The New York Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1862, Page 4

é NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON DENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICEN. W. OORNRE OF FULTON AND Nassau ST3, No. 376 Velume XXVL haat os “i AMUSENLNTS TUIS BYBNING, BIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Vigainivs, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Brondway.—A Cae ror tun AOU. WINTER GARDEN Lroadway.—Bruros. KEENE'S THBATRE, Broadway.—lea Wor- me Loan oF 4 Loven, ower BOWERY THEATRE, Bor —! y — Genk Beek wery.—Tax Sea King's Vow: BOWERY VHEATRE, Bowery.—Ixaowin—Is aND PLACL—RaYMeRD AND AGNFS. * @EBMAN OPEKA HOUSE, 435 Broadway,—Steapasia, NIXON'S CREMORNE GARDEN, Fourteenth street and AVenue—!ePNCK SeY—BALLEF, PRomKNaDE CON- (BRT aNd Lauearnianisa NUM'S AMERICAN NUSSUM. Broadway.—Coron- Pe Mrorese Fis, a all hours, Vicrouine, afternoon \d evening. cs! Hall, 472 Broad. » Dances, &0.—Tae 3. 585 Broadwi iEVOUS MON, CHBISTY'S OPERA HOU ° Eriorian Boras, Dances, &o.—iax Mi WOOD'S MINSTREL MALL, 614 Broadway,—Ermroruan Danons, Ao —Orite 11.0. Broadway.—Exaisttion or HOPE CHAPEL N Pansc’s Canosa HITCHOOCK'S THEATRE AND MUSIC HALL, © Grech Sonos, Dances, buntusyues, he, bares * GAIETIES CONCERT HALL, 61 way. = BTIRS CONCERT HALL, 618 Broaway.—Drawixa PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS. 663 Broad daily from 16 A, Mi. tit LO P.M HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. Gores, Daxons, Buuuesauen te SrookWn.—Erarorsax 1862. i New York, THE SITUATION Victory is again the word to-day, The forces og General Rosecrans had a terrible battle with the rebels under erals Price, Van Dorn and Lovell @t Corinth, lasting from Saturday until three o'clock yesterday afternoon; and Corinth was again the ie of a great Union success. General Price attacked our army with forty thousand men, but wae gallantly met by Gen. Rosecruns, assisted by Gen. Grant, and, after two days’ desperate fighting, the rebels were repulsed with great Slaughter, leaving their dead and wounded behind, pursned by the Union army. The Joss on both side said tobeheavy. Gen. Hackle- man, of whom we give a sketch to- was killed at the head of histwen. The firing was distinctly heard at Bethe! station, twenty miles from Co- riath, up to three o'clock ye a We took between 700 and 1,000 prisoners. Gen. Oglovy was dangerously wounded, and Colone Smith, Gilbert and Mower sli between the armics of Generals I Hurlburt. him off. ‘Those facts are oficially confirmed at Washington and at ©. Cairo and Chic erms and The intter was endeavoring to cut ati. bimilar a 8s ccme from The prelimine of our armies, es detailed in our cori from Ja on, Tenn,, to-day, tall Throvgh thets Halleck the West had just been thoroughly reor result at Corinth. ganized; Gen. TNosecrans placed in command «f the army of the M ppi and Tennessee, and the forces and geacrals under him so disp ed as to Fender thema terror to the rebels in Missouri. The rebel leaders hastened to attack Corinth, th headquarters of Rosecrans, before the arrange- ments of our gencrals could be com ed, and we witer and defeat, and their army scattered before our victo- The effect of this battle in Ken- will be most disheart: have seen the result, in a terrific rious troops. tucky and Vir the rebels. From Ki g to we have to record two other The rebel kof Jess dimensions, rilla J organ, with 1,000 men, made an attack upon the Carter County Home Guards, at and after a fight of several « The rebe ef then retreated toward the Licking river, burning thirty” Next night Morgan re- hours was totally repu five houses on his way. turned to Olive Hill. Despatches from Louisville say that the rebels had a force of nearly thirty-five thousand men within a circle of cight miles diaineter rownd Bardstown, while the advance of our army was within four miles of that town on Saturday. There had been considerable skirmishing with the rebels, who were driven in, and six hundred prisoners taken. We learn by late despatches that the rebels could not hold the place, and evacuated it at ten o'clock on Saturday morning. General Van Cleve entered Bardstown at six o'clock the same evening, and was preparing to pursue them, Kirby Smith, with ten thousgnd rebels, is reported at Fraukfort. Bragg and Buckner are on their way to Lexington. Bragg swears that he will send every man who refuses to join hia army, to the north of the Ohio, a fate which perhaps many of hem would not object to. The President returned to Washington from his visit to the army on Saturday night, and immedi- ately had He was closeted yesterday for several hours with other members of the Cabinet, the result of the confe- rence remaining asecret. It is said that he is per- feotly satisfied with General McClellan and his ar- my. He passed two days and nights with the General, and bad a full and frank understonding with him. The enthusiastic reception of the Pre- sident at Frederick, and the loyalty displayed by the Maryland excellent effect upon the prospects of the war. ‘We published a full account of the Frederick ova- tion in our columns yesterday, A company of the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania regiment, while on guard at the railroad bridge near Hancock yesterday, wero captured by a party of rebel cavalry, but Colonel McReynolds, with a strong force of our cavalry, made a dash nierview with Mr, Stanton. ‘8 on the occasion, will bave a most ured theiy encampmcat, taking i aad sixty horses and mules, General Averell, with a strong force, followed the retreating re!els General McClellan has just issued an order to Governor Curtin, thanking him and the Penn yl vania troops for their defence of the border. Some time ago the rebel Congress passed a res | Golution offering to the people of the Northwest the freedom of the whole Missimsippi river and the NEW YURK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1862: reconstruction of the trad object of this generous action is manifest. We perceive that the committee’ to whom the resolu- tion was referred have made two reports on the 26th ult., the majority report being in favor of the resolution, It is curious, however, to observe that in this report considorable doubt of the success of the rebellion is expressed, and the new levies, so confidently spoken of as erhancing the strength of the army “as we hope they shortly will.” We publish these extraordinary documents to-day, and they will be found well worth perusal. Ous correspondent in the Bahamas (dating at Nassau on the 26th ultimo) says that the sympa- thy of the island population with the rebels was as active as ever; but the trade with the rebel ports had declined, in consequence of the activity of the United States blockading fleet. The An- glo-rebel shipping houses in Nassau, notwithstand- ing their profits, were quarreling with each other. There were few arrivals of contraband traders from England. Some few individuals resident in Nassau exhibited their secession feelings by in. dulging in petty insults to the United States Con- sul. By the Jura, off Cape Race, we learn that the London Times and V’ost have already commenced to sneer at the ides of Garibaldi taking service under the United States government. The writers assert that he should go to the South, where ‘‘nine millions of people are fighting for the right to govern themselves.” The above named London journals are severe in their comments against General Pope's qualifica- tions for a chief command, as shown from his own reports. The London 7imes thinks it a good policy now to flatter the people of Canada, and it takes ocoa- sion to do so on account of their charity subscrip- tions for the distressed operatives of Lancashire, The news of the defeat of General Lee by McClellan, in Maryland, had been just received in England, and produced a very good effect in favor of the Union canse. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Jura, from Londonderry for Quebec, passed Cape Race last Saturday. eA synopsis of her European news, which is one day later, appeared in the Hera.p yesterday morning, and the de- tailed report, telegraphed from New Foundfand, js given to-day. There is nothing additional concerning the health of Garibaldi. Meetings of sympathy with the Gencral were held in various parts of England. The depression of the English cotton trade had benetitted the woollen manufaciurers of France much. Mr. Roupell, an ex-member of Par- and forger on a large scale, liad been sen- tenced to transportation for life in London. closed in London on the 26th ultimo at 4 for money. American securities were Cotton advanced slightly in the Liverpool Breadstafls ict but steady, and provisions inactive. weather of yesterday drew a lirge er of visitors to he two breathing in our ¢ viz:—Central Park and Jones’ The temperature yesterday was both + and t xin fact it was the first spe- e i day—which, after the muggi- le previous day, was indeed most wel Au addition has recently been nade to the ver; come, menagerie of the Central Park, in the shape of a key—doubuess to amuse the children, trains have improved the vegetation in h these retreats, and made them resume their amer garb, giving quite a reireshing look to aged wou ne, delivered a di for sou in the Church of the Puritans wh to be introductory to an exara sonrse last evening hwas designed » of the Presi- dent's proclamation, : another part of tc ‘s paper will this noted abolitionist expects the government to carry out the s of the ultva negro worshippers to the very letter. An ailray occurred early yesterday morning be- tweea a number of white men and negroes, at the nue Baud Houston etreet, which re- illing of one white man and the se- rious! ling @f another. Before the police arrived on the the negoes succeeded in mak- ing their escape, but during the night two, sup- posed to have been implicated in the affair, were arrested, and are held in custody. No reasou has ned for the origin of the affray, but it is supposed to have been cansed by intemperance. Col. Judd, of the One Hundred and Sixth New York infantry, now stationed at New Creek, Vir- ginia, has been taken to Wheeling, having mani fested symptoms of insanity. The Quakers of Ilinois are to be subject to the draft, sud those who are drafted are to fail in or pay two hundred dollars each. The Governor of Ohio has ordered that the mi- nisters of the Gospe! in charge of regular congre- gations shall be exempt from the draft, Sixty men employed in Coit's armory were among the drafted soldiers in Hartford. The government ordered their discharge from the mili. tary service, and sent them back to the armory. There were one hundred and seventeen deaths in New Orleans during the weck ending on the 2ist ult., and one of the persons deceased was one hundred and seventeen years old. Fifty-nine men are all that remain of the Second Wisconsin regiment, that left the State but little over a year ago nearly eleven hundred strong. The yellow fever was taken to Wilmington, North Carolina, by vessels from Nassan that ran the blockade. ; ‘The stock market continued very active on Saturday, and there wos no abatement of epeculative excitement, At the first board there was an advance of 3 per cent in Missouri 6's and 2 por cent in Evie old; other deserip- tiene boing Grm at the bighost quotations of Friday evening In the afternoon there wis a rush to realize profits, which led to a decline of 2 yor cont in Erie pro: ferred, 154 in Mlinois Central, and 1a 1¢ in other active shares, After this deciine new buyers came in, and the miirket closed firm at an advance of 3 a1 per cent from tho foweet prices of the day. An setive demand for money was created by the speculstion in stocks, and the regular lenders on stocks disposed ¢f all their means at ap early bour at § per cent, after which some loaus were offvcted at 6, Exchange closed at 13514, cold rose to 12234, d notes to 119%. Tue usual trade tables for will be found ia the monoy article in another corner of av sulted in t ‘Tho cotton market was somewhat irregular on Saturday, while prices were wivhout chonge of importance, The ted up abont 800 bales, on the basis of S53g0. 0 all necessity Jets were reported at 560. used to accopt prices under 50¢. for mid* ds. Flour opened with a good demand, chief. | | nee of So. wo loo per bbI.; but towards the o provailed, and the improveme: 8 pretty lost, though closing with more or less firmness, Wheat wns irregular, with a good demand for market fell off abort 1c. per b tions, Cort was in moderate requ lols, while the deserip® aics of sound Western wix 2000. F n good demand, with sles meee at $117 no | ai $19.25, eugara wore fromm the trade. and 900 bexer wily pr won firm, safer of 622 bake Rio at 280. net Preights firm, Wheat was cnguged to Live; at 124.012 fo bulk and in ehipa’ bags, and corn do. at 13 44d. a1 Wieat to London, in bik and Vags, was tuken at 12.4. 9 13)¢d., and to Giasgow at 13d, 8 134d. in shine’ dace. Jong its banks. The | Important from the Southwest—Amothcr | striving Splendid Victory. The decisive battle fought by McClellan at Antictam changed the tide of affairs, and vic- tory now attends us everywhere. We have just reeoived news of another briliiant triumph at Corinth, where Rosecrans, afler two days’ desperate fighting, completely defeated the rebels, under Price, Van Dorn and Lovell, oap- turing guns, prisoners and colors. Our accounts of this battle are by telegraph, and necessarily meagre; but our letter from Jackson, Tennessee, the headquarters of Major General Grant, which we publish with the tele- grams of the fight, will enable the public to understand the affair more fully and see its importance clearly. It appears that, under the guidance of General Halleck, the West has been reorganized, and the arrangements had been nearly completed when the rebels made the attack on the strong position of General Rosecrans at Corinth, where he had established his head- quariers after the battle of Tu-k-a, and, in accordance with the new plan of operations, General Grant had been on a visit to St. Louis to consult with General Curtis, and had just returned to Jackson, Tennessee. From that central point he rearranged the Department of the Southwest, assigning General Rosecrans to the region of country around and near the old battle ground of Shiloh. The rebels under Price and Van Dorn had been collecting large force in that vicinity, made up partly of Beauregard’s old Corinth army, Lovell’s troops brought away from New Orleans, and the new conscripts. After their defeat at I-u-k-a the rebels concentrated as rapidly as possible all the forces they could gather in that neighborhood, for the purpose of striking a sudden blow at Coriuth, overwhelm- ing Rosecrans, and securing that important strategic point as a base for future operations. This they attempted on Friday last with forty thousand men, but were utterly defeated and routed. This victory is a very important one just at this juncture. Following up the triumphs at South Mountain, Antietam aad I-u-k-a, and the successful strategic movements of Buell and Morgan in Kentucky, it will have a greally de- moraliving effect on Bragg’s and Kirby Smith’s army in Kentucky, Hindman’s forces in Ar kansas, and Lee’s dispirited troops ia Virginia. Thus the tide is turned. Now, with half a mil- nmen in the feld, what hope is there The President has given them lion of fre jor the rebels? ninety days for reflection. Our gencrals, with repeated blows, will remind them of the folly of remaining ia rebellion, Let us hope that a sober second thought wiil come over the spirit of the conservati e portion of the South, and bring them to their senses ia time to avail themselve- of the a mnesty promised in Me, Lincoln's emane pation proclamation. Who is Responsible for the Failure of the Adiministrati Itis now universally conceded that the pre a failure. The time jor discussing tuat fact has therefore passed, and the questions of interest now are: who is re- sponsible for this failure, and how is the faiiure strati to be ier dd: These questions are bel used by the radicols for the purpose of n a concerted and co: ned attack upon eof driving him { the Cabin But the radicals fear hate, Mr. rd, and they attack Diingly. as if conscious of ul fidently and uni ate dete: assert cor ecretury of the and the 1 they accuse him in order to shield the: and his defence involves their conde nnation. That the ejection of Mr. Seward from the Cabinet is ihe object of the radicals is ¢ from the articles of Greeley in the Tribune, of Beecher aud Wendell Phillips in the fidepen- dent, and of Dr. Brownson in his Review, and from the plottings of Andrew, Sprague and the other radical Governors in the recent conven- tions at Providence and Altoona. All the radi- cal abuse of General McClellan is in fact directed mainly at Secretary Sew- ard, who is understood to approve of McClellan's plans, and who is represented as the author of McClellan’s policy of conduct- ing the war. This fact is openly confessed in Brownson’s Review, which, in a labored article upon “The Seward Policy,” excuses, Halleck and McClellan because they acted under the orders of the President and his advisers; at- tributes our failures “not to incompetent gene- ralship, but to the policy of the administra- tion,” and, exonerating all the other members of the Cabinet, charges the responsibility of this policy, and consequently of all our failures, upon the Secretary of State. Of itself alone, the opinion of such a changeable chameleon as Dr. Browngon, who is Everything by turns, amd nothing long, is of no importance whatever; but just at pre- sent Brownson’s Review is the authorized and recognized exponent of the radical abolition party, and the variable Doctor himself is, for the time being, a leading member of that party, and intends becoming the radical republican candidate for Congress from a district in New Jersey, unless he shall change his politics or his principles before the nominating convention assembles. The sentiments of the Review in regard to Mr. Seward are, therefore, the senti- ments of the radicals, and Dr. Brownson ex- presses the opinion of the radical leaders when he charges Scoretary Seward with “weakness and moral cowardice;” with being “a compro- mising man;” with “quailing before secession, and resisting it not more firmly than Mr. Bu- chanan;” with “ignominiously surrendering the | national cause,” and “virtuatly agrosing with the secession commissioners tp ® separation of the with “s! cided, vigorous war; w lieving of his command every commanding of- ficer in the army who has shown that he believed the government wished war to be waged in earnest;” with “taking care to do the rebels no serious harm;”’ with being “no friend of the military,” with ng from open, de- h “snubbing or re- “to preserve ‘slavery, and to prevent the war from operating ite ruin,” and, Gnally, with “regretting not to have the power of Louis Napoleon, so as to make ® coup d'etat against Congress.” It will be observed that most of these charges, from that of favoring slavery and befriending the rebels to that of modituting 9 dictatorship, are ideatical with those made by the radicals against General McClellan, from whom they are now dexterously transferred to Mr. Seward, by the argument that McClellan is only Soward’s military representative, and is not responsible for orders which it is his duty to obey. But the charges are as untrue of Seward as of McClellan. Indeed, Mr. Seward has already refuted most of them by endorsing and signing the emancipa” tion proclamation of the President, which was, until recently, the fall extent of the radicals’ demands. The other charges rest upon no bet- tor evidence than garbled quotations from Mr. Seward’s diplomatic correspondence, or sopho- morio plays upon -words, which may be witty but are not logical. The fact in regard to Secretary Seward is, that his part of the pro- gramme of putting down the rebellion was to prevent any foreign interference; and in this he has succeeded. Unlike any other momber of the Cabinet, he has been entirely successful in his own department; and from this fact it is a fair inference that he has had but little time or inclination to dabble in any other Secretary's business. He is to-day the only popular mau, because fie only successful man, in the Cabinet. He has done and continues to do his duty, inter- fering with no general and with no othor Secre. tary. The people appreciate both this positive and this negative merit, and it is useless for th® radicals to attempt to convince thom that a Secretary who has managed to hold all Europe at bay,and in spite of threats of intervention has gained ustime to continue and conclude our war, is responsible for the fuilure of the admin- istration. But, besides all this, the real culprit is known, and his fault can be proven. The radicals are probably right in calling Secre- tary Stanton “only one of the President's clerks,” the mere instrument of some one whose influence controls the President and sha pes the policy of the war. But this influential per- sonage is Mr. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury: not Mr. Seward, Secretary of State. Mr. Chase, originally a politician from Ohio, is a man of some ability, good address, great tact and re- markable cunning. These qualities he has shown not only in securing for himself a seat in the Cabinet, but in gaining a factitious reputa- tion as a financier, and in doing a great deal of mischief during this war, while always coutriv- ing to lay the blame upon some other person, He was, at first, appareutly successful in bis own department, and, as money is the sinews of war, this apparent success naturally gave him great influence with the President. When to this inflnence is added that acquired by his own cunning and address, and that secured to him by the support of ali the radical organs and of radical leaders in ami out of Con- gress, we can very readily understand how it happened that hase became the controlling power in the Cabiuet, and was permitted to in- terfere divastrousiy with the War and Navy de- partments. We hi id that Mr. Chase's succoss as a financier was merely apparent. Ifis feate $159,060,000 at th Buel of th due more to the patriot- nkers of New York, a--wko are now called riends—tban to any ability Bosion and Phil traitors by Chas of Yb jal system which Secre recommended to Congress, and is ally supposed to have F ed by Mr. Stilwell, York, and perfected by the Hon. ss from Massa- a good one in member of Vhis system, which is as made evil by votally mis The details of his mismanage- iment we shall expose h , wud it will ‘ tow to state tha daase has reduced the lil of the while, if t it would have been impossible f evedit to be more than seven or eight p ar at this time, and ali the financial an- sand insane Wali siveet speculations which ne tress the nation would have been ied. So much for Mr. Chase’s own de- t, and bis record in the War and Navy departments is quite a8 sorrowful. It was his influence which secured to the incompetent General McDowell the command of our army at the first battle of Buil ran and precipitated an onward movement. When McCicllan had reorganized the army, and was preparing for that simultaneous advance upon Manassas and Bowling Green which would have ended the rebellion, it was Chase’s influence that deranged the plan. When McClellan proceeded to the peninsula, relying upon the co-operation of McDowell’s corps, it was Mr. Chase who again interfered and detached McDowell from McClel- lan’s command, in order that McDowell might take Richmond alone, It was Mr. Chase who, in pursuance of this scheme, weakened Banks’ force to in- crease McDowell’s, and thus caused the Shenandoah catastrophe. It was Mr. Chase whose influence in the Navy Department kept Commodore Goldsborough in command of the waters of the Chesapeake, and thus superin- duced the Merrimac raid and held back the gunboats from assisting McClellan, It was Mr. Chase who worked so hard for McClellan’s re- moval from the chief command, to which he was only restored when the President and the capital were in danger of capture by the rebels: It is Mr. Chase who has attacked the very ad- minietration of which he is a part, by organizing and encouraging the radical party, in and out of Congress, and who is the friend, abettor and future Presidential candidate of Signner, Wade, Chandler, Phillips, Greeley, Opdyke and Wads- worth. This is the malign influence which has caused the disasters of the war, and this is the Cabinet member who is responsible for the fuil- ure of the administration. If we join the radicals, therefore, in asking a change of the Cabinet, it is to get rid of Mr. Chase, and not of Mr. Seward. The administra- tion will always fail until the President, like General Jackson, rida bis Cabinet of all Presi- dential aspirants, and finds Secretaries whose ambition is to do their duties each in his own department. The country has yet to encounter greater perils than any we have escaped, and only with ® conservative Cabinet can they be encountered successfully. If the President re- tains his present disunited, inefticient and un- popular Cabinet, or replaces it by one still more radical, we tremble for the result. The violence of the Righmond papers and the threats of retaliation on the partrof the rebel Congress, in reply to the proctamation of Mr. Lincoln, ave not to be regarded as evidences of the real sentiment of the South, nor of any per- manent or desperate resistance to our victorious arms. They are but the dying kick and groan of the mortally wounded lion—the last agony of the rebellion—in whioh there is the appear- ance of resuscitation and renewed vigor, but only the appearance, for its vital force Is ex- pending and exhausting itself in the final strug- gle. It is like the flickering flame of a taper almost consumed, and about to expire—it blazes up fora moment with sudden brilllancy, and then goes out in eternal darkness. The people of the Southern States know by this time that we are terribly in earnest in the prosecution of the war for the Union, and that, though three-fourths of the Norilern people do not desire to meddle with any Southern institu- tion, yet if slavery is found to stand in the way of the success of our arms, or if its destsuction should appear to materially aid us in the strng- gle, it will not be spared, and there will be but little hesitation in carrying out the pro- gramme lald down in the pvroclamation. it is a humane warning on the part of the President, to . which’ thoughtfui men at the South wifl take heed, notwithstand- ing the ebullitions of passion from their press and their hails of legislation. No matter what may be now threatened on their part, it is nol in human nature, and least of all in the Ameri- can type of it, to carry on & hopetess war, when itis once demonstyated to be of that character, especially in the terribly adverse ciroumstances under which the rebel leaders would be com- petled to continue the strnggle, ‘The condition of the insurgent army is deplorable, being not only without sufficient stores of food, but desti- tute of clothing and shoes at the approach of winter, and without the slightest chance of ob- taining any adequate supply of these essential articles, to eay nothing of gait, medicines, arms, amnunition and other necessaries, which have recently reached the South by running the gauntlet of our gruisers, but which will soott be effectually cut off, by perfecting the block- ade, and by the capture of ali the ports on the Southera eeaboard, including Charleston, Sa- vannali Mobile, so soon a4 our irresistible fleet of gunboats aro compicted and launched upon the waves. The stat a, planters and other property owners of the South will now begin to consider whether, instead of holding out in the madness of despair, to their utter de- struction, it is not better for them to return to the Union and submit to the constiti d aws before the day of g: the pre: ar, and when their pecy tution is still iniact, and when they can secure full protection for it, aud enjoy all the rights and privileges of eitiz 1 States, under the beneficent aad most liberal federal government gainst which they revolted. ‘They must be aware that submission or extermination awaits them in the ead, and before it comes to that even common sense will suggest the adoption of the wiser alternative. This may be humiliating to Southern pride; bul, after ail, America aud the peoplo of t Uke the poopte of th is beaten in an election it cheerfully and, ao matter w hat violen ihe t had be onducted, th become good f , wad most of t party clime in with the opinions of the viet it will be the same in this war, if the Southern statesmen aad politicians are wise in time, and do not let their day of grace go by, to shed the bitter tears ot repentance too late, whon the abolition pro me may become, from the ne- of the ihe inevitable result of the continuation of the struggte, even if it were not the delib: y of the goverument, We trust a ve, therefore, that the in- creased Vivience of rebel press and Con- gressmen is only like the wind which, afier blowing fur eome time from one point, increases in violence till at lest it becomes a gale, and then suddenly subsides and round to the opposite point, and the atmos phere becomes calm once more. it thus in our political contests, and nalogy will hold good even in our present dy struggle, provided itis not protracted too long, and does not end in a war of extertmina- tion, which would result in 2 permanent change of the old relations between North and South, and perhaps a revolution in the chara of our whole system of government. But it is to be hoped that returning reason will exert her sway, and that the insurgent chiefs will take advantage of their next great defeat in the field, which cannot now be far distant, to lay down their arms, and; under a proclamation of general amnesty, return to the political fold from which they have strayed as lost sheep. Certain it is we are on the eve of the most important mili- tary and political events in the history of the world—we are near the beginning of the end— and tipon the next three months will depend the future of the country, for weal or woe, evea to generations yet unborn. Tue Wan News axp Tun Terxorara ww Ev- roreé.—Many complaints have been made, and very justly; about the manner in which the tele- graphic news concerning the war is published in Europe. While in the main the facts are stated in the telegraphic reports of the English papers, they are often so colored with a secession tone that they become more like falsehood than truth. Though constrained to tell the broad story of our battles nearly as they occurred, the accounts are so exaggerated as to incidents and results.as to put a construction upon them in almost all cases favorable to the rebellion. In the London Shipping Gazette—the organ of Mr. Lindsay, M. P.—for instance, aNew York despatch, via Cork, is published, recording the second battle of Bull run. It is done up in this atylo:— ‘The defeat of the federal armies at Bull run and Con- trovillo was compiete. No estimate has been mado of the logs of life. ‘The Confederates captured large quantities ‘of ammunition, stores and artillery, = © oe » puth are Americans When one party cont turns is Alexandria is filed with the dead and dying. federates remain masters ot the recent battle delds. foderals had to leave thoir dead unburied. And again:— The report, circulated a few hours prior to the depar- tare of the Boston steamor, that stonewall Jackson was in full possession @f Baltimore, with 40,000 men, via Leesburg, was premature, It is universally believed that such is his intention, &e., &e. It has been attempted to throw the blame of this style of telegraphing upon the telegraphic agents on this side of the Atlantic or the tele- graph operators on the other; but it is not the fault of either party. The fact is that cor- rect reports are furnished by them; but private despatches reach England by every steamer, and it is from these that the tone of the regular press despatches is changed, to give the news a favorable turn for secession. ‘The London Times is famous for its garbled ‘The Con- abe despatches. Witness the story of the capituls- tion of General. MoOlellan’s army to General Lee before Richmond @ short time age. Thia despatch was concocted in Baltimore and for- warded to England by a person who was shortly afterwards arrested and imprisoned for disloyalty to the government. And yet the London Times ewallowed it, and eagerly spread it before its readers, delighted, no doubt, te have such a story to tell, improbable as it must have seemed at the time. This is the way seces- sion sympathy is sought to be kept up in Ee- rope, through the agency of discolored or wholly false telegraphic news. The New York Elvctions=The Pioscrip tions of Ancient and Modern Times, We have fallen upon evil days, and history seems likely to repeat itself in our times, as if all its former teackings were in vain. Notwith-. standing the diffusion of education, and the in- creased light of the nineteenth century, and that the American people have the game im their owa hands, the sun of liberty is in danger of being arrested in its onward march, and the shadow on the dial of human progress of being thrown back a century or more. It seems as if in the science of government man could only rove in @ circle, and that after attaining a cer- tain point he was incapable of further advance- meat, and, like a planct in its orbit, returned te * the same point whence he set ont. . Here we are in the great Empire State of North America—the State of New York— scarcely four seore years afler wringing our freodom from the grasp of the tyrant King of England, deliberately proposing to surrender it of our own free choice to @ tyranny more odious and far more fanatical. The very fact of such # man as Wadsworth being offered ea candidate for Governor of this State speaks volumes of our retrograde movement, and indi- cates the fearfully rapid rate with which we are hurrying headlong to political destruction: Tf we continué iunch longer at the samo speed and in the same direction, nothing but # miracle can save us from rain. Th.many respects we resemble the go-ahead, vigorous old Roman iepublic in its progress, jo its backward tendeucy, aud, we fear, in its terrible fall. It staried from the aubrersion of monarchy, having thrown off the yoke of Tar- quin the Proud, the last of the Roman kings, just as the American colonies by the sword cut loose from George ILL irom the establishment of the Romen republic to the civil wars and pro-criptions avd the overthrow of liberty waa @ period of four centuries and a quarter. Owing to the boundless wealth of thie new country, and the rapid movements of modern nations, we feer we have reached tle same point in three-quarters of a century. The Roman republic ended in imperial despotism. The American republic is threatened with the same termination, without, perhaps, a change of name at first. The same causes—wealth and cormupiion--have produced the e results im both, 1¢ seems as if dem ic institutions were inconsistent with a high state of pros- perity. In the A an, asin the Roman re- pudjic, public virtve nal vigilance—the pring conditions of the existence of a fluurish- ing democracy—have been extinguished by luxury, the greed of riches and the seductions of vice. Wen Rome had reached the pinuacie of her greatness, thea, says the historian, “Iortune began to exercise her tyranny and to introduce universal innovation. At first the love of jnoney, aud then thal of power, began to prevail, and th became the sources of every evil. Vor cupidity subverted honesty, integrity and other honorable principles, and in their stead inculested pride, inbumanity, contempt of reli- gion and geveral venality. Ambition prompted men to become deceitful and to carry a fair face rather than an honest heart. These vices at first advanced slowly, and were sometimes restrained by correction; but afterwards, when the infection had spread like a pestitence, the Staio was entirely changed, and the govern- ment, from being the inoet just and praisewor- came rapacious and intolerable.” Is not iption of Rome, written two thousand years ago, as true a picture of the degeneracy of the Awerican republic as if it were drawn in our own day and generation. For the tast fif- teon years our rapid decline in public morality has alarmed every obserrant mind that cherishes tree institutions. Corruption of morals led to faction and the civil wars of Marius and Sylla, Caesar and Pom- pey. Sylla, a successiul general, set the first example of proscription. He devised this new and unprecedented method of getting , rid of his political enemies. Te called them ail traitors, drew up a list of their names, and set it up in public, giving authority and even a reward to every man to kill them. Their property was confiscated and sold, and, in order to secure himself against their sons, Sylla got a law passed by which the descendants of the proscribed were for- ever to be excluded from all the offices of the republic. A spirit of revenge and thirst of gain drove the inhuman victors from one crime to anotier, till one bold Roman found it neces- sary to ask the tyrant whether he meant to spare any human being at all, and to remind him that if he went on in the same way there would be in the end no one left to rule over. This example was followed up afterwards by still more wholesale proscriptions. Three generals—-Antony, Lepidus and Octaviauus— known as the triumvirs, usurped the whole government, and their first care was to rid themselves of their opponents. Each drew up alist, and the other two agreed to it. Even their own brothers, uncles and dearest friends were among the proscribed. The proscription in the time of Sylla had been the result of am infuriated party spirit, plunder being only secondary object. But with the triumvirs the + proscription was dictated by @ cBld-blooded : personal revenge, and by plunder, which seem- ed to be a main object, many being put on the black list merely because they were wealthy. Such was the progress of the reign of terror in Rome. A similar fate remains for the people of this State unless they resist the evil before it i8 too late. Public corruption, faction and des potism are going hand in hand. The constitu- f tion, once so sacred in American eyes, ig no longer regarded as better than the prophecies ofan old almanac. The sutecedents of Gen. Wadsworth are well known. Let him be elect ed Governor of this State, and no man’s life or property will be worth three months’ purchase. His organs ave already denouncing all who dare to voto against him as traitors. Of course, the proper punishment of a treitor is death, with the confiscation of his property. Those who vote for Wadsworth will therefore vote for the destruction of the lives and property, real and personal, of half their fellow citizens of this | |, Le ee ed