The New York Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1863, Page 8

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Advertisemests in- ‘serted in the Warxry Herat will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United Btates. eet eee ¢ NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1863—TRIPLE SHEERS regarded asa mistake on his part, and looked on 85 @ movement which would tend to greatly strengthen the cause of the Union. Earl Russell, speaking in the House of Lords, denied that Napoleon had “renewed his overtures fora joint mediation between the federals and Confederates.” Mr. Roebuck was to bring forward his motion for the recognition of the Confederate States on the 30th of June. The Vienna Journal states that Lord Palmers ton will endeavor to have the American question submitted to the King of the Belgians for arbitra tion. the Sumter—that the guns on board should be intended for the service of the rebels. The reply of Prince Gortchakoff to the allied note on the Polish question was looked for with great anxiety. The probabilities of a European, war were canvassed in the meantime. The Lon- don Post—organ of the government—undertakes to prove that war with Russia need not be regarded as a very serious undertaking, for that if Austria operates with sixty: thou- sand men on the frontier of Galicia, and the Russian fleet is blockaded in the Baltic, the Poles can do the remainder themselves, The Mos- cow (azette points out how very vulnerable Eng- land is at sea, owing to-her extended commerce. It was thought in Paris that Napoleon did not wish a war on the subjectof Poland. The Poles had again defeated the Russians. It was said that Napoleon had demanded the re- moval of the ex-King of Naples from Rome. The Archbishop of Cashel acknowledges the receipt of £200 from Baltimore, United States, collected for the relief of the poor of Ireland. The Archbishop, in his letter of thanks to the Secretary of the Baltimore Committee, says:— “To you, generous people of America, who, inthe midst of a great domestic calamity, come to our re- lief--to you we give, as we owe, our griteful thanks, and for you we put up ourprayers to Him who rules the destinies of gations, that He may be pleased in His mercy to put an end to the calami- tous war now desolating the States of America, and to consolidate your great country by the blessings of peace."’ The Central Relief Commit- tee of Ireland met on the 18th of June, when the Lord Mayor of Dublin handed in the sum of £4,813 78. 1d., which included the. following sub- seriptions:—£1,750 additional from the New York Trish Relief Committee, per Richard Bell, Esq.; £141 17s. from the Irish Relief Committee, St. Paul, Minnesota, and £280 10s, 1d. from citizens of Detroit, Michigan. A letter was read from the Most Rev. Archbishop of New York, in which he says:—‘ T enclose you (May 28) a bill of exchange for £176 13s, 1d. sterling, to be given to your Cen- THE SITUATION. The surrender of Vicksburg is the most import- ant feature of the war to-day. It was consum- mated on Saturday, the Fourth of July—an auspicious time for the realization of another tri- umph for the Union and thé flag. Gen. Pemberton offered on that morning to surrender if his troops were permitted to march out. Gen. Grant refused to accept of any conditions; an absolute surrender .of the garrison as prisoners of war was demanded. After a brief consultation with his officers General Pemberton surrendered un- conditionally, and Vicksburg was ours, after a long and tedious siege. Rear Admiral Porter fully Black Hawk on the 4th, ina few words, as fol- lows:—“I have the honor to inform you that Vicksburg has surrendered to the United States foroes on this Fourth of July.” We give to-day a complete story of all the late operations before Vicksburg, from our army corres- ondent ons the spot, together with two maps of ae ta and the line of the Missitappi now ppened by the recent victory. The most intense pxcitement and enthusiasm prevailed all over the rountry yesterday at this news. The voices of the people as well as of bells and cannon testified to the delight experienced by the fall of the West- ern rebel Gibraltar. There was # grand popular demonstration at Washington, at which the Presi- dent and Messrs. Seward“and Stanton and General Halleck addressed the people. P Next to the cheering intelligence from the West are the movements of the armies in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The latest news is from Williams- port up to four o'clock yesterday afternoon, at which time the rebels were drawn ap along the bank of the Potomac. The river was a rolling ‘and surging flood. The enemy had no pontoon bridges, and were ferrying their wagons across under great difficulty in two scows. The ope- ration was so slow that it amounted to a stand- still. Our army had already arrived at the scene, and at four o’clock in the afternoon a furious bat- tle was progressing, in which the annihilation of the rebel army was almost reduced to a certainty. Generals Meade, Mulligan and Pleasanton were upon them in full foree. Despatches f.om Harris- burg at eleven o'clock last night state that the news then received was that the whole rebel army was routed in utte¥ panic. A body of thirty thou- eand militia has been despatched from Harrisburg withim.the last fow deys to support Gen. Meade’s ermy. An assault was made upon Helena, Arkansas, onthe ath inst., by the rebels, under Generals Marmaduke, Price and H-‘mes. They were total- ly repulsed, with the loss of fifteen hundred men, killed, wounded and prisoners, by the Union troops under General Prentiss, after a fight of six hours. Over seven hundred of the prisoners arrived at Cairo yesterday. By the arrival of the Arago from Port Royal, 8.C., we have news to the 4th inst. Admiral Dahlgren had arrived there, to succeed Admiral Dupont. The Gantiago de Cuba, of the West India squadron, captured last week the steamer Victoria, from Wilmington, and the Britannia, from Charleston, bound for Nassau, laden with Cotton, valued at several hundred thousand dollars. ‘The Victoria was sent North in charge of a prize master, and the Britannia was towed into Port Royal. The steamer Ellen §, Terry arrived at this port last evening from North Carolina, bringing New- bern dates to the Sth instant, Everything looks promising in that department, and General Foster has shown great activity in pushing the rebels, ‘We have some very interesting news, but deem it injudicious to publish it until the result is known, EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship New York, from Southampton on the 24th of Tune, reached this port yesterday. The Asia, from Queenstown the on 28th of Jane, arrivea pt Halifax yesterday on her voyage to Boston, The news of the A: is two days later. The news of Lee's Northern invasion was made pwr Doglwod om We 2othelJuue, Jt wee tral Relief Committee of Dublin, for the poor of Treland. I have no instructions as to how this money should be expended, except what I here- with enclose. It is the subscription of soldiers in our army. They have sent it to me, and not to our committee, because they know me.” Consols closed in London, on the 27th of June, at 92 a 92% for money. The Liverpool cotton market was firm, with quotations unchanged, on the 27th of June. Breadstuffs were flat and rates: barely maintained. . Provisions were quiet and steady. The rebel cotton loan was at from two anda half to one and a half discount in London. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The indications are that the government will de- mond, under the conscription law, about four hun- confirms this fact’by an official despatch to the | dred thonsand men. The levy will be made by Con- Becretary of the Navy, dated from the flagship | | ' men. The number thus State east of the Rocky Delaware Indiana . New Hampshire. i New York...... Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. The balance of five thousand will probably be made up in the loyal portions of the seceded exempts. retreating forces. Seventh street, Williamsburg. The officers of customs at Liverpool had notified the owners of the steamship Gibraltar—formerly landed, or else the yesse! would be treated as if gressional districts, instead of directly on the States, as heretofore, and the number each district will be required to raise by draft will not vary much from two thousand two hundred and twenty apportioned to each loyal Mountains will be as /ol- States. Asa number of the States, however, did not fill their quotas under the last call of the Presi- dent for three hundred thousand men, the new troops who will be brought into the field will pro- bably number in the aggregate nearly half a mil- lion. When the draft is made fifty per cent will be added to the figures given above to cover All the New York and Brooklyn militia regi- ments that went to Harrisburg are now in the Army of the Potomac. They are commanded by Briga- dier General Smith, and at last accounts were in the front of our army, harassing the rear of Lee’s The first of the six revenue cutters now being constructed by the Treasury Department was launched yesterday afternoon, at the foot of North The cutter was christened by Hiram Barney, Collector of the Port, and is gbout three hundred and fifty tons burthen. A number of Custom House officials witnessed the army at Vicksburg an immense amount of spheri- cal case shell and cartridges. While o salute was being fired in Champlain, New York, tn rejoicing over the reported placing of McClellan in Halleck’s place, the cannon burst, killing two men. The City Inspector's report states thag there were 396 deaths in the city during the past week— & decrease of 11 as compared with the mortali- ty of the week previous, and 57 more than oc- curred during the corresponding week last year. The recapitulation table gives 2 deaths of alcoholism, 84 of diseases of the braig and nerves, 2 of the generative organs, 11 of the heart and blood vessels, 125 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 3 of old age, 24 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 8 premature births, 76 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other diges- tive organs; 25 of uncertain seat and general fevers,.6 of diseases of the urinary organs, and 30 from violent causes. There were 225 natives of the United States, 14 of England, 84 of Ireland, 6 of Scotland, 28 of Germany, and the balance of various foreign countries. The stock market was better yesterdsy morning, but not 80 firm in the afternoon, ‘The fall of Vicksburg cre- ated avery cheerful feeling in odmmerci*! circles, and monoy waz comfortable at 6 a T per cent.- Gold fell to 158, closing at five P.M. at that price, Kxchango was unsileable in the afternoon, Business was seriously impeded yesterday by the ex- citing war news. Cotton was lower and very irregular m price, with but little inquiry for it. Moderate sales of Dreadstuffs, coffee, lard and tallow wero made at exsicr rates. Pork was comparatively firm and in fair request. Hay was plenty and heavy, Whiskey was more sought after and was a trifle higher. In most othor articles transactions were restricted. The freight market coutia- ved depressed. ‘The markot for beef cattle ruled dull and heavy this week, tho recoipts being very heavy,and prices wero fully 4(c. per pound lower. Quite a number of cattle which were intended for Philadelphia and Baltimore camo to this market, which rendered the aggregate sup- ply enormous, But nearly all the cattle were sold to the butchers, a few only being taken to send out to graze Prices ranged from To tollc. a1140. The general sell ing prices were 9c. a 101Z¢.,and the average 9c. a 10c., the lowest for many months, Milch cows were dull and lower, except for extras. Sales wore generally at 3! & $50. Veala were in enormous supply and lower. at 43%c. to Gize. A'Tc., and a few at Tic. Sheop and lambs were dull and about ic. each lower: $3 to$5, extras $6, Swine sold at 5#{0. « 53¢e. for corn fed, and 4c. a Sc. for still fed. The total receipts were 5,304 beeves, 126 cows, 1,465 calves, 11,213 sheep and lambs, and 10,460 swine. Vicksbyrg Ours—Another Deadly Biow to the Rebellion—Terribie Situation of Lee’s Army on the Potomac—The End > Near at Hand. New York was electrified yesterday with the joyful news of the surrender of Vicksburg on the Fourth of July. Of all the days in the calendar this was the day to give the most powerful moral effect, in the loyal and in the rebellious States, to this great achievement. The splendid victory of General Meade on the 8d in Pennsylvania, and this magnificent triumph of General Grant on “the glorious Fourth,” a thousand miles away on the Mis- sissippi, are two of the mest remarkable, omi- nous and appropriate events, in a chronologi- cal view, of all the strange and wonder- ful coincidences of the war. We may now say, without a misgiving or reservation, that not only have we broken the backbone, but the head and front, of the rebellion; that its days are numbered, and that a general collapse, from Virginia to Texas, is close at hand. The excellent illustrative maps, and the com- prehensive and interesting budget of letters from our Vicksburg correspondents, which we publish y, will give the reader the neces- sary information as to the work accomplished by General Grant and Admiral Porter, es- pecially in the graphic details furnished of some of the closing operations of the siege. The rebel Sebastopol of the Mississippi has been captured, and with its fall Port Hud- son ceases to be tenable, and ceases to be of any value to the enemy. We should not be surprised, however, if we were next to hear that Port Hudson too had capitulated on the Fourth of July; for, at the time of our last ac- counts from General Banks, his regular ap- proaches had been brought so near the enemy's main defences as to indicate a speedy capitula- tion. Vicksburg, at all events, disposes of Port Hudson. The Mississippi river is reopened. The rebellion is cut in twain, The States adhering to it west of the Mississippi are now at the mercy of General Banks; while General Grant, with an army estimated by the rebels as exceeding in ceremony. No excitement attended the launch. The second. one is to be launched from the same yard this afternoon at three o'clock. “John Enright & Son will launch from their yard, foot of Kent street, Greenpoint, this afternoon, at three o'clock, a cutter for the government. Her dimensions are as follows:—Length, 130 feet; beam, 26% feet; depth, 11 feet. Engines are to be put in by the Novelty Works, and are to be 36 inches diameter and 30 inches stroke of piston. The merchants of Boston are circulating a peti- tion to the dent, asking that two or three fast and powerfal arhitd vessels be placed on the Atlantic Ocean, on the track of our vessels trading with Europe, to protect that interest, and at the same time to look after the fishing vessels, and that one or more small, well armed steamers be sent into the vicinity of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the principal fishing fleet usually centres between July and November. The Belfast (Maine) Journal has hoisted the name of George B. McClellan for the Pyesidency 1864. + gee! OU S20 oe republican mass convention will be held to- day at Burlington, Vermont, to nominate candi- dates for Govermor, Lieutenant Governor and ‘Treasurer. The Democratic State Conventions of Iowa and California will be held to-day—the former at Des | Moines and the latter at Sacramento. numbers a hundred thousand men, is now at liberty to join General Rosecrans for a march from Chattanooga to Charleston, or to descend with irresistible force upon Mobile. As for General Joe Johnston, with his little army of ob- servation of fifieen or twenty thousand men, be has probably observed enough in the fall of Vicksburg to induce him to push forward with- out delay to the fortifications of Mobile, in or- der to save himself and that city from immedi- ate capture. This appears now to be his only alternative, unless he is prepared for the mise- rable business of a guerilla chieftain. vite WEL Bae oo The reopening of the Misslsstppi, and the liberation of General Grant's army of one hun- aed thoytand men for active co-operation with | General Rosecrans, virtually end the war in the Southwest. Between Richmond and Texas the rebels cannot muster an army to resist the pressure of our overwhelming forces at any point. All, therefore, that remains of the strength of the rebellion is the broken and retreating “my of Lee; aad, from our accounts received lasts night concerning that army, it was undergoing a Ball's Bluff disaster of the most fearful d.vensions. Driven to’ the Potomac river at Williansport, Lee had found his means of retreat theres¢ut off, and, with the flooded and angry river in his front, he was en- veloped in his rear by om pureaing forces— regulars, volunteers and milh‘ia. We are prepared to hear th 's morning that the late defiant rebel army oi” Virginia has been cut to pieces, captured or 4 estroyed. In anticipation of this decisive work, Wwe may say that even at this moment the rebell, on is sup- greased. The Cumberland river at Nashville on the 34 inet. had risen thirty-five feet. The Colorado or Pike's Peak gold mines, up to the 30th of June, 1862, had yielded over seven millions six hundred thousand dollars of the pre- cious metal, and it was estimated that the close of the present year would exhibit an aggregate yield of the mines of twenty millions of dollars. General Irwin McDowell and staff left St. Louis on the 2d inst. for this city. One handred and fifty negroes, who were not willing to wait until the 4th of July, 1870, when all the slaves in Missouri will be free, ran away in a body from their masters in Madison and St. Fran- cois counties, Mo., on the 16th ult. It is said that the eight thirteen-inch mortars at Vieksburg supplies one rebel mortar of the same calibre with shells, Those that do not explode the enemy dig up and send back into General rants arayg, The organs of the radical and republican Party are making great bluster about the unanimity of the republicans and the war democracy in the Support of the President in the prosecution of the war. They seem to rejoice that they are able now and then to dig out of his grave the skeleton of some old worn out democrat and place him in nomination on that platform. Having thus set him before the people, they endeavor to bewilder the public mind by laying before thelr readers lengthy leaders and essays to prove that the only issue before the country is “peace or war.” Among the argu- ments used is the following declaration of John Brough, recently taken out of his coffin and nominated in Ohio:— But in a crisis of this kind it fa @ principle of democracy that the first great duty every man owes ta to hig country. And although there is a President ia the chair to whom | have ever been politically opposed, and for whom I did not vote, yet I recogutve him, not as the head of a political party, but as the head of the government. And, asa good soldier who ts fighting in the ranks, itis my duty to obey bim as Commandor.in- Chief, without halting to ask questions in regard to this great contest. This is the position and view of the public’ generally. ‘There is no other course to pursue, Mr. Lincoln has been constitutionally elected. He is our legally constituted Chief Magistrate, and until his term of office expires it is through him that this rebellion is to be put down and peace restored to our once prosperous and happy country. We have no other source to look to until the time comes to constitutionally put some one else in his place at the head of our government. To attempt to displace him before that time arrives is revolution and re- beilion, and would throw’ us into a state of an- atchy unequalled even by the revolutionary scenes of France. This is admitted by all sides, Therefore it forms no issue before the country. There is, however, a great and vital issue before our people—an issue upon which rests the future of our country, The radicala, however, seem determined that the public shall not comprehend or see it. They well know that their fate is sealed if the people are once al- lowed to vote directly upon it. That issue is the imbecility or talent of our rulers. Shall the affairs of our government be mauaged by im- beciies or by men ef talent, ability aud genius? Shall the prosecution of the war continue another term in the hands of men who do not comprehend it, and have not the ability to grapple with and bring it to a successful issue; or shall mea be placed in power who have tho talent to use the vast resources of the North, and speedily crush out the rebellion and bring peace to our distracted country? That is the only issue in 1863 or 1864. Local issues may, in minor elections, to some extent, over- shadow it; but it is the great issue before the country. It is the issne that the public are to- day studying over and revolving in their minds; it is the issue upon which they are preparing to speak at the ballot box when te hour arrives. Party lines are obliterated. There is no democratic party save in name, no republican purty outside of the office holders and office seekers. ‘li groat mass of the peo- ple see only their country. For that and the constitution of our fathers they plead, hope, fight and pray. Thousands in this State voted for Gov. Seymour last fall because they were sick and tired of the imbecility at Washington. This, with the determination to rebuke extreme radicalism, elected him. Time, with subsequent events and continued mismanagemeat at the national capital, has increased and strengthened this feeling. The ball has rolled on until the great issue has become imbecility or talent. It is in vain that the radicals cry “peace or war.” It is a delusion to hold before the people that issue. It only shows to what desperate condition the politicians are driven in their struggle for thespoils. With all their theories, platforms, pretended doctrines and principles, the spoils is all that they are after. This the public fully comprebends. We hope and trust that the day for obtaining power by political intrigues is about ended, and that the hour is at hand when genius and talent will be the watch- word and test for official position. There is no issue except with spoils hunters for “peace or war.” Weare allin favor of peace. We all desire to see our country once more united and restored to its happy and prosperous con- dition. We all desire to see our flag wave in triumph over every section of our land, and supported abr@ad by a nation that commands the respect and admiration of the world. The so-called peace men cry peace because they see that the party in power have not the ability to crush out the rebellion and restore the country to its former prosperity. It is their way of op- posing the imbecility of the powers at Washing- ton. It is from that imbecility that they obtain all their power here at the North. Without it their efforts would be as the waves beating against the rocks. Let the politicians and partisan press cry “peace or war” if they will. They cannot di- vert the public mind from the real issue. The radicals may bring out their worn out demo- erats and place them on their war platforms if they desire; they will find when the hour comes for the people to speak at the ballot box that they will select, irrespective of other issues, the man who has the talent to comprehend the situation of the country and the genius to use the material and resources that the loyal North is ever ready to place at the command of an honest government. They will select the man who has the ability to cope with the rebels and the determi- nation to maintain intact the constitution of our forefathers and guarantee its protection to all. They will rally around that man who, while endeavoring to execute and enforce oor laws in the rebellious States, will protect the people of the North in all their rights under the constitution and the laws of the land. To -this position the events of the times have drifted us. Shall the country be ruled fn the future with imbecility or talent? Choose ye between them. That today is the issue. Tar Ereevcr or rae Scnrexprn or Viens. puro 1x THe Ciry.—Great as was the gene ral sense of relief and joy manifested on the arrival of the news of Lee's defeat at Gettysburg, it was not to be compared to the wild enthusiaem everywhere exhibited by our citizens on the receipt of Admiral Porter's des- atch announcing the fall of Vicksburg. Without entering into calculations of the further strategic benefits of this most opportune event, the public mind had a sufficiently prompt perception of the nitimate importance of its effect on the fate of the rebellion te de- liver itself to the most exuberant manifestations of joy. On the first announcement of the fact being posted up at the different newspaper offices, the approaches leading to them beoame | ruled France since the great Revolution. In | despotiom. The press of England is no less | The Watervliet arsenal, opposite Troy, has been | TR Great Politiont tesue Bofore the | thronged with eager crowds, by whom very busy lately in forwarding to’General Grant's | Country, cheer after cheer was sent up with a heartiness and energy that attested how deeply the public heart was moved. The effect upon the business commu- nity was equally electric, and nothing but glad faces—those of secessionist sympathizers and government contractors excepted—were to be met with. All congratulated themselves on the now absolute certainty of the restoration of a state of things under which the country had flourished, and no part of it as much as our city. But it was in Wall street that the stimu- lating effect of the news manifested itself in the most marked and satisfactory manner. Government securities and stocks of every kind exhibited at once « decided upward tendency, while gold, which had opened at 138%, fell to 13234 at the close of the day. It is long since 80 cheerful and confident @ spirit has marked the operations of the market, every one ap- pearing impressed with the conviction that the country is fast nearing the end of its difficulties. In all the places of public amusement last night the same demonstrations of joyous and satisfied feeling were freely indulged in, and every sentiment in the pieces which had the least appositeness to the event of the hour was enthusiastically cheered. In short, it is long since New York has witnessed the expression of so much heartfelt satisfaction among ber citi- zens. Surely there was cause for it. The first indications of the healing up of a nation’s wounds are next to the cure itself—the most fruitful theme for a nation’s rejoicings. The Independent Press and the Albany Regency. We published, a few days ago, a secret circu- lar, signed by Governor Seymour, Amasa J, Parker and William Kelly, and designed to improve the cireulation of the Weekly Argus, which is a tender to the Albany Argus, the organ of the Albany Regency. Poor Greeley, who discovered this precious document, never did Governor Seymour a worse service than by publishing it to the world. The Governor has recently been rather anxious to disclaim all connection with the Regency; but this circular is proof positive that he is leagued with them heart and hand. It isa pretty spectacle to see the Governor of the great State of New York condescending to waste. his time and weaken his influence, during a crisis like this, in order to act as general drummer and subscription agent to a dirty, little, worthless paper, which has no character whatever except as the hand organ of a set of unscrupulous _poli- ticians, who deliberately sacrificed the Union in the Charleston Convention rather than accept of any candidates not on their slate. We had expected better things of Governor Seymour, and we confess that we were sadly disappointed when we found him engaged ia such a contemptible business. The Albany Regency has always endeavored either to control or destroy the independent press. When Martin Van Buren established the Regency the press of this country lacked brains, intelligence and force, and was conse- quently without much circulation or influence, and could be easily managed. But when the first number of the HxraLp was issued the Re- gency discovered that it had to contend with a power hitherto undeveloped. From that day to this the Heratp has been a thorn in the side of these politicians, and it will continue to be so until it records their final and inevitable downfall. We hope to have that pleasure at no very distant period. During the years which have passed they have tried to buy us, to bribe us, to bully us, to destroy us, and to write us down; but one effort after another has signally failed, and we have these plotters on the hip, at last and they know it. We can trace nearly all the attacks which have been made upon the Herap and its editor to the machinations of the members of the Albany Regency. They have libelled, villified, slan- dered and abused us, in public and private, in print and by word of mouth. The principal object of their ambition hes long been to anni- hilate the Heratp, that they might reign undis- puted and undisturbed. To accomplish this they have at various times bought up our oon- temporaries, and by presents of money or pro- mises of rich offices they have bribed the venal press to assail us. But their best friends can- not congratulate the Regency wirepullers upon their success. We have lived down their slan- ders, defied their abuse and leughed at their bribes and their threats. We have created an Independent press in this country, in spite of thé Regency, and the result is that the Regency has lost its power, and is now a poor, weak, doomed clique, bolstered up by Seymour, Par- ker and Kelly, and represented by Confidence Cassidy and his silly, purblind Argus, while the | Henao is more prosperous than ever. The shabby schemers of the Regency, seated on their tottering thrones and wearing their tattered robes and pinchbeck crowns, never did and never will comprehend the independent press. The few small politicians who still fol- low the ruined fortunes of these illegitimate and degenerate successors of Martin Van Buren and Silas Wright are equally unintelligent. | The stockjobbing sovereigns of the Regency | and their scurvy retainers either never read history or do not have sense enough to under- stand what they read. The Frenoh press has Louis Philippe’s time it was omnipotent. It stirred up the revolution which dethroned Louis Philippe. Even when muzzled by the government censors it bas found means to make its influence felt. The present Napoleon re- cognizes this power and suffers from it. The press of Paris, hampered as it is, carried the recent elections against Napoleon. Three- fourths of the newly elected representatives are writers for the press. They will write Napoleon off of bis throne, and into exile : dungeon, if be pemeisis in his or a powerful. The history of the past and of the prevent shows this. In spite of the caution of the government and the evident sympathies of the people, the Eoglieh press Las committed Fngland to the cause of the Southern confede. | racy, which is now staggering to its grave. like the Albany Regency. In this conntry the press js still more influential. It has more liberty | than the French and more enterprise than the English press, During this rebellion it has re peatedly saved the country. It roused the peo- | ple to action. It procnred recruits when the , imbecile administration utterly failed. It has | sustained the nation in adversity and defent, | and prepared the way for our present | triumphs. An idiot might as well attempt to manage a locomotive as the Albany Regency fo control this indqyendent press. When the niggerhead organs quailed and the copper- head organs were squelched, the independent press stood firm and preserved the republic. The Day Book broke dewn, the Daily News broke down, the Journal of Commerce broke down, the Tribune cried for mercy; but the Heratp maintained its position and destroyed the republican party. Singularly enough, the first fruit of the Heraun’s victory was the elec tion of this very Governor Seymour who now turns subscription agent for the Argus and special pleader for Vallandigham. Some of the other results we see in Meade’s rout of the rebels and Grant’s triumph at Vicksburg. Before long it will be our duty to settle the terms of peace with the seceded States, and then we shall be at liberty to conclude our account with the Re- gency and its tools, and give them a receipt in full to date, "The Radi Their Committecs—The Antics of the Drunken Committee. Senator Chandler, of Michigan; Senator Wil- kinson, of Minnesota, and other members of a drunken committee, proceeded the other day on a dranken excursion in one of our revenue cut- ters down the bay, to inspect the fortifications and spout radical balderdash. What they did and said has been reported in tie Henao, and is well worthy of thom. The radicals, since they achieved temporary power in Congress, in consequence of the revolt of the Southern States, have instituted various committees, whose one object, but by-different means, is to prevent the healing of the breach and the return of the seceders; One of their committees, of which Ben. Wade and Chandler, of Michigan, were prominent mem- bers, was known as the “Commitice on the Conduct of the War.” We call it the Satanic Committee, whose design is to render the breach in the Union permanent by at once exasperating the South to madness, and at the same time contriving by all possible means to prevent the asnccess of the war. This was the scope and drift of the proceed- ings on board the revenue cutter Wyrfants. Before the war broke out Chandler said that blood-letting would be good for the country. But, though he takes precious care of his own skin, be is ike a leech, who ia never satisfied with blood. He wants a war of extermination— the extermination’ of the white men of the South—which could not be accomplished with- out the extermination of the black race of the South, and at least one-half the white popula- tion of the North. Chandler would “make a solitude and call it peace.” It is men like Chandler who have brought about the war, and they are now trying to make it perpetual. All their proceedings directly tend to unite the South and divide and distract the North. If they had their will, and thought they could suo- ceed, they would introduce civil war at the North as well as at the South. Instead of unit- ing with the people on the only basis on which the present war can ever be successful, they rant and rave like dangerous lunatics who ought to be sent for safe keeping to an asylum. While the conservative democracy are fighting the battles of the constitution, these revolutionary demagogues are making drunken speeches throughout the country. Conway, their diplomatic agent in England, with a letter of credit from Garrison, and Wen- dell Phillips, their Coryphwus, alike declare that the object of the radicals is to abolish slavery by means of the war; and if they can- not do that they want to have the war stopped. Neither the Union nor its dissolution is of any account to them; but the abolition of slavery is everything. If slavery can be abolished by the permanent dissolution of the Union and the in- dependence of the Southern States, then they are in favor of ending the war immediately upon that basis. But if that means cannot suc- ceed, then they want to keep up the war, under the pretence of fighting for the Union, till they have succeeded in destroying slavery; and after that they don’t care a fig whether we shall have the Union restored or have half a dozen con- federacies. The abolitionists have always sighed for war, and labored to bring about war, be- cause they hoped that would abolish slavery or break up the Union; and this is now their avowed motive in supporting the war. Wen- dell Phillips denounces the President as unfit for his office because he does not agree to the doctrines of the radicals, who are a pro- gressive party, and, like the French Jacobin | Club, are every day becoming bolder and bolder. The President agreed to their experi- ment of emancipation on the distinct under- standing that the negroes should be exported and colonized, because, in a state of equal free- dom, the black and white races cannot exist in the same community. These juggling fellows now proclaim that amalgamation of the races is the only salvation of the country. The next thing they may propose is the abolition of Christianity, and the setting up in all our churches a greasy negress for adoration, as the frensied French Jacobins set up in Notre Dame a nude harlot for public worship. Worse than the brutes, they seek to violate the laws of nature and of God by producing a hybrid, deteriorated race, fit only to be ruled by a des- | potism; and it is to this very point the whole base, brutal and bloody policy of the radicals tends. Mr. Chandler talks a great deal about hanging; but if any of that work goes on we rather think that some time in the year 1865, if not before, some of this drunken committee will be the first to be publicly honored with the gift of ahempen collar. Indeed, if justice had its due, not only would that have been long since done, but Phillips and Greeley, and Garrison and the whole of that crowd, would bave been treated as Jeff. Davis, Mason, Slidell and the rest of the | rebel leadprs should be treated, to complete the picture. When this is done peace and the Union eball have been restored, and not a day sooner. Arrang te for the Burial of Deceased * Soldiers In Washington. It will be inderesting to the (rieuds of the soldiers who have died m this District t know that through the exer. ions of Captain Edward L. Hartz, Assistant Quartermaster of the Department of Washington, arrangements have been made by which every soldier not only receives a | decent burial, but that a record is Kept of the procise lo- cnlity of the grave, and everytuing known about the individom, g that the remains can at any time hereafter be absolutely and promptly identified. This #ystem was first introduced in reference to soldiers dying im hospitals or campe upon this side of the Potomac, but Captain Harte bas taken all the necessary stepe to extend the arrangement to tho hospitals and campe south of the Potomac, within the original limite of thie District. Any information in regard to these deceased seidiers will be cheerfully given by | addressing the Quartermaster's oMfcs, corner of Eigh- teenth and G streets, in this city, Too much credit can- not be accorded to Captain Harta for nis persisting and energotic efforts in this reapect, in connection with the muitifarious daties of his position, and for the Sccuracy ‘of thia record and the delicate atteotions thus tnaured te _ the quidtaga who die in (ile District. a