The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1863, Page 4

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These rates make the WEEKLY | Birr \x (he cheapest publication in the country. | ‘The FrRorsan Epimioy, every Wednesday, at Frvx conts er copy; $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or SG to any part of the Continent, both to include | pestaya. ‘The Cauronsia Epirion, on the Ist, lth and 2st > @ach roonth, at Six cents per copy, or $3 per aunum ApvenriskaeNTa, to a limited number, will be inserted mithe Wxeeiy Heranp, and in the European and Cali- foruia Editions. NO NOTICE taken of anonyinous correspondence, Wo do vot return rejected communications. Volume MERWE, caren i | Lincoln’s préctamation of emancipation, and ad- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1863. eve, aa it may be eaid, of the opening of Parlis- ment, attracted much attention. Mr. Beresford Hope, M. P., delivered a fecture onthe moral and social bearing of the American Revolution, in which he avowed himself a decided Southerner in opinion, and declared that the names of Davis and Jackson would go down to posterity side by side with those of Cavour and Garibaldi. Ou the slavery question Mr, Hope expressed his anxiety to see the slaves free, but he thought they ought to be gradually prepared for it by education, and by the prohibition of sepa- rating families, and this, he argued, the South was willing to do. He strongly censured President | vised Lord Palmerston to recognize the South. Napoleon's letter to General Forey on the sub- ject future of Mexico and the restoration of the Latin race Westward, produced a decided sensa- tion in England. The London Times regards it as “startling,” both in its object and plan of execu- tion. It is spoken of as offensive to the principles and policy of the American people, both North and South, and as being as dangerous to the Con- federated rebels as to the Union federals. The British consuls at Charleston and Savan- nah hai forwarded reports to Earl Russell on the subject of the stock of cotton on hand in the Southern States. Mr. Bunch, at Charleston, says there are four millions, two hundred and fifty thousand bales of the staple which can be made available in Europe when the rebel ‘‘porta are opened.’ The crop of 1862 had added largely to the supply. Mr. Molyneux, at Savannah, says there are only three million, five hundred thousand bales of cotton in the Southern States. He claims & deduction of one million of balés which have either been destroyed voluntary by the Union: troops, or carried out through the blockade. The new Spanish ministry had announced to the AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. 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THE SITUATION. The intelligence brought by the British steamer Princess Royal, which arrived at Philadelphia yes- terday, considerably reduces the value of the story concerning the opening of the blockade at Charleston. It appears from the statement which the master of this vessel makes that the blockade was not at any time legally raised. The captain of the Princess Royal, immediately upon her cap- ture, went ashore and communicated to the enemy ali the information he possessed of a reported at- tack upon Charleston, and thas precipitated the raid upon our vessels by the rebel rams, It does not appear, however, that any of the Union were sunk. The Mer- cedita was saved by the stratagem of her captain. The Keystone State, though badly disabled, was not lost. Both of these vessels ar- rived at Port Royal and will soon be repaired. It is claimed that the blockade was not abandoned for any length of time, and such will probably Prove to be the fact—the rebel statements being undoubtedly very much exaggerated. Despatches in the Richmond Charleston, state that the British frigate Cadmus | brought Intelligence there that a most formidable naval and land expedition was about to attack Charleston, the preparations being now nearly complete. This vessel brought orders for the British Consul to go on board and get to Havana We are thus, apparently, in- debted to the ‘‘ neutral’’ vessels of England for the affair at Charleston. vessels icominer, from as soon as possible. Cortes the line of policy they intended to adopt. Respecting Mexico, the past is to be considered as definitively settled, but any fresh incidents that may arise will of course receive the attention of the government. The French transport Seine appeared lately at Alexandria, Egypt, and suddenly and secretly, in one night, took on board about five hundred negro slaves, the property of the Viceroy, in order to transport them to Mexico. She sailed next morn- ing. The negroes are to be employed in doing all |, the rough work in and around the French camps. It was supposed that the Viceroy approved of their removal. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Hansa, at this port yesterday (Sunday) morning, brought news from Europe to the 22d of January, four days later. A full report of the main points of the advices appeared in the Henaup yesterday. Consols closed in London, on the 21st of January, at 9224 a 925% for money, and 9254 a 923, for the account. The Liverpool cotton market was dull on the 2ist of January. Prices ranged from one- fourth to one-half of a penny lower than the rates neglectod and closed at 15634. Exchange closed at 173. Monoy was in good supply at 6 per cont, Cotton was decidedly brisker on Saturday and quoted up to 87s¢c. a Bc. for middlings, witm sales of 2,400 bales all told. Flour was dull and @ shade lower, with Gales of only 10,300 bbls, Wheat sold to tho oxtent of only 65,000 bushels, and of corn 105,000,bushels changed hands at rather easier rates. Prime oats advanced 2c. a 3c. per bushel, with liberal transactions, Provisions were legs sought after; as also were groceries, hides, seeds, spices, oils and (ruit, at about previous quotations. ‘There was more doing in rice, domestic whisk ev and in foreign liquors, with a fair business in bay, leather, cal- low and tobacco, Laths and lime were quiet. Phe freight market was inactive, and there was consideruble depre- ciation in rates en American vessels. The Late Charleston Affair—The News by the Princess Royal—The Blockade and the Cotton Question. The prize steamer Princess Royal, which ar- rived yesterday at Philadelphia, direct from our blockading squadron off Charleston, brings the authentic intelligence of the late rebel sortie among our ships at that station and the actual results, It thus appears that the original particulars furnished from the exulting rebels at Charles- ton to the Richmond Dispatch, and which were exclusively published in the Henaup the other day, were rather highly colored and somewhat wide of the mark, but that the rebel Captain Ingraham had good reason to believe that he had sunk the Mercedita, and had probably de- stroyed another of our blockading vessels. Captain Stellwagen, of the Mercedita, did re- port to the Palmetto State that his ship was sinking. He sent a boat to that vessel for the purpose, in command of a lieutenant, who was paroled. But it appears that his ship got off. The Keystone State did receive a shot through her vitals, by the results of which twenty-three of her men were killed; but it now appears she was saved. The early hour of the morning, the fog on the water, the ex- citement of the occasion, and the natural incli- nation of the rebels to make the most of their partial succcss, will easily account for their first flaming reports upon the subject, and for that most essential mistake of all, that they had completely dispersed our blockading squadron. Had they discovered, after their first South Carolina flurry of excitement was over, that their original reports to the Rich- mond Dispatch were correct, we should have had the same rejoicings over the event by the other Richmond journals; but they have ex- hibited a degree of indifference over their won- derful victory which proves that substantially it amounts to nothing. It is probable that one object of this rebel raid was the recapture of our prize steamer Princess Royal, with her immense supplies of British “aid and comfort to the enemy.” She had been caught in attempting to run the Buenos Ayres the 13th, Rio Janeiro the 25th, Bahia | blockade, and while she was still within reach the 27th, and Pernambuco the Sist of December. | She was @ prize worth all the hazards of an The Indians of the Grau Chaco have swept down | effort for her rescue. But still we have no like a tornado on the province of Santa Fe, carry- | doubt that the main purpose of the rebels was ing off plunder and captives, and butchering some | the dispersion of the blockading squadron from thirty Christians. Governor Cullen, of Buenos | their roadstead, and that this enterprise was sda te patel aioe Coca tal their | undertaken with some understanding that the pursuit; but the savages, ing refuge in impene- ; . trable woods, defy the troops. The Finance Minis- eee SEN ned mR or raf hea ter has mooted a project for nationalizing the te - Bank of Buenos Ayres, with ulterior views of ne- | PY England and France as legal termination gotiating a loan on the credit of the republic to | t0 the blockade. The readiness and apparent the extent of the paper currency in circulation, | €xultation with which the British and French which project will be laid before the Congress at | consuls at Charleston co-operated with Beau- its meeting in May next. The produce market of | regard and Ingrabam in their proclamation of Buenos Ayres has been animated, and large sales } the raising of the blockade furnish strong pre- in Saladero produce have been effected. Dry | sumptive evidence in support of this opinion. hides from the provinces have been disposed of The news by the Princess Royal, however more freely than classitied; but the total sales are disposes of this convenient pretext advanced pe orschsupedhece tpeenibnmahay ch oe ft ohh edmes mts by Beauregard, Ingraham and their confederate Wool has heen coming in in large quantities, and | |° - di citicasieal the imports"during fourteen days are estimated at European consuls for armed intervention. The four hundred thousand arrobas. Freights were. blockading squadron was not dispersed from firm. In Rio Janeiro the quantity of coffee sold | the roadstead, and that fact will settle the ques- since the departure of the mail was sixty-four,| tion on the other side of the Atlantic. But, if thousand two hundred bags, of which thirteen | the fact were otherwise, we should have little of Friday, the 16th of January. We have news from South America, dated at thousand five hundred bags were for the United States. From the 7th to the 22d prices ruled for the United States from 6.600 to 7.500. In the Ba- hia sugar market good Cotinquibas have been in demand, and sales have been effected at: 1.750 per arroba for browns and 2.250 for whites; middling and inferior descriptions neglected. Prices rule from 1.600 to 1.700 for browns, and 2,000 to 2.200 per arroba for whites. In the coffee market 1,000 bags of Maragogipes have been sold at 6.300 per arroba, being an improvement of 200 rs. Stocks on hand consist of about 6,000 bags: but holders refused to sell. Inthe Pernambuco sugar market prices of white descriptions have not varied; but yellows and browns are rather firmer, quotations for Channel qualities being 1.500 to 1,600 per arro- ba. ‘The entries of cotton since the last mail were 3,139 bags; prices of fine quality ruled at from 14.000 to 16.500 per arroba, Prices of dry salted Despatches from Chattanooga, Tenn., state that the enemy advanced twelve miles from Murfrees- boro on the 30th ult. with one brigade and six pieces of artillery, on a foraging expedition. They made & vigorous attack on our cavalry, shelling us back a short distance, woods near Forrestville, and Anderson's brigade, which fortunately arrived, repulsed them with a loss of three hundred killed and wounded. Our loss is small. The ram Queen of the West, which so gallantly ran the gauntlet at Vicksburg on Monday, arrived and landed at Vidalia, opposite Natchez, on the same evening,and then steamed down the river, doing considerable damage, as is admitted by rebel authorities, The expedition under Generals Davis and Mor- gan, who went in pursuit of the rebels Forrest and Wheeler, captured thirty of the enemy, includ- ing two officers of Colonel Forrest's staff. The only news from the Army of the Rappahan- ~ gock is that an order has been issued dissolving We concealed ourselves in the the reserve grand division, and returning General | Sigel to the command of the Eloventh corps. General Hooker is reported to be working earnest- hides, regular quality, 170 to 175 rs. per pound, The barkentine Benefactor, Captain Cornig, reached this city yesterday from Yokahama, Ja pan, the first merchant vessel, we believe, that ever arrived at this port direct from that country. The United States gunboats Circassian and Water Witch, from Port Royal, arrived at this port at an early hour this morning. They bring six of the rebel officers saved from the brig Hun- tress burned off Charleston, but no news of im- portance. The United States Christian Commi: held its annual meeting at the Academy of Music last even- ing, which was crowded in every part. General Scott presided and delivered a brief speech. Gene- ral Burnside also spoke quite at length. The So- ciety since its organization has done a great amount of good, During the last six months it has distributed in camps, hospitals, and on the field of battle over three thousand packages of religious publications, clothing and stores for the sick and wounded, of the estimated value of $100,000. The | society is now ina highly progressive condition, and with the favor of our citizens promises to be- come of still greater value to the army and navy of the United States. Two hundred rebel prisoners, who were taken at Murfreesboro, voluntarily took the oath of alle- | giance to the United States, at St. Louis, on the 4th inet., and were discharged. They are desti- ly to reorganize the army. EUROPEAN NEWS. The details of the European news by the Hansa, dated to the 22d of January, are very interesting. The Right Honorable Milner Gibson, M. P., Presi- dent of the British Board of Trade, had delivered & very important address to his constituents at Ashton, England, Mr. Gibson reviewed the pre- sent position of England towards the United States, | He alfeged that slavery was the main cause of the war by inducing even secession for ite defence. He urged England to adhere to her neutral course in the strictest manner, and denied the wisdom of foreign medation, intervention or a © hasty recog. | nition" of the so-called Confeder In this connection Mr bson recited statistics setting forth the largely increased imports of breadstuffs aad provisions from the United States to Eng land during the year just ended, and warned his hearers that if the routive involved their country in a war with the United States their first act should be to blockade the American ports, and thus cnt of this immense and vital snpply from the " 2 of Lancashire, Sach Qin suet aalaleter om tay tute of money, clothing, shoes, &c., and the Presi- } dent of the Sanitary Commission in that city soli- | cits aid in their behalf. The Boston Traveller (republican) says that it is not expected that a full regiment of negro soldiers } can be raised in Mass setts, Gov. Andrey will therefore have to content himself with a bat- talion, Thecolored population of the State nam- ers nearly ten thousand, Only twenty working days remain for the pre- | sent Congress. By the death of Claiborne F. Jackson, Thomas C, Reynolds, who was elected Lieutenant Gover: nor of Missouri in 1860, would have succeeded to | the Executive chair if he was not himself a rebel, Mr. Reynolds is in Richmond. The draft machinery has been ordered again set in motion in Mich to be an, and the immigra- to fear from England or France, considering the present condition of the “happy accord” be- tween them in relation to American affairs. Louis Napoleon's outspoken Mexican pronun- ciamiento has somewhat shaken the brotherly love of England. The London Times pro- nounces that manifesto a precious specimen of French audacity, and the cool manner in which the Emperor assigns the Mexican republic to the Latin race is well calculated to excite the wrath of Anglo-Saxon John Bull. Tims we may shortly discover that this Mexican im- broglio of Louis Napoleon has not only proken his entente cordiale with England, but bas very materially simplified the work of su ppressing this rebellion in a Southern view of the subject. Meantime it appears that the rebds at Charleston are under no small obligations to England at this particular cri We are in- formed from the Richmond Keaminer tht the British ship Cadmus, which lately sailed from Fortress Monroe, turned up very opportanely the other day at Charleston; for there, conmu- nicating with the rebels, the officers of the Cadmus apprised them that their city woud be very shortly assailed by a formidable expedi- tion of our land and naval forces. The Caimus went down to take off the British Consul and this valuable information to the enemy was probably given in explanation of this proseed- ing; but the proceeding itself was prolably intended as a trick for communicating this seasonable warning to the rebels, Tha is British neutrality. But we can undertand it when it is considered that raw cotta in England is worth a dollar a pound, andthat English manufactures of all descriptions are worth ten times over in Charleston their post price in England, and that every failur’ of our arms against the rebellion increases the chances of free trade and cheap cotton fron a Southern confederacy. But let us be patient. Having dispose of the blockade question at Charleston, we hpe soon to reach a solution of the cotton queston in the clearing out of the original nest of tis rebellion. Ivportaxt Rewors—For some daya pst several rumors have reached us from Washingpn concerning changes in the Cabinet, and varias other important reforms contemplated in hgh places, such as the recall of General McClelin to the command of the Army of the Potome, the appointment of General Butler to the Sece- taryship of War, and so forth. We do aot kad whether these reports are true; for Mr. Lincoh has a habit of keeping all such things to hig self until the time comes to put them inp operation; but, asin all other human affair, coming events cast their shadows before, it ma be that these rumors are but the prelude 4 | ina state of perpe The Satisfactory Solution of the Media- tion Muddle. We publish in another column this morn- ing @ curious batch of highly important diplomatic correspondence. It is hardly necessary to say that we are indébted to William Colorado Jewett for this be- wildering assortment of extraordinary docu- ments; for Jewett is now the recognized diplo- matic maguate of this country and the rest of the world. Talleyrand, Richelieu and Machia- vel were mere amateurs when compared with Jewett. Frem the perfume of his fine head of hair dowa to the polish of his patent leather boots, Jewett is essentially diplomatic. He wears spectacles 60 as to render it impossible for any one to look iu at his eyes—*those’ win- dows of the soul”—and uses language, both written and oral, solely to disguise the deep mysteries of his meaning. Hf any of our read- ers are unable to make head or tail of Jewett’s correspondence, therefore, it is, only because he favors us with a diplomatic—not a cock and bull—story, which, for the benefit of such un- diplomatic readers, we proceed to elucidate. [t seems that the independent diplomatic efforts of Jewett, Greeley, Napoleon, Mercier, Vallandigham and Company to effect a me- diation between the North and South have at last roused the slumbering lion in the breast of Secretary Seward. Bull Run Russell says that Seward has “an argumentative nose;” but Seward intrudes this nose into nobody else’s business, and insists upon other people keeping their noses out of his affairs. Consequently he has followed his nose to the office of Count Mer- cier, Minister of France, and administered to that diplomat a severe but deserved rebuke. Taking high national ground and an argumen- tative position, Secretary Seward assured the Coumt that Jewett, Greeley and the other independent mediators bad violated the law of 1799, for such cases made and provided, and thathe intended to have them indicted. Our Grand Jury is now in session, and our able, energetic, resolute and talented United States District Attorney, Mr. Delafield Smith, will prepare the proper papers and press the prosecution with his accustomed vigor. Secre- tary Seward reminded Count Mercier that this was not the first time that the agents of the French government ‘had been caught clandes- tinely interfering with the affairs of this coun- try. Citizen Genet, the agent of the old French republic, attempted to raise a cabal against Washington's administration because it would ‘not take sides with France against her foes, and was summarily squabashed by the passage of the law of 1799, to which Secretary Seward re- ferred. French consuls in the rebel States had been detected in an intrigue to filibuster Texas away froin the Americans, and had been reprimanded by Jeff. Davis, on the old principle of Satan rebuking sin. Count Mercier him- self—and at this remark the Count trembled in his boots—went down South to advise the re- bels never to surrender Richmond. In short, sid Seward, I am after Jewett, Greeley and Company with a sharp stick, and you had bet- ter be more neutral in future or pack your trunks and look after your passports. We consider this conduct very noble and dignified of Seward. He is not the man to allow poor Greeley to interfere with the State Department ashe has always interfered with the Depart- ment of War. Mercier’s knees knocked to- gether with fear at the conclusion of his plea- sant half hour with Seward, and he immediately sent post haste for Jewett. Jewett was equally frightened, aud took the first train to New York, without stopping to comb his bair, wax his mustache or put on a clean collar, in order to beg us to publish his defence. Touched by his pallid, dejected and dishevelled appearance, we have charitably consented. Jewett’s defence is ingenious; but. as he directs it “To the Great Heart of the American People,” we are afraid it will fail before an un- sentimental jury of twelve men. who have no hearts legally, but decide all cases by brains alone. The law explicitly says that if any citi- zen of the United States shall, without the per- mission of our government, carry on any verbal or written correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government, or officer or agent thereof, to defeat the measures of the govern- ment of the United States, he shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and punished by fine and imprisonment. Now Jewett admits that he has had both verbal and written cor- respondeace with the Kmperor Napoleon and with Count Mercier, and written correspondence with Queen Victoria, on the subject of media- tion. He further admits in the present letter that Secretary Seward “finally refused’ to au- thorize him to treat with foreign governments, and that his mediation mission was “indepen- dent.”’ Thus he confesses himself guilty. Jewett says that his motives are good; but that does not justify his illegal acts. He adds that his mission bad no “relation to any disputes or controversies with” foreign governments: but that is not the point. He urges that he was merely co-operating with the administration to secure peace and Union, which are administra- tion measures; but how does he know that mediation would secure Union! and what does / he find in the past conduct of the administration | to justify him in declaring that peace and Union are administration measures’ He claims that his right as a citizen is paramount to the right of the government, which is the mere agent of the people; but this claim is revolutionary, | anarchical, sophistical and untenable, since it would at once destroy all governments and all laws, and justify every crime. He argues the administration bas usurped unconstitutional powers for the good of the country, and therefore he may do the same; but he forgets that two wrongs cangot make @ right, and that he, and | not the administration, is on trial. In this way will Mr. Delafield Smith shatter Jowett's de- fence and hold him to the strict letter of the law. But if Jewett be guilty, so, then, are poor Greeley, Fillmore, Sumner and Vallandigham, who have either “ counseled, advised, aided or assisted” in Jewett’s correspondence, with in- tent as aforesaid. We are sorry to seo ex- President Fillmore ih such bad company, and | as his complicity is not very clear we advise | Secretary Seward to let him go; for a Know Nothing cannot be considered compos mentis, | Vallandigham and Sumner are hardened sin- | ners, and if convicted should be decorated with « ball and chain, tied closely together, and kept Tribune—and concludes:—‘I consider no man @ friend of the Union who makes a parade of peace propositions or peace agitation prior to the action of the government.” Thus he condemns himself, as Mr. Delafield Smith will show from the files of the Tribune and from Greeley’s con- fession of a correspondence with Mercier. We hope, hawever, that poor Greeley will not be sent to prison, where he will corrupt and de- moralize all the convicts, but to a lunatic asy- lum, where he may recover his mental sanity. As for Jewett, we are satisfied that his inten- tions were ;honorable and patriotic, and that he will fulffl his promise to pay off the national deot with his Colorado gold mountains. For these reasons we recommend him to mercy; and as the administration is plainly incompetent to carry onthe war, and as peace must be had somehow and some time, we suggest that Jewett be employed as negotiator and mediator pleni- potentiary, and thus be transformed from an in- dependent to a responsible diplomatist. and the Miniatare Mar- riage. The American press and public have been exccedingly lenient with Barnum. They have. allowed him to make money by humbugging innocent people, and more money by selling a book telling how well his humbugs have suc- ceeded. Recently, however, he has taken alto- gether too bold an advantage of this leniency. Having secured a dwarf woman, he has been exhibiting her at his Museum for some time past as the betrothed of another dwarf called General Tom Thumb. How this match was ar- ranged we do not care to know; but we are in- formed that it is-to be consummated at Grace church to-morrow with all the display of a fashionable wedding. Of course we have no ob- jections to the marriage, and no desire to forbid the banns. Miss Warren is a woman and Tom Thumb is a man, no matter how small they may be, and they have as good aright to be wedded as any other man and woman. This will be by no means the first time that dwarfs have been married and lived happily ever after. We do object, however, to Barnum’s share in the transaction, and particularly to his attempt to make money by the public exhibition of the in- tended bride and all the paraphernalia of the affair. We are aware that Barnum has no very great respect for the public. He considers it a goose which lays golden eggs, and is not very parti- cular where he tickles it, so that the eggs drop into his treasury. A long while ago he pro- duced an old colored woman whom he cailed Joyce Heth, and advertised her as the nurse of General Washington. Crowds came to seo this imposture, and after the poor woman's death Barnum had her dissected, and would undoubt- edly have hung up her skeleton in his Museum had not the surgeons exposed the humbug by pronouncing her only about sixty or seventy years old. Then some ingenious fellow tinkered together the head and body of a monkey and the tail of a fish, and this abortion Barnum heralded as the great Fejee mermaid, and dis- played beautiful pictures of handsome women with fishy extremities in order to allure silly folk to pay a quarter and see the curiosity. And then came the woolly horse which had been captured on the Rocky Mountains, and which had two of its legs miraculously shorten- ed, so that it might run around its native hills safely and expeditiously, but which, upon inspec- tion, turned ont to be combate of a little wool and as poor a specimen of horseflesh as had ever been rejected by the knackers as unfit even for the glue factory. These and a hun- dred other such successful swindles, more curi- ous than those of poor Greeley, have earned Barnum his proud title of the Prince of Hum- bugs, and a reputativn which, if not enviable, is at least world-wide. Itis an old saw that humanity loves to be cheated, and Barnum’s experience is no contras diction to the saying. The people seem to have a sort of affection for him, and he is always shrewd enough to take advantage of this affec- tion to get at the people’s pockets. When he ‘came to grief by turning clock pedler on a large scale, ‘and lost almost all the mouey he had so easily acquired, the public sympathized with him most cordially and laughed heartily over the book in which he boasted of his ex- ploits in making money by false pretences, No sooner had he secured dollars enough to con- duct the Museum in his own name again than he came over from England and repaid us for our sympathy by exhibiting a poor, little, de- formed and idiotic negro boy as “the What Is It! a connecting liak between man and the brute cre- ation, captured on the coast of Africa,” and so Everybody had become so ac- customed to Barnum by this time that no one could be induced to expose this deception. Indeed, it would be a task worthy of Hercules himself to clean Barnum’s Museum of all its humbugs, from the moral “lecture room,” where ministers, deacons and members of coun- try churches, who would not go to a theatre for the world, sit and gaze entranced upon theatri- cal performances, down to the sewing machine exhibited as a curiosity but paid for as an ad- vertisement. But there is so much really valuable and interesting in the Museum that such an eepose would be unkind. Just as Bar- num did the public a real service by introducing Barnum on ad nauseam Jenny Lind, so his Museum collection is not all | hombug and deception. Why is he not satisfied to get rich a little less quickly and eschew false pretences altogether ? By his connection with this miniature mar- riuge, Barnum has injured himself sadly in the poe s | ‘would be a greater crowd to see thom en- couched, as the princes and princesses of France wore exhibited during old monarchical times We advise Barnum not to attempt this, however. He has already overstepped all ordinary bar riers, and must be satistied. Those persons who have encouraged him by their wish to see Misa Warren and her dry goods have our gincere compassion. We hope that the wedding will pass of pleasantly to-morrow, and that no speculating Barnum will henceforward over- shadow the happy pair The Tribune, the Post, the Times and the Express make “much ado about nothing” by raising a great dust touching a private meeting held at Delmonico’s on Friday evening, Consiat- ing of a few bankers, merchants and newspaper editors, called togethaby a circular, in which the oatensible object appears to be “the diffu- sion of political information at the present crisis.” The Post charges the meeting with treasonable designs, and with the purpose of getting rid of the President by a bloody coup d'etat, in order to save the Union from the perils which surround it. Upon the same authority it is stated that another object—auxiliary to the main one of revolution—was to raise funds to carry the New Hampshire election, and to cir- culate Governor Seymour's recent message to the Legislature, and other conservative docu- ments of the same stamp, together with certain journals published in the interest of peace. The Post either does not understand thie movement or affects ignorance for party pur- poses. It is nothing more than the resurrection and the rattling of the dry bones raised from the grave by the trumpet of God—the voiee of the people in the late clections: The defunct politicians are revived and on their legs again. The doom of republicanism was sealed last fall, and the keen-scented hawks and vultures smell from afar the spoils of the succession. They are making their prepara- tions to control the nomination of the euccess- ful Presidential candidate for the election of 1864. Taking time by the forelock,-these early birds expect to get hold of the early worm, and already they are aiming to convince every man who aspires to succeed Abraham Lincoln, as tenant for four years of the White House, that he must receive their endorsement or miserably fail in the attempt. But the nomina- tion of the successful eandidate has already passed beyond the control of the politicians, no matter what may be their complexion or ante- cedents. Events have shaped the issne and indicaied the man. The people have set the snowball in motion in New Eng- land, and it will roll on southward and westward, increasing as it goes, till ita magnitude, without a parallel, astonishes the politicians and commands the admiration of all men. As from New England has come our bane, from New England also comes the antidote. Thirty years ago Satan, roaming up and down the earth seeking an opportunity of inflicting as much mischief as possible on the United States and upon mankind in general, alighted in Boston, and there entered into the hearts of Puritans and politicians of one ided, instigating them to the disruption of this once glorious Union and the turning of a Paradise into a Pan- demonium. It seems that now Michael the Archangel, Itburiel with his spear of light, or some other messenger from Heaven, has made war upon Lucifer, driven him out, and taken possession of the land of the Pilgrims. The best evidence of this is in the cordial and en thusiastic reception given “down East” to Gen. McClellan, the effect of which seems to be already felt at Washington. When Daniel Webster lived “the solid men of Boston” elements of all New England followed his leadership. But since his death there has been no man in that region of similar principles with a commanding popularity sufficient to sustain himself before the people; and the consequence was that conserva. tism receded, and « high tide of abolition fanati- cism set in. The unhappy tesults are too well known. But the eveats of this war have opened the eyes of the best portion of the people of New England. They find that a hostile spirit has been awakened against them throughout the loyal States as being the primal cause of the mis- f rtunes which now afflict the whole country and threaten the destruction of the republic. It ia no secret that the excision of the New Knugiand limb has been freely discussed in all circles as the most likely means of reseuing from ruin the rest of the body politic. The wisest men of those States, with great foresight and sagacity, anticipate the threatened sentence, and are taking active measures to have the judgment reversed. Their purpose is to save New Eng- land, and with it the whole Union, without distinction of East or West, North or South- Their . conservative action is the death blow to the fanaticism within their borders which has poisoned the whole country, and it will be fol- lowed up in every loyal State with an enthusi- aam greater than that which attended the elec- tion of General Harrison in 1840. The politicians, therefore, may make What arrangements they please, and they may diffuse their political knowledge far and wide; but the man ef the people and of the army is General McClellan—the man whom his military talents and acquirements as well as his administrative capacity for both civil and military affairs—his lofty, unselfish patriotism, and his sound con- servative opinions and ideas, point out as com- bining all the qualifications needed in the Chief Magistrate who is destined to finally save from and the conservative estimation of virtuous people, There is such a thing as going @ little too far even with patrons so indulgent asthe Americans. The marriage voy ought not to be trifled with fdr the interest of asbowman. The exhibition of Miss Warren at the Musenw, the display of Miss War- ren's wedding dress, Tom Thumb’s wed- | ding shirt, Miss Warren's wedding shoes | and Tom Thamb’s wedding stockings in store windows on Broadway, and all the other | details of Barnum’s management of this matter, | are offensive to delicacy, decorum, modesty and good taste. Why should men and women be so much more eager to see Miss Warren after she was engaged to Tom Thumb than before? What class of ideas did Barnum appeal to when he advertised her engagement so extensively! One had only to listen to the conversation of silly countrymen awl country women as they stood gaping at the “little tion to Canada, across Detroit river, will be re- | al argument on the slavery at . sumed. what is yet te come. If it be so, then, as far 4) question. Greeley, in his letter to Jewett, shows | Queen of Beauty,” or to open his ears to the P. C, Talman, Esq., the Assemblyman from | the public is concerned, there will notbe a hay} not only that be counseled, a: 4 and | numerous jokes in circulation upon the sub- | Westchester county, one of the Committee on pier people on the faee of the earth than th led =mediation, but also that he was | jeet, in order to receive a sufficient answer to | Railroads, js a democrat. He was classified asa | joyal people of the North. It will lift them ug] acquainted with the law he violated. He | these questions What Barnum will do when republican from the slough of despondency inte which rejj insists in this letter that the Confede- | the wedding is over nobody ean tell, Doubtless } eden a lsat tal tege than’ ter come aps cent mismanagement and disaster bave casi} rates whall move first: says that England | be intends to exhibit the couple after the mar- | pre The’advance wae equal to % aly por cont. | them, and will inspire them with some contif and France are enemies of this conatry riage coremony. There will be a crowd to see eee tS ee eo Fe earn er Ew fore a 2 aa. hovgh be Daa abmaes wrilisa otheyiring iatua.! We Like peomle martiod, aad certainty thmre | the geld destruction the gallant ship of State, now “ tem- pest-tossed and balf « wreck.” Sexaton Sumner ox tux Coxpver or Tue War.—On Saturday Mr. Sumner introduced & resolution in the Senate to the effect that the Committee on the Conduct of the War should be directed to inquire into “the condition of | the Army of the Potomac, both officers. and men, and to consider what measures are neces. sary in order to promote ite efficiency, increase the mutual confidence of the officers and mea, and to secure from all an unwavering and sal- dierlike devotion to the declared policy of the government.” This implies that the Army of the Potomac is disorganized, and that the officers have no control over the men; but how, we ask, can the government expect “ mutual confi- dence” to exist between the officers and men when they are changing the officers every day? The only measure necessary to promote effi- ciency in the army, and to “secure from all an unwavering and soldierlike devotion to the dectared policy of the government,” is for Mr. Lineotn to go back to the principles and policy declared in his first proclamation ; to carry on the war for the legitimate purposes to which «2 ledge die Lies view Uae on: