The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1862, Page 4

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Brooklya.<Eraror! ‘Songs, Dances, Buresquas = eh New York, Monday, December 8, 1969, THE SITUATION. No movements took place in General Burnside’s army yesterday. Information was received on authority that General Jackson has joined Lee at Fredericksburg, and now forms the left wing of the rebel army. It was rumored also that Stuart's cavalry were on this side of the Rappahannock, moving between the forces of Burnside and Sigel. The cold on Saturday night was intense, and the troops suffered considerably in consequence. Six of our pickets were said to have been frozen to death. The ice on the Potomac near Aquia creek was nearly two inches thick. The roads are hard andrough. It was stated that a body of rebels were occupying Throughfare Gap and Warrenton Junction on Saturday, and Col. Wyndham was . about to make a cavalry reconnoissance in that direction, but the severity of the night prevent- edhim. Yesterday, however, was cheerful and sunuy, but still the weather continued piercingly cold. ™ From Fortress Monroe we learn that General Viele has issued a proclamation as Military Gov- ernor of Norfolk and a writ of eleotion for another member of Congress from Southeastern Virginia, comprising in the district the city of Norfolk, together with the counties of Princess Anne, Nausemond, Isle of Wight and the city of Porte- mouth. It is supposed that the people will eagerly accede to the proclamation, and elect a member, for the sake of preserving their slave property from the effects of the emancipation Proclamation of the President, as the Hon. Mr. Segar, who was previously elected for another istrict, is believed to have secured his constitu- ents from the operations of that proclamation. Three rebel schooners attempting to run the blockade into Wilmington, N.C., on Wednesday last, were captured by the United States steamers Cambridge and Mount Vernon. They were from Nassau. One of them was the Emma Tuttle, another the Brilliant, and the third, which was run ashore, is not known. An interesting correspondence has recently passed between Henry A. Wise and General Keyes relative to the treatment of lunatics in the Asylum at Williamsburg, Va. General Wise assumes to believe that these unfortunates were cruelly treated by the Union officers, and makes a very yathetio complaint of the samc, appealing to the commiseration of General Keyes to pay respect to those “charities and afflictions @o sacred that States and God only can deal with them with proper care, and such as are, always kept safe from all intrusion; and in behalf of Vir- ginia, speaking for “ her little ones,” to no lower authority than “‘that of Heaven to Christianity.” Gen. Keyes replies that no harm was done, or in- teuded to be done, to the ininates of the Asylum; Dot that, on the contrary, every comfort was ex- tended to them by our surgeons and other officers, and he adts:— In regard to the arbitrament of that higher tribunal to which you refer, Heaven shield us! Who knows whieh deserves thegreatcr pity, the poor lunatic in the Asylum at Williams- burg or the men who have made the war.” The news from the Southern journals, given in another column, is exceedingly interesting. The Richmond correspondence of the Charleston Mer- oury thinks hat what the New Yona Hewatp calls “the Bitunrion” in not very clear just now, and it Relto9 ou ws MONO MO bias Mil Lory Ylawe Of the vr . NBW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1962 stroyed. And, then, both Burnside and Bank, | The Fimamces of the Nation—The Duty o¢ North. It says thet although 110,000 abolitionists “gre concentrated near Fredericksburg, and that city may be shelled, tt is not probeble that, solong ‘asthe river is between the two armies, a general en- gagement will take place.” For it concludes that “the oecepation of Fredericksburg is merely a pre- liminary step in the contemplated grand attack upon Richmond, which will be made in overwhelm- ing force by land and water—by a column from Fre- dericksburg, another from Suffolk, and a fleet in the James.” For such an attempt, it says, @e rebel armies are prepared, and await the issue with | tranquility, “the people appearing to feel more | concerned about provisions, when the armies reach | this vicinity, than anything else.” In s speech of Vice Bresident Stephens, at Crawfordsville, a fow weeks since, he declared the present contest emphatically “‘the people's war;” that it was an effort of one people to blot out an- other from existence, and\that every man in the South should aid the army which is preventing him from being reduced to a serf. He proclaimed the war a great calamity to the South, and that it was “the greatest war, and waged on the largest. scale, of any since the birth of Christ. The history of the world—not excepting the crusades—fur- nishes no parallel to it in the present era.’’ A despatch from Wilmington, Nortli Carolina, says that the schooner Harkaway, with five hun- dred and forty bags of salt, from Nassau, had safely run the blockade and arrived there on the 28th ultimo. The Richmond Examiner says that the Navy Department issued peremptory orders for the mounting of a formidable piece of ordnance on Drury’s Bluff, where Fort Darling stands, the novel construction of which has excited the attention of military men for some time past. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Gen. W. T. Sherman, who is the military com- mander at Memphis, recommends that, instead of shinplasters—which the Common Council of that city proposes to issue—five, ten, twenty-five and fifty cent packages of raw cotton be done up and passed as curreney—the cotton to be of the stand- ard value of half a dollar a pound. An ordinary roll of what is termed cotton batting weighs about half a pound, and an armful of Gen. Sher- man’s proposed currency would not purchase a breakfast for an ordinary sized family. We feel alittle curious to know how the cotton money succeeds, and to learn whether cotton is king or currenoy. o* The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that no act of the parent can make the enlistment of a minor ander eighteen years of age valid, such persons being no part of the militia force of the ootrunitipal elections will take place to-day in the cities of Boston, Lowell, Roxbury and Charles- town, Massachusetts. Another draft will take place in Massachusetts to-day. The State is over two thousand men short. Some of the clergymen of Boston, part of the New England ‘‘three thousand,” have formed what they call.an “ Emancipation Commiasion,” for the purpose of backing up the emancipation proclama- tion of the President. They have issued an ad- dresa to Mr. Lincoln. fg United States Senator 8. G. Arnold, of Rhode Island, having been classed by the radical journals as a republican, has written a letter repudiating all sympathy with that party, and stating that he was elected in opposition to it. Mr. Arnoldisa conservative. The St. Louis Democrat (radical repubfican) says@ majority of the democratic editors of the North are a pack of villanons traitors, manufac- turing the grossest lies against the government and its officers, for the purpose of dividing the people of the North. * The government is watching the gatherers of old letter stamps. A suspicion is afloat that deep game is being played to defraud the Posi Office Department. A new paper has been started in Atchison, Kan- sas, which is in favor of George B. McClellan for President, and Sam. Medary, of Ohfo, for Vice President, in 1864. Although skating did not commence yesterday upon any of the regular ponds, the juvenjles and some of larger growth enjoyed the sport on the shallow lakes and ponds in and around the city. The stock market opened very dull and lower on Batur- day, was rallied by the bulls, and closed steady at a frac- tional advance over Friday’s prices. Gold seld down to 13034, but clesed at 181%. Exchange clomed at 14534 4146. Money was in good demand at6per cent. The usual trade tables for the week will be found in the mo- ney article. Cotton was very dull and heavy on Saturday. The trangactions in breadstuffs were limited, though flour par- tially declined 5¢., wheat and corn 1c. The sales were 12,500 bbls. flour, $5,000 bushels wheat, and 100,000 Dushelgcorn. There was s moderate business reported in provisions, including mess pork, on the spot, at $13 25 4 $1337, and deliverable next Juno aud July, sellers’ op, tion, at $15. The grocery market was inactive. Whis key was quiet at 38e. A fair demand existed for fish, hay, hops, clover soed, tallow and wool, Other articies were lightly dealt in. There were moreextensive freight engagements cffected. ‘The Winter Camp: Decisive Opera: Anticipated. We are assured that the fullest confidence exists at Washington that the land and naval forces of the Union now in the field are not of the rebellion East and West, but that the work will be done in this winter's campaign. men thus engaged, and with a co-operating naval force, chiefly of iron-clad gunboats, equal, we dare say, to another army of half a million of men, against a rebel army whieh can hardly exceed half a million, there would seemgo be no ground for s reasonable doubt upon the subject. The organization, equipment and distribution of these overwhelming warlike forces of the Union are believed to be such as to render their success inevitable in every quarter, and against all possible contingenoies in the way of blunders, opposition, accidents or disasters. In the Laat, it is thought that the army of General Burnside if, as we conjecture, the expedition of General Banks is designed to advance upon Richmond by way of the York or James river, with a fleet the devoted city overland from the north, it is difficult to imagine any chain of mistakes and misfortunes that can prevent the destruction or complete dispersion of the great rebel army of Virginia. The army of Burnside is chiefly an ariny of veterans, It is under a tried, experienced, able and successful commander, and he appears fully to inherit that unqualified gonfidenge and affec. tion of his troops which McClellan so remarka)ly possessed. General Banks, too, ‘has proved himself equal to every position and emergency in which hehas been tested asa milltary leader; and he has been exposed to trials and dangers before which any other than a skilful, courageous, cool and self-possessed commendes would have been captured or de. have not only the valuable experience of Me Clellan to guide them, but some very importan, practical advantages resulting from his penin sular campaign, including the possession of Yorktown and its fortifications, and the com- mand of the river on each side of the penin- sula. Itwas recently said by # Washington | contémporary that the army on the Rappahan- nock would win Richmond, but that the army of the James would occupy the city. How- ever this may be, the means for the end in view appear to be ample and admirably be- stowed; and, therefore, within a few weeks we may anticipate the occupation of the rebel- capital bfthe Union forces assigned to the task. With the fall of Richmond, involving the de- feat and demoralization of the main army of Jeff. Davis, the rebellion in the East will be substantially suppressed; for we shall have gained the one thing wanted to put an end to all Southern dreams of European intervention, and all hopes of the ultimate redemption of Confederate scrip. If fifty dollars of that scrip are now required to pay for a good pair of boots in Richmond, five hundred dollars in Memminger’s treasury notes will hardly get the boots anywhere'in the South, with the “Con- tederate” rebel capital in possession of the Union army, Thus mueh for the prospects of the grand Union winter campaign riow afoot in the East. Meantime in the West, where the rebellion has already been thrown off its feet, a system of military combinations is in motion caleulated to sweep off the remnants of the rebe! armies in that quarter tothe Gulf of Mexico. ‘The gua- boat flotilla of Admiral Porter, with? the co- only competent to put down the armed forces | With an army, in round numbers, ofa million of | is of itself equal to the enterprise of fighting | its way successfully into the rebel capital; but | of gunboats, while Burnside moves down upon } operating army of General MeCiernand, will move down the Mississippi river ™ together, while inland, through the State of tle same name, and Alabama, following up the rebel forces of Bragg, Pemberton and others, the powerful and victorious armies of Rose- erans and Grant will advance. Simujganeously therefore, or soon after the overthrow of the great rebel army ef the East and the capture of Richmond, we may expect to hear of the rout and dispersion of the last remaining rebel armies of the West of any moment, and the capture of Vicksburg and Mobile. With these grand results achieved East and West, the con- qugst of the remaining strongholds of the re- bellion will be so easy that, excepting Charles- ton, we may expect them,to fall without serious resistance, Such are the general designs and movements of the present winter eampsign, and such are the great results expected. We may eay, too, that if, with a million of the finest and best armed troops in the world, and with a co- operating navy sufficient to demolish that of Great Britain, we cannot within the next three or four months put do ca jed forces of ia Faballion, we Sty thon fa Rally BABAR for European intervention. It can only be, however, through a succession of the most stupid blunders and unforeseen disasters that the Union forces and combinations of this grand and overwhelming campaiga can possi- bly fail. But the dearly bought expe- rience of the last eighteen months has not been obtained without those compensating advantages which teach the way to suecess; and so, with the men and the means at his command and the way clearly indicated, and with the numerous tubs thrown out to amuse the abolition whale, President Lincoln, as the head of the army and navy, may surely count upen complete success East and West. Am to THe Lancasaire Orgratives.—The recent meetings held in this city, for the pur~ pose of farnishing food to the suffering poor of England, presents one of the most remarkable spectacles known to the history of the world- The first public demonstration in that direction was made by the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday last, and is thus far confined to this city. Yet in the short period of four days the large sum of seventy-five thousand dollars; including money, provisions and a vessel to transport them, has been subseribed by our citizens.” This, in reality, is only the first step in the generosity of New York and the North. Thousands upon thousands will yet be given in this city. The ball that has been so successfully put in motion here will soon be taken up byal} the other large cities of the North, while the West, with overflowing granaries, as soon as their attention is drawn to the subject, will emulate New York, and liberally give out of their abundance of food to stay the sufferings of the laboring classes of England. The money subscribed in the East will send the food dona- ted in the West forward and transport it to the very doors of the suffering and starving people | across the Atlantic. The extent of thie movement is likely to throw into the background the events of the “Irish famine,” and presents a feature of gene- rosity in the American public without parallel. It will also prove to England fhat we can not | only carry on the most extengive war known in the history of nations, but that we can at the same time feed her laboring class, which has deen brought to a famished condition by virtue “of the assistance that her aristocracy has given to the rebellion, thus prolonging the war. Our Christian mode of warfere. That nation has ; been rendering the rebellious States al) the | Secret aid in its power. Iron-clad ships have | been builtin her docks, and let loose to prey | upon and destroy.our merchant vessele. Ves- | sel after vessel has been fitted out with im- | proved weapons of warfare, and despatched to | Southern ports, many of them breaking throngh the? blockade, and every other step taken that | possibly could be to encourage the South in | its suicidal course, and secure the success of the wicked rebellion. All this has had the | tendency to prolong the war and increase | the taxes of our people; but behold the | response to all this! The moment that the tidings of suffering among the Lancashire | operatives are borne to us by the swift stesmers | that plough the waters of the Atlantic, public meetings are held, and thousands upon thou. | sands of dollars are donated for their re- lief. It is true that those laborers have rosist- ed all attempts of the aristocracy and emissa- | riea of secessiondom to turn their against the North, and heve therefore particu- lar claims upon us; but at the same time we are, by this generous act, “heaping coals of fire” upon the heads of the aristocracy of England, rekindling the love and the sympathy for our democratic institutions at their ewn doors, which will continue for all time to come, growing stronger with the lapse of time, and hereafter i} bulwark of strength for us inet The ovit designs of the crowned heads of Be. zone, | people are in fact adopting with England the | ¥ Congress. Now, that the Secretary of the Treasury has ‘made his official statement, it is the duty of Congress to take up the question of our finances without delay. They are in a very deranged and disorganized condition, and something must be done immediately if the national ‘credit is to be saved from utter ruin. The currency is depre- ciated to the great injury of the industrial lasses of the community, who have to pay in- flated prices -in the ratio of the depreciation: The credit of the government is impaired at home and abroad, and the troope ii field are unpaid and discontented. Money is ..0 sinews of war, and without it the struggle for the Union must be soon brought: to an unsuc- cessful close, The amount required is enormous, and will tax te the utmost the best financial skill of ti country to devise the ways and means. Every step we move in the progress of the war the national debt is increased, and the financial difficulties of the republic will be con- tinnally accumulating till bankruptcy at last stares us in the face, if we do not return to a seund basis. Mr. Chase has made wonderful progress in financial ideas since the issue of his former reports. But..be is still a tyro in the science. He has adopted many of our opinions which he before rejected; but he does not advance far enough. He is not a thoroughbred financier, and does not go to the root of the matter. Were he as good a radical in finance as be is in politics it would be well for the country and for himself. He is like the man born blind, whosé" ‘eyes were opened by Christ, and who at first saw objects indistinctly, men appearing to him “as trees walking.” It is necessary, therefore, for the financial genius of the country to help out his straggling, faltering ideas till he gains clearer vision. It devolves upon the ablest.men in Congress to take hold of the subject, adopting all that is good in Mr. Chase’s propositions, supplying his deficiencies and correcting his errors; and it is the impera- tive duty of every man in the national assembly to ignore tHe existence of the nigger and all minor questions till the means of carrying on the war are amply provided, and adequate measures are adopted for the restoration of the currency to a solid foundation. There are only three months in which to accomplish so great a work. Let not the time be wasted by the madness of faction. In the first place, it will be necessary to adopt the financial system by which Pitt carried Eng» land triumphantly through her long war with France—the system of loans and taxes—one half the current expenditure to be defrayed each year by the proceeds of taxation, and the other half by loans bearing interest payable. in specie. Thus is national debt to be.,kept down and national credit kept up. Webave no right tosaddle posterity with thé whole burthen’ of pa Spigh we are the actors. Pos- pte ¢ justly repudiate ft, and bence the public confidence cannot be secured for a system. Equity and the laws of finance require that we assume our fair share of the debt, in- stead of shifting it upon the shéulders of future generations. Thus alone can_we preserve un- impaired the national credit; and it was in shrinking from this inexorable requirement that Mr. Chase and the republican majority in Con- gress committed their greatest blunder. They feared to meet taxation manfully. Were they conscious of wasteful expenditures, of fraudu- lent contracts, of gross mismanagement of the war, and of a secret revolutionary design to pervert the simple object of the conflict—the restoration of the Union to the basis on which the founders of the government laid it—toa fa- natical crusade against the domestic institutions of the South and the rights of sovereign States, guaranteed by the constitution? Their tion to appeal directly to the people ow port of the war can only be éxplained by the fact that they and the people meant a very dif- ferent thing by the war, and that they were un- willing to make discussion as to the tendency of their course. Whatever may be the cause of the cowardly conduct of the administration and of the majority in Congress, the nation has had to pay the penalty in a disordered cur- rency and a diminished credit, and the sooner the remedy is applied the better for all con- cerned. . In the next place, we must return to specie payments as soon as possible. In the exi_ gencies of @ critical moment it may have been necessary for the government to suspend pay- ments in silver and gold, the constiiuttonal cur- rency of the country; but that suspension ought not to have been continued a day longer than was necessary to make arrangements for resumption. The same thing bas happened to the Americait peo- ple and to the English. Both became suddenly involved im a great war. In 1797 the British government fonnd it necessary to borrow in immense sums the gold of the Bank of England, and to save it from bankruptcy an act was passed relieving it from specie payment. But in seven months afier the passage of the act the Bank announced that it was in a condition to pay specie if the political circumstances of the country would permit. The effect was that for three years its paper kept ona par with gold, and sometimes even commanded a pre- mium. When people found they could get gold for the bills"when they wanted it they did not demand it,'notes at par being more convenient’ than gold. The Bank, however, presumed too far upon the public confidence, and, finding it profitable to deal in paper, issued large quan- tities of it. The natural consequence was de- pression of the currency. In 1801 and 1802 it depreciated seven to eight per cent from exces- sive issues. At the end of 1813 the depreciation was twemty-nine and one-fifth per cent. At the end of the year 1814—the year of peace— the depreciation was less than ten per cent, owing to the partial return of gold to the usual channels of commerce. And had the Bank then contracted its issues, even in a slight degree, its paper would have gone up to par. But, from the spirit of gain, it con- tinued. the expansion after the necessity, and hence it was found expedient for Parliament to relieve it by providing for a gradual resump- tion of payment in gold. The American gov- ernment commenced in the same way. In the beginning of the war they borrowed so much of the capital of the State banks that tompo- rary suspension of specie payment became a necessity. But there was no necessity for ren- dering that suspension permanent. According to the statement of Mr. Chase, the banks were ndteatisfled with their former issues, but they greatly increased them after the suspension, at the same time that the Secretary of the Trea- sury was flooding the country with bis demand notes, The result could not fell to be the da excessive issue of United States paper, is at fault. This is almost too puerile for reply. ‘T’ Mr. Chase commenced his operations the paper of the State banks was at par, and any person would prefer a bank note of this city to the same amount in gold. It is the excess of inconvertible paper that causes this great de- preciation. If it were convertible it would not depreciate at all. Let the public confidence be restored, and ten millions of gold would be sufficient to meet the demand. To purchase this or any amount that may be necessary, as Well ag to pay the interest in specie, let United States bonds be svld for whatever they will bring. This is the true way to restore the equi librium in the currency, which has been lost by gross financial mismanagement. This leads us to the third essential for a sound currency. The issues of the State banks must be abolished either by direct action or by taxing them. These banks are making large interest without capital, their paper promises to pay not being enforced. They are paying no interest for the debts are continually con- tracting, while the nation, fat bétter entitled to credit, has to pay smart interest. The people surely have the best right to this benefit. If any portion of the community ought to be heavily taxed it ia the banking corporations. But it is for the interest of the nation that their issues be abolished and that their functions be confined to deposit and discount. Let all fu- ture issues be prohibited, and let them be com- pelled to redeem the issues now in circula- tion, within a brief given time, by gold or United States notes. Let them be compelled by law to substitute for their securities United States’ bonds instead’ of State stocks; and, finally, if they fail, let them be wound up by a bankrupt law passed by Congress. The effect of this will be to throw great quantities of State stocks upon the market, and thus to depreciate them. But the safety of the national credit is the supreme law, and States, like individuals, must bear their share of the burthen. State banks only exist on sufferance. They have no constitutional ex- istence. According to the constitution the States have no right to “emit bills of credit,” and the federal government alone has a right to regulate the currency—a right which, in times of peace, has been held in abeyance, but which As disastrous as those lessons of the past have been to the country, as ruinous as the with- drawal of MoOlellan from: the James river bes been to the nation, as as it has bees in the inorease of the cost of the war, to cay nothing of the sacrifice of life, we yet see but Uttle hope of the radicals in and out of the Cabinet profiting by the dearly bought expe rience; for they are still busy plotting and planning for the Presidency, as though no re- bellion existed and civil war was unknown to the country. They have succeeded in re moving McClellan, but every step’ that they take only vindicates his wisdom and exhibits to the world his superior genius. ——————— The Count Adonis Gurowski on the Ram: . Page. The Count Adonis Gurowski has printed his diary, from March, 1861,to November, 1862, The book begins with the inauguration of President Lincoln, but tantalizingly edds just in time-not to inform us why the Count challenged Prince John Van Buren, and why he ran away whens the Prince went on to Washington to beard the lion in his den—the Gurowsk! in hishotel. We are compelled to suppose, therefore, that the Count contrived the sham affair of honor with Van Buren in order to force himeelf into note riety and make his book sell. The diary is dedicated to “the widowed wives, the bereaved mothers, sistets, sweethearts and orpHans in the loyal States”—not one of whom will probably read’ the book or care for the honor of the Count’s acquaintance. In the preface we are told that “if they ever peruse these pages, my friends and acquaintances will find therein what, during these horrible national trtals, was a sub- ject of our confidential conversations and" die cussions.” ‘How the Count’s “friends and ac, quaintances” will relish this publication et “confidential conversations and discussions” is a doubtful question. We know that the Chere lier Willis ruined himself in England by indie creetly putting into print the remarks which Dan. O'Connell made at Lady Blessington’s table, and we greatly fear thatthe Count will meet the same fate here as the Chevalier did abroad, and that his handsome face, his elegant figure and his refined manners will no longer -be—if they have ever been—the brightest orne- ments of the salons of our goed society. The Count Adonis Gurowski is @ eort of a semi-civilized savage. He writes somewhat ia the style of the Chevalier Wikoff, and, like that renowned personage, is sometimes very silly, sometimes very witty, and sometimes very sarcastic. The difference between Wikoff and GQurowski is, that the former is well bred, shrewd and good-natured, while the latter is ill-bred, shrewd and ill-astared.. Garowski ought now to be exercised for the benofit of} ogiig Wikoff sn” “outlaw,” and adde:—“Ona the nation. : * In the name of apd common sense let the negre question be kept in the background in Congress‘till this great question of paramount importance is satisfactorily set- ted; the a finances are established upéa principles teuléd by experience, and the na- tional ofedit is commensurate with boundless resources, such as are possessed by no other country on the face of the earth. In another column will ing letter from Washington foreshadowing im- portant exposures of the intrigues of the - cals against General McClellan during the tinie that he was ineommand/of the forces at Wash- ington and on the peninsula which finally resulted in his removal. It also furnishes some important facts and practieal suggestions in re- ference to the experience of our armies in re- lying upon railroads as a medium to obtain their supplies while marching into an enemy’s country, te which we call'the attention of our readers. The facts there stated in regard to the result of relying upon railroad communication to fur- nish supplies for the army on the peninsula over thé short distance from the White House, on the Pamunkey, to the Chickahominy, also the experience of Pope, with a much less force, in attempting to obtain his supplies over the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, throw a flood of light upon the events of the past year. They also furnish our readers some idea of the immense sacrifice of life and treasure which the intrigues of the radicals at Washington against General McClellan have brought upon the coun- try in their vain and fruitless efforts td rain ‘McClellan and prove themselves great generals. We have hore also the facts showing that the rail- road from the White House to the Chickahominy, a distance of only twenty miles, was, when well stocked with engines and cars, inadequate for the transportation of supplies for the army, forcing the artillery and cavalry horses to subsist & great deal of the time on half allowance of forage. On the other hand, it is also shown that Pope, with » much less force, was unable to obtain at Warrenton, one-third the distance to Richmond, sufficient supplies for his troops before he was joined by the Army of the Potomac. These facts are also borne out by the statements of Prince de Joinville in his re- view of the peninsula campaign, where he states that an invading army in this country cannot safely march over two or three days | from their base of supplies without water | communication. y Had the wise men, the would be gene- rals and politicians at Washington who pretend to know more about military mat- ters than our thoroughly educated generals examined into these facts, which only needed a few arithmetical calculations for them to have determined their truth, they would have long sinee seen the folly of their course in fttempting to destroy and broak up all the well prepared plans of Gen. McClellan. We should have had none of those wild goose experiments that have since been tried and proved a failure. There would have been none of those disastrous scenes, sacrifice of life and captures of our supply trains that marked the short and disastrous campaign of Gen, Pope. than to take the command of a regiment. | sides, the events already run over his head; Seward for a moment believe that Wiked knows Europe or has any influencet He may know the low resorts there.” This is unpar- donable. Weadvise Wikoff to ret about Gurowski in reply to this insinuation- Every one can imagine the olever, pleasant way in whieh the Chevalier would use up the Count and ventilate the history of Gurowski’s “‘palmy days, when he conspired with Louis Napoleon, sat in councils with Godefroi Cavaignac, or wrote instructions for Mazzini, then only a be ginner.” The Count’s boole fs full of such in- sulting While reading it one seems to be overhearing the gossip of a gang of Washington scandal mongers, standing in a dingy barroom and drinking bad whiskey as they chatter. Gurowskihas noted down the gossip, but te Odor of the bad whiskey 4 round it still and.™akes the reader qualmi ‘The only importancé wich the diary has is in its revelations of the soufcc! from which the radical leaders and organs draw weir inspira. tion, their information and their ideas. We Gurowski * ordering and warning , Wade, Wilson, Curtis Noyes, Opdyke, Wads- worth, Barney, Greeley, and ethers of that set, and we have seen that his orders were obeyed and his warniage regarded. Itiswoll known that Gurowski: is conneoted with the Zribune; and we read here in his diary how he bullied that paper into eat- ing its own words and opposing McClellan, and fairly forced it over to-the extreme redial faction. To accomplish this poor Greeley was abused without stint in “confidential conversa- tions and disoussions and in letters.” Thus, ia in February, 1862, the Count writes:—“The poor Tribune is daily fading away;” and it has been fading ever since. Again, in the same.menth> he says, “Now, at times, the Tribune is: similor to an old, honest tian attempting: to draw a nightcap ‘over his ears and eyes.” Ad. mirable comparison, should read ~“at all times,” ‘and the | “honest” should be omitted. Like all of his faction, Gurowski hates ‘and despises his associates. He calls Seward aud Chase ‘‘the Kilkenny cats;”’,and the same simile will apply to all the radicals, Gurowski spares few of them, great or small. Of Pre- mont he says, “His military capacity, perhaps, is equal to zero; his vanity puts him in the hands of wily flatterers.” Poor Greeley catohes it in this style:—“Greeley is 10 more fit for rg Greeley is slowly breaking down.” Minister Adams “has shown in the last Congress his | scholarly, classical narrow mindedness.” “Poor, good natured Senator Sumner is like a hare hynted by hounds,” and is. also “teo classical.”” The abolition lecturers are called “Jeremy Diddlers,” “oratorical falsifiers of history;” “they poison the judgment of the people Curses be upon them.” Raymond, of the Times, is “a little villain and a flunkey.” All of this is very shrewd and very sensible; but the Count’s comments upon the President, McClel- lan, Mr. Seward, the Heraup and other conser- vatives are simply ignorant, impudent, ill-na- tured and representative of the radicals. “Mr- Lincoln,” says Gurowski, “seems to be a rather slow intellect, with slow powers of perdeptiore He in some way has a slender, historical resent Had the members of the Cabinet spent a few hours examining into this subject, instead of intriguing to displace the most efficient general that the war has produced, the army would never have been withdrawn from its strong po sition on the James river, fifteen miles from Richmond, to take up o new position of over sixty miles from the rebel capital, with only a single track railroad to transport their supplies as they advanced; nor would there have been any occupation of the soil of Maryland by the rebel army. The raid into Pennsylvania would have never been heard of; and, instead of our army waiting on the banks of tho Rappahan- nook, it would have long since occupied Rich- blance t Louis XVI.—similar good ness, honesty, good intentions — but the size of events seems to be too moh for him. He Its no experience of men and events, and no knowledge ef the past. His advisers may make out of him something woree even than Jndas in the curves of ‘ages. He belittles himself more and «more. His good qualities are rather negative than positive. Slavery is his mammy, and he will not destroy her. People who approach him say that hie conoeit groweth every day. He has already the fumes of greatness, and looks down on the press, reads no paper, that dirty traitor, the New York Hearn, excepted. The New Yong mond, and the whole country would now bé ip preparation for the celebration of peqce and Henan isthe principal supporter of Mr. lie coln and Mr, Seward,” ‘There fa thea daotwing