The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1862, Page 4

¢ * NEW YORK HERALD. James GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRISIOR. | Per comt; but even at the close of buainess hours the commission houses appeired to have orders enough t absorb all the stock that was offered for gale by tho Speculators. Of this lyst rise in stocks the Outside opera- tors seem to have had the hors, the regular Wall Bireet speculators are not believed to have had « large futercat inthe warket, Gold, under the influence of Mr. Cigoo’s new regia advanced to 122, aiterwarda re | coding to 120, Exchange was held at 131}¢ 4182. Money | was offered at 4 ner cent on evil. ‘The cotton marker yesterday was drm, without further OFFICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, | + TERMS cash in advance. Money sei ry mait will be at the wish Of re sender, Nemaiut Bank Witla carvent in New York THB DAILY HERALD. tivo cute vor cov $T per annua TAR WEEALY HERALD, every & ‘ } Sag Buropecn & y Wetvatey, — advane in prices. The sales embraced about 1,200 balos, $6 ec mete Great isrvain’ 6 the basin of 660. a BTe. for mb'idhing up'gnds, cling Calyforme EF: aon abe tot, th and Qleta) each month ates at aboot she outeide figures. The @our market was un- Fie Biwi HERALD, on Werneeday, a: four cante ner | hanced for most descriptions. comet ane He: CS, hee vo mporiane | @0 wore Gull, white the igher civea cf bakers! brads | Rewe, solicitet from ney quate: or wad, oil @ | Was in many eases $@ per bbl bigher, Wheat was | eon Ee NDENTS (28 | Armer, owing ma good decree to Lhe adv: ARTIODLADLY REQUESTED TO SBAL ats Levens anp Pack ‘AQES SENT OU: WO NOTICE taleen of anonymous co regrndence We donot eeturn rejiec ad commune tions active, and in part for export. Corn was firm, especiilly for good sound Western mixed, which sold at €0c. a Gle , while transactions were made toa fair extent. Vork was oged, with moderate sa'es, which embraced moss 6244 8 $1175, and prime at $10 25. Bee! was nn- changed and lard rather firmer, with sales at 90. a 9%. Tue government contract for 12,100 bbis, mesa pork was awarded at $12 @ $14 20, and.29,015 bbls. prime mess pork at $1125. $11 90, and 300,000 Ibs, bacon at No, 256 EVENING. RIBLO'S GARDEN, Broa HELLO. Cysay One Has WALLACKS THEATRE, Buood Bis Favris. WINTER GARDBN Bron actbieia ae $7 20 per 100 Ths, Sugary were active and firm, and New ne Orleans yraies ‘go. m Ye. per Id. highor, while far LAURA KEENE!'S 1) SATRE, Prootway.—Seuoon rom | to good rei Cubas were at $540. 08%, The sales Bcanvar. NEW BOWEKY Gai —Bacee byn— aced 8,267 bhds. at fall prices, Fur the Mosers, t's pricos for their refuing gdods we refer to another column. Coffee was steady, but quiet. Th@ government contract for 650,000 tbs. was take at $28 28, and 150,000 do, 70 por 100 Iba. Freights were gomewhat trro- hg lar, but without chaage of importance in rates, whila engagements were made to # fair extent. TRE, Bowery.-~Mazerra—Oum Caner. TH Wap BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery ry = Revaxce—Co- Leas Bor: — 6 Bei 2H ASTER GERMAN OPERA HOUSE, Carrer’ Broad way.—Gzam anp NIXON'S CREMORNE & n of State Governors—The Vhexd Conspiracy. The treasonable developments at the Con- vention of State Governors, held on Wednes- day at Altoona, in Penusylvania, fully confirm the opinion we bare long since expressed that a plot had been set on foot by the radicals at the North to abolish the Union, the constitu- d negro slavery together, without regard to the legal. moral or social obstacles in the way, or any disastrous consequences that might ensue trom the execution of their, desperate programme, Even the President himsel!, if he should continue to stand in their path, must be swept away, and with bim all the guarantees of jaw and public order. xt a revolutionary conspiracy has been or- 1 for some time at the North, under the ©on of the Roun theads, or the Puritans, isnow placed beyond adoubt. The originators are the lineal descendants of the rebel Round heads in Englaod, who kept that country for forty years in hot water and civil war. Tais treasonable conspiracy began in New England: but it has its ramifications ia New York and various other Northern States, and some of its ruling spirits are to be always found at the na- tional capital. The first intimation we had of the existence of this secret organization was the disloyal response of Governor Andrew, of Massachu- setts. to the call of Secretary Stanton for troops, in May last, when he refused to send the desired regiments, intimating that the call was not a “real,” but a sham one, but that if the President was in earnest, and would proclaim negro fraternity and equality, and let the blacks fight side by side with white men, then “the roads would swarm with the multitudes that New En;land would pour out to obey the call” of the Secretary of War. In other words, Goveruor Andrew would delibe- rately let the government be overthrown by the rebels of the South unless it consented to submit to the dictation of the Roundheads, and egreed to a fanatical policy which, if successful, would make the South another St. Domingo, and inflict a blow upon the whole country, from which it could not recover in half ® century. The next evidence we have of the exist- ence and objects of the Society of Roundheads is the meeting at Providence of the New England Governors with the New York Jacobin Club which goes by the misnomer of “ The National War Committee.” Then aud there it was proposed, in view of the refusal of the government to permit them to organize a re- volutionary army of fifty thonsand men, to be placed under the command of General Fremoni, that the Governors of the Northern States should he applied to for that number of meu and arms, as a nucleus around which the ele- menta of Northern fanaticism and revolution might gather for the destruction of the govern- ment unless it fell in with the'r designs to abolish the constitution of the United States by force and arms, The recent withholding of troops from the general government in the hour of need, and the developments of the radical Go- vernors at Altoona, complete a chain of evi- dence as to the existence of a most dangerous conspiracy. Their object appears to be to prolong the war,in order to make fortunes for themselves or their friends by contracts, and at the same time to insure the final dismember- ment of the United States, in order to the per- manent control of the Northern section by a fanatical faction which would compel all men to adopt their standard of morality and religion, like the tyrant Procrustes, who, if his victims were too long, cut of their legs in order to reduce them to the dimensions of the bed on which he tortured them, or, if they were too short, stretched them to the requisite length, Upon one frivolous pretence or another the troops raised in several of the Northern States have not been sent forward by these Governors to Washington. In a single State ten thousand are said to be retained. The fact of the troops having been held back at this particular crisis, when their presence in the fleld might have rendered the great battle in Maryland imme- diately decisive by preventing the escape of the rebel army into Virginia, fe very significant, when coupled with another fact developed at Altoona, that the radicals proposed to call upon the President to remove General McClellan just after he had won the most brilliant victory of the war, and were only defeated in their at- tempt to carry this proposition by the threat of Governor Tod, of Ohio, that the people would rise up én masse against them, and by the conser- vative course of Governor Curtin, of Pennsyi- vania, who supported General McClellan, and by the rebuke of Governor Morgan, of New York, who declined attending the Convention because he disapproved of its ubject, and main- tained that the Joyal and patriotic way to serve the government was to send it men, as he did, New York baving contributed more troops in proportion to ite population than any other State, under the last two calls. The conspira- tors showed their teeth; but, with the represen- tatives of the greet States of New York, Pennsylvania and Obio againat the radicals of the New England States, what could they do? The population of the State of New York alone far thejr combined population. Governor Morgan {s There was no necossity for any convention, Thé President is made by the constitution Commander-in- Chief of the Army aud Navy, and it Js the duty Bonga, Das tion ani woow's 2 720 Broadway.—Exwimtios or Ks TUBATRE AND MUSIC HALL, Canal JANCKS, BUWies gts, a6. BRE HALL, Cis Broadway.—Dnawine ts. AN CABINET OF WONDERS, 553 Broadway.— om 1A. Mot tO, 26, 1863. New York, Friday, Sept DWH SITUATION. There is no information of any present move- mont of our troops in Maryland. The rebels are still in force on the Virginia side of the Upper Po- tomac, opposite Williamsport and Falling Waters, at which latter place General Lee has his head- Quarters. They are raid to be destroying the Bal- more and Ohio Railroad between Harper's Fer- ry and Cumberland, and have already demolished some of the most iinportant bridges west of Mar- tinsburg, the bridge over (he Black river included. General McCieiJan’s army, although not making any immediate demonstzation, is still, it may be proper to say, not idlc, nor unprepared for future important operations, the object of which it would not be proper to state. Another meetiug of the Governors of the North- era States will be heid immediately at Washington, ‘The Governors proceeded to that place yesterday for this purpose. Their address to the President will be presented to-day. It was signed by Go- vernor Curtin, Governor Pierpoint and Governor Tod with great reluctance. In referring to re- Gerves, it urges the organization of a reserve force ef one hundred thousand men. Wo give some highly interesting extracts to-day from the rebel journals relative to the late battles in Maryland. The Richmond Enquirer claims the battle of Antietam as 2 great rebel victory. It was direoted by General Lee in person with 60,000 men fu his command. Tho rebel account makes our force 150,000. General Jackson commanded the left of the rebel line, General Mill the right, and General Longstreet the centre. It is admitted that our artillery was used with fearful effect, and that upon the whole the battle was the most se. vere of the entire campaign. Two rebel Gene™ rale were killed—Stark, of ssippi, and Branch, ef North Carolina—and six others were wounded. ‘The Petersburg Eepvese makes the significant admission that all hopes of Maryland unit- ing her destinies with the South must now be banished. The experiment to rouse her people to follow the fortunes of the rebel army is proclaiined to have been a dead failure, and the devoted ad- herence of the State government, the press, and the majority of the people to the federal govern- ment is acknowledged by the Express. “The wietories at Boonesboro and Sharpsburg” It de- olares to be unprofitable to the rebel cause. The same journal advocates as the next move of the Febol army the destraction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and an attack on Pierpoint. Our eoports from Harrisburg, referred to above, it will be seen, go to show that they are occupied in this business now, There is noth ng of importance to report from the West to-day. The arrival of Genera) Buell at Louisville we have before announced. It ie stated “hat he left Lebunon, Tenn., and General Bragg, rith hie army, left Carthage, both on the same lay, namely, the 21st inst., and that Buell travelled . €1 miles and Bragg 206 miles in the interval, Ge- § ora! Buel! arriving first at Louisville. Thie march eceme almost incredible; but it is certain thet Hiuell has come up to the relief of Louisville in time to save that city and Cincinnati, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Colonel Lizghtburn is in porsnit of the rebels in the Kanawha valley, Virginia, with eulBecient force to wipe thom out. It appears that the meeting of the Govornora was adjourned from Altoona to Washington, where we shall next boar of them, The Commissioners of Public Charities aad Cor reotion met yesterday, whon the following state ment was submitted:—Number remaining in the various institutions on the 13th instant, 6,370; ad mitted since, 1,644; died, 37; discharged, 995; sent 0 Blackwell's Island, 607; number remaining Sep- Sember 20, 6,962—decrease, 8. The Protestant Episcopal Missionary Convention ‘©f the Diocese of New York met again yestcr- ainy, at St John’s church, The committees for ¥io year were appointed. The Bishop’s annual fn ‘dregs to the Convention was read, In the after- y on session a2, interesting discuesion took place « . tHe much mooted question of the division of the diocese. A vote was demanded upom the «ution, but the hour of adjournment having ar- y ved, the matter was postponed tll nine o’slogk 1.4 morning. esterday wae @ very exolting doy in WWall street. if eyer, has the Stock Exchange beon euch tld speculation, The advance in the lending af the @ret board wae from 8 ‘“ed_the amount bought at these high Negdontedly large. In the i. ‘amrae & rowiion of Kad | wi JS Waa MHOY WAV vat " OIAAVH NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEY TEMBER. 26, 1862. peso 3 inna nae ietieaeen” | the 22d of October. No wonder stocks rise in looking to the appointment of of the Governors to obey, and not to dictate. | trouble, and the conseqnm.®® * efeverish ex-| ‘Phe constitution, moreover, expfessly forb'ds | clement and a rapid rise in DS pulee of the any combinations or elliances of States. | sirce!—the gold sates, Article I, geetion 9, declares that “ No Wether the government ha any remedy tuticipation of such a speedy and glorious set- tlengeat of our troubles. Now, of course, there will bexto nged of & draft. Greeley forevert “tute shall, without the consent of Congress, entér into any agreement or compact with another State.” But this asseublage was wore than the Hartford Convention of halfa century ago; and bad the President sent a division of General MeClellan’s army to @xper-e the ie- gal gathering at the point ef the bayonet, und seat the whole batch to the nearest fort, be would not have transcended his duty. But the President checkmated them co insteriing } fm another way. He took, the wind out id closed Le. #20 higher, while sales were | of their sails by issuing his proclamation one day in advance of their meeting. Uad be not done so they would have demanded ir fedia‘e and unconditional emancipation, just es they demanded the dismissal of MeCle ian, and the appointment of foolish Fremont in his stead But under the President’s proclamation pub- lished yesterday these radical Governors are all liable to be seized and sent to some fortress, as “discouraging volunteer enlistments, and re- sisting militia drafts, thas affording aid and com- fort to the rebels,” The volunteer troops have been held back by their interposition and the militia drafts bave been deiayed by their au thority. We trust, therefore, that Mr, Lingoln will direct that these © disloyal persons” (men whose loyalty by theirown showing is only conditional) will be arrested by the United States marshals, particularly Gov. Andrew, of Massachusetts, and Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, who manifested the most treasonable spirit under the pretence of negro philanthro- py. Letasiynal example be made. There is stili room in Forts rite and Warren, erightial Pioite ag the Lume Ducks o: Wail Street. There is a pause in the exc nent in regard to our army in Maryland.. The excitement iu re- gard to Was! ‘on has entirely subsided. The ratic and thi ment, though andi- minished, bas not now the first place ip public attention. The excitement in regard to the President’s emancipation proclametion hag quieted down, and even Massa Greeley shouts “God biess Old Abe” no more. ‘I'he excite- ment about the Republican Convention at Syra- cuse bas fizzled out. The mysterioueexciiement about the meeting of Governors at Altoona is lessening into a settled indignation as the facts become developed. The excitement of the day is the terrible fluttering and frightful squabbling and quacking among the lame and broken winged ducks that frequent the dirty gutiers of Wall street. Gold rose to 119 on Wednesday, and to 121 yesterday morning. Stocks, demand notes and all sorts of bonds bounced up accordingly. Wall street went frantic. Such inflation of prices, such a reckless scramble for money, such immense transactions in gold, many of which are unreported; such gene- ral activity in every department of financial affairs, Wall street has not seen in many a long day. The transactions were larger than any since last May, and the excitement was much greater than at that period. The whole secret of this fluttering, bowever, isto be found in the rise in gold. ‘That caused the depression in real estate. That caused the advance in stocks, which was in fact only apparent, and which is not an increase in the value of the stocks, but only a mode of balancing the new difference be- tween paper and specie incident to the rise in the price of gold. But what caused the rise in gold? Adozen different causes, all working together and assisting each other. In the first place, there was the President’s emancipation proclamation. Then the secret revolutionary meetings of the Now England Governors, culminating in the conclave at Altoona, which we reported yesterday, had some- thing to do with it. The pause of Mc- Clellan’s army on the Potomac helped it along. The nomination of Wadsworth—a radical dis- unicnist—had its weight. The knowledge that there are at least two members of the Cabinet whe are practically in favor of dis- union, and zealously working for that object, did not lack ite influence. All these and other similar facts, supporting and coroborating each other, led the lame ducks of Wall street to fear that we could find no escape from our present dilemma exeept in an unexpected pro- longation of the war for years instead of months, or in a speedy and permanent dissolu- tion of this Union. In the midst of this gloomy distrust, Mr. Cisco’s offer to receive gold on de- posit for the government, at four per cent interest, frightened our bankers, and the fut- tering began. We do not see why this excitement will not continue, and gold—and consequentiy etocke— rise still higher. The causes remain the same, aod what should alter the result? Mr. Cisco must obtain gold in order to pay the specie in terest upon government paper; and, whether be receives gold om deposit or goes into the market and bnys it outright, the rise in gold will ensue all the same. Neither will it be possible for him to refuse any deposite over six millions; for vpon such # refusal the gold already depo- sited with him would be immediately with- drawn. Thus the occasion of the excitement must remain, and behind the occasion lie the causes. Evidently Wall street does not believe the aesertions of the radicals that the war will be over in thirty days, that Greeley’s nine hundred thousand reserve of abolition- iste will enlist, ond that the highway of Massachusetts will swarm with Governor Andrew’s promised recruits, in consequence of the President’s emancipation proclamation, Wall street if practical, and cannot rely upon prophecies and predictions, Neither does it fail to see that the revolutionary Governors are obstructing recrniting, delaying the draft and holding back eoldiers already enlisted, because of some foul conspiracy and diabolical intrigue, which has already borne trait in crippling Mo- Clellan, by depriving bim of reinforcements and assistance, and which may result either in » dis- honorable peace or an unnecessary prolonga- tion of the war, Wall street oanuot understand and does not like thesofsecret clubs of war com- mittees, these mysterious movements of Gov- ernore, ibese ocoult sessions at Providence and Altoona, this inexplicable retention in the Ca binet of two practical disunionists, this renewed interference with McClellan, this radical bully- ing of the edministration, this scheme of giving @ large independent corps or the chief com- mand of our armies to & man like Fremont, who fe odious to all true soldiers, who is a general, but never Won o battle, and who is distinguish ed only for repeated insubordinations and the reckless exbibition of that domineering spirit whioh has made many @ better man a dictator, and which may make him one if he but has the opportunities proposed to be afforded him. To ‘Wall strest, as to us tical exe all, these things bode! Beptember, ‘The war ready to cure thie fever, or wheter Presidedt Lincoln cares to eure it by dismissiag bis ob- noxious Cabinet and reorgauizing if upon & couscrvitive basis, we cannot say. [tcan be cured, however, by an earnest canvass of this and all ether States in. favor of conservative cand dates for Congress, and by replacing the funtion whe now disgrace that body by men pledged to uphold the constitution and the Unic ainst all attacks, whether from the se- een twofthe South or the radical disuulon abolitionists of the North. The Prestdont’s Opinion of an Emane petion Proclamativoue=tbe Bane and the Antidote, ‘The anti-slavery jonroals and the Wall atreet jobbers and jabberers may now quiet. their clamor about the President's emancipation proclamation; for a certain distinguished per- sonage, who at present occupies a large white house on Pennaylvania avenue, in the city of Washmgton, named Abraham Lincoln, has set- tled the matter, and used up the argument on the question of universal emancipation, by giving the best of reasons why a pronuncia- miento to that effect would be useless and inoperative, and why, even if it could be made practicabie, it would be of questionable utitity. | Mr. Lincol® asks what good would a procla- mation of emancipation do as we are now situated? He says:—“I do vot want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarlly be inoperative, like the Pope's bull urainst the comet.” sentiments and } many more of the same were brought out on the 13th inst, (nine days before the procla mation waa issned),-by a couple of Chicago \ antisiavery geniiemen, who tad become ner. vous on the subject; and aftur they bad listened | to Mr. Lincoln’s cogeat reasons in opposition to their request they quietly took their hats and departed for home, no doubt perfectly satisfied and convinced of the utter inutility of an emancipation proclamation. Mr. Lincolu has christened his declaration freeing the slaves the “Pope's bull against the comet.” Read the report of the delegation, in another part of this day's Haraup, The Radical Republican Party of New York and Its Caastidate for Governor, At the late Republican State Convention at Syracuse, on Wednesday last, General James S, Wadsworth was nomiuated as the party candi- date for Governor of New York by 254 votes, against 110 for Geueral Dix, 35 for Lyman Tre- maine and two for Daniel 8. Dickinson. Gov. Morgan, in advance, had cut off any contention over his claims by a positive declination. We prosume, however, that, if the radicals had had no other complaint to bring against the Gov- ernor, his very proper and patriotic refusal to join the recent seditious convention of Gover- nors in Pennsylvania would have been conclu- sive agajnet him. The vote for Wadsworth on the first ballot indicates the ascendancy of the radicals in the party councils of this Common. wealth, and this nomination falsifies all the late professions of the party of a desire to unite with the loyal men of all other parties upon the common platform of the Union. The platform of this Republican Convention, like all other party platforms, is an elastic con- ‘cern. It could be stretched or contracted to suit the measure of Dix, Dickinson, Wadaworth, Gerrit Smith or Fred. Douglass. Measured ac- cording to the candidate adopted, it means not the employment of the Southern element of slavery to assist our armies in putting down this rebellion, and in restoring the Union, as designed by President Lincoln, but the employ- ment of our armies in a crugade against South- ern slavery, Union or disunion. The course of General Wadsworth since the outbreak of this rebellion fully justifies this construction. He does not belong to that conservative Union wing of the administration party of which Mr. Seward ia the faithful and eagacious representa- tive ia the Cabinet, but to that other wing of the party—that faction of abolition firebrands—of which the Sumners, Wileons and hovejoys are the shining lights. We believe that we are not entering into any imaginary accusations when we charge upon Wadsworth a leading hand in those radical plots and intrigues at Wushington against Gen. McClelian and others of our military leaders in the field which have resulted so disastrously to our arms, from the James river to the Potomac. Wadsworth, as we have been informed from time to time, was a very active man in that radical “pressure” upon the administration which caused the derangement and defeat last spring of the well considered plans and combi- nations of Gen. Halleck and Gen. McClellan for the complete overthrow of the armies of the rebellion, East and West, in a short cam- paiga. The intermeddling and disorganizing abolition politicians of Congress and the Ca- binet and their confederates, including Gen. Wadsworth, were wiser, in their own conceit, than Scat, McClellan and Halleck, and thus the grand campaign arranged by these capable officers wae superseded. Thus our army in the West was prematurely moved forward, causing the evacuation of Manassas by the rebel armg.@ month before the time contemplated; f was the plan of McClellan to indulge the rebels in the occupation of Manassas until those Virginia mud roade were sufficiently dried to en- able bim to cut in betwoen them and Richmond and cut them to pieces. After this evacuation, ae we are informed, Gen. Wadsworth played a conspicuous part in the work of breaking up the army of General McClellan into several independent armies, whioh resulted in their being cut up in detail by the rebele, from the repulee of Gen. Biiake from the Shenandoah valley tothe purmit of Ggn. Pope from the Rapidan to Centreville In all this business we can discover in Gen. Wadeworth tho services only of a malignant abolition disorganizer, and the inveterate qomy of Gen. McClellan, and every other officor of the army who has bad the presump- tion to consider the abolition of slavery a secondary question, and the Union the para, mount object of the war. In this character of ap abolition malignant Gen, Wadsworth domes before the people of New York as the republi+ oan candidate for Governor, and, with the {n- structive defeat which awaits him, it isto be hoped that he will become a better soldier and @ wiser men. How Asovr tue Exp or tas Want—Poor Greeley used to prophesy that the war would be over in thirty days after the issue of o pro- clamation of emancipation. Well, the Prest- dent issued such @ proclamation on the 22d of end. therefore, on gains, income or profits, from whatever source sum he is to pay five per cent on all over the Tie will end this ,cbellion for us in a twink- ling, now that be bag 4'# precious proclama- tion, Collection “Of the National Tewce—THe New System? Of Internal Reqouulr There bas been some unavoidable delay in bringing into practical operation the syst.” of internal revenue enacted into law at the ta*t session of Congress; but we understand that now, all necessary forms having been devised, and all due preparations made, the machinery is about to be set in motion. It will be a novelty for the people of the United States to find themselves toxed after the manner of Earopexn nations; but the rebellion brought taxation along with it as an imperious neces- sity, and no good citizen will grumbte at the burdens which the new system wil! impo: upon him. It reaches, or is inteaded to re all the manufacturing and Indus‘rial int of the country, and makes the wealthy clesws of the community contribute, in proportion their means, to the maintenance of the fedora! government, At present it is utterly impossible to form any probable estimate of the revenue which the government wiii durive from this system of internal taxation. which, it is bardly necessary to remind our readers, is entroty distinct from the tariff or systeiu of import duties. Afler the first year or two of its operation it can be nio- and the eeveral duties nished or in- is. sirate stenee, the ex fixed at twent, y of the change. inty on distHted sp 1, and, althougi> iis per gall odtce a Vv; iout adding to the it may alvo ap- pear wise (o dim imposed on other branches of induetry. This, as we say, a matter for lime and experience to demon- te, and therefore we must not expect a perfectly equablo system of internal taxtion for some years to come. In addition to excise duties, the new law em- braces @ preity extensive license system, which applies to bankers, auctioneers, wholesale and retail liquor dealers, pawubrokers, distillers, brewers, hotel keepers, stock brokers, theatres, pediers, manufacturers, apothecaries, lawyers, physicians, and, in short, to almost atl descrip- tions of business and’ professions. The tax on manufactured goods is specific on some and ad valorem on others, and ranges at between three and five per cent of the value of the arti- cle produced; but there isa provision that on auch articles as are exported from the country the internal duty that may have been paid is to be refunded to the exporter. Thisis a salutary proviso, the object of it being to give our manufacturers a fair chance in foreign markets. After the Ist of next month the system of stamp duties provided by the Internal Revenue act goes into effect. It requires stamps, vary- ing in value from one cent to fifieen dollars, to be affixed to all business papers, such as con- tracts, checks, bills of exchange, bills of lading, bonds, certificates of stock and of deposit, tele- graph despatches and legal documents, and also requires stamps of from one to five cents to be affixed to all phials and boxes of patent medi- cinces, perfumery, &., and to packs of playing cards. 4 The income tax, which is also provided for in this general law, is not to be collected before May, 1863, and is to be for the year ending De- cember 31, 1862. Every person whose annual derived, exceed six hundred dollars is to pay three per cent on the exccas up to ten thousand dollars; and if his income exceed the latter first six hundred dollars. All taxes paid are to be deducted from the income. Citi- zens of the United States residing abroad are to pay five per cent on the income derived from property held in this country, In regurd to legacies. the duties vary in pro- ortion to the degrees of consanguinity in which the parties stend to the deceased, Linea! descendants - that is, children or graad- children—pay three-fourths of ove per cent, ephews and nieces one anda lalf per cent, her relatives three and four per cent, and the jore distant relatives and strangers tive per cent. There eeerms to be some apprehension in the publio mind that the visits of assessors and their assistants to private houres are likely to be attended with trouble and annoyance, and that these oflicers are to examine and make in- ventories of all taxable matters therein contain- ed. There need exist no such apprehension. The only objects of private property that are subject to special tax are carriages, yachts, bil- liard tables and gold and silver plate. It was originally proposed to tax watche® and pianos; but the Senate struck them out of the bill. Carriages are taxed from one dollar to ten dollars, yachts from five dollars upward, billiard tables ten dollars, gold plate fifty cents per ounce, and silver plate--over the first forty ounces-—three cents per ounce. It is estimated that there are in this city ten thousand families who will have to pay atax on their plate, and that thero are several thousands who have salvers that of themeclves weigh over the forty ounces exempted from taxation. Where there is any doubt as to the quantity of plate it Is very easy for owners to have it weighed by a silversmith; and his certifloate will certainly satiny the assessor. Vamily plate, however, le not to be taken as including the birthday and other presents of children, but only that which comes into actual family use. Neither does it apply, we presume, to plated ware. We are informed by Mr. Franklin, the assessor in our home district, that his assistants, and, so far as he knows, the assistant assessors general- ly in this city, are selected with due regard to their qualifications and fitness for their duties, ‘and that there need be no difficulty whatever in tho assessments, if persons liablé to tax will only be willing and ready to give the information re quired of them, and for which regular printed forms will be supplied. We trust and believe that our citizens will show themselves in this, as in all other matters, patriotic and law abiding, ‘and will do what in them lies to give full and fair efficacy to the new system of national taxa- tion. nn Tam Procgepines or tae Jaco Wan Com 7 National War Committee has published tof ite LY Appahe 4 & repor eenedlp. report, Is, in fact, a special pre in defence of the proceedings which It is preswaed to divulge. The odious resolutions, n art, Jonathan Sturges, Andrew ay Samuel Sloan, Judge Waterbury, Dows ant Edwards Pierrepont are nol published in this report. Al! of these gem tiemen have doudtless resigned for good ang sufllvient reasons, and some, we know, fos reasons by no means wMplimentary to the cou mittee. Why, then, are dov their letters printed in the report, 60 that both eides v. the case may my’ read: And why Is the letter of Aagyst Bel- mont, {q., withdrawing his donation from tie commitiés, aso omitted? Why, also, doeg not the repory Contain eome secount of th secret mecting ay Providence between the committee and the New Hngland Governors, w der the lead of Governof Andrew, of Massa, chusetts, and Governor Spragte, of Rhod¢ Isiand? And why is nothing said of the re lations of the committee with turt revolution. ary conclave of Governors at Altoona, reporte ed in our columna yesierday? ‘These fucts are what the public want to got at, and are what have given to the committec im synonym of the Jacobiu War Club. No one cares about the mere routine business of the committee; but its conspiracies are matters of general interest. Let us Lave ati the facts, McCupn.an’s Pause on tHE Porowsc.—Every- body is now askings why McCielixn pauses om the Potomac and does not pursue the rebel army to Nichmond or annihilate it by another battle. e answer is very plain, McCleliam has bot rewforcoments enough to go abead, and the War Department has not troops enough to @ a finuk attack to assist him. but why ve not suilic'ent reinforcements been sent on? The answer to this is equally clear, The Goe- vernors of the New England wnd several other have been holding beek their reintorce 30. as to give them to Fremoat as an in- dependent corps, or, failing this, so a8 to force the President to put Fremont in tle place of McClellan, This is the meaning of the secret consultations at Providence and Altoona. Gove ernor Morgan atone has sent forward every available soldier to the government, and he de- serves every credit for this, as well as for his ve‘usal to attend the recent revolusionary conuclaves. But what do the Governors deserve who have held back their troops, aud thus made this pause in our victorious advance, in order to intrigue In favor of a dictator or of @ radical commander-in-chief? Why, they de- serve cells at Fort Lafayette, under the pro- visions of the President’s proclamation pul- lished yesterday, on the charges of discourage ing eulistments and preventing the draft. We hope the?’resident will give them their deserts immediately. Tue PROCLAMATION aND THE PorsTICIANS— We understand that thero is a good deal of feel- ing manifested in this city adverse to what is understood to be the object and effect of the recent proclamation of the President in regard to slavery in the rebel States; and we are in- formed that several citizens claiming to be con- servative have been procuring signatures to @ cull for a public meeting to denouace the pro- clamation, and have applied to a distinguished lawyer to preside thereat. formed that some of the more advanced radk cals of this city, having got wind of this move- ment, set to work to counteract it, and have been trying to make arrangements to prevent the holding of such a meeting. As it is possl- bie that the carrying out of the original design might be attended with turmoil and riot, whieh it is most desirable at such a time particularly to avoid, we hope that it will not be persisted in. If we are to have a public meeting for the purpose of denouncing anything, let it be to denounce the action of those State Governors who met the other day in secret session in Al- toona for the purpose of thwarting the goverm- ment in its prosecution of the war agninst the rebellion, and of imposing terms upon the ad- ministration. But better than public meetings for either purpose would it be for our citizens to go to work and take measures for electing to Congress men who will represent our city with creditto it, instead of the contemptible poli- ticians and nincompoops who are usually sent to represent this comimunity in the halls of national legislation. We are also in- Misarvines or tHe Raptcars—The Tribune says that the contest for Governor is already decided. So it is—ayainst the radicals. The radi- cals began to get shaky about the nomi nee Wadsworth—a radical disunionist and ao insubordinate general—before they had finish. ed ‘heir Convention. Raymond, of the Times, closed the proceedings with @ most dismal speceh, and was evidently very weak about the knees. He said that voted for had come there intending to do so; but, from what he had learned on the way from conversations with citizens, he feared tiey bad— a harder fight before them than he had before imagined. He had deemed a different nemine tion necessary to secure success, and nove aHould suppose that they would have an easy victory.” So spoke Mr. Raymond, Chairman of the Convention, aod heis right for once. Wade worth will not have an easy victory; for he will have a vory hard defeat. Already hie friends are doubtful about him. In o month’e time no one will be willing to back him to the value of a dirty, torn one cent postage stamp. “he had not Wadsworth’s nomination. He Wires Ganvex.--Thie evening Mies Bateman takes hor farewell benoit at thie theatre, In addition to the attraction offeted in the beneiit of an artist of whom a lovers of the drama fell prood, Mr. Jackson prerents the Additional inducement of a new play, produced hero for the first time, ontitied “Beatrice, er the Modonaa Art,” which Bag been adapted from the French of Le gaave, by Mise Bateman herself, and in which Ristort achieved one of hor grahdest triumphs. The piay ts said to abound tm striking situations, and we have no doubt the treble attraction of ite being Mies Bateman’s farewell benefit, her first appearance as an authorese, and tho last night but one of hér appearanee, will command an over, flowing house, On Gaturilay, being her last night, she will appear, for the first time this engagemont, as Paulines im the Lady of Lyons,” and in the fifth aot of ” Mag beth.” Fox's Ow Bowsxy Twmatee-Tho Aadiiue of thia popular place of eutortaiument and the theatre going pobiie generally will Gnd on the bill for this evening great inducements for visit to the Old Bowery. One glance will prove this; but béfore all and above all wil! be fhe’ bare announcement that the entertainments of the evening are for the benefit of the populer mapagor ang Gage favorite, Mr.@. L. Fox, This m iteolf will be found sufficient to fill the house, Mr. Fox, however, feally pute forth a bill of favorite and novel pleces worthy of attention, Four pieces are on the programme, an@ there is no fear but they will be placed béfore the patrona of the thobive in tho best possible style of that setabiinns moat. erences Fatay Fant rom 4 Winvow.—Grobeile Coreghino, am Italian boy, fell from the third story window of th, welling house No. 8354 Char! stroot, yonterday, and was almost jostantly killed, oner Collia bald am i 4