The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1862, Page 4

& a ee away in which we x(#0 hope to resume the offen- pe prog A Reg sive before the wet wa stber sets in, and there is | by the NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENSKTT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICEN, W. COKNBR OF FULTON AND NassaU STs, Volume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, KIBLO'S GARDBN. Brosdway.—Lavy or Lroxs. 8 THEATRE, Broadway.—Hein at Law. WALLACK WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Ricmagn HIT —Kataa- ee LA) RA KEEN®’S TIHEAT! mur Wickep—Cow: Broadway. —No Rest FOR RS PAWN SeTrLKo at Last NW BOWERY YHEATRK, Bowery—Kexywcu—Tum | BL) SMITH OF SoTWKaP—HO!NRRAT.ON. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery Aas0No~Pouw Le) £.s— Loren ren CASTLES OF TER KRY HOTILE Lav. GERMAN OPERA HOUSE, 435 Broadway.—Jean DE Anis, BABNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway, Coton. @p Taome:t Fin, ac. nours, PAUVKETTE, afteruoon Aud even in. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broat- fay —Brivoras Soxcs, DURLES@ORS, Dances, &0.—THe Brack sxroave CHRISTY'S OV ERA HOUSE, 585 Broadway,—Eraiorian Gonas, Vaxcus, &o —fun Miscdtevous MONKEY. L MALL, 51d Brogaway,—Etmiorian | iuNteus. WOODS MI I No, 720 Brondway.—Exuinition or suousna, i . BAND MUSIC HALL, Canal ANOKS, BURLESGURS, Sc. } 8 CONCERT HALL, 615 Broadway,—DRawina S. 965 Broadway. — ROOLEY's OF Nas, Danes, Be PLAN New Yark, Friday, Octobe Ue. —_ THE SITUATION. © Was made from the Aw Army of the lota fal rece: y Captam Duncan, with two squ iry, towards | ville, rebels were | \ o the from Martinst Kailroud. Nipeteon prisoners, including three offt- cers, were taken by Cuptain Duncan, It was said | that the rebels left Martinsburg, a portioa | of them mevng tovads Shepherdsiown | and a Williamsport. If this can be relied upon it would look like an | intention to moke another raid across the river, or | to keep ow forces in portion towards check in any movement into Virginia at these poiats, Itis pretty well asce tained that the rebels occupy the Shapandoah val- | fey in large mas+es from Harper's Ferry to Pax- | ton’a Cut, which they are guid tv be blocking up, | and that the Baltimore and Ohio Raiiroad, from the Ferry to Martinsturg, aud bejond it, has been | destroyed at various intervals. The details of the late brilliant reconnoissance, made on Monday to Hillsboro and Wheatland by | the Sixth New York cavalry, under Lieutenant | Colone! MoVicker, Knapp's battery and two bri- Bades of intuntry, commanded by General Geary, sre given to-day in full in opr Harper's Ferry cor- | fespondence. It was a highly successful and dar- ing affair. A flag of truce from the enemy was sent to Sharpsburg on Wednesday, to inquire into the dumbers and condition of the rebel wounded at that place. It appears that great numbers of peroled pri oners are roving at liberty through the camps about Antietam, and many are daily to be seen riding in carriages with the ladies of that region. The war in Kentucky and Tenressee goes on Actively at some points, althouzh the forces of General Bragg have been driven southward by General Bueil. General Forrest commenced crossing the Cumber- A large torce of the rebeis under land river on Sunday. His advance, one thousand strong, encamped on the Gallatin pike, seven miles forth of Nashville. General Negley despatched Colonel Miller with a detachment to intercept the tebels, who attacked then on Monday at daylight, and drove them in great confusion across the river. A number of rebels, including « colonel, were captur: d. Several recroits intended for the rebol army re suid to have been arrested yesterday at Hy Attetown, Md., who were about to crosa the tiver and join the enemy. The particulars of the evacuation of the Ka- Quwha valley and Western Virvinia by the rebels, which we before aunounced, will be found in our The vol- ley is said to be uiteriy desolated and impoverished. correspondence from that region to-day. Its rich agriewltural products are all consumed, and its farmers reduced to want. Nevertheless, the valley of the Kanawha isan important point for our trovps to hold, being one of the doors to Western Virgiuia, towards Ohio. In consequence of the information that two thousand rebels, supposed to be a part of Jack- @on's cavairy, were advancing for the purpose of @ttacking our force on the Tennessee shore, op- posite Island No. 10, the troops and ali the pro- erty there have been transferred to the isiand fur @afety. { Our news from Key West by the steamer Daco- tab, which arrived here yesterday, reports that the Confederate schooner Two Sisters - which was formerly a Virginia pilot boat—from Nassau, N. P.,. ‘with @ cargo of gunny bags, arrived at Matemoras } Beptember 21, with the Confederate fiag flying; but finding the United States gunboat Albatross in port, she immediately got under weigh and pro- ceeded to sea. The Albatross slipped ber anchor and gave her chase, and succeeded in overhauling hor off the harbor, put a prize crew on board, and @ont her to Key West. We have also some interesting news from North A large Union meeting was held in Beaufort on the 2ist. Eloquent speakers were present, and resolutions endorsing the President's Proclamation wore passed. The steamer Guide at Wortrese Monroe, from Newbern 22d, reports that the guoboat Ellis, of the Newbern squadron, Lieutenaut W. D. Cushing, commanding, captured ‘tie British schooner Adelaide, of Halifax, on the Qoth, in New Topsail inlet, twelve miles from ‘Wilmington, while attempting to run the blockade mith @ cargo of cotton and turpentine. The vessel Being aground, it was necessary to destroy the ‘woarel and cargo. We have already had several accounts of the ~ battle and Union victory at Perryville, Ky., ‘om rebel sources, each of course claiming a sue Gens for the rebel cause; bul the most unblushing Gescription of ail ix that of the Kuoxville Revister, . NKW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1862. which states that the Union forces in the engare- | ment numbered from 8,000 to 120,00 men, while the rebels had only 15,000 to oppose them. This comes from an officer said to have been in the action, and we may learn from this ridiculously | fulse statement the value of what the Southern press publishes relative to our battles. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The ftve per contum meationed inGovernor Mor- gon's order for the draft is to be addedito the quota, pie lasi call for three huadred thousand, to make up the deficiency occasioned by deser- tons. It will amount to fifteen thousand men, ‘This addition to the quota falls heavily upen some of (he towna and cities. The men were fairly en- listed and the bounties paid; but the State autho- rities failed to make proper provision for guarding tiem after they had gone into camp, and itis thus estimated that fifteen thousand escaped, with from one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars each of the people’s money in their pockets. The Governor of Ohio has suapended the writ of habeas corpus in regard to drafted aliens in the camps of that State. This looks like a highhand- ed measure on the part of a State Executive; and whence Governor Tod received his authority to abrogute thie constitr nal guardian of men's rights and liberties is somewhat diificult to agcer- tain e writ of habeas corps, which was once msidered of such inestimable value, has become aything. Lane's neeyo © brigade’ in Kansas, when it venched its ultiretum, numbered about seven bun- dred free negroes and contrabands, from Missouri, It now numbers leas than five hundred, with a fair pro-pect of its being reduced to acorporal’s guard bet the winter is over, « Diario of Madvid states that the Spanish has beco convened to meet The government candi- or. of the Booksellers’ Association § n e, and will include the most exteusive and valuable invoices of stereotype copyrights, book and sheet stock perhaps ofered at public sale, comprising the entire stock in trade of the late firm of Mason Brothers, iqnidate the aifaira of a dissolved part vip: the entire stock of the late firm of Derby & Jackson; the stereotype plates, &c., of the lite firm of Anderson, Gates aud Wright, Cincinnati stereotype plates, steel plates, contracts and to publish the works formerly published by e righ ‘ Pluilips, Sampson & Co., of Boston, Mass.; also the remoining stereotype plates belonging to the tate of Silas And Hartford, All the princi- pal pu hers are in town to make purchases. At # regular meeting of the Board of Coun- cilmen, held latt evening, @ remonstrance ; was received from the property owners along Broadway, from Union to Madison square, against Broadway being left in its present condition, in consequence of the operations of the Seventh Avenue Kuilroad having been entirely suspended. It was referred to the Committee on Railroads. The Comptrolier submitted a statement of the dis- borsements made to the families of volunteers dur- | ing the fortnight ending on the Isth inst. The amount expended during that time was $65,216, and the total number of persons to whom relief was afiurded wax 35,564. A resolution was adopted appropriating the sum of $500 to purchase asword, sush and belt for preseitation to Colonel Milton Coggswell, formerly in command of the Forty- sccond regiment New York Volunteers. The sum of $254 waa donated to the Trinity Methodist Epis- copal church, to pay an assessment. The Board concurred with the Board of Aldermen in appro- priating the sum of $3,300 to build anew steam fire engine for Engine Company No. 11. The Board then adjourned until Monday next, at five o'clock P. M. The Board of Supervisors met at ten o'clock yesterday morning, and took up the list of regis- trure and inspectors of election. The Second, Seventh, Eleventh and Seventeenth wards were disposed of, after which the Board adjourned to eleven o'clock this morning. The Committee on Gas was to have met at three o’clock yesterday, in the Library, City Hall; but in consequence of the absence of Alderman Far- ley, the Chairman, whose duty as Draft Commis" sioner required his presence elsewhere, the meet- ng was indefinitely postponed. The Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction met yesterday, when a communication was received trom the House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Convention, expressive of the entire sat tion which they derived from their visit to the various institutions under the quidynee of the Commissioners. A communica- tion was received from the captain of the schooner »h, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, stating ‘he 28th ultimo, while on @ voyage from New York to Port Royal, South Carolina, the schooner fell in, about thirty miles off Cape Fear, with am open boat, in which were ten negroes, who steted that they had been slaves to rebels, and had escaped from Wi! vington, North Carolina, four days previously. captain took them on board and carried them to Port Royal, where they were refused a landing, and they were conse- y brought to th The communication requested the Commyssioners to take charge of them, The Commissioners directed the parties to be sent to the Tombs until this morning, when pro- vision ix to be made for them. The weekly state- ment showed that the number remaining in the in- stitutions on the Ilth inst. was 6,413; admitted since, 2,069; died, 42: discharged, 1,563; sent to Blackwell's Island, 4 remaining on the Ith instant, 6,380-—decrease, 33. The cash receipts from the #th to the 23d instant were $455 30. The Board passed a resolution to the effect that the President and Secretary draw their requisition on the Comptroller of the city, requesting him to issue his warrant, payable to the order of the Pre- sident and Secretary of the Board, for the sum of $179,173, said amount to be paid out of the appro- priation for public charities and correction for the year 1462. Mr, Albert Horn, a shipping merchant of this city, was placed on trial yesterday in the United States Circuit Court on a charge of fitting out the steamer City of Norfolk for the slave trade in July, 1860, The accused is defended by Mr. James T, Brady and ex-Judge Beebe. The government is represented by the District Attorney and his as- sistant, Mr. Andrews. The Mathews homicide case was concluded in the Court of General Sessions yesterday. The jury remained out about twenty minutes, and brought in a verdict of manslaughter in the third degree, at the same time recommending the prisoner to the mercy of the Court. The prisoner was remanded for seutence. ‘k market opened dull yesterday, and remained wit the morning: acquired strength in the aiternoon, aed clored firm at an advance of 34 a % per cent, The most buoyant shires were the Eries and the Michigan shares, Gold opened at 193 and closed ay 192%. Faehange closed at about 146, Money was in fair demand at 5 per cent. ‘The cotton market, after the recent large sales and rapid advance, yesterday were a more quict aspect, yet retain ing much firmness. The saler embraced about 900 bales clostug ov the basis of B16. 61440. for middling uplands, The flour market was lower, and common grades fell off Se., and in some cases 100. per barrel, while thy higher gralee were generally firmer and unchanged. Wheat was irregular, especially common grades, which felt off from Le. lo de per bushel. At this:concession the market Was more active. Corn was firm and active, while sound Western mixed closed at 670, a 68¢. Pork was more active and firmer, With cules of moss at $12 « $13 374, ineluding a lot for delivery early in November at $13 60, while prime sold at $12 1245 4 $12 25. Sugars were quiet, hoe vriges were suady, With sales of O01 bhds. and 1,500 bags Manila, at prices given in another ooiuma, | The Rebc! Armies Hast and West—Are Cofive was quiet but firm. Freights were easior, but with more Offering. Engagements were rather larger. A Tremendous Kt: ion Appronch- Fvery State which has held an election this fall bas gone decidedly nservative. Conneo- ticut has elected a majority of democratic can- didates at its town meetings. Penusylvenia. Ohio and Indiana have already been reported as conservative. This morning the returns from Jowa show that this hitherto strongly republican State has given a greatly decreased republi- can majority. These facts bode a tremendous revolution here at the North. They indicate that New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Diinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and even Massa- chusetis, will join the conservative ranks at the November elections. They promise the speedy annihilation of the abolition party, and the speedy reconstruction of the Union and end of the war. They are to be hailed, therefore, as omens of hope for the country and of de- struction for its foes. The philosophy of these conservative tri- umphs is very simple. They are de/eats at once of the disunion secession sympathizers and of the disunion abolition radicals. They are vic- tories of the people, of the constitution, of the Union. If the other Middle and Northwestern Staves follow up these triumphs in November, the war will be over in six months. If they falter and give abolition majorities, there is no prospect that the war will be over in less than fifieen or twenty years—until every negro in the South is freed and every white man kiNed—until the Union framed by our fathers is lost beyond recovery— unti! this glorions country, the pride of every free man, shali be degraded beyond the level of the smallest and meanest nation on the face of the earth. This is the issue before the people in the coming elections, The conserva- tive triumphs in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Towa, and the immense conservative mass meetings in thie city and vicinity, are protests against the abolition party. But those republi- caus who assert that the conservatives there- fore oppose the war and favor Jeff. Davis plain- ly and emphatically lie. The men who com- pose the conservative party have pledged their own lives, the lives of their relatives and friends, and their property to the last dollar and the last cent, to the perpetuity of the Union. It is for this very reason that they ,OPpose the abo- litionists, who would destroy the Union. They are too loyal to our soldiers to send them off to the wars and then betray thenr at the polls by voting for that damnable party of abolitionists, who have caused, who now prolong, and who will never end this war. An abolition minority at the North, playing into the hands of a secession minority at the South, involved us in this terrible conflict. The abolitionists desired to destroy the Union in order to destroy slavery. The secession lead- ers desired to destroy the Union in order to take a perpetual lease of office. The vast ma- jority of the people, North and South, were loyal to the Union. Practically, therefore, the abolitionists and the secession leaders have al- ways been, and are now, in league with each other. Horace Greeley is the best friend Jeff. Davis ever had. Whatever helps the abolition- ists assists the rebel leaders. A vote for an abolitionist is a vote for the rebellion. Every abolition measare has tended to justify Jeff. Davis in the eyes of the people over whom he tyrannizes. Every success of the abolition party fulfils one of the prophecies by which Jeff. Davis tempted the Southern people to their tuin. The ragged, wretched, starving, robbed, oppressed, desperate masses of the rebels sub- mit to Jeff. Davis’ infamous cruelties and ex- actions because he excuses his despotism by the plea that he is trying to save the people from the worse cruelties and exactions of the North: The abolitionists always kindly furnish the Southern tyrant with some brutal article, bloody speech or exasperating measure just in time to apparently justify this lying plea. An aboli- tion triumph now will thus aid the rebellion. Aconservative triumph, on the other hand, will give Jeff. Davis the lie direct; will: disenfran. chise the minds of the Southern people; will prove that the Norih is not abolitionized; will show that the South may yet return to the Union and enjoy all her constitutional rights, and will thus weaken and ultimately destroy the power of the infernal military oligarchy that now tramples upon the citizens of the se- ceded States. It is this truth of which Jeff: Davis is afraid. It is this truth which aboli- tionists would conceal and remove. Revolutionize the North at these elections: and the South will revolutionize herself. Dis- enfranchise the minds of the deluded rebels from the spell of abolitionism, and they will soon disenfranchise themselves from the spell of Jeff. Davis. Does any one suppose that the Southern masses submit without some apparent cause for submitting to a monstrous tyranny so grinding as to appal the werld? Convince them that this tyranny is without ashadow of justification; that their leaders ere liars; that the North, from which Jeff. Davis professes to save them, ie not bent upon their destrnction; that we offer them their just rights if they will lay down their arms and submit to a government which has been most grossly mistepresented by their leaders and by the abolitionists, and with- in six months, unless they are more or less than men, they will hang Jeff. Davis higher than Haman, and gladly return to the Union. They would have done so long ago had not the aboli- tloniste stood like a wall of fire between us and them. Break down that wall at the coming elections, and the Southern people will come back from the horrors of the confederacy to the peace and prosperity of the Union. Have no fears that they will misinterpret a conservative triumph into a sign of submission on the part of the North. They have felt the sting of con- servative bullets and bayonets too often for that. They will read the news of conservative majorities by the flashes of conservative can- non and muskets, and will understand it aright Let the November elections go as did those of October, and we have no hesitation in saying that within six months the outraged Southern people will hang Jeff. Davis and his fellow tyrants—perhaps on the very spot where John Brown justly suffered—and rejoin the Union from which Southern and Northern scoundrels have deluded them. Let the November clec- tions retrieve the abolition losses, and we pre- dict that this war will not be ended for fifteen or twenty years, unless sooner stopped by those European Powers with whom we have already along account to settle when again united. Voters of the North, there {s the issue. Will you stand by Jeff, Davis and the disunion aboll- tionista, or will you stand by the President, the army, the constitution, the Union and the con- servative party? = ener Pursued or Allowed to Com- ae ‘The great rebel army of the West has effected its escape from General Buell, and, several days abead of him, is retreating baek into East Tennessee, Kentucky, like Maryiand, is cleared of ber ragged liberating invaders; but Bragg, like Lee, ie eiill at the head of ® powerful army. The battle of Perryville, it appears, was prematurely brought on by the impetuous valor of Generals Roussean and McCook, Thus ony @ portion of General Luell’s forces were in the fight, and, having to contend against the whole rebel army, our victory was inoomplete, though sufficiently decisive to warn, Bragg of bis danger. The converging columns of Generat Buell from the background came up dur- ing the evening; but with the morn ing’s dawn it was found that, under cover of the night, Bragg hid made good his escape Our last advices concerning him are, that with several thousand Kentucky horses, a large drove of cattle, and an immense train of wagons, filled with flour, pork, dry goods, shoes, &., from the stores of Frankfort and Lexing- ton, he was among the mountains of Sonth- eastern Kentucky, en roule for East Tennesse, with no impediments before bisa, and bloc! ing up the narrow mountain roads behind Lim with the forest trees, The rebel journals at Richmond pronounce Bragg’s expedition “a fizzle.” He invaded Kentucky, not only to liberate it, but for the purpose of a grand foraging raid Into Cinein- nati and Louisville, and not without some hope of a triumphal foray throngh Southern Ohio, Indiana and llinois. But, like Lee, he Lad no sooner issued his proclamation thau he was compelled to beat a retreat; aud thus, in fact, Bragg’s grand designs ended in “a fizzle.” But we, too, are sumewhat disappointed. We had anticipated the complete rout and d'spersion of Bragg’s insolent army. He has escaped with it,somewhat crippled and chopfallen. to be eure, but still too strong and resdy for mischief to be regarded with ind ‘rence Among the barren mountains into whie) be bas, fled he cannot be at once pursued. Indeed, we apprehend that, w! ile Bragg is comparative ly safe, Nashville is the point at which Genera Buell should next prepare to meet him. The shortest way, however, to dispose of Bragg is to cut up and put to flight the army of General Lee. We believe that General Mc- Cleilan is abundantly able to do this important work at once, if furnished at once with the indis- pensable supplies which he demands. We ure satisfied, on the other hand, that delay is full of danger. Bragg may soon move eastward from Knoxville to reinforce Lee, or westward to seize Nashville, as the occasion may suggest; but let Lee, meantime, be routed, and Bragg will be compelled to consult his own safety in @ backward movement down into Georgia. We adhere to the opinion that Lee is tarrying near Winchester, not for the purpose of inviting an attack from General McClellan, nor with the design of another attempt to cross the Po- tomac, but simply to hold our army at bay until he shall have gathered up the flour, corn, beef, pork and forage to be found in the She- nandoah valley, and placed these supplies at convenient depots for the subsistence of his army on its retreat of two hundred miles back to Richmond. With these preparations com- pleted, he may return without the incumbrance of the usual army train, while to pursue him over a country which he has stripped of its sup- plies ‘will be so costly, tedious, cumbersome and dangerous as to be impracticable. We must bring him toa battle near Winchester; for, if without an engagement we permit him to fall back to Front Royal or Strasburg, we must abandon the pursuit in that direction upon the simple question of subsistence. At all events we must cut off this army of Lee trom Richmond, by defeating it on the road, or by getting into Richmond before it, or the reduction of that city will probably be another siege of Sebastopol. Since the evacu- ation of the peninsula by General MoClellan, as we are informed, thousands of negroes have been engaged in strengthening, increasing and ex- tending the defences of Richmond, around the land and along the river below the city. All accounts agree, however, upon this important fact, that only a emall detachment of the rebel army is now in the occupation of those defences. The game, therefore, for which Lee is evidently playing is to draw McClellan up the Shenan- doah valley far enough to leave him behind in the race for Richmond. But as it appears that Lee is prepared to try the fortunes of a battle near Winchester, in preference to a retreat before his preparations are perfected, and as we are assured, from the battle of Autietam and from the splendid masses of reinforcements which have since joined McClellan’s army, that the result of another drial with Lee would be a crowning Union triumph, we appeal to President Lincoln to take this matter into his own hands, and push forward at once to Gen. McClellan the means required for an advance, so that he may move forward and clear the rebels at least from Northern Virginia before our army isembargoed and our great cause put in jeopardy by another long, wasting and exhausting winter. Tut Derarruents anp THe Army.—It ap- pears, from the statements that reach us, that, while the new regiments that join McClellan’s army are comfortably equipped and well sup- plied with everything, the veterans who have been fighting the battles of the country on the peninsula and in Maryland are in rags and without shoes. It is also stated that arrears of pay to the amount of about $50,000,000 are due them. We can imagine nothing moré calculated to excite discontent and bitterness of feeling than the contrast presented by the condition of the old and new regiments. It cannot be ex- pocted that the gallant fellows who have seen such hard service can look without jealousy on the new comrades who are daily joining them, with their persons well clothed and their pock” ets full of money, whilst they themselves are without overcoats, without blankets, and with- out even shoes to their feet. Where, it wili be ‘asked, does the responsibility of this shameful treatment of the country’s brave defenders lie? With the mismanagement of the public finances by Mr. Chase, who has spent the time that should be devoted to the duties of his depart- ment in meddling with the policy and conduct of the war, and interfering with the heads of the army, for the promotion of his own pri. vate interests and those of his party. And as one of the results of all this General McClel- lan is unable to profit by the present favorable weather to advatice into Virginia, his men being unprovided with the common necessaries with- out which no prudent general will consent to | move @ step. The time is slipping rapidly not 8 moment to be Jom* if we would bring the their delegates, freely chosen, and in convention rebels to terms before @Pristmas, We call | duly assembled. upon the President prone matter into his | will of the people, own hands, and to see that our WT#ve veterans are supplied with all that is necery to | people Is the voloe of God. through the ballot box. The “ iE papa insure their health and comfort during “2° 8P- | Grand Exeoutiom of Coneervative Trai- ters. proaching winter. If the contractors, thra34! political interference, do not feel disposed harry up matters, let their contracts be can Every one has read of dreadful historie massacres, Herod’s masshdré of the innocents. celled and the orders given to others. There is | ¢be brutalities of the Duke of Alva, the slaugh- no lack of eboes or blankets in the market; and | sem of St. Bartholomew's day, hie fusila an for these alone, we are (old, the army Is delayed: f neyades of the French Revolution, are famili Lot the Presilent see to it that this dificulty toatl readers. This country is aoon to see i Shail no longer etand in the way, [f not the | horrors more frightful than any of these, how country wil! visit him with the re«ponsibility of | ayer. Strange as the fact may seein, nine hup the loss of our present opportunities, Wadsworth and Seymour—Whi Issue? Wadeworth and Seymoug are vory unfortu- dred thousand of the voters of Pennsylvania and the Northwestern States are already con demned to death for voting the conservative ticket at the recent elections, and will soon be nate men; for each is subjected to violent abuse | Called upoa to suffer the extreme penalty of from the organs.of the party opposed to him, | the law. while there is really no ground for personality in either case, and the iseus is of the most vital nature, rising not ouly above all individual interests, but above party ftsel{—even to a question of national existence—an isane involv- ing the life or denth of the American republic this election is to decide whether the war is to he of short er leng duration, and whether the nation shall speedily emerge out of its troubles unbroken in spirit aod resources, or whether, by a lingering and exhausting conflict, it ehall | become beggared and bankrupt, the liberties of the people lost, avd the very name of the republic blotted ont. These questions of supreme importance are invotved in tke political con which is now going forward in this &t The batiie has bre and other ie fought and won by the in } 1 conservatlves: ia, Ohio and Indiana. It re what New York. New Je Mi achusatts, Missouri, Minnerota, Wi and. Ulinols will do in the first w of the coming month, The candidates Governor in thi State are Wadsworth and § ui. Loth are good men in al! tho rel f private life. They pay their debis, obey the laws of the land, and respond to those moral ob devolve upon them as members of a Christian and civilized community. in th js no difference between them. in the election is very different events of a great national for personal consider Tbe candidates for the Governorhip o ork do not come forward to seek the suffrages of the peopie on personal grounds, but as (ie representatives of | antagonistic principles and policy in the | conduct of the war. Wadsworth is committed to @ progranime which runs counter to the great principles of the constitution, aud which, if it could be carried out, would exterminate the white race of the South and elevate the blacks on its ruins, but a policy which wouid protract the war for twenty years, and utterly ruin the whole country, North and South, East and West. This policy is essentially revolu- | tionary, and would result in anurchy and coniu- sion everywhere. The conservative policy, to which Seymour has pledged himself, is to carry on the war vigorously in the tield, without any interference with tie domestic institutions of the rebellious States, without any vielation of | the guarantees of the constitution or any de- parture from the great’ organic law of our na- tional life. The constitution is equal to every emergency, and adapted for war as well as for peace. The conservative policy would bring | the war to a close in six months, hang Jeff. i Davis on the same spot where Jobn Brown | paid the penalty of his crime, and restore the Union to its pristine giory before tho lapse of another year. «al ige Though these are the principles, and thé policy and the consequences involved in this political conflict, yet the organs of the factious which caused the war—the incendiary journals which kindled the fire of civil strife, and ever since have fanned the fame—are laboring to bring down the election to the grade of a mere personal squabble between politicians. For instance, the New York Tribune, ever unscru- pulous, leads the way in denouncing Seymour and calling him all kinds of odious names. The Albany Argus, in the hands of Confidence Cas. sidy, the organ of the vilest corruption and the most extreme villany, wickedness and deceit, assails Wadsworth in a style of billingsgate which would do credit toa fishwoman. Now the question for the peuple of this State to con- sider is whether the contest is to be conducted and desided upon principles or upon the per- sonal merits of the candidates. As we have said, in point of personal qualifications both stand about equally well; and if these were ordinary times, and no great issue before the country, it might be determined by close scru- tiny and nice discrimination on which side jay the preponderance of private virtues, and the people might vote accordingly: but these are not ordinary times, and tremendous national interests are at stake, before which mere personal worth shrinks into insignificance. Ifthe radicals should be successful the nation may bid farewell to peace or hope. If the conservatives win the game in the coming elections, it will be the consummation of counter-revolution at the North which will produce a corresponding counter-revolution at the South, resulting in the annihilation of Jeff. Davis and the secessioniste: The great stumbling block in the way of the honest portion of the Southern people in return- ing to their allegiance to the federal govern- ment is the fact that abolitionism and radical- ism have been in the ascendant for the last nine or ten months. Let them see the sbolitionists fairly put down, and be satisfied that a majority of the people of the North mean no wrong to the South, and do not claim to have any right to meddle with its in stitutions, and very soon they will over. throw the tyranny which rules at Richmond, and bring back their States to the Union and it founded by the great Virginian, George Washington, and his compatriots, as an everlasting heritage for the American people. And in this grand work honest Abraham Lin- coln will asvist. His heart is not with the radi cals. He is not their President, but the Presi- dent of the people; and when he sees that the principles of the. insane. faction will not be tolerated by the country he will compel these Northern disorganizers and revolutionists to take back seats, dud call to his councils men suited to the time, who will carry out the will of the people; for, no matter what may be thought of theories of “higher law,” Mr. Lincoln has too much sense not to know that to administer a government on suoh principles would be im. respect there But the issue The stirring 5 leave no room General Cassina Maroollus Clay is the judge and jury who has condemned these unforta- nate voters to doath. General Cassius Maroettue Olay is a great man in a dozen different ways Re isa distinguished “abolition patriot; for be loves the negro better than he does his country He is a distinguished abolition general; for be has woo a8 many baities as Fremont or § stall. Ue is # distinguished abolition diploe matist; for he weat all the way to Russia, avd oame back again, like a bad penoy or a scilee postage stamp. He is a distinguished abolition orator; for he imjured our cause by silly ad dresses in Kurope, and is now injuring it stiid snore by making political abolition speeohes in this country, on a major general's salary Tn one of bis recent orations, thie distinguished patriot, general, diplomutist aud orator de clarod that all the democratic ca ll the conservative voters were t rt should be hung. His audience end the abott tion press raptaronaly endorsed this judicial de om When such a distinguished mar jeya down the faw for us, all we can do is to anbinit quietly, take of our cravats and ¢hirt col ,make our wills, kiss our wives aud children *goodby, and give our executioners as liltie trouble as possibie. Woe advise the nine hundred thousand conserva tive traitors of Pennsylvania and the Norta- west to adopt this course, and not make «a use less disturbance by attempting any resistance. Greeley, Raymond and Brother Beecher wit officiate in person at this graud execution. Brother Beecher will act as clowa and cleriy- max, and will alternately amuse the populace by some of his ‘Piymouth church buffoonery and administer consolation, in the furm of an anathema mardawetha, to the oondemaed crimi- | nals. Little Villain Raymond will make e speech before and after each execution, de scribing the peculiar heinousness of the great | orime committed by the conservative voters, and showing the facility with which they might have followed bis example, turned their po litical coats, joined the abolition party and es caped the gallows. Gresley, who from his childhood has always shed tears because he could not play Robespierre, will do all the abuse and all the dirty work, for which he is expecially fitted, both hy nature and education. At the close of each day’a labors the illustrious trio of executioners will deliver lectures upon the blessings of amalgamation and the advisa- bility of negro wives. This, it is believed, will give a finishing touch to the grand performance of the day, and will e‘fectually convert all the remaining voters in Pennsylvania and the Northwest to the most ultra doctrines of abeli- tioniam. As all the conservative voters will then be hung, we shall probably have a united © North and a disunited nation at the conclusion of these proceedings, — a ots. We) It ma ? pare Gecur to some persons that this Ef execution may be interfered wita. and that it will be very difficult to find trees enough and rope enough to bang so many people. In regard to the interference, Greeley has made everything secure by ordering his special body guard of nine hundred thousand abolitionists—“who have never yet smelt pow- der,” and evidently do not intend to smell it— to be on hand at these executions anid keep the peace. As they are ali undoubted peace inen. and cannot be coaxed, bribed or driven to the wars, they will doubtless obey Greeley's order. if they escape the draft. In regard to the para- phernalia of the gallows, Greeley will find plenty of trees “Among the Pines,” and he can make rotten rope enough to hang the whole world oft of the yarns which he pays out daily to the readersof the 7ribune. Let the conserva: tive traitors of Pennsylvania and the Northwest prepare, therefore, to have their necks stretched. and let alithe timid people of this State vote for Wadsworth and escape a similar doom. Great is General Cassius Marcellus Clay, the distinguished patriot, general, diplomatist, poli- ticianand general hangman of humanity; and great are Greeley, Raymond and Beecher, his ijlustrious deputies. A Tremexpous Convuiston oN 4 Svatt Scats in Watt Srreet.—The Board of Brokers have thought fit to strike transactions in gold from their official list. In consequence of this decision gold went down five per cent, but rose again im- mediately after. The Board makes a great mis- take if it supposes that in critical times like the present it can, by a ukase of this kind, con- trol the market value of specie. That will be decided by other boards, transacting their busi- nesa in the oyster cellars and coal holes in ite neighborhood. Neither is it at all-certain that the parties composing the present Board will long continue to exercise their financial supre- macy in other respects. Another board is, we understand, in process of formation, composed of members quite as respectable (for Wall street), quite as regular church goers, quite as munificent contributors to charities and tract societies, and quite as great sticklers for all the conventional proprieties. These are times when no set of men, no matter how influential, can presume to control events. The revolution that is sweeping away all the old political and party landmarks is not likely to be more tender of a board of brokers, Tue Rauty or tHe Demoonacy.—Never, in the political contests of this State, have there been seen such gatherings or so much enthusi- asm as has been witnessed on the conservative side in the present gubernatorial contest. The republican meeting at the Cooper Institute, where Dickinson and Tremain spoke, was a lage one; but it was immensely surpassed, both in numbers and oarnestness of feeling, by the great domooratio mass meeting held at the fame place, in which Horatio Seymour, John practicable, and that in this republic there cag | Van Buren and Richard O'Gorman ‘took part be no higher law than the constitution, “the | The latter recalled the begs ‘times of the vorig, _ OEE