The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1862, Page 4

& NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OyTICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND) NasSa0 Sta, tana * ; Welame XXVIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, KIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Rie Van Winete-Ha 31 Lieut. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway.—Love axp Monar. eeee WINTER GARDEN Broaaw: Ries LAURA KEEN wiNetox—CoLe B Broadwayr ; RE Broadwamr—teo Wor NEW BOWERY THRATRE, Bowery—Poua ix Oxse— Womans WHiMe—BLACmee ITH OF ANTS ER) — ven BOLE —_- BOWERY THEATRE, Bo®ei Tio. —MaGic BawewL—Jack MiLuaM—LOTESRE GERMAN OPERA House a5 Troadway.—Matines @1 Oac o Clock Cann oF tax Resoext. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadwa Saree Fem fc. mean Mire VaURETLB, Ssrvants wINsTREL: iow Hall, 472 Br: “way.—Enaiorian soxus. GOK! Dances, Bon cx Baroape, CHRISTY'S OPERA HOUSE, 535 Broadway.—Rrucorian =e C= Tie MisckikvOUS MUNKEX. Aiernoon WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, sl Broad | Benos, Dances, 2c.—Hind Lostiene ney EtatoreaR HOPE CHAPEL No. 720 Br Ex: Trani’ Carona) BOM way.—Examizion oF HITCHCOCK'S THEATRE AND MUSIC Caus. Btreet.—Songs, Dances, BURKLESQUKS, dc. mee . GAIRTIES CONCERT la vs Esrestioneeee HALL, 613 Broadway,—Daawine PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 361 pen daily irom WAM. Wd bd oY Broadway. — ‘HOOLRS'S OPERA Boros, DascRx Buwins. Brooklyn.--Ermiortan eerie ae letober 18, 1863 ayy THE SITUATION, No general advance movement has been made by General McClellan's army into Virziuia since last advices. The new position assumed by the forward move of our army, however, is very likely to compel the enemy to fight. Another battle may therefore be expectedere long, if Lee does Mot make good his retreat to Richmond. The force of General Humphrey, which crossed the river at Blackford's Ford, opposite Shephords- town, it appears, encountered rpretty large force of the enemy's cavalry, with two pieces of artil- lery. General Humphrey, instead of retreating, ae before stated, returned the fire, and a ‘brisk APtiiery duel ensued, Gen. Woolbury's division crossed the river at Shepherdstown at the game time, and took the road to Smithfield, a village midway between Bunker Hill and Charlestown, and after encamping for the night, seven miles “from Smithfield, pushed on next morning and made ry junction with General Hancock's division, hav- ing met the enemy in large force on his way, though he found but slight resistance from the pickets. . General Sigel’a reconnoissance towards Lees- barg, which we noticed yesterday, discovered no rebels within forty miles Of our lines in that direc- tion. A portion of Stuart’s cavalry occupied Leesburg, as before stated. A despatch from Fortress Monroe states that a Dattle was fought at Blackwater on Tuesday last; but our correspondent at Norfolk, writing two days later, makes no mention of the fact. +» The continued insults offered to the soldiers and Officers of the Union army in Norfolk—principally by the female population—have compelled the Military Governor, Brigadier General Viele, to is- Gue an order to seize the houses of all parties who may be guilty of this offence, and appropriate them to the purposes of the government either for hospi- tals or quarters. { The reports which reached Louisville on Thurs- Gay night, to the effect that Nashville was sur- Pounded by the rebels, that General Negley had Jdbeen asked by the rebel General to surrender the ®own and declined, have not received any later ‘onfirmation, our communication with Nasbville Kor some time being very imperfect. The garri- on, under General Negley, is said to number Afteen thousand—an ample force for the defence of fhe city. The news from Kentucky is not important. General Granger occupied Lexington with his cavalry yesterday. The enemy evacuated it the day before. No decisive battle has occurred since the brilliant victory near Perryville. By late advices from New Orleans and Havana, by the steamer Saxon, which arrived at this port fast night, we learn that it was confidently asserted tn Havana that fourteen rebel war vessels, among them the 290," were at Mobile. The where- abouts of the latter craft, however, is More satisfactorily accounted for by her re- cent exploits on the ocean. The steamer Matanzas which left Havana seven days previous to the Saxon, has not been since heard from. She bad a large amount of specie on board for this city. Great fears are entertained for her safety, as a heavy gale set in soon after her departure. Her capture by the rebel pirates, however, is not 4 ~ o buprobable, Mr. Mason, the rebel envoy in London, has tritten an important letter on the subject of the ‘cognition of the Southern States by the European ‘wera. The communication, which appears in ww? Hemawy to-day, is addressed to Mr. Willian Boon, Secretary of a mecting lately held im Staleybridge, England, having for fits object “the promotion of the recognition of the Confederate States of North America as un inde- pendent nationality,” by petitioning the Queen and Parliament of England. The Mayor of the town prosided over the organization. Mr. Mason having deen invited to offer his opinion on the subject, does so by letter. After recapitulating the seces- aion arguments, Mr. Mason declares that the ‘‘sepa- ration from the United States is final and for ever,’ and that “in no possible contingency—even could the war be continued to their extermination—can khey (the Southern States) ever be restored to the repudiated Union.” We inay here remark that at the meeting in Staley- bridge the speakers endeavored to pass 4 resolu- tion dec lering that the eufferings of the British ope- Fatives wore caused by the action of the Union gov- ‘ernment lv continuing to make war on the rebels; put tie tra tnisery was produced ‘by the existence of « re- be llion againat the American conetitution,”” We publieh the artiole in which the Paris Patrie fotimwtes that Kogland will soon entertain the recog vestion 99 9 matter fer Cabinet de- Mb eve ite nowith Cresco. Liga vag \vsmen and spinners present at once fejcoted the proposition, and resolved that their i : NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1852. The rebet steamer Sumter remained at Gibral- far on the 27th alt, j Something to guia by the destrictioa cf the ap edi ice The pndlic wiil not suffer a war undertakeg The SlyJe steaider Jona, said to bave been par- | &; tha enforcement of tae aws of tre Unigx® chased by the rebel agents in Engiand, has been | to de: enerate into a war fer si wreeked by vollisipa with another steamer ia the | Oppo- Clyde. . rf MISCELLANEODS NEWS The French gunboat Lavoisier, Uwe ae boure, arrived here yesterday morving from ep ney, C. B, She mounts five guns, is of two bun- dred and fifiy tons burthen, and has a crew of one 4 hundred and twenty-nine men, ‘There are Ww quite a number of French War yessels @& Bnchor The ship Henrietta, Captain@Treonrtin, arrived at this port from Pensddola, wik’h port she left October 1, reports that the henlth of qhe troops at that place was good. ‘The country wae quiet and ithy along the coast, ¥ ‘The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has ge cided that incorporated banks must pay license a& brokers; aud persoos doing business as bankers, brokers, ahg ing Warrant brokers must take oat Here Ty the decigign:— IreaseRy DeranTnes?, Srnah pagent uewsoe, | Wannrseromggct. 11, 1862. vert the Sth inst. 1 these ag Brckers, and land warrant brok take three leases: (Sue S tion SL | xeise tu). Incorporated banks daytug it eon, currency aud exchange ure subject to bdiekers. GEO. 8, BOUTWELL, Commissioner of Inte’nal Revenue. uhh thing U% very The pecp.e wii ing:s* Wa the con station being observed, it @ tae chart ry wh.ch (he ship must be steered ese we eo upen a voyage BF Asccvery and know pot where we maw t-+0 @. 1, ,, op: 5 x sand, OF wheilé? | We Wad ever seo lard st alt. If we throw (he constitution overboard we will | son be upen the shoa!s or the rocks, and no- ting can save us from shipwreck and des:ruc- tion, or we shall drift away upon a boundless and unknown ocean, in which our future would be a dark ard dread uncertainty. It is the will of the people that the war should be prosecuted with vigor, but not for the de struction of any portion of the country. The wisitimate object of the war is to save, and not to devtroy. Itis net to efface state lines of overthrow Slate Constitutions, or abolish State institutions, or w fubvert the very found. of the governmetit, tinder {be pretence of de- | brokers | fending it against its enemies, It is a war for the constitution, and notagainst it. Take away teeta’ 43 | by violence that fundamental Jaw which has organized us into @ pvernment, and we are The triple requirement is, for. bankers, €100 li | Jaunched gither into anamphy or. overwhelmed cense; brokers, $50, and‘land warrant brokers, 626. | by despotism—we are at sea without a chart or The Secretary of War has informed Governor Yates, of Illinois, that it ix definitely settled that there will be no drafting in that State. Colouel John Forsyth, of the Mobile Register, was not killed, as reported, but was taken pri- suner and paroled. The enata (Missis-ippi) Appeal, in view of the hatless, coatless and shoeless condition of the re. bel soldiers, says:—'* We. tremble for onr noble troops when we think of the approaching win- ter." Since the Union authority has been re-tored at Franktort, Kentucky, matiers have resumed their wonted quiet, and business has been re-establish ed. The next sitting of the Legisiuture will pro- bably be in the Capitol. The General Episcopal Convention brought their proceedings to a close yesterday, the four- teenth day of! their meeting. The parting address was delivered by Bishop Meilvaine, of Ohio, a synopsis of which wil! be found in another column: Tue Broadway murder case resulted yesterday ina verdict of manslaughter in the third degree against Mrs, Mary Keal. The jury remained in de-~ liberation all night, and at last, after sixteen houara, resolved to compromise by rendering an unanticipated verdict—a verdictwhich the evidence does not sustain—for the woman was either guilty of murder or not amenable to human laws. Ef- compass, sun, moon or stars. These are the thoughts which'are working in the minds of the peuple, and which have found utterance {in the first distant peal of thunder at the ballot box. Soon tue sound will be nearer and louder. It is the first note ot warning to the radicals, telling them “thus far shail ye go, but no far- ther.” It tells them in toues not to be mistaken tha: they will not be permitted to dictate the policy of the administration or control the action of the President. And if Mr. Lincoln, whose antecedents before the issue of the emancipation prociama- tion were conservative, should now consult the wishes of the sovereign people, whose chie servant be is—if, discerning their will in the signs of the times, he should resolve to postpone action on the proclamation after the lst of Jan- uary, as ue has the power to do, he would be éustained by such an overwhelming weight of pubiie opinion as would crush to atoms all op- position. And if. guided by the voice of the people, as now expressed at the bailot box, he should remove his present Cabinet and take to his counsels men of more conservative prin ciples and broader views, he would be sup- forts are already set on foot to relieve her from | Porte’ with enthusiasm by the great masses of the misery of a State prison for two yeara and six | te people. months—adding more to her ‘four long yearg pb? suffering and degradation.” Ata special meeting of the Board of Council men held last evening, for the p: the calendar ofa large av*her of routine papers which had accumula”q during the last few days, reports were a%pted donating the sum of $1,000 to the Northeastern Dispensary, $495 to the Church of the Transfiguration, to pay an assess" ment; $490 86 to the Church of St. Boniface, #01 12 to the Low $455 to the Ladies’ Union mittee on Financé presented a report in favor of a further issue of Central Park improvement stock to the amount of $300,000, which was adopted. The suit of $198 25 was appropriated to defray the expense attending the reception of Thurlow Weed. $250 was appropriated for the purpose of presenting a sword, sash and belt to Captain John Downey. A resolution was offered that swords be presented to all the brigadier generals from the city of New York, which one of the members thought would also include Brigadier General Mansfield Lovell. The resolution was lost. The Board then adjourned until Monday next, at five o'clock P. M. Stocks were rather better yesterday, and the specu! tive tendency seemed to be on the increase. The Eries, If he should change his Cabinet once a month, and if he should change his gene- rals from time to time till he found at last a Hoche, a Desaix or a Wolf, the people would "irpose of clearing approve; for they believe him houest, and will support him to the utmost extremily in defence of the Union, the constitution and the laws, Movements of Our Armies East end West. We have had some reports of late from Ken- Dutch church, and the eum of | tucky of heavy and decigive battles which re- Society. The Com-| quire confirmation; but that Bragg’s rebel amy is.using its utmost exertions to escape southwara, and that Buell is closing his lines around him, with every prospect of cutting him off or cutting him up, and reducing niz to a precipitate and disastrous retreat, is certain. We anticipate atany moment authentic news of a great and decisive engagement, or of a burried and ignominious flight of the rebels in that quarter, equivalent to the complete libera- tion of Kentucky, not only from rebel armies, but from rebel guerillas, to the end of the war. The projected invasion and reconquest of Mis- ta, | 8ouri by the rebel Generals Hindman and Rains appear to have been utterly demolished by Gen. Michigan Central, Rock Island and New York Central | Schofield; for since the late chastisement which were the prominent favorites. Oid Erie sold over 60. | he administered to those presumptuous inter- Gord was lower. It fluctuated between 1232 and 133 all the morning; sold down to 130% in the afternoon; then rallied up to 182 again, Exchange fell to 1450146. Mo- bey was tairly active at 5 per cen . lopers we have no further reports of them within the limits of Missouri. Nor do we entertain any apprehensions of the The war risk of ineurance demanded by underwriters | safety of Nashville. Considering the draft made yesterday, combined with some ease in sterling ex” chang*—or rather a little more strength in the currency— tended to check purchasers of produce for export, and either to arrest any further advauce or to depress prices. Flour fell off 5°. @ 10c. per barrel, while the sales wore jess than on the previous days of the weck. Wheat was upon the Tennessee rebels by Bragg’s army in Kertucky, and the number drawn off in the op- posite direction to the routed army of Price and Van Dorn in Mississippi, it is not probable that the rebel force reported to be assembled in Jess active, and deciiued 3c. a 4c., and, in some cases, as | front of Nashville is anything more than a dis- much as fe. per bushel, owing, mainly, to the check in porchases for export, on account of war risks of tusu- rance. Corn, from the same cause, fell off 2c per bushel, closing at 6c. a 67c. for sound Western mixed. Pork was heavy and lower, though tolerably active at the decline, with sales of mess at $13 75 a $13 $7 4%, closing at the in- quiet but steady. The sales embraced 300 a 400 bales on the basis of 61c. for middiing upiands, Sugars were ac- tive, and ie. higher, with a speculative movement. The sales embraced 3,596 bLhds., with » sinall lot of boxes. Coffee was firm but quiet, while bolders demanded fuil prices. Freights were unsettled, owin war ti-k demanded by under which tended to check shipments of produco, and to that extent to tuflu- evce the supply of commercial bills of exchanye. To bags. The Incipient Revolw' Election: The elections which have just taken place aré different in their complexion from any that have ever preceded them. They are the be. great revolution. They are a fatal blow to the radicals, and their organs stagger and reel un- der its force. But the secessionists can find in them no flattering unction to lay to their souls, While Grow is defeated in Pennsylvania for ultra radicalism, Vallandigham is defeated in Obtfo for his sympathies with the rebellion, These elections mark the uprising of the people against the extreme factions which have brought the country toits present condition—the aboli- tienists at the North and the secessionists at the South, with all who give them aid and comfort in the loyal States. It is the develop- ment of the conservatism of the nation, direct. ed equally against all destructives. It is the evidence of a great reaction begun in the pub- lic mind—a reaction against organic revolu- tion come from what quarter it may. The people will not tolerate the plea that, because the Southern rebels have done wrong: Northern Jacobins ought to be permitted to do wrong also. Two wrongs cannot make one right. The result of the election contests shows that the people are in favor of a vigorous prose- cution of the war in the field, but against mix- ing it up with other questions, which are only in order when the rebellion is crushed and the war is terminated. If a house is on fire, the proper course {a first to eubdue the flames, and then inquire into its origin, and take measures to prevent future fires from incendiarism or from recklessness and neglect; but to first dis. orderly congregation of impudent but con- temptible guerilla bands. In a word, with a crushing defeat or a demoralizing flight of Bragg and his army—of which we shall soon have authentic intelligence—the rebellion will side figure, and prime at $12 « $12 3744. Colum was | be substantially put down in the West, from Missouri and Kentucky southward to the Gulf of Mexico. The advance of the advanced guard of Gen. McClellan’s army- from Harper's Ferry to to the rates of | Charlestown is @ movement which signifies an impending battle with Gen. Lee or the pursuit of his forces up the valley of Virginia. The Liverpool wheat was engaged at 12d. in bags, and corn at | continuance of his rear guard at Shepherd-*wn, 1144, To London wheat was taken st 13d. ia ships’ | on the Potomac, is more, perhaps, to watch the movements of the maip body of our army on m in the October | the opposite side of the river, near Sharpsburg, than for the of risking a battle. All the movements bt 4 rebels, in fact, in the Shenan- doah valley, and on thé easiern side of the Blue Ridge, from Warrenton to Gordons- ginning of the end—the commencement of | ville, indicate the deliberate arrangements for # retreat on the part of Lee over the ridge tp Richmond. He seems to compre- hend pretty thoroughly the dangers of this treat, unless he can firet draw our army some distance up the valley; for otherwise McClel- lan might take the shorter route via Harper’s ‘erry and Manassas or Fredericksburg and get first into Richmond. But, whatever may be the designs and move- ments of Lee, it is evident that he will soon be compelled to fight or fall back. He must either risk the fate of the rebellion upon « battle, with all the chances against him, or try the experi- ment of a retreat of over two hundred miles with our powerful army thundering upon his rear. While he is manmuvering to deceive McClellan he will most probably be so closely rested as to be compelled to fight. We await the developments of the game and the impor- tant issue with the fullest confidence of the grandest results. eile Sauce vor tus Goose Savce ror Tae Gan- per.— When we suggested that Horatio Sey- mour should perform an act of patriotiam, by retiring from the present contest, the Jribune and Times went into ecstacies over the recom- mendation. They evidently did not under- stand what was coming, and caught at the bait with the avidity of hungry perch, But when, in turn, we advised the withdrawal of Wadsworth to make way for General Dix—a man on whom cnse the cause of the fire and the best mode of all the friends of the Union and the supporters preventing #lmilar eonflagrations hereafter, and | of the administration could unite—they did not receed ifest quite 60 much pleasure. Now, what abe Porc» to extinguich the fames, fs eee fort goose iseauce for the gander, would be either the preposterous act of a mad- | Jf the democrats withdrew ther goose the re man or the designing act of @ knave who had! publiguus suoald withdraw their gander, Battaurdinary Fimanuclat Excite- ment. A nice tittle sephism is offen very potential. The art of stating a fact so neatly asto chow ory its bright side and make the worse appear the better reason ia an exceedingly usetut ac- complishmen: Car criminal lawyers exgel io | this art and cag read:.y transform a foul mur: i derinto an unfortacate aogident ov a epecial Fistiation of Providence Beal err tary ate cot tar bebing the lawyers, and with a few stroked f ye Peo Converta rickety old farm house standing ¢se!ate ia the midst of @ bar- ren common proiifis Q2ly ta weeds and this. tles, into an elegant villa, aur Unded by a spa- cious tawn Theatrical managens aréne dibsters at this wonderful art, and thet genius renders @ beggarly account of empty boxes into « crowded and fashionable house, amy! changes a histrionic numscull, al! rant and biay‘ter, into the greatest dramatic artist of the ageagvhose Slectric dashes of inspiration dazzle and bem," der the most iutelligent audiences, Political editors aro generally equally expert, and repre- sent their corrupt candidates as patriots, and ‘their contemptible assemblages of wirepullers, office buxers and showlder hitters as immense mass meetings, tremendpus outpourings of the people and ovérwhelming gatherings of loyal freengon, All these masters of the art of dis- guising henest truth benagth deceptive, gew- ‘@w phrases must give place, however, to the experts of Wall’ street, who sagem to have ‘im- proved upon Talleyrand both in principle and practice, and who use language not only to conceal their thoughts, but te bide from the pubiic plain, undisputed facta. To say that gold has risen to thirty. | three per cent premium is a pleasant way of stating that pyper money has depreciated thirty-three per cent. Practi cally, in their conversation apd reporta, the Wall street financiers make paper the standard, and talk aa if gold had risen above the standard. The fact is, a3 they and everybody else know, that gold is the standard, and that paper has fallen below this standard and is at a large dis. count, Ina word, the one dollar biti you have in your portemonnaie is worth, according to yesterday’s quotations, only sixty-seven cents. That information affects you in quite a different way from the stereotyped announcement that gold bas risen. You'do not care how high gold muy rise so long as your bank bills are at par. The delicate sophism of the money changers leads you to forget that it is not gold that rises but paper money that falls. Every time that the premium_on gold increases the bills in your pocket f¥se in value. Your riches, if they happen to be in paper money, take to thein- selves wings and fly away in spite of you. You find that the prices of coal, of flour, of butter, of dry goods, of clothing, of ali the cqmmon necessaries of life, also rise with gold. The main secret of this rise is that the merchants with whom you deal can only give you sixty- seven cents worth of articles for your dol- lar bill, worth only sixty-seven cents; and so they raise their prices in order to bal- anee the discount on paper. If you can afford to hold on to your bills till the war is over they may regain their original value. If you must part with them now—and nearly every one must—then you are certain to suffer. It being understood, therefore, that the rise in gold is really a depreciation in the value of paper, the peeple inquire who is responsible for this great depreciation? We answer, Secretary Chase and the present Congress. The Treasury Department has been nrost grossly mismanaged. Secretary Chase had asound system of finance prepared for him by practical men; but he does not know how to manage it. If the system now in operation had been properly carried out paper could not have depreciated more than eight per cent by this time. There is nothing either in the condition of the country or the position of our armies to justify the present large depreciation. If the war had been weigh- ing upon us for ten years, aod our prospects of success were still doubttul, then there might be some excuse for such a premium on gold. But the war has lasted but a year and a half, and its fortunes are indisputably in our favor, and still, on the very days that great Union victo- Ties are announced, the premium on gold in- creases, Clearly, then, there is mismanagement in the Treasury Department. If Secretary Chase bad pressed upon Congress, at the open- ing of its last session, the immediate necessity of a Tax bill, and had followed this up by a Tariff bill, a Bankrupt bill, and @ bill taxing local banks, we should have had none of this trouble, and the legal tender notes would now be but little, if at all, depre- ciated. Instead of this, Secretary Chase seemed contented with the passage of the acts autho- rizing the issue of legal tender notes. The Tarif’ bjll wag pasged some time later. The Bankrupt bill and the bill taxing banks were not passed at all. The Tax bill was at last forced upon the stupid, timid, igtiorant Con- gtessmen by public opinion speaking through the unanimous press. In the meantime Secre- tary Chase devoted himself to interfering with the War Department, intriguing for and against our generals, and organizing a radical abolition poliijcal party, with view to the next Presi- dency. The bills for supporting and maintain- ing his legal tender currency were postponed. The Confiscation and Emancipation bill en- grossed his whole attention. Even at this late day the application of the Tax bill is delayed, as the military draft has been, for fear of influ- encing the elections. This is sacrificing the na- tion to a party most remorselessly. It is not too late to remedy all this, however. The example of William Pitt, who carried Eng- land through « long war by @ judicious system of taxation, loans and legal tender currency, should be studied attentively by Secretary Chase. Let the Tax bill be enforced so as to supply the government with money, and, with the tariff bill, form the basis of the currency. Then let Congress, at ite next session, pass a bill taxing banks, so as to restrict the bank ci: culation, and thus prevent the country being deluged with two kinds of paper money—that of the government and that of the local banks, Then let a Bankrupt bill be passed to liberate those of our business men who have their hands tied by old debts resulting from former failures. This done—and with the ordinary chances of war in our favor—the premium upon gold can be reduced to at least five per cent. Seore- tary Chase were to retire from the Cabinet and ‘ive place to # better financier this result would fe indubitably hastened. Tammany axp Mozant BanGatna.—The poll- tical managers of the old Coal Hole and Mozart appear to have considerable trouble in getting the people to endorse their wholesale transfer of the votes of our citizens, In every direction there is a prospect of a holt, which may prove of sufficient importance to forever end hoth of thome concesaa - The Brosdway Murcer CasemAn Absurd Verdict. * In the case of Mary Real, who has been under trial for a week past in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in this city, the jury ren- dered yesterday the anoimalous and absurd ver- diot of “guilty of manstaughter in the third de- eres.” and the prisoner was thereupon sen- 1 beagod to tWy and a half wonvet te” ° rendered tLere is none whatever. What are the facts of the case? Few and simp'e. The murdered man and the, accused Stood toward one another in the closest rela- tions. Some sort of marriage coremony, or at least a solemn promise of marriage, made her regard him in the light of a husband, and it was in evidence that on several occusions he recog- med that relationship. But the irregular mar- ringe.g " the prom‘se of marriage, or whatever tie bound *wthem together; was never publicly solemnized orlegalized. The girl regarded herself as his wife}a2e does not seem to have treated the matter ao se iously. Noglect, aban- donment, her anomalous poition—neither maid nor wife; and stl in hor own @onscience a vir- tuous woman—bis refusal even te provide for her support, and stories of his , antry to other women, all wrought upon herNbighly sen- sitive nature, and produced a settled melan- choly and depression of spirits, whieh on two occasions at least fed to that last refnge of unhappy wo1en—-attempted sel f-destructions On the morning of the 1stb June last circum- stances occurred which intensified her bitterness of heart. Her cup of suffering and sorrow over- flowed and her capacity of endurance gave way. Then an irresistible impulse seized wpon her to rid the world elther of herself or of him who had brought ber to iis pass. Which of those determinations possessed her, or whether she had resvived on their mutual destruction, can never be ascertained, so far as the purposes of justice are concerned; and it is more than probabie that, in the whirl of her deranged senses, the girl herself had no definite idea of what she was about. She procured a pistol, came down to his place of business in Broad- way, had an interview with him in the store, retired with him to the landing, and there, in some sort of a scuffle that took place—the cause and object of which are also hid from the eye of justice—the pistol was disoharged into his breast, and in a few minutes afterwards he was but lifeless clay. These were the few plain, simple facts on which the jury had to decide on the fate of this girl. To all logical minds there wore but two solutions to the question of her guilt or inno- cence. Either she deliberately premeditated his death, and carried out that fixed plan—in which case she was guilty of murder—or she had resolved to kill herself in his presence, and in his efforts to wrest the pistol from her grasp the fatal shot was accidentally fired—in which case she was innocent of all crime. There was no medium course—at least none which any sensible mind would follow. The additional defence of moral insanity did not complicate the issue ; for if the accused was in a state of temporary aberration of mind she was not guilty of any crime at all. This case went toa jury composed of a much more intelligent class of men than are usually found in the jury boxes of our criminal courts, and after a night's de- liberation that jury brought in the ridiculous verdict of manslaughter in the third degree, and immediately afterwards stultified them- selves still more by promising to sign a peti- tion to the Governor for a remission of her sentence. If she was guilty of manslaughter did she not deserve punishment? And if she was not guilty of it why did the jury make fools of themselves by saying that she was? We did not need this manifestation of absurdity to convince us that the much lauded institution of the jury is one of the veriest humbugs trans- mitted to us by antiquity. We understand that counsel fer the defence purpose to have re- course to the Governor's pardoning powors. Of course they are the best judges of the in- terests of their client ; but, in the interests of justice, they ought rather to move to set aside the verdict as one against evidence. We have not touched upon the question of Provocation, because the law does not recog- nize the principle of private vengeance ; but there is an unwritten law in the hearts of this whole community—which should also have had its interpreters in the jury box— that villanies such as that practised by the man Real deserve no other end than that which he suffered. We think that the verdict should be immediately set aside, or, if not, we hope that the Governor's attributes of mercy will be exercised in her behalf. A Prospect or tHe Dertat or Wane Ann Sumver.—There seems now a fine prospect that both Wade and Sumner will be defeated in their endeavors to be re-elected to the Congress which they have disgraced. Ohio has gone decidedly democratic in the recent election, and it is to be hoped that the Legislature is so strongly democratic as to make the defeat of Senator Wade a certainty. In Massachusetis the people’s party are much more powerful than was anti- cipated, and will give the supporters of Sum- ner avery close contest, and probably defeat them triumphantly. By the interference of these Senators with the conduct of the war, by their avowed hatred to the constitution, and by their expressed repugnance to any restoration of the Union which does not involve the de- struction and perhaps extermination of the South, they have fairly earned for themselves that overwhelming popular rebuke which we trust they will receive through the representa- tives of the people in the Legislatures of their respective States. Cavarny Raros—It seems strange, and. yet it is 8 remarkable fact, that scarcely any notice is taken by the people of thebrilliant movements of our own cavalry; whereas, if Stuart or Fitz Hugh Lee should dash upon onr outposts or around our camps, an outcry is made against our gene- rals, and the rebels praised up by both aboli. tionists and secessionists, When Stuart made his raid upon Chambersburg the people could talk of nothing else for a week; but ihe move- ments of our General Plessanton’s cavalry are scarcely spoken of by them. Again, the dash of our cavalry into Halltown, Fairfax Court House, Frederick, upon the rebels at Williama- burg and many other places into the very midst of the rebels scarcely excites any com- ment; while the two, and only two, raids of Stuart’s cavalry are everlastingly thrown up as specimens of rebel superiority and the inferi~ * tity of gus forces ang generale nad cavalry, om ere apr montages St the State prison. This verdict will take the community by ear prise much more than if the accused had been found guilty of the capital crime of murder, There would have been some consiMency in such a verdict; in the one ERRNO ee aad Faiqur ov tux Biowpy Maxvep Rapicats— ‘The radical leaders and their organs are panig stricken by the election returns, which are the sileut and mysterious haudwriting on the wall against them, foretelling their doom. The Tr’ bune is most lugubrious—-eomplaing of te teig-. graphic agents for pot sending them the trie SCC Tames ot Grat, and thea. apinn = t= Miri { about the #hCcutionists being all at the cat hence their defeat; whereas Greeley told the world a Short time ago that, though they were 900,000 strong, at one of them had “ever smelled battle.” The Washington correspondent of the Jimes. desirous to turn the defeat against the President, under the cloak of hitting at the administration, says:—-“The news from the late elections has causdd & feeling of disappointuent and despondency among the Triends of the ad ministration; but the results are regarded by many ag a rebuke of the besitation and timidity of the government, and as an admonition that the sword inust at onee be drawn in earnest and the scubbard thrown away.” The elections are not promunciamientos against the President, who, though terribly in earnest for the war, desires to save the South and its institutions, not te destroy. Dut tiey are against the sanguinary radicals, who will be eatisfied with nothing but the exterinination of the white-race of theSouth unless they can reduce -if to the same politica! level as the negro population. The frightened Fadicals are making atteorts of silly exouses for their discomfhure, and they are runing te “and fro,Jike men at their wits end. For instance, Senator Wilson rushes to Harper's Ferry and the ariny, aud General Fremont hurries off to Washington, and Senator Hale flies somewhere else. There is a terrible fluttering sineng these birds of the sate feather. Bus while the elections ¢ell of a ureat defeat of the vadicule they show no victory for secessionis’s: Bote kinds of disunionists are repudiated by the people, and the conservative sentimen* which holds by the integrity ef the Union and at the same time the imviolability of the constitutvon, is that which has triumphed ia the October etections, and wii triumph ia’ the elections of November. Tam RaptoaL Congressmen DitveaTen.—The election returns from the State of Penny lvanie show that some of the most bitter radical memes bers of the present Congress have’ been le't a& home. Thus Chester county, tired of Hick- man’s assaults on Mrs. Lincoln, refused him the nomination, and have sent a more conservative man in his place. Speaker Grow, one of the extremists, hae been de‘eated by Mr. Denisom, war democrat. In Ohio, Bingham and Gurley, representatives of the radical school, have bees badly beaten. The citizens of those districts have emphatically declared that they have had enough of radical doctrines. The defeat of Bingham is especially a severe blow to the Greeley-Sumner portion of the party. He was the special favorite of the Tribune, that journal never failing to endorse bis rabid speeches, In Indiana Wm. McKee Dunn has been defeated, and when full returnsare received no doubt is will be shown that one or two others of the sume school have been invited to stay at home, Tus Army Warrma ror Snoes.—The Fimes announced yesterday that the late inactivity of the Army of the Potomac was owing to the fact that it was waiting for shoes for the soldiers, This lack of supply of shoes is no doubt a part of the game of the radical Jacobins, who are doing all that lies within their power to delay operations-of the army until the Ist of Janu- ary. They have been playing at this game throughout the war. Wilson, Fessenden & Come pany seriously interfered with the prosecution of the war by stopping enlistments and then ham pering McClellan in every way possible. These radical conspirators and their associates have been playing into the hands of the secessionists throughout the war, not only by stopping ene listments, but by denouncing our generals and working for their removal; and now it seems that shoes for the soldiers have been withheld. What device will they resort to next? Tue Reset Searorts Sxovip be Taken Pos, SESSION OF aND BLookapErs Turnep into Crea, sERS.—The depredations of the pirate steamer Alabama will bring before the government the necessity of at once taking possession of the seaports ‘still in possession of the rebels, that the large number of our ships now employed blockading may be withdrawn to look after and capture the marauder. In a very little while it will require the service of .every available ship we have to clear the North Atlantic of the Alabama and other steamers of a like character that are now building in England. Hence the necessity that Charles — ton, Savannah and Mobile should be occupied, and our cruisers free from their present duty ig time to oure the evil before it becomes of toe great magnitude. Admiral Wii Visit to Bermuda. A Bermuda letter publiched iv the Halifax papers of the Lith iust., complains of the visit of Admiral Wilkes 0 that port with three United States war vensels. It * says:—‘‘The Admiral arrived on the 25th of September, direct from New York, in four days, and romainea fn port about five days, in defiance of the Queen's prociamation, allowing only twenty-four hours stay.” Im conclusion, the letter says:—‘+1t would seem that Wilkes had @ double object in coming to Bermuda; first, we ingult the authorities, fer he must have known in what @ dofenceless state we were in; and, secondly, to cap'ure oF destroy the vessels in port, six steamers, that are engaged, either dircetly or indirectly, in the trade with the rebel ports, and to destroy all tho powder, of which there ie said to be s largo quantity stored on one of the smal’ islands in Castle Harbor. The Admiral and one of hie steamers had gone out of sight from the land, but the other one, having coaled and repaired, ie cruising outetde of St. George. Complaints are also made that British ‘voasels are oecasionally brought to by federal guas while entoring the harbor ef St. George.” einer News from San Francisco. Saw Francisco, Cal., Oct. 16, 1862. ‘Tho markets are unusually quiet. Jobbers are running low in their stocks of goods, but show little disposition te ish them. , Mining atocks continue to decline as the money market tightens. ‘Tho Ophir Silver Mining stock ts quotable at $2,460 per foot. i United States legal tender notes are at 16 per cent die- count. As thore are now but few of them in market, and ‘fas an influx of them is soon expected, they will undoubs. edly still further deeline and corresponé to the premium - on gold in New York, State Senator Baker was released last night by order of Major Genoral Wright. Sonator Baker agreed to refute the charges of using treasonabie language if he was allowed ae opportunity to visit Tullare county, Balled, ship Wor. H. Prescott, for Liverpool, carrying 43,000 sacks of wheat. The Ships of W: sage om the Track of the Privateer Alabama. Bowron, Oot. 17, 1962. ‘The United States atorehip Retonse arrived at Fayai om the 16tb ultimo from Cadiz, an@ railed again on the same ~ day, on hor Tuscarora and Kearsage of the presence of the robel Steamer Ainbape, er No, 290 + Fewer sete Poturm, Wo notify the United States guabsate en enenen nance snc wevannes eae