The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1863, Page 4

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Our intelligence from the South is startling. ‘The steamship Creole, from New Orleans, which arrived here yesterday evening, brings the news that the rebels made an attack on Galveston, Tex- a3, by land and water, ou New Year's day, and re- captured it. They made a bold assault on steam- ea protected by cotton bales, from behind which they poured so murderous afire upon our gun- boats that the Harriet Lane, well known in these waters, lad to succumb and was taken, after being boarded by the rebel sharp- shooters, and her captain (Wainwright) and most of her orew killed. The flagship Westfletd was blown up by her commander, Capt. Renshaw, in order to save her from capture; but unfortanatelyhe and his fizst lieutenant perished with her. The emall command under Colone; Bucriti, at Galveston, were nearly ail killed ‘or taken prisoners. We give & sketch of the vicinity of Galveston and a map to-day, together with some ‘account of the officers engaged in this disastrous affair. The Richmond Enquirer in describing it says:— General Magruder in his official despatch con cerning the capture of the Harriet Lane says:—‘'I have taken six hundred prisoners and a large quantity of valuable stores, arms, kc. The Har- Tiet Lane is but little injured.” Tt is said that she has been sent to sea to fol- ‘ow the same piratical course as the Alabama. * General Magruder commanded*the rebels, who numbered about 5,000. Colouel Burrill'’s troops did not exceed 300, Our loss is estimated at 160 killed and 200 taken prisoners. Later news from Vicksburg, by way of Cairo »Yesterday, states that Gencral Sherman's repulse was complete. The entire force, under General McClernand, re-embarked Saturday on transports, closely followed by the rebel advance, which, coming in range of ‘the gunboats, were driven back with severe loss. At the last accounts the entire fleet of transports, with troops, had arrived at Island No. 82, on the way to Napoleon. There {4 nothing definite from Banks or Farragut, though rumors of their advance are incirculation. Ov loss, ag near as could be ascertained, was six hun- dred killed, one thousand five hundred wounded, and one thousand missing. Asa kind of offset to this repulse we have the fact that Captain Moore, with one hundred men, attacked a camp of two hundred rebels at Hun- toon's Mills, thirty-five miles east of Fort Pillow, on the morning of the 8th. The rebels were com- pletely surprised. Sixteen of them were killed and forty-six ‘taken prisoners. Fifty horses and a lot of small arms were captured, ~ Tatelligence from the vicinity of Murfreesboro is to the eflect that General Bragg had fallen back to Tullahoma, to give his army rest. Tullahoma is situated on Rock creek, seventy-one miles from Nashville and thirty-two from Murfreesboro, and On the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, where it intercepts the McMinnville and Manchester road. According to a rebel despatch from Chattanooga, “the enemy (General Rosecrans),has advanced his line seven miles this side of Murfreesboro. He has been guilty of the most outrageous enormities stealing private property, robbing peaceable citi- zens and running off negroes." ‘The seoutes of General Burnside’s army hada reconaoiasance and skirmish with some of the re- del cavalry which had been hanging about ovrright wing near Stafford Court House for some days. Colonel Fenning, who commanded one party, went a6 far as Catlett's station on Saturday, and drove of some seventy of the enemy's cavalry. No large force was found in that vicinity. Despatches from Charleston on the 8th inst. con- tain some important news from Kinston, North Carolina, to the effect that our army are making immense preparations for an advance; rein, forcements are daily arriving from Suffolk, and that our forces at Morchead City and Newbern are fifty thousand strong, under commarid of Generay Poster. It was reported that they would probably attack Charleston, Wilmington, Weldon and Golds boro simultansousty. Telegraphic details (rom Newfoundland of the Haropean nowe by the Jara, dated to the 2d of January, are given in the Haxato this morning. The advices are five days later. The working men of Manchester had made an important demgnatration in support of the cause of the American Union, expressing at the same time their approval of the war aad emancipation golicy of President Liagola by the adoption of an NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1863. nn address of congratulation to him, The Mayor of Manchester presided, but aot in his official capa- city, and the negro Jackson, ex-coachman of Jeff, Davia, was on the platform. A Union effort “to coerce the South" found favor, and was endorsed by the resolutions. The revenue returns of Great Britain for 1362 show an increase amounting to twelve millions of dollars in the year, without cotton. The London Times argaesa from this that cotton is not king. The London Times earnestly advocates a con- tinued observance of strict neutrality in American affuirs by the goverament of England. Napoleon was about to despatch ten thousand additional troops to Mexico, the reinforcement being looked at as “indispensable” to secure the entry of his army into Mexico city. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Jura, from Londonderry on the 2d instant, passed Cape Race last Saturday at noon, on her voyage to Portland. A synopsis of her news, which is five days later, telegraphed from Newfoundland, was published in the Herat yes- terday (Sunday) morning, and full details’ from the same source are given to-day. The Liverpool cotton market closed on the 2d of January ata decline ranging from one-fourth to one-half of @ penny on all qualities from the quotations of the three previous days. Provisions were very dull. Breadstuffs were quiet but steady. Consols closed in London on the 2d instant at 924 a 92% for money. The inhabitants of Greece were still agitated warroly in favor of Prince Alfred of England for their king. The mails of the steamship Nova Scotian reach- ed this city from Portland early yesterday morn” ing. Our files, and the news details which they contain, have been fully anticipated by the Africa, at Boston. There was a gathcring of about seventy negro- worshippers in New Haven on the 8th instant, who called themselves the ‘ Union Mass State Convention of Connecticut." They went through the usual forms of balloting for candidates for State offices, under the direction of the radical Republican Central ‘Committee, and succeeded in bringing out the following candidates, who, of course, will be endorsed by the regular negro-wor- shipper’s convention, which will meet at the same place on the 21st instant:— Governor—William A. Buckingham. Lientenant Governor—Roger Averill. Se-retary of State—J. H. Trumbull. Treasurer—G. W. Coit. Comptroler—L. W. Cutler. . The rebel Congress, which adjourned on the 13th of October, will reassemble to-day in Rich- mond. It appears that Jim Lane’s contraband. sol- diers of Kansas have been fally recognized by the government, and are to be paid their thirteen dol- lars a month, the same as our volunteers who fought at South Mountain, Antietam and Frede- ricksburg. Lane has been ont to Leavenworth, trying to organize four or five more nigger regi- ments in Kansas. The Common Council of Newark, New Jersey, haye decided to redeem their Corporation currency when presented in sums of twenty-five dollars and upwards. ‘This notice ia intended for the benefit of brokers. “i An old, unmarried farmer, named Abraham Hershey, died in West Hempfield, Lancaster coua- ty, Pennsylvania, last week, and after bis burial fifty-three thousand dollars in gold and silver were found in his house. Mr. John J. Cisco, the Assistaut Treasurer of the United States, received at his house, on the Fifth avenue, on Saturday evening, Mr. Chase, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the representative financial gentlemen of the city. There was a free but informal interchange of views, and the meet. ing, which was a protracted one, was most agree. able and successful. A shocking accident occurred on board the gov- ernment transport Lillie, Captain Bourne in the lower bay, about three o’clock yesterday morn- ing. The accident was occasioned by the giving way of the arch of one of the furnaces, causing an explosion, by which three of her crew were in. stantly killed, and another fatally injared. The Lillie had been chartered by the government to go to Beaufort, S. C., and had started on her voyage when the accident occurred. Coroner Naumana has the cage in charge, and will conclude the in+ quest to-day. The second anniversary of the Christian Alli- ance was held at the City Assembly Rooms last @vening. From the reports furnished upon the occasion it appears that the society is in quite a flourishing condition. Rev. Dr. Tyng presided upon the occasion. Addresses were delivered by Rev. Drs. Gillette, Robinson and others. The stock market opeucd weak and lower on Saturday, in consequence of rumors that the Seeretary of the Trea- sury had come to town to negotiate a loan. But, on. its being officially announced by the Sub-Treasurer that he had no such intention, the market rallied, and, late in the day , prices advanced even higher than on Friday evening, ‘and closed vory buoyant. Gold sold in the merning at 18614, but rose to 138%% at the close. Exchange closed at 1615 @ 15234. Money was easy at five per cont. Cotton was quiet on Saturday at unchanged prices. Flour was in some instances 5c. lower, with sales of only 13,500 bbls, Wheat declinea 1c., with sales of 85,000 bushels, and corn ic., with sales of 50,000 bushels. O¢ pork, the sales were 2,800 bbis., at steady rates. Tho transactions in lard reached 4,000 packages, and in bacon, 1,900 boxes at unchanged quotations, Beef, butter, cheese, sugars, rice, oils, metals, molasses, fish, fruit, seeds and whalebone were Inactive. The demand was ‘active for Rio coffee, tallow, hay, wool and hider.aud | fair for leather, tobacco and whiskey—the latter article Closing at 40 4c. a dle. per gallon. Freights were dull. Important from the Gulf—The Recap. ture of Galveston by the Rebels. , The steamer Creole, from New Orleans, ar- rived here last night, with highly important news from Texas. It appears that, on the Ist of the present month, the rebels, who had long been meditating on a plan for the recon- quest of Galveston, suddenly and successfully carried out their design in the most decisive manner. The handful of troops, under com. mand of Colonel Burrill, were nearly all killed or captured, the commander being also slain. The steamer Harriet Lane was attacked by no less than four rebel cotton protected gunboats, and carried by boarding, after losing her captain and officers and many of ber crew; and Com- modore Renshaw, who also fell among the dead, had to blow up his flagship—the West- field—to prevent her from falling into the hands of thesrebel victors. The capture of Galveston itself, under ordi. nary circumstances, would not be of much im. portance ; but the defiant manner in which it was done, and thé serious loss of officers by which it was accompanied, and the capture oftie famous steamer Harriet Lane, are matters of considerable consequence. The capture of the Harriet Lane is not one of the most pleasing phases of this rebel success ; for, if she be not already at sem, she will very soon be sent forth to commit depredations on our commerce on the high seas, as the Alabama has so long been doing, and—fdr all that we might exnect from the blunders of the Navy Department—as the Oroto will soon be permitted to do. It is the duty of the government, in view of this “disaster, immediately to send to sea overy | efficiont ateamer that can be had, 6o that wo may be rid of these three corsairs. This is no time for jokes or dalliance—action alone is what the public demand. ‘The War—The Great Dificulty the Want of Brains at Washington. With the opening of this war by the rebel bombardment of Fort Sumter there was a sublime uprising of the people of the loyal States in behalf of the Union and in support of the administration which fully justified Mr. Secretary Seward’s anticipation that “the rebellion would be ended in ninety days. At the close of the year 1861 the general summing up of battles and sieges was heavily against us; but it only strengthened the courage and siaam in support of President Lincoln. Our great successes, East and West, of the first six months of 1862, and the prospect last June of the capture of Richmond before th@Fourth of July, had filled the public mind of the North with the idea, promulgated from Washington, that “the rebellion had culminated,” and that the end was close at hand. But when this universal and reasonable expectation was suddenly changed, by the terrible seven days’ battles in front of Rich- mond, into a prevailing apprehension that the country and the government were in immi- nent danger of destruction from the over- whelming rebel army of Virginia, a popular reaction commenced in the North against the manifest and manifold blunders of the conduc. tors of the war at Washington. The recall of General McClellan from the James river, and the consequent descent upon General Pope of the whole rebel army from the peninsula, and his disastrous retreat to the forts of Washing- ton, ripened this Northern popular reaction against the Marplots of the administration into a decided revolution in our. October and No- vember elections. The people of the great and populous loyal States, from the Hudson river to the Mississippi, rose up to express their disapprobation of the blind fanaticism, the blunders and the stupidi- ties which had been at length so fully betrayed in t¥e conduct of the war that they could be no longer excused. Conceding the honesty and patriotic motives and objects of President Lincoln, the people of the States indicated still demanded reform and such a reconstraction of the Cabinet as would secure a consistent, har- monious, earnest and successful prosecution of the war. Why not? The States involved in the rebellion comprehend a population of eight millions, of whioh three millions are African slaves. The loyal States embrace a population of twenty-three millions, of -which only one million are African slaves. We have, in fact, all things considered, a population of more than three to one against the rebellion. This, however, is but one item in the general contrast between the strength of the loyal and the weakness of the rebellious States. We have an army of over eight hundred thousand men in the field, thoroughly armed and equipped, with the most approved weapons, inventions and facilities of nfodern warfare, against a rebel army of less than half a million, indifferently armed and poorly supplied in every way com- pared with ours. We have a navy of from four to five hundred vessels of all sorts, equal in itself to an army of half million for the pur- poses of this war, against a rebel flest consisting of the Anglo-rebel steamer Alsbama, and one or two other reported “Flying Dutchmen.” We have unrestricted trade with all the world, and shipyards, faetories and foundries for war purposes beyond computation, while the rebellious States, occupied by an almost ex- clusively agricultural and heretofore com- paratively indolent people, are under an ex- hausting blockade. The government has thus been furnished with men, money. means ard appliances of all sorts, with a boundless prodi- gality, to put down this rebellion, while the States in revolt have been driven to every expe- dient of poverty to make good their desperate resistance. In cutting off for two years their great Southern staples from their accustomed markets, we have deprived them of the advan- tages of a solid capital of five hundred millions of money; and yet Jeff. Davis defies us and holds our fleets and armies at bay. With all these overwhelming forces, resources | and facilities of all kinds on our side, and with | generals, soldiers and sailors tried and ap- proved in many hard fought battles, where is the difficulty? The people have found it out, The difficulty is at Washington. They have indicated the remedy. The diMfeulty has been and is a want of brains among the supreme managers of the war that President Lincoln has around him ; the remedy is the re. moval of these blanderers and imbeciles, and the substitution of men of capacity and brains, Let us take, for example, a single case of the latest anaconda combinations of our War Office. It will hardly be disputed that, had the Banks expedition moved up the James river, with the Union forces already in that quarter, in con- junction with General Burnside’s advance upon Fredericksburg, Richmond would have, been ours by New Year's Day. And that this result would have been followed by a crushing victory over the rebel army in Tennessee we cannot doubt. But how stands the matter now? Let the news of the last ten days from the East and the West be (he answer. There is no parallel in modera history for such a squandering of military power and fe. sources as that which has marked and marks the management of this war at Washington The people, bearing the heavy burdens and lossea of this war, do not like this continued blundering, and will not much longer patiently endure it, We must again, and yet agafa, therefore, seriously admonish President Lincoln | that thiserinteriagamnsign must be suocessi-* in prope “ES emv? his 9 glo eden Cad only* onset ti rompeag A - ae “S eo men of an leness o' aroun Wire, and there will be “no snel er as fail. Tar Decuine or Sutr.asiErs.—It is a healthy sign of the times to see shinplasters of every kind; except those issued by the government, vanishing out of sight. Now that the people have made up their minds not to accept aay paper currency in fractional portions of dollars, save the postal currency, all the shinplasters, whether issued by corporations, banks or pri- vate iadjviduals, have begua rapidly te djgso- confidence of our loyal people and their enthu- | peat.” Tt was precisely the camo with postage stamps when they unpopular. At one preety them; but now they are only to be found in the bands of the cue which dally assembles at the Post Uffice to pave them redeemed. So, too, with the old Spanish sliver coin once so plenty all over the country. No sooner was if agreed upon by the public than it vanished like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck of # soli- tary sixpence behind. The shinplasters will all soon be gone in the same fashion. The Blessed Peacemakers. To that divine discourse oalled the Ser- mon on the Mount, the Lord and Saviour of the. world declared that “Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.” This sermon does not suit such modern gaints as Brother Beecher and Brother Cheever; but it is Christ’s own words, delivered not only to those disciples who were gathered around him, nearly eighteen centuries ago, a8 he sat beneath the @ep, sweet shade of Bee Arblteary Arrests and the Conée- Senator Cottamer, of 7Oe#au:- hes introduced a bill to restrit judicial procéedhigs to obtain redress for the ilfegal and arbitraty arsests made by members of the administration during the present war. Hé might as well bring in a bill to regulate the proceedings of State courts in the trial of er Isfor murder or in actions for the recovery of debt. ~ What is the cause of this movement on the part of the radicals in Congress? {t ia prompt ed by the foreboding of the retribution which | the laws of the land will soon award for out rages committed by official authority against unoffending eitizens. It appears from the re- cords in the State Department that during the last eighteen mouths the arbitrary arrests made by the administration amount to the enormous number of two thousand persons—men aud wo- men. In the beginning « few of these arrests— about one bundred in all—were made by the authority of Mr. Seward. They were chiefly in Maryland, whose principal city was in a dis- the olive trees on the Mount, but also to all his disciples in all countries and throughout all ages of the world. The gospel of Brother Beecher and Brother Cheever comes not from above, but from below—not from the blessed Mount, but from the bottomless pit—and ft teaches, not the virtues of peace, charity and goodwill, but the insane. dogmas of philosophy gone mad, of philanthropy possessed of the devil, and of fanaticism hypocritically assum- ing to be religion, forging the endorsement of Heaven to the utterances of Tophet, and wear- ing the livery of Jehovah while it docs tho work of Satan. “Blessed are the peacemakers,” however, in spite of Brothers Beecher and Cheever and their adherents, and especially blessed are those who shall succeed in making peace between the two hostile sections of this unhappy country. Among the great peacemakers who have been developed by our civil war, the most mighty, moral and magnificent is that celebrated ruler, traveller, author, prisoner, diplomat, adventurer, general, editor and Emperor, Louis Napoleon’ who comes with hands dripping with the blood shed in the Crimea, in Italy and in Mexico, to reconcile and unite those who were once bro- thera in heart, but are now, alas! brothers in arms. From the very commencement of our conflict Napoleon has been anxious to trya little friendly mediation, and witha Christian. like indifference to former failures he is now preparing to try again, and thus secure his in- heritance to the kingdom of heaven, even if he loses the kingdom of France. On this side the water, however, Napoleon has many rivals ia the peacemaking business. There is the Hon., James Brooks, who attempted a few evenings ago. before the Youag Men’s Democratic Club, to iustruct the Governor and Legislature of New Jersey how to end the war and save the Union. Why Mr. Brooks’ instruction, like his charity, does not begin at home,and why he does not first play the pedagogue with the Gev- ernor and Legislature of his own State, before making a pupil of the State of Netw Jersey— where he is little kmown and less esteemed— still remains a mystery. And there is Wil- liam Colorado Jewett, who is a great aa3, @ great peacemaker, and a partner with Greeley, the great philosopher, in some speculations with tracts of gold quartz in Colorado Territory. And there is Mr. J- Wesley Greene, recently of the State prison, whose peace propositions really amounted to something, since he received one bundred dol. lars from President Lincoln and had his bio- graphy published in the Police Gazette. And there is John Van Buren, who is perpetually boasting of kis correspondence with the rebels, and work- ing hard for peace and the Senate. And there is the Hon. l’ernando Wood, who mado a peace speech, one fine Saturday night, based upon private information which everybody knew, and full of obscure, oracalar statements which meant nothing. And there, also, is poor Gree. ley, who, not satisfied with having done all he could to cause the war, now wishes to save himself from eternal torment by doing some- thing toend it, provided allthe negroes are freed and all the white men enslaved. This is a list of peacemakers who are “ blessed” in- jeed. But the father of all these peacemakera—the fons et origo of all their propositions— is «a comparatively unknown individual, Mr. Major William Chase Baraey, of this city. The Hon. James Brooks obtained his peace information from Barney. The facts upon which the Hon. Fernando Wood based his powerful speech were furnished by Barney. The ideas of the Hon. John Van Buren—if he has any— probably come from Barney. Colorado Jewett, in spite of his endeavors to set himself up as an independent diplomatist, bases his secret missions upon the statement of Barney. It is only natural to suppose that J. Wesley Greeno stole his peace proposals from somebody, and that somebody must have been Barney. Poor Greeley (who once published private corres- pondence purloined frem the Custem House by Lyon Mackenzie) shared Wesley Greeno’s plun- | der, and was more fully posted by a friend who | had pumped the uews from Barney. Even the } Emperor Napoleon, who claims his peace opin. ions as original, but has his spies everywhere, | is perhaps indebted for most of his knowledgeto | Barney. William Chase Barney is, therefore, | the great peacemaker of the age, and all his rivals have been using his thunder. Just what Barney's propositions are our readera may | learn from bis letters, which we procared | from Washington and published yesterday | morning. Barney's statements amount to just this:—That while a prisoner in Richmond, last October, he was told by prominent rebels that if the conservatives were suceessful in the receat elections, and if a general amnesty were | granted, the South would send representatives to the next Congress as usual. As no notice was taken of this proposal by the government, as France seems determined to interfere, and as the emancipsties proclamation bas been issued De hat the rebels would not now _ weadhere to the terms they offered vetober. That ends William Chase Barney's peacemaking, therefore; but bis letters will be valuable for reference, and his efforts will be bet- ter appreciated at some future day. However | silly or fatile such attempts at peacemaking may appear now, a peace will come sooner or later: We cannot go on forever cutting each other's throats, deluging the land with blood, heaping up piles of corpses and squandering millions of money in an endless, aimless, indecisive contest By and by the war will cease, andif it cease gio. riously and happily those who achieve this con- summation so devoutly to be wished—whether they eome from the Richmond prison, the State prison or the prison at Ham—will well deserve the benison, “Blessed are the peacemakers; for her aball be called the children of God.” 3 | sioners, turbed state, bordering on insurrection, if noy fully amounting to that condition, and they were, for the moat part, in the cases of persons who were actually engaged in doing wrong, or whose conduct gave some color for the high” handed proceedings against them. These per- sons, however, were not brought to trial ia order to ascertain their guilt or innocence, as the constitution directs, but were “kept in pro. tracted confinement. The popular feeling was 80 great in consequence of these measures that the Secretary of State declined to proceed any further in the business, and handed over to the War Department the direction of aysystem which was only fit for an Emperor of Austria, a Crar of Russia, a despot of France, a Sultan of Turkey, or the head of some other absolute government. Mr. Cameron next took it in hand, and continued to play out the role which had. been thus abandoned by the head of the State Department. Among others Pierce Butler, of Philadelphia, was seized by his authority. But when Charles Ingersoll, of the same city, was arrested for the legitimate expression of bis opinion at a political meeting, such a flame of popular indignation was kindled in Pennsylvania that Mr. Cameron, like a man of sense and proper feeling, shrank back, and refused any longer to. pander to the malignant and hellish passions of the radicals, who emu- lated the bloodthirsty feroeity of the Jacobins of the French Revolution, and insisted upon having every man arrested who opposed their political opinions, or against whom they enter- tained the slightest prejudice or the shadow of asuspicion. Next Mr. Stanton appeared on the stage. He became successor to Mr. Cameron: He was not a man to be daunted by trifles. Constitations, forme of law, popular sentiment, were of no account. He arrested right and left, with or without cause, women as well as men (it made no difference to him), till the list of vic" tims swelled up to the number of two theusand’ |* tion itself plainly shows; for it ia to Congress alone the right to suspend the habeas corpus is For two hundred years no Kalish monarch has ventured to suspend the habeas cofpis. The exampte of unhappy Charles . has proved & st it warning to his successors. No Ame. rican President has ever foye suspended it. No Congress has ever enacted its aiidpSbsion. It is the most sacred right of the Angle-Saxom race, whether ia the Old World or the New. ven if ihe habeas corpus had been right- fully and constitutionally suspended, and the arrests had been properly made under such suspension, there would still be no legal justi- fication for the protracted impsisonment of a twelvemonth. It is certain, however, that the privilege of habeas corpus was not suspended as the constitution directs, and the suspension is null and void. But Mr. Collamer says his bill will transfer all the suits for arbitrary arrests to the Circuit Court of the United States, and that good faith and probable cause will be a good defence; or, if damages should be award- ed, they can only be for real injury, and nothing in the way of punitive infliction. The Senator from Vermont might as well bring in a bill to abolish the constitution of the United States at once. If Congress even had the power—which i¢ has’ not—to regulate actions for damages, and te transfer them from State courts to federal, it could -onlg do so in reference to wrongs committed after the passage of the act, and not those com- mitted before. It is an express. provision of the constitution that Congress cannot pass an ex post facto law. Alt such laws would be pro- nounced n@Nities by the courts. Neither ist in the power of Congress to appropriate a sum of money to indemnify any officer of the federat governmest for the amount of damages recover- ed from him*ia suits of law for arbitrary arresta- for the simple reason that it is unconstitutional and unjust to compel the people to pay for the outrages inflicted on themselves. As to what damages a jury may award, that can never be regulated by Congress. {t depends on the will of twelve men in the jury box; and, thank God, that institution still remains to the people. Besides, in the State of New York aad other States, there are laws for the criminal prosecu- tion of such offenders, and, in the event of a conviction, no amount of money can buy off immunity from the penalties. In addition to these remedies the offenders are liable to im- peachment. This is not to be expected from the present Céngtess; but there can be little doubt that e future House of Representatives will impeach every officer of the fedoral govern- ment who bas taken any part in the late arbi- ‘trary arrests, or otherwise sought to subvert the constitution aad-taws. Governor Seymour wilf open the bail inthe spring, and the move. ment-will go-on till all those who have dared to play the-deapot in @ free:country: shall -have reaped the due reward of their deeds. Some of them were kidnapped at dead of aight | Tne Campatge in ‘Tennessee—Generat and carried out of their -owa loyal States to federal fortresses in other States a thousand miles. But the counter revolution which set in throughout the Middle and Western States—in- cluding Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsyivania’ New Jersey and New York—brought the ad- ministration somewhat to its senses. The prison doors were thrown open, and it was found that some of the inmates had died from the effects of the cruel impriscament, and others had been made subjects for lunatic aslyums. The health and fortunes of most had been broken. What ameunt of pecuniary recompense could do them justice? From some an oath had been extorted not to bring suits for damages against the Secre tary of War—an oath neither binding in law nor upon any human conscience. They had been de- prived of their liberty and subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment,” without cause, and they were now released without knowing the charges against them, or even the names of their accusers. Thus was realized in this land of liberty the almost incredible horrors we have vead of in the despotisms of the Old World. In truth, the tyrants at Washington outstripped the autocrats at Paris, Vienna, St. Petersburg and elsewhere; for they treated New York, Penusyl- vania, Ohio, Indiana and other loyal States as if they weve in insurrection, and- appointed provost marshals over them to supersede the constitution, the laws and the officers of justice— these provost marshals being wholly unknown in any part of the world, except within the lines of an army in the field. Their business is to execute martial law, whose sphere is the camp. The worst despots of the earth do not introduce such appliances in those portions of their dominions which are not only obedient to the laws, but loyal to the government, and shedding their blood and treasare like water ia ite support. : ‘The etection of HoratioSeymour as Governor of this State was one of the first fruits of this atrocieus system. In his inaugural address he was prompt to declare his determination to prevent io future these outrageous violations of “the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the State.” In his message to the Senate he issued a mani- festo, in which he exposed and sternly de- nounced the arbitrary and unconstitutional pro- ceedings of the War Department; and one of his first official acts wasto cite be- fore him the Metropolitan Police Commis- who played a part subordinate te the hero of the drama at Washington. They claimed time to make atrangements for their defence. It was given them. But in the spring let them be well prepared; for it is then the intention of Governor Seymour to hold a solemn and thorough investigation before the judges in this city, when witnesses from all quarters will be on hand, and all the mysteries of the bastiles will be revealed. Let the guilty tvemble for what awaits them. When all the facts are brought to light, it will be found that the amiable and patriotic President knew nothing of what was going on; for, if he had. he never would have sanctioned such acis, but’ ‘on the contrary, would have removed from office those who had so flagrantly abused the trust confided to thom, For them a day of reckoning is at hand. Mr. Collamer, with great naivele, in his speech introducing his bill, says it “authorizes every person who has been wrongfully used to bring asuit.” Surely the wrongfully used must feel deeply obliged to Mr. Collamer for his conde- soension. Where did Congress get the power to give any person authority to bring a suit, or the power to prevent it? Ho might as well say Congress could give the citizens of New York authority to eat, drink, sleep and breathe, He says if the habeas corpus has been wrong- fully suspended by the Executive, that ts no reason we should smother up unconstitu- tional aote by suspending all other laws. That it has been wrongfully augponded (hs qonatiiu, Meeesrans’ Labors. Our correspondent’s detailed account of the five days’ conflict in front of Murfreesboro, which we published Friday morning, expisios in part the plans upon whieh General Rosecrans fought, and reveals the truth that, by the care- leseness of some of his subordinate officers, hi, well laid plaus were nearly overthrown. In his official despatch of January 5 General Rose, crans saye:—Qur entire success on the slat ult. was prevented by a surprise of the right flank; but we have nevertheless beaten the enemy after a three days’fight.” The official history, whioh will explain the blunder bere charged by the use of the word “surprise,” will be looked for with the deepest iaterest, aud the public will demand that the guilty officer who retards our campaigns in the West shall be punished, General Rosecrans has certainly demonstrated that he is an officer of great nerve and daring- At the time of bia attack on Bragg’s superior force be was cut off from supplies and from re- inforeements. He began the contes: with a ter- rible disaster—the defeat of his right wing. His genius here revealed itself in a brilliant manceuvre--the massing of his artillery—by which the right wing was saved from total aa- nibilation and the enemy repulsed with terrible slaughter. By the brilliant achievement of Gene- ral Negley, in breaking and turning the rebel right wing, the contest was decided, but too late on Friday to permit us to follow up the advantages gained. On Saturday a vigorous shelling of the rebel position was all that could be done in the midst of adrenching rain. Dur- ing the night the enemy evacuated. Thus the great victory has been in a great measure ren. dered barren of results by the imbecility which exposed the right wing to danger and destruc- tion. The brilliant and dashing charge of General Negley, by which the rebel right was turned, must add rauch to the reputation of that brave young commander. He is represented aa hav- ing displayed greatégallantry and much splendid generalship, and to have been the true hero of the fight on Friday. He has long been recog- nized as a splendid disciplinarian, and his affairs of Lavergne, Nashville and Goodlettsville but gave promise of his last splendid achievement. The task now beforé Geueral Rosecrans is one much more serious and difficult than that just finished. The labors of Hercules are but begun. He has failed to destroy the rebel army, and must make another attempt. Our latest despatches represent Bragg at Shelby- ville, south of the important stream of Duck river. From Murfreesboro to Shelbyville must be another campaign. General Rosecrans can- not immediately follow. His ‘army mast be recruited.and his communications with Nash- ville and the North re-established. Nashville was the grand objective point ot the campaign of last winter from Louisville, But there is legitimately no objective poiat south from Nashville for a campeign from that city. Nashville cannot be legitimately a base ot operations. as for nine months of the year it is cut off entirely from rail or water communica- tions with the rest of the sountry, The Tea” nessee and Camberland rivers are aot aavigw ble half the time, and experience has shown the impractieability of railroads, hundreds af miles in length, as a means of supply. To appear in front of Chattanooge Generat Rosecrans would have to operate over threo haadsed and fifty miles from bis actual base of supplies at Louisville, railroads being his only means of s To operate against Knoxville he would bave one hundred and thiety miles to wagon his supplies from, Nash- ville, and over a mountainous country-‘with no tarnpikes. If, then, he makes a campaign againat Chattanooga or Knoxville, bis army, will, in the } first place, be swallowed up in guarding a rail. | coed, and in the latter exoose Nehyille to cag.