The New York Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1863, Page 4

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Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad way.—ErioPtaN Sones, DaNcrs, Burixsques, &c—Tue | Guost. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL. 514 Broadwar.—E1miorran foNGs, DANC RS, Ke. TNE Gs Ost, i IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Tux SterKorticon. AMERICAN, THEAT! . No, 444 Broadway.—Batirra, | Taxtonimes, Buriesov! &6,—ONe THOUSAND MILLINERS | NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Comositixe AND Lecrunes, from 9 A. M."tiN 10 P.M, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Brmorian | fonas, Dances, BuRLRsavES, &¢, New York, Friday, Aug THE SITUATION. The drafting in the Fifteenth ward, Sixth dis- trict, yesterday, was marked by the same absti- nence from all disposition to disturbance as on the previous day. Order was preserved everywhere. Tax Kiva. Carraivs—Away Witt MELA. | wrongs inflicted upon the Poles by the Russian government, the intolerableness of which at last compelled them to seize the arms of resistance and redemption. Thanks are also warmly ex- pressed in the latter document for the recognition which these wrongs have received, and the sympa- thies which they have invoked from the Western Powers. The national government have still an abiding faith in the ultimate success of their cause. In Lithuania the people are oppressed by rigor- ous domiciliary visits. This tyrannous procedure is carried on by Cossacks, who commit many fla- grant outrages, which are rousing in the people a spirit of hatred to the Russian government which will ere long break out into open hostility. The Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia had met in conference at Gastein. By the Hibernian we have advices from Japan to the 30th of May. From these we learn that the difficulty. between the Japanese government and the English authorities has been finally settled by the former agreeing to pay the amount of money demanded, and the English waiving the question of the delivering up to public execution of the Prince of Satsuma’s father. It is suggested, how- ever, that this may not prove entirely correct, as | the day the steamer left Kanagawa was the last allowed the Japanese to decide upon acceding to or rejecting the demands of the English, and at the very last moment it is possible a decided change in the minds of the Japanese officials may have taken place. All business was at a standstill, and no business quotations were given. The premises occupied by the American Legation at Jeddo had been entirely destroyed by fire on the morning of the 28th of May, saidto have originated acciden- tally. The American Minister, Mr. Pruyn, lost everything except the archives of the Legation. At Nagasaki ne business was doing up to the latest dates (May 30), great anxiety still prevail- ing among the foreign merchants relative to the decision of the government, to be given at Jed- do on or before the 28th of May. Coroner Ranney was notified to hold au ante- mortem examination yesterday in the case of Mrs. Derrickson, colored, of No, 4 Worth street, who | was 80 severely beaten by the July rioters as to be confined to her bed ever since. ! John Kennedy, who was stabbed in the abdo- | men, at Bergen Point, New Jersey, on Sunday | evening, while engaged in a fight with Patrick Murphy, died yesterday at the New Yofk Hospital from the effects of his injuries. Coroner Collin | held an inquest upon the remains. Murphy iscon- fined in the Hudson county jail. The Excise law is now being vigorously enforc- ed. The following named persons were arrested for selling liquor without license:—James Reilly, M. L. Beyley, Edward Hare, William J. Shaw, R. McParlan and R, Duffy. Judgments have been ob- tained against several others, whose names will be published as soon as they are arrested. All per- sons who require license had better apply therefor immediately. To-day is Jeff. Davis's fast and prayer day in what there is left of his bogus confederacy. The Toronto (Canada) Globe says that Thomas D'Arcy McGee got his information about the in- tended invasion of Canada by Northern troops from Clement L. Vallandigham. It is now rumored in Ohio that a proposal is to be made to Vallandigham by his political friends, ‘fhe numbers required were drawn. The draft will proceed in the Sixteenth ward to-day. This will complete the draft in the Sixth district, when it is thought that the other districts will be imme- diately proceeded with. The military are still held in readiness at the usual rendezvous, and their services will probably be required for some days to come, Although Mayor Opdyke continues obstinate in his deter- mination that the relief proposed by the Common Council shall not be extended to conscripts, and has hedged himself around with soldiers in the City Hall, with all the absurdities of picket lines, countersigns, ‘officers of the day,” and so forth, to the great annoyance, necessarily, of poople having business to attend to in that building, it is exceedingly probable, if not certain, that his objections and his veto will be both wiped out by a vote of the Common Council when the prescribed ten days have elapsed, and the citizens will be thus entitled to the relief which their representa- tives in the municipal body have declared that they shail have. Official despatches received in Washington yes- terday from General Gillmore and Admiral Dahl- gren give favorable reports of the progress of the bombardment against Fort Sumter, the reduction of which is regarded ascertain. The capture of Charleston, however, may be delayed for some time even after Sumter falls. The enemy, we presume, have made such preparations for resist- ance that some desperate fighting will have to be done before the city is reached; nor are there any very sanguine hopes entertained by official persons in Washington that,the reduction of the city will be the immediate result of the fall of Aumter, although the ultimate successful issue of the siege is not doubted. ‘There are no changes nor indications of change in the Army of the Potomac? With regard to the movement of General Lee's forces, it is ascertained that they are moving southward, probably to Fredericksburg. The only body that remains at Culpepper is General Hill’s command. Our cor- respondoace from General Meade’s army to-day contains an interesting story of the progress of “events there. We publish in to-day's paper an claborate article from the Raleigh (North Carolina) Standard of July 81, on the subject of a speedy and honorable peace and the re@arn of North Carolina to the Union. The article in quegtion appeared under the nom de plume of Davidson; bat it subsequently was ascertained to have been written by Hon, R. . Donnell, formerly a member of Congress from that State. He represented the Second district of North Carolina in the year 1:45, and was also one of the delegates of the & Convention that declared his State out o! the Union, His status among the citizens of North Carolina may be inferred from the fact that h present Speaker of the popular branch of t ture of the State. The article of the rebellion, its alleged and s and its bitter fruits, and shows clearly requiring a pledge that, in case of his election, he will co-operate fully with the national government in the support of its war measures, and that he is to have the choice of signing it or giving place to some man who will make that pledge. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, Senator Henry Wilson and Gen. Howard are to take the stump in Maine in favor of the election of Samuel Cony, the re- publican candidate for Governor. ‘The candidates for the two vacant seats in the United States Senate in Missouri are John B. He » gradual emancipationist; John 8. Phelps, ‘who belongs to what is termed the ‘‘ clay- bank” faction; B. Gratz Brown, “charcoal,” or immediate emancipationist, and Gen. Ben. Loan, formerly a war democrat, but at present very un- certain. Ex-United States Senator Rice, of Minnesota, has come out strongly in favor of the war demo- cracy. He says every soldier in the army is @ democrat, and the party that stands by the government in the prosecution of the war is the true democracy. Bix hundred and thirty-seven bales of cotton were sold on government account at Cincinnati on the 17th inst., at prices ranging between 37 and 58 cents. The whole amount yielded about $160,000. The whole quantity of salt inspected on the Onondaga Salt Springs Reservations, New York, from January 1 to August 15, 1863, is 3,231,810 bushels. The whole quantity inspected during the same tire in 1862 was 3,997,972—decrease 766,162 bushels. The stock market was again very much excited yester- day, and*prices generally show an advance. The move ment in some descriptions was very active indeed. Money was in rather better request ; call loans 5 a 6 per cent. Gold was 125, and exchange 13744 a 138. Cottoa was quiet’ but steady yesterday. There was a fair degree of animation in the flour market, which was steady for fresh ground. Wheat was heavy and lower. Corn was pretty active and a shade firmer. Pork, lard and bacon were saleable and buoyant. Beef, butter cheese, rice, teas, hemp, metals, coflee and molasses were sparingly purchased. Sugars were in fair request. Whiskey was inactive. The speculative inquiry for refined petroleum was quite brisk. The freight market was quiet and depressed. Our Jack Tars on Iox.—In another column will be found a description of the United States steamer Home, a fine vessel which has been fitted out by order of the Navy Department as a retreat for the officers and men of our iron- clad fleet now operating before Charleston. Some one—perhaps for a wonder it is Secretary Welles himself—is deserving of much credit for taking this initiatory step towards providing necessary comforts for our brave and enduring naval heroes. The Home will be gratefully will be the means of reducing the sick list of the fleet to a merely nominal figure, and the crews will be refreshed after a stay on board of her for a day or two, and will return to their vessels invigorated and ready to fight with fresh energy. to answer for; but his action ia providing a Home for ohr gallant sailors, which will be sup- | plied with many comforts and a clean, healthy | resting place, with plenty of fresh water to ; wash in and cool ice water to drink, will aid in removing a load of his mistakes from the memo- | ty of the confiding public, and do much to put | him again on the road to be esteemed, although | itis a long road for bim to travel. Mr. Secte- } tary Stanton, of the War Department, who bas Napoleon, Mexico and Texas. In the Southwest, including the State of Ten- nessee, the northern border counties of Geor- gia and Alabama, and the States of Missis- sippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, the re- bellion is substantially suppressed. . With the remnants of the rebel armies escap- ing the clutches of Generals Grant and Banks, we hear that General Joe Johnston—his whole force not exceeding twenty thousand men—is still hovering near the western border of Ala- bama, convenient to Mobile; that Bragg, with a force of about the same strength (but which is rapidly melting away from desertions), stil! lingers about Chattanooga; and that Buckner, with ten or twelve thousand men, is standing guard in the extreme eastern corner of East Tennessee over the impertant rebel railway communications in that quarter. Against these forces we have the victorious armies of Rose- crans, Burnside, Grant and Banks, at least one hundred and fifty thousand men in the aggre- Mr. Secretary Welles has a multitude of sins | ate, on the east side of the Mississippi. Our generals, therefore, from Georgia to Louisiana, have the rebellion at their meray, and they are only waiting the subsidence of these extreme summer heats in order to move forward on all sides and finish up their work. On the west side of the Mississippi; scattered about from Central Arkansas to the Mexican boundary, the rebels have, under Holmes. Price, Kirby Smith, Taylor, Magruder and some other officers of smaller calibre, an aggre- gate force of thirty or forty thousand men. But all their means of communication by water have’ been wrested from them, so that their forces in Central Arkansas are cut off from Louisiana, and those of Louisiana are cut off frem Texas, .except by long and difficult marches on foot, over or around a region of pestilential swamps and jungle. Next, by our occupation of the Mississippi, all these rebel forces on the weat are detached from those on the east side of the river, almost as effectually as if they were separated by the Gulf of Mexico. It is thus entirely at the option of the government whether Generals Grant and) Banks shall first precipitate a heavy column or two into Northwestern Louisiana, and thence into Texas, clearing out that section to the Rio Grande, or move against Mobile, and thence northeastward to a junction with Rosecrans in the heart of Georgia. Grant or Banks, by way of the Red river and the interior bayous of Louisiana, can move an army rapidly into Northera Texas; and, once there, it will be in a region so abound- ing with corn, grass and cattle as that no Base of supplies will be needed for it short of Gal- veston. If there were no outside dangers in that quarter to be apprehended, Texas might be left unnoticed till after a final clearing up of the odds and ends of the rebel armies between Mobile and North Carolina. But there is an outside danger menacing Texas, and it is loom- ing up ia the figure of ‘Louis: Napoleon. The logs of Vicksburg aud Port Hudson involved the irreparable 1oss to Jeff. Davis, unless as- sisted from Europe, of all the cotton States on the west side of the Mississippi, in consequence ofthe absolute and permanent occupation of the river and the active watch we do and can maintain over it by our gunboats. Nor is there ashadow of hope remaining that Davis can rescue from the wreck of his sinking fortunes even the limited empire of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, without the aid of an armed European coalition, involving a division of the spoils. What, then? Need we say that, since the out- break of this rebellion, France has had « long: ing eye upon Louisiana, but cspecially upon Texas, as a bunch of grapes in addition to Mexico, supposed to be within her reach? This foreign coalition with Davis, therefore, is the very trouble which now threatens us. In his present desperate extremities, isit not altogether probable that Davis would prefer half a loaf as better than no bread at all? Are there any scruples of right or wrong, justice or injustice, to his “Confederate States” or people, that are likely to stand in the way of such a bargain, if it can be Consummated by Davis and his clique of Confederate rulera at Richmond? No. Our readers will remember, too, that so long as a year ago the emissaries of France began to put out their feelers in Texas, although at that time they were indignantly repelled by Davis. Now our latest reports from England and France speak complacently of the probable ac- ceptance (under the protection of Louis Napo- leon) of the throne of Mexico by Maximilian of Austria, and with the blessing of the Holy Father of Rome. And these reports warn us, too, of a probable armed coalition between Mexico (that is, Louis Napoleon) and the Davis confederacy. What other incentive or equivalent can there be to Louis Napoleon for such a coalition ex- cept Texas? There is no other. Nothing less, at any rate, would compensate him for a war in behalf of Davis with the United States; but Texas would, if he should get successfully out of the war. There is a great risk in the game; but the prize of the immense cotton and sugar regions of Texas and Mexico is great and ex- ceedingly tempting. Louis Napoleon, too, has set himself diligently to work to build up around the world a system of colonies for France, with which to counterbalance the coloniul and com- mercial power of England. Yet such appears welcomed by the men of the iron-clads. She | to be the blind and stupid jealousy of Jobn Bull against the rising power of the United States that he seems willing to consent to the aggrandizement on this continent of France, his most powerful and dangerous rival and heredi- tary enemy, in order to insure the destruction of this republic Leuis Napoleon undoubtedly knows that with the restoration of this Union in its terri- torial integrity his Mexican protectorate | vanishes like a morning fog before the reap- | pearing sun. He therefore calculates that by helping Jeff. Davis to a confederacy compre- | hending the cotton States east of the Mississip- | pi, and by tacking on Texas to Mexico, his | protectorate will be secure, inasmuch as Davis will be his dependant and | lly. A canning | and impudent game this; but it will fail. It is, that a rebel confederacy is @ myth, and all at- | even more blunders to atone for than his venera | however, in view of some such coalition that tempts to establish it a total failure. The article |"ble friend of the Navy Department, ouglit to | we would urge upon President Lincotn the exhibits a terse, carnest, and didactic style, and | take a hint from him, and busy himself at once , policy of despatching at once from the forces will, no donbt, with its known authorship, carry | provide something of the sane kind for the | of Generals Grant and Banks 9 strong army great weight with it with the people of North Carolina and the peace men of the confederacy. MISCELLANEOUS NEWs. In our European. news columns will be found two important documents iesued by the national government of Poland—one a proclamation to thé Polish nation, the other a mani. festo to the people and government meats of Europe. The first is a stirring a the Poles to persist in their noble struggle for * | brave soldiers who, exposed to all kinds of weather in the burning sun and sands of an island, are performing deeds of great valor. Mr. Stanton: why not purchase two or three | cargoes of ice, lemons, fresh meats and vegetables, and despatch them immediately to ‘our soldiers? They would thank you, and their energies would be doubled to bring to an end | rebellion, | column into Texas, and through Texas to the | Rio Grande, opposite Matamoros. In putting | an end to the rebel contraband trade carried on between that port and Texas, the expedition would amply pay all expenses, to say nothing of -the thousands of loyal Union Texans it would liberate. and who arc now praying for the return of the “old flag.” But, above all, eal to | the siege of Sumter. and with it the end of the | such an expedition would nip this projected NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1863. nationality. In the other is sammarized the many | The Rebelliom im the Southwest—Louls and would bring both Louis Napoleon snd England to their sober senses. Let not the administration flatter itself with the idea that this supposed Napoleonic plot for ‘Texas is too wild and visionary for serious be- lief. What could be more visionary than this scheme of an Austrian Emperor over Mexico, under the protection of French bayonets, and as a makeweight with Austria and the Pope for certain other French schemes in regard to Venice and Rome? There is no distant scheme of intervention too wild for the ambition of Louis Napoleon so tong as he can by such de- vices amuse the other great Powers of Enrope, and, in tickling the vanity of the French people, delay the storm which is brewing among them for his destruction. And so we earnestly hope that no time will be lost by President Lincoln in taking care of Texas. ‘Tne Politicians st Work—An Extrmordt- mary Circalar. The politicians are busily engaged making their preparations for the Presidential cam- paign. ‘They are commencing to ‘circwlate newspapers’ ‘and pamphlets, most of the newspapers being of an extremely limited circulation and of the most servile party type. For instance, Governor Seymour selects for his special organ the little Albany Aflas, to which he seeks to give a forced circulation and a fac- titions importance because it is hisecho. The following circular will show what another set of politicians are doing, while they are illegally using the Post Office under the cover of an unlawful frank to send far aud wide their docu- ment: :— No. 73 Tranry Burcomnas, New York, August 4, 1863. } To —— ——~, Postmaster at —_ Deak Su—Thbe sudject of an increased circulation of loyal journais bas been strongly urged by prominent Union men throughout the State. Realizing the importance of seouring to every right minded citizen, without reference to politicat association , tho perusal of @ journal wholly patriotic, in which the great questions of the day are considered with the sole view of upholding and. sustaining the goveroment iu its efforts to put down the rebellion, the Union State Commit- too, at its last meeting, resolved to. put forth an effort to attain this great end, and the undersigned were appointed a sab-committee to carry this resolution into effect. To do this work well, the whole State should bo thoroughly canvassed, and every family, not thus pro- vided, should be induced to subscribe to some loyal roel. Jorn a family may not fect able to pay the full price of subscription, it ts believed that the liberal inyal nen of your vicinity would make up the deficiency if called upon to dose. A little labor in each locality providing the proper sum for this purpose. The following are the loweat terms of the leadixg loyal rnals in this city and Albany for one yoar: ly Now York Tribune. pec for the entire year; but if cuses should arise in which @ shorter term only could be procured such subscription should, novortholess, be accepted at correspondiug rates. In cases where local journals would be proferred the terms should be procured o¢ the publishers, that all read- S may be accommodated with tue loyal paper of their choice, The object of this committee is not to discriminate be. ‘twoen loyal journals, but to bring within the reach of ali ‘who iil read a journal nearti'y devoted t+ our country’s salvation, belioving that the manages of the people have but to be rightly informed upon the momentous issues affecting the nation's prosperity to act leyally and uulied Jy 10 the great work 0’ suppressing the revellion. Rely ing upon your devotion ¢> your country. and the duty which grows out of your position of trust undor tho govornment, we ask you to seo that this work és speotily and thoroughly executed ia your locuity, sither by gour- ‘self individually or in conjunction with 2 commitice ape. cually ruined for the Any further suggestions with reference to this Quty that may bo will bs promptiy communicated by Abram Wakemaa, Postinsster of New York city, and one of the undorsignod. When the canvass is complete—that_ . a'l the subacri- ‘bers obtained that can be in your Iecatity, a@ oon as the ‘24th day of August instant, or aa much sooner as may be—you will please forward your order (with the money enclosed) for the numbor of Now York journals required, erecey ies how maoy of euch, t» Sinclair Tousey, No. 121 jagsau stroot, who will send allin ono packaze t your office for delivery. ‘You will retain, for your own convenisnce, the sub soription lista, and forward to Bea. Field, Secretary, Prom rn Gow subscriber obsawed under thia eilort. pectfully, yours, ABRAM WAKEMAN, HENRY R. LOW, BEN, FIELD, “Seam These politicians in one particu!ar show a little more shrewdness than Governor Sey- mour; for, while he confines himself to one small paper, they propose to circulate all the New York papers which advocate their princi- ples. Accompanying the circular is a table containing the names of all the political papers in the city, whether adverse or ama and requesting the postmasters to fill up the blanks with the number of copies sent to each office, and to inform the committee if there are any aod how many sent in packages for gratuitous distribution, “with such remarks and sugges- tions on the subject as the postmaster may deem useful to communicate.” Such is the manner in which the Post Office is used by a faction who call themselves “Union,” because they are afraid to come be- fore the people with their true name, or even ‘that which they bore in the last Presidential election. So long ago as last winter they con- cluded that, like well known thieves, who adopt aliases, they would change their name; and, through one of their organs—Jobn W. Forney— they announced “the campaiga for the Presi- dency in 1864 has been opened by the Union men.” They do not wait for the opposition to assume the initiative. They take it themselves. Why was this? Because they knew the opposition were the true Union men, and they thought it good tactics to steal the name in advance, like those who don “the livery of Heaven to serve the devil in.” Those whose names are attached to the fore- going circular are the Executive Committee of what they call “the Union State Central Com- mittee,” consisting of upwards of thirty mem- bers. How far their organization is for the purposes of restoring the Union as it was may be judged by the character of the principal journals which they propose to circulate, and which they call “loyal.” The very first on their list has beon a disunion and disloyal sheet from the very beginuiag, and has doue more than any other journal in the country to break up the Union. Of our national banner this was the sentiment it proclaimed before the war:— Tear down the flaunting lie, Half mast the starry flag; Tusult po sunny sky With hate’s pollated rag. The same is the opinion of this “loyal” paper now; but it is not convenient for Greeley to own it, having the fear of a long rope anda “sour apple tree’? continually before his eyes. If the salvation of the country depeads on | the list of journals in this circular, then is the republic past praying for. They have mainly | contributed to bring it to its present deplora- ble condition, and they will not leave a stone unturned to insure its utter destruction. But we believe that better teachings and healthier influences will prevail, and that fanaticiam, whether it call itself radical or Unionist, will be routed horse, foot and artillery, Saltpetre cannot save Sap itrefsiog carcass of the aboli- tion’faction; and, no matter what name it may assume, it will amell equally loathsome in the nostrils of the people. Iwptas Crams—We are constantly in the receipt of communications preferring charges of favoritism and unfair trading against the Indian Bureau. We cannot give space to these Froach coalition with Jef. Davis in te gud. | documents. We hare the yr totoak to and there are substantial grounds for them they should be laid before Congress, which will in- vestigate them and punish the guilty parties. Tue Exectioxs—How Tuer Ovout To Be Conpucrep.—The only successful mode of con- ducting the elections against the destructives who control the present administration is to combine all the elements of the opposition upon a simple conservative platform, and that is to be found in the policy of the Union men of Kentucky, by which they won the elections— & policy which combines hostility to the admin- istration and ita political measures with a vigor- ous prosecution of the war for the original objects proclaimed in the resolution of the extra session of Congress two years ago. It will never do to start twe or three organiza- tions agreeing in opposition to the administra- tion, but in other respects inimical to each other, nor yet’ two or more organizations dif- fering only as tweedledum differs from twee- dledee. By pursuing that policy in 1860 the conserva- tives of the country, who were in a large ma- jority, permitted a small minority'to etect a President, which was the main cause of all the misfortunes the republic has since suffered. The friends of Dougias, finding themselves a majority in the democratic party, insisted on his nomination, and. the Albany Regency, con- trolling the New York delegation at the Charleston Convention, was so inexorable on the point that it would listen to no compro- mise. The friends of Breckinridge were equal- ly uncompromising. A fatal split in the party, with two separate tickets, was the consequence; while another conservative party, that of Bell and Everett, held aloof from both, and drew away a8 many votes as might have elected one of the two other conservative tickets. The re- sult was that the republican candidate, receiv- ing more votes than any of the other candi- dates, was constitutionally elected President, though by a million leas than a majority of the votes cast. This is, perhaps, a serious defect in the con- stitution; but while it exists it is a cogent rea- son for the union of the majority, if they do not desire to be governed by the minority. If the conservatives of the country are so enamored of the present regime that they want to see it. continued through the next Presidential term, then let them start separate organizations— some as peace democrats, some as war demo- crata, and some as a third party—and they will easily accomplish the desired result, shattered and broken as the party in power now appear to be. But if they want to become irresistible they will present a united front to the political foe, and they will stand upon the Kentucky. platform. They will assail, with complete suc- cess, the Emancipation act, the Confiscation act, the Conscription act and the arbitrary arrests. Any (party bearing: such’a load of odinm as these’ must break down, if the opposition is only properly combined against it. The Conserip- tion act alone-—more unpopular than the Alien and Sedition law—is sufficient to damn forever the party of the administration. What must be the result when the other obnoxious measures are piled upon that, like Pelion upon Ossa? The conservatives have the game in their own bands, and must win it, unless thoy permit selfish leaders to throw it away. Gerar Surra Rervpiative Tas Raproars oF Tur Apumisrration.—In a recent speech made by Gerrit Smith in Oswego that gentleman cuts loose from the radicals of the administration, the editor of the New York Tribune, and all the other abolitionists who insist upon putting down slavery before reatoring the Union. He asks:— “Are there abolitionists who say they cannot help to put down the rebellion unless the gov- ernment will pledge itself to put down slavery? Let me aay that with such ome idea men I have no sympathy. Ldke the sham republicans and sham democrats I have referred to, they are but vwoorkers for the rebels." Again he says:—“Are there, I repeat, abolitionists who, in stich a time as this, stand back and refuse to join in putting down the rebellion save on the con- dition that slavery shall also be put down? Then are they also to be numbered with the enemies of the country.” Mr. Smith will there- fore find the greatest enemies of the country in the Cabinet of Mr. Lincoln and in the Tribune office, After declaring in favor of the Union as it was and the constitution “just as it is,” be re- fers to Mexico, upon which he remarks, with justice and force, “If our rebellion should suc- ceed, her fate is sealed. If it should fail, then it may even be that Napoleon’s is sealed.” These extracts show that, after all, Gerrit Smith isa practical statesman, while the visionary radicals are ever mounting by some “higher law” to the clouds, in wandering mazes lost. By the course the administration is pursuing, if not arrested in its mad career, not only will the fate of Mexico be sealed, but the rebellion wilt be successful in the end, and the whole country, North and South, be involved in irre- trievable ruin. Already we are menaced by the intervention of Napoleon, an eventuality which is extremely probable from the manner in which the war is carried on. But let it be brought to a speedy close by following out the programme laid down by the President in his first proclamations, and in the resolution of Congress passed in August, 1861, and soon Mexico will be an independent nation once again, and the French eagles will have to wing their way from this continent, never to return. Crowns ts tux Warenine PLaces—Accord- ing to all accounts the condition of the fashion- able watering places this year is anything but comfortable. To be packed like herrings and stewed like carp may be agreeable to people of fashionable tastes: butit is certainly not health- ful. Give us the cool breezes, roomy quarters and wholesome fare of the mountain retreats and farmhouses along the coast in preference to the crushing, the discomfort, the sodden food and the impure atmosphere of the hotels at these fashionuble resorts. By and by people will arrive at the same sensible conclusions, Some allowance must, however, be made for the fact that this is the reign of our newly fledged shoddy aristocracy, and that they must have some place to show off their freshly pur- chased diamonds and fine clothes, Tun Gaaxanins of tuk Worto.—Two coun- tries may be said to feed the rest of the world— the United States and Russia. And yot we find the Western Powers ungratefully esfeavoring to sap the strength and cripple the resources of these two nations, even at the risk of starving thei owe people. _ the administration to keop straight, and there- fore cannot be expected to send roving com- missioners to inquire into such charges. If Tas Race vor Paeswent Lixcouy’s Lixe- nese Down Sovru.—On the first outbreak of the war the personalities lavished on Mr. Lincoln by the rebels exhibited a degree of hatred towards him which it was thought nothing could mol- lify. “Ape,” “baboon” and “ourang outang” were amongst the mildest of the appellations applied to him. It is curious, recollecting all this, to witness the eagerness which these same rebels at present manifest to possess themselves of his likeness. There is in fact nothing in the fine arta more esteemed in Southern circles just now than ‘the counterfeit presentment” of the man against whom all these ugly epithets were hurled. Recenthy one of Jeff. Davis’ organs, humiliated at the change, worked itself into quite a rage at the statement which appeared in our columns that one dollar greenbacks were selling in Richmond for three dollars Confede- rate currency. It appears that we understated instead of overstated the value sot in those lati- tudes on our President’s likeness; for we find it announced in the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph that greenbacka are now selling there at the rate of one dollar for eleven dollars in Confederate currency. What ups and downs there are in this uncertain world. a “Tue Harry Famuy” w Egrors.—The em- barrasaments resulting from the Greek and Polish questions exhibit in a curious light “the happy family” arrangements of the European sovereigns. Although almost all related by intermarriage and “cousins” by diplomatic courtesy, there is not a man among them who is willing to trust another, Taey are afraid even to append their signatures to a joint diplo- matic note, lest they should be caught in a trap. The French Emperor is the sharpest thimble rigger amongst the lot, and it isnot therefore surprising that they should all fight so shy of hima. INTERESTING FROM UTAH. sent Them in Cong: img with the New Roate Fully Protected—General News, &e., Ke. OUR GREAT SALT LAKE CITY CORKESPONDENCR, Gasat Sart Lage Cite, August 3, 1863, THR LECTION ‘To-day we aro electing a delegate to reprosent us in Con- gress. and we, the people, the sovereigns of the mountains and the valleys, devermino—which will decidedly be a phe- nomenon in our history—that ho ebali be a Gentil Not because he is a Gentric, bnt because we will it so; aud if ‘we bave no other way of exhibiting our sovereignty we elect to show it in that way, and the choice is in our ex- Chief Justice, Joba F, Kinney, of Nebraska. TUR NRW DELEGATE. Kinney ia a native of Now York, practised law in Ohio aud lowa, and came out here as Associate Justice in 1854, bringing bisWamily with him. He returned Kast in 1866, and located in Nebraska City, Nebraska Territory, with his family, and there practised law. Jo 1859 “King James"' Buchanan sent bim out as Chiof Justice, and be was “oontinued over’ by Mr. Lincoln, and as such femained till! about threo months ago, ‘when be was docapituted through the iuduence of the war party out bero—] mean the crowd of about four or six out here who have becn anxious to got up & fight for the chances of national glory thnt they dreamed of in the overterow ot Brigham Young and Mormonism. Tho government, better informod, soon after romoved Hardjng by sending him to Valparaiso. Kinney goes, therefore, to re mp the delegute of Utah. aa a re- compense for bis fidelity to the sovereign rights of the people, and as rebuke to their enemies. WS BVERCH IN THR BOWERY. Rey would address bis constituents this morning at lea o'clock, and Jadios, as well as TM ampewrey were invited. A brass band opeved the services, and Apustie Woodruff ed. an hour and @ haif,and made a se Speech everyt jn the line of claims for religious tole eco from the landing of the May Puritans down to our own day, praised the rejoiced in the Weciaration of Independence, quoted thas and the constitution. and gave scissors to the politicians wuo have dealt partially with Ueah. brief, Kinacy means to taik plain at Washington, and I wish hiss success; for there is quite a robust opinion here that if Utab’s delegates bad faithfully faced tue music in the halle of Congress, aud claimed for 'tah with as groat per- Bevorance as displayed by other d from other ritorios, there is some ity, Utab would have been better dealt with by the government. Kinney’s de- few montis avo did not deserve the bad name and worse treatment they received at the nands of the military, or white men t and now have been trying t.gmakea mame out of nothing, At al! travelling public be assured that the overland mail route Coloned returned to California, and nis county immediately nomi- nated him for the State Senate. The bas many iofuential friends. More will be heard of these resigna- tions at Washington. Obviteary. DEATH OF HON. JOHN A. GURLEY. Hoa. John A. Gurley, ex-member of Congross from Ohio, but a native of Connecticut, died at his residence tm Cincmpati on the 19th inst., aged Gfty years. Soon after he became of age Mr. Gurley entered the ministry of the Universalist church, and became widely known as a forcible and cloquent preacher, Removing to Cin- cmnati some twenty years since, he there became the ‘editor of the Star of the West, a Universailst paper, which soon attained an extensive circulation. Overburdened with the cares of editorial life he found his bealth giving way, and retired to ® beautiful farm in the suburbs of Cinelonati. From this he was called in 1858 by a nomi- nation to Congress at the hands of the repul ican party, the principles of which be hed warmly espoused. Ne was chosen by a bandsome majority after a most exciting canvass. To 1860 he was again nominated to Congress and choean by a flattering vote. He was ever doeply interested in the development of the vast resources of the Vest, and was among the first to advocate the orgynization of the Territory of Arizona So thoroughly bad he fumiliarized bimaelf with the region constituting that (aro district, that on the passage of the act ho was, by common con- ected for the post of Governor of the lerritory. He wns at oboe commimsioned by the President, and antt cipated great pleasure in the journey to and the residence in the new country. United States Commi: Betore Commissioner Os! The United States ve. Charles Hurd,—This case, where tn the defendant is charged with marder on the high ses, will be brought up for re-examination today at tweive o'clock. . Refore Commissioner Petts, H. Hotme—to thin onse sik Dl De Spin RE PIE ae cd RA a lk