The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1862, Page 4

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COCK'S THEATRE AND MUSIC HALL, Canal oNGSs, Dances, Buriesqurs, &c. 8 CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.—Drawixa TaAiNMENTS. * PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway. — Open daily from 10 A, M, till 10 4", A. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eruror1ax Bones, Dances, Bortusauns, ke —— THE SITU ‘The most interesting war news to-day is com- i in the late exploits of the rebel privateer Alabama (290), in which Captain Raphael has been doing so much destruction to @Prcdhant marine of the North, and whose SAventures the Navy Department appear @o little trouble to check. The is now cloge upon our coast. From moe received by thé big Baron d¢ fe Bt Boston- yesterday it appears that she P*ptured no less than seven vessels withiiz 9 few feoks past, and destroyed them all except tio. grbiok Capt. Semmes released upon the masters Siving bonds, one of ithem—the ship Tonawanda fneighty thousand dollars; and the other the brig Ba- £on de Castine in six thousand, payable to the Presi- Pent of the Confederate States after Peace is estab- Aished. The last appearance of the Alabama wasin fatitate thirty. horth, longitude sixty-nine ‘Wrest, off the Capes of the Delaware, and directly {in the track of the Caljfornia steamers. We give & full Scoount in another golumn of the destruce| #mmunition and material in military pieert a oe of this® ferminsdle craft, to- jor witu the list of vessels which have fallen to her clutches since the beginning of her gareer, which numbers in all twenty-two, nineteen of which were destroyed, and the rest bonded and released. The news from the Army of the Potomac to-day b interesting. General Pleasanton came" up with the rebels at Philomont on Saturday, and after an lery fight of five hours’ duration, drove them ‘k to Union, a town three miles beyond. They pone to be a portion of Stuart’s cavalry, PPO} d by one battery, YeSterday morning Pleasanton renewed the attack at Union, being reinforced by a brigade of infantry it ten o'clock, pressed the enemy back, until it one o'clock P.M. our troops were in posses- fion gf the town. From three o'clock until dark the firing in that direction was very heavy; but the particulars of what was going on were not known. Snicker’s Gap was also taken possession of by a portion of our advance yesterday. Three prigades of rebel infantry were obsefved moving 4ncolumn up the mountain. A battle in that vi- cinity very soon is not an improbable event.” ‘Vast quantities of supplies, clothing and shoes gre being forwarded to General McClellan but still it is stated that many regiments are al- fmost naked and without shoes, a condition of dbings which, we trust, will be speedily remedied, ~ gaud which should not have been permitted to-exist all. A scouting party in the direction of Dumfries fa are receiving fresh troops. They met a large of rebel cavalry within seven miles of Dum- , and were compelled to fall back. Genoral Halleck, for the first time since he was NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NUVEMBER '$, 1662. MISCELLANEOUS BEWS. The Arabia, at Boston, brings news from Europe to the 19th ultimo—a week later than the report of the Australasian. The telegraphic details of the advices are published in the Hesatp to-day. The Liverpool cotton market closed on the 18th ultimo firmer, and with a better feeling, froma decline experienced during the previous days. Breadstuffs were luoking downward and the mar- ket was irregular. Provisions were flat. Consols closed in London on the 18th ultimo at 93% a 9334. It wasthonght thatthe recent changes in the French Cabinet boded no good to the cause of } Italian unity, Napoleon had returned to Pari, from Biarritz in a very religious mood, and the | appointment of Baron Droyn de I’Huys to the of- fice of Foreign Minister took place soon after- wards. Tt was said that the Emperor would ap- point a new ambassador to the Court of Rome, and that Cardinal Antonelli and Monsignor d’Merode would retire from the Papal Cabinet. No doubt was entertained in Paris thot, for the monet, the priestly party were in the ascendant with the French ruler. This state of affairs produced a great sensation, | with considerable alarm, in Turin, The steamer Ocean Queen, Commanéer Tinkle- paugh, from Aspinwall, arrived here yesterday. She brings dates from the Isthmus to the 25th ult. We give full particulars of the news in another part of to-day’s paper. eek apt | Our correspondent in Nassau, Bahamas, writing on the 20th of October, states that the sergeant major of the Second (British) West India regi- ‘ment-had deserted to the rebel army in the South, from the guard room in which he was confined af- ter his arrest fora former attempt to join the Davis forces. Yellow fever had subsided, after taking off by death the Protestant bishop, his three nieces, their governess, the Receiver Gene- ralof the islands, and many other victims. The trade of Nassau with the rebel ports was decreas- ing. The Portuguese frigate Bartholomew Dias, hav- ing on board the new Queen of Portugal (Princess Pia, daughter of Victor Emanuel), arrived at Gibraitar on the 34 ult., escorted by two Porta. guese and two Italian frigates, from Genoa, en route for Lisbon. “4 M. Dumas, bearer of despatches from the French Minister at Washington to the French Consuls in the disloyal States, and Mr. A. Paul, French Con- sul at Richmond, le{t Baltimore on Saturday after- noon, for Norfolk, en route for the South. The§ disloyal States, ‘previous to the breaking out of the rebellion, received annuatly from New England upwards of one hundred thousand cases of boots aud shoes, or over two million five hun- dred thousand pairs. The political character of the next Congress will be decided to-morrow. Mrs. General McClellan has gone to Treptor, New Jersey, where she expects to rye’ during the winter, An equestrian statue of General McClellan has been made in Philadelphia. In Boston the operations of fhe draft have been teduced toa perfect farce. Every day—Sundays excepted—the Commissioners meet at the State House, attended by an individual born blind, who, under the;supervision of the aforesaid Commis- sconers, draws from the wheel one hilfte, the | i. yuck? po irer of which is forced to fall in as a con- script. that is performed the Commission adjourns, and the Wembers rest from their labors until the following day, Win the seme act is performed. ‘Tlifg has been going on for about two weeks. ‘* It is stated that the mlitary force in Canada is aboutto be increased by se batteries of artil- lery and a brigade of infantry. Lerge additions have been recently made to the stores of arms, Sepots, which are now equal to equipping and maintaising in the fielda force of 250,000 men. Robert Pool has been sentenced to be publicly hung in Wheeling, Virginia, on the 9th of January next, for the murder of Adam Buch. The amount of coal transported over the Phila- delphia and Reading Railroad and through the Schuylkill Canal, up to the 30th October this year, and to the same date last year, was as fol” lows:— This Year. Last Year. Reading Railroad, tons. 2,048,459 1,458,744 Schuylkill Canal. .... 832,854 983,332 Total. 2,881,313 2,447,106 Excess this year....... bes cee. AB4,207 An order has been issued from the Internal Re- venue Department in Washington to the effect that a ten cent stamp must be placed on all mar- riage certificates. Hon. Plisha M. Huntington, Judge of the United States District Court of Indiana, died in St. Paul, Minnesota, on the 25th ult., aged fifty-six years. The cotton crop of Hlinois this year will amount to twenty thousand bales of upland quality. The exports from the port of Baltimore during the month of October amounted in value to $1,391,174. Sam. High, a notorious and dangerous guerilla chief in Western Virginia, was recently killed and his band dispersed. He belonged to Imboden’s guerilla army. 4 The St. Paul Pioneer contains a rumor that Hon. Henry M. Rice, demoer: United States Senator from Minnesota, has bi appointed to the com- mand of the Military Department of the North- west, with the rank of major general. The Seyenty-third Illinois regiment contains twenty-five Methodist clergymen, among whom are included the colonel and seven of the cap- tains. * | By our law reports it will be seen that another port that the rebels are in force at Warrenton, | new phase appears in the great India rubber con. troversy. et The efock market on Saturday was firm at the opening ; but gave way before the close of the merning session and closed very weak at a decline, and with a downw: tendency. Governments were strong 9} an advance of 1 percent, Monoy was Gisy to frat clase borrowers on Pppointed General-in-Chief, paid a visit yesterday | 5.4 coiutoral, out vory tight (othe atrect Bfébutaldre Po a regiment in camp—namely, the One Hundred | in fancy stocks. Gold closed at about 190% after selling ‘sod Forty-sixth New York, Halleck infantry, gawd (a his native place, Oneida county. ’ Our telegraphic details of the European news yy the Arabia inform us that the speech of the itish Secretary of State for War against the re- ognition of the nationality of the South had pro- 8 decided sensation ip ve circles, apd Considered t” ‘have completely neutralized a Gladetrr e's theory, advanced at Newcastle. * “Phe London Herald and London Post, both or- gans of the extreme aristocrats, still write on the pubject of intervention with favor. at 1294. Exchange closed at 1483, The usual trade tables for the wsek will be found in the money article. The cotton market continued firm on Saturday, though the sales did not exceed 1,600 bales, including some foreign. The flour trade was quite limited, though prices declined 10c. Wheat was rather freely purchased at full rates for prime winter and lower prices for other de. scriptions. Corn was in fair demand; prime mfxed closed higher. The provision business was depressed. Lard was Tower. ‘Thore wag lggs activity in coffee and sugars; as also in hides, and whiskey, the latter article leather d tendeney. The it - cling with 8 een, nou shippers hd a0y SY isting advantage. Tus Reotstry any THE Drart.—Many persons may abstsin from registering and voting to- It will be seen by our Paris correspondence that | morrow from the idea that their names being e American question was said to have formed an portant part of the discussion at the late Minis- Lerial Council at St. Cloud. M. de Persigny, it is on the poll boeks may expose them to the liability of being deafted. This is an absurd notion, because they will find that; whether registered or not, or whether they record their Feported, prossed the claims of the rebel States to | v4 at the polls or not, their names are cer- Fecogaition, and that the Emperor overruled the Portion of the Ministry favorable to immediate Focognition, by expressing his determina- tainly inseribed on the enrolment books; for if ever a measure of this kind was carried out in New York to completeness it has been the Pion to awnit the Ist of January and the | late enrolment, as organized and ¢snducted President Lincoln's signy_is the earnest friend of Mr. continues to represent the interests yas States in Paris, and to urge their as an (udependent nationality by every means. vent Wael t proclamation. py hte ya Drouyn 4 by Gen. Anthon. Besides, the chances of being gli | drafted are so small that it is hardly worth tho trouble of any individual to avoi theiny for at best the city will only have to furmish two or three thousand men out of its immense popu- lation, Let none be deterred from register- ing and voting, then, by any fear of the draft; sueceeted in the Fronehs} for their action in this matter cannot possibly V'Hoys, a fiend of | affe¢t their prospects of being converted into oyal soldiers of the Union. Siomists. — ‘We published » few days ago the memoranda of a very remarkable conversation between the President and several representatives of the bor: der States. During this conversation, while ad- mitting the cogency of the considerations urged upon him, the President repeatedly stated that he must not be expected to break with the radi- cals before the right’time, Obviously the Pre- sident intended to imply by this pregnant re-, mark that he did intend to break with the radi-| cals at the right time. That “right time” will come when Wadsworth is defeated and the great State of New York ranges itself alongside of the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio.and Indiana in supporting the constifution and the President against both Southern and Northern traitors This happy consummation the President ia anxiously awaiting. We know how unwillingly he yielded to the demands of the radicals, and how pore | he complained of tho tremendous and painful preasure brought to beat upon him. From these facts we can judge how eagerly he expects his deliverance from thé radical tbral- | dom. The October elections have begun the | emancipation of the President. | Let the Novem- | ber elections complete it: 4 To this practical opposition of the President to the mutinous and insubordinate Gen: Wads_ worth we may add the fact that Secretary Sew- | ard also desires the. defeat of the radical abo- | litionists." Secretary Seward has been distiné | guished as the most able and one of the most | conservative members of the Cabinet. He h saved the country from foreign intervention, and has never interfered with our generals or their plans. On the contrary, he has always been a steadfast and hearty friend of General McClellan and the army. He has advocated and supported the constitutional, conservative poli- ey of carrying on this war to the glorions cor clusion of a restoration of the Union, and has consistently opposed the radical abolition poli- cy of a twenty years’ war for the destruction of slavery and the annihilation of the country. The defeat of Wadsworth is not a defeat of Secretary Seward, but a triumphant vindica- tion of his conservative views.’ Wadsworth is & pet of and a conspirator with Secretary Chase, who is the deadly enemy of Secretary Seward: Secretary Chase’s recent defeat in his own Stato of Ohio, where the people Fepudiated him and his policy by @ trep$ndous vote, has almost over- thrown his power in. the Cabinet—a power which he obtained under false pretences and has ued npst disastrously to the country. This lost influence he hopes to regain by electing his pliant tool, Wadsworth, in this State. To elect Wadsworth iigtherefore, to elect an enemy of Secretary Seward and McClellan, and to again give to Secretary Chase that dangerous power which has been wrested from bis hands by the people of the State which he represents, In his brilliant and garcastic lotter to the committee of the republican mass meeting at ts Dob fai tos tute Secret; Seward hints at this state of affairs, He says that tho sip cf State is now in danger from a part of her crew who have just been expelled, but who are try- ing to get on board again in order to destroy the vessel. By this ironical simile the Secretary of State describes the radical abolitionists, who» having been kicked out of power by the re- appointment of McClellan to command our armies, and by the conservative victories in the Ovtober elections, are now striving to regain the influence wey have lost, and hope, by the elec” thon of Wadswértn, t0 destroy the Union, Secre. tary Seward sent this [8ttey to the republican committee in order to warn them gf the conse, quences of Wadsworth’s election? Through Thurlow Weed and his other friends in this State Secretary Seward protested against Wads- worth’s nomination. The friends of Secretary Seward have never cordially supported the ra- dical abolition candidate. Thurlow Weed has repeatedly declared that the defeat of Wade- worth was an accomplished fact, as certain as the rising of the sun. Seward men have been beard to say that they could not join with those supporters of Wadsworth who were even now scheming about what they will do against Seward as soon as Wadsworth is Goy- ernor of this State. Besides all this. we know that both Secretary Blair and Secretary Bates are opposed to Wadsworth and the policy which he represents. Secretary Chase and his aids are the only Cabinet members who en- dorse Wadsworth. Secretary Chase is the man who kept McDowell in the army to give us two defeats at Bull. run, to interfere with MeOlel- lan’s plans and to prevent the capture of Rich; mond. Secretary Chase is the Mephistophilc of this war—as the Hon. John B. Haskin calls him—who has sacrificed the lives and the health of thousands of our brave soldiers to his in. trigues agalust McClellan and in favor of fn competent generals. Secretary Chase is the person who has so mismanaged the Treasury Depariment as to reduce the value of the dol lar bil] ju a working ma, "5 Poget to about sbventy-fve cents. Ip Voting for Wadsworth yoy vase for Cruse. e gonglude from these facts that the Prest- dent and all the conservative members of his Cabinet sre gecidedly opposed to Wadsworth’s election. Of couFEe tncY cannot be expected to come out in favor of a deiiterms pike Sey- mpour; but they can and do thoroughly Aste Wadsworth, aud will be glad of his defeat: Phose, therefore, who desire to support the President, vindicate Secretary Seward, put down the abolition policy, maintain the const tution and restore the Union, will vote for Seymour. Those, on the other hand, who wish to support Secretary Chase, to endorse the man who has rvined our finances, to betray the col- diers in the field into the control of one who has so often injured them, to give power to the man who has prolonged the war and sent many a brave soldier to his grave, to destroy the constitution and to inaugurate anarchy, a Northern civil war and the disasters which will ensue, will vote for General Wadsworth, Make your choice at the ballot box to-morrow Tue Rerorten Carrere or Movtir.—The re- ported capture of Mobile comes to us in such a vague and indefinite shape that we can hardly credit it, And yetit may be true. Itisa rebel report; and the rebels have seldom reported any misfortune to their cause which has not turned out to be true, Some days ago we were inform- ed from rebel sources that General Butler was at Pensacola; next that he bad appeared on the mainland at the head of seven thousand men; next that Mobile was in 9 comparatively help- fess position from the withdrawal of the rebel “troops to other quarters, and now comes this rebel report that Mobile is lost, Jt may be true or it may be an idle conjecture. We bave no doubt, however, that before mony monthe are over this report will come by authemty froin our land and naval forces in occupation of the Onves When the > cellor of the er at Newcastle, with the triumphant commentaries of the London tory journals, reached this country, ‘we pointed out; the reasons why no importance should be at- tached to it a3 an indication of any present in tention of the English government to recognize the South. That opinion has not only,,been borne out by the advices that have just reached us by the Arabia, but we learn by them that intervention is more remote than ever from the thoughts of the English Cabinet and people. As evidences of this we have, first, a speech of theEnglish Secretary of War, Sir G. C. Lewis, against the recognition of the South, coupled with the declaration that “she has not as yet ax” complished her independence;” secondly, the cushioning by the Liverpool Chamber of Com’ merce of a motion to memorialize the Queen. in } favor of intervention, with an emphatic expres- sion of opinions by its members that the policy of perfect neutrality was the only-correct one | for the government to pursue; fghirdly, the careful abstention of. Lord Palmerston, in his recent ‘speecties at Winchester, from all allu- ion to the Anierican question; and, fourthly, a fresh acknowledgment from the London Times that the tecognitiomgf the South would be in- expedient at present. All these facts go to estabtish the conclusion that intervention is now “a dead cock in the pit;” for if England hree months, which it is plain they have no in- ieation of doing, they will never again have a chance of intermeddling in our affairs. We owe this forbearance not to their sense of justice and fair dealing—for Heaven knows we have had sufficient proof of their disposition to do us all the injury in their power—but to the spirit and determination evinced by our people aud to the tremendous preparations that we are making by land and water, not only to erush out the ellion, but to repel everything like foreign interference. It is not by our argu- ments or by our appeals to their generosity and good feeling that we have convinced the ruling classes in England that it will be proper to steer clear of us, To our immense military levies, our rapidly increasing navy of impeeg- nible iron-ciads, and the desperate valor ex- hibited by our soldiors, ie that conviction solely due. But if these reasons for thelr vaunted disin- teres{cdness did not exist, there is another that would have induced them to stay their hands for a while. From the intense interest with which the impending Congressional and State elections are watched by them, they evidently regard the success of the great conservative party of the North as likely to lead to the prompt termination of the war. They bolieve, with us, that, whether through the more vigor- ous prosecution of hostilities, or through a bet- ter disposition on the part of the South, the only chance of peace lies in the triumph of the Qonservative candidates. This furnishes an ad- 3 eo Re ol bind mal motive for us to strain ovety fterve ditional secure the election of the men whose success is regarded as a pledge to the world that the policy of the government is to be one of vigor in suppressing the rebellion, and a firm deter mination to re-establish its authority over the revolted States. Let this fact not be lost sight of to-morrow at the polls. Tue War Expenses xp tam Intanp Reve. NUE.—Heavy a# the expenses may be which the rebellion imposes upon the nation, it will not bo so difficult nor so harassing to meet them as many people may imagine. The product of our inland revenue under the new Tax law atone will be enormous, and will enable us, wifhout nndue pressure upon any class, to mect the requirements of this gigantic war, and yet leave the country almost as prosperous as ever. At the time of the war of 18)2-14, England Lecame involved in a debt of some three or four hundred millions of dollars, and, although her resources were them reduced, her commerce shut off by the wars in which she was engaged in Europe and America, and having no exporg trade worth speaking of, yet in one year she was abie to meet, we believe, nearly two hun- dred millions of her war debt by taxation. Our resources to-day exceed those of Great Britain in 1512. Commissioner Boutwell has estimated that our inland revenue will re- turn thirty millions a per annum) to the government. month ($360,000,000 This figure may be large; but there is no doubt that the revenue from taxation will be immense. If we take single item in New Y test of the general return, we find that the in- come from cheeks, passing from hod to hand, will amount, on an average, to about ten thou- sand dollars a day—over three millions a year, Taking all other taxable articles in proportion, then, we ean readily comprehend What a vast resource the Tax law will provide to meet the expenses of the war. = + eee ‘4 PURPOSES or THE Rapicats Is THe BrEc- T10N.—The radical candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Mr. Lyman Tremain, in one of his recent speeches proclaimed the purposes of his party in claiming political ascendency, and the uses to which their power was to be applied, and it is weii,‘perhaps, that the public should fepomber It, He'etated, as a good reason why Generat Wadsworth should be elected, that he would hava ihe ear of the President, and could therefore keep bim informed as to what mea- sures he should adopt In the pfoseontion of the war which would be acceptable £2 the radicals; what be should do to obtain suppor from the party, ond what he should not. This is, the first time that such a policy has been set forth, sud it means simply that the purposes of the radi- cals, if they attain power, are to dictate to the President how the war shall be carried on, and how the six or seven hundred millions a year shall be expended. Ifeverything is done ac- cording to their views, ond the war is conduct- ed for their ends, they will give the Executive their support; but if not they will embarrass him, prolong the war, and waste more hu- man blood and treasure, And this is the party that seeks to represent this great State, and asks for the suffrages of a loyal, conservative pepple. hs New Yor Boiring Ur—The ewnldron of Tlecate was notin ® greater state of ferment than was this city on Saturday night, nor were the clements which combined to produce the “oi] ond trouble” in the witches’ pot more misectlancous. Polftical meetings, free fights and unlimited carousing, processions, bands of music and bonfires, winding up with horrih © murder in the Howery, were the excitable in- gredicnte whieh made the Inst Saterday vight befére the eb no tort remarkable one. and crowded the station honaes with remorseful ia @ viduals on Bunday mornt g. ‘speech made by the Linglish Chan- and’ France do not interfere within the next | Yesterday, against the charges of weakness ‘and {mbectlity involved ih the late stinging lotter of | General Scott, will attract a large degree of public attention. We suspect, however, that this defence will’ only operate to confirm the universal publio opinion of both hemispheres to the prejudice of our unfortunate ex-Presi- dent. For example, as a'reason why, from Oc-| tober, 1860, to January, 1861, he did not: strengthen the garrisons of certain Southern’ ‘forts, as earnestly and repeatedly urged by General Scott, Mr. Buchanan’ has no better ex-| euse to give than this: that he had only four or. five companies of’ regular troops within any’ convenient distance, all the rest being employ-. ed in protecting our Western plains and deserts) against the Indians. ; But even upon this plea Mr. Buchanan the question. At any time from October, 1860, to January, 1861, theré were three or four thou- ‘sand first rate regular troops under General, ‘Twiggs in Texas, doing nothing. Why were not: they brought off to garrison those Southern} fortifications? Why were they permitted to re-| main in Texas until they were\surrendered by! the trailor Twiggs, with all. their materials: of! war, to a rebel’ force which they could have! easily defeated undoy a loyel leadert Or, in default of troops, could not Mr. Buchanan hay. | brought in to the defence of ourforts at Charles; | ton, Savannah,’ Pensacola,- Mobile -and New, Orleans a vessel-of-war or two? There were a dozen of them lying idle at Norfolk, all of which were subsequently destroyed there or sunk, including the Merrimac, to prevent their falling into the hands of a mob of rebel con- spirators. And 80, from point to point, we might de- molish the specifications and shallow reasons and arguments of Mr. Bueuanan for his deplora- ble course in permitting a contemptible South- ern conspiracy in the outset to ripen into an organized, systematic, extensive and formidable rebellion. But the evidence is so broad, strong and clear against him that argument is un- necessary. The simple cruth is, that from the personal mortifications and prejudices of Mr. Buchanan, resulting from the election of 1860, and from his pitiable imbeoility, credulity and trembling obedience to the leading South. pen traitors in Congress and in his Cabinet, he was bound hand and foot, and was thus, poor old unfortunate man, rendered utterly help- less to save the country or himself. An ounce of moral courage on his, part at the right time would have placed him high aloft alongside of Andrew Jackson in the estimation of a gratefuy people. Butno paltry excuses can save him now from the condemnation of ¢o-tempora- ries and of posterity. With a selfish degrada- tion of weakness, unparalleled in the history of modern nations, he temporized, equivocated, shut his eyes, and blinked the question of hig duty, in order to throw all the burdens of this war upon the administration elected to succeed him. We presume that General Scott will give iin ae broadside, ai though wee this lame and impotent defence of Mr. Buchan- anis needed. His position in history is fixed as the most lamentable failure of any ruler of modern times. Tae Laiest FROM THE “290”—More Ves- sets Destroyép.—In another column a despatch from Boston will be found giving an account of further depredations of the rebel pirate “290,” or Alabama. . This vessel, as we sup- posed would be the case, is committing whole- sale destruction among our commerce, and there is no surmising where the end will be. It is now two weeks since we published the account of the destruction of the ship Brilliant and other vessels by the “290; and what has been done since then by the Navy Department to effect her capture or destruction? The only veasels we have any certain knowledge of being on her track are the steam sloops-of-war San Jacinto, Tuscarora and Kearsage. Yet there’ has been time enough, if preper energy had been used. to have had at least half a dozen more scouriag the ocean in every direction, rendering her destruction almost a certainty. It has been said that the Vanderbilt, with her great speed and powerful battery, was to go to sea al once iu search of the pirate; but she is still at the Navy Yard. The Connecticut and Rhode Istand are still “beef boats,” and the two finest steamers—-the Atlantic, which left this port yesterday for the South, and the Bal- tic, now here—are being used for transports, when they might have been ready in three days to have gone after Captain Semmes, if not to capture him in a fight, to rua him down, and blot him forever from existence. How long is our commerce to suffer through old fogyism? Can one vessel do as she pleases on the high seas, and we, with all our resources of ships, guns, men and money, be unable prevent it? The people ask the question, How long is this to last? A Goon Examrie ror Canpipates.—We have repeatedly urged,upon the candidates for Con- gress in the city districts the propriety of coming out fairly and squarely, and stating their opinions. as to the future conduct of the war, and informing the public, whose suffrages thoy demand, whether, if elected, they will sus- tain the President in all practical measures to put down the rebellion. Ono candidate—Gene- ral Hiram Walbridgebas set a good ex- ample to the others. He las gone forth fa the highways, dad, Tike 8. Paul, Gioclaimed +4 faith that is in him aad the reason thereof. In open air mectings, in the public squares, in front of the Henato office, from platforms, and evon from the box seats of carriages, he has an- nounced his principles and laid bis past re- cord~sustained by piles of documentary evi- dence—and bis future programme before the people. Why dé noi tie other Congressional candidates do likewise? It is not too late yet There ie one day more. Speak out, gentlemen. ivvowrayr 10 Soupiers or Foreiox Birta.— We perceive that the law of Congress enabling foreigners to become naturalized citizens for ‘faithful service in the army has been put into operation for the first time within « fow days: ‘Two officers of foreign birth, attached to the ‘Thirty-seventh New York regiment, were ad- mitted to the rights of citizenship in the Circuit Court of the Disirict of Columbia on Friday, having proved one year’s faithful service in the army of the United States, As this law applies equally to privates, hundreds of unnaturalized soldiers may be admitted to citizenship without waiting for the expiration of the five years’ term of residence in the country, simply by procur. ing @ ceriifteate of @ year's honest service from | their commanding officer, and presenting thelr + olatiua thereapon to the United States Circuit Court. No doubt this privilege will be large! | glaimed. Governor Morehead, of Kentucky, lately deli- vered to a Southern seeession club at Liverpool, England, on the causes and justifications of our Southern rebellion, The subject is well worthy an elaborate commentary; but, with our hands just now full of more important matters, we can afford it only @ very brief notice. Mr. Morehead, :it appears, during the last week or so of Mr. Buchanan’s administration, as a member of the Border States Peace Conference at Washington, and with Some other Southern members of that body, had a very int conference or two with Mr. Seward and with Mr. Lincoln concerning their proposed policy towards the Southern confederacy, whieh had then already been set up.at Montgomery, Alabama, under, Jeff. Davis: as Provisional President. It further appears, from Mr. More- head’s disclosures of these conférences, that Mr- Seward declared:—“If I don’t settle this matter to the entire satisfaction of the South in sixty days (meaningiafier the 4th of March, 1861), I will give you my head for a fastball.” Next, it seems that after a long conversation between ‘Mr: Morehead ‘and Mr. Wm.©. Rives, of Virginia, with Mr. Lincoln; garnished with some of the President’s most pointed anecdotes, he said to the gentleman from the Old Dominion:—“Mr. Rives, Mr. Rives, if . Virginia will..stay in I will with- draw the troops from Fort Sumter.” This will do for our present purpose; for upon this point hinges the outbreak of this rebellion. This promise of Mr. Lincoln was made in the latter part of February. There was nothing in his inaugural address of Maroh setting it aside. The Virginia State Convention, elected overwhelmingly for the Union, was in session at Richmond. This promise of Mr. Lincoln was undoubtedly laid before that Convention. There was a fair prospect of a decision from that body against secession, But Henry A. Wise, meantime, by a circular letter, was secretly collecting a body of secession desperadoes at Richmond from different parts of the State, to bully the Convention into secession. Still the Convention held out until near the middle. of April. Then the secession authorities of Charleston having cut off theif supplies from Fort Sumter, and a federal fleet having been sent down to relieve that garrison from famine, that bombardment was opened upon the fort whica closed the door of peace and opened wide the iron gates of war. And wherefore? To end the hesitation of the Vir.” ginia Convention, and to drag that State into the rebellion; and with the ald of Wise’s secession desperadoes the thing was done. The Jeff Davis conspirators at Montgomery had resolved upon it. They did not want peace; for they were confident and boastful that with King Cotton and a united South against a disarmed govern. ment anda divided North they could aot only secure their independence by mere show of war, but gould and would establish their hoad- quarters 4 ston. aie OS It is needless to pursue this extraordinary speech of Governor Morehead any farther. We dare say that, with all his complaints against the government at Washington, he, as an old line Kentucky Olay whig, would still have adhered to it but for a certain cotton plantation in Mississippi, within the reach of the despotism of Jeff. Davis. To save that plantation from the Sequestration law of the so-called “Confederat® States,” Mr. Morehead, it is suspected, went over into their service, no doubt calculating that even with the suppreasion of the rebellion the government at Washington would be merei- ful, while that of. Jeff. Davis was inexorable. And so, for the present, we dismiss Mr. More- head to the consolations of the secession club at Liverpool. Tae Recent Caprorss of ANGLo-ResEL Sreamens.—Within the past few days we have had to record the capture of three and de- struction of one Anglo-rebel steamer, and on another page we give a description of them and ‘a list of all that have been and will be taken into the naval service of the United States. - The value of the ten steamers mentioned im the list, with their cargoes, cannot fall far short of the large sum of four millions of dollars, and it is fair to suppose that losses of this magni- tude cannot be sustained for any lengthy period, no matter how large the profit may be from successful voyages. The navy of the United States is even now in @ condition to render the blockade of the South- ern coast much more efficient than it ever has been, and fhe chances for the future, if the President willinfuse a little vigor and energy into Secretary Welles, for running the blockade, will be much more hazardous than John Bull has yet found them to be. The English people who have been and still are interested in the shipment of arms and munitions of war to the rebel States will hereafter discover their speou- lations as more than mere losing ones; for they are destined to prove disastrous. If one steamer in five succeeds in running into a Southern port it will be more than at present we think possible; and we at the same time are certain that even if this one does succeed it will not repay the owners for the loss of the four others of equal value that will be captured and condemned. The English are building steamers expressly for the purpose of running our blockade, and iti is coulael& <p will more of them under the flag of the Ui ever hear of entering a Southern port. This they may depend upon, and we advise them to profit by the hint given. Will Mr. Lincoln look after Mr. Welles and have this matter attended to? “i Lalita Adee Easterns Nota Canotixa ann West Tas- wessex.—We perceive that active proceedings are afoot in Eastern North Carolina and West Tennessee for the election of Representatives to our next Congress. This is the way that the saving clauses of President Lincoln’s emancipa- tion proclamation are working with the advances ‘of our victorious fleets and armies. A° de- cisive Union, victory in Virginia, upon the heels of a decisive overthrow of the abolition radi- cals of New York, will soon convince the whole South that President Lincoln’s object is to save, ° and not to destroy, our Southern States, in the work of restoring the Union. arrived here the midnight trina ater and an Kioeenry we b ongg crowd, who gathered at the depot Sin toenke and.wes ce. wats eer Disaster to the Brig R. Packer, which sailed from here on the ani for bape Haytien, met with @ severe i Soyeheage® ‘leak, and had 10 pat back