the bill nine. The Senate concurred in the House resolution postponing the final adjovrament of Congress till Thursday, in accordance with a wish of the Presi- dent. Bills making appropriations for civil ex- penses, imposing a tax of one cent per pound on domestic sugar, and granting peusions to masters of gunboats were passed. The bill providing for the discharge of State prisoners, &c., was then taken up and discussed till the adjournment. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Benjamin Wood, of New York, offered a resolution instruct- ing the Judiciary Committee to report forthwith on the matter of said Wood's alleged mjsconduct. Objection was made, aud the resolution laid over. The bill repealing all the laws giving mileage to members of Congress, was passed. This bill applies to the present Congress und the mileage already received for the same. The bill reimbursing Mis- souri for the expense of oiganizing aud equipping the Home Guard, was passed. At the request of the President, the House agreed to extend the see- sion till Thursday. The bill requiring shipmasters trading to foreign ports and persons prosecuting claims at the departments, to take the oath of allegiance, was passed. A bill explanatory of the fitth section of the Confiscation act, so that its operution may uot be TegePCH Ns was passed, and the Honse udjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Ariel, from Aspinwall... mst., : with mails, passengers and half a million in trea- sure from San Francisco, arrived at this port last night. The details of the news from South Ame- rica may be found in another column. The steamship Creole, now loading at pier No. 13 North river, for New Orleans, wal oarry out ten thousand barrels of flour on freight. A veto was transmilted yesterday from the Mayor of a resolution of the Board of Supervisors providing for the employment of special counsel to take legal action in regurd to the refusal of his Honor the Mayor to sign any of the warrants for the pay rolis for building the new Court House. The veto alleged that the Supervisors should act upon his nomination of Mr. Churchill as Commis- sioner to fill the vacancy in the Board of Commis- sioners for erecting the new Court House. It was stated in debate that the Mayor's nominee was not a practical builder, and that he was President of the Eighteenth Ward Republican Association, the object of his appointment being to secure @ par- tisan distribution of the laboring patronage on the building. A motion to discharge the committee from further consideration of the Mayor's nominee was lost, Mr. Purdy stating the willingness of the Board to confirm a fair man, such as Cyrus Curtis, James C. Willet, or @ multitude of like well known names on which they were prepared to consult withthe Mayor. There was no nomination for Surrogate in the place of the late Edward C. West. The Board unanimously resolved to donate the sum of $5,000—one year’s pay—to Mr. West's widow. The market for beef cattle was altogether more buoyant and firmer on Momlay and Tuesday, when; owing to moderate receipts, there prevailed a tolerably active demand,-and prices advanced about %c. per pound, varying from 6740. a 8240. a 9e., the latter for choice extra, Milch cows were nominal at $25 a $50. Veals sold at 4c. a 5%c. a 6c., chiefly at about5c. Sheep and lambs were less plenty, more active, and rose to 50c. per head higher, varying from $2 50 a $4 50a $5. Swine were also more active and firmer, with sales at 354c. a 334. for corn fed, and 334c. a 336. for still fed. The total receipts were 3,452 beeves, 97 cows, 600 veals, 9,592 sheep and lambs, and 5,571 swine. ‘Wai! street observed the holiday yesterday, and there was no second board of stocks. At the first board every. thivg was from 1 to 1i¢ per cent lower. Tennessees de- clined 33g on the reports of the rebel successes in that State, Money was easy at last quotations, Exchanger 128% @ 129; gold, 1163, #117. ‘The ¢ tton market was again higher yesterday, and advanced 1c. @ 1c. per lb., with sales of 2.900 bales, closing #tif om the basis of 45c. per Ib. for middling up- lands. Flour was firm, and for common lots of shipping brands abou: 5c. higher; while the apper qualities were unchanged, Wheat was active, but about lc. higher for common qualities of Western. Corn was firm and ex- tremely active, while prices were without change of moment. Pork was firmer and active, with sales of moss at $10759$11, and of prime at $875. Sugars were Steady and active, with sales of 2,750 hdas. and 484 boxes. Coffee was steady, with sales of 8,000 bags Rio at p. t. Tho stock of Kio and Santos embraced 22,792 bags, and of ull kinds a total of 180,646 bigs. Froights were temly at the previous day's rates, with a fair amouat of eugagem ‘nts. The Crisis—The Voice of New York=No Sacritice Too Great for the Union. The city of New York, en masse, has risen and spoken again for the Union. Yesterday, in Union square, we had a re-enactment of the sublime spectacle of April, 1861, and a re- affirmation of the same patriotic spirit and determination of our loya! citizens—every- thing for the Union. Our great day of April, a year ago, was the response of New York city to the Presi- ‘lent’s primary call for seventy-five thousand men to maintain “the integrity of the Union,” violently assatled by a rebellious conspiracy in the bowbardment of Fort Sumter; and that indignant uprising of New York rallied the loyal North, like the call of s trum pet, to the support of the President. This second grand council of our citizens, after fifteen months of war by land aud sea, and after the contribu- tion by our city and State to our army and navy of not less than one hundred and twenty- five thousand men, is in answer to another call of the President for reinforcements to our army to the extent of three hundred thousand men. Anticipating, too, from the dif- fcsion of this imposing demonstration, euch an awakening of our loyal States and people as will meet all the demands of tlis crisis, we devote a large portion of our available space to-day to the productions of this grand avsem- hinge, in order to spread them broadcast over the and to the encouragement of the freads of our preat cause nnd the terror of its enemies at home and abroud. The adiress of th panying resolttious spesk authoritatively the voice of our loyai citizens. They stand upon the solid plaiform of President Lincoln— “The integrity of the Union’—its su- preniacy, and our federal coustivation. They the disorganizing and anarchi- erements of this Southern rebellion with peculiar forco—its absnrd and hypocriti- eal pretences, and its dem yratizing and destruc. tive tendencies. Tho address in question, after fully establishing the legai supremacy of the Union and its political necessities, condenses the argument into the simple impressive facts that we are fighting “for the integrity of our land, weedug aud the accom- expose cal country, for our national existence, for the Christian civilizati on of our naira for our com- our arts, our schools; for all those earthly things which we have been taught most to cherish and respect.” The war, then, on our part, is to be prose- cuted, to the extent of our men, means and re- fources, for the suppression of this rebellion; and against any hostile foreign intervention merce, whatever the government can count on the unanimous support of our loyal States and people. Such is the spirit of the address adopted by the city of New York at this mass meeting, and the accompanying resolutions are equally em- phatic in defining our position, The city of New York looks to no alternative but the sup- pression of this rebellion. She stands by our gallant armies in the field; she is prepared for any sacrifices to reinforce and strengthen them; sbe approves the wise, just and con- sistent Union war policy of President Lincoln; she urges the government to “lose no time in filling up our armies and, putting the whole seacoast in a state of oomplete defence,” and ashe knows no such word as fail. Each of the numerous apeakera on the goca- sion, though differing from the rest more or Jess, supports this paramount idea of the vigorous prosecution of the war. We submit our copious reports to the careful attention of our readers; and for their more com- plete information in regard to the late and the present position of General McCleilan’s army, in this connection, we give them « very interesting illustrative map of the field of war around the city of Richmond. New York city has spoken, and while the country is responding to her cheering voico let us proceed to action, Let us set an exampie in action by a prompt contribution of twenty thousand fresh soldiers to our armies in Virginia. That num- ber we ought to be able to draw from this grand mass meeting in Union square, Senators Waps anp Sumyer.—The terms of office of Senators Sumner, of Massachusetts, and Wade, of Ohio, expire on the 4th of March next. These Senators are very naturally de- sirous ofa re-election, and are straining every nerve to secure such Legislatures in their re- spective States aa will return them to the high positions which they now disgrace. Above all others—for Senator Wils»m has much less talent, though quite as much disposition for mischief—these two Senators have been con- cerned in the detestable intrigues to which we owe the almost negative results of our fifteen months’ campaign. Distinctly and avowedly these Senators have preferred the emancipation of the negro to the salvation of the Union, and they have lost no opportunity to express and to act out their preference. They have {nter- fered with, hampered, annoyed and hindered our generals in the field by most Cowardly, malicious and treasonable devices. By the foulest means they have succeeded in clogging the wheels of our progress in the war, and have made another year of battles unavoidable. Had it not been for them and their coadjutors the war would have been over and the Union restored on the Fourth of July inst. More than any other men they are responsi- ble for the useless sacrifice of blood and treasure in the past, and for the three hundred thousand more men and five nundred millions more dollars which will have to be perilled in the future. Practically, and in the most emphatic sense, they are traitors to the country and enemies of the nation. From them, more than from a thousand Vallan- dighams, Jeff. Davis has received aid and com- fort; for they have strengthened his forces by exasperating the South and by dividing and weakening the North. We hope that the loyal men of Massachusetts and Ohio will raise these questions in the coming elections for State legis- lators, and vote down every man who is pledged or who intends to vote for the re-election of these twin traitors, Sumner and Wade. They have only escaped Fort Lafayette and the gal- lows because the government has distrneted its own power and misunderstood the sentiments of the loyal people. Let this misunderstanding now end, and let Messrs. Sumner and Wade find, when they retarn to their homes, that they are held personally and politically responsi- ble for their infamous and treasonable course. ‘The true policy of all men, anti-slavery or von- servative, isto put down rebellion in the field, and let slavery take its chances during the con- flict. If any questions in regard to siavery re- main after the war, let them be settled when the war is concluded. Against this policy Sumne? and Wade have arrayed themselves, by de- manding that the slavery question shal! be settled first, and the Union be cared for after- wards, or not at all. They must be treated accordingly. Sanrrary Conprtion or Ovr Mitrrary Hos- vitas.—It is abont six weeks since it was de- cided to close the Hygeia Hospitel at Fortress Monroe. The motives of this determination were patent to every one who visited it. pro- fessional or otherwise. The locaiion of the building was inappropriate, its ventilation wretched, and the morta'tty amongst the pa- tients not to be accounted for except ‘by local causes. Atone time, and in partifalar parts of the hospital, all the patients were attochad by inflammation of beth lungs. Amongst the wounded hospital gangre:e, putrid fever and kindred maladies made their appearance and carried them off by scores. Scarcely an am- putation was made which did not terminate fatatly, And for this wreiched building the government paid the large sum of a thousand dollars a mouth. Why it thovid have con- tinned, at fo heavy an expense, an institution eo yestilential and fatat to the lives of pe tients, no one could explain; and the anomaly was all the moie aliange from the fact that, by extemporizing a rew ef hospital tents along the beach, all the saniiary requirements oe- cessary to their recovay could have been secured, and that for a comparatively trifling outlay. We canno! imagire why, in the free of such ; facta—facts acknowledged by the medical aw thorities themseives—the building should be agein employed for bospite! purposes, It jooks jike playing with the vvos «° our sol. diers. We demand, a8 & matic’ ©f common justice to the country’s aa, thet this pest hole shall be ot tnve aud definitively ahat up letend Bin and Other Radical | will The Confiscation bill, the bill Virginia, and other radical measures of this description, are il}-timed and out of place, be cause, instead of aiding the successful prosecu- tion of the war, they are obstructing and defeat- ing it, as far as tuey have any effect at all. Their application is in the future, and they pre- suppose the conquest of the rebellious States; for until that is achieved they can have no ope- ration; and, therefore, the receipt in the old cookery book, “first catch your hare, then cook him,” &c., might be studied to advantage by our sapient legislators. But, when the re- bellion is put down, every measure not instrict accordance with the constitution must, of neces- sity, fall to the ground. It is only in virtue of qhe constitution, and by its authority, that the government itself exists, and until the constitu- tion is abolished or changed by the sovereign power that gave it vitality Congress has no power tomake any laws inconsistent with its pro- visions, and no legal tribunal can uphold thein. They will:be null and void, apd if the people do their duty they will elect a Congress which will wipe frem the statute book all such revo- lutionary ineasures. For example, as appears from the proceed- ings of Congress reported in yesterday’s Heratp, the bill for the admission of West Virginia into the Union as a State was passed on Monday last. Had West Virginia been a Territory, that measure would have been per- fectly constitutional; but, being part of a State already in the Union, the bill is both revolu- tionary and absurd. If the rebellion is put down, all Virginia—Eastern and Western—will be in the Union de facto as one State, asit is now de jure; but if the rebellion is not put down, then the bill is but a brutum fulmen, of no effect. The constitution expressly provides that a State cannot be divided and formed into two States without the authority of the whole people of such State. Consequently the bill is, in any case, nugatory. It is not in the power of Congress, nor in the power of Congress and the President united, to destroy the organi- zation of any State, which is as indestructible as the federal government itself. The Presi- dent has a war power to suspend State func- tions in any rebellious State, and to appoint pro. visional Governors during the progress of the war; but the moment the war is terminated that power ceases to exist, and the State returns to its normal condition. The President recognizes this principle in the draft of the bill he has just sent to Congress for the gradual abolition of slavery iu the Southern States with their own consent; for he admits that though they might wbolish slavery to-day they could re-enact it in six months. These exceptional bills, therefore, can only be regarded as temporary, and as measures of policy and expediency? The question is, Are they politic and expedient! They cannot beso unless they aid the progress of the war. But experience has shown, and common sense pro- claims aloud, that they are producing the con- trary effect. Their tendency is to unite the whole South against the federal government, and to exasperate the rebellion to desperation, while at the same time they are calculated to produce division and discontent at the North and seriously to interfere with recruiting and enlistments, so essential to success. The main point is to carry on the war with vigor and to a successful issue. Everything which is not subordinate to that is worse than useless. The agitation of the measures of the radicals is not only not subcrdinate te this er, but is diametrically opposed to it. Consequent- ly the radicals in Congress are doi:.g all that in them lies to render the war a disastrous failure, and the reconstruction of the Union an imp >ssibility. The whole of the mischief arises out of a de- parture from the ancient landinarks—an ignor- ing of the very first principles on which the government was founded. When the Declara- tion of Independence was signed all the cvlo- nies possessed slaves, Between that period and the formation of the constitution only one of the States had abolished slavery, and that State was Massachusetts. The right to hold negro slaves was not then questioned. It was an indisputable common law right, and is plainly re- cognized in the constitution. But when the North- ern States, on account of climate, and the irami- gration of free white labor from Europe, found it profitable to abolish slavery, and did abolish it voluntarily, a set of fanatics conceived the design of compelling the Southern States to abolish it too, thong’ these States bel'eve it to he for their interest to retain it, on account of their peculiar climate, and the fact that they do not receive a sufficiency of free white labor by immigration; and because, moreover, the negro alone is suited to the cultivation of the cotton and sugar States. The meddling of the radi- cals with the labor system of the Southern States is revolutionary and subversive of the foundation of the government. It ia the cause of the war, the canse of its failure hitherto to accomplish its legitimate object, and if con- tinued it will be the cause st last of the ca- tastrophe for which the radicals have been la- boring for the last thirty years--the final and irrevocable dissolution of the Union—a com- pact which they have declared through their org.ns to be “a covenant with death and an agreement with Heli.” Ocn Army Amuctanct System.—The recent retrect of cur army from the CiicRahominy to the banks of the James rivor, conductad, as it was, with order and steaciuess, was yet marked by one deplorable feature. We were compelled to leave behind and at the mercy of aninfuriated enewy @ large number of our wounded. This fact i# attrivntable eutirely to the known jn- efficiency of our ambulance system, In the French and Proasian arm'es an occurrence of this kind would be almost imposible, and at all events could not fail to bring down the soverest censure on the department responsible for it. be The remedy Iles in the proper organization and estabbishment of an ambulanee braneb of the service on the plan adopted by the two govern- ments to which we refer. & is @ subject of serious. regret that this palpable @uty should huve been so long negiccted. There is, how- ever, yet time, and we fear but too much oo- cas‘on, to supply she defietoncy. In Dr. Hamil- ton’s compendinw of military surgery a brief sketch of the French and Prassian ambutance aystem wii! be found, eaving r rance to be urged ns to its de less to tay trat a vecesary proper working of the sr tor medien} p! at t Maden wells ouch be late ave OVTed chews wi plea of ignu- Tt is need- wilh tion of the 6 bun = L the test and adm! sh wi ila bem # hail ha | Inge ¢ ean heeln | will compensate them for the loss of their practice. The subaiterns and men of the am- bulance corps might be profitably selected amongst the xble-bodied contrabands who are now ‘living like dronos at the expens® of the country. “Maxine History.”—The phrase “ making history” is with us significant of something more than the importance of passing events. We not only supply materials for the historian, but we anticipate, and, in a measure, render useless his labors. No war that the world bas as yet seen will leave bebind it 0 many per- fect memorials of its incidents and leading actors as that In which we are engaged. Take, for example, the letters of our correspondents from the battle fields on which the great strug- gle for the maintenance of our institutions is being fought out. Nothing more graphic, pic- turesque and accurate has, we will venture to say, ever yet been written than these descrip- tions of the events of the campaign. A great deal of nonsense has been uttered in praise of Russell’s letters from the Crimea; but this was because the plan of sending journalists to mili- tary campaigns was at that tine a novelty, and people swallowed readily whatever he chose to write. But we now know the precise value to attach to Mr. Russell's personal observations, which have always been made at a safe dis- tance from the enemy, ard, for the most party compiled from hearsay. This cannot be said of the corps of correspondents, upwards of thirty in number, who are employed by ws at the various points at which hostilities are being carried on. There is not one of them who does not daily incur as much danger in the pursuit of his avocations as any soldier or officer in the army. The consequence is that their letters are more reliable in regard to facts, and cer™ tatnly more interesting in point of style, from their freedom from egotism and saobbery, than anything that Mr. Russell bas written. If the enterprise of the journalist has done much, photography has, however, done still more for future generations, so far as the history of our day is concerned. To the works of such men as Brady will they be indebted for the most vivid and faithful memorials of the colos. sal struggle in which we are engaged. Regard- less of personal danger, the distinguished artist to whom we refer was the first to show that in nothing to which photography could be applied was it more usefal or interesting than in the illustration of the events of the present war. To the patriotic feeling which prompted him to seek, almost at the cannon’s mouth, an oppor- tunity of carrying ont this new application of his art, we are indebted for pictorial records of the campaign, the value of which cannot be sufficiently estimated. When we come to have a school of historical painting—a branch in which we are now lamentably deficient—these pictures of Brady's will serve to make the for- tune and fame of some American Vandermeulen, A people who not only enact great deeds, but inscribe them ineffaceably in the Book of Time, as they move along, may well arrogate to them selves the title of “history makers.” We do not build pyramids to convey to posterity dim visions of our greatness, We do better: we preserve for them files of liye newspapers and the sun pictures of Brady. Joppery In rae Ustrep Srates Sexate.—Sona- tor Simmons, of Rhode Island, was caught re- ceiving a percentage for procuring a gun con- tract for an Eastern firm—not the Tribune Asso- ciation. A committee of the Senate was a>- pointed to investigate the affuir, and summoned Simmons asa witness. To every one’s surprise Simmons turned State's evidence against himself and confessed the crime, but stated that he did not know that his proceedings were at all wrong. Evidently the meinhers of the commit- tee felt that Simmons had only done the usual thing, and they reported the fact to the Senate. The Senate, of course, purged itself of al! enspi- cion of connivance with such jobbery by ex- pelling Simmons? Nothing of the kind. The Senate sent the case back to a commitiee, which is equivalent to cons‘gning it to the tomb of the Capulets. Of course this smothering of so disgraceful an affair amounied to a positive endorsement of Senator Simmons’ proceedings. We suppose that the motive of this is very obvious. How many other Senators have gun contracts for themselves or their friends? Tow many other Senators have diried their finzera with percentages? When Simiaons was accused how many other Senators trembled? When Simmons was hauled up bow many otber Sena- tors began to wish themselves out of danger! When the Simmons case was so neatly sinoth. ered how many other Senators breathed more freely? Why, ithas come to be considered a part of the duty of @ United States Senator to swindle the government. It is atwoat the only duty the Senators perforin well. A Seuator is nobody uniesshe has two or three millions of dollars worth of government contracts. Even poor, little, silly Greeley, who only wanted to be Senator, has @ couple of gun coniracts worth half a million each. Every sorrow has ita consolatien. however, and the precent ses- sion‘ of the Senate will soon be at an end. We wish the honorable Senators a happy moeting with their robbed and swindled cuustituenta. Jonseny ms tHe Hovse oy Pprnesenta- TivEs.—Who would have imagined that the very respectable, the tremendous!y respectable, the superlatively respectable, the eternally re- spectable Nutional Fatelligencer, under the man- agement of those traby, emineni!y, transcend. ently and ewerlastingly respectsble Siamese twins, Mesars. Gales and Geaton, would be caught with its respectable fingers in the pub. lic crib, and’ be hawed up before Congress by its respectable white choker upon a disrepu- table charge of jobbery? What a hypooriti- cal, Pharisaical, anteditavian bumbug this National Intelligeneer ia. It lice w holy horsor of sensational joarnalism; but it has no holy herror against quiet thieving. For forty yeare past it has been futtewing itsef on publie pop and preaching politiend piety, and af inst, having tried and exlausted all the dodges, and compromised. half the members of Congress, it has made @ desperate clutch at alittle job of thirty-five thonsand dpilars, and missed its prize. Weil, well, this is a gad world, and theve are always Pecksniifs in it who delight to snivei long prayers in publie while they are empiying their neigi- bors’ poekets in private. The dnlelligenver had better change ita name to the Police Gazeties and publish an eecount of ite jobs and pickings* It would he vastly more lively and eutertain- ing than at present; and it must uot forget to racord that its crowning echievement was mak- ar naressional and political rng that ati inout, Thaddeus Stevens, tho great Boman) Geel slavery representative oi i Feupsylvanta. nae Sana pil h tae Tee Great Issue merce Next Cononession- AL Evxcrions.—The great issue in the next Congressional elections will not be the slavery question, nor tariff, nor taxation; for these are now dead iseues, and are disposed of or swal- lowed up by the war. The issue will be the vigorous prosecution of the war, or its obstruc- tion and defeat. When the battle of Fort Sum- ter took place it was cateulated that the war would be brought to a successful termination by the expenditure of six hundred miilions of dollars, and by far tess of human life than it has already cost. But as to the grand practical result, we are, apparently, as far as ever from its accomplishment. What is the cause? The interference of the Jacobin committees in Con- gress with the management of military opera tions, the revolutionary ideas promulgated by the abolition leaders, and the public plunder and corruption accomplished by the direct aid of the radical mombers of Congress, ur by their guilty connivance. Bad the conduct of the war been. left to the President and the generals it would have been ended Jong since. But the objects of the ra dcals were spoils and the abolition of slavery, and their dea was to protract the war and in- crease the expenditure of b'ood and treasure, in order the better to accomplish their objects, white the grand object of the war—the Union as it wus and the constitution as it is—was to be bafiled and defeated, in order that the radicals m‘ght retain their politcal ascendency in the Northern haif of the d'ssevered repub' c. This, therefore, is to be the issue at the next elections; and the Wades and Wilsons, Love joys and Sumners must be rebnked by the public as unfaithful to their trust, and better men must be sent to the councils of the nat‘on. Meantime it is to be hoped that the war will soon be brought to @ successful issue, the Pre sident and the generals being freed froin the pernteious influence of the radical members of Congress, who extorted from Mr. Lincoln many things to which he was opposed, because they held in their hands the purse strings of the na- tion, and the war could not be carr’ed on un ess they voted the supplies. The people under- stand this, and a day of reckoning is at hand. Extra Session or Tae Learsuature.—Would it not be wise for Governor Morgan to immedi ately convene the Legislature, for the purpose of passing such laws as will encourage enlist- ments and secure tho more speedy response to the call of the President for more troops? Thi would be an opportune timo for the State ot New York to speak through its representatives Wendell Phillips and the leading abolitionists of this city, who are anxious for a separation of the Union, are asserting thatthe war ia about over; that the North will make no further effort; that the South will be- recognized and the Union dissolved. Let the Legislature be convened and adopt such measures 4s will show to the abolition trailors; in this city and else- where, that they do not. represent-the feeling of the people. Foreian INTERVENTION IN AMERICAN AFAIRS.— The last news from Europe indicates that for- eign interference in our domestic affairs is ther off than ever, But they had’ not received the intelligence of the several severe battles on the peninsula when the steamer left. It is therefore impossible to tell what will be done on the reception of that news. Should there bo any disposition, however, to interfere, it will show “itself, as heretofore, in a disposition to talk, and thus delay matters for a month or two, until we have regained the prestige lost. There is no ground, therefore, at present, for fear of a foreign intervention before such a docisive move is made by our armies ag will preci all such ideas, Movements of Mrs. President Lincoin. At av early hour yesterday morning Mra. Lincola and suits, with the exception of her eldest son, Mr. Robert Lincoln, left the Metropolitan Hotel and proceeded on board the United States steamer Winants, commanded by, that genuine son of NautHus, Captain Lowber, for the perpose of making @ trip about the harbor of thie Great metropolis. A brilliant aud diatinguisued party of ladies and got tlomen accompanied the estimable lady of our Chief Mugivtrato, am ng whom we: Maratou, an early friend and old schwimate of BI coln; Mra, Thomas Campbell and Mrs. W. A Hoa. Rufus F. Audrews, Surveyor of the Port; Captnie W. 4. Murey,U. S. A., of the United Siatos Mila y Raviroad Department; Captain Ottinger and his officers, ut the rovenve cutter,Miami; Colonel weeney, ot Philudel- pla: Mawr Gilbert, of New York; Mr. Chae and otbern, ihe party voarded the Winants ‘stoaier at the foot of cc tas early as ten o'clock, aud tminediately up te Fast river, pweing enticly sround astern stoametiip, the Winuuts firing a se. ius, Aud tue Laviathau responding with one the Winanla procesded down tue bay oif andy Took, and returugs to dicie of the eveniug,the distin. all bho guests, cxpression zositulness ty th asarable eme- iveu them. ip neciion it in ty that ike exertions of Sur vexor om ‘aprein Marley. the genbemen avecially Hotats bd WY tle War Mh, ertment to attend upon Mrs. whi.o tm the metropoiis, are y¥ houcrable ment for Ln equal ith whieh they acquitted 4 bie sucial dutivs devolved +m a hecsoit 8 understood tw concur iB gest. This woruivg Mra. Lincnln. incom. with Gy cwel Frank B. Howe, of the army, wid visit te gov simon, Losp tals med about the city, sad will probal'y le: n ‘hureday aftvenoou in the United States ovenve crite. Mia.i for Vest Point, to pay her ably military Nestor, Lieutenant vin tt, now sjourniag at Cuzzona” Ab is (b mgt that Mre. Lineeln will retusa from Polatou daturday ia time t take the ovening P Woehington, ohe t Lincein,son of the President, was « quest bn araay atoruoon and last evonirg of Col. Li wk KE. Howe, at Lis reaiterce, & mm Houre, st itmad. Br tel Derwmat Inteit Brigadier Geseral Schuyler Flarsilton, who was rect. ly nominated by sito Pi at to be @ major genoral, ly ing so wary.) at Nowr that sourcoly any b pes are ed of sia 18 ef Gonern United Ptaten Army, ia viewing bis tami a a Waterford, thin State The Hon. 4. Mi. Dooms, aor of the First Maryland envoiry (ogi nt Lee beep promoted for his bravery so the col.nolcy of seit rog iment, Cartas MW OF Tee \Reasen Srovick—Conrna Jiny’e eave one of ou» Fortr wtOnts Look Omarion to prRio Cu. modowan, in coumend of the revenue fot iia tation. Cap Somes name was misp: nied § in,” aad We muke the cor, eet enuge FO worthy an Ofliver ce cy we paul’ should know sud. appreciace ‘is valusblo services, The Vermont. ows ont to Artiva, Tox ay. The Ninth rogimant, fiest to respond to the call far the HO valantoors, wil romch the city ab an erly hoor navsuing. They will land as the fook of Testy streets, Basa rivec, and march to Madison eqaare, whore they willredt til afternonw, At four P.M. pre- cisely tuey wil take up their Ine of mareb tarougt . ik tiy Avene to Fourteenth sirect, thenve to Broadway and down to the Amboy boat, Several prominsut Oras o@ Rroaaway Rave signified their intention to aaiue the fogiment as it passer. ‘The cons of Vermont will be pleased to have any orgauisations, who would like te do #0, joiv the: escort to the regiment. The “sous” are Fequeated Le cb avenve Hotel, at three f dye provided, and bave 1 1nd euler of t will be otpested to ve im Atveudance on the ream % in we ve Tha comm)tiee of arrangements wiil see that this ad gramane ia carried out with the utmost punctuality an 1k it anderstued that Cour Py M. does gob Ud cutee ater tha: Dour, f .