The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1862, Page 6

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There is nothing to report from the hesd- quarters of the army at Falmouth. The rebels do not occupy Fredericksburg in any large force, their principal strength being on the hills in the rear. No firing occurs between the pickets.of the two armies, although they frequently come within | hailing distance of each other while on the banks of the river. The President visited General Burnside yesterday at Aquia Creek. So far nothing has been done with our splendid army in the direction of Fredericksburg. Both forces as yet remain face to face, with the Rappa- hannock between them; both streng in numbers, and both resolute in the determination to accom- Plish their several purposes of offence and de- fence. The state of the weather and the condition Of the roads retard our advance movements. The rebela, meantime, show evidence of preparing to G0 into winter quarters. ‘ Our news from the Southern papers to-day pos- Senses ite asual interest. The Georgia journals complain of the rascality of the ‘‘extortioners’’ who follow the rear of the rebel army, cheating the troops in every possible way. So great is the | need for shoes that the Quartermaster General at | Columbus, Ga., has issued an official order offering @ premium upon tanning hides of the beeves consumed by his department. He says:—‘‘ The soldier must be clothed ; my orders are to do it; and with ample power I shall exercise them ip every way to carry out gthose orders, even if I have to resort to the disagrecable duty of im- Pressmeat."* ‘ So great is the want of blankets, alse, that gifts of carpeting are urgently solicited to supply their place. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship.City of Washington, from Queens. town oa the 13th instant, arrived at this port ear- ly yesterday morning. Her news has been fully anticipated by the reporta of the Africa, from | Cape Race and Halifax, just published in the He- | RaLv. Our tiles by the City of Washington con- tain, however, some very interesting details of the European advices to'the 12th instant, of which we Publish copious extracts to-day. We have news from the West Coast of Africa, dated I ndo Po, September 30: Old Calabar, 2d; Bonny, 7th; Lagos, 10th, and Sicrra Leone 21st | of October. At Fernando Po there was much sickness among the natives, but very little among the whites. Trade was improving. At Cameroons trade was dull: there ‘was not much sickness. Bickness prevailed at Old Calabar, but no deaths bad occurred; trade dull. Trade was dull at Brass, consequent upon the war in the interior. | On the river there was very little sickness. At | Bonny littie or no business had been transacted. The rains were ceasing. A large amount of oil | was expected daily. The civil war between the Boony and E ople was expected to terminate immediately. No business had been done at Be- nia, owing to the extravagant prices demanded | . At Lagos very heavy rains Most of the factories at Abeokuta | n washed down, Anattack by the King of Dahomey was expected to take place in No- vember. He had again been sacrificing a number Of slaves, and was making preparations for an- | other butchery. The Spanish slave schooner Cata- lina had been captured eastward of Wydai and towed into Lagos, where she was condemed. At Acra trade was dull. i] The British se’ ner Tempest, recently lost near Nassau, at which port she touched for the purpose | of obtaining a Britieh register, was formerly the American c Valley. She was irom Matamoros, w tton, hides and wool, censign- ed 1). K. King, of this port. The vessel and ore fully insured. sblicans of New Hampshire will hold ntion on New Year's Day in St. Lotis sipationists ite to cele. vietory by a grand ball, which en, Fremont Among te who have gone into camp al Miwe was one blind man and two cri who go ehos. Th aSt. Louis, It ise v ament one handred th ad Qollar Th netitutionality of counting the vote of the ,moldiers out of the Slate iste be tested before the ‘cours in Wisconsin. ‘The oonstitutionality of the law imposiag taxes savings banks has ween sustained by the Su- Goart of Mavesebusctie. | General Burnside. : NEW YORK HEKALB, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1862. The Govermmont Journals and the Army eon the Rappabanncck. ‘The Now York journals in the interest of the Cabinet, following the presses of Forney at Washington and Phifadelphia, yesterday made paign, as if their object | was to defeat it by giving information to the enemy, and by throwing a wet blanket on the | entbusiasm of the people of the loyal States. | Forney. who manages two journals, has the con- fidence of the administration, and the Tribune | and Times of this city possess it more or less. Now these papers draw most dismal pic- tures of the position and prospects of the army on the Rappahannock, under the command of They have already brought their batteries to bear upon him, while at the same time they reveal the plan of his campaign. Having, a8 they think, disposed of McClellan, they open fire upon bis successor-—a man of the same conservative stamp, But General Burn” \side did not seek the position. On the contrary, + protested against its acceptance. They ave, therefore, made him the scapegoat of offi- cial bluaders, and they will sacrifice him at last to the man after their own hearts—“the coming man." Is this generous or just? Tf the cause of-the Union is so desperate as .it .is represented by the organs of the government, what is the reason? We have plenty” of men, plenty of money and good genorals. Why should there be any failure? The loyal States of the North have sent forth nearly a million and a quarter of meu to battle for the preserva- tion of the government established by George Washington and his compatriots. Yirst 75,000 were called out, then 500,600, and lastly 600,000—in all, 1,175,000. Then look at the tremendous naval power devoloped, amounting to upwards of fifty iron-clad vessels, in addition. to the wooden walls already afloat, astonishing and startking all Europe. To support this army and this navy tho people have raised nine hundred millions of dol- larsin eighteen months--six hundred millions ayear! What is there to show for ull this ex- penditure of men and money? According to the organs of the government. we are now in a more perilous condition than when the war commenced. Twice has tke capital been saved by the talents ofa single man. im:nediately after the first disastrous battle of Bull run General McClellan was called to Washington, organized a military mob into an army, built impregnable fortifica- tions and restored public confidence. Again, from his retirement at Alexandria, when the capital was a second time in danger. greater now than before, he was summoned by the President to retrieve the campaign. lost partly by Pope and partly by the mismanagement of the Cabinet, and to rescue Washington from its apparently inevitable doom. He was placed in command of the fortifications around the capital when there was scarcely a hope for its safety. At the criticai moment of action nobody could be found to issue orders with- out counsel from. the President, the War De- ; partiaent or the General-in-Chief. MeClellan ha@ to assume the whole responsibility of managing the brief and desperate cam. paign. The result 4s known to all men. was completely successful. He undertook to save the capital and to drive the enemy out of the loyal State of Maryland. By the battles of South Mountain and Antietam he was tri- umphaant in this double object. It was the only time in which he was permitted to carry out his own military ideas; and it is worthy of re- mark that, it is the only instance in which a campaign has been successful, with the excep- tien of the victories in the Southwest. It has been only where the generals have had | free scope—either from the Cabinet being se panic-stricken, as after the second Bull run de- feat, that they feared to issue any orders, and, shutting themselves up, were meditating their safety by flight; or where the generals were so isolated from communication with the War De- partment, as in the vicinity of the Ohio, the Tennessee, the Cumberland and the Mississippi, that they had to act on their own responsibility-— that any great advantages have been obtained ; over theenemy. Wherever theWar Department has had control failure has been the rule, and success the rare and unimportant exception. Ut. terly ignorant of the art of war, incompetent to plan or direct campaigns, the Cabimet have yet refused to permit the ablest generals of the army to conduct in their own way the gigantic struggle to a triumphant issue. This is the cause of the failure of our arms in Virginia, and the reason that the war now flags and fails on the banks of the Rappahannock. Not only is there failure, but the most gloomy and despairing views of the future are presented by the radical journals, which are doing their utmost to fulfil their own prognostications. What is the country to think when the organs of the government are compelled to make such humiliating confessions? And what are those European Powers to think who are looking for our halting as their opportunity for interven- tion? Who does not see that, if the republic is finally dismembered and the cause of the Union | irretrievably lost, it is not from Jack of abundant resources in men or money, or skilful generals in the field, or from want of ships-of-war on the seasand navigable rivers, or brave and able captains to command them? There can be but one conclusion, and that is that the Cabinet is utterly incompetent, and that it is the duty of the President, as the fiduciary of the people, to remove the whole concern from office. He is the depositary of a sacred trust which he has sworn to protect, preserve and trans” mit unimpaired te posterity. With snch men as his advisers, the security of the trust is imperilled, and he has no alternative left but to dissolve a Cabinet which bas proved a failure, and fill the places of its members with the ablest, boldest and most honest men that the nation can present—men of practical st anship, known to be (ree irom the taint of fanaticism, or @ passion for innovation, but doing all things lawful and corstitucional for the restoration of the Union on the basis on which it was laid by the founders of the government. While the public the several ions of our armies, Mast and West—noting elully the progress of the proposed new peditions—anxiously considering what steps Secretary Welles will take to capture the cal steamer Alabama when Capt. Semmes Wash that the guns will Winkle Welles from bis long na nd By lating upon the intrigues and jealousies in the Cabinet, there are other events of great pub, lic importance, which npparently escape at Nex? wate Tn Leos. arene. ig the movements of brings her so neat ston report of her arouse disclosures of the plans bles at Albany on the 6th day of January next, and will be called upon to consider questions of greater public importance than any of its predecessors for many years. It remains yet to be proven whether the members elect will be equal to the exigencies of the times. The principal event worthy of note in that direction at present is the lively contest for the Speakership of the Assembly, which is be- coming decidedly interesting, owing to the doubt.asto whether the democrats or repub- licans will.have the odd vote; also the careful and elaborate arrangemonts that are being made by the lobby to prepare their grists to be ground out by the ivgislative mill, os well as the pipelaying and manipulating that are carried om by some half o dozen canQidates for the position of United States Senator, all of whom are taking a hand in the squabble for Speaker. The con- test on the democratic side of the House thus far appears to be between T. C. Callicot, of Brooklyn; Gilbert Dean’ and Thowas C: Fiolds, of this city, apd Horatio Seymour, of Buffalo, Only two candidates have entered the ring on the republican side. as far as we have been ablo tolearn. Those are Chawicey M. Depew, of Peekskill, and ‘Kara Cornell, of Tompkins county, Both were members of the last Legis- lature. How this interesting contest will terminate No person at present can tell. Even the nume- rous game and champagne dinners that have been given by some uf the aspirants to the members do not in tho least colve this mys- tery. A great deal depends upon the person elected to that position us regards the character of the legislation of the seasion. It is a well settied fact that the standing eommittees who are appointed by the Speaker do more to shape the legislation for good or for evil than all the discussion or consideration that the bills may have after being brought before the House, The great question, therefore, is whether a Speaker shaW be chosen who will’make up his committees in the interest of the lobby or the interest of the public. We will have to watch and wait. Foreign Interference in American Affairs. here is always something safisfactory in knowing what are the realities of one’s position, Nothing is so unpleasant ag to suspect those who assert themselves our friends while we deem them enemies. The suspense is alvays ® source of anxiety; and when at last the soi-disant friends -throw off the mask, and show themselves in their truc colors, we are relieved from painful doubt and prepare to battle against ill will and aggression with something akin to pleasure. The uncertainties ended, fixed resolves and bold determinations take the place of former doubts and fears, and we buckle on our armor with Fy shout of defiance, The Jast news from Europe has produced upen us this effect. We are now fully aware who are our friends and who our enemies, and henceforth we wit! admit no doubts or appre- hensions; we will bid enmity do its ut- most and encourage ffiendship. The cor- respondence which has passed between the French, English and Russian governments, apropos of American affairs, has clearly de- fined the position of each of those Powers. France, with no colonial possessions to lose: no extended’ commerce to be jeopardized by war, would willingly undertake the settle- mentof our troubles, and dictate to us our future course of policy. England, as is shown most clearly in Earl Russell’s note to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, would like to aid France in the furtherance of this scheme were it not she fears for the safety of her colonies on this continent, and that she has a wholesome dread of our power, a3 evineed by our immense armaments on sea and land. The statesmen of England are fully aware that, even now, we have but a tithe of our resources involved in this struggle, and that foreign interference would cause an imme- diate use of the whule tremendous power we really have. They are aware that our govern- ment canng$, would not, brook mediation or in- terferencé™tor one moment; that the people would not suffer it, and that the immediate re~ sults of any foreign interference would be war, a general war, during which we should develop our great strength, and also—and very im- portant is this fact to them—we would cut off their supplies of food; and, after all, though cotton is weeded, corn is indispensable. Eng- land is afraid to second France in her schemes against us. She is fully conversant with the fact that Napoleon merely wishes to divide our great republic because our institutions are a living'reproach to his despotic government, and that toward us bis policy ie the same as toward Italy. That country he wishes to be divided be- cause he fears the moral effect upon his own peo- ple ofa constitutional government at their very frontier. He knows that the aspirations of the Italians tend te full and perfect liberty, and that, once united, they would undoubtedly at- tain that object. Such a consummation he deems most dangerous te his dynasty, and he will, if he can, avert it. In like manner he would wish to interfere with us. But one thing is most positive: the people of the North will never tolerate on the part of Napoleon III. even the semblance of interference in their affairs. In Russia we evidently have a friend. She declines assuming an active part with France and England in mediation, and we are inclined to doubt that her “moral sup- port? would go far towards bettering the chances of Franee and England for success were they to intervene. Russia has ever under- stood that the existence of this government was necessary to the preservation ofa balance of power in Europe; that we were to assume @ position towards the maritime nations of that continent such as would check their encroach- ments upon European nationalities, and that while Russia played the same role in the Eastern, hemisphere we should do so in the Western. It is evident to the Russian govern- ment that our great armies and navies must | conquer a peace with the Sonth—a reconstruc- tion of the Union, spite of the inactivity and 1 a | blundess of our administration up to the pre- | sent time; that the balance of power is on our side, and that the South must submit. Russla would gladly hail this result, aud we feel cer- tuin that we shall ever retain ber good will, | and that not abl the special pleadings or prof | fers of service from Napoleon will cause her to land dare not. act against us. much to lose ane us, and she fully wnderssands tha She has too | togain by a war with mediation means War. | | We define the correspondence above referred | ‘to in the following manner:—It proves three | | things. First, that Napoleon is cur enemy, and that he is one who would act against us could | pirate Alabama to scourge the ocean, and who, | among p | man of the Secondly, that is our enemy, a cowardly one, not openly to avow ber ili will, but ready to rail at us from behind our backs, anxious to strike us a blow, but dreading the consequences. Thirdly, (bat Russia is our friend, and that she will remain as such. These results of Napoleon’s endeavors to form s coa” lition against us we deem important, inasmuch 98 they bave caused England and Russia to define clearly their positions, and we doubt whether the Emperor is as well satisfied with these results as we, are. We know what we have to expect now, and will be in readiness for all contingencies, Our power is great, our resources unbounded, our determination un™ sbaken. We will never allow Europe to dictate to us what our course must be. We deem it much more probable that very soon we shall have to dictate to Europe, and that when we do so the plenitude of our power will cause our advice tobe sccepted.. The course which this country has ultimately io follow will be the glorious one of a friend to universal liberty and independence, 2nd we shall have the will and power to play this role effectively. Our present tribulations will but the more surely bring about this: gesult. Se ease VBP Radical, |Projects Against Secretary ‘| Seward. Wendéll Phillips, one of the chief leaders of the radical abolition faction, annonnced through the Independent, some tine ago, that what his party desired was not only a change of nea” sures, but also a change of men. Having, as they thought, secured this change of measures by that “Pope’s bull against the comet,” the President’s emancipation proclamation, the radicals turned thoir attention to a change of men, and have so far succeeded in regard to the army as to dismiss MoClellan from his com- mand and place the military management un- der the control of Chase, Stanton and Halleck; for Burnside is evidently acting under tho dir rection of these martial geniuses, aud ia not completely responsible either for the good or ill success of the plans which he is carrying into effect. Now, therefore, the radicals are at liberty to labor for a change of mon in the Cabinet, and we find them vehemently attack” ing Secretary Seward, with the obvious inten- tion of forcing him out of office, with Secrets- ries Blair and Bates, and thus getting posses- sion of all the departinenta of the government. This is a bold game, and it must end eitber in the utter rnin of the radicals or of the nation. As in dismissing McClellan the radicals tobbed the country of its best general, so in assailing Seward the radicals are endeavoring to deprive the country of the best member of the Cabinet. We are no friend of Secretary Seward, never bave been, and probably never shall be, unless the Secretary changes his opin- ions and his politics; but we believe that he is the only Cabinet member who has done his work thorougbly, efficiently and successfully. Secretary Seward’s diplomatic correspondence is the very strongest testimony to his ability in his department. The results of this correspond- ence are revealed in the replies of Russia and England to the recent mediation propositions of the Emperor Napoteon. Granted that Russia was always well disposed towards this country, can it be denied that Secreéary Seward las ma- naged to preserve and increase this friendship? Granted that our manifestations of unparalleled military and naval power have had much to do with England’s hesitation in yegard to interven. tion, can it be denied that Secretary Seward’s repeated and emphatic representations of this power, and of the use which we should make of it to repel any interference with our affairs, bave greatly impressed English statesmen, and added to, if they did net cause, this diplomatic hesitancy? The irrefutable cvidence that Secre- tary Seward has dene his duty is the fact thag there has yet been no intervention. Success is the real test of merit, and, tried by that test, Secretary Seward is mot found wanting. Can the same thing be said of any other of the principal members of the Cabinet? For. what other member, pray, can his friends claim or his enemies admit that he has properly con- ducted his own department? We are at a loss te tind a reply to this question either in the daily organs of the radieals or in those low, vulgar, purchased weekly papers which retail radicalism at second hand. Compare Secretary Seward with Secretary Chase, or Stanton, or Welles, Secretary Chase bas meddled much with other departments; but he bas so confused and disorganized his own that the finances of the country are now com- pletely muddled, the currency of the richest and most prosperous nation on earth has fallen thirty per cent below the specie standard, our government is obliged to shin up and down Wall street to obtain a hasty loan of a few mil- lions to pay off the soldiers, and the people are not supplied with a sufficient ampunt of national postage notes to take the place of the silver change which Secretary Chase has driven out of sight. Or take the case of Secretary Stanton, who has most grossly mismanaged the War De- partment; who has become the humble, faithful servant of the radical leaders; who has per mitted the Secretary of the Treasury to rule him with a rod of iron; who has intrigued against instead of assisting our gencrals; who bas so far obeyed his radical masters as to de- liberately thwart the plans of our military leaders, negative the sublime efforts of our armies, and uselessly sacrifice the lives of our brave soldiers, and who has employed all those energies which should have been devoted tu the crushing out of the rebellion in the dirty work of currying favor with the radi- cal abolitionists, by violating the rights and liberties of loyal men and women- Or look at the administration of the incompe- tent Secretary Welles, who has been a clog upon the navy ever since he entered apon the duties of his department ; who allowed the Merrimac to rule Hampton Roads «nd prevent the capture of Richmond, asthe Prince de Join- ville demonstrates ; who, by the most culpable nepotism, kept the imbecile Goldsborough in command and gave Morgan bis two and ahalf por cent commission; who still permit’ the EEE 0 IN LDS I IE ERE IEEE! EE A RE SER DID 5 Set Ti a cafe ck a SE A rs SAR A: SO eee Se BES DENSA SS SAAS. Sen RAS SE Ee fe Se aS eee ROE OBIE a Sts if he writes honestly, will confess in his forthe coming report that our navy has done glorious deeds in spite of the incubus of the Seeretary of the departinent. Compared with such See- retaries as these, Seward towers tike a giant « and becomes the only great Jabinet. ! Indeed athe only charges whiel the radicais inst Scerelary Seward are | ave able to bring that be is in favor of a compromise, and that he has repeatedly indulged in false predictions that the war would be ever in ninety days. Every line of the Secretary’s correspondence vindicates bim from the charge of wishing to compromise with the rebels, and proves that no | tention. The Legislature of this State assem. | be induce either England or Russia to aid him. | auch idea has ever been entertained by him since the assault upon Fort Sumter. In regard | mey was restored to his predictions there is only this to ay: that | French Consul he made them honestly, under the mistaken im- Pression that the other Secretaries would do their duty as well as he did his. Ceitainly Sec- retary Seward settled the intervention question in leas than ninety days, and the Trent question in leas than half that time. Was it mot natural for him to suppose that the other depart ments would be as well conducted ss his own? Can he be blamed for having en” tertained & bettor opinion of his colleagues than they have deserved? Is it not now admitted by all impartial judges that McClellan could have taken Richmond in ninety days hud he not been interfered with and his designs frustrated) How was Seward to know that Scoretary Uhase would take command of our armies; that Mo_ Dowell’: corps would be held back from Mc. Cletlan; that Fremont would have a large army given to him with which to play prince among the mountains; that Stanton would work against our own generals; that Popo would; be placed. in command; that a second Bull run would suc- ceed the first; that Welles would submit te the, Merrimac; in short, that the whole campaign would be’most meanly, miserably and mali- ciously mismanaged? These considerations are Secretary Seward’s defence against such charges which’ amount to nothing, even if uncontra- dicted. We trust to’ their effect upon our honest President and upon all upright men, As for the radicals, they will never be satisfied until they have Seward out of and Sumner in the Cabinet, and until Burnside is digelaced as McClellan has been, and Fremont leads and loses our best and most glorious army. Tas Contyst ror GomprroLuer.—The with- drawal of several independent candidates has narrowed the, issues on the Comptroller con- test down to the regular nominees of the two prineipal parties, or Haws versus Brennan. The managers of Tammany and Mozart, failing to read the truo lessons of the times, looked upon the last election as an endorsement of their party instead of a declaration of the people in favor of a national principle, of which they considered Horatio Seymour the repre- sentative. With this interpretation they worked as though, it made no difference who they no- minsted, he would be endorsed by the public. ‘The result was that Alderman Boole—for along time a ringloader in the “ rings’ and “ gangs” about the City Hall who have forced upon ous taxpayers the numerous swindles and jobs for several years past which have large- ly increased the taxes of this city—was nomi- nated for the important office of Comptroller. This act revealed to the public the true posi- tion of Tammany and Mozart. It showed to the public that the pretensions of honesty of certain leaders, and their hue and ery against the corruption of the republicans, were all a clap- trap tg get the republicans out and obtain con- trol the spoils themselves, and thus out- Herod the republicans. It proved to our citi- vens—who have become disgusted with the im- becility, mismanagement and corruptiggs of the republican party, and were looking to the de- mocracy as a medium to correct this abuse— that there was no hope for relief in that direc- tion. In short, it told us what democracy in this city is, to the complete disgust of all honest voters, and thus repelled and drove back the tide that was setting in against the republicans: Boele, having received the endorsement of his course as alderman by the managers of his party, seeing plainly that an ignominious de- feat awaited him before the people, withdrew from the contest, and Police Justice Brennan was nominated in his place, But this did not re- move the odium of the first nomination. The fact that Boole was the first choice of the party settled its character. Wedo net believe that Brennan is at all qualified for the office, or fitted for so important a position. All admit Comptroller Haws to be one of the best finan- cial officers that the city has had for many years. Yet the circumstances of the contest are such that there is no doubt that Brennan will be elected by a large majority. Even the republican journals, while pretending to be for Haws, are secretly supporting Brennan. They are having &n eye upon the one hundred and eighty thous- und dollars expenditures for advertising, all of which pasees through the Comptroller’s hands; and, considering Brennan’s election sure, they are trying to aid him just enough to secure thir enormous amount, just as they have heretofore. In this condition of affairs itis hardly to be ex- pected that Haws will be elected; but it seems quite certain, on the contrary, that Brennan will go in with a large majority. Avvains at New Oritaxs—Ay Ucry Loox” Ina Casé POR THE FreNcu Consv1.—If we do not for a week or two have a direot arrivai from New Orleans, we may be sure that the next steamer from that quarter will bring us a budget of interesting news. The budget by the Roanoke was unusually important, includ. ing the order by General Butler enforcing the Confiscation act in Western Louisiana and making provisions for the cultivation of the lands thérein by loyal citizens, or in behalf of the government of the United States; the seizure and “cleaning out’ of General Bragg’s plantation; the order suppressing Jacob Bar- ker’s newspaper, the ational Advocate, for having declared that an armistice and nego- tiations for peace will folldw the late Northern elections; and the proclamation of Brigadier General Shepley, Military Governor of the State, providing for the election of two mem- bers of Congress from New Orleans and the country around about, under the control of the United States military authoritivs. But there is an item of intelligence by the Rounoke in which the Fref™h Consul at New Orleans is.especially interested, and which presents a rather ugly case against him. It ‘will be remembered that General Bu short- ly after his occupation of New Orles 1 seized | a Jarge amount of specie (some $800,000) trom | French Consul, which it was charged was the property of the rebel governmént, and therefore rightfully falling into the possession of the United States; the custody of the | that the French Consul indignantly protested against the seizure; that Hon. Roverdy John- son, of Maryland. was sent down to New Or leans by President Lincoln (o investigate aud report his opinion upon the subject, aud that his inquiry resvlied in the eurrender back to \ the French Consul of one-half of the mouey seized os aforesaid, it appears. from cet hande ered, tha 3 of this epecie. on the re B. De Bow, agent of the produce loan rebel governinent, was advanced, without ine terest. from the Bank of New Oviewns. to pay for clothing and other supplies for the rebel army. and that alter thie mo- ! a sense of their ignominy and i to the care of the it was sent out of the country to meet the purchases indicated. This is the report from New Orleans. We presume the facts are as reported in the New Orleane Delta the French Consul implicated will be promptly relieved by President Lincoln of hia consular authority, and that the special atten- tiou of the French government will be called to the subject. When a foreign consul, acting under the recognition and protection of the United States flag, undertakes to debase his office to that of a rebel financieror commission agent, and under false pretences, he should be instantly and ignominiously turned adrift, or be held as a State prisoner, to await the issue of a full investigation. * Incomrerency or Anay Surarons.—We have ‘on goveral occasions called attention to the im- portance ef a thoreugh reform in the medical service of the arnry, which is notoriously tinotur” ed with men not only dissipated in their habits’ but utterly ignorant of their professional da- ties. Owing to one or other of these causes, nothing has been more common than for ampa- tation to be resorted to whereit was ‘not at all ary, snd instances have even:been knows in which, whore an arm ands log were wound, ed—amputation being in one case necessary— the surgeon sent to perform the operation waa so drunk that he took off the wrong limb. These facts, which have hitherto only oceasion- ally reached the public ear through the com- plaints of the victims or their friends, have re- cently found the fullest professional confirma- tion. In an able address from a number of prominent Boston surgeons, the Surgeon Gene- ral is informed that, “from their extensive Geld of observation among the wounded sent to that city, the army is sadly deficient of competent medical officers;” and, furthermore, that “the profession has been disgraced by many of ite members, who, having no just conception of the sacred duties of their calling, bave entered upem it from selfish ‘and mereenary motives. It seems that the service is polluted by men incompetent a8 operators, and also incompetent to judge when operations are required.” : This verdict of a body of old and experienced surgeons is as just as it is severe; and Dr. Ham mond acknowledges the fact by replying that all his efforts to secure properly qualified medi- eal officers for the army have only in part been successful. The question now is whether, see- ing that there is an acknowledged failure on the part of the head of the Medical Department te effect the necessary reforms, so frightful a state of things as that described is to be left without a remedy. On a former oceasion we pointed out the only means by which the medical service of the army can be brought up to its proper standard of efficiency. All the old regulations affecting it are utterly useless, and the last Congressional enactments are just as inefficient and worthless. It is not enough to increase the numerical strength of the service; the rank and emola- ments should be proportioned to the respom- sible class of duties required from it. A eur. geen of good standing, with a family to support, cannot be induced to enter the army for eighty dollars a month as long as his private practice will yield him double or treble that amount, The system of substituting volunteer surgeomy in cases of emergency has proved a signal fail- ure; and, moreover, it is not creditable te our national dignity to tax the patriotism of the medical profession with gratuitous laber. There are plenty of respectable and competent surgeons in the eountry who would enter the service if proper inducements, in the way of pay and rank, were held out to them. One such surgeon in a military bospital is worth a dozen less experienced ones; and, by his supe- rior knowledge and skill, he prevents a great deal of mischief. ‘There should be no ques- tion of economy where the lives and limbs of our brave soldiers are concerned. Let Con- gress, therefore, take the matter in hand as sooa as it meets, and remove from our military ser- vice the stigma of having the worst medical staff of any army in the world. Goverymext Management oF THE Tau Grapy.—The restrictions upon the telegraph bave become an intolerable public nuisance, and, as in the case of every other oppression under the present Cabinet, nobody will assume the responsibility, though the evil is continued. Ne one is authorized to abate the nuisanco— none to modify or reform. Stanton says it de volves on Halleck, and Halleck says it rests en- tirely with Stanton. In the meantime, between them. the Superintendent is left to exercise a discytion whieh, in the face of danger to him- Sel!, makes him so strict as to render tele- graphic intelligence worthless. It bas bappened that a telegraphic superin- tendent has been decapitated for permitting a despatch to go by telegraph, while the same facts were simultaneously published with im- punity in the city of Washington by favorites of the Secretary ef War. Correspondents of New York papers are probibited from sending news by telegraph which is given freely by the officials themselves to Forney fom publication in Washington. This is using “ the war power” with @ vengeance for the benefit of a personal organ. Under these circumstances the best thing the New York journals could do would be to drop the telegraph altogether and depend on mail corres- pondence. As it is, the telegraph is useless It ie either too late or is so interfered with by the agents of the War Department that its news is unreliable, and the people no longer have any faith in it. “False asa bulletin!” is their exclamation. They have no cenfidence in its veracity. It ia.a gross violation of the publica rights of the people, whose privilege it is to know everything that transpires. It is equally an infringement on the private rights of the citizen, and there is just as much authority for the opening and suppression of letters in the post offices in the loyal States aa for the seiaure and control of the telegraph, Why do vot the government build telegraph lines for themselves’ What right has Mr. Stantom to prevent intelligence passiag over the wires of 9 telegraph company. while the same in- telligence is published at the same time in vewspapers under bis nose. and with his sanc. tion’ lt ie arbitvarily and unjustly interter. ing with @ leg’ ate business, without any advantage io (he government or the country, It ig oppression of lecpest dye. llow can sugh a systere continne in a free country? Tue Derrorve ann Spy Srsrem.--The recent developments in the caee of Mrs, Hrinemade have justly awakened the people to danger. The odious spy system. ao detested by the oopu- ——_ —