The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1863, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. |; JANES GORDON BUNNET?, EDITOR AND PROPRIELOR. OFFICE N.W.COSNIR OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. «No. 23 Volume XXVEE ........... eee AMUSEMENTS TIHIS EVENING . NIBLO'S GARDEN, iroadway.—Yur Duxe's Morro. WALLACK'S TUEATRE, Broadway.—TRue 10 THE 7. RY THEATRE, Bowery.—Hawier—Gare vaesRo9. Bowery.—Camix Bor—Jruny |AT us ar Sea. AMERICAN UM, Broadway.—Livima )uanG OUTANG—AUTOMATON Writer, &0.. at Sriut Watkes Kun . Dexr—afternoon and S MINSTRELS, Mechantes’ Hall, 478 Broad- uortan Sones, Dances, Buruxsques, &c.—Tae WOOD'S MINSTREL BALL, 514 Broadway.—Etmioriay foxes, Dancxs, £¢,— Tus Guoot, AMERICAN THEATRE, 444 Broadway.—Batters, Pan- TOMIMES, BURLESQUES, KC. Pe hd IDEA THEATKE, 485 Broadway.—Taz Guost's Ran sa NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Coriosrtixs axp Lxcrorss, from 9 A. M. till 10 P. M. ROOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brookiyn.—Ermioruan fonas, Dances, Buruxsouxs, &c, New York, Friday, August 14, 1863. THE SITUATION. The news from Charleston Bar by the Arago at th’s port yesterday is to the 10th inst., and is of the most exciting character. The grand assault upon Charleston was to have commenced yester- day. General Gillmore notified Admiral Dahlgren + ut made by some of the other ota a at , to the er paying any visit to the Basque provinces year. ‘The same paper, speaking of supersti- tion in Spain, saye:—* A woman has been arrost- ed at Barcelona for practising magic, and in the very act of making cabalistic conjurations. In her apartment were found philtres to produce af- fection, pills to insure long life, powders to pro- duce death, a magical cat, entirely black, with the exception of the required tuft of white at the end of the tail, and a quantity of diabolical emblems. AN this in the second half of the nineteenth cen- tury!’’ . At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yes- terday, a communication was received from the Mayor recommending that the hospitalities of the city be tendered to the gallant Admiral Farragut, whereupon a series of appropriate resolutions, in accordance with the Mayor’s suggestion, was adopted. .The ordinance appropriating $2,500,000 for the relief of conscripts was laid over until the next meeting. Considerable routine business was transacted, and the Board adjourned till Monday next. The special meeting of the Board of Council- men, called for at noon yesterday, did not take place, in consequence of a quorum not being present when the roll was called. Another requi- sition has already received a number of signatures for a special meeting to be held at two o’clock to-day. There are 6,459 inmates in the public institu- tions of the city at present. The number admit- ted last week was 1,688, and the number removed or who died was 1,624, making the present num- ber an increase of 64 over the number of last week. The Commissioners of Charities and Cor- rection had nothing before them at their meeting yesterday but routine business. The State election in California will take place on the 2d of September. A full State ticket and that the army would be prepared to co-operate with the navy on the 13th. As the navy were ready in a condition to act at a moment's notice, is pretty certain that the bombardment smmenced at the allotted time; and we :nay thus be put in possession of most im- portait news within a fewdays. The greatest confidence among our officers is said to pre- vail, and it is reported that the rebels have abandoned the idea of saving Fort Sumter. A de- serter reports that many of the heavy guns have been removed from thence to James Island, where the enemy have been for some days past constructing works and mounting guns, as will be seen by the description of our special corres- pondent at Morris Island. The Army of the Potomac is making no demon- stration. General Lee's forces are mainly located fa the vicinity of the Rapidan. He holds all the @ ‘ps in the Blue Ridge, and has a strong force in the Stesandcah valley, from which parties are continually scouring the country towards Bull Run Mountains. “4 Parties recently arrived from Richmond describe the ;eopte there as sunk in the deepest gloom. They are deserting the city in crowds in conse- quence of the high prices of the necessaries of life. Sickness prevails there to @ fearful extent, aud the want of medicines is badly felt. Desertions from the army were frequent. There were but few rebel troops at Richmond on the 7th instant; nor were thore any indications of a military movement on the part of the Confederate army. There is nothing doing by our armics in the Southwest or South. With the reduction of Vicks- burg and Port Hudson their campaign for the presen’ has ended, and an interval of repose, well earned, is now afforded to our gallant troops, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Occan Queen, Captain Wilson, from Aspinwall 6th instant, arrived at this port yesterday, with mails, passengers and $313,464 in treasure from California. We h:.ve news from San Salvador up to the 30th of Julys Civil war is still raging in that republic. The port of La Union was deserted by its authori- ties on a rmuor of the approach of. seven hundred men from Nicaragua, under Gen. Borilla, Gen. Burios was in San Salvador, awaiting the at- tack of Carrera, The Gaceta of the 25th says that nothing has yet occurred to diminish the im- pression made on the minds of the people by the conspiracy of Gonzales and his party, the raising of his brother to the head of the army in Santa Ann, and the subsequent occupation of that town by the enemy. Gen. Figueroa, who had done so much service to the cause of order and liberty, had fallen into the hands of Geni Carrera, and been shot. Tho Governors of the towns of Sonso- nate and Santa Ana were forced to ransom their lives by the payment of $4000each. Carrera’s troops are represented as committing all sorts of depredations ii Santa Ana, and their approach to the capital—San Salvador—was much dreaded, al- though thers were troops there, under the Presi- dent (Barrios), to defend it. The government had #eized upon the property of Don Jose Antonio de Gonzalos, and reclamation of part of it ($250,000 worth) was made by the American Minigter, on bohalf of some American citizens; but the claim Was not recognized, and Mr. Partridge had there. fore protested. The Salvadorian Minister of Fo- reign Affaira replied that it was not enough to otvim the property as belonging to citizens of the United States, but that Mr. Partridge should fur- nish, withifi three days, proof of the fact, by bills of lading, &o. He threatens, also, to complain to the government at Washington of the conduct of its Minister, in undertaking, without any notice or application, to raise his flag over a house occupied by enomies of the governngent, and to expel the officers who were in charge of Gonzales’ property. He expresses himself willing to receive and be governed by any proofs which may be submitted an to the property being that of United States citizens, or of Any persons not traitors, and he regrets that the representative of a friendly Power should espouse the cause of treason. Mr. Partridge also made similar reclamations on be- haif of British ani Prench subjects, whose inte- rests had been committed to his hands, and in rogard to the: a si © reply was given—that on watisfectory proof being farnished within three days the property should be restored. Mr. Part. ige declared those terms to be entirely unsatis- story, a6 the papers were all in Gonzales’ hands, repudiated ail intention of favoring by his acts » traitors, and demanded, first, a satisfactory ex. vation and apology, and secondly the restora- ‘of the property, Mr? Yrungary, repeating his ition to bring the matter before the United 8 government, declined to enter into a dis- on of the question, aud also dectined to restore the Property claimed without due proof. ‘a the Court%f General Sessions yesterday, bo- fore Recorder Hoffman, a large number of prison: ers, who had been convieted of participating in the late riots, were brought up for sentence. They were sentenced to the State and City prisons ‘and the Penitentiary for periods varying from ten days to ten years. James H. Whitter, or Whitten, the man convicted of leading the mob dating the attack on the Tyilrune office, was sentenced to the Penitentiary for one yeat and to pay a fine of $250, and stand committed until it is paid. The court then adjourned sine dje. The Apvo~ of Madrid, of tho-24th of July, oon. three members of Congress are to be chosen, all of which will be voted for ona general ticket. Since the Presidential election of 1860 the demo- crats have been divided, and the republicans have managed to slip into the offices between the two factions. This year the democrats have united, and concluded to hitch both horses to the same load, which makes their success almost beyond a doubt. In 1861 the democratic vote for Governor, combined, was 63,694, against a republican vote of 56,068, leaving a clear majority of over seven thousand six hundred, which the latter party must overcome to gain success. The candidates for Governor are Hon. John G. Downey, democratic, and Frederick F. Lowe, republican, who was a member of the last Congress, and is now Collector of the port of San Francisco, under Mr. Lincoly’s appointment.” The candidates for Congress are ‘W. Whitesides, democrat; John B. Weller, demo- orat, formerly United States Senator; John Big- ler, democrat, formerly Governor of the State; T. B. Shannon, republican; William Higby, republi- can, and Cornelius Cole, republican. Neither of the three Representatives in the last Congress received a renomination Among the prominent candidates in the field for the-Congressional nomination for the First district of Maryland are Hon. J. W. Crisfield, Gen. ¥. A. J. Creswell, of Cecil; Col. Jamos Wallis, of Dor- chester; Col, William J. Leonard, of Worcester, and Gen. H. H. Goldsborough, of Talbot county. It is announced that if Vallandigham is elected Governor of Ohio, the Lieutenant Governor, George E. Pugh, will place himself at the head of two hundred thousand men, march to Canada, and escort the new Execative to Columbus. How the two hundred thousand men are to be raised does not sppear on the programme. Brigadier General James M. Tuttle has received the democratic nomination for Governor of Iowa, in place of Maturin L. Fisher, who declined. Mr. Tuttle was nominated by the State Central Com- mittee. He is now in active service in the field, and in that position we do not see how he can be popujar with the copperheads. Governor Wallace and Secretary Daniels left Portland, Oregon, by boat, on the 4th ult., to or- gauize the new Territory of Idaho. The design is to pnt the new government into operation imme- diately, and elect a delegate to represent the Ter- ritory in the next Congress. Governor Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, will soon authorize an election for members of a loyal Legislature, which will mect next winter in Nash- ville. Some of the copperhead editors who denounced the three hundred dollars clause in the Conscrip- tion law, after their names came out of the wheel, took quite a different view of it. The democrats of the Third district of Vermont have nominated for Congress Giles Harrington, of Alburgh. The commutation money paid by drafted men will amount, it is supposed, to some forty or fifty millions of dollars throughout the country. ‘The stock market was excited yesterday, and Southern old rose 934 per cent. The rest of the market was rather lower in the morning ond better in the afternoon. Money. was easy at 5 & 6 per cont for call loans. Gold was better, selling at 126% at noon, and closing at five P, M. at 120% a %j. Exchange was 130% a 140. The cotton market was dull and lower yesterday, mid- dlings closing heavily ay Q7¢. & 68c., ‘ostiy at 670.8 673c, The transactions in broadstuffs were more exten- sive, with a partial decline in prices of flour and wheat. Theregwas leas activity in provisions, but no material changes in quotations. A moderate business was re- Ported in sugars, whiskey, tallow, tobacco, hops, codfish and herring at about previous rates. Hay was saleable anid buoyant, Hides, motais, oils, coffos, teas, molasses and naval stores were inactive. The freight market was more active. The Opposition in the Next Congress— The Election of Speaker. That the opposition members in the next Congress will have such a majority as to enable them to elect a Speaker without difficulty is plain. That attempts will be made to change that majority Into @ minority by those corrupt means and appliances which every party in power knows how to employ we have not the slightest doubt; and the enormous contracts the present administration give them immense facilities for’ bribing members of Congress. But these are peculiar times, and every répre- sentative of the people will be so watched that it will be at his extreme peril if he should prove unfaithful to his constituents, And what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his life? The bribery and corruption dodge will therefore probably fail, under the strong pressure of public opinion. There is another device upon whioh the radi- cal and controlling element in the administra- tion relies to carry out its satanic designs. In order to swamp the majority against it repre- sentatives will be sent to the House from sec- tions of the rebellious States occupied by our armies—representatives not of the people, but of the administration, under whose auspices they were nominated and elected by the opera- tion of martial law. As every legislative body jas the power to determine the validity of the claims of its own members to sit, it is not probable that the farce of such elections will be tolerated by the opposition majority. Tye mlministration stands seif-condemned by sane- tioning them; for the political battle ground it now seeks to occupy is that the rebellions States have forfeited all their sights under the conati- tion; that the people of thore States are no thger in the Union, aad that the soil has be- that the Queen was to pro- | and offiges, civil and military, at the disposal of | readily work his way into Mobile. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1863, come mere territory of the United States, to be governed and regulated by Congress. But rep- gress, because they do not represent States By what process of reasoning, then, can the friends of the administration show that the re- bellious States are atone and the same time mere Territories and yet sovereign States, en- titled to send representatives to vote in Con- gress? But, supposing these doubtful mem- bers admitted, we would venture to say that not a man of them would vote for the destructive policy of the administration. What Virginian, or Louisianian, or Missis- sippian, could be found to vote for the de- gradation of his own State to a Territory, and to vote to make paupers and vagabonds of the whole of its population? Could he ever raise his head in his native State again, or dare to show his face to the people? The border States, and even the military districts of the rebellious States, so far from aiding the administration in Congress, will turn out to be a hostile force on its right flank, to assail it with impetuosity and complete success at the proper moment. Assuming, then, that the opposition will have a clear working majority in Congress from the very outset, their first stroke of tactics will be to elect an efficient Speaker. Very much de- pends on this officer—not merely on his opinions, but on his ability and tact; and never was 4 good Speaker more needed by any party in Congress than by the present opposition. Not only has the Speaker the right to appoint the committees, which are of such vital importance in this great crisis, but with him rests the deci- sion of points of form and order, which, though apparently of emall moment, often involve the greatest results. Now, the question is what man among all the opposition is best suited for this post? We say that the right man for this place is Fernando Wood. Indeed, he is the only man whois thoroughly qualified for it. With a perfect knowledge of parliamentary rules and manceu- vres, with infinite tact, with amazing coolness and fearless courage, which never quails, he would discharge most admirably the duties of the Speakership. By his keen insight into hu- man nature he would be sure to select the right men for the committees, who would drag to light the hidden infamy, corruption, pluoder, extravagance, misrule and mismanagement of the last two years anda half, and altogether he weuld be found to be a tower of strength to the opposition. Instead, therefore, of losing time in a fruitleas contest with a number of candidates, let the opposition unite upon a sin- gle man in caucus and elect him at once, and let that man be Fernando Wood, because the most capable of serving the great conservative party, which is now organizing and marshalling its forces against the destructive radicalism which has ruined the country ever since the 4th of March, 1861. In order to render the opposition from this State united and effective, and to give to Mr. Wood the eclat and prestige which would in- sure his election as Speaker, it will be neces- sary for the two sections of the democracy in this city—Tammany Hall and Mozart Hall—to bury the hatchet, and cordially unite in one body. There are no principles which divide them. The split is only the result of a family contest for loeal offices and spoils; but in the present emergency the’ man who opposes or thwarts a reunion ought to be branded asa traitor, for “ the slow-moving finger of scorn” to point at in the streets and alleplaces of pub- lic resort. This reconstruction is essential to success; for thus alone can the treacherous Albany Regency be overthrown. If this dan- gerous clique be not soon.stripped of all its power to do mischief the worst may be feared inthe future. We know what a fearful amount of evil it has accomplished in the past. At Charleston and in Baltimore, in May, 1860, it was the Regency which played into the hands of the ambitious secessionists in the Democratic Convention, and enabled them to triumph by seceding, by organizing a Southern convention, and by making a separate nomination, which was the very opportunity they sought to pre- vent the success of any conservative candi- date and to insure the election of the republi- can nominee, so as to lay the foundation for the secession of the Southern States. On that important occasion the Regency, with an in- tense selfishness, deliberately sacrificed the interests of the nation and prepared the way for the terrible civil war which has afflicted us. Will the democracy of New York ever give that faction another opportunity of betraying the people? If they will not, then let them merge their two organizations into one, crush the tegency by their combined strength, and then present a united front to the radical power, which is now sapping the foundations of the republic, and threatening its total overthrow at no distant day. Mone Worx ror Farricot—Proper Ova- Tion For 4 Hxro.—No journal advocated more strongly than we did the propriety of giving Admiral Farragut 0 complimentary reception on his return from the Mississippi. Since then we have changed our mind as to the character of the compliment that should 6 paid him. The Admiral isa man,f singular energy and modesty, and Tikes work better than play. He cache AP day, and is burning to ha al rebels. If Gillmore and Dabigren can get into Charleston be does not see why he cannot as This is all the ovation or recreation that-hé covets, and the eee “ id Indulge him. Aman like ¢ ould not be kept kicking his heels in {dleness whilst there is plenty of work for him to do. 8 Let an expedition, therefore, be at once fitted out against Mobile, and placed under the command of the hero of New Orleans. If Charleston, which has been fortified by all the contrivances known to modern science, can be made to succumb, there can be no doubt as to the fate of Mobile. It would require but the aid of a portion of Grant's army to bring it to terms in a few days. The mate the rin of the rebel confederacy, both at home and abroad. The administration will do well not to lose sight of this fact. It is about to meet a Congress in which its sup- Porters will find themselves in a minority, and nothing but the announcement that the rebel- | lion has been brought to a close will condone | its past blunders. This it will be in a position ‘to make if it displays bat common energy. ; It bas but to give Gitmore and Dahigren | efficient support, and despatch Fareagut, with | his Ironeides, to Mobile, to accomplish within | fall of these two places would consum- | Count Joannes @nd Gengral Webb—Com- | Voluuléess in New Jergey—Conscript<@” mon Nuisances Gt Home and Abroad, We see that a Boston grand jury bas ren- dered a true bill of indictment against George, the Count Joannes, for being what is known in the law books as a “ barrator, stirring up un- necessary strifes, suits and controversies among quiet and honest citizens of the Common- wealth;” in other words, asa “common nui- sance.” This action of the Grand Jury of Suffolk county reminds us that there are many other citizens, both at home and’abroad, who a3 appropriately as Count Joannes come under the designation of “common nuisances;” and we cannot at this moment think of any one ia either hemisphere who has so well earned that title as the United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Brazil, General James Watson Webb. We haye before us, ina pamphlet of sixty-four closely printed pages, a letter from this individual at Rio Janeiro to a mem- ber of the British Parliament, who had the mis- fortune on one occasion of saying something in that-body which was supposed to be, in some indirect manner, complimentary to him. Though such a supposition was entirely un- founded, this “common nuisance’—in the words of Count Joannes’ indictment—ac- knowledges the unexpected favor in a maga- gine full of most amusing and extraordinary stuff, furnishing evidence enough to convict him, twenty times over, of the crime of “ afirring up unnecessary strifes, suits and controversies among quiet and honest people.” General James Watson Webb’s peculiar talent in that line is well known here, and we imagine that by this time it must be fully recognized in diplomatic and all other circles in Brazil. He wasalwaysin hot waterhere. It would not be in the nature of things that he would keep coolerin the tropics. Accordingly we find, by glancing over his pamphlet letter to J. Bramley Moore, Esq., M. P., that one of his first diplomatic acts in Brazil was to pick a quarrel with her Britannic Majesty’s Minister, W. D. Christie, who is, to all appearances, as great a humbug and as much a common nui- sance as himself ; and it all arose out of a game of whist—“shilling points”—as appears from the following extract from Webb’s letter to Bramley Moore:— ‘We were, as was our custom, playing whist at shilling ints. Christie was By pertnet ‘both parties were at ur, and the odd trick fore determined the game ‘and the rub. ‘Tramps were all exhausted, and there were Dut three cards in each hand. It was Christie’s lead. Ho knew, or-rathor be ought to have known, that we had all the diamonds, I holding the three highest and bo a low one. Our adversaries had the winning cards of the other two suits. Mr. Ohristie paused to consider what ho should lead, &c. Christie did not lead diamonds, either be- cause he was too stupid or wanted to spite his partner. They lost the game. Webb inconti- nently pitched into Christie. Christieremarked, naturally enough, that Webb “talked too much,” and that was more than Webb “felt called upon to bear.” He resented it instantly. But we will give his own words. He says:— Inasmuch as I represent a government not Identified with the policy of Europe, and which does not expect me tq submit to any impertinence from an English Minister which I would resent if it came from a less ror agen emp y aay myself the responsibility of bim a lecture which he had long needod, and wich Be will not readily forget. There is a model envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary for’you. He spends his time playing short whist for shilling points, breaks out when he loses into intemperate lan- guage against his partner, who mildly intimates that he talks too much, whereupon he reads him “a lecture that he will not readily forget,” and when a demand for settlement comes answers:—“A meeting at sunrise and no apol- ogy.” The Prussian and Russian Ministers—who won the game, made their shillings and kept their tempers—managed to patch up a peace between the English and American brawlers, But it was of short duration. It was broken very soon after, and all about a dinner. This might be called a tempest in a soup tureen. They managed to embroil in it two of Christie’s secretaries. These young men were repri- manded, and one of them, Mr. North, was sent home. This brought letters from these model diplomats to their respective governments; and Webb, not satisfied with boring Mr. Seward, undertook to do the like with Ear! Russell. His rival and counterpart, Christie, apprebend- ing the disapproval of his government, con- ceived the idea of securing his place by getting up © row with Brazil. He therefore so managed matters as to embroil the two governments, and it was by the most fortuitous circumstances that Brazil bad not ber seaports blockaded and her coast towns bombarded as the result of Webb’s pugnaciousness and Christie’s stupidity over a “game of whist at shilling points.” So much for the policy of disposing of “common nuisances” by sending them abroad a3 envoys extraordinary. aN es ‘The mogt amusing and characteristic featurd of the whole affair is Webb’s pretension to high descent, decent manners, good standing in so- ciety and admission to aristocratic circles. He boasts of wearing a seal bearing his family’s coat of arms, “which was unquestionably cut more than two hundred years ago.” He says owas he was commissioned as Sag by the Presi- dent of States 49, when he was sent as Minister to Austria# He omitted to say, however, that he made undue ite to get ry from New +York, knowing that the only intent upon having o <is! j a his outfit and travelling aliowaites. He talke of his having been editor of the 1 paper in the United States—the Courier Enquirer—but does not add that that “leading paper” has given up the ghost and sunk out of existence, without aay notice being faken of fis dissolutiop. That is not usually the fate of leading papers—witness fhe London Times and the New York Herat. And finally he cites, as the general result of his toadying manners, the fact of bis having been admitted te dine at Lord Lansdowne’s, having got some autographs of Louis Napoleon, and having re- ceived a letter of recommendation from Bishop Wainwright, of New York, such as be might give to his cook or butler. If there be one tithe of the evidence agalnst Count Joannes, showing him to be “a common nuisance” that “his Excellency J. Watson Webb, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Brasil”—such is the title he assumes—furnishes against himself in this letter to J. Bramley Moore, M. P., the jury will render a verdict of guilt y, without leaving their box. Whata pity that some international grand jury cannot indict James Watson Webb as a “barrator, or common nuisance, stirring up unnecessary strifes, suits and controversies among quiet and honest people.” Still, that is in Now York. ‘ # About the tine tist the draft riots took place in this city the auttprities at Washington gave to the State of New Jersey % certain num- ber of days to fill her quota by enlistments. The State and local authorities immediately moved in the matter, and provided for the pay- ment of heavy bounties. The result is that volunteers have presented themselves in large numbers, with every prospect that the entire quota of the State will be made up before the expiration of the time granted to them. The large bounties offered have also attracted the attention of men in this city, and we are as- sured that a large number have gone over to New Jersey and enlisted, preferring to volun- teer and obtain the large bounty to running the risk of the draft at home. Now, if President Lincoln suspends the draft in one State and gives the people an opportu- nity to fill their quota by volunteering, what is there to prevent his pursuing the same course here? What claim has New Jersey over the State of New York? Whyashouid she be treated leniently, while New York, which has furnished the means to carry on the war, is forced into bloody scenes? Certainly our citizens are none the less patriotic. The books at Washington show that she has answered every demand made oa her for men and money. It is true that we have had a riot, which the fanatics liave labored in vain to prove was an insurrection to benefit'the South. But President Lincoln must bear in mind that in no other city have the people been goaded as they have in New York by the journals that pretended to represent his views. The Tribune, Timesand Post have been for months insulting a portion of our people by their diatribes and isms of all kinds. No other city has had anything in comparison to it. No time or opportunity has been lost by those jour- nals in driving one portion of our citizens into opposition to the administration. The copper- head journals seized upen this incendiary work of the radical press, and made such use of it.as to still deopen the hatred of one class. In this condition an attempt was made to enforce the draft. The result is too disgraceful to repeat. New Jersey at that time was given the opportu- nity to resort to enlistments and New York re- fused that boon. Does not this, after all, look as though the administration was backing up the radicals in their determination to bring bloodshed and destruction upon this city? But Mr. Lincoln says “ time” is important. If time is important for New York why is it not for New Jersey? New York is ahead on all formor calls, whilst New Jersey is bebind. Will Mr. Lincoln ex- plain? The administration officials commenced some four weeks ago to draft in this city; but they have not obtained one conscript from this city yet. Now it is well known that on the Friday and Saturday previous to the riots six hundred men enlisted in this city. It is stated by authoritative sources that one thousand en- listed in this city last week, and were taken to the camps on Staten Island. By which system fs the most men obtained? How much better it would have been to all concerned if, instead of the President and the Governor spending the time since the riots wrangling over the enrolment and the quota, the Presi- dent had at once announced that the draft would be suspended for thirty or sixty days, and the State given an opportunity to fill its quota by enlistments, the same as in New Jersey. Accompanying that statement-should bave been the announcement that the draft would be enforced at the expiration of that period for all delinquencies. The people would then have taken hold of the matter and offered large bounties. If one thousand can be en- listed in this city in one week, under the pre- sent circumstances, what is there to prevent five times that number being obtained, with increased bounties and a universal effort by our citizens to obtain recruits? The claims for damages against the city for the destruction of Property amount to nearly one and a half millions. Suppose the city had appropriated that amount before the draft commenced in boun- ties; is there any person who donbts that with that additional sum to the State and United States bounties the quota of this city could have been obtained? Would it not have been far better for the reputation of all con- cerned? Had we not better spend a like amount in bounties than another such sum for property destroyed? All this only shows the extreme folly of the President and the Governor fooling away their time over the en- rolment. But it nevertheless seems to be ad- ditional evidence to what we have frequently said—that we have no statesmén among us. Instead of the men im power in Washington doing tbat which will give confidence to the ree they seem to work on-the theory all the masses have ta dg j to obey. With & little common sense at Washington this whole question could be settléd, and all the men wanted obtained with but little delay. But the great trouble is—and we say it in sorrow— lack of brains in Washington. Ta Lonpon Timms axp THE American Repet- Lto.--The collapse of the rebellion will bring many an English sympathizer to grief in a worldly as well as ina moral sense. It is as- tonishing to what an extent the credulity of Joba Bull has been practised upon by the pro- Gotta or wet huge bubble. The London Times |. bas been the main {neteament o nes tlons, and, owing to its per’ of faéi and fippant predictions, hundreds on siniple mhzded people find themselyes ruined, The enormous: Profits promised them upon their investments in Southern bonds and blockade Tunning “are but baseless fabric of a vision,” and beggary now staros them in the face. It follows, as a mattes of course, that those who have been thus du; be ener- getic in their denunciations of the agencies by which they have been entrapped. We shall have some rich revelations of the motives that have guided and the means that have been em- loyed by them. Many reputations now stand- fair before the world wit! be blasted by these disclosures. Nor will the journal which has prostituted itself to this gigantic swindle eacape the consequences of its’ baseness. The secret of the success of the Londen Times pre- vious to the outbreak of the rebellion was that it carefully observed find followed, whilst it to lead, public opinion. Induced to deviate from this course by temptations too powerful for it to resist, it has sunk from beiag the leading journal of Efigland into the despl- cable organ of a foreign rebellion, the aims and objects of whioh are not only ia direct antagonism to the principles it had previously thirty days te events which are required. te | bardly necessary. The people have long since | advocated, but to the general sentiment of the cap our recent brilliant successes on the Mis- s.salppi and ia Pennsylvania. | rendered verdict, and Mr. Seward, as | ca ef ji +0, b64 yanishod Lim to Brasil. | English masses. It in short staked everything— ita popularity and its immense business inte- | reste—on the euécess of this wicked acho | breck up our government The result w the ruin of both; for no journal can outlive rictioule and diseredit which the failure of tonf, ent predictions az4 deliberate lying the Blun.terer must bring upon It. * and the City Dem, ‘The Hon, B.°™ baka we have no doubt, on *the Hon. Ben Wood, wor rad, remarkable only ‘ts as swaggering vand impertinen Ben is a perf ‘e, peace,” ‘ary, in A phrenologis.* amining the head ot pronounce it a blookh. such inferior developmes solence, ignorance, stupidit, In these qualities the Hon. study. A rowdy crying “Pea torch in hand, @ roaring incend. 1 ‘ broad brimmed hat and shad-bellia © °° ® Quaker, would hardly be a more inte. bie subject to the philosopher. In the Daily ."* of yesterday, he undertakes to lecture tt Henao, and to enlighten usin regard to peace democracy (or copperheads), and tl Tammany democracy, and the Kentucky ele: tion. We must say to him what the sch master said to the intractable boy:—“Your c: calls for a little hickory oil, sir, and you have it.” The honorable Ben tells us that the tick» which we have said was recently endorse) by the people of Kentucky was not the tick: endorsed by them, but by General Burnsid’ “a Haynau for the administration,” and th: this ticket, “as all the world knows, is th | ticket approved ‘by the Tribime.” But or says Greeléy? He says:—“Mind that we not claim the successful candidates in Kentuck| as republicans, emancipationists or Lincolni They area good way ahead of'any considerab!’ party in Kentucky when the war broke ou’ but they are not republicans,” Greeley tel! us what they are not; but we tell what they in describing them as good: conservative nr tional men, pledged to the suppression of th rebellion, but nothing less, and to the restore tion of the Union, and nothing more. | Kentucky, as the representative of the borde slave States, stands now on the identical wa and Union platform upon which Governor Sey, mour was elected, and upon which Pennsylv: nia, Obio, Indiana and Illinois last autumn coiled against the abolition extremes and mili tary blunders of the administration. The d feated party in Kentucky,,claimed by the H Ben Wood as the peace democracy, are the “ cession war democracy, and their vote would have been heavier but for the soldiers drawr from their ranks to fight in the ranks of # rebel army. Thus much for Kentucky. It enough to show the ignorance or hypocrisy o the Hon. Ben Wood upon this branch of subject. But with regard to the Heratn, as the ofthe Tammany Hall democracy, and in ference to Tammany itself, he warns threatens that “Tammany must unite its fc tunes with the peace democracy, or unite wil the abolition faction;” for “if Tammany d not repudiate the war the democracy wil repudiate Tammany.” This is the height impudence. It was buta short time ago th this democratic dictator of the News shut a skop and fled from his post like a cowardly serter to Canada. His shop remained shut up, while the Henao through the breakers piloting the way to the great New York con- servative victory of last November, upon swelling tide of which the Hon. Ben Wood and @ considerable amount of other drift were borne along into office. And yet this is the Warwick, or rather the peacewick, who assumes to instruct the Heratp and to dictate his conditions of peace with the, war democracy; who calls for a “clean ticket;”! who is “opposed to affiliation with any men} who affiliate with anybody or anything for the’ sake of the spoils.” Weil done for the honora- 4 ble Ben. Excepting a sermon from a Peter Funk on the text that “honesty—4, 11, 44—is the best policy,” could anything be more amus- ing? Surely all this folly, stupidity and impu- dence cannot be intended to cover the dark de- | signs of a reckless conspirator. Can it be that the peace with the rebels which the Hon. Ben Wood so lustily preaches means war at our own doors? We tlfink he can hardly be inflated to the dimensions of a Cataline, and so in Christian charity we “write him down an ass.” Personal Intelligence. ' FxJadge Charles E. Birdsall, formerly of the Marine Court of this city, has beon appointed by President Lin- coln as United States District Judge of the astern district of South Carolina. This appomntmont is for life. colnet gr y Wyndham was in town yesterdoy, om , voute for weet BRS IL LEI a Say | The promotion of W. H. Merriam, of the Oue Hundred And Sixty-niath New York Volunteors, toa lioutenancy, | -t ih 7 it iJ & i E 5 i i é dj i #: ir 7 i di F =z 5 : E it ig now at Vicksburg, Mrs. Senator Harlag, of Iowa, | pal pea diatributing hospital goods among me LL Ve Jeaves Niagara Falla for yabee bsenedlatery lawton remsalaing there fcr a ow ie ate