The New York Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1863, Page 4

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NIKLO'8 GARDEN, Broads WALLACK’S THEATRE, GARDEN, Broadway.—Cuiaxer Conxer— rr. ‘Leam, Tax Forsaxex dway.—Lapy or Lroxs WINTER Wizaro LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Mx. anv Mas. Waira—Vet Or 1 nm Oats. NEW BOWERY THEA’ ry. —COLLEEN Bawn— KVENTH STRKET GMOST—Lire 4ND ADVENTURES or Jack Saxrramp, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Wert or raz Wism-tow Wiss—JACK anD Tux BuanstaLK—Oip Oax Cums: BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broad: Yavinta Wanmxx—Commopoas Nort, ac., at Cmauces I Afternoon and Evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechauica’ Hall, 472 Broad. Re —Eraiorian SONGS, Buxcusques, Davcus, £c.—Hicn Dor. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway —Etgiorian Soxas, Dancxs, &c.—Down 1x Ov K-¥-xy, BUCKLEY'S MINSTRELS. Stuyvesant Institute. "650 Broadway —Ergiorian Sonos, Daxoxs, 4¢.—La SONnam- Buta. NEW | YORK ‘HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY) 31, 1863. a in this city, and to grant to the Wilson Industrial School ~ girls the benefit of the public echool fund. A petition was presented asking the Legis- lature to use its inflaeace towards terminating the war. Aconcurrent resolution of instruction to our Senators and Representatives in Congress in favor of @ national bankrupt law was offered and laid over. The House adopted unanimously a-preamble and resolution favering # reduction by Congress of the duty on imported printing paper. The pre- amble says:—The cheap diffusion of knowledge among the people is essential to the welfare of republican institutions, and a combination éxists among the manufacturers of paper which has caused an enormous increase in the price of books, periodicals and newspapers."’ The resolution for the appointment of a special committee to investi- gate the subject of arbitrary arrests waa taken up and debated, and finally made the special order for Wednesday evening next. The Assembly adjourned till four o'clock on Monday. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ' The steamship Norwegian, which left London- | General Hvoker amd the Army of the Potomac, While we have the cheering news from the Lower Mississippi that General McClernand is at work in front of Vicksburg, with every pros- pect of success; that the land forces of the Banks expedition are concentrated at Baton Rouge, awaiting, with Admiral Farragut, the signal for an advance upon Port Hudson; while we are assured,that General Rosecrans is pre- paring for another and more decisive battle than the last with ‘the rebel army of Tennessee; while we have the most encouraging accounts from our advancing land forces in North Cerolina, and are expecting intelligence.of some important operations in South Carolina and Georgia, it is the misfortune of our splendid Army of the Potomac atill to be embargoed in the mud and mire of the hills and valleys of the Rappa- hannock. But let us not be unreasonably impatient: While the “sacred soil” of Virginia continues derry on the 16th, and the Australasian, from Queenstown, on the 18th instant, are fully due—the one at Portland and the other at New York—this morning. The news by the Australasian will be three days later than the advices of the Edinburg. . Judge Constable, at the recent term of the Illi- nois Circuit Court, at Paris, decided that the law of Congress requiring processes iseued from the Circuit Courts to have government stamps on them, was unconstitutional. His decision is, sub- stantially, that the government has no right to in- terfere with the process of State courts or pre- scribe the rulea governing them. The steamboat Glendale arrived at Evansville, Indiana, on the 26th inst., with one thousand and’ sixty bales of cotton from Memphis. This is the largest cargo since the breaking out of the rebel- lion. In the House of Representatives of Indiana, on the 27th inst., the joint-resolution for a convention of all the States at Louisville, Kentucky, on the Fourth of July next, for the suspension of hostili- ties and: for the adjustment of our national diffi- culties, was made the order of the day for the 15th of February. As thatedate falle on Sunday, ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Da. Cocron’s Exursition oF Cavouina Gas. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Niblo's Saloon, Broadway. Mexcapsr Le Futsxur. CLINTON HALL, Astor Place.—Mussns, BRittaN 4xD Fiskx's Exrxnimunts 1x Evxcteo-l’svcuo.ogr. COOPER INSTITUTE, Broadway.—Dr. Cortox's Exar BiT1ON OF THe LavGHING Gas at 3 P. M. the movement was probably a trick of the radi-. cals to kill the resolution. The large pork house belonging to Evans, Gaines & Co., in Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire on the 27th inst. Loss $125,000. One thousand three hundred rebel prisoners, consisting of those taken at Murfreesboro and Perryville, with a sprinkling of Morgan’s and For- rest's bushwhackers, arrived at Camp Douglas, BROADWAY MENAGERIE, Broadway.—Livinc Witp ANIMALS—PERYORMING ELEPHANTS—COMIC MULRS, £0. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL. No. 444 Broadway.—Bat- ters, Pantomimxs, BuRLESQUKS, £0. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS. 563 Broadway, — Open daity {rom 10 A. M. ttl 10 P.M peg HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Braorian Soncs, Dances, Burtesques & New York, Saturday, Ja THE SITUATION. A heavy snow storm has rendered the roads about Falmouth impassable. No movement has taken place in the army. General Huoker has appointed his staff. General Butterfield, formerly colonel in the New York State Militia, is the chief. General Sumner has issued a farewell address to his corps d'armee—very brief, soldierlike and patriotic. Rumors reached Gen. Dix at Fortress Monroe yesterday that the rebels had been defeated at Savannah—possibly by our expedition on Ossibaw Sound; but the story is not fully confirmed. It is believed in military circles that Major General Franklin, hearing that allegations of tar- diness and inefficiency in the late command had Chicago, on the 27th inst. According to tne criminal statistics of Toronto, Canada, the following number of persons were sentenced for various crimes in’that city during the year 1862 :— Irish... g is a comparative nue of Canada for the years 1861 and 1862 :— 1861. 1862. Customs ’, $4,775,000 4,653,000 ol 330,000 482,000 i 227,000 257,000 CE Ra, ne IIS oe $5,332,000 5,392,000 ‘There was unusual excitement in the general markets yesterday, with heavy transactions in the leading articles, at advanced prices, Middling cotton was as high as 93c. per ib. Flour 10c. a2ic, wheat and corn 2c. a 3c. higher, and frocly purchased. Provisions and groceries were also in brisk demand, at firmer rates, with large government contracts awarded. The activity continued in whiskey , which reached 58c., a also in spices, wool, tobacco, copper, tin, tallow, raisins and chemicals, ‘There was doing in the freight line. ‘The stock market was very buoyant yesterday, and it was evident that the speculative fever bud burst forth been made against him to the government, asked tohave @ court martial assembled for his trial under them immediately on being released from uty with the Army of the Potomac, and that it has been determined to accede to his request. Arrivals from the West Indies report the pre- sence of @ war steamer, which appears to be the Alabama, within about 300 miles of New York. We give to-day, among other Southern news, the report of the rebel Secretary of the Treasury, showing the condition of the enemy's finances. The receipts for the year 1862 were $457,855,704, and the expenditures $416,971,735, leaving a bal- ance of over $14,000. The expenses for the War Department was $340,000,000, and for the Navy 620,000,000. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, a communication from wee President, recommending a vote of thanks to Jommodore David R. Porter, for his gallantry in the affairat Arkansas Post, was referred to the Naval Committee. The resolution censuring the parties engaged in fitting out the vessels of the Banks expedition was discussed for some time and then laid aside. The new Senator from Illinois, Hon, W. A. Richardson, was qualified and took his seat. The debate onthe proposition to furnish recuniary aid for the emancipation of slaves in isSuri was then resumed, and finally, on motion of Mr. Harris, the bill was recommitted to the Judiciary Committee. After an executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives a joint resolu- tion for the appointment of Commissioners to revise and codify the lawa was reported, as was also a bill to prevent collisions at sea. A bill oaking appropriations for fortifications was re- ported by the Ways and Means Committee. A committee was ordered to report upon certain charges preferred against the Commissioner of Patents. A resolution was adopted that the afresh. The advance in som» stocks was equal to3 a5 per cent, and the number of purchasers was greater than ever. Money was easy to good borrowers at 6 per cent, though very large margins centinune to be exacted. Gold advanced at one time to 15834, afterward fell back, sold down to 157, rallied to 16834, and closed that bid. Senator Savispury ann His “Soner Seconp Tuovont.”—We have never had a more dis- graceful exhibition of bad behavior, bad man- ners and maudlin insubordination and bravado in Congress than that of Senator Saulsbury the other day on the floor of the Senate, and pend- ing its consideration of public business. But, as Senator Saulsbury, after two days’ cooling off, and with the return of “the sober second | thought,” has made a proper apology to the Senate, we think he may be pardoned this time, with the warning to beware of speaking for “a sovereign State” again while fast in the clutches of John Barleycorn. We hope that his example of disorderly conduct will act as a wholesome warning to all other legislators sub- ject to the same temptations. We suspect that the imp of the bottle was at the bottom of the late Tammany Hall proceedings in our State Assembly, of which we have expressed our opinion heretofore. We may here observe, however, that no man and no party need expect to escape being held up to the public con- demnation of this journal for offences such as those to which we have referred. We hope to hear no more reports of such things from Washington or Albany until the end of the war. Ovr Prooxess Towarps a Despotism—More Positicat, ARnEsts.—There are now two State Legislatures and two or more grand juries in- vestigating into the arrests of citizens by the federal government, which, for months past, have created so much excitement throughout the Union. The determination evinced to call opportunity of the first good frost to march to remain in a state of “masterly inactivity” till April. Hooker has been appointed to the command of the Army of the Potomac for any such suicidal purpose. His appointment is universally ac- cepted as a pledge to the people of the loyal States from the administration that the moment the surface of the country around him is sufli- ciently dried or hardened for the movement of his artillery he will advance upon the enemy and give them battle, or compel them to get out of his way. We read this intention in General Hooker's address to the army, and we expect him to fulfil his promise. We have no fears decisive victory had his generals concurred in his proposition to renew the attack, and espe- cially upon the flanks of the enemy, the next nessee and the rebel generals operating on the south side of the James river, he has been ‘so General-in-Chief inform the House whether paroles | to account and punish the agents in these pro- have been granted to any rebel officers captured | ceedings consequent upon the democratic vic- by the army of the United States since the procla- | tories at the last elections had caused their dis- mation of Jefferson Davis refusing paroles or ex- | continuance for a while. We see that in Penn- changes to captured Union officers. The remain- | syjvania they are again being resumed, and that der of the session was devoted to debate on the | the proprietor of s Philadelphia journal has bill authorizing the employment of negroes as been seized and incarcerated im Fort McHenry, soldier, of his forcibly sus- LEGISLATURE. and tbe publication paper MEAP. . bn = Legislatare yester- | pended. What the nature of his offence is, or day, the bill to legalize the acts of boards of su- what the authority under which he has been de- pervisors in reference to soldiers’ bounties and re- | prived of his liberty, remains yet to be ascer- liet 4ands for their femilies was ordered tos third | tained It is evident, from this and other isdi- coading. The bill to increase the license fees of | cations, that the radicals are bent on procesd- pediors and hawkers was reported upon favorably. ‘A bill was introduced which proposes the furnieh- ing of tourniquets to all soldiers from this State, ing to violent extremities, and defying the reaction in public sentiment so unmistakably manifested at the last elections. If we are en- urpose hemorr- phar lia p alorsomg deca ponent renal tering on s reign of ‘terror, the people ought to > We see that Greeley, in of the Blind Mechanics’ Association of New York Le darren pal be ‘wan on ley, vee orca custiedill hc ntey there carr on proseedings. Such conduct will not be f ‘lection of nat . preven of | fess “Prete King on Tuesday next. | tolerated so long as we have any public spirit Many other matters, not of general interest, were | Jeft amongst us. He will have to change his acted’ upon, and an adjournment took place till | tune, of leave for parts unknown. five o'clock on Monday evening. -_ In the Assembly 6 large amount of business was A Lrrtix Mistaxe.—In reciting his oredo in transacted; but the most of the measures noticed | the Tribune yesterday, poor Greeley says of or considered, being for the benefit of only local | the rebels:—*I believe that if our armies do not or private interests, were not of importance tothe whip theirs, theirs will whip ours.” This sen. general reader. Bills were introduced ; among tence strikes the reader as both inelegant and many others, to repeal all the excise laws, and re. sophistical. Are there no drawn battles? Are pone nerves a ee u. habeend ‘te there not battles where both sides claim the CxeHOp aw when He Oe | vienees? i little mistake for poor G: ta’ d I victory? This is @ Pp ree- med «ga agai nigh a dca jey to make; but it shows how impossible it is 4 costs in«the justices’ courts of Brooklyn. pals wore naticod selative to civil justices’ courts | tor bim to be correct about anything in the condition of a “quagmire, arresting the movements of provision wagons and compelling the officers in charge to convey on horseback the «daily subsistence to our soldiers, a Mevement of the army in any direction remains an impossibility. A single night of good freezing weather, followed by a sharp and dry northweater of two or three days, will bring us, no deubt, the tidings of the advance of the Army of the Potomac :in full'strength upon the enemy. General Hooker, meantime, has been usefully employed in the work of reorganizing his forces and in his. needful. preparations for an advance. We expect that he will seize the upon, dislodge and follow up the enemy, not- withstanding the suggestions of some of the abolition journals that it will be better for him We should be sorry to ‘believe that General of the result of another collision with the army of General Lee, Cualmly considering . the bloody repulse of Gen. Burnside of the 13th December, we are strongly inclined to his opinion that it would have been rewarded by a day. . At all events, we are confident that, from the drafts which have been made upon Gen. Lee’s forces to strengthen Longstreet in Ten- weakened that he will surely be defeated should he again attempt to resist the advance of our considerably strengthened Army of the Poto- mac. Our only fear in the matter is that with Gen, Hooker’s qdvance he will discover that the rebels have prudently weighed the chances against them, and have mysteriously disap- peared, like Joe Johnston from Manassas, Sid- ney Johnston from Bowling Green, Bishop General Polk from Columbus, and Beauregard from Corinth. We have the fullest confidence in Gon. Hooker. From Washington to the Richmond peninsula, and thence to within three miles of the rebel capital, and thence through all those sanguinary battles from the Chickahominy to ‘the James river, and after several brilliant successes over the rebels as a subordinate officer under General Pope around Manassas, thence in the Maryland campaign to Antietam, and thence via Harper’s Ferry to Warrenton, General Hooker’s name and services are gloriously identified with the military operations of Gen. McClellan. With this long, active, practical training under “ Little Mac,” we may rest satisfied that General Hooker knows how to fight the rebel army of Virginia. We know that his successes under McClellan and: under Pope have made him a favorite with the army; and we are sure that the brave soldiers who have become veterans in war, side by side with “Fighting Joe Hooker,” will, under his command, advance and fight with the enthusiasm of Napoleon's Uld Guard. We cannot entertain the idea for a moment that our most important, most powerful, best disciplined, best equipped and appointed and most experienced army is to be kept in shame” ful and demoralizing idleness, while our land and naval forces in every other qnarter are striking the rebels hip and thigh. This cannot, must not be. The Army of the Potomac must advamce as soon as its artillery can be moved to de its appointed work. If it cannot advance by one route, it can by another. It must be-given the opportunity to accomplish its great object—the occupation of the rebel capi. tal. This result would have been gained last June had not the plans of General McClellan been disarranged and defeated by the stupid but conceited intermeddling politicians at Washington. The country has the right to re. quire of President Lincoln that there shall be no sweh intermeddling with General Hooker. Let him have the absolute command of his army, and let the government promptly meet his requisitions for supplies, &c., and we pre. ict that the day will soon come when the Army of the Potomac will vindicate its training under McCledlan and ifs confidence im General Hooker by a decisive blow at “the heart of the re- bellion.”” Gazatay Biowmo Hor anp Biowine Corn— Poor Greeley wants to fight watil May, and then accept a disunion peace. But, if the war is to end in an inglorious peace, why fight until May? Or, if the war is to be pushed toa glorious insue, why accept peace at the end of three months? The trouble with poor Greeley is that most people believe he deserves the gallows, and would gladly give him his deserts, and he ia aware ef this interesting fact, and dances Jim Crow accordingly. Gaeeixy Exrtamixo Hivserr.—In yester. day's Tribune poor Greeley explains that he only wants peace in May if by that time the people “shall be satisfled that the struggle is hopeless.” But the people will not be satisfled of any such thing, no matter what may happen before May. The people have not had a fair chance to “struggle” yet. An imbecile admin- istration has hampered and crippled them, Let the administration represent and act with the people, and the rebellion will soon be con« auered. The Firm of Jewett, Greviey, Vallaudlg- ham and Napolcon on Geld Mines and Mediation, Colorado Jewett has favored us with another epistie, which we publish this morning. Not satisfied with having Queen Victoria and Louis Napoleon as his correspondents, the irrepressi- , ble Jewett nowswrites to Governor Seymour. ‘This is a virtual recognition of State sovereign- ty. As we have before remarked, Jewett is undoubtedly a great man. Every person should bear this fact in mind while reading Jewett’s letters. If they appear silly to any one, the fault is obviously in the reader, and not in the letters. Geniuses, we know, are seldom ap- preciated. Greeley, for example, is generally regarded as @ lunatic. Decidedly, any smal) potato idea of Jewett is a mistake. The firm of Jewett, Greeley, Vallandigham aud Napoleon, manufacturers of peace and dealers in gold mines and mediation, is not to be sneered down. It has taken out a license, opened shop at the Tribune offive, has all of Colorado Territory for its capital, and means business. In the letter to Governor Seymour, Jewett, the head of the firm, gives us some account of its success. We, find that Vallandigham kes expressed his hope that all the democratic statesmen of the coun- try will give their serious attention to media- tion. We find that “the distinguished leader of tho republican party; the Hon. Horace Gree- ley,’ has already heartily approved of Jewett’s sohemes. We find'Connt Mercier ‘conversing with Jewett upon mediation matters and autho- Tizing the publication of a summary of the “conversation. Jewett is evidently a special minister of Napoleon, therefore endorsed by Mercier, the regular minister; and as Greeley controls President Lincoln, who dares not “break with the Tribune,” Jewett’s plans have thus an official character and {mportance, and his utterances are sanctioned by'the President of the United States and the Emperor of France. The subject grows extremely serious. When we last heard of Jewett he was watch. ing events at Washington. According to the date of his present epistle, he is now curling his elegant mustache at the Continental, Phila- delphia. To-morrow he may be off to Paris or the North Pole. His activity is wonderful. His energy is superhuman. He flies backwards and forwards like a weaver’s shuttle, and at every move he strengthens the woof of our des- tiny. Meanwhile Napoleon sits like a great spider in the Tuileries, and spins uway at his web to catch a continent. Vallandigham is the oratorical partner, and woos us to let our “way- ward sisters depart in peace” with an eloquence which makes John Van Buren jealous. Greeley “thunders” for peace editorially, and fondly imagines that the rumble of the Héraip presses printing our thousands of copies is the rever- beration of his powerful articles. No one can- refrain from admiring the industry of these peace partners, nor are their motives less ad- mirable. Greeley is the only one of the firm who has a selfish idea about him; but, theny Greeley is nothing if not selfish. Jewett lives, only for his bleeding country. Greeley made money out of bleeding Kansas, Jewett despises gold, and, although be owns acres upon acres of Colorado gold quartz, he has donated it all to the payment of the national debt, except one large mountain, which he generously bestowed upon us, and which we, fearful of being outdone in patriotism, tumbled into the national Trea- sury also. Greeley, who is very poor and very miserly, and has gun contracts, trembles with delight at the sight of a bit of specie, and chases every chance cent with avaricious ardor. The eloquent Vallandigham, on the contrary, is another pure patriot. He disdains lecturing at twenty-five cents admittance, and de- votes himself and his rare oratory to peacemaking im Congrese at three thou- sand dollars a year. But Napoleon is more of a patriot than either Jewett or Vallandigham. For the sake of assisting the poor Mexicans he has fitted up military and naval expeditions at an enormous expense. Actuated by the same high motives, he deems it his sacred duty, as Mercier tells us, to give the sick man ef Ame- rica the medicine of mediation, and so restore harmony and peace. Poor Greeley is out of place among such elevated statesmen as Jewett, Vallandigham and Napoleon. They walk in mid-air, far above vulgar prejudices and passions, and their stately heads knock out the stars. Among the curious complications of this mediation stheme, however, is its effect upon Secretary Seward. Oumreaders will observe in our telegraphic despatches yesterday that Sewand denies that mediation is intended. Jew- ett, Mercier and Napoleon. sre betier informed. than Seward: The fuct is-that Greeley, discover- ing the impossibility of getting Seward out of the Cabinet, has. very qnietly taken the foreign affuixs of this country out of Seward’s hands, and now manages them himself. For reliable intelligence about diplomatic mat. ters we must hereafter depend upon Jew- ett and Greeley. The Tribune said as much yesterday in announcing our programme for the future; and Jewett’s letter, it: will be remarked, does not even mention Seward’s name. In connection. with this transfer of power, Thurlow Weed’s move for the Senatorship be- comes interesting, It was not without an object that Weed resigned the editorship of the Jour- nal, and his aim is.now apparent. Mr. Weedis a very peaceable man, and when he is elected to the Senate we shall not be at all surpsised if he join the mediation firm and renew his old partnership with Greeley. This would make the world unanimous. Napoleon represents Europe; Greeley represents the republicans; Vallandig- ham represents the peace democrats; Jewett represents himself and Colorsdo, and Thurlow Weed would represent the conservatives. Our advice te Jewett is, then, to cease ing with Governor Seymoer, and to exert his mighty influence for the election of Thurlow Weed. If wo bave clearly explained this im- Iioglio, every one will at once perceive that this is the best thing to be done. That portion of the republican press which now assails Greeley’s peace plan, Because he has taken avay Seward’s portfolio, would be quieted and pacified by the election of Thurlow Weed. As fot the Henatp, we doubt if we could resist sag~ ing anything Jewett desired. His face beams wth peaceful intentions, and he earries a moun- tan of gold in each coattail pocket. He has managed all the great Powers of Europe and por Greeley. Sovereigns and editors come down at his appearance as the coon did at the sight of Captain Scott. The press was created tosound the praises of just such extraordinary individuals. Greeley understands this, and pvffs Colorado famously, with a single eye to his share in the stock, We understand it abo; but we prefer looking at the subject from anational point of view. Undoubtedly, however, ve must agree with the Tribune that Jewert ia \ the most remarkable man of the century, and that tue firm of Jewett, Greeley, Vallandigham and Napoleon will soon inaugurate the mil- lennium. | General Pepe's Report of His Campaign in Virg! ° In the form of a report addressed,o the chiel of General Halleck’s staff, General Pope hat published @ vindication of his military opera- tions in Virginia, occupying ten closely printed columns of the daily papers, or sufficient to make a large sized pamphlet. This document bears date the 27th of the present month; so that it has barely had time to reach the War De- partment before it makes its appearance in the public prints. To any one who hashad the patience to wade through the columns of irrelevant matter ac- cepted as evidence before the Porter and Mc- Dowell courts of inquiry there will be little that is new in the statements put forward in this report. All the facts And circumstances that could tend to place General Pope's management of the brief and disastrous campaign during which he held the command of the Army of the Potomac in a more favorable light before the country were brought out during those investi- gations. If they failed to alter the conclusions of the public as to his unfitness fer the position to which, unfortunately for us, he was assigned, neither will this elaborately prepared defence of himself any the more affect them. The venue has been changed, but the verdict will remain unaltered. If anything, its adverse character will be strengthened by the persistent efforts of the writer to cast upon others the blame of his own shortcomings. All true friends of General Pope will regret that he has heen tempted into publishing this report. Consigned to the archives of the Wat Department, it would have slumbered there a harmless memorial of the indiscretiom which forms 80 prominent a feature of the writer's character; but, flung thus broadcast te the world, with its strong evidences of personal rancor and recklessness of assertion, it cer- tainly will not tend to weaken the impressions created by his bombastic orders of the day and his disastrous military blunders. How different the conduct of his predeces- sor, McClellan, under circumstances infinitely more calvulated to try the patience and equa- nimity of a soldier. Not only have his most carefully combined plans been thwarted, his conduct misrepresented, and his feelings out- raged by the humiliations inflicted on the sub- ordinates to whom he was most attached, but his reports, theronly medium through which he could vindicate himself aad them, are suppressed and withheld from the country. Did he rush to: the newspapers to seek the justice that was de- nied him’at the War Department, or endeavor ‘to defend what by radical perversion were: termed his failures? He felt too conscious. of his own strength, too certain. of the skilfulness of his combinations, the-esteem and affection of those who served under him, and-the just appre- ciation of his services by the nution, to have re- course to so unsoldieflike and undignified a proceeding. Months have: passed away,.during which he has been subjected to calumnies: and missepresentations of every sort, and, still. pa- tient and confident of the: future, it remains-for him to betray the first evidence of sensitiveness at the persecutions to which he has been. subject- ed. Still there should be-a term. to: sttch en. durance. The country suffers while: the-ablest and most patriotic of its military defenders is exiled from its service. General McClellan has remained silent long enough to-prove his respect for the obligations of military. disci- pline and his contempt for the unjust: accusa- tions of which he has been the: object: The failures of his successors, the confusion: into which all our military plans are: drifting, and the intervention with which we are: threatened from abroad, render further reserve on. his part not only indefensible, but criminal. To escape the dangers that menace us in the future it is necessary to lay bare and correct the errors of the past. There is but one mind. in.the coun- try that is capable of thoroughly exposing the causes and consequences of all our military mishaps, and that is the one which had so large a share in devising the plans of the- campaign. General McClellan will, therefore, we trust, break through the silence that he has imposed upon himself, and enlighten the country on the many points that yet remain to.be-cleared up in regard to the causes of their failure. He should set himself at once to prepare two re- ports—the one covering his military operations in Virginia, and the other those in. Maryland— giving to the world, without. reserve or deli- cacy, all the facts connected with them. We shall then learn exactly where: the responsi- bility lies of the failure of plans-which all but the most infatuated. of McClellan’s-enemies now acknowledge to have been the only ones calcu- lated to bring the war to a prompt and success- ful conclusion. Let General McClellan enter- tain mo fear that the motives of such exposures will be confounded.with those that have dic- tated the: report on.which we: have just com- mented. The one is.demanded by the interests of the country; the other was. suggested by the necessity of self vindication. Tar.Four Peace, Partnens.—Mediatioa, like misery, makes strange bedfellows. Jewett, Greeley, Vallandigham and Napeleon are now laying their heads together to accomplish a peace. We wam each of them against his. three comrades; for it is difficult to say who is. the worst of the quartette. Tae Senatoriat Question. aT ALBANY.—The péliticians at Albany are in a terrible stew again. The eity is full of them and of can didates for the New York vacancy to be filled in the United States Senate. Greeley, Ray- mond, Dudley Field, Curtis Noyes and Henry Ward Beecher are among the wireworkers and candidates of the republican radicals, while Governor Morgan and Thurlow Weed are in good standing among the conservatives of all parties. Fernando Wood has been charged with moving Heaven and earth to get himecif Jato the Senatorial vacaney; but Fernando ‘Wood is not the man te waste his ammunition upon objects beyond the range of his guns. As matters stand, we think that the democrats could hardly do better than to join the repub-' lican conservatives in bebalf of Governor Mor- gan or Thurlow Weed. Either will do edmira- bly to ail the place of Preston King at this eri- sis, as against a republican Jasobin. Ay Exar ror Presipent Lixcoun.—When Jeff. Davis discovered that the French consuls were intriguing to take Texas out of the com- federacy he ordered them to leave his damiatons | forthwith. Now that it is evident that Mercier is intriguing to mediate the South out of the , Union, shold not President Lincoln diamisg him | as summarily) | Frepemcxseuns axp Buackwatex Dwasrest | xp Ponrooms—It is a well known fact that the, | terrible disasters at these and otic places, which resulted in such slaughter und disgrate to the Union, were caused solely by the abomi- nable abortions ealled pontoons. We boast of our mechanical imgenuity, while, in this par- tieular, alb the world is ahead of us. Great; Britain, regardless of expense, has spent many years in pertecting this important branch of , service, and bas new decided on her present’ admisable system. She has a light, corrugated” iron wagon body, weighing only three hundred / and fiéty pounds, which is indestruetible. It is: of such dimensions and form as to serve ase wagon for the transpert of the subsistence and , ammunition of the army; a6 # boat, which, in’ case of defeat or emergency, can boat the’ troops across the river; asa raft, to carry heavy ordnance; but, most important of all, as @ } bridge. They are fiseproof aad wormproof, and cannot rot, be destroyed by heat, or be- come leaky and heavy by water, They are as much stronger than a wooden body as iron is stronger than wood. Theis combined advantages are concentrated in one etgudtures which must be always present with the moving ‘ army, as it carries the toed for the troope These wagons are now being sent in large numbers to our very doors, from the Woobwich Arsenal (London) to Halifax, te Quebee and Montreal, and may, if the administration i= allowed to continue in its suicidal course, seen be used against us. Now where did our friend John Bull pick wp: | this system? Did he form “boards of examing- tion,”’ who waste months and years in. welese quibbles while the armies are being dock mated, the pockets. of contractors filled, and. fat salaries of inefficient men continued, whea | their time is spent in. political intrigues? No. John Bull did not originate this eystem.. It came from an American, and was perfected ‘ and carried out by an Ameriean, and will serye * the English government as effectively as the: bread we send them will their-poor. The same’ system is also adopted in Germany and Russia, Now why is it that this, or, if possible, some’ better system, was not, immedistely after the: late disasters, substituted: for the «miserable: ) wooden scows called pontoons, projected by. imbeciles under the Secretary of War, and’ which have carried such desolation ta evety family? ‘ These delectable scows are thirty-one and'e: half feet long, planked. with seven-eighths com. mon pine boards, and loaded with heavy timbers . and braces. . The scow or pontoon itself weigha, » one ton, and is constantly increasing in weight, by absorbing water. Worms soon destroy ~ them, as was the ease last. October with forty of them lying at Hampton. Roads one month; and / hundreds of these worthless wrecks line~ the banks of the Potomac and. Rappahannock, oot” worth picking up by Jeff. Davis. But the worst of ‘all is the difficulty, and.often. the imposa> bility, of rapid transportation, so- great. ia many instances that twenty horsee could not: ) move one of them. We must not lay. all;the blame on the Secretary-of War. He cannot see! , to details in all things. . Still he is responsible ) and censurable-for continuing in office’ mea: of the old fogy. school, who exhibit such waat of common sense in face of such means for remedy; f but we suppose this “peculiar institution” and wicked abortion must continue to. be made to, serve private interests, regardless of conse quences, as time is short. According to Gree- ley’s dostrine, “the-war must endiin May.” Give the army a:flying pontoon train, which will follow closely, and, when. needed. to, ad~ vance rapidly to the front and.provide means for crossing before: the. main body arrives, and. we shall hear no moze of such defeats; waste of treasure-and useless slaughter of our people. Tus Niqoer m. Tae Mepiution. Somn— The foot of the inevitable negro. sticks out og, Greeley’s mediation scheme. Greeley wants the war to go on.until May, and then, if we are not successful, he insists that we must accept: “the best attainable peace.” Now, that peace would be dictated by the European Powers, and would consist in.the recognition of the contede- racy, provided the gradual emancipation of slavery was promised by the South. If the rebels refused. to accept this proviso, then tha: mediators- would force the South back into the. Union, and. the emancipation proclamation. would do its work. Thus, either by union or. disunien, Greeley thinks that the abolition of slavery is certain. The idea isnot original with, Greeley, but belongs to Wendell Phillips. We have an idea worth two of that, however, which. we shall ventilate at the proper time. Tut Great Avvance tx Corros.—This article has reached a price in the New York market which it dever bore before since it has been known as a staple. Day before yesterday, it suddenly jumped to eighty-nine cents in the forenoon, and in the afternoon. sales were re- ported at the extraordinary price of ninety-six cents per pound. A party who purchused in the forenoon resold in the afternoon at a profit of $40 per bale. At ninety-six cents per pound. a bale of cotton is worth $432. Before the war it sold at tea to twelve cents.per pound, or at $45 to $54 per bale. From present appearances. it is possible that it may touch $I per pound» or $450 per bale. The-preseut price is. higher than it was before the invention of the: cottom gin, and when the negroes at the South picked it with their fingers. Bryant Edwards, in his 1784 at two shillings and six pence sterling per pound—gay about sixty-two and a half ceate— which was pickedor cleaned with the fingers. In 1785 the first five bales of cotton were re- tivity to ite cultivation and s great increase in ‘ty produetion. The destruction of African le- tudes bave derived immense advantages from cheap cotton goods. The poorer class of females have sported in gay printed calieos,. rivaling the hues of the most costly fabrics, ; while all ages and sexes have been indebted to , !