The New York Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1863, Page 4

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The Waexty Hieratp, with its increasing circulation, is ‘capital medium for advertisoments designed to reach the notice of country dealers and merchants. THE SITUATION. The Army of the Potomac has once more been ordered to crosa the Rappahannock. The news from Washington states that General Hooker's division went over on Wednesday; and all the reports from Richmond confirm the statements that the Union army ‘was about to cross above and below Fredericksbarg, and that an early attack on Gencral Lee's forces was imminent. General Burnside has issued an address to his soldier’ announcing that they were about to be led against the enemy, The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas, he says, have divided and weakened the enemy on the Rap- Pahannock, and the auspicious moment seems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal blow to the rebellion, and to gain that decisive victory which is due to the country. ‘ster despatches from headquarters last night s ‘s that the storm which has raged there 1 ‘he last three days, has left the roads in a 1 « ble condition, and that there was no prospect « .n immediate change. As far as known, how- ever, no action had taken place up to yesterday evening. us A despatch received at Charleston from Kins- ton, N. C., on the 15th, says ‘‘that our troops drove in the rebel pickets cighteen miles below the day previous, and that it is aupposed to be a strong force advance. Our forces are build- ing Cove creek, which doubtless a feint to cover their movements on Wilmington or Weldon. thousand strong, and have twenty days’ rations. The Yankee gunboats attacked Fort Caswell on the 13th, but without arriving at any result. A fight ia expected here, at Kinston, within three dan? in bridges over is The federals are sixty The capture of a rebel defence below Fort Cas- well by Lieutenant Cushing, has been before re- ported in these columns, Some fears were entertained for the safety of our iron-clads, the Weehawken and Nahant, in the late storm, but it will be seen that the former steamer got safely into Fortress Monroe, although several powerful tug boats were compelled to seck shelter. The Nahant also reached Lewes, Del., in safety, facta which prove that the iron- clads are able to stand a heavy sea. The rebel papers state that an unsuccessful at- tempt was made to run the blockade off Charles- ton on the 19th. A vessel, supposed to be the steamer Huntress, laden with four hundred bales of cotton, endeavored to get out, but failed tu | do #o, and was burnt off the mouth of the Swash | | channel on the night of the 21st. An interesting case, arising out of the captu of the British ship Admiral by a United States cruisen for attempting to run the blockade of the port of Savannah, has just been heard in the Liverpool Court of Passage, before the Assessor, A number of seamen who had agreed to serve on Doard the Admiral into and out of ‘‘safe"’ ports in North or South America, brought an action against the owners of the veasel for ex- * wares and compensation for the time ey wero detained and ill-treated on | ard the United States cruiser ‘ r } At the captain altered the course of the | i attempted to ron | Savannat 1 | d port, and conse t! he | vee was that t! wot know that the por was block 1, and that his vessel was ‘ towed over the bar of Port Royal by United State tamer which seized — hor pre tence of furnishing her water and oil.’ The seamen acknowledged that the C Protested at the time of the arrest, in tne presence | of all the crew, to the United States officer, a. tate aptain ens ‘nh him of having thus decoyed him into the tine of t! lockade, The Assesaut decided that the men f he paid; but leave was given to the ownors viral to appeal the case to the Court of N CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the credentials of Hon. David Turpic, elected Senator from Indiana, were presented. A petition for the relief of the widow of Thomas Gregg, the original inventor of iron- clad vessels, was also presented, A joint resolu- tion was offered directing the Secretary of the Navy not to accept @ title to League Island until Congress shall so direct. A motion to refer the subject to the Naval Committee was rejected—12 against 25. Petitions from the daughters'and sis- ters of Commodore Renshaw and Commander Wain- wright respectively, both of whom were killed at Galveston, asking for pensions, were presented and refurred. A resolution directing inquiry as to the expediency of publishing monthly the names of all officers of the army who are absent on leave was adopted. The bill amendatory of the act es- tablishing the grade of line officers of the navy was called up and discussed, but no action taken, The subject of annulling treaties with the Sioux Indians and affording relief to the sufferers by the Indian outrages in Minnesota was debated and laid aside till to-day. The bill reimbursing Minnesota for Indian war expenses was passed, The bill to provide greater comfort for sick and wounded soldiers and promote the efficiency of the medical department was then taken ap, In the course of the debate Mr: Rice said that ‘‘al- though a member of the Military Committee he had been able to get no accurate information from any department of the government as to the number gf men in the army or in the hospitals, ‘They sent here estimates for one million two hun- dred thousand men, and some of them for one million five hundred thousand men; but none of them could tell within fffty per cent what the real number was. They were al- ways asking for anincrease of rank and pay, The ery was for money, money, money; and none of them could tell what for. There secmed to be no order in the departments at all."’ After an ex- ecutive session the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives a bill providing for a Deputy Register of the Treasury, at $2,500 per annum, and extending for two years the terms of office ‘of Assistant Secretaries of War, was passed. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the bill providing ways and means ‘or the support of the government. A number of ‘mportant amendments were adopted. The bill, so far as it has been amended, may be found ap- pended to the report of the Congressional proceed- ‘ngs in to-day’s Heranr. THE LEGISLATURE. In our State Senate yesterday a message was re- ceived from Governor Seymour in response to the resolution of that body requesting him to call out the militia or to take such other measures as he might deem necessary to prevent a riot in the Assembly chamber. The Governor states his de~ termination to preserve order in the capital, but reminds the Senators that he cannot act at their request, as he can only interfere when members of the Assembly call on him for protection. He has- however, he informs them, made such arrange- menta with the Mayor of the city as he believes will prevent any riotous proceedings. The mes- sage. was read and ordered to be printed. A bill to incorporate the Harlem Savings Bank was intto- duced. A resolation to pay the New York soldiers in our army out of the State treasury, in the form of a loan to the national government, was offered, and laid over under the rule. But little other business of general interest was transacted. The Assembly met at twelve o'clock, but ad- journed without taking any vote for Speaker or transacting any other business, the day's session being taken up with the speeches of members. Judge Dean, of this city, the democratic candidate for the Speakership, withdrew from. the contest, and nominated as his successor Mr. Eliphaz Trim- mer, of Monroe county. It is thought probable that an organization of some kind will be effected to-day. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The storm on Wednesday night was of greater violence than supposed at first, but, singularly enough, was not fruitful in any serious accidents to property in this city. On the water it is feared many accidents will be reported in the course of a day or tw. All the steamboats from the East were unusually late in the hour of their arrival at this city, as will be seen by the reports ia our co- lumns of marine news. A Fortress Monroe despatch of yesterday an- nounces the safe arrival of the iron-clad Weehawken in Hampton Roads. The telegraph announced yesterday that the nogro-worshippers in the Wisconsin Legislature had nominated for re-election to the United States Senate Hon. James R. Doolittle. The conserva- tive members have not yet settled upon a can- didate. Itis not certain which party candidate will be elected, as there is considerable doubt about the political sentiments of some of the members, particularly those who were voted for by both parties, and who claim the designation of Unionists. As a faction they unquestionably hold the balance of power, and are therefore able to control the election. The following is the politi- cal complexion of the two houses: Senate. House. Conservatives. .........+ 16 48 Negro-worshippers 16 45 Unionists ........ 6 Doubtful... .. +. paced ae The ticket nominated by the nigger-worshippers’ State Convention of Connecticut, which met in New Haven on Wednesday, is the same as that brought forward by the so-called Union Conven tion of that State. It consists of all of the pre- sent State officers. The Adjutant General of Connecticut has issued an amnesty to all military offenders in that State. In general orders he says:--‘‘All persons who by enlistment or draft owe service to the State, and who have not heen arrested, or who have not been mustered into the service of United States, are serviee, and all war- hereby diacharged from # urtment re hereby revoked.”” » pall by the government , on Wednesday, to recom- pe wners in the District of Columbia for the emancipation of their slaves, The soldiers in the field yet remain unpaid. Prof. 0. A. Brownson (white man), Fred. Doug lass (colored man) and T, W. Brown, a ga chief (red man), are léctaring in Chicago. ‘Tho officers and crew of the United States gun- boat Chippewa, at Gibraltar, have contributed $270 for the relief of the suffering operatives in ithoriiy from this or 3 is One 1 to the Comm lav England. There are 6.567 yates in the public insu! f the city at preseat—am fnerea of aweek. The vomber admitted during | the k was 1,985, and A 4 been introdu finnesota Le- outlaw ot indiwas and balf breeds ure outside the limits of the reserva. The ace City of Hertford stil remains Oh t ersrock. !veparations | a rolfe y completed, and the | \ n 1 tu w be to pud her on the dry de 2 the ©ou se of twoer three days A State Convention of the rvative party of fowa has b ed, to meet at Des Moines on tue 2oth of May © Board of Cevucilmen last ever rent was received from the Compt containing the returns made (o his department by Sixth and Railroed companies rit } of their re if 7 EW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1863. Avenue Railroad daring that amounted to $117,094 16, and of the Bighth Ave- nue to $123,085 68, ‘The paper was ordered to be. printed in the minutes. A report fromthe Comp- troller, to haye the war and relief ordinances le- galiaed by the State Legislature, and making pro- vision for the payment of the game, was adopted. Mr. James M. Sweeney, Clerk of the Board, stated in a communication that he had reappointed his former assistants and messengers. On motion, the Board then adjourned until Thuraday evening next, at five o'clock. ‘rhe stock market continues very active, but the move mont of prices was irregular yesterday Pacific Mail ad vanced tea per ceat, and Harlem preferred declined cle ven. Other securities fluctuated actively. Gold sold at 147}, a 147%, closing 148 bid. Exchange was lower; bankers’ bills sold at 162). Monoy was easy at 6 per cont. Cotton was @ shade firmor and in fair request yester- day. Flour, wheat and corn also advanced a abade, with liberal sales. ‘There waa tess activity im provisions and whiskey, but prices were supported. | The principal movements iv groceries were the sales of Rio cofloe, black teas and East India rice at buoyant prices. The transactions were fair in bay, hides, leather, taliow and tobacco, and moderate in fish, fruit, metals, oils, seeds and spices. hore were rather more extensive freight engagements reported, and rates to Liverpool wore quoted a shade better. ‘The Campaign im Virginia and North Carolina—Great Events at Hand. The late mysterious and oppressive silence in regard to the army of the Potomac is byoken: In his general orders of Tuesday iast, the publi* cation of which is-atthorized, Gen. Burnside announced that his army “is about to meet the enemy once more;” that the late brilliant ac- tions for the Union cause “in North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas have divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock,” and that thus’ the “auspicious moment gems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal biow to the rebellion.” ‘This is the substance of the address of Gen Burnside to his army on the 20th instant; and onthe evening of the 19th it was reported, and confirmed by passengers who had just arrived at Richmond, that the Union forces had crossed over the river, and were above and below Fredericksburg. From this it is evident that Gen. Burnside has divided his army into two columns, and has advanced one against the right and the other against the left flank of the enemy, with the rebel defences on the heights of Fredericksburg between these two advancing columns. From this circumstance we must conclude that there is no mistake regarding the reduction of the enemy's forces; for otherwise we might justly consider this division of his army as an ex- tremely hazardous experiment. The greatest victories of Napoleon were gained by this sim- ple operation of dividing the opposing army; and, with anything like an equal force, General Lee would probably prefer this attack upow his flanks to another unbroken assault from the front. We conclude, accordingly, that General Burnside is positively advised of the actual strength of the enemy, and is well assured that his present movement is absolutely certain of success. The heavy rains of the last two days have doubtless interfered with his plans of an immediate engagement; but if the enemy have not fallen back this day may, perhaps, substan- tially decide the fate of the rebellion. But while the campaign in Virginia is thus brought to the verge of a decisive battle, or a disastrous retreat to the enemy to avoid a bat- tle, it appears that great events ure also at band in North Carolina. From rebel sources, by way of Charleston, an army of sixty thousand men, under General Foster, is reported to be advanc- ing upon Wilmington or Weldon. The first named place is an important seaport, where the rebels are believed to have an immense amount of army supplies and naval stores accumulated: Weldon is at the junction of several important railroads not far from the Virginia border, and its occupation by General Foster would seri- ously cripple the rebel army of Virginia in cutting off its main arteries of subsistence. Wilmington or Weldon, if captured, will be a great acquisition: but whether the one or the other will be the point first assailed we must leave the event to determine. It will suffice for the present that, while General Burnside is advancing upon the rebel army of Virginia, General Foster is effectually suspending all reinforcements to Lee from North Carolina. The prospect in Virginia and in North Carolina is cheering. and we may confidently expect within a few days the tidings of not one, but of a series of great and decisive Union victories in the East, and close upon them another budget of rebel disasters ia the West, Now is the time for action, and we have still good ground for the hope that this hitherto melancholy month of January will end with the record of our greatest victorie’S of the war. Bent. Roy Resse... ano tas New York Heraro. —We called the attention of our readers yes- terday to the sudden conversion of the London Times to the views entertained by the conserva- tive and truly conscientious portion of our peo- ple upon the subject of slavery. The Times, hitherto the enemy of negro thraldom, now de- fends the “institution’’ upon Seriptural autho- rity, asserting that there is much in Holy Writ to justify it. We are neither edified nor astonished ai this turn about and jump about movement of the blatant “Thunderer,” as the English people love to style their tyrant, but would simply desire to hand over to its careful consideration the fol- lowing extract from its late special correspond- ent’s letters from this country, which are now hashed up asa diary. Upon this very subject of slavery Bull Run Russell, who never lost a chance of saying something which he intended should be ungracious about this country, always coupled with some feeble animadversions against us, took the following bigh ground: We cull this extract from his diary:— Among the passengers to whom [ was introduced was the Bishop of Georgia, the Rev. Mr. Eiiott,a man of ox ceeding flac presence, of great stature and handsome face, with a manner easy and graceful, but we got on the vopfortunate subject of ¢lavery, and I ratuer revolted at Learing @ Christian prelate advoeating the institusion on eriptu — Ths al Bidtical sanction and ordinance as the basis ory was not new tome, though it js not mue! other side of the Atlantic. | had read jn a work on clewery that jt was permitted by both the Seriptures nov stitution of the Cuited States, and that it must, therefore, be doubly right, A uation that ich interpretations of the Scriptures, ad the New York Henanp, seemed corporate existence. The malum vate Wos Ube only © 1) /t8 Crass senses could detect, to malum per se war \\e good if it only came cowered - Fo oF Mold. The miserable maphiste who expose = ty che contempt of the world by their paltey re origit. and use of slavery are than the wretched pigots could approv 90. on the propriety of burn essity for the offices of thedn- or the Seathern confederacy shall achiew® ite fo mateer what its roseurces, its allies of it wl bage to stad face to face with vivilized ‘on this question of slavery, and the s derived (rom the wgis of the constitvati vie ton. 0 Yongue’with the Gevil aad corenaut with gell’—will be Sered aud gone What will “Ball Run” say now/that the Times + | bas followed our example and ranged iu our sth | wake; us whoin he bates 80 s intensely, becanse | sideration” if they interfere, although we pro- Wo were oblived to drive the fellow away from our armies, as we detected amid all his folly & apice of knavery and a full determination to ‘injure the cause of the North. Will he con- clude, now that the Times has taken up the defence of slavery, that “Great Britain, a nation which reads the Times, is ripe for destruction ‘8 & corporate existence.” Poor “Bull Run,” of all his errors none will ere long remain to solace him, we fear, save his hatred of the New York Herat. He will manage, we dare say, somehow to drag our name into his epitaph- Poor, weak, silly Bull Run Russell. The Last Radical Progremme of the War. We find in yesterday's Tribune. the last radi- cal programme of the war. As the Tribune editor has but recently returned from Washing- ton, where he held conferences and cac1:1¢" with the leaders of the abolition party in Von gress and the Cabinet, we may regard this pro- Gramme as official. Its features may be summed up in these few words:—To fight on until the let of May next, and then, if our efforts are fruitless, “let us bow to our destiny and make the best attainable peace.” ‘We call the serious attention of the President, and the country to this display of the white feather by the radical faction. We have always contended that ‘the desire of the abolitionists was not to restore the Union, but to destroy slavery and the Union together. We have. always predicted that the fadicals would be the first to cry out for peace, after they had obtained the abolition of slavery in all the loyal States. We ask the President and the country whether we have been mig- taken—whether our predittions have hot proven true? Even President Lincoln must be startled, mow that the future de- signs Of {he abolitionists are rovealed to him through their own chief organ. In spite of our constant warnings, he has been made the dupe of a set of disunionists who have forced him to issue the emancipation proclama- tion in order to render reunion impossible. Let him read this manifesto of the radicals side by side with the recent message of Jeff. Davis, and see for himself the coincidences in purpose of the rebels and the radicals. Both Jeff. Davis and Greeley assert that this is to be the last yeur of the war, and that if the rebellion main- tains itself but a little while longer the South- ern confederacy will be acknowledged. This is the mode by which the emancipation proc- lamation will end the war. This is the pa- triotism and devotion to the Union of the radi- cal faction. This is the end of the war for the Union. We do not care to recall at present the piea- sant promises and infernal arts by which the radicals seduced President Lincoln’ from the plain path of a constitutional conduct of the war, and by which they have tampted him step by step onward, uatil now—when he is sinking in the quicksande—they turn’ vipon him mockingly, and:declare that they in- tend to submit to destiny and make. the best : attainable peace.” .We can but pity "the disap- pointment and chagrin of the deceived ‘and be- trayed President as he reads Greeley’s declara- tion that the emancipation proclamation is to end the war by dividing the Union, and we can imagine him comparing with these words the past pledges of the radicals, and bitterly ex. claiming, with Macbeth— Accursed be that tongue that tells me so; For it hath cowed my better part of mau! And be these juggling flends uo more believed, ‘That palter with us in a double sease , That keep the word of promuse to our ear And break it to our hope! It will be well for the President and the na. tion if he sball firmly resolve to palter no more with these “ juggling fiends.” If he will break with them wholly and sincerely, and rely upon the support of the conservative masges of the people, he can yet save the Union. Three months remain before the army wil! be reduced by the discharge of thousands of ‘our best soldiers, and before intervention is possible either from foreign Powers or from the traitor- ous machinations of the abolitionists. Within that time everything can be accomplished if the President will but take the proper measures to secure success. In yesterday’s Tritune the radicals indicate bow they demand that the way shall be conducted until May next, and with some of their recommendacions we agree First and principally however, we must advise the President to recall his abolition proclama- tion and reassert the Union sentiments of his inaugural address. Thus he will at once secure the hearty support of every man who loves the Union, the effects of his proclamation will be exactly reveised, and the North will be again united and the South divided. For what afew persons may say of the fickleness of this change of policy the President should care nothing. Repentance is never agreeable, and the confes- Sion of sins is a cruel task; but both are as ne- cessary to the salvation of the Union as to the salvation of the soul. The President has been popularly termed “honest,” aad we hope that he will be honest enough to own himseif in the wrong and to atone for his past errors, now that they are apparent, no matter at what cost of pride and self esteem. This done, the President should change his Cabinet, as the radicals recommend; but he should reorganize it, not of worse fanatics than those who now e¢ompose it, but of practi- cal, conservative statesmen, as, for example, General McClellan as Secretary of War. The people are so unanimous for a reconstructioa of the Cabinet that it is dangerous to trifle with them longer. The radicals agree with the eon- servatives upom this point, and there is no dis- septient voice in the eountry. The Tribune's second recommendation, to. dismiss from the army every officer who is not an abolitionist, is unworthy of notice; and the recommendations to stop the Coast Survey and shut up the West Point Academy are equally silly. Let the Pre- sident remember the inestimable value of the Coast Survey officers during the attacks upon Hilton Head and other points along the coast, and that the deficiency of West Point officers in our armies has been one of the causes of our useless sacrifices of brave soldiers’ lives. For the rest, we agree with the radicals in urging that evory loyal officer shall be called into aoc- tive service, no matter in what capacity, so that be be made useful.and we include in this advice even General Fremont. We have no objections to calling out the militia of the loyal States for three months to garrison Washington, / Baltimore and other points, so that the soldiers now in the service may be actively employed. Nor do we object to the arming of every volun- teer, white, yellow or black, if they are willing | to commingle. We endorse the Tribune's sug gestion to borrow three or four hundred mil- lions of dollars on the best possible terms, if any one will lend the money, and we are cer. | tainly willing to treat the European Powers | «with politeness and most distinguished ¢on- , Pose. to be ready to give them something stronger than politeness if diplomacy shall fail to keep them at bay. In all-of: these measures we are more or less in agreement. with the radicals. : But in regard to the close of the warwe diffe" with Greeley and all his faction, plumply, de- cidedly and unalterably. Even if we do not succeed during the next three months, oven. if “some malignant fate” thwarts our efforts, we are not in favor of “ bowing to our destiny and making the best attainable peace.” We know that if the President will take our advice, and utterly abandon the scandalous crew of devilish Marplots and in- triguants who now infest Washington, and who have disgraced and dishonored the coun- try, there will be no necessity of accepting “the best attainable peace” at the end of three months. We know what “ malignant fate” has hitherto thwarted the best efforts of the country, acd we call that “fate” the damnable abolition, negro-worshipping faction. If the President does not kick this faction out of power we shall know where to place the responsibility of our failures during the next three months, as during the past two years. Whether the war continue, or whether itend, that faction will be trampled under foot and crushed out of existence. President Lincoln yet has it in his power to save the Union if he will; but there is no power able to save the abolition faction. How the country will be preserved if President Lincoln still refuses to be wise, we shall not at present predict; but acs jp SBS Bopaag Sstotiatign of the fadical wretches, and they will have no more chance of political supremacy in a di- vided, or even a sub-divided nation, than in the Union they have labored to destroy but which we still hope to again see one and indivisible. avare an Ulsty way The Mission to Washington of Colorado Jewett and Poor Greeley. Colorado Jewett and Poor Greeley have just returned from a mission to Washington. They travelled in the same car, put up at the same hotel, slept in the same bed, and would have used the same comb, toothbrush and_wash- basin Lad not poor Greeley been constitution. ally averse to the employment of either of these articles in making his toilet. Colorado Jewett reports to us the result of his part of the mission in a letter which we publish this morn- ing. Poor Greeley made a report of bis work in the Tribune yesterday. We are thus officially informed that the object of their mission was to end the war by foreign mediation. Greeley tried to effect this object by arguing with and dictating to the President, whom he considers merely as his agent slice the issue of the emancipation proclamation, and by call- ing together in a caucus the rank and file. of © the . republicans in Congress, whom he believes to be the creatures of his will, since. they owe their election’ to his in. fluence. _ Jewett, on .the other hand, manipu- lated the Cabinet and the diplomatic corps. His fitness for this onerous labor be proves by pub- lishing his letters to the Emperor Napoleon and Queen. Victoria, written during his late in- dependent mission to Europe. The Emperor acknowledged the receipt of Jewett’s epistle through his secretary, and asked for more of the same sort. The Queen—poor woman—will probably never know that such a great man a3 Jewett bas corresponded with her until sbe reads about it in the Herany, The result of the combined labors of Jewett and Greeley was an arrangement that mediation should be accepted on the ist of May next, the usual moving time, unless the South shall sooner submit. We are sorry to say, however, that neitber of these philosophers seems satisfied with the time fixed for the mediation. Probably they think, as we do, that the Ist of April would be more appropriate. Although Greeley groans his grief into the Tribune and Jewett begs the potent aid of the Heratp, their utterances are unanimous and their purposes the same. In- deed it is ove of the phenomena of this war that two persons of such opposite characters and habits as Greeley and Jewett should have conceived such a wonderful sympathy and af- fection for each other. Darby and Joan, Da- mon and Pythias, David and Jonathan, were bitter, relentless, remorseless enemies compared to Jewett and Greeley. The Siamese twins are not more inseparable. And yet, strange to say, Jewett has some pretensions to gentleman- liness. while Greeley has none; Jewett has a splendid beard and mustache aod beautiful head of hair, while Greeley’s bair is of a very disagteeable color, and is full of tangles and cowlicks; Jewett has aclean person and shirt and nicely blacked boots, while Greeley is no- soriously as unclean in body as in mind; Jewett js opposed to abolition and the emancipation proclamation, while Greeley has made the negro his god and Wendell Phillips bis propbet. In short, it would be im- possible to find two men more: dissimilar; and yet they cordially and heartily agree upon two subjects—mediation and Colorado—and this agreement makes them steadfast friends. It seems that Jewett owns several mountains of gold quartz in Colorado Territory, as be hints in his letter, and that Greeley has @ little hill of the same precious metal! in the same Eldora- do. With a patriotism which we admire, but cannot sufficiently praise, Jewett intends to give five or six of these gold mountains to the government to pay off the national debt. He also offers as one of the mountains—worth, say, eight or ten millions of dollars—if We will as- sist him in his grand mediation and gold miniag schemes. We accept the munificent offer, and Jewett may consider this article our receipt in fall. We shall not allow ourselves to be oat- done in patriotism, however. At present we are in no need of Jewett’s gold, having o pri- vate gold mine in the Chemical Bank and another in the patronage of the people of this country, and therefore we alse donate our mountain to the payment ofthe nagional debs. Poor Greeley cannot follow our example, as he j* extremely poor; and even vege'ables and old | clothes are now excessively dear, to say nothing | of the extravagant price of paper. In Louis Napoleon, Colorado Jewett aud poor Greeley the world will now behold the ilius- trious trio which is to relieve us of all our mise- ries. Let us struggle om in the best way we can until Mey next, sacrificing a few more thousand lives and isaming a few eis sedinia of it , and all will be well. Napoleon, Jeeet aod Gresley will then mediate for us, and intervene for ua, and settle our troubles for us in some kind of a way which neither we nor they know anything about, but which will un- doubtedly be satisfactory to all concerned, In the meantime Jewett will go to Europe and surfeit England, France, ireland, Nova Zembla and the rest of the world with Colorado gold mining companies. These companies wilt eee all go to work at once’ and homey’ | comb the whole of Colorado Territory. The gold mountains, or mountains of gold, which the patriotic Jewett and our humble selves have given to the government will then yield an income sufficient to pay off the na- tional debt at once and fill the Treasury to over- flowing for the future. Then, if England remain’ civil, we will pay her debt also and admit her into the Union, Jewett’s correspondent, the Queen, included. With such brilliant prospects before us, why should we grumble at our mis” fortunes or our depresiated shinplaster cur- rency? Courage, fellow countrymen. Greeley and Jewett will be our deliverers. They are the salt of the earth—in their own estimation. According to the best authority—themselves— the affairs of the world revolve around them, and they control not only the present, but also a considerable portion of the future and a fair share of eternity. Let us trust them, therefore, and be happy. Tue Fresno Srrvac.e or tue Ravicats vor ASCENDANCY IN THE Casinet.—If there is a.man in these United States whose lot is to be pitied, * , it is President Lincoln. “ Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” but uneasier still the head that wears it under the additional weight of _ party pledges. In endeavoring to reconcile his duty to the country in this solemn crisis with his indebtedness to those who carried his elec- tion, Mr. Lincoln undertakes more than any man has ever succeeded, or will ever succeed, in accomplishing. 2 oat Ss We see the effect of this desire to accommo- date his ratriotig ampnisés to his party obliga- tions in the ptéssure brought to bear upon him by the radical eaucus now sitting in Washing- ton. To aman of his temperament such inter- ference must operate as a continual blister. Under its influence we hear no more of those genial flashes of humor that were wont to sct both council and dinner table in @ roar, and * that made his official ways generally pleasant. And, to add to his vexations, Greeley and Wen- dell Phillips have both gone on to tho capital the one to push his personal schemes while he tightens the party screw still closer upon the President, and the other to use that wit and elo- quence of which he makes such an unfortunate use to induce Mr, Lincoln to abandon himself entirely to the suicidal policy enunciated by him the other night at the Cooper Institute. As on the occasion of the President's first proclamation, in September last, all this note of preparation heralds another desperate effort on the part of the abolitionists to compel Mr. Lincoln to reorganize his Cabinet exclusively , from their ranks, and to place at the head of the army such men as Generals Fremont and Hunter. . The lessons taught by the disasters that our arms have met with through the inca- pacity and mismanagement of these men’ are either wholly lost sight of or are not deemed « worthy to be weighed in the balance against ‘the objects which they have in view. What to them ig the alternative of the nation’s ruin ss compared with the loss of power? “After us the deluge,” i It is to such men that Mr. Lincoln is asked to surrender the few conservative elements of ‘his administration, elements that alone bave kept it afloat."Having a majority arrayed upon their side in Congress, it is aot improbable that they will be able to coerce the President into a surrende™ to their views. Then, if after a few weeks’ ex- + periment of the abolition regime in both Cabi- net and camp, they find, as they unquestionably will, that in neither will it work, they will allow the cause of the Union to go by default; for such Greeley the other day distinctly inti- mated to be their intention. Are we not jestified under these circam- stances in saying that the republic has reached the crisis of its tate? On the bonesty and firm- ness of a single man now depends the question of its salvation or ruin. Let us bope that the President will rise equal to the emergency, and that he will succeed in shaking off the trammets by which his patriotic impulses and tendenci: * have hitherto been ao fatally checked. Tae Curvarier James Watson Wass Loom- 1vo Up Once Mone tw Aut His GLory—Wonders will never cease. “Monsieur Tomson has come again.”’ For along time the Chevalier James Watson Webb bas been as invisible to the pub- lic eye as the great comet which half a dozen years ago swept with its luminoas tail some fifteen degrees upward from the west- ern horizon. But, if, that comet bas not returned, Webb, in all its splendor, bursts again upon us fromthe far southern sky, grand, glorious, corruscating and luminous: as ever: Read bis magnificent lettérs which we publish to-day, dated from the “Legation of the United States,” at Petropolis, Brazil, to H.E. W. D- Christie, her Britannic Majesty's Minister, and to Eart Russell, on the subject of “a difficulty” (Webb is always in a difficulty of some sort) with the aforesaid H. E. W. D. Christie. Now the world is coming round all right again; for the redoubtable and irre. pressible Chevalier Webb is again in his proper element. He tried, with com_ mendadle zeal to draw this offending Bri. tisher Christie into a gunpowder plot; but, though he failed in this, he has succeeded in getting into “a difficulty,” which is, some thing to rejoice over. From time immemorial ¢ Chevalier Webb has delighted tn bot wate From the memorable day of that awfal collision between him, with his mahogany stocked! pistols and Gen. Duff Green, the name of James Watson Webb has been synonymous with that of Sir Lucius O’Trigger. True, in forgetting the lawa of New York in his affair of honor with Tom Marshall, he narrowly escaped an invoiuntary term of service at Sing Sing, and was only saved through the benevolent interposition of Gov. Seward. But this werning 1id no more to abate the fiery blood of the Chovalier than did his subsequent baptism as ,y wember of the Episcopal church. President Lincoln, in send him to Brazil lost a magnificent gain a fightiog ainbassador where nc is to be had fi love or money. The Che bb's proper ) would bave been the command of an Sumter. It may gular mili vooati exped on to recaptare not yet be too late to turn th education and somewhat irregular military expen rience of the Chevalier Webb to & good acco So let President Lincoln reorl! him and send him down to look after Fort Sumter without delay. Meantime we congratulate our readers especially of this city, (hat the monotony of the Chevalier Webbs exile in Brazil bas been at last rendered le by a genuine persenal and diplomatic “ difficulty.” Read bir besters OO NO cence Renet, Comments on Ocr Bivnpers.—There are two things which the rebel journala ure ‘ watobing with more interest than even the pro