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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BESNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. @PrCOEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON ANO NassaU srs, | \n ewance, Maney senkty mast will be at the | ae sander” "Monetas Brand” bilig turren! tw New Tork + DAILY MEEALD. 1100 coateper cowv. BEKLY HERALD, every Saturde a) 1x ig enneg: the Revapean Boston ry Wr oar com: Pipe ene iocey BO SD eceteges ie | ‘ ‘each month, at oie on che Lat, Bh amd 21+) 0/ ian any awniter ef the soorld: {7 used, 1 parOun Fowsicn CORRESFONDANTE Ruocwersp 70 SEAL ALY LETTERS AnD noayean: correspondence. We donot ons enewed every day: advertisonents in | Pamicy Hrraco, and én the (alth neatness, heasmess and dew | EARLY wi Calitor nies ord Beropennd JOR PRINTING executed No, 385. , er; _ i ACADEMY OF Musye. Irving Pince,-Itactay Oranam |. Divas. . WUBLO'S GARDEN, Broadivay.=M sons ex WALLAOK'S PIEATRE, Broadway —Capruay Pare. WINTER GARDEN, Broamar —Aip (a.com 5 | pMENTER GANDER, Remarar Aig ivaw frend NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Natno Que — Menoanaw Comme Roan x BOWERY THEATRE, to Jade Cape Vieate’s Lecacy, Nicar Ow.e ue Sxancy GERMAN OPERA HOUSE. 86 Beacwar--Prnaso. MUSEUM. Broucway. Nutr, Co! p Tir) 1, afterue BRYANTS’ MINSTEELS? Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- Bez Rrerorsan Soncs, Benersaves, Daxces, kc = ioe Awe =Esqur- OHRISTI'S OV ERA HOUSE, 535 Broadway.—Erarorian 104, DaNoks, ke. —M i scmtLvers Monsey. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 broadway. —Braorcan Gercs, Dances. be.—Urnecro. PALACE OF MUSIC, urtoonth strecl CaM eae CLs Mexsrexes-Sores, Dasc Boutaseues. HOVE CHAPLL » Brondway.--Exa Trmwxce's CauiroRs GALETIES CONCERT (ALL, 616 Broadway, -Drawixg Boon Vx vk Rtalnae NTs. PARIBIAN CAKINET OF WONDERS. 56% Bro’ - ndalty trom 1 A. Mult ho Ya kd BOOLEY'R OFERA HO) B Bornes, Danons, BoRLesiwRS de Brookiyu—Lemoras | New York, Mo November 24, 2862. THE SITUATION. The rebels in occupation of Fredericksburg have demanded further time to consider the question of | i* surrender. On Friday ni, view with the civil authorities, ¢ informed them that if they had any munication to present, Gencral Patrick would mect | them again the next morning. On Saturday, ac cordiegly, the Mayor and Councils caz over, ‘panied by General Kershaw, Colone! Bland he inter- 2 mer ther com- ac Captsin King, of Ge a. The officers clained that the civi! authorities could make no proposition, unless the samc was | approved by them. Gencral Patrick declined to | receive these officers. Subsequently, however, General Burnside assented to their :vception, and | the parties returned. The civil auhorities asked | for an extension of the time allowed for the re- moval of the women and children, alleging that | the trains had been frightened off by our artillery, and that it would be impossible for a train to leave before night. The city being absolutely destitute of other means of transportation their reqvest was complied with, and the time extended until eleven o’clock yesterday morning. Gur despatches from Aquia creek last night do net report that any attack upon Fredericksburg toek place at the expiration of the time grantea to the inhabitants yesterday. It was rumored at Fairfax Station yesterday ‘that General Jackson was on his way down from the mountains with a force of 40,000 men, with the intention of making a dash upon our defences at Arlington Heights. An important order was issued by the War Department yesterday, which releases from custody all those now held upon charges of dis- couraging enlistments, opposing the draft, &c. ‘This order wil! empty Forts Lafayette and War- ren, and the other military prisons of many of thetr inmates” 5 wi From Harper's Ferry weP?lesra flit the, enemy # keepingy@-strict blockade on our front; but there was'io cOllisign between the two forces yesterday...The'river at that point’ix not rising, as was expected. i ig leap Governor Olden, of New Jersey, it ia aaid, pre- vious to his retirement from office, will appoint a ' Benater of the United States in place of Hon, | John KR. Thompson, deceased. The appointee, however, will be short lived, as the law provides that the person 90 appointed shall not hold his place after the mecting of the Legivlatare. The | islature meets on the U3th of January / Holly Springs } Mississippi, about which sy much ted in Marshal coun- ty, and isa beauti of perhaps four thou- sand inhabitants. The streets are broad, and ma- ny of the private residences fine. There are in the place some lar:e foundries, an arsenal, a jarge depot, and several temale seminaries, | The drafted menu iu the camp at Harrisburg, | Pennay!vania, it is said, desert by hundreds. The | Leooaster Evpress says, of the eleven hundred | Men who left that county for the camp only about four hundred «main, At Camp Hare, Pittsburg, | the same compnint is made. Nearly all the sub- wtitutes have sketadded. Mra. Edwin Jamu has filed @ suit for di vorce against her hushand, on the allegation of adultery. Mr. and Mrs. James have been living separate for some months pas The next draft in Massachusetts will take place on Monday, December 5. The Union force at Suffolk, Virginia, consista of sixteen regiments of infantry, five of cavalry, one of mounted riffumen, and two batteries of light artillery, divided into four brigades Brigadier General Suxton, the Military Governor of Boath Caroline, has appointed Thuraday, the twenty-seventh day of November, asa day of pnb- Jie thankagiving and praise. The Secrctary of War has requested Gov. Bla, of Michigan, to raises regiment of sharpshooters mm that State. The Ohio river is now in a good navigable stage aad at last accounts the water was still rising Tp Mock market openad staadily on Saturday morn ing, and gradustiy Satrengtd, untit, at the close ft off very wiroug at aa advance of % a1 per cont or the pricas of Fria ments wre, | very firm. Among he most ac- ive were Minois red, both of who were iu demand at @ com was camlor o@ Saturday. in the afiernoon it was not worth rye @ Por cent. Gold advanesd to 190K, exchange coset doll WS 14454 The usual trade tables for (be week © |) Ue found in the money article fa tars POOR Maret wae eh sebrommely dull one erable advance, Money | Key was stiffly hold at 37c. a 27%0., with sales of 1,280 | ath | warfare. tough exid flings wore qacted Gown te OG: 008K There wren a (aoe degree of aotivily im breadateth, with sale ro. perted of 16,000 bbls. four of fell previows prices, 100.000 bushels wheat aad 115,080 beshols corm at an advance of lc. per bushel. Galy 460 bbls. pork found buyers, at wa- changed rates. Tho sales of beef reached 660 bels.; of lard, 1,600 pkgs., and of bacou 320 boxes, at uniform quo tativas. Butter aud cheese were active and frm. Whis- Dbis. Moderate gles of sugars, bay, heps, hides, seeds and taliow were resorted at former figures. Coffee, rice ‘and molasses were quict. Sole teathor was in good de- mand and very firm, as were likewise deh, wool and te- bacco.’ There was less activity in freighta, but otherwise ‘no noticeable alteration. Our Iron-Clad Fleet—Deveiopment of American Naval Power. We publish to-day a oarefully prepared, complete aad highly interesting account of all the vessels of our iron-clad flect, both those already bujlt and those in progress of conetenc- tion, together with thirteen illustrations: There are. secrets connected with the turrets and the guns which of course we do not make public; but we give all that is ; legitimate and permitted to be laid before tho people in rela- tion to tiis wonderful development of pur naval ower., Pur object is to,show the world what the coustry bas ‘done and is capaile of doing: wn: that element: of which Ruzopean, Powers: ‘have hitherto clajmod the dominion—t¢. aatialy? ase Powore thatwwe, are in a, posltion #0 pet dowf the rebellion in despite ef“any.armed intervention which they might think proper tw. attempt; and. with a view of preventing any | further effusion of blood, to convince the rebele themselves of the hopelessness of their cause aud the wisdom of submitting without delay to , the legitimate and constitutional authority of the fedcral government. Tt wili be seen that there are in ai! fifty-one ironclad vessels built aud to be built, and that aighteen of them are either finished or nearly finished. ‘Thus, from being the fifth or sixth naval Power, two years ago, the United States suddenly takes the first place in naval The American people ha@ always shown their natural superiority in seamanship and gunnery over the British, who have claimed to be the foremost Power at sea in modern times—a position, however, which is now dis. puted with them by the French. In two wars the Americans had in almost every naval fight defeated the English, unless where the odds were overwhelming; and it was partly because the circumstances of the country did not require t. and partly because the Western interest was too jealous of the East, that an Amoricea navy was not long since developed which would have taken the foremost rank. The capacity ed; but it was not called into cxercise ity is the mother of invention. The civil strife which broke out in this country within the Jast two years has wrought a revolution in naval warfare. The result of a single bare in Hampton Roads bas nulitiled the wooden navies of the world. What was but a matter of theory and experiment with iugland and France suddenly became to tie United States @ tremendous practical reaJity; and, beiag en- ged ina gigantic war, we were compelled, as it were, to put forth our strength in organiz- ing the newly diseovered power. Our re- sources, vast as they were fresh, aur mochani- cal genius and the energy of a {ree people notwithstanding the dead weights of old fogy- ism and the trammels of red tape, have, in au incredibly brief space of time, produced a mailed fleet which can set at defiance the navies of all Europe. Being first in the field. we can always keep ahead. The French and English iron- clads are admitted to be failures, compared with our Monitors and other vessels. Their seagoing armed ships are not only uawieldly, but they present such immense marks that it is impossi- ble for them to escape. besides being unprotected in some vital points. The strongest parte of them could not for half an hour resiat the heavy guas with which our iron-clads are armed. The fifteen-inch Dahlgren, with ite four hundred and sixty pounds round shot, would’drive in the sides of the Warrior like pasteboard. The renowned Armstrong gua is now nuwhere. It has been beaten even by the English Whitworth; but neither of them is a match for the fifteen-inch American gun. How- ever, there are twenty-inca Dabigrena being cast for stationary points to defend the coast, These will throw round shot of 1.090 pounds weight; and woe to any Europoan iron-clad vessel ever built with wuick one of these missiles shall comein contact. On the other hand, our mailed Monitors present scarcely any mark for an enemy, with the exception of: the impregnable turreta,, which ng metal used in fhe British and French navies is-milficiently heavy to penetrate. Lastly, we arc building in thir city’ a ram—the Dunderberg—whick,, wit! outsail and sink anything thatfloats at the other side of the Atlantic. The London Times, in commenting on our new navy, boasta that Eng- land could easily do what America has done if she pleased. That remains to be proved Let ber try it. She may very soon need more iven-clad sbips than abe can produce in the Dext two years. Hitherto our most Urilliant euccesses in the war have been achieved by the vavy. But what are these when compared with the victo- ries that await the operations of the combined force of iron-clads on the Mississippi, the Atlan- ic seaboard and the Galf during the present inter. Not only are Vicksburg, Monigomery, Mobile, Savannah and Charleston destined to fall before the terrib!e concentrated fire of their batteries, but after the conquest these places will be rendered impregnable by the distribution of Monitors in the several ports, and all communication by sea or with the west- ern side of the Missinstppi will be effectually cut off. After this what hope can longer exist tor the rebellion, whose last dependence for arms. ammunition, medicines aud clothing is upon cotton, which can no longer be made available? What « marvellous change in naval warfare from the time of tho ancient galleys, propelled ED ES SE EY Se REO eRe ea SE AL ene se CRA Oe ES oe le Se ' by oars, tothe American Monitors, moved by steam and armed by fifteen-inch guns! The dominion of the sea bas often changed bands. The power of,the Persians received a fatal blow from the Greeks at the navat battle of Salami« The might of the Saracens was smitten by the Christians in an equally decisive Fpbt at Le- panto. ‘The maritime power of the Carthage nians was sinitien by the Romans, wad Venice and Genoa, in the Middle Ages, ruled the waves. The Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutch and French in turn, wielded the trident. Finally, the British asserted their maritime superiority under Nelson, which they have maintained to the present day. And now the sceptre passes out of their hands, and “westward the course of empire takes ite way.” The great battle at the mouth of the James river, in the year 1362, opens ® new ers, inaugurating the manifest | H have dosting (gmk sigce Coreshadgrved by the pesojo |, ‘back. He saved Fortress Monroe. ‘ called by “numerous deeds of Barry aad Perry, Jones, Lew- rence, Decatur, Porter, Rodgers: tise and fall. The gun of the old, worn out monarobies of Europe is setting, while that of the American republic ascends to meridian splendor. The civil war is only developing its inexhaustible resources by land aad ses, and wahon the conflict ia terminated im reunion, as it cannot fail to be, she will come out of the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBBK 24, 1862. ‘The Buprees Bugeate. case. Will Napoleon have the courage to put | is worth only sboat enc dollar aad eovdlliy ‘The French are a romeatio, end, opite of eer aside? He has himself made her se powerful | cents in specie. Ne community can withstand levity and carelessness, & euperatitions . | Chat he may well dread lest her fall inevitably | euch a condition of things for aay length of ‘They attribute great and important cvents to | cause bis own, Ho bas reared e firm and strong and we doubt not that the capture Causes all more of less tinged with remantic | pedestal for her. Will he dare overthrow it? and the scattering of the rebel army interest. Thus there are but fow Frenchmon | Our last advices bring ua the assertion of M. de | would be misfortunes that would drive all Se who will not gravely tell you that the fret Na- | Persigny. We deem it » dilemma for the Km. cessiondom inte a etate of ecstatic blias Harry poleon’s misfortunes began with hia divorce of Josephine. She was e haadsome woman, and from the fact that she was reputed kind and Giery orden! ten times more formidable to the | amiable she obtained a tirm hold upon the af- despots of the Old World than when she catered upon the struggle which is to try the genius of her people and test the strength of hor free in- atitations. Qur Legion of Honer—T! ttoms Arc Made in Some time since it was aanounced by the authorities. at Washington that promotion showld: be the result of distinguished services in either the army or navy, and’ at the same time it was distinctly auserted that any officer proved incapable of fulfiting the duties of his position shouid be removed. We wish -bere- to veview more particularly the proceedings of the Navy Departmont ‘a9 regapds promotion. poe want of -ogpagity im office, amd. will leavé. th public to . judge, whether our ‘conclusighs wre not (strictly, just- and founded: ypon fagte. / /Commain W, ‘orter, / who ren important te. the “govern- ment om the Missi , has justiy*beba’ pre- moted to the rank ef commodore. We fully concur ia the nomination, and deem the Com- modore a mest usoful and brave officer, one from whom the country may expect great things. His promotion followed upon his destruction of the rebel ram Arkansas, and he certainly did render thereby a signal service to the government and shed glory upon our arms. We repeat that we fully appreciate the right of Commodore Porter to his present rank, and that we deem him a useful and competent Officer. Rear Admiral Goldsborough, who, while commanding tho fleet at the mouth of James river, seemed over laboring under a chronic fear of the rebel iron-ciad Merrimac, was then a commodore. We should feel obliged to any one who could point out for what signal service the former commodore was raised to his present high rank—that of rear admiral. His fears of the Merrimac, his consequent in- activity, no doubt prevented, or tended to pre- vent, our successful advance upon Richmond, The full co-operation that was expected from him was never given, and the | successful movement of the land forces | was jeopardized thereby, and it finally de | volved on General Wooi to rid Hampton Roads | of the terrible preveuce of the Merrimac. We repeat that iu this case we are not aware what instances of unusual bravery or great ser- vices rendered to the country caused the ad- vancement of Rear Admiral Goldsborough. Commauder Proble has felt the power of the Navy Departinent in another aense . His has been a disinissal instead of ‘advancement, and the cause, the fact that the Anglo-rebel steamer, 4 the Oreto, sailed by him, broke the blockade and enteved the harbor of Mobile. He did en, deavor to prevent her 80 doing; but, as his ves- sel bore the same relation to the fast sailing, newly built Oreto that a tub does to a steam engine, he was necessarily unsuccessful, and the Oreto sailed into Mobile with the Confe- derate flag unfurled to the breeze. Was this the fault of Commander Preble alone? We say not. Had we have had fast steamers, been pro- vided with such vessels as the Oreto—we n.van the same class of fast sailing, strongly built, heavily armed and manned men-of-war—he might have prevented the occurrence which coat him his post. We deem that in this matter the Navy Department is first to be blamed for | not having provided fitting veasels to blockade the Southern ports. We now come toa subject wherein the Navy Department has not acted at all. We refer to | Lieutenant Worden. the hero of the little Moni. | tor—the man who, with that untried “cheese box,”’ saved our national oredit, the millions of | dollars worth of United States proporty which tbe Merrimac would have destroyed had he not | thrust himself across her path and beaten her | He saved Washington itself; for, had the Merri. mac not been checked by the Monitor, it is a foregone conclusion she would have sailed up the Potomac and sbelled our capital, Who can say that the huge iron-clad, flushed | with success, would not have paid us a visit | and disturbed the kermony of our every, day Alife by dropping .a few. shells: in Broadway, From all thig:dangor, which. we dre surely. not oxaggerating, Lieutenant Worden saved us- He ee in the turret. of: the Monitor until deafened almost blind,. and, with bloed oozing” from his nostrils, eyes and ears, he was con- voyed out of it a victor, the Merrimac having withdrawn, baffied and beaten. What has been the roward of this heroic officer’ The merchants of New York, who ap- preciate that he saved thom from great danger, have given him # purse of ten thousand dol- lars, and the State voted him a aword. But this is distinct from any action of the na tional government. All that Secretary Welles hax done for Vieutenant Worden has been to transfer hint to the command of another iron- clad. We assert that no one person has deserved wore from the government than Lieutenant Worden, and we demand, in the name of the people, that due recognition of his great and gallant services be ab once evineed by the ad- ministration. And now what shall we say of Secretary Welles, who dismissed Commander Preble for allowing the Oreto to pass his akip aud enter Mobile, while he, Secretary Welles, has allowed the Alabama to devastate our com- mercial shipping from one side of tne Atlantic to the other, Clearly, Secretary Welles should be Gismissed from his post for incapacity, while as clearly Lieutenant Worden should be fittingly rewarded for signal service rendured to the government; else the announcement that pro- motions were te follow upon brave deeds, and isinissal be the result of incapacity, is » dead letter, Bhe same rule which applied to Com. mander I’xeble surely reaches Secrotary Welles, We have, it is.teue, ® powerful navy; but how tremendous might ‘that navy have’ been in its | influence and bearing upon the termination of the rebellion had our resources in ‘that line have been Cully developed. That they have not been we freely and openly assert, Tae “Granp Navionat” Convention at Prrva- nuna.—To-morrow is the day for the assembling of the Pittsburg Grand National Convention, influential citizens;” but, | determination—the adva fections and reapect of the Frenoh people, who, imbued beyond all other nations with a taste for and due appreciation of all that is beautiful or grand, invested their haudsome Empress with the prestige and power of her imperial spouse, | aud admired her for her beauty. She reflected. credit upom the natiom, they asserted, when at- tire@in: her imperial robos, she appeared upon 1d atate oooasions by the side of her lord, the throne of France for am Austrian princéss fs chivalrous distaste of such'a proceeding per waded the French people, who,saw in Josephine @mariyr.,. Reverses game to Nepoldon, and the people shook their beads and termed these wiis- fortunes 9 vetibution. . They pitied thé falleg -Empreis, and had. sha possessed energy or formed a powerful .partyinJ'rance. But “abe. waa gentle and unassuming, aad quietly sub- sided. The French. people say she died of a broken heart. Ask any old soldier of the first empize to relate his battles. For hours he will recount the wonders of those brilliaat campaigns, and be loud in his admiration. and praise ef the Great Commander. To check this outburst you have merely to speak of the Em- press Josephine and ber sad fate. The gleam in the old soldier's eye becomes at once dim- med. He no longer rejoices. He blames, snd, like all the French people, he will tell you that from the hour Napoleon put away that gentle woman his good genius deserted him. All these things are well known to Napoleon Til. He will never divorce Eugenie. He espoused her with the intention of centering in her—as hia uncle had done in Josephine—the pride and love of the people. She was the | medium whereby all charities, all acts of grace, were to flow. Napoleon III. was severe, Eu- genie goodness personified. She established | ! charitable institutions, was prominently put , forth in all ceremonies of state, wax paraded, was feted, was admired, until the object of bis Majesty was gained. and the power aod influ- ‘ence of Eugenie fully recognized. When Na- poleon sallied forth to battle for Italian inde- | pendence he left Eugenie regente of the empire. When he returned victorious to bis throne he did not depose his Empress. It was officially an- Bounced that she would continue to attend” Cabinct meetings; that with her. spouse she reigned in France. ‘Che zenith of ber fame was reached: the world rang with praises oi her beauty and wisdom. She wus not alone the movarch of Fashion's realm: she was the Lim- press in deed as well-as in name of the glorious empire-of France. Napoleon's aspirations as regards her influeace upon the french people were more than realized. At this epoch began the struggles of the clerical party against what they deemed the threatened encroachments of Napoleon upon clerical rights and power. Events in Italy, precipitated by the genius and good fortune of Garibaldi, caused the enmity of the olergy to Napoleon to increase tenfold. Then began a | Serious complication of Napoleon’s hitherto victorious career. He gathered sbout him his most reliable, most able followers, and deter- mined be would crush the ultramontane party. He fought them valiantly, and at times it seem. od as though his success was assured. But by degrees he ascertained that the French were @ more religious people than he had given them credit for, and, to add to his dis- comfiture, be found that Eugenie, the Em- press, was heart and soul with his enemies. Naturally superstitious, and invlined to be moved by the pomp and solemnity of the Catho- lic religion, she waa fully under the intluence of her confessor, and lad become aa ally and defender of the Pope. For a time Napoleon | heeded not even this abandonment. He con- | tinued his struggle with the ultramontane | party. But at last they found the means to: conquer him, and through the aid of Eugenie | they succeeded. They ropreseated to her that | the downfall of the. Pope would .be the signal ie ncheming’ digpaaition aha might easily ral Prince Imperial. In this son- centres all Napo- ; leon’s pride and ambition, to_handdown to bis f inheritence the- magnificent throne of the great empire of Fratige, to: thus fortnd. bis dybasty’ fs Napoleon's dream, bis all abeorbing, heartfelt desire, and when he heard that the life he so cherished was menaced he succumbed, amd the | Pope was saved. Napoleon has abandoned the | revolutionary party—has divorced it instead of ; his Empresa—and the resuit will doubtless be | disastrous to his hopes. Engenie, under the influence of religtons zeal | has formed a party, has established a jour: | nal. has come out openly for the Pope, and sends the revenue which France voted her to the treaynry of Pins IX. She goes still furtber, | To give the Pope money she has sold to the old | Duke of Brovswick, the diamond monomaniac, the jewels which Paris and the leading cities of ; France, Lyons, Bordeaux and Marseitles, pre- sented to her Majeaty upon her advent to the throne. These jewela were intended for the | Empress of Fravce—were, strictly speaking: | crown jewela—and yet Eugenie baa sold them | to replenish the coffers of the Papal Court: | The effects of this injudicious mode of acting no the part of the Empress will be froitful for evil to herself and her husband, and will jeopardize vastly her son’s chances of a succession to the throne. Fould, the wise and farsecing Minis- | ter of Finance, hastened to the Emperor to ex- | pose the folly of the Empress’ condnet. Napo- leon fully realized his Minister’s arguments, and entreated the Empresa’ consideration of M. Fould’s remonstranoes. But all in vain. Eugenie bas now a. party-—Nas for her the, influence and powér of the ‘ultra- montanef—and ia determined in her course Ere Jong Napoleon will find that the struggle | is not as. it was--one between himedlf and a portion of his subjects—-but between bimself and his wife. Jn ber anxiety serve her, cburch--to satisfy her longings for the estab lishment of the Pope's power—her former amiability seems merged into religious enthu- wiasm. She has but one idea, one desire, one nt of the Church } as we have beard very little of it of late, we are inclined to the Map that it will prove a fizzie. The ostensible object of the Convention seems to be merely to encourage the President ip his endeavors to put down the rebellion; but the rs of the movement evidently have some xcsret design which they have withhold tram he eablle of Rome. The results of this struggle between Napoleon and Kugenie will be momentous to France. Intoxicated by her power, the Em- press will jostle and endeavor to change all of hor husbands plans, and the time is near at hand Ui 9 ehage ur take pln # soreipn | up the expeditions, therefo-e, aad make the Trade with Matcmoros, alias * ‘The Empress would sacrifice all to) "reyes why Cammot We Stop 16 secure the power of Rome. We have on various occasions called the ‘The New Difficulty with General Batier. | s#ention of the government to the necessity of There appears to be « slight difficulty with | closing up the avenues of trade wit the rebela, Prussia, growing out of General Butler’s ad- | a the surest and specdiost mode of putting am ministration of affairs in New Orleans. It is | emd to the rebellion. To this ond we have for the death of her gon, her only child, the; on the subject. These comments are only an- other instance of the determination of that jour- | the Rfo Grande, the boundary betwoen Texas nal to distort the truth and malign the motive | and Mexico. It will be seen, by looking atthe | of every-action of. our governmeat-end its of- {-map, that the Rio Grandoe furnishes ome of the Immediateiy after the passage of the Confisos- | immense tion act General Butlerused every means in his bs a ) | power to-onli nm thé peopte of New Orleans | Bri S aye ; poe sabe ne cig Ne act; and to assurg thim. | hetless,prizes Foaded with-coftay’ dad thi ry peat, a8 far as: his départment-was concerned, it | have been: fall ty oat’ ornleget.om the would be striotly-enforced.’ The result-of shis |' Coast; as well ‘ap by tho immense traile hotworm Course was that constant, attempis wore made, | this port and Mataxtoros, "a iemelt towaiont Gio: Wy persons who had been closely identified with | Mexican side of the Rio Grande, opposite the secession movement to remove thetr valu- | Brownsville. ; able personal property beyond the national Since the 17th day of August of last yoar, lines by stealth; and when, after the ship Essex | previous to which date scarcely any vessel was had discharged her cargo of salt, she was adver- | ever known ¢o olear from this port for Mate tised to sail for a European port, the oppor- | moros, thirty-one vessels, with an aggregate tunity was eagerly seized by many residents of | tonnage of more than cight thousand tons, have New Orleans—who were determined to yield | been cleared from this port stone for that place, no allegiance to the United States goverament— } With immense cargoes of flour, provisions, drags, to thus evade a confiscation of their property | medicines, boots, shoes and domestics, osten- which their treason richly merited. In this they | sibly for the Moxican market, bringing back im were seconded by the master of the vessel, Cap- | return cotton and hides. In some instances tain Klatt, with a readiness and pertinacity which fully disclesed his sympathy with the enemies of our country. But in their expectations of eluding the vigi- lance of the national authorities they were disap- pointed; for, with that comprehensive tact wrich enables hin to supervise the transactions of in- triguing consuls and to detect a covert mutila- tion of a church liturgy. while he still keepa a watchful eye on the rebel forces im his neigh- borhood. General Butler was fully cognizant of the little arrangement which the Times coolly denominates “legitimate commerce,” and with his usual promptaess and decision he at ; Once ordered the Mssex to be detained until be could investigate the maiter and discrimi- nate between the loyal and disloyal ship- pers of freight. Irom information derived from a reliable source, we are satisfied that where there was no evidence of intention of evasion of the law of Congress General Butler not only did not throw any impediment in the way of such shipment, but afforded every pro- per facility, We are aware that in instances whore foreign anbjects had formerly resided in New Orleans, bat had returned to Europe before or at the commencement of the rebeilions he gave @ ready consent to the trans:nission of their ef- fects to then. In this matier Gea. Butler's ac- tion was prompted by the same motive which has influenced bin in every restriction that he has piaced upon the rebellious people within his jurisdiction—an inilexible resoiution to strike at every vulnerable point of the monster treason, s0 that those who have brought our grand young nation into its present unhappy condition may have a taste of the bitter fruit of their foul tree of secession. In his uncompromising Unionisim and his en- tire lack of any lackadaisicai sympathy for our “ erring brothers "—who in t. wrmed uo tility feel » bitterness towards the North of which our people are incapable—.asy be found theaecret of Gen. Butler's successful rule in New Orleans; and we think the government would do well to,inquire more closely into the truth ofthe various foreign complaints against him before they tamely yield to demands that would never be recognized but for the fear of that ridiculous Lele noi Reoxt Pruvosorar— ‘Sweet Ane ‘tik Uses ov Apverstry.”—There seems to be a strong disposition manifested in the rebel States to derive comfort from even the most adverse circumstances. Like potitical Mark Tapleys, the worse grows their plight. the jollier do they become, w that they discover that there ie no chaace of inducing’. England to step in and give theme helping hand in over- (irning .4ho rhment ofthe United States, they aflect to’ mighty little ‘about it, and speculate upod what will be the fate of Eng Inod. when the North and the South come to their senses, z to let bygones be bygones: join hands ‘make up their minds to punish British perfidy and selfishness. The pleasure of anticipation seems to console them for their present disappointment, and they philosophize themselves into quite a pleasant mood So it is, too, with the great expedition that is moving down upoo Vicksburg, and prom- ising to clear the Mississippi of al! obsiruc- tions to commerce and navigation have discovered the precious jewel ‘hat is worn in the head of that “toad, ugly and venomous.” “Let the Mississippi,” say they, “be opened by this expedition, and, although that may bother somewhat our military calculations, yet it will take from the great Northwestern States the only interest they feel in the prosecution of the war, and consequenily they will with- draw their troops.” the Granada (Miss.) Appeal, just as the Rich- mond Dispatch reasons on the text of nou-recog. nition. We expect that the next dissovery which our philosophic rebel friends will make is that some other expedition—Banke’, for instance—or som successful movement on the part of the govern. ment, will be calculated to satisly all the de mands of New England, aud that therefore the The revels | After tis atyle reasons | these vessels were freighted with cargoes pur- chased by partios resident at and doing busi- ness in Brownsville, and it is kaown that oar goes have ceached the Rio Grande which, te avoid inquiry, detestion er trouble bere, were cleared for Nassau, N. P. owner of the cargo, a resi taken on board As a matter of corse, nearly the whole of these vessels wear the convenient, because neutral, flag of Great } Britain, although several of thei are in com- mand of- the same Yankee skippers who owned and suiled then under ¢he Stars and Stripes eighteen months ago. A | We learn that the Coilecter of Customs af this por! has, for some months past, by order {of tho Treasury Department, required bonds ! from all shippers to Matamoros that the goods shipped by them should be landed at that port and should not be ased in aid of the existing rebellion: but front the pecniiar manner ia which the trade is conducted, and the com- venient location of Matamoros, und its proximity 4 to Browncville, we should consider it exttemel| | difficult to prevent traflic with the Texans, whe ; are flooding Matamoros with cotton and hides j as fast as they can obtain conveniences for baling and transportation. The Rio Graade is the largest river of Texas, | being eighteen hundred miles in length, though for the most part very shallow and its navige tion much impeded by rapids. It, however, may be ascended by small steataers as far as Kinge- bury Rapids, four hundred and fifty miles from its mouth. The portion of Texas bordering oa ; the river is mostly uncultivated and sparsely settled; but there are several small towns om | its banks, above Brownsville, among whiob are | Edinburg, Rio Grande City, Roma, Alamo and Laredo, all of which are connected with the populous and cultivated portion of the State by roads, by mcans of which its more interior pre- ducts may find their way with little trouble te | their great ontrepot. Matamoros. Below Browns. | ville there are no towns on the river. The only town near the Guif in this part of the State is Point Isabel, om the Brazos Santiage, | which is connected with Brownsville by « good road, and with the entire seacoast of Texas by the immense chain of iniand bays which line the coast from the mouth of the Rio Grande to Mate. | gorda, thus opening to its market the trade of aly | the blockaded ports by inland navigation. In consequence of the shallowness of the water : on the bar at the mouth of the Rio Grande, | very few of the vessels trading with Matamo- ; Tos cam reach that port, and therefore the cer- | goes in most cases must be transported by ' means of lighters from the mouth of. the river ' to thoir destination. This necessitates the use | | of the British of Morican @ay.'to avoid copture ' by the rebels in passing up anf Gown the river, which fact ‘should stimulate our government t» * use prompt and decisive measures to take pes / | session of the several forts on the river, and te | send out several armed light draught steam. | ers to cruise on it for the purpose of cutting | off the immesse contraband trade carried om there Let this be done, and witb an armed steamer at the mouth of the river, and Forte Brown, Ringgold, McIntosh and Duncan in possession of our forces, the town of Matamoros wilt | again become as unimportant as was before the rebellion, and cotton, hides aad the usual products of Texas may be admitted into the port without a consular certificate of foreiga origin. The British steamer Labuan, now lying at this port, having on board an immense car- go for Matamoros, has. we learn, been refused aclearauce by the Coilector, by order of the War Departinent, which would seem to poiat to some speedy action with regard to our ine | teresis it that quarter and itis to be bopeé | that the government will vigorously follow wp the recent captures of thegeveral towns on the ‘ coast of Texas by shuting up this great chaa- | nel through which the rehel army of the South , weat has perbaps obtained more supplies, te nable it to carry on tho war than by amy | other souree. Suprcixs Fursisuey ro ta Frevca Nave.— Kast will have no further interest in the prose- { We have heard it saserted that 2 parallel cufion of the war. Then, when it is found that thre is nothing more te fight for, the two ar 4 will be disbanded, Yankee Doodle and the, | lourth of July will again becume national, sv. ion will only be remembered as 4 horrid hightmaré, and the speculations of the Rich. mond Dispateh in regard to the dwe punishment of Kogland may begin to wssuiney the form of realities. Sweet, imloed, are the. uses of adver silty. in addition to the bopea tha’t may betadulged | in, growing out of this philagophic tenilency of the rebel mind, the terrib)e condition of ther finances must help to brasten the good tine when “grim visaged war? shall “sinooth his wrinkled front.’ According to the Kichmond Whig, it takes three @oltars and uhiriy vents of exists between ovr sailing w the French jithorities supplies for the, fleet at Vera raz aed the = Englivh yovennment af. lowing. their muject« to twrnist supplies to the rebels. The assertion ‘is founded upon a ' mistaken eatiwate of the regi fects of the case, In the first place, the Mexinsin government haa made no complaint to our adininistration upow the subject, and, while wa, ‘xell anpplies 0 the \ Feench, we do not furmah them with arms oy | munitions of war, and -we do not tend them aid | to break @ biockadé, ‘nur do we in any manner | interfere in the sirucgele which mist soon com, i mence between thee Fvench and the Mexican We have not buil¢ vessels to aid the French; | we do pot convey to them «appiies through the | lines of the Mexican army, or iM aay manne, infringe way measure which may have boon Confederate ourrena’y to buy one dollar in gold; | Gonfodorace Treasury aow | tawa by the Mexioan wovernmont as regnede i