The New York Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1863, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JANUS GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PHOPRIETOR OFFICE NW. OF FULTON 4ND NASSAU’ BTS. i a his only reinforcements have been small bodies of trality, bas been actively viding the revels, conscripts. We publish in another column a curious and in- teresting letter from the rebel prison in Rich- mond, known as Castle Thunder, which reveals an amount of inhumanity on the part of the rebel ae ve gin em py.mali will be jailors, practised towards certain civilian prisoners, ithe risi: of tho Stl None but bani: bilis current ia | almost without parallel. Starvation, neglect and even the pestilence of smallpox was the fate to Rew York texea UD). DAILY HERALD, Tanme coats per copy: which these unhappy captives were exposed. It Tuy WEE MERALD, every Saturday, at Fivzcent | states, also, that at the time when Gen. Dix was on per copy ° the peninsula, in Suly, the city of Richmond was un- One Copy oe pe defended by any available force, and was almost at ‘Three Co, 8 | his mercy, if he had advanced upon it. This story, +» 15 | however, is not very plausible, for it is not likely that the extensive defences around the rebel capi- tal'would be left without protection. Five copies, ‘Ten Copie Postage fvo cents per copy for gree months. Any larger number, addressed to names of subscribers, $1 50cach Av extra copy will bo sent to every club of MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. tex. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, 35, and Gen. John A. Logan is stumping the Western any jargor cumoer at same price. An extra copy willbe | States in favor of the conservative democracy sent to clubs of twonty. These rates make the Weaxtx | and # vigorous prosecution of the war. Ben. ¢ cheapest publication tn the country. Chauncey N. Olds, brother of the copperhead ‘Ihe Fenovxaw Somow, every Wednesday, at Fev cents | DF- ae ‘3 Olds, is maling set ee in the er $0 to any part of the Continent, both to include | 04) which formerly belonged to the People’s line, poutage ‘arrived at Cairo, on the Mississippi, on the 12th The Cauironsia Epitiox, om the $d, 18th and 284 of | inst, each month, at Six cents per copy, or 63 per annum. The Democratic State Convention of ha- Abysemmsewenrs, to a limited number, will be inserted | setts, which will assemble at Worcester the inte Wray Hamat, and im the European‘and Califor. | 34 of September, will select four delegates to the aicwaniee: none Presidential Nominating Convention in bas sone Se import- | “Three New York substitute runners were ar- ant news, solicited from any quarter of the world; i | posteq and imprisoned in Providence, Rhode teed, wilt be liberally paid for, gge Our Forman Cor- Island, on the 14th inst. REBIONDENTS ARE PARTICULARLY REQUESTED T0SKAL 4LLLE | The loss of upper teeth does not exempt 4 man TERS AND PACKAGES SENT UB. from military service in case he is drafted. NO NOTICE tuken of anonymous correspondence. We | Hon, Francis P. Blair, Jr., is talked of in Mis- do not return rejected communications sourl as a candidate for the Speakership: of the — next United States House of Representatives. me XXVEIE ...........seeeeeseeesM@e 997 |. Three thousand Springfield muskets, with ac- = coutrements, and six cannon, with forges,.&c., have been sent to the militia brigade at Syracuse. Returns from ninety-three counties in Kentucky show the following aggregate vote for Gover- LNAULACK'S THEATRE, Broadway—Tava to tax | nor:— . Bramlette, conservative democrat. Wickliffe, copperhead. Democratio majority. . The draft has been completed in eleven Con- gressional districts in this State. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tux Duxe’s Morro. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Natautz. SEW BOWERY THEAT! Bowery.—' Deatu—Nouan Onitsae Waneekine Mans: aa ee | BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. - Senreuns 1s INEIA—MARY Pato | uO OF AVPENRURG i pg, a oa The Legislature of Alabama will meet to-day in 3 AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—' ras OuraxcmAvtoMatox Warren, ‘&0.. prs ‘al Montgomery, in response to the' call of Governor Afternoon and Bvening. * AMAY Wit# Mataxcuotr— | John Gill Shorter, who deems the present an im- DRYANI'S MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall, 473 Broad. | Portant crisis, owing to the presence of a Union way.—Eruiorias Soxas, Dances, Buxunsques, 4c.—Tuz | army on the State border. . Guost. socioiauterene te There is much complaint about the torn, dirty fore Din NSTREL BALL OM Broadway.-Ermortax | and mutilated postal currency. At present the only mode of exchanging these notes is as fol- lows:— Mutilated notes and fragments will be redeemed only at the Treasury of the United States at Washington, whither they can be sent, addressed to the Treasurer of the United states, by mail, free of postage. A draft on the Assistant Treasurer at New York for the amount allowed will be returned in the same way to the ad- Curiosities ax Lecrones, from 9 A, M.'till10 P.M. br vead of see Person i recmnice the mae. heaps be ” 7 aneeieann: ional ni ‘erent for rede, moust sums HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermioriax | not leas than threo dollars of the full face value, foncs, Daxces, Buntxsavus, &c, = ‘The stock market was very buoyant on Saturday; there was @ largo increase of outside business, and .| Prices were uniformly higher. Harlem rose 1434 per cent. Money was easy; call loans 5 a6 percent. Gold was dull at 125 a 1251{. Exchange was nominal— say 13734 a 188 for bankers’ signatures. mence in this city on Wednesday next, the 19th ) Cotton was quiet and depressed on Saturday. Bread- inst. The Sixth district is fixed upon for the be- bev Se cairtcadior bad Lmapadday perc Tadd ‘ansacti groceries, 5 ginning of the draft, and the place of conscription | and fish were limited, though there were no remarxablo is No. 186 Sixth avenue, the presiding officer being becca = ane iat fae beniness was soperted tm Provost Marshal James W. Farr. The district is | poiguiswore depressed. eye divided into three sub-districts, comprised as Alliance with Russ American Alliance with Russia Against follows:—First, the Ninth ward, which is to France and England. furnish one théusand one hundred men; second, It appears, by a despatch from Washington, the Fifteenth ward, to furnish 794 men; third, the | that the United States Minister at St. Pe- Sixteenth ward, 1,181 men, with fifty per cont | ‘ersburg, Major General Cassius M. Olay, added in each sub-district, to supply the places of has made, a. brillisgt discovery, by which those who may be exempt for any legal cause. the, Folish,, igenzreetion, fa ;to. be, in: some ingenious manner, intimately mixed up with General Dix has issued yory forcible address to | ye rebellion at the South, and it is. said the citizens of Now York in view: of the en- | that Prince Gortechakoff’s recent change of forcement of the draft, imploring them to | tone towards the three Western Powess has Preserve order and offer no resistance. He | been caused by the comforting assurances sets forth the necessity as well as the legality | which the American Minister has given him in of the law; reminds the-eitizens that, in the face of | Tegard to our readincas to back him up ina the fact that the accuracy of the enrolment has quartel with France and England. Acoord: been impugned, the President has reduced the ing to the rumors afloat in Washington, and quote in nearly.all the districts, He warns the which do not lack an air of great probability, . sort of convention has been agreed upon be- public, however, that, if his suggestions should be tween Clay and Gortschakoff, to the ‘iat that disregarded, and the peace be disturbed, ample in the event of the Western Powers declaring Preparations are made to vindicate the authority | war against Russia the United States would of the government by military force. lose no time in declaring war against France * Phe quota to be drawn from the Second, Fourth, | and England—against the former for its inva- Witch, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth districts is 2,050 oy seminipty pny vr nial pet halg Pirati- each, which, it may be remarked, is less than the . bp ae hy) - > By ea number previously called for, and even smaller sorte ee sie Coens at emenae™ = i been thrown into a terrible state of perplexity than that claimed by Governor Seymonr to equal- by this action on the part of its representative ize the districts of the State. at St. Petersburg, not knowing exactly what to Provost Marshal Generali Fry has addressed | think of it. Mr. Seward is by some supposed Uevecr to the Secretary of War, which we give else- | to have had some share in bringing about th® hore, setting forth at great length the details of ] extraordinary diplomatic movement. But we the controversy between the federal and State | ate inclined to doubt his connection with it. authorities as to the fairness of the enrolment, Cassius M. Clay is a very eccentric fellow, and, and showing the mode in which it was con- although he posssaes few of the eee ean xf ducted in the Fourth district of this city, gar ei ks ve ond about which, he says, most complaint was | igeg, and one which can be prio very made, and which he claims to have beqp perfectly | groat advantage-in our present circumstances. fair and hovest. The exhibit which he makes will | Let us therefore take it, examine it, and see to be found very interesting. He insinuates want of | what it may lead. . candor on the part of the State authorities, and, in We assume that, so far as Russia is con- concluding, says that there is nothing on file in | cerned, such a proposition could not fail to the War Department to show that the cities of meet tne eaten aaa is hes pra New York and Brooklyn have furnished more than sete ascii tarsal a a p bday sstised in their proportion of troops from the State of New hostility to his empire, and an alliance’ that York. will enable him to make front against these ‘A ramor prevailed in the city yesterday that | hostile Powers cannot but be aaa ye Charleston had been captured; but there is | France is now, as she was in 1864, the of no trath whatever in it. The modo by which | the Buropean coalition formed agatnst Russia. the report originated was simply this:—The England now, as ‘aon » tener tllew aaa, United States steamer Guide, which arrived praise oe eagnes pierre from Morehead City, N. C., at Fortress Mon- | thom, instead of submitting to humiliation from roe on Saturday, reported that a steam vessel, | thom, is the most natural desire of the Czar’s calling herself the Hudson, from New York, | heart; and what more promising mode of grati- apoke her off Cape Hatteras, and announced. that | fying it than by entering into a treaty offensive Charleston was teken. As no such news was re. | and defensive with the United States? Such a ceived here, the Hudson of course was, in all pro- | treaty would apply neither to the Polish struggle bability, circulating a canard at sea for some pur- | *stinst Russia nor to the rebel movement here, pou ot bar ovis’ We of the Guide are but would simply be an alliance between Russia and the United States as against France and under the impression that the steamer was a block- England. ade runner, and misrepresented herself. We, on our part, have no more cause to en- All is quiet inthe front of the Potomac Army. | tertain friendly feelings towards these two ‘There is not even any picket firing going on. The | Powers than has Russia, Each has taken a cavalry make an occasional capture of smali | mean advantage of our difficulties to offer us squads of the enemy near Falmouth and Séafford | insult and injury. France, in contempt of our Court House. The rebels have no force north o well understood continental policy, has invaded the neighboring States of Mexico, seized upon renee ommend elapsed ital, overthrown the republican form said to have recently received fully thirty thon- their capital, t, and defiantly established the wand men as reinforcements, and that his army of governmen' soon monarchical principle in its stead. Such an = number one hundred and fifty thousand | iaguit she would not have dared'to offer to us men, inclnding veteran troops and conscripts, On| had not our whole military power been the contrary, it is stated that no material force | engaged in the ¢ g ont of rebellion. has yet reached him from the Sonthwest, ana that | England, while bye IRVING HALL, Irving pl AMERICAN THEAT! TOMINKS, BuRLESQUES, Prete IDEM*THEATKE, 485 Broadway.—Tae Gwost's UMILERK, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Tax SteRgorticon, 444 Broadway.—Batrere, Pax- August 17, 1863. New York, Monda: THE SITUATION. It is definitely settled that the draft shall com- fosslng new | by furnisaing them with ships, men, money and jneans to prey upon our commerce and to roam the sea as pirates and buccaneers. Both Powers have, as far as they could venture to do.so, given countenance and encouragement to the Confederate movement, and have forfeited all claims to our friendship. What, then, ia the part which policy and a. regard for the national honor dictate to us! We must first, of course, complete the crushing out of the rebellion by the dispersion of Loo’s army and the capture of Charleston and Rich- mond.- With these achievements all further necessity for the active employment of oar arma | will cease. There will be no more armed resistance at the South to the government of the United States. If we had a wise, bold, saga- cious administration at Washington, there would be an immediate call issued for an extra session of Congress, and that body would be asked to make a declaration of war against England and France, thus giving practical effect to the pro- posed alliance with Russia. We know of no movement that would be at once more proper, more popular or more calculated to cement the” new bonds of uaion among all our people. The ranks of the army would be promptly filled by volunteers to any extent required, Canada would be wrested.from the grasp of England, and the people of the South would be rejoiced, in the congenial business of driving the French out of Mexico, to bury in forgetfulness the sad events of the past two years. Whatever of truth, therefore, there may be in the statements as to an American alliance ‘with Russia, the idea is pregnant with elements of the deepest significance to both countries. Prosperity of New York and of the Loyal . States, In no other particular, perhaps, has the fallacy of secession doctrines been so thoroughly exem- plified as in the present prosperous condition of the loyal States of the Union. The rebel leaders in and out of Congress used to glory in the idea that the withdrawal of the Southern States and the stoppage of their would be inevitable ruin to the North, and particular- ly to the great Empire City, whose busy streets they used to picture to themselves as soon to be overgrown with grass and weeds. That blatant South Carolinian, Keitt, was fond of boasting that if the chivalry once laid their hands upon the pillars of the national edifice they would destroy it “from turret to foun- dation stone;” and, in fact, the complete de- pendence of Northern industry upon Southern wealth was the key note on which these dema- gogues played their seceasion tunes for years. And what has the experience of two anda half years of virtual separation and of the with- drawal of Southern trade proved? Has it verified the prediétions of the blatherskites of South Carolina? Quite the reverse. The States that went or were driven into this unholy war against the Union are to-day ruined in all their material wealth, and will hardly recover for a generation ‘the prosperous position that they occupied three years ago. Commerce has been annihilated by the blockade of their ports, and agriculture almost destroyed by the opera- tions of hostile armies and the withdrawal of men from the field of labor to the fleld of war. Desolation and poverty stalk through the land, until the prayer uttered in secret throughout the whole South is for a restoration of the federal government, with the peace, plenty and prosperity that are sure to follow. Contrast this with the condition of the North- ern Stdtes. Never did manufactures, com+ merce, the mechanic arts and agriculture flourish as they iow do. Never were the peo- ple so well off ingall the material interésts of life. A darge portion of Charleston was de- stroyed by fire about eighteen montifs ago. The burned district still lies in ite ashes. About the same time a similar misfortune befell the city of Troy, in this State. The burned district was Yong since covered with buildings superior to those destroyed. Two and a half years agoa track for a city railroad was laid in the busi- ness street of Richmond. The other day the rails were taken up, because the company had never succeeded in getting cars on the line, their trade with the industrious North having been ‘shut off by the war. At the same time the city of New York had five lines of street railroads, which were at that time deemed sufficient for the accommodation of traffic. To-day we can hardly name the number of lines operated and being laid down all over the city. We know that among the new works of this character there are the Tenth avenue line, running from the Park to the South ferry; the Ninth avenue line, running ‘to the end of Greenwich street, with a branch to the corner of Broadway and Barclay street; the Seventh avenue line, running down Broadway as far a3 Fourteenth street, and halting for the present at the corner of Broadway and Broome street. A month hence we will have the Belt line and the Gridiron line in full operation, and the Broadway and Madison avenue lines will not be slow in following suit. And even then it is questiona- cble whether the facilities for travel will be great enough for the swarming population of New York and her suburbs. The ferryboats to Brooklyn, large and excellent as they ad- mittedly are, have not capacity enough to ac- commodate the vast crowds who cross the river, particularly at the hours of going to and re- turning from business, and it is time for the directors of the Union Ferry Company to have thefr boats fitted with upper passenger deoks. There is great activity in the erection of build- ings for. business purposes in the principal streets, as was shown by an article which we published last week; and oven Brooklyn is busy enough, rich enough and profane enough to go into the speculation of erecting a new theatre. Thus defeated in their twofold object of en- riching themselves and of impoverishing us, beaten at all points, worn out and disheartened, therevis nothing left for the people of the South but to repent their past folly and madness, and return, as the prodigal son, to their father’s house. We havé plenty for ourselves and for them, and are willing to sbare our goods with them. We will welcome them back with sin- cere pleasure and rejoicing, and help them to start again in business, hoping that this time they will conduct their affairs on better princi- ples than they did before. Tre Case or Gey. Mruror.—We are gratl- fied to hear that the military court in the case of Gon. Milroy, on account of hig deplorable and shameful Winchester faseoy bag oom- | menced its labora, and we hope the case will | be probed to the bottom. Perhaps half the on with which Loe fought the battle ¢ Was tarvet over to him at Win ¢ , NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1863. chester by Milroy, as doubtless half tbe ammu- | nition expeuded by Lee at Autietam was gained ; through the cowardice and incompetency of ‘Tom Ford and some others at Harper’s Ferry. Pleasure Excursion of the Diplomats— What is Its Deaning? Our astute, good tempered, clear headed Pre- mier is off on a pleasure tour among the lakes and rivers of Northern New York, but not alone. He has taken in his train the French, Britisb, Russian, Prussian, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Hanseatic, Chilean and Nicaraguan Ministers, leaving Washington bereft of the whole diplomatic corps. The State Department is no longer stationary. Mr. Seward has folded his tent, like the Arab, and as silently stolen away. If Earl Russell has any communication to make to our government in regard to tfose pirate vessels of the English-confederacy bis. bearer of despatches must segk Lord Lyons on the Hudson river, or at Saratoga or Sharon Springs, or within the sound of the great cata- ract, or on a steamer on Lake Ontario, or fish- ing off one of the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, or yp the datk Saguenay, or where- ever else our htimorous Secretary of State may happen to chaperone him. If the French Minister of Foreign Affairs desires to give a hint to M. Mercier in regard to Mexican matters, or if Prince Gortschakoff wants Baron Stoeckl to sound our government on the subject of a treaty of alliance against France and England, their messengers must go off on a voyage of discovery after the truant diplomats; and should they even be found they will have little. disposition to pay any attention to the dry business of statesmanship. It was a capital, stroke of policy for Mr. Seward to gather togéther all the discordant elements of European diplomacy and carry them off with him. He was himself blue- moulding in Washington, and wanted to get off to the charming scenes of home; but he could notafford to leave the diplongatic corps behind. Fred. Seward might not be able to manage them. It would be'as dangerous as for Van Amburgh to leave his menagerie without a keeper. And so, with his soft tongue, he persuaded them all to go along with him, not leaving behind them a solitary secretary or attache; and we have ‘no doubt that, with the kind, easy and natural hospitality of their host, the polite attentions of his colored man John, the beauty of the scenery, and the pleasure which a freedom from “all care and restraint brings with it, the whole diplomatic corps will be blended into a happy family, and will forget all their national and personal antipathies in the general enjoyment of the hour. Louis Napoleon says that the grand mistake of his uncle was that he failed to cement al- liances as his arms progressed; and he himself, seeing the error, resolved to avoid it in his own case. He has done so quite consistently and successfully. After the fall of Sebastopol he declined to push Russia to the wall, and so madg peace with her. After the victory of Sol- férino, when it appeared as if the Austrians might be finally expelled from Italy, he entered into an armistice, and made a friend of Francis Joseph by the treaty of . Villa- franca, by still leaving Venetia tohim. After making the French arms prevail last year in Cochin China he entered into a treaty with the King of Annam, granting terms that were not regarded as onerous. even now he is try- ing, by diplomatic means, to make his conquest of Mexico less humiliating to her people. In fact he is the prince of diplomats in Europe. His summer headquarters are usually at Biar- ritz, or some of the other spas or seaside ham- lets which he may choose to make fashionable. There he draws to himself all the foreign am- bassadors, and there regulates the foreign policy of his empire. Mr. Seward, equally able, equally courteous in his personal de- meanor, and perhaps equally ambitious, seems to have taken a leaf out of Louis Napoleon’s book, and to have improved upon it. He will not confine foreign ministers for the season to Sharon or to Saratoga, as Napoleon does to Biar- ritz or Boulogne, but will keep them on the wing, moving from one plac? of attraction to another, and inspiring them unconsciously with a sense of the wealth, activity and greatness of the republic. ’ We will not say that Mr. Seward has or has not any deeper vlews underlying the pleasure trip on which he has embarked. And yet it may be that, incidental to the main object of it—a summer holiday—he recognizes that it will have some good effects in a public point of view. It may be designed to prove that our relations with other countries are not as menacing as may have been supposed; that we are not yet going to declare war against Eng- land for her unfriendly course in fitting out rebel pirate vessels, or to get into trouble with France on account of her doings in Mexico, or to join Russia in an alliance against France and England; and, finally, that our serious occupa- “tions in putting down the Southern rebéllion do not prevent our enjoying, in the proper times and places, those pleasures and relaxations which serve to counteract the ill effects of too close attention to business. These and some other speculations as to the main and incidental objects of the diplomatic pleasure excursion may be harmlessly indulged in, and some of them may chance to hit the mark. But, whether it has its serious sides, as well as its light and merry ones, it can hardly fail to be a delightful trip, and we hope that in all its aspects—diplomatic, political and perso- nal—it will turn out to be a success. Our, Inox-Cuavs.—Scarcely a week passes that some addition is not made to our fleet of fron-clads. It is satisfactory to find that it is not merely in number, but in the sise, arma- ment and improved construction of, these ves- sels that our navy is receiving such accessions of strength. The formidable war steamer Miantenomah, which was launched on Saturday, belongs to a class of iron-clade which, with the class like the Dunderberg and Dictator, will be able tg cope successfully with anything the English and French governments have afloat. ‘We need not, therefore, entertain any appre- hensions of what either or both may attempt against us in the future. In a couple of months more the capture of Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and Wilmington will have liberated the large naval force that is now employed in, besieging or blockading those places, and it will then be disposable for offensive or defensive operations at‘ any other point where it may be required. Lot the West India ports that have been acting as feeders to rebel wants look to it | that they keep on hand abundant coal supplies | for our war steamers. We intend by and by 40 make them reader us similar services to 1 those they have been so efficiently performing ! for their rebel fr 2 of the Polish Qucstion, In another column we publigh a remarkable extract from the new pamphlet of Napoleos, entitled “L’Empereur, La Pologne et L’Eu- rope.” The writer is said to be M. Mocquard, the Emperor's secretary, and the pamphlet is published by M. Dentu, the recognized govern- ment publisher, and the general belief is that if Napoleon himself did not write it he cer- tainly dictated or inspired it. “Previous to the Crimean war and the Italian war similar pam- phlets were issued, expressing the sentiments of Napoleon, and preparing public opinion for coming events... fy) The writer states that England and Austria are determined to act with France ; ‘out we think this statement ought to be received with considerable allowance. As long as the ques- tion is confined to the deliberations of diplo- macy England will be with France, and o will Austria be in a qualified way. But, as might have been expected, the news by the Hibernian, with five. days later advices from Europe, in- forms us that “Austria declines going beyond diplomatic action.” And there are symptoms indicating that England will assume the same position. She fears to go iffto a general war in which ber only ally would be Napoleon, and she will probably allow him to fight the battle out with Russia. It is evident that Prussia’s sympathies are all with Russia; and hence Napoleon, in his pamphlet, threatens her. Her interests, too, are on the same side; for she holds a large slice of dismembered Poland, and of course is opposed to any course of action which would open the question of her right or title to it. Austria is very much in the same position. She, too, holds another portion of Polish territory; but she is more afraid of Napoleon, after the lesson he taught her in Italy, than she is of Alexander IL, because the consequences of offending France would be im- mediate, while the consequences of offending Russia would be more remote. Meantime Russia is using all the arts of diplomacy to detach Austria from the Angle-French alliance, and is trying to bring about a convention of the three interested parties—Russia, Austria and Prussia—the three parties who partitioned Poland and divided the spoil between them, which is‘a proposition very like that of one of @ band of robbers calling a meeting of them- selves to determine whether they would dis- gorge their plunder. if Russia could only in- duce Austria to enter info an alliance, offensive and defensive, with her and Prussia, the three Powers would set Napoleon at defiance. On the other hand, in the event of any fatality be- falling Napoleon, Austria would be at the mercy of the great Northern Bear, who would quickly proceed to swallow up her Danubian provinces. But there is a more immediate danger to | Austria. It is the loss of her Venetian pro- vinces, for which she is indebted to Napoleon, and of which he would soon strip her if she should incur his displeasure by siding with Russia, or by even following a dubious course. Hence. she oscillates from one side to another like the pendulum of a clock, She showed the same vacillation during the Crimean war, and she paid the penalty in a gigantic war on her own soil and the loss of Lombardy. If she will not come up to the mark now, Napoleon, as soon as the Polish question is settled, will again take her in hapd and compel her to cede Venetia to the Itallans. It is owing to this understanding with Victor Emanuel, his ally in the former Russian war, that he speaks in the pamphlet of the contingency of “an Anglo- Franco-Italian fleet appearing in the Black Sea.” Victor Emanuel was his ally before— Austria held aloof. The punishment of the one was the loss, and the reward of the other the gain, of Lombardy. Now, again, it seems Austria is hanging back ¢hd Victor Emanuel is coming forward. The inference is that Venetia will change hands if Napoleon can accomplish it. If b8 should succeed in humbling Russia and Austria, there can be no doubt that his next step would be to wrest her Rhenish pro- vinces from Prussia and annex them to France, to which they formerly belonged. France and Italy would thus become greatly strengthened, and, united in a firm alliance, would be a match for any two Powers of Europe. That Napoleon is preparing for a struggle with Russia there can be little doubt; and in that event he will have to abandon Mexico, By finally separating Poland from Russia, and con- stituting the former country into an independent nation, he would achieve a most popular enter- prise, at the same time that he would strike a heavy blow at fhe growing preponderance of Russia in Eur But whether Napoleon III. will succeed in his programme, or by attempt- ing too much fail and fall at last like his great uncle, is a question that only time can solve. Tue Orricers is Crarce ov Coxscriers at Rixer’s Istanp—Comriamnts.as to Toei Treat- MENT.—There are now a large number of officers detailed from the army in the field to look after the conscripts stationed at Riker’s Island. We have received several communications from these gentlemen complaining of the treatment which they are receiving. These communica- tions we cannot publish. Their grounds. of complaint are, that they are badly fed, com- pelled to sleep upon the ground, and are not allowed the privilege of leaving the island. The place for those officers to apply, where, no doubt, they will have their wrongs rectified, is at the headquarters of General Dix, who has command of the Department of the East, or to Brigadier General Canby, who controls the United States forces in New York and vicinity. They will sce that the officers in charge of that station properly attend to their duty, and ina pooper spirit. Tus Rev. Taveiow Weep on tum Back Tracx.—It was but the other day that the’Hon. Thurlow Weed, in high disgust, left the repub- lican temple of which Greeley had been the chief priest, set up his tabernacle on a gentle i, half way between Governor Morgen and Governor Seymour—a pretty good position as A diplomatic halfway bouse of rest. But this halfway house didn’t begin to. pay The venerable Thurlow, in this po- sition, found that the door of the kitchen at “Washington*was ot would be closed against him, excluding him from ali the marrow banes, gravy dishes and other fat pickings of the stew- pans and the pantry; and so it is said Grand- fathor Weed is working round again to the windward. A fortaight ago he pitched into the abolitionists with the “vim” of one of the old | Regency gang; but now, thoroughly sickened by the rascally copperheads and by the poor pickings of the democratic coal hoal, he rallies | to the dofonce of the adininistration. Brudder | Greeley, bo good onqagh to open de door. TT Tue Taree Mision Crry Oxpnance—Tas Drart Maps Easy.—The three million ordt- nance having passed the Board of Councilmes and the Board of Aldermen, it only remains for the Mayor to sign itto make it law. By this ordinance the Mayor, Comptroller, the mem- bers of the Board of Aldermen and Board of Councilmen are constituted a committee to de- termine if any drafted man “is in indigent cis cumstances or a member of the Fire Depart- ment,” and to give him a certificate according- ly. In the case of a drafted fireman, who de- sires not to enter the military sérvico, the Comptroller shall pay for his exemption the sum of three hundred dollars, to be handed to the proper officer of the United States govern- ment. In case of any person being drafted who is in indigent circumstances, or who is a fireman, if he procure a substitute to serve in his place, to him the sum of three hundred dollars ball likewise be paid. The Comptroller - is also au- thorized to pay to any person who shall volun- teer as a substitute, and be accepted and mus- tered into the service for some person who has been or may be drafted, the sum of three huay dred dollars, provided that no other payment shall have been made to the persou dra‘ted or his substitute. By this arrangement the pres- sure of the draf& will be removed from poor men with families depending on them for sup- port, and a class with no domestic responsibili- ties will have to take theft place. Thisisa wise and judicious arrangement, which reme- dies the defect in the bill making men with families depending on them for support equally liable to conscription with unmarried men.” As to the provision in favor of firemen, it is only just and equitable, and in accordance with our State laws. They joined the Fire Department. on the distinct understanding that they should t be’ called to do military duty, and faith Bint te be kept with them. Altogether this ordinance is a great improvement on the pre- vious one, and we hope the Mayor will lose ne time in signing it. Desertions From THE Reser. Arvwy.—In the beginning of the war efforts were made to im- pose on the credulity of the Northern public by tales of disaffection in the rebel armies, desertions, suffering, &c. These were so con- stantly disproved that even when isolated facts of this charactgr transpired nobody could be got to believe them. Now we have evidence in abundance to show that what at one time was purely imaginative is being rapidly and disastrously realized. The fast day proclama- tion and appeal of Jeff. Davis, the proclama- tions of the Governors of the rebel States, and the passionate and frantic exhortations of the rebel organs, all prove that the spirit of disaffee- tionis busily at work in the South, and that the confederacy is fast‘tumpbling to pieces, from its conviction of its inability to further protract the contest. But we have still more positive evidence of the fact in the reports that are con- stantly coming in from’ our camps all over the country. Not a day passes that squads of de- serters do not present themselves, offering in their pessons unmistakable indications of the severest privation and suffering, and eagerly demanding to be allowed to take the oath of allegiance. These are facts that cannot be glossed over. or disproved, and in admitting them the rebel journals are unable to concesl the agonizing apprehehsions caused by them, or the conviction which is forcing itself upon them that the game is up. Jacos Barker Stu. Lives.—This extraor- dinary man, so well known in New York, though ninety years of age, seems as full of vigor as ever, mingling in all the political questions of the time, attacking men, measures and newspapers, or defending himself. The mili- tary authorities at New Orleans stopped his paper—the Advocate—but that did not step him. After the French and. English methed, he resorts to writthg pamphlets, and one, enti- tled “The Ballot Box, the Palladium of our Libeffles,” containing sixty-five pages, has been sent us by the last mail from New Or-, leans; and we learn that he has sent a number of copies for distribution to this city. It is chiefly a compilation from his letters, articles and speeches already published; but it also contains some new matter, in which the writer shows himself to be a sound Wnion man of the most conservative type. Ovr Ciry RatRoavs.—Yesterday hundreds of workmen were busily employed laying down rails in Fulton and South streets. The reason for their working on Sunday is that on the week days these thoroughfares are so crowded: by vehicles that it would be next to impossible to proceed with the work. In another month all “the new lines for which grants have been made by the Legislature will have nearly finished laying down their rails,or will be in active operation. No city in the world will then pre- sent so many conveniences of transit as. New York, or will offer so many facilities to its clti- zeus of enjoying the pure air and scenery of ite environs. Crry Taxation vor 1863.—It has been ae» certained that the valuation of city pro- perty, as assessed for taxes for the present year, amounts to the enormous ag- gregate of $594,154,543. The total amount required to be raised by tax for 1863 will be $11,788,457 95, making the rate of tax required to produce the amount needed 1.98 40-100.0n the dollar of valuations, or a fraction less than two per cent. This iaformation will be useful to taxpayers. By ascertaining the araount for which they are assessed i Aeon calculate beforehand how much they have fo pay. Gexvre Corrsnnaan Piatrorw.—The Union as it was under Buchanan, the constitution ae it is under Jeff. Davis. Noorrngan Paooraume.—The restoration of the Union as it ought to be. No Unioa with slaveholders. wEWs FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Fosraass Mownos, August 15, 1843. ‘The United States steamer Guide arrtvod here this mora- ing from Moreheed City, N.0. She repbrts that there had been no arrival from Charleston for several days. ‘Tho Guide also reports that yesterday, whilo off Cape Hatteras, a steamer spoke them, giving the name of Hud- son, from New York, and saying that Charleston was taken. Of course, if the steamér was from New York, and 00 such news bad been received thore, what they ‘said was false. Tho conclusian of the officers on the Guide fs that the Hudedh was a biookade runner; aod her bold mode of reporting to and hailing the gunboat was ® dar- ing move by which they escaped. Tho steamer Hudson is described an an English built boat, bitck, low in the water, and « fast runner. She beaded South. ‘The stoamalyp 8. R. Spaulding i# expected to arcive, here frm Cyrieaton soon. Sho la arosdy dua, j € 7 ee ee ee Setitateieteetniehiieteteneteteaa———