The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1862, Page 4

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The weather has moderated, the snow is melting away, and the roads are less rough than they were for the past few days, but ‘20 movements have taken place. The news from the Southwest to-day is full of tatercat. A desperate fight and 9 brilliant victory for the Union forces ocoarred in Arkansas on Sunday. While Genera! Herron, with a furce of about se -en thousand men, was hastening to reinforce General Biunt, at Cane Hill, as we previously reported, the enemy, twenty-four thousand strong, in four di- visions, under Gonerals Parsons, Marmaduke, ¥rost and Rains, all commanded by General Hind- man, having flanked General Blant’s position, made a desperate attack on General Herron, at Crawford's Prairie, to prevent his junction with Biunt. Herron fought them gallantly with his {llinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Indiana troops, from ten o'clock in the morning unti) Gerk, keeping them at bay and driving them from two strong positions with his artillery during the day. The Twentieth Wisconsin captured o ebe! battery; but were forced, by the tremendous Gre of the enemy, to abandon it. The Nineteenth Lowa took the same battery, but were also obliged 0 surrender it. Affairs were going hard with our Stoops. At four o'clock in the afternoon, howéver, General Binnt arrived in the enemy's rear, with five @bousand men, and fell upon them. The fight then Pecame one of desperation. Though superior in @umbers, and maintaining their ground through- Out the day, the rebels, now between two huastile @orces, made fierce efforts to capture tho batteries which General Blant brought to bear @pon them, but without success. They Could oot extricate themselves from the Gificulty, and were repulsed with great @sughter. At nine o'clock, when darkness fel, @Bpon the scene of battle, they were flying over the ston mountains in confusion, and our victorious Srmy held the whole field. Our loss was six hun- G@red killed and wounded. The rebels admit the dow of fifteen hundred, including several field offi- ers. This looks like a decisive victory. At al! @vents it has relieved the army of Gen. Blunt from @ most anpleasant position. The strategy of the @nomy has turned agesinst them. ') The news which we published yesterday of the Gefeat and capture of Gen. Morris’ brigade at Glarteville, Tenn., by Morgan's guerillas, is cor- foborated by @ despatch from Nashville, dated st @ildnight on Monday. Despatches from Cairo state that the main body Of the rebel army passed through Oxford, Miss., Corty thousand strong, going South, on Wednesday last, under command of Gen. Jackson (of the West.) His rear gaard had a skirmish next morn- ing with o portion of the Union forces near Ox- ford, the result of which isnot stated. Another Aespatch from Chicago says that intelligence wee received from Oxford, dated the 7th, to the effect that « two hours’ fight bad taken place on Friday Bight, near Coffeeville, between the Union caval- fy under Col. Dickey, and @ rebel force of five @housand infantry, cavalry and artillery, Our Geoops lost five killed, fifty wounded and sixty @rlesing. The rebels, it is gaid inst three hundred Gilled and wounded. “i NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESD ‘The Arabia, at Halifax, telegraphs news from Europe to the 30th of November, one week later. the result of the recent elections in the United H States affords the government in Washington “an ‘ excuse for ‘retreating from its position’ on the | war question with a semblance of dignity.” The Post “fears’—as it hopes it is to be presumed— that the war will not be brought to an end until the government “is forcibly ejected from power.” The London News, organ of the Exeter Hall abolitionists, denies that the democracy of the ’ | Northern States can be properly termed “‘comser- | vatives.” | The London Army and Navy Gazette indulges | in one of its usual flings at the strategy of the | federal generals; this time assailing General Burn- side's operations near Aqais. By the arrival of the steamship Creole at this port yesterday, from Havana, we learn that the | Prench Admiral La Graviere, with a force of eight | hundred men, bad captured Tampico without firing | @ shot on either side. The Mexicans, retreated Precipitately, and the citizens apparently accented with satisfaction the protection extended. to. them by the French Admiral. ~ . Tho Diario dela Marina has an article refiect- ing the Spanish epinion of General. McSlellan's removal, It says that the Napoleon of the Ameri- i can army, ‘‘the dariing child of an opinion which | surrounded him with all the perfume of a most | flattering popular breath,’ has beem sacrificed { for political reasons, and has found his St. Helena ine amalltown in New Jersey. The removal of Mr. McClellan the Diario regards a4 probally the last effort of the republican party CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, a communication was received from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution calling for information in relation to the alleged sale of free negroes captared by the Tebels, in which he states that the War Depart- ment has no information in regard to the subject in its possession. A bill for the relief of the owners of the French vessel Jules et Marie, was reported by the Committee on Foreign Relations. A bill to abolish the grade of medicai officers in the United States service was introduced, and referred to the M litary Committee, The resolutions calling for information relat ve to the arbitrary arrest of citizens of yelaware, were taken up and discussed at considerable length; but the Senate adjourned without taking final action on the subject. In the House of Representatives, the morning hour was devotcd to the consideration of the Senate bill for the admission of Western Virginia juto the Union as a State. The special order, a bill authoriz ng collectors and assessors of taxes to administer oaths, was taken up and passed, The debate on the question of the udmission of Western Vir smned. and cuntinued until the adjournment. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Arab:a, from Queenstown on the 30th of Novemtcr, reached Halifax yesterday morning, on her voyage to Boston. Her news is one week later. Censols closed in London, on the 29th of Novem. her, at 93% a 94 for money. The Liverpool cot- ton market remained quict on the 29th uitimo, with prices unchanged from a dulness experienced onthe previous day. Breadstuffs were quiet and steady. Provisions were inactive and tending downwards. The stock of cotton in Liverpooi footed up two hundred and seventy-two thousand bales, of which twenty-three thousand five hun- dred were American. Jem Mace and Tom King fought for the cham- pionship of England on the 26th ot November. Mace had the advantage to the twenty-first round, when King knocked him ii sensible by a “sledge hammer blow.” As Mace could not “come to time,” King was declared the victor, It was ssid that John C. Heenan had agreed to fight King for the ‘‘champion’s belt,’’ cach man to stake five hundred pounds sterling on the result. The political news by the Arabia is not of mach importance. Greece was still excited by the ques- tion of the propriety of voting the throne of the country to Prince Alfred, of England. The Italien Parliament had resolved that the sersion of 1563 should be held in Naples. Belgium had voted a large sum from the government funds for the relief of her distressed cotton operatives. It was said that the Czar of Russia intended to notify England of his decided objection to the accession of Prince Alfred to the throne of Greece. It was naid that the steamship Great Eastern would pass into other hands from the great ship company, if the sum of £1,760 was not immediately provided. The sum of £5,000 would be required to bring her home from New York. The crew of the American merchant steamship Missiasippi, which was abandoned at sea onher voyage from New York for China, had been land- ed at the Cape of Good Hope. : The repairs to the steamship GreatHastern boing abeut completed, she will be ready ina few days to resume her trips to Liverpool. Her date of de- partare will shortly be advertised. The Board of Aldermen are laboring hard to close ap the unfinished business of the current year. They hold two sessions a day—from one o'clock P. M. 4ill half-past two, and from six o’clock in the evening until the papers upon the table are disposed of. Yesterday the three mil- lion dollars Common Council Currency ordinance passed by the Board of Councilmen was concurred in by the Aldermen, with some little amendment. ‘This is a desideratum long felt; and the sooner the publie get ‘‘amall change" that ean be relied upon as negotiable and ultimately redeemable, the bet- ter. The proceedings will be found in another column During the early part of yesterday the skating on Beekman and the neighboring ponds between the Fourth aad Fifth avennes was very good, and several hundreds of persons enjoyed the sport. After noon, however, the ice began to soften, and we shall bave to experience a little more frost be. fore we ehall again have good skating. The ice on Harlem and Yorkville Fiats was in like condi- tion during theday. The Central Park ponds have not yet been thrown epen to the public, The Bighth avenue abortion case wa der investigation before City Judge Chambers, yesterday. Mr. Clinton, eounsel for the defence of Dr. Browne, the alleged abortion- ist, resumed the cross-examination ef Augustus L. Simms. After taking s large amount of testimo- ny, the case was adjourned until three o’clook this afternoon, at the same place, The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, bat adjourned to Thursday next, at three o'clock, ont of respect to Supervisor Blunt, whose wife is to be buried to-day. A series of condolatory reso- lations, offered by Supervisor Purdy, were passed in reference to Mr. Blunt's bereavement. The market for beef cattle was decidedly buoy- ant on Monday, when the supply was light and the demand active at from 6%. to 9%{c. @ 10c. per pound. There were quite heavy subsequent er- rivals, however, in view of which the market was less buoyant yeeterday, while prices, especially for the poorer kinds, Were a shade easier. The average price was About Sc., which was decidedly higher than for a long time past. Miloh cows were steady at 625 & $60 according to quality, Veale were also steady Ot dc, a 60. 00740. Sheep a into the Union was then re- | ‘head. ‘we: fed varied from 4c. @ 63{0., and still fed 3%o. a 41c. The total receipts were 6,320 beeves, yes ~ veals, 10,749 sheep and lambs, and a ee locks . | gol advanesd yesterday moraing, oa Mr. Stevens’ p position to flood the country with irredeema- Dio paper « urrency, out foli off afterwards, the abeurdity Of the sche.ne ap,caring aa insurmountable obstacle to its adoption by Congress. Sioney was werth 6 per cent, Exchange 1465, = 146)4. Gold rose to 1884¢, them fel off, and closed at 182). ‘© There were no movements of importance reported in cotton yesterday. Under the influence of the riso in gold and sterling-exchange, flour advanced Sc. a f0c., with sales of over 27,000 bbis ; wheat 2c., with sales of 265,000 bushels, and corn 13¢c., with sales of 875,000 bushels, partly on speculation. Beef, pork and lard were in active request. Mess pork closed as high aa$13 500 $18 62, and prime lard ‘ht 100. Sugars, molasses, teas, tice and whiskey were in very moderate demand, as also were fish, fruit, candles, hemp, tobacoo, naval stores and must kinds of metals, There was increased uctivity im petroleum, ata further rise to. prices, with a fair busi- mess tm hides and'lvather was dearer and more inquired for. ‘the ocean freight market was steady, with moderate opgegementa, P ts, His Duties and Hts Reeponaibilicies. In the House of Representatives on Monday dast, Mr. Stevens, of Pennaylwania, is reported te have said that “Congress, not the Presi- dent, is the sovereign power.” This claim by @ radical member of « Congress which is con- trolled by the radicals reminds us of the revo- lutionary committees of the Jacobins in the French Revolution. The sovereignty of Con- gress is a new and a startling idea, which shows that the Robespierrcan abolitionists are & progressive faction, and that probably the next thing they will claim is that their Con- gress is an imperial or absolute power. Indeed, practicaliy, they speak and act as if it were; for every proceeding of theira since the opening of the session proves that they equally set at de- fiance the constitution—‘“the supreme law of the land”—and the will of tho people, so clearly and omphatically expressed in the late elections, To be consistent they had better, like the Freneh revotutiona:’ Assembly, declare them- selves en permanence, and not disperse on the 4th of March, but hold possession against the new Congress, arresting its members for trea- son, and sevding them to the Old Capitol prison, and thence to the guillotine, if they should dare to make their appearance in Washington on the first Monday of Decem- ber, 1563. % According to the constitution—which is respected about as much as an old almanac by Stevens, Lovejoy, Sumner and Co.—- the people are the sovereign power, ard not Congress nor the President. The presm- ble of the constitution ruus:—“We, the peo- ple, do ordain,” &c. The sovereignty caruot be delegated; but limited powers are dele- gated by the people to the governmeni, which consists of three branches—the Con- gresa or legislative body, the President or executive and the judiciary. Neither exer- cises sovereign authority over the other; the rights and duties of each are defined and their powers co-ordinate. If thera be any difference | between the authority of Congress and that of the President, in coasequence of the source from which it is respectively derived by each, the President's power seems to stand on higher ground, for he is elected by the people, while Congress is partly elected by the people and partly by the Legislatures of States. But the truth is that the power of each is equal in the sphere to which each is assigned—that power being limited and defined by the constitution, Congress has power to make laws, but not any laws that it pleases. Ite laws must b2 in aecord- ance with the oonstitution, otherwise they are null and void, and the President is not bound toexecute them. He is sworn to uphold and maintain the constitution, and cannot be re- quired to violate his oath. He is bound to execute all constitutional laws of Congress. But Congress has no power to violate or set aside the constitution, or authorize it to be done. For instance, the Indemnity bill in- troduced by Mr. Stevens is a nuttity. If the President was rightfully advised to suspend the habeas corpus, and the -arrests made in the loyal States, under the authority of the War Department, have been validly made, then the act of Congress cannot edd to the right of the President or the validity of the arrests. But if Congress alone has the power to suspend the habeas corpus, and if the arrests made are illegal and unconstitutional, it is not in the power of Congsess to render them otherwise, or to. shield those who make them from se sponsibility to the laws. The courte would pro- nounce ell such acts of Congress null and void. The Dresident, therefore, has a right to judge of tho constitutionality of am act of Congress be fore he carries it into effect. He is.responsible to the people. He is the custodian of the con- stitution and of the laws in harmony with it, He is the guardian: of the safety, honor and welfare of the nation. He is not only the Chief Magistrate to execute the civil laws, but he is the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy. Congress hes power to de- clare war; but the President bas the control and direction of it. The constitution gives him the same right in the suppression of domestic insurrection that it does in foreign war, and Congress has no authority to dictate to him. Its business is to vote the men and money. The vest belongs to the President. Mr. Lincola, therefore, is not bound by any law, human or divine, to carry out the uncon- stitutional Confiscation acts of the present Con- gress, nor the proclamation which the radicals extorted from him. [t is within his discretion to pestpone its action on or before the Ist of January to amore convenient season, or even sine die, It is well known that the President is conservative. [np his message to Congress since he issued the proclamation, ae well as in his conference with the representatives from the border States, ho hae showa that it is imprac- ticable. The Secretary of State, in his diplo- matic correspondence, bas declared the policy which it involves to be the inauguration of the blvody scenes of St. Domingo and sufficient to @rouse against the country the indignation of the civilized world. European na- tiom have condemned it on the ground of inhumanity to the black reee, which would be exterminated in the conflict; inhumanity to the white race of the South, which would suffer horrors without a name; and inhumanity to the populations of the Old World, in depriving them of » great staple on which they have so long depended for existence, By the gudden removal or destruc: tion of the black labor of the South the oxport of cotton would cease; for it would be impos. sible to procure other labor to supply the voouum for many years. Tho loss to the Northorn States would glso be iycalculable- the be tee te eae” AY, DECEMBER 10, 1862. it were not for this two-thirds of the radi- Corporation patro cel stupan ts thn at cocin sesoltiy te of It is fortunate for the country at this oritical | starvation. The wise conservatives in our city moment that we have an honest President— & man‘ who does not regard himself as the President of a party or of asection, but of the whole people, and who is bound by his oath to protect and defend the interests of Wlinois as much as those of Massachusetts, and the rights of Virginia as much as those of New York. If Congress has no power to control his action, sti!l less has his Cabinet. The’ heads of departments are but, his employes to carry out his will, like the clerks in a mer- chant’s office. If the latter neglect their business, or act in opposition to the wishes.of their employer, he soon geta rid of them. In the “same way the Cabinet Ministers of Mr. Lincoln are but his creatures, and if they will not per- form their duty to the eountry let them be dis- charged as unfaithful servants. The people elected him, and not them, and"to him they look for the proper performange of the work. He can easily supply their places with better men— men of administrative ability, who are honest and conservative like himself, Let bi cut loose from party. _ His obligations and respon- sibilities to the country are greater than to party. When the integrity of the republic is in danger party ties ae dissslved. Pre ident Lincoln is independent of anv party org .niza- tion. The people. who have doémed the r-pub- lican party to destruction, will stand by him if he will place himself at their bead and di-card the revolutionists who are seeking to inaugu- rate a reign of anarchy and terror. With, according to Mr. Stanton, boundless resources in men and money and munitions of war—with a greater force in the field than ever before assembled under one banner—the war has been mismanaged and these’ resources wasted. With, according to Mr. Chase, such means of. carrying on a war aa no other people ever. possessed, the troops are. unpaid, we are already twelve hundred millions of dollars in debt, and, by # new bill just introduced by the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. Chase is authorized to increase the debt to the sum of a@ billion of dol- lars. But, what is almost equally remark- able, Mr. Chase informs us that of the $500,000,000 bonds which Congress author- ized bim to issue last February he could t only find sale for about twenty-four millions, though the Mterest is payable in gold; yet the great finarcier in the House of Repre- sentatives expects to dispose of “a billion of bonds,” the ‘nterest on wh ch is not to be paid in specie, but in depreciated paper currency called demand notes. What is the conclu- sion from th se prem'ses but that the war for the Union and the finances of the country have been fearfuily mismanaged to the very verge of the ruin of the nation’ The clear duty of the President, therefore, is to dismtss all in- competent officers and put in their ‘places men of capacity —men euuat to the great emergency of the hour. To Abraham Lincoln, and net to Mr. Stanton or Mr. Chase; to the President of the United States, aud not loa redical and revolutionary Congress, do the people look for the safety of the republic. Shai! they Jook to him in vi ‘The Corporation Papers and the Recent Elections. There is an antiquated and familiar si--y that a man was once foolish enough to pick uj a viper, feed it from his own dish and warm it | in his own bosom. The sequel of the story very nuturally is that the viper stung his addle- pated preserver to death. No one who knows the shrewduess, keenness and ability of our temarkable City Fathers would ever jmagine that they would be guilty of the same kind of seaseless folly as the viper’s nurse. Yet it. is certainly a fact that the majority of our pre- seat, and the whole of our future, Corporation officers belong to thowonservative party, and that they are now, and have been for some time past, nursing upon the Corporation adver- tising ihose pestilentic! vipers, the radical jonr- aals, which turn upon and sting their bencfac- tors at every possible opportunity. The only reason why the sting of the radical vipers has not proved iatal hitherto—as it may some day— is because the coxservative press has ever been ready with tho antidote, and has frequently waved the conservative party, only to see its opponents enjoying the frnits of the gatvation. Whatever way have bean the causes or the motives of the conservative uprising ‘at the November electious iu tliip.Stute, the result wis the overwhelming defeat of the radical party- It is now generally conceded that the Hrrarmy eonducted this election, and that it was the legitimate conclusion of our unremitting exer- tion against the disunion, revolutionary, gboli- tion faction. Following closely upon this State triumph came the charter election in December, which was decided in the same way and from pre- cisely the sane influences. During both of these campaigns the republican organs of this city labored zealousiy against the conservative candidates. There was no epithet too vile for them to apply to those who would not endorse the complete radical programme of immediate emancipation and amalgamation. At the char_ ter election they attempted to hedge a little; but they had been going ahead altogether too fast, and could not take in sail and tack about n the short space of a month's time. In spite, then, of the most strenucas, determined and bitter opposition of the radical organs, this city has at two recent elections sent full conserva- tive delegations to the next national, State and city legislatures, and the republicans of this city have not even a single representative in either of these bodies. The next Governor and hi» subordinate officers, and the Comptroller, Corporation Connsel and assistants are also conservative. Yet in the face of these facts the present conservative Corporation effice holders divide three-fourths of the ofCorporation advertising betwoon the Tribune, Times, Post, Commercial aad othor radical pa- pers. This unjustifiable patronage of the radical organs fs all the more outrageous because there ie nothing in the character or circulation of these papers to make such a measure expe- dient. [t ie—or rather it ought to be—the ob- ject of the city authorities to give the Corpora- tion advertising to those papers which have the largest circulation in this city and vici- nity. Now, the circulation of the con- servative journals outnumbers that of the radieal Organs at least two to onc, and con- sequently three-fourths of the public money spent in theso advertisements is practically thrown away. Look at the comparative conser- vative and radical vote ia this city and suburbs, and it is easy to determine the rela- fave olroulation of the oqavegrative and radical government are, therefore, not only assisting the enemies of their own party and of the country, but’ are actually responsible for their exist- ence. Such an anomaly can be accounted for upon no hypothesis except that of conscious dishonesty. Those conservatives who aid in supporting radical papers must do so because they have been guilty of’some jobs or pecu- lations which they are anxious to conceal frgm the public; and the Corporation adver-. tising thus takes the form of a bribe. Turn this disposition of the city advertising into every possible light, therefore, and it is equally obnoxious. Asa party measure it fs supporting the organs ef the opposition. As ® public measure it is wasting the money of our citizens upon papers of small circulation: and thus putting the Corporation advertiie- ments where nobody oan see them. As any- thing else, it is a bribe for concealing or abetting some past, present or intended wickedness. We hope and expect that the newly elected Corporation officers, who as- sume power on the lst of January,< will make an immediate reform in this - matter. It is quite time for such # reform, and it should be inaugurated with the new Corpo- ration and the new year. Relations with France Mexico, In recent advices from Vera Cruz, which ap- peared in our columns, it was stated that the French government had given orders for the purchase in the United States of one thousand mules, with their harness, and five hundred wagons for the use of the French army in Mexico. We had previously been informed of very large orders for machinery and materiel for the military railway now being constructed from Vera Cruz to Cordova, and it is not long since several veseels were openly chartered and freighted in this port for account of the French government, with gen@ral supplies for the ‘use of the army of invasion in Mexico. As Mexico is a country with which we are @t peace, and as we have no trenty of alliance, with France in her crusade against vepublica institutions on this continent, it appears to us thot these are very grave announcements. And ‘iasumich as Mexico is our neighbor, and is a re- pobtic, established under institutions in the perpaueney of which we have a deep aud vital interest, pecwiarly at this mo- meu’. sud as the openly avowed and repeatedly and officially declared purpose of France in Mexico is to overthrow the logiti- mate constitutional government established under these institutions, it appears to us that if our government is unmiadful of its plain duty in the premises this state of facts calls for some immediate ingniry on the part of Congress to ascertain whether, in this instance, our neuirality is only for the Our and lated in favor of such a cause as that in which France is now embarked in her designs of com- quest and crusade agaist republican. iaatita- . tions on continent. Tne Count Adonts Gurowsks Turseé State’s Evidence. The Count Adonis Gurowskl’s wonderful diary grows in popularity. Certainly no one can deny that, while oftemill-natured and pre- judicéd, the Russian Adonis is sometimes re- markably shrewd and sensible, and always ia- teresting and amusing. Of course it may be said that it is very wrong of Gurowski to re- veal confidential secrets and report confidential _conversations, and that he will be universally cut and avoided. This is all very true; but it has nothing whatever to do with the interest‘of his book. It is a dreadful thing for a man te turn State’s evidence against his comrades, an@ reveal in the witness box all their, plots, schemes, intrigues and criminalities; but the prosecuting attorney never stops to rebuke the witness for his breaches of confidence and pro- priety, butguses his testimony just asif it had been given by the best bred and most. honor- able man in the world. We do not object, therefore, if the Count’s book sells well. Our only consideration about that part of the affair is that Gurowski shall take a portion of the proceeds of the sale of his diary and settle his little bill with Mr. Cranston, at.the New York Hotel. Whatever may be the Count’s character— and he says of himself, “I am the only North erner on # footing of intimacy with the diplo- mats; they consider me an exalté”—it cannot cer- tainly be objected that he did not know what he was writing about. At the time his diary was penned he was an attache of the Tribune held a clerkship in the State Department, was very intimate with most of the foreign minis- ters, and was on terms of confidential inter- | course and correspondence with Sumner, Wade, Wilson, Greeley and others of the radical teaders; and with Opdyke, Barney, Wadsworth and other New York small-fry republicans. benefit of the strong and against the weak: | Mnring the inirigues in onnection with Preai- whether what we demand of Kpgland is refused | dont Vincoln’s choice of a Cabinet Gurowekd to the prayer of Mexico; and whether, » we are rigidly refusing to permit «i in any form to go to our sister repub- lic, we are to allow France to have the advantage of making the United States her hse of supplies in her operations against ‘exico, with the privilege of drawing from uve that materiel of war which otherwise she suld have to bring from three thousand miles seross the Atlantic, at far greater expense of simeand money. In other words, are we to aid France to acquire possession of Mexico— to place there a French army of forty thou- sand, eighty thcusand, perhaps one hundred {hgusand meu—aud is this the time to do it? The public mind has not yet sufficiently awakened to the fact that there is to-day an army of forty thousand:of the best soldiers of Europe, under the direction of its greatest military Power, landed on the shores of Ame rica, in hostile. array against republican insti- tutions, within the territory of our nearest neighbor, and not four days sail from the mouth of the Mississippi, and that this army— three times larger than the former eatire standing force of the United States—backed by @ powerful fleet, helongs to the Power which has just spoken to the world ‘of the “Con federate States,” not using the usual designa- tion of so-called, and is scarcely concealing, under hypocritical lamentations over “the effusion of blood,” its obviously determined purpose, if circumstances continue as at pre. sent, to apeedily recognize =nd perhaps aid the South. At this moment, too, comes to us the views, both from Mexico and from Europé, of a further Pgench expedition of eight thousand men to occupy Sonora; long known to have been eagerly coveted by Napoleon for ite: ia- calculable mineral wealth. These plain, material facts and pasi expe- rieace forbid us to shut our eyes and reat upon 4 blind confidence in the friendly feeling of any European Power, much less in that of France. France is every day acquiring a greater and greater stake upon this continent as it advances in its possession of Mexico ; and it well knows, as docs all the world, that its tenure of that possession depends entirely upon the disruption of our Union being made permanent. An alliance with the South would secure its possession of Mexico, and probably, in the opinion of Europe, achieve the inde- pendence of the Confederate States, while at the same time it might avert home complica- tions. Forewarned should be to be forearmed; and while, by no act of ours should the slight- eet cause or pretext be given to France to complain of our violation of any international right, or even international courtesy, the plain- est dictates of common sense point to the pru- dence of uot aiding « Power that may prove hostile to us in her designs against the terri- tory and the political sovereignty of « sister republic, in whose political statue, from conti- guity of territory and similarity of institutions, we have such an immediate and manifest interest. The rule of neutrality we are rigidly enforcing against Mexico. Why should it not be applied to France? Our in. terests would lead us to aid Mexico. The defeat of the French now in Mexico would put and end forever to farther talk of Vrench or Buropean interference in our affairs. Are we then afraid of France? Must we humbly do her beck and bidding? Is our government afraid te rise to the dignity of our national po- sition and assert onr rights, when with the close of the year we shall have an army of a million of men in the feld? Is it afrnid to assert the independence of America from European dic- tation—Eurwpean construction of international law? Or must we allow favors to France which we deny to Mextoo, and the granting of Ybion le in violation of the most obvious of Bee 'y Of State. paritanioal meu is in the republican party were terribly scared. The first attempt of sincere was to peranade Lia- cola wo break his connection with Seward. This failed. To peutraiize what was considered quickly to become @ baneful influence in Mr. Lincoln’s councils, the caps united on Governor Chase. This Seward with all hie might, Mr. Lincoln wavered, hesitated and | was bending rather towards Mr. Seward. Blair would have entered Cabinet. Dat for Sevard would have had © Kenly pees a bers of Cungress acted less than did the New Yorkers. ~ There is a bit of secret history, every word Cameron was afterwards re- about military affairs’—and Stanten was put in his place. Of Stanton the Count Gurowskt says that he is « “Romén”’—referring, perhaps,” to his nose--and that he isa mas of but one idea,” which may be correct, though we cam scarcely give him credit for so many. To the Cabinet as it is now, Gurowski’s remarks about the Cabinet as it was before Cameron retired are exceedingly applicable:— Ta oper, 001, Vinal tn a, tied. oe iene ey op ere ae a violent ; Led = », BOL devour, a the will ‘The -history of the wir shows the'sccutacy pulsive forces” have not on ly neutralized each other, but have also neutralized the béstefforte | of our generale and ou: armies, and “devour. ed” the best blood and treasure of the country. Who, then, is responsible for the divided Cabinet and the failure of the war? Certainly those New York radicals who “forced” Chase and Blair into the Cabinet sgainst the wishes of the President, and wao have been working ever since, not for the welfare of the naticn, but for the expulsion of Secretary Seward Gurowski is explicit upon thie point. and, as if dospising the dirty work et which be assisted the leading radicals, he says:— ‘The opposition made to Seward is not eourageous, not ignified. Such a6 opposition betrays The radicals in New York and elsewhere may relish this home thrust as best they cea; butitetruth ie undeniable. The Gurowski was “to expose Sewaré;” only exposed Seward’s enemies. at the recent elections have rewarded of the minor radicals as they have and both Chase and Stanton have been repu- diated by their own States. If, as Gurowski asserts, the President “reads no paper but the Henatp,” and if the Heratp “is the only sup- porter of Mr. Lincoln.” we ask the President to complete the peopl ork, to eonsider the revelations of this State’s evidence against the radicals, to force out of the Cabinet those Secretaties who were forced into it against his will. and thus restore harmony between the government, the people and the army, and in- sure the speody suppression of the rebellion. Jn the meantime, if the Chevalier Wikoff, wha was “an inmate of Seward’s house and offies”’ during these intrigues, has anything to say upon the subject, let him hurry up his forth. coming volume, and add his testimony to that of the Count Adonis Gurowski Gaxerat Borrerriato—Tae Reger, Cuskaxe ‘Aoanst Him Axsweren.—The ohargos of. the Richmond Znguirer against Geral Butterfield, to the offect that he is respor.sible for the destruo- tion and robbery of the property of the houses of Kdmund Rudln ond other Virgiflans by a |