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JAMES GURDON BENNETT; EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. @rviCE N. W. CORNER OF VULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash in advance. Money sent by mail will be ‘ai Uno risk of the seuder. None but Bank bilis curreat in New York taken, THR DAILY HERALD, Turax cents per copy. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five conts per copy. Annual subscription price:— _ Any larger number, addressed to names of subscribers, $2 50 cach. An extra copy will be seat to every club of tea. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $35, and | Hnglo yesterday from Havana, is importent. The French troops at Tampico are suffering searfally from sickness, Jalapa and Alvarado had been occupied by the French. President Juarez has issued a proclamation, inflicting the penalty of death upon all who ahall carry despatches to or from the French army. The consequence is that no courier from the city of Mexico had reached the coast before the last mail left. Ali communi- cation between the interior agd the coast is now virtually cut off. The Diario de la Marina of Havana, of the 27th ult., contains a short article on the proposed French railroad from Vera Cruz to Orizaba. It says that the rails and other necessary articles have all been pitrchased in the United States. The road ia only part of the plans of Gen. Forey for facilitating the transit of ammunition, provisions, eny larger number at same price. An extra copy will be Seat to clubs of twenty. These rates make the WEKLY ‘Hurann the cheapest puliication in the country. ‘The Evrorzan Epition, overy Wednesday, at Five cents ‘per copy; @4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, er $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage. The Caurormia Epirros, om the Ist, 11th and 2ist of ‘each month, at Sex cents per copy, or @3 perannum. Apvarreanmmers, to a limited number, wifi be inzertod in the Weeery Hemaup, and in the European and Cali- formia Editions. VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing import ‘ant nows, solicited from any quarter of the world; if used, will be liberally paid for. gge Our Forman Cor- RESPONDENTS ARE PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO SRAL ALI. LHT- TERS AND PAOKAGES SENT US. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We do pot return rejected communications. Volume XXXVI AMUSEMENTS TH1S EVENING. WIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tux Gtavtaror. WALLACK'S THEATER, Broadway—Srrxp tax Provcs WINTER GARDEN. Broadway.—Born to Goop Lucs— Houw at Sevitur—Preciovs Bxray. LAUBA KEENB'S THEATRE. Broadway.—Broxpsrra. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery— cn Daeorrns—HaRiequim Jack fn Bis rena ‘ok BOWERY THEATRI Pagis—\vicnsaNDs oF Li Bowery. re Ma GERMAN OPERA HOUSE. Broadway.—Fipetio. LL RINGER Op Sr. Pius. BAGNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Drirs- Baom’s Punroneing BxaRs—Giant Girt, &c.. at all be CouLean Bown, at 3and 73¢ o'clock P. M. — YANTS' MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ Hall. 473 Broad- —Erniorian songs. Bi —! - = panes Sane joRLES@UES, Dances, &c.—Kun WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 614 B a Dasoms, &c.—Tae Races. ponieenmasiery street.—CaMPBBLL's LESQUES. IRVING HA. vin - oERYING HALL, Irving place—Traea ©, PALACE OF MUSIO, Fi Munsraxis—Soncs, Dayces NO'S: AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, No. 444 Brondway.— tans, Panvownnns, Buxcecatta, fo, * rondway—Bar- GAIETIES CONCERT MALL, 616 Brosdway.—Drawixa Reou fAINMENTS. NOVELTY GALLERY OF ART, 616 Broadway, PABISTAN CABINET OF WONDER! roadway. — dally {rom 0A Meh 1D Pe Me Broadway. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermiorian Burtesaves &c . Dances, ursday, Dec New York, Th THE SIrruaTION. Several of the corps of Gen. Burnside’s army have changed their positions within the last few days. The condition of the whole army is said to be most excellent. Supplies are being rapidly breught up, and the men are in fine order. Large numbers of officers on furleugh are returning to their regiments, and reporting themselves for duty. Everything would seem to indicate that the time has come for an important movement. Gen. Burn- side visited the corps of Gen. Hooker and Gen. Sumner yesterday and reviewed them. It has been ascertained that the rebels have 180 guns— some of them of heavy calibre—mounted on the south side of the Rappahannock. General McClellan was examined yesterday on the trial of General McDowell, and his testimony, which we publish in another column, is of intense interest, detailing, as it does, the plans of the cam. paign on the peninsula. Among other things he said:—“I have no doubt, for it has ever been my | opinion, that the Army of the Potomac would have | taken Richmond had not the corps of General Mc- | Dowell been separated from it. It is also my opinion that had the command of General M Dowell joined the Army of the Potomac in the month of May, by way of Hanover Court House | from Fredericksburg, we would have had Rich- mond in a week after the junction.” The despatches from the War Department and the President, produced by General McDowell in reference te the movements of his army at the time that General McClellan needed his co-opera” tion for the proposed reduction of Riclunond in | May last, form an interesting part of the proceed- | ings of the Court of Inquiry yesterday. | An official despatch from Gen. Curtis to G Halleck, dated at St. Louis, gives an of the late battle in Arkansas between the troops | of Generals Herron and Blunt and the rebels, under Hindman. It, however, contains no facts | other than those we have already published. We | give @ map toeday of the vicinity of Fayette- vile, near which the battle was fought, em- bracing the whole locality ncwrendered memora- bie by another victory, such as made that por- tion of Arkansas famous on previous occasions by the battles of Pea Ridge and Maysville. Sketches | of Generals Blunt and Herron accompany our de- scription of the locality. The news from Nashville «tates that on Tuesday # reconnoissanve was made on the roads to Mur freesboro, Nolinsville and Franklin. Generaj Walla h’s brigade, of General Silj's division, moved forward several miles, but found no enemy. About noon General Sheridan's division was | attacked by a rebel force of cavalry and artillery, | and his pickets driven in; but no one was killed Overt two thonsand bales of cotton, valued at six hundred and fifty thousand dsllars, are awaiting | shipment at Nashville. me ( want vvernor Johnson las issued @ providing for an election of representatives for -——-—¢h Ninth and Tenth Congressional districts of The it He says it is belioved that a large , meme ny of the voters in these districts have given ececotence of loyalty and allegiance to the constitue meapee. w and laws; but no disloyal person is to be per- Ga be * te. | ven other candi proclamation | | Grand Jury. &c., through the country, and does not regard the movement as poiating to any lengthened occupa- tion of the country by the French. It refers to in goodly numbers on the ponds above Fifty- ninth street, and-found what some might think “‘pretty fair’ ice, But as the sun gained power, 80 did the ice lose.ite good quality, and we shall have to wait until we get another stiff frost before we can again expect any really good skating. ‘The stock market wag higher yesterday, without much activity. The shares of the leading railroads wore favor- ably affected by the Now York Central dividend, and ad- vanced a 1 per cent all round. Governments were unchanged. Gold fivetuated between 13254 a i, closing 13234. Exchange closed at 1455¢ @ 146, Money was worth 6 per cent on call. The cotton market exhibited more activity and firmness, middlings Yesterday closing at 67c.a 6Tixc. There was {oa animation to flour and wheat, which were quoted shout the same in price, while corn and oata wore very frecly purchased at an advance of 3c. a 10. per bushel. There was & moderately active business reported in pork, beef, butter and lard, the latter article closing a trifle higher. The movements in groceries, fish, oila and naval stores Diario thinks that the establishment of such a | were unimportant. The demand was fair for tallow, hay, hops, hides and wool, and moderate (or fruit, tobaoce and whiskey, which latter closed heavily. There were very limited freight engagements reperted. The Arbitrary Arrests and Patriotic Re- publicans in Congress. It is gratifying to find an oasis in tho the railways built in the Crimea in illustration of | republican desert. In the debates of Tucs- its views. CONGRESS. day,".in the Senate, on the suspension of the habeas corpus and ¢he arbitrary ar- In the Senate yesterday a bill was reported to} rests, Mr. Sherman, republican, of Ohio, and establish an arsenal and ordnance depot on the tide water of New York harbor. A joint resolu- tion forfeiting the lands and annuities of the Sioux Indians, and providing for their removal far away from settlements of whites, was referred. A reso- lution directing the Military Committee to inquire Mr. Trumbull, republican, of Ilinois, uttered some wholesome truths in radical ears. The former, who is a sturdy and courageous, and at the same time an enlightened man, said:— “He believed that the right to suspend the Writ of habeas corpus was purely a legislative power, and it could only be done by Congress. into the expediency of reporting a bill forfeiting | fyo thought many of these arrests were great the pay and emoluments of officers of the army | mistakes, and every arrest ought t6 be report- during the time they are absent, except when upon sick leave, was adopted. A concurrent re” solution instructing the Joint Committee on the Conduet of the War to make a report with all convenient speed, was adopted; also a resolu- tion instructing the Military Committee to ed to Congress and the reason for it. If this power was unlimited the government would beceme oppressive. Congress should throw sround this suspension of thg writ all the guards and checks necessary to preserve the rights of citizens and the character of the gov- ernment. The people have been exasperated inquire into the expediency of providing by | at the manner of these arrests and discharges, law for the adoption of some more efficient and practicable than the one now in use for the identification and discharge of system | and it was due to the country and justice that no man should be arrested for light cause, and then the causes and charges should be properly soldiers. The bill’for the relief of the ‘owners of | €XPlained and eet forth, that they may be the French ship Jules et Marie was taken up and | Known; and Congress had perfect right to passed. The reselution increasing the bonds of the Superintendent of Public Printing was taken up and adopted. The House bill providing for call for all information.” This is worthy of the representative in the Senate of the first great State of the West. Mr. the discharge of State prisoners, and authorizing | Trumbull, the Senatorial representative of the Judges of the United States Courts to take bail and recognizances to secure their trial, was taken up and ordered to be printed, and postponed until to-day. Mr. Henderson, of Missouri, gave notice that he shoald -introduce a bill to aid the State of Missouri in effecting the emancipation of the slaves of that State. The resolution concerning the ar- rest of certain citizens of Delaware was postponed until to-day. The Senate then adjourned. In the House of Representatives the Senate bill providing for the admission of the State of West- | to his friend from Massachusetts (Mr. Wilso! second State of the West, said:—“He thought these arrests have been unfortunate and impoli- tic. Judges and courts and commentators have held that the power of suspending the writ of habeas corpus was a legislative power. It is not from any sympathy with traitors that there is great feeling on this subject, but because it is feared that this is an exercise of an unneces- sary and arbitrary power. And he would say ern Virginia into the Union, was passed by a vote | who gloried in these arrests, that there wus of ninety-six against fifty-five. A resolution was | very great danger in them.” “Here is patriot adopted calling on the Secretary of War for a statement of the number and grade of every officer absent from their commands; the number of ma- jor and brigadier generals not assigned to actual commands, and the names and grade of their staffs; the number of aides-de-camp that may be dis- pensed with, &c. The Committee of Ways Means were instructed to bring in a bill amending the eleventh section of the Excise and Tax law, in order to confer upon assistant assessors the same authority that is possessed by the. principal asses- sors; also to inquire into the expediency of exempt- ing the measurer or measurers of boards, shingles and other rough timber, from his or their own lands, or timber as wholeeaie dealers, to the amount of —-- dollars. The House then ad- journed. . MISCELLANEOUS MEWS. Our European files by the Hansa, at this port, and North American, at Portland, were delivered yesterday. The papers are dated to the 27th of November. A very full report of the great prize fight he- tween Mace and King for the championship of England, appears in the Heravp this morning. Mace was ‘“‘knocked out time” by what is termed in our account an ‘Armstrong gun’’ blow delivered by King in the twenty-first round. Heenan and Sayers were both on the ground. Heenan, it appears, did not think very much of either of the men, and it was said that he had challenged King to tight him for the ‘‘belt.”’ By the arrival of the steamship Ka » at this ‘port yesterday we have important advices trom Havana to the 6th and Vera Cruz to the Ist inst. Details of the news may be found in the letters of our correspondents, published in another column. We have dates from Buenos Ayres to the Lith of October, from which we learn that Ger itre has been unanimously elected President of the Argen tine republic. Don Marcos Paz las b eleciod Vice President, by an immense majority, over The new order of thin said to be producing happy effects, and the city al reudy feels the impulse of public confidence. New tes. railways, banks aud lines of packet ships are in | formation. Thousands of emigrants arrive month: iy, and more handsare still wanted. market has been fair during the last forin notwithstanding the season. 'Transucti taken plave principally for salted horse hid ox and cow hides, and wool. The coming stock of wool this season is expected to be about two mil- lion arrobes, chiefly good qualities and in good condition. The Washington correspondent of the Bustou | Treveler is confident that Judge Holt ix going in- to the Cabinet. If this shall prove to be correct, Mr. Holt will become the head of the Department | of the Interior, in place of Caleb B. Smith, who | will probably be appointed Judge of the United States Court for the district of Indiana. A special mecting of the Board of Councilmen was held last evening, when a large number of papers were received from the Board of Alder. | men and appropriately referred. The Comptroller | sent in bis fortnightly statement, from which it appears that the balance remaining in the city treasury on the 6th instant was $2 100 Hh, A resolution of concurrence was adopted directing the Comptroller to draw his warrant for the sum of $5,000 in favor of St. Joseph's Orphan Axylum, after which the Bowrd adjourned until this alter | noon at four o'clock. The Grand Jury have fouud a bill of indictment for murder against Dennis P. Sullivan, for shoot- ing Thomas Byrnes, the Inspector of Lands and Places. An ergument was heard before Judge Hail, im the United States District Court, yesterday, to ad- mit to boil the prisoner Moore, charged with having murdered the captain of the Robert L, Lane. We have published the testimony before the Commissioner very fully. Judge Hall has re- served his decision. The investigation into the Eighth avenue abor. tion , case was continued yesterday, before City Judge McCann, at Chambers. After briefly addressing the witness, Augustus L. Simms, the Judge ordered him to be committed to the Tombs as an accessory before the fact. Officer Cosgriff took charge of him and con veyed him there, to await the action of the The ease will be resumed at the same place on Saturday morning next at ten o'clock. viet i espera “em Meazico, brovch. bv the steamer Early yesterday merming the skaters were to pg . | bull, with equal truth, ism, statesmanship, conservatism and common sense, in opposition to the fanatics and radicals of the stripe of Sumner, Wil@n and Wade. There is nothing clearer inthe coustitution than that only Congress can suspend the writ of habeas corpus; for the exception is in the list of the prohibitions und restrictions im- posed upon the legislative body, and nowhere is any authority given to the President, much less to members of his Cabinet. to suspend this great privilege ot the citizen. The Secre- tary of War is, therefore, responsible for all the arrests made by his order in the Joyal States without cause, and without affording a judicial hearing to the parties so arrested. And if the Attorney General has advised such arrests he, too, is responsible, and no bill of indemnity can save them. It is idle for Mr. Stevens to refer to English precedents. In the British form of government the Parliamest is sot controlled by a written constitution which declares that no ex-post fucto bills shall hecome law. In onr | form of government the case is entirely diffe- rent. ‘The constitution stands supreme above any act of Congress. itself has no | right to suspend the writ | in times of rebellion or invasion, “unless the public safety may require it. | invasion, ant yet no suspension has ever tak | place till now, even in the rebellious di lan attempt to suspend it was made during t | ation of Mr. Jetferson, on the occasion | of Aa in the | House of Representatives by a large majority. | At that lime nobody dreamed that it was in rhe Burr's conspiracy: bai it fa | power of the President, still less of the Secre. tary of War, to suspend the writ. In England | its violation by Charles 1. cost him his bead, and ever since it has never been suspended ex then | cept by the wuthority of Parliament, and ouly in the insurrections! istricts Mr. Sherman truly observes that the Amer le “have been exasperated at the and discharge md Mr. 'T | of these from any -ympathy with great feeling ow the subj an exercise of an uunecessary and arbitra I republicams may do these ubin, when they are in power, whut is to prevent democrats in power her erving their own sauce? The precedent is dongevows to liberty. and the moral effect has been bad: for it gave the impression to the world that the people of the Northern States were tainted with loyalty and could not be trusted, and that freedom of speech and of the press, gowranteed by the con jon. coald not he tolerated by the yor because it felt ite security ; was imperilled. }¢ was a libel an the loyal | people of the Nortb. there is b but because it power.” em w pment Thy SECRETARY oF Srave on Preven byenn | vention. Count Gurowski, in his recent}y pub- lished but already popular book, tells the ful- lowing good story about French interven” tion:—“Some simple minded persons from the | interior of the State of New York questioned Mr. Seward. in my presence, about Europe and ‘what they will do there!’ To this, with a voice | of the Delphic oracle. Seward responded tia! after all France is not bigger than the Siate of New York.” The Emperor Napoleon will appreciate this joke. ane _ WO Diese Proranity is THR Caniner.— The Count Adonis Gurowski bas recorded in his diary, in regard to the Cabinet, that “Mr. Blair is the only one who swears.’ Gurowski is mistaken: Secretary Stanton swears like a trooper when he gets a little excited, in spite of bis letters about “the Spirit of the Lord.” If Secretary Chase does not imdulge in pro® fanity, he has at least set all the country swear” ing at the troubles he bas caused by his mis- management of the finances and interferguce | with the war. } | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1862. Our radical, rabid and prevaricating oon- temporary of tho Jribune is a fit subject for neither the purposes of truthful and consistent argumeut nor the courtesies of a gentlemanly controversy. Affecting the rude honesty of the seedy fanatic, he practises the low devices of the slippery demagogue. His habits of thought hang about him like his garments, dirty and flying in the wind. With such a customer it is as difficult to reason as with a veteran from Sing Sing or an incurable from a lunatic asylum. As with the rest of the world, however, we must take our ill-tempered and intractable philosopher as we find him. Given to quiobling, doubling and dodging, ami ut- terly unscrupulous as he is in regard to the small matters of truth or consistency, we may stil hold him to the virtues of his own medi- cines. Ina word, taking up Greeley’s South- ern overtures for submission and his idea of a peace convention, we shall, at the hazard of being pronounced a confederate of Jeff. Davis, undertake a discussion of the chances of peace and reunion. With the pertinacity of a devotee to the mystery of perpetual motion, the Tribune ad- heres to its mysterious agents and overtares of peace from Richmond: These overtures, too, it*tappears, cover the broad question of the submission of the South to the Union, and upon the convenient basis of an armistice and # con- vention of all the States. Whether the secret agents of Louis Napoleon have been operating upon the minds of Jeff. Davia and his confeder- ates, or whether some of the democratic disciples of Horatio Seymour have found their way to and obtained a hearing at Richmond, is a secondary question. It is enough for our present purpose to know that Louis Napoleon is moving Heaven and earth to secure European media ion and an frmistioe between Washington and Rich- mond, and to be assured that, while Jeff. Davis hag been throwing out his feelers of submission, Abraham Lincoln is ready to listen to any rea- sonable overtures he may have to make. The late elections in the North have unm's- takably shown that the people of the loyal States are becoming restive and indignant in view of the wasteful extravagance and shocking mismanagements of the war under the malign influences of the abolition radiouls ; and we may therefore assume that in a tenfold greater degree the suffering people of the rebellious States are beginning to recoil against the terri- ble despotism of Davis and his hopeless resist- ance against the overwhelming forces and re- aources of the Union. To a great degree in the North, and to a greater degree in the South, im proportion to its pressure, the exhausting pro- cesses of this war are inclining the people of both sections to peace. May we not predict, then, that the Southern peace overtures, of which Greeley, J. Wesley Green and a few others have the monopoly at present, will soon be officially submitted to President Lincoln, and that they will embrace au armistice and a national convention? Axsuming that this pro- position will come to pass, what is there to pre- vent the initial step to peace—of an armistice? It may be adopted, leaving the hostile forces in the field and the blockade in stotuquo. Fixing the armistice at sixty or ninety days, to allow sufficient time for the election of @ national convention, the term might then be extended to await the issues of the conventien. Once in session, there can be ne doubt that the convention would agree upon the basis of a reunion, and substantially upon “the constitution asit is,” without requiring “the Union as it was.” Tu lieu thereof a new Union might be agreed npon, covering the continent, from the Russian possessions to the West India Islands and the Central American States, and comprehending, by our united military forces in the field, North and South, the expulsion of Louis Napoleon from Mexico, of Spain from the Island of Cuba, and of England from the Canadas and her wdjucent possessions. Thus we should establish the Monroe doctrine of European non-interven- tion in American affairs upon a comprehensive and permanent basis; and our power fully to accomplish this grand desideratium would be absolutely irresistible. We submit this peace programme to the con- sidevation of the Zrilune, upon the faith og Grecley’s positive intelligence of overtures of submission from the South, from the other reasons we have indicated, and from the belie that, shonid the war be protracted for twenty years. negotiations will have to settle it at last. Sont newspapers, and the numerous evidences »rted from individuals of the Union armics in the South, satisfy us that the people of the revolted States, reduced to the point of exhaustion, are getting sick and tired ofthis war. [, then, the people of the North are also b ming anxious for peace, and if def. Davis is ready to submit, and Abralbam Lincoln is ready Jo receive his overtures of sub. mission, why should we not have an armistice anf» national convention? Above all, looking to a permanent continental peace, why should not this convention agree upon a Union which hall embrace the continent, and enable us, | monr immensely increased sources of wealth, within a generation, all the expenses | costly war! re Orhier Strauns on a Prearimacn ro Unica. Quite « delegation of city politicians and office wtkere have just returned trom a journey to Utica, where they have heen to impress upon Horatio Seymour, the Governor elect, the im. portanee of the cliques and factions which they represent. and file their applications fer offee. One party, it let here on Hudson viver é@ were sbipwrecked on a steamer, politieal sandbar. and detained so that they found it w ntinue their journey, and returned to this Since werner Feymour was not eleeted by apy faction, bat, over and in spite of all, we trust that he will not give any of them any pledges, bat maintain a position untrammelled, free to act for the good of the State and nation, regardless of the political cliques and office seekers. Gonowsk’s Apvick vo THE Preston nv. ~The Count Gurowski's book seile like wildfire. A more piquant, amusing and sarcastic volume has not been issued from our press for some time. Many of the Count’s remarks are very honest, seneible and truthful. Here is bis ad- vice to President Lincoln, and we heartily en- dorse it:—"It were better, perhaps, for lsin- coln if he could muster courage and act by himself, according to hig nature, rather than follow so many or even any single adviser Levs and less I understand Mr. Lincoln; but, as his private secretary assures me he has grer,4 judgment and great energy, I suggested to the secretary to ‘yy to Lincoln that he should be more himself/’ Will not the President, take woge adyjeg even from Gurowskit Specalaters sad Monopelies—The Paper Thakere’ Com bination. A civil war always breeds speculators and Monopoliats, as corrupfou breeds all sorts of filthy worma and insects. The present war has been no exception to this rife. There is a set of men among us so lost to all feelings of pa” triotism and religion as to endeavor to make money out of our national distresses, and coin gold out of the tears of widows and orphans. Some of these mon are shoddy contractors, shipbrokers at two and a half per cent com- mission, sellers of kerosene and camphene casks for water barrels, dealers in spoiled pro- visions and rotten meats, or sutlers who retail liquid death at extravagant priges. Others, however, do not oppress the soldiers so much as the people generally. Some of this latter class raise the price of coal just as a bitter, cold winter is beginning to make the poor more miserable, Others run up the price of provi- sions and other necessaries of life, taking ad” vantage of Secretary Chase's currency muddle to cover up their criminality. Otbers still com- bine to increase the price of paper, and thus tax knowledge and déprive the people of their usual means of information. We are by no means sure that these paper patriots are not the worst of the whole gang. The nowspaper is no longer a ‘luxury among the American people. It is a vital necessity. The air is scarcely more essential to the physical life than the newspaper to the mental life of the nation. These paper monopolists are therefore the apostles of ignorance, of vice and of crime. By forming .a company and buying up all the rags in the market, they have succeeded in raising the price of the paper upon which our journal is printed overone hundred per cent. The price of writing paper has also been increased to forty-five and fifty cents a pound, and these speculators have purchased and stored away large stocks of it In order to keep up the prices. Those who hoard paper for such a purpose during times like these are almost as bad as those who atore away food during a famine, in order to grow rich by the starvation of others. Al- most every family has a peraonal intrest in this war, and relies upon the newspapers for information in regard to its loved ones. By depriving the people of their newspapers, the speculators deprive them of all peace, happi- ness and comfort. The newspaper proprietors cannot publish their journals at a beavy loss, and have already been obliged to raise their prices from two to three cents. If the rise in paper continues the price of newspapers must advance with it, until the cost reaches four, five or six cents a cepy. The result will be that very few persons cay afford to purchase newspapers, and almost universal ignorance of the affairs and condition of the country will prevail.’ At the head of the com- .bination of paper dealers who are laboring to effect this reault are Norman White, H. V. Butler, M. L. Seymour, E. P. Tileston, J. M. Hollingsworth and others. The first of these individuals is very well known. He is a man who is very pious and is greatly in fa. vor of Sabbatarianism. He led the crusade against newsboys,some time ago, and is now the director of the crusade against newspapers, Having tried te obtain a monopoly of Heaven, he is now anxious for a monopoly of paper. THe imagimes that he can control the actions of Providence, and now seeks to domineer over the mighty press. H. V. Butler is the’president of the associa- tion of paper monopolists; but he is over- shadowed by Norman White, J. M. Hollings- worth, and half a dozen others. Some of these dealers have large stores, crammed full of writing paper, which they refuse to sell, in order to force the price still higher. Several of these men are abolition- ists of the Garrison and Phillips school; but they no longer regard the constitution as “a piece of waste paper;” for waste paper is now much dearer to them than the constitution ever was. ‘Having failed to raise the irrepres- sible negro to the same status as the white man, they are now determined to degrade the white man to the ignorance of the negro, by making all newspapers, books and periodicals extravagantly expensive. If these persons sup- pose that either the newspaper proprietors or the public will submit to their extortions they’ are very greatly mistaken. There are means to overcome the paper combination, and these means will be used. In the first place, the newspaper proprietors will endeavor to make eontractS for a four or five years’ supply with manufacturers not belonging to this company of monopolists. In the second place, Con- gress will soon reduce the tariff on foreign pa- per from thirty to about three per cent, so that it may be on an equality with that manufactur- ed here. This reduction will be a direct bene. fit to the revenue of the country; for under the | present tariff no foreign paper is imported. while, if the tariff he reduced to three per cent— to correspond with the tax upon domestic paper--immense quantities will be immediately shipped to this country. In the third place, the newspaper proprietors throughout the country will combine and establish paper mills of their own, in order to supply the three, four or five hundred thousand pounds of paper used weekly in this city, and the proportionate amounts for other cities. One or the other of these measnres will soon be takes, and the paper monopolists will then be Jeft out in the eold. The certain defeat of their plans. however, does not make those plans less atrocious; and as Jong as an American newspaper is in existence these paper dealers will be pilloried for public cog- tempt and execration. Mone Work ron Govnnxon Seynour.--One of the first things which Governor Seymour ought to do, when he assumes office in Janua- ry, is to remove our present Police Commission- evs und nominate better men for theis places. The Governor has the power to remove these Commissioners “for canee;” and he will find cause enough for their removal in connection with the case of Mrs. Brinsmade. The investi- gation of that case showed what a precious set of samphe our Comnissioners are. Contrary to law, and in violation of their oaths of efiee, they have allowed this or that member of the Cabinet to use the police of this city as the instramente of his petty tyrannies, and bave permitted our station houses to be occupied as temporary Bastiles for the incarceration of per- soma guilty of no crime against any law, human «or divine. ‘To crown all, they have made a pretence of inquiring into the Brinsmade out- rage, and have sagely reported that somebody has been guilty of all sorts of crimes against Mrs. Brinsmade, but that nobody is to blame. ‘These facts show that our Police Commissioners either do not know or cannot perform thelr dutics under the laws, and consequently they ought to be removed, We hope that Governor Seymour will make » note of this\matter. Jacoumicar, ano Rueckirss TAMPERING wrre tax Coxrencr.—Our readers no doubt tae perused with no little astonishment, aad per- haps with some alarm, the bill published a few days ago in our journal, introduced by Mc Stevens, Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives No bombsbell thrown unexpectedly in the midst of a camp could have excited so much consternation as this financial bombshell has produced throughout the,country, The imme- diate effect on the Stock Exchange wag a rise in the price of gold, s stoppage in dealings ia government securities, and a “ upon fancy stocks instead, as was noted in ouF money arti- cle of Wednesday last, where it appears that gold rose to 132% and exchange to the enor- mous rate of 146%. What can Congress mean by tampering im ~ this wild and reckless manner with the our. rency of the country? As if things were aot already bad enough, asif the depreciation of our paper circulation and the enormous price of gold had not slready attained dimensions sp- palling enough, this- bill proposes te flood the country witli an increased cataract of irredeem- able paper... Well may it be said to:this rump of @ parliament, this fag end of a dying Con- gress, in the indignant language of Cicero:—- “Quosque tandem catalina, alnitere patientia nos~ tra?” : Already the country is suffering from aheavy depreciation of the currency; already the prices of the necessaries of life have risen in conse- quence of that depreciation to a ruinous height; and here we have Mr. Stevens—s petty lawyer from some obacuro village im Pennsylvania—a gentleman, as it is to be pre- sumed from his habits and associations, totally unacquainted with the correct theory or whole some practice of finance—introducing a bill virtually to banish gold altogether from the country, and to overflow us, already flooded as we are. with an additional avalanche of irre deemable paper. It seems like the expiring effort, the last dying convulsions of a Congress repudiuted by the na- tion, and no longer representing the voice and will of the people, to do the utmost injury it is capable of in its dying struggles. Language is scarcely adequate to express the true cha racter of this financial measure, sprung upom the country by the little financiers who have unfortunately for a short time longer the fate and destiny of the country in their hands. It seems like a vile and premeditated scheme to play into the hands of money brokers, stook- jobbers and usurious sharks, to the injury of the great body of the people, and especially to the ruin of the poor soldier, who is now fighting our battles for us.’ Shaved as they are and as they have been, depreciated as is their pay (which, though nominally thirteen dollars a month, is now in fact no more than eight or ten), here is aruthless attempt to rob them still more, and with thent all the. industrious and laboring people of the country. The time of this Congress is short; but in that short time what injury the Jacobinical and fa- natical elements at work in it may inflict upon the country is pretty evident from this begin- ning of evil. Ove Reations wit CuxtraL AMBpRICA.— Mr. Clay, the newly appointed Minister to Nica- ragua, is to leave to-day in the America for his post. Respectable Americans in the small Hispano. American republics have had not unfrequently- the mortification to observe the little attention that the representatives of their country pay to that propriety of conduct, both social and offi- cial, so essential to success in diplomatic relations. Whether it is an effect of that sort of general neglect produced by tropical climates on northern constitutions, or whether it is the result of the contempt ‘which our diplomatic agents in those countries as a general thing seem to take a pride in showing for the govern- ments and people whose friendship they are sent to cultivate, the fact is, that not many of them conduct themselves in a manner fit to impart to the inbabitants a correct idea of" the country they represent. Diplomatic agents are generally and natur- ally supposed to belong to the best class of the people from whom they are select- ed. Then what opinion can be formed of the dignity of a nation whose representative by his conduct places himself below the level of common society? What will be thought of the character of a government whose diplomatic minister, laying aside the duties of his honora- ble position, makes it his business to act, to all appearances, as hired agent for transit com- panies, or for the speculators and adventurers who wander about those countries in search of good luck? What friendly feelings can it be expected will be entertained for a nation whose representative, instead of propitiating them, insults the people of the country to which he is-accredited, or wounds their suscepti- bilities? Human nature is the same everywhere, and, the lese advanced in civilization a people is, the more unreasonable it would be to expect that it should overlook offences for the.sake.- of political expediency. As to the new Minister to Nicaragua, Mr. Olay,. a descendant of the honored orator and. states~ man, we need notexpress our confidénee in his. ability and exertions to vindicate our. diplo- magy in that country; for he is not only anable man, but a high-toned gentleman, capable og doing honcr to any high official position. Brooklym City News. ELection oF Cary Excimer ov Toe Broostys. Fina Dm PARTMENT. —The election for Chief Engineer of the Brook. lyn ire Department (Western district) resulteé inthe mee election of Mr. Jobn Cunningham by. the vote :— ¥r, Joka Conningham Mr. William Forey.. Majority for Mr, Canmin ‘The bonse of Pngine. ham. 58 pany Se. T—of which Mr. Cunningham was formerly foreman—was brilliantly ‘Ilu- Mminated jast night \o honor of the event. Finw at Fivmn Avewea Horm.—Between ten and eleven o'clock last night a fire occurred iv the drng store of Cas- weil, Mack & Co., under the Fifth Avenue Hotel, corner of Twenty-fonrth street. The firemen were quiexly at the premises and confined fhe fire to the back part of the gore, where it originated. The damage done to the stock and fixtures will amouns to about $6,000; insured for $15,000 in the Resolute, of New York, American, Na- tional, Mutnal, of Providence, and one ther city com- pany,’ Damage to the building, abeat $5,000; fally in- cured, The fre hore of the hovel was immediately applied, and the famer were kept subdued until the fre- men came, The two stearo fire engines of the hotel were also brought into nse, and aided much in stopping the progress of the flames. Chief Decker Fire. Marshal Baker were very early at the opene. ‘The Chief recalled the members of No. 9 truck, fh order to cut, away the ceiling to ascertain for certain that no concealed fire remained between the beatns, The Fire Marshal or. dored the arrest of @ colored man who was io the drng store, on suspicion of setting tire to the store. Sergeant Polly, of the Twenty-minth prec! directed the accused to be sent to the station house. credit te due to Sergeant Polly and the; un were for the very efficient manner they the At one time cea alarm was wantfested by the occupants o: ‘the hotel.

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