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6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT. ELITOR AND PKOPRIBOR NX. W. COBNEB OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. ovr TERMS cash tp advance sithe risk of tho sender. Now York taken, QHE DAILY HERALD Taree cents or copy. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We Money sen twill b Nove but bank bills curreus io do not return rejected communications Volume XXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway —Nancissm. WALLACKS THEATRE, Broadway.—Tavs ro Tux Last. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Lapy Avpier's Secret BEW BOWERY THEATRE. Boworys.—Gur Fawxus— New Yous Finkman—Dear ay 4 Post. BOWERY THEATRE. Bow: Box axp Vox—Loux, THe Lai BARNUM'S AMERICAN USEUM, Broadway —Tux Prtuox—.npias Cazes, WARRIORS AND Squaws, &0. at allbours Srxcrax Nux— Afternoon and Evening. BRYANT'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. way.—Eruiorian Songs, Dances, Bupiesquss, &c.—How Ane You, Guexmsacs most OF ALTRNDURG— ‘WOOD'S MINSTREL BALL. 514 Broadway.—Brarorz4y Roncs, Dances, Ac, —Tux Guost. AMBRICAN THEATRE, No. -444 Broadway.—Batirrs, Pamiommes, Buutesoums, 40.—Stage Stuvck Yanxus, NEW YORK THEATRE, 485 Broadway.—Vivanpieme— Raovun BROADWAY THBEATRI ‘tae Bust—Ici on Paris F Broadway.-Doinc ror 13. a IRVING HALL. Irving placo.—Tuz SteRaorticon. NEW YORK MUSRUM OF ANATOMY, 18 Broadway.< Cuntomrims AND Lxorunus, from 9A. M. tll 10 P.M. HOOLEY'S fOPBRA HOUSE, Brooklyn:—Eraorun Bonas, Dances, Buriusqums, &0. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, September 8, 1863. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Wexxiy Heratp must be hand- ed in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evoning. Its Circulation among the enterprising mechanios, farmers, morchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- sorted in the Waxy Heravp will thus be seen by a large Portion of the active and energetic people of the United States. THE SITUATION. By the arrival of the transport New Jersey at Philadelphia yesterday, and a telegraphic des- patoh to the Navy Department from Fortress Monroe, we have news from Charleston tg the 3d and 4th instant. Everything wasthen going on well, There wasa general: the iron-clads and Forts Moultrie on the lst inst., in was done to the forts. Capt. his leg broken by a shell in was at anchor, but not Jersey left. Four: Monitor gone up ready for action, and were nearly ast of Fort Sum- ter, preparatory to making a new attack on the forts. The land batteries were then firing night and day, but thé bombardment of the city had not been resumed. Information received from Culpepper yesterday 3 to the position of Lee’s army reports that General's headquarters at Stevensburg; and it ap- ‘pears that, instead of receiving reinforcements, a large portion of his army has gone southward, «comprising Imboden'’s and Jones’ cavalry and a large force of infantry belonging to Longatreet's corps. The occupation of Knoxville, Tenn., by a por- tion of Gen. Burnside’s force has been officially confirmed. His cavalry entered the town after a slight resistance. The rebels retreated from Kingston upon the arrival there of Gen, Burnside; but, being joined by a bby of cavalry from’Gen. Rosecrans’ army from Chattanooga, Gen. Burn- side came into collision with the rebels at Loudon, and defeated them with great loss. The important procéedings transpiring in Ten- nesseo for some days past are graphically des- cribed by our correspondents to-day, and the map which we give of the military situation near Chat- tanooga illustrates the relative positions of all the defences and points of attack in that vjcinity. It will be observed that Tennessee is now fairly with- in the Union lines, and that the rebel army is com- pletely outflanked. A despatch from Memphis on the 2d says that Gonorals Grant and Thomas have gone to New Or- leans; that General Grant will get command of the whole region of the Mississippi; and that General Banks will be sent to Toxas, which now very pro- bably will prove one of the most important de- partments in the Southwest. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship Scotia, from Queenstown on the 30th of August, passed Cape Raco last Saturday afternoon, on her voyage to New York. She was boarded from our news yacht at that point, and a summary of her advices, telegraphed from New- foundland, is published in the Henatp to-day. The news is three di jater. The ship Anglo-Saxon was burnt by the priva- teer Florida, on the 2ist of August, thirty miles east of Kinsale, Ireland. The Anglo Saxon had a cargo of coal, and was in charge of a pilot. Her crew were taken on board the privateer, Some re- porta say that she landed them at Brest, and others that she put them ashore at Kinsale, in one of her own boats, It was reported fn Liverpool that the Alabama had gone into the French port of Cherbourg for repairs, and that the Florida was at Brest. Many of the London journals contend that the ®:on rams, and all offer vessels building for the rebels in England, should be detained by the action. The Ironsides when the New government, atleast until after the appeal in the | case of the Alexandra was disposed of. The London Times says that the appointment of an English prince to rule over Canada wotld be bad policy, and that the Canadians must defend themselves, . It was thought that the United States protest against Napoleon's action in Mexico would be pre- sented in France during the next week after the sailing of the Scotia. The King of the Belgians advised the Archduke Maximilian to insist on certain conditions before accepting the throne of Mexico, This course would be tantamount to a refueal of the crown. The imperial family of Austria resolved that the Archduke, on his assuription of the crown of | Mexico, must ronounce his political rights as a scion of the House of Hapsburg. The American Consul in Frankfort still displayed the Mexican flag. The Mexican question was to be debated before the thirty sovereign princes assembled in congresa Freights wero steqdy, Dut gagagements wore Ugh, NEW YORK HERALD, TUBSDAY, SEPTEMBER §, 1863—TRIPLE SHEET. in Frankfort. Lord Clarendon had arrived in that city, and was to warn the Archduke Maximilian, in the name of England, of the dangers of the Mexican situation. Polish affairs remained without change. We publish to-day the text of the second notes address- ed by France, England and Austria to Russia on the subject. The language is firm against the y of the Czar, and the crisis spoken of as one of*great gravity. The Emperor of Austria was to visit Queen Vic- toria in Germany, The Turkish seraglio was recently burned to the ground, and an exciting scene occurred during the conflagration among the three hundred women, over one hundred eunuchs and some hundred ser- vants who inhabited it. Consols closed in London, on the 29th of August, at 93% a 93% for money. American stocks were higher, The Liverpool cotton market was buoy ant, and experienced an advance during the week, | »ranging from one to one and a half penny. On the 29th ultimo the market was quiet and unchanged. Breadstuffs were quiet and steady. Provisions were steady. Curious Political Developmonts—Secre= tary Seward Renominates President Lincoin. 2 We publish in another column this morning @ very significant article from the New York Times, the official organ of the republicans of this State, as distinguished from the radicals, whose mouthpiece is the fanatical Tribune. This eulogy upon and renomination of President Lincoln is supposed to be from the pen of Secretary Seward. Its style—as smooth, flow- ing and rhetorical as that of a magazine article—is precisely the same as that of Secre- tary Seward’s voluminous despatches. Its sentiments are those of Secretary Seward and the other conservative members of the Cabinet. Tho appositeness of its appearance at this junc- ture, when the radicals have just been badly cuse Convention, smacks of Secretary Seward’s diplomatic dexterity. To all this circumstantial evidence and the current gossip in this city and Washington add the fact that the Chevalier Raymond is as incapable of writing such an article as he was of displaying any cour- age at Solferino or Manassas; and tho most skeptical cannot be doubtful of the real author. Secretary Seward often writes for the old fogy National Intelligencer when he hasa point to gain; and why should he not, under similar circumstances, print one of his productions in the milk-and-water Times? The contest between the conservative and radical factions in the Cabinet bas for a long time been no secret to our teaders. We have repeatedly called the attention of the public and the politicians to this singular “irrepressi- ble conflict,” and have speculated upon its various phases. Some time ago we warned Secretary Seward that, while he was busy with his interminable correspondence and his ridi- culous predictions that something or other would happen in ninety days, the shrewd Secre- tary of the Treasury was laying political pipe in every direction, and holding secret confer- ences at his residence, and during his afternoon drives, with all sorts of political wire-pullers. Indeed, Secretary Chase had so far succeeded in his intrigues that, by his influence over President Lincoln, the radical, Con-’ gressmen, and Secretaries Stanton and Welles, and by his clever management of the finances, including Wall street, the banks and the entfre currency of the country, he seemed to be omnipotent in almost every de- partment, and to practically dictate the policy of the government. It was at this crisis that our warnings at last aroused Secretary Seward to the dangers of his position. His first action was to rub his eyes, which had become weak-* ened by gazing too intently into the intricacies of foreign diplomacy. Then he looked around to see who were for him and who against him. He found that Messrs. Usher, Bates and Blair were eager to retain their present places in the Cabinet, and would enter into any combination which promised this resnlt. He found that op- posed to him were Mr. Chase, who is a sort of genius; Mr. Stanton, who is a brute, and Mr. Welles, who is a nincompoop. Thus assured of 8 working majority in the Cabinet—four against three—Secretary Seward called Thurlow Weed to his asgistance and went to work in earnest. New York, the greatest State in the Union, is the favorite battle field of politicians, because victories gained here are generally decisive. Secretary Seward, therefore, marshalled his forces for the Convention at Syracuse. ° The veteran Thurlow Weed came out with kis youth renewed, like the eagle’s, and made the preliminary arrangements with even more than his usual sagacity. Jerome, the Wall street millionaire, supplied the sinews of war and carried the military chest. That “Little Vil- lain,” Raymond, of the Times, acted as scout and spy, and did all the little dirty work inci- dental to such campaigns. When the battle smoke cleared away everybody saw that Seward had achieved a splendid triumph. Chase, Greeley, Opdyke and their forces were completely discomfited. None of the measures of Congress which Secretary Chase had pro- cured were endorsed by the Convention. The Confiscation, Indemnity and Conscription acts were discovered among the killed and wounded. The Emancipation act was ap- proved only as a military order, and as such must be null and void, like all other military orders, at the close of the war. A tremendous fall in the stock market proclaimed that Chase’s followers considered themselves utterly routed. It was in vain that Chase procured the premature publication of the President’s letter. This only hastened the crash in Wall street, but did not at all disturb Seward’s vio- torious soldiers. On the contrary, they pro- fessed “unqualified admiration” for its style and sentiments, and quickly turned it, like a captured battery, against the broken ranks of theie opponents. No wonder, then, that Secretary Seward praises this letter so highly in tho Times article, and enthusiastically extols President Lincoln as the equal of Wash- ington. The letter is indeed worthy to be trans- lated into Pindaric verse, and so it shall be. Nor is the likeness betwoen Washington and Lincoln 80 very obscure. Washington was a tall man, and so is Lincoln. Washington was stout, and Lincoln is not. Washington was good tempered, and Lincoln is geod tempered. Wasbington could raise Satan when he was provoked; and, although we have never seen Lincoln provoked, we suppose that he has spirit enough to raise Satan or put down Chase when he gets excited. At any rate, the com- parison is sufficiently plain for Mr. Seward’s purpose, and we shall not impair it. There is « trite maxim that history repeats itself. Every new illustration of this trath is curious and interesting. We remember that General Jackson owed his re-election to the quarrel between two members of his Cabinet— Calhoun, the radical, from South Carolina, and Van Buren, the conservative, from New York. It will be singular if President Lingoln shall owe his re-election to the quarrel between two members of his Cabinet—Chase, the radical, from Ohio, and Seward, the New York conser- yative. The situation is the same; the result may not be different. But at the present time there exists an clement which did not enter into the political combinations of Jackson's time, except in his favor, and that is the military ele- ment. Politicians can no longer pick their can- dates from among the few available plants in the hothouses of their party. A vigorous growth of excellent material has sprung up outside and demands attention. There is Ge- neral McClellan, who becomes stronger every day that the administration keeps him out of active service. There is General Grant, who has the whole West at his back. There is Gene- ral Rosecrans, whose popularity is established end who will be the hero of the hour when Us NEWS. By way of San Francisco we have important news of the commencement of an Anglo-American war upon the Japanese. The ship Pembroke hav- ing been fired upon by the Japanese forts while on her way from Nangasaki to Kanagawa, the gun- boat Wyoming proceeded to the scene of the out- rage, silenced the forts and destroyed two war steamers belonging to the Japanese. She had five men killed and six wounded in the affair, A British merchant ship had previously been as- sailed by the Japanese, and in retaliation the British Admiral landed a force which destroyed the forts, spiked the guns, blew up the magazine and burned the village. The Japanese made but feeble resistance. $ The steamer Sunbeam foundered during a heavy gale on Lake Superior on Friday last, and ali of her passengesa and crew, thirty-five in number, except the wheelsman, were drowned. The wheelsman lashed himself to a piece of the wreck, and, after floating thirty hours, was washed ashore at Portage, twenty miles from the scene of the catastrophe. The Board of Aldermen yesterday concurred with the Councilmen in the $3,000,000 appropria- tion for the draft exemption fund, despite the veto of Mayor Opdyke, and irrespective of the interme- diate action of the Supervisors and chief magis- trate. Mr. John E. Develin, Corporation Counsel, in & communication, states that he does not be- lieve that the Supervisors have been vested with any power to act in granting re! under the law of 1863. The Committee on Pri reported in favor of making the New Yorx Heraxp, in conse- quence of its universal circulation, the medium of Publishing all advertisements emanating from the city government and heads of departments. There was a meeting of the Tammany Society at the Old Wigwam last evening at half-past seven o'clock; but there was no occasion for the Sachems to put on their war paint. Elijah F. Pur- dy presided, and after some “little business of a mere routine character had been transacted, the meeting adjourned. General John A. Garfield has written a letter denying many of the assertions of Clement L. Vallandigham, and convicting “him of uttering un- truths about the sentiments of the people of the South. Gen. Garfield also says that he holds him- self personally responsible to Mr. Vallandigham, or any of his friends, for the statements he has made. 7 The democratic State ticket in Minnesota is doomed to an overwhelming defeat. The Conven- tion crowded in the copperheads, and the conser- vative journals refuse to support it. The State government of Mississippi has joined the itinerancy. When it left Jackson, the capital,’ it located at Meridian, and when danger approach- ed that place, it took up its line with light march- ing orders, and at last accounts had squatted in Macon, Noxubee county. A proposition has been introduced into the Ca- nadian Parliament to raise $1,000,000 a year, by direct taxation, for the support of the militia. The opposition attack the bill ferociously. Confederate debt, says Robert Taylor, Re- gis of the Treasury at Richmond, is $940,- 000,000. There are nearly two thousand deserters from the Missouri regiments now in the field. The committee to investigate the fairness of the draft in the town of Guilford, Chenango county, New York, found that two hundred and sixty-five names were enrolled, and only two hundred and twenty-four ballots were placed in the wheel. The Draft Commissioner, a Mr. Gorman, refused to give any explanationin regard to the discrepancy. The September term of the Court of General Sessions commenced at eleven o'clock yester- day morning—City Judge John H. McCunn on the bench. A panel of grand jurors not being present when the roll was called, those in attendance were discharged until Wednesday morning. The panel of petit jurors was then called, when but few answered to their names, and the Court announced that those who had failed to attend would be fined twenty. five dollars each. No cases being ready for trial, the Court adjourned until Wednesday morning at eleven o'clpck. The International Wheat Show will commence to-day in Rochester, New York. The productions of some of our New York and Western farms‘will be compared with the best efforts of Canadian horticulturists. ‘The Hartford Horse Association will hold their third national “horse fair to-day, at the Hartford Trotting Park. The exhibition will remain open four days. The eighth annual exhibition of the New Jersey Agricultural Society wil be open to-day at Pa- terson, and continue for four days. The season at Saratoga Springs bas closed, and the number of visiters reach the aggregate of nearly thirty thousand—fifty per cent over the whole number last year. The City Inspector's report states that there were 565 deaths in the city during the past week—a de- crease of 58 as compared with the previous week, a still further decrease of 98 from the mortality of the week preceding, and 35 more than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The recapitulation table gives 4 deaths of alcoholism, 100 of diseases of the brain and nerves, 5 of the generative organs, 10 of the heart and blood vessels, 125 of the lungs, throat, &e., 3 of old age, 12 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 5 premature ha, 241 of dix eases of stomach, bowels and er digestive or- gans, 33 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 10 of diseases of the urinary organs, 15 from violent | causes, and 2 unknown. There were 410 natives of the United States, 105 of Ireland, 31 of Ger- many, 5 of England, 1 of Scotland, and the | balance of various foreign countries, | The stock market opened strongly yesterday morning, fell off at the first board and the pablic board, and rattied io the afternoon, closing buoyantly. Money was tT in the morning, but easier towards the close jay. Gold rows to 1931;, closing at 192% at five | pM Exch nge was 1455; 0146 The bank statement shows an of $1,944,092 in deposits and $1,728,419 in loans, M4 failing off of $40,674 m apecto. Cotton was in modorate request yesterday at unchanged | prices, Flour was in good demand, mostly for export, | and shipping grades wero firmer, Wheat was moderately + active—prime lots closing buoyantly.and all other kinds heavily. Oate and corn wore selling freoly at slightly | advanced prices. Provisions were less active, but quoted | very firm, with an upward tendency in the market for pork. Grooaries and whiskey were rather quiet, but atondy, Metals and naval stores wore also inactive. A | fair Dusiness was transacted in hay, tallow and tobacco, beaten by Thurlow Weed’s forces at the Syra- | Chattanoog, falls. There is General Barks, | together are disposed of, the Mexican question the favorite of the Northern conactVatives, who was sent South to be killed off, but who has won victories and gained friends instead. There is General Gill- more, @ rising man, who will be as dangerous as Greek fire to all political hacks, if he bap- pens to capture Charleston, There are a bun- dred other generals and soldiers, each backed by am interest too powerful to be safely dis- regarded. We are not in a prophetic mood to- day, and ao we shall utter no predictions ; but wothrow out these hints, which will be found very useful if properly appreciated. Let us watch the important political developments now transpiring, and see what will be the next move of Secretary Chase, who has been fairly cor- nered by Secretary Seward’s strategy. But, abeve all, let us impress upon the minds of politicians that the army will vote at the next Presidential election, and that no candidate can succeed whose supporters do not take this interesting little fact and these five or gix hun- dred thousand voters into account. The Peace Question—Important Corres- pondence Between President Lincoln and Fermando Wuod. The correspondence which we publish to-day between President Lincoln and Hon. Fernando Wood on the peace quostion will be feund not only interesting but somewhat important. Mr. Wood’s first letter is dated the 8th of December last, at which time the countsy was filled with reports and rumors of peace pro- positions and peace movements agitated in Richmond. It was about this time that Mr. William Chase “Barney, a released prisoner from Richmond, reappeared in New York, with some wonderful developments of the peaceful inclinations of one or two at least of the most influential of the members of the Cabinet of Jeff. Davis. Soon afterwards, and in the im- portant character of a protege of the adminis- tration, the immortal though somewhat unfor- tunate J. Wesley Greene made his astonishing revelations to the same effect as an enlightened refugee from the rebel capital. And there was still another missionary from Rebeldom, who, between Mr. Secretary Chase and Mr. Robert J. Walker, was admitted into the Cabinet circle at Washington, with some very plausible teati- mony in support of Barney and Greene. We presume that from other sources, however, and more directly from Richmond, Mr. Wood ob- tained his “reliable and truthful” information that “the Southern States would send repre- sentatives to the next Congress, provided that full and general amnesty should permit them to so do.” Where there was ao much emoke there must have been some fire. The rebels had just re- pulsed Gen. Sherman at Vicksburg; they had made a splendid fight, although defeated, at Marfreesboro; and they held the vantage ground and defiantly confronted Gen. Burnside at Fredericksburg. Under such circumstances they might, without feeling any humiliation, make some overtures in behalf of submission and peace. Mr. Wood, at all events believing, from the information in his possession, that the rebel junta at Richmond were peaceably in- clined, appealed to the President for permission to sound them ,in order to get at the truth of the matter. If the:medicine which he proposed to administer to the patient would do no good, our New York pacificator thought it could do no harm. President Lincoln, however, politely gave him the cold shoulder. “I strongly sus- pect,” says the Prestdent, “your information will prove to be groundless.” J. Wesley Greene had, perhaps, already turned the fat into the fire, or Mr. Chase Barney had proba- bly been giving too much importance to'some idle remarks of Judah P. Benjamin. But, to cut. short the argument,. the President an- nounced his belief that the people of the rebellious States know that, on the condition of their submission to the Union they can at any ‘time have the benefits of a general am- nesty, and that, therefore, he does “not think it proper to suspend military operations to try any experiment of negotiation.” Finally, he desires for the present that the correspond- ence be considered as confidential. This was on December 12, 1862. Nearly nine months have since clapsed; the obligation of secresy no longer applies; the correspond- ence is given to the public, and while we think ' it might just as well have been published in December, 1862, as in September, 1863, we may still say, “better late than never.” It discloses the fact that the President is prepared to meet the repentance of the rebellious States with a liberal amnesty. This is, perhaps, the meaning of Mr. Seward’s late declaration that the submission of those States would be honor- ed by the killing of the fatted calf. This cor- respondence between the President and Mr. Wood, at any rate, embraces an official procla- mation to this effect, and in this view it can hardly fail of giving a powerful impulse to that popular reaction for the Union which is now beginning to manifest itself in various forms from Virginia to Louisiana. In this light we attach no ordinary importance to President Lincoln’s significant letter; and in bringing it out it may yet appear that Fernando Wood has ‘done very good service in behalf of the resto- ration of the Union. Let us wait a little, and mark the results of this substantial proclama- th of amnesty. The Throne of Disco: In our foreign news will be found a statement from the Vienna correspondent of the Hamburg Borsenhalle, which would indi- cate that the plans of Louis Napoleon are about to receive more than one counter-check at the congress of German sovereigns now sit- ting at Frankfort. Notwithstanding the osten- sible rapprochement which seemed of late to have taken place between France and Austria, it is now certain that one of the principal motives for the calling together at the present time of the members of the Bund was a well founded epprehension that the projects of the French Emperor in regard to Poland were pregnant with danger to Germany itself. The Prussian monarch has, unfortunately for his own interests, held aloof from it, blinded by the unaccountable infatuation which has placed him in violent. antagonism to his people. He could not have pursued a course that could have chimed in better with the views of Napo- leon. The prudence of Francis Joseph’s ad- visers and the necessity ef federal unity will, however, neutralize the advantages that be to derive from it, and already matters ere taking « turn at the congress which promi- sea not only tospoll his game in Europe, but on this continent. It has been determined, It appears, that as soon as the affdire @alled the sovereigns shall be brought under their sonsideration. In anticipation of this Prince Metteruich and Count d’Apponyi, the Austrian ambassadors at Paris and London, were summoned to Frankfort, and Lord Clarendon also arrived there. It is stated that the British government had offered advice, which,if not directly adverse to the acceptance of the Mexican throne by the Archduke Maxi- milian, at least counselled extreme prudence in coming to any decision upon the subject. It seems that these recommendations have had their weight, and that the probabilities of the Archduke’s acceptance are considerably les- senefl. The inference from all this is that a new light has broken in upon the English mind in regard to Mexico. The certainty that the re- volted States will soon be brought back into the Union has opened to it a prospect of the vindication of the Monroe doctrine to an extent that may seriously affect its existing interests on this continent. In view of the enormous military and naval force that we shall present- ly have at our disposal, Great Britain is un- willing’ to swell up the reckoning that we already have against her. For this reason she does not want France to push forward schemes which have now no chance of success, and which must involve her in the consequences of defeat. For-this we have not to thank her good will or sense of justice, but our own strong arms. So far as Mexico is concerned, our policy of waiting upon events was a wise one. The question of thé expediency of a foreign ruler for that country was settled not by the Assem- bly of Notables, but by Generals Meade and Grant. Extraordinary Doings in Japan—The Americans and English Astonishing the Natives. By way of the telegraph from San Francisco we have some very extraordinary news from Japan. To punish an outrageous attack on one of our merchant ships in the Japanese waters, the United States gunboat Wyoming had blown up one Japanese war steamer, had sunk an- other, and had silenced nearly all the surround- ing forts. Fora similar offence against one of their trading vessels the British had sent up the same inlet, as we understand it, an oxpe- dition, consisting of at least two war steamers, from which, after a heavy bombardment, a de- tachment of troops was landed, “who destroyed the forts, batteries and the town, spiked the guna, blew up the powder magazine and burned the village,” thus finishing up the job which, only for the want of a second gunboat, was not completely finished by “the Yankees.” From these events it would appear that the late imposing delegation of high and mighty ambassadors from Japan to this country has been productive of very little goo’ towards cementing the bonds of peace between the two nations. We suspect, indeed, that those afore- said ambassadors on returning home told such stories of the extent, the wealth, power and material developments and resources of the United States as to excite at once, with the. incredulity, the distrust and hatred of the ruling powers of Japan. We apprehend that very few of that delegation of seventy odd men, including “Tommy,” are now in the land of the living; that they saw in the United States too much for their own good; that the hari-kari has disposed of them, and that the reports of their travels and observa- tions here had the effect of closing against the Americans the doors of Japan, instead of open- ing them to the admission of those “ powerful barbarians beyond the seas.” The same in- fluences bave doubtless operated to the preju- dice of the oe and the French among the Japanese, and hence, we conclude, all these late feuds and diplomatic difficulties and bloody collisions between the natives and the outside barbarians, culminating at last in open war. John Bull, in his terrible battle some five or six years ago with the Chinese on the Peiho, would have suffered much worse than he did suffer had not “the Yankees” come to the rescue. That affair was. spontaneous act of co-operation on the part of the Americans, which the English have forgotten; but they can- not ignore these later transactions, in which American and English gunpowder was em- ployed in the same workin Japan. There is little reason to doubt that the United States gunboat Wyoming has opened a game of war in that empire which will vastly enlarge the commerce and political power of England along the eastern side of Asia; and in this view the subject can hardly escape a European dis- cussion, although the work of the Wyoming was simply an act of punishment for an outrage upon a peaceful American trader. But there is still what Sam Weller would: call such a “wery remarkable coincidence” between the proceedings of “the Yankees” and the British in this Japanese business that it will tax even the unscrupulous malignity of the London Times to torture the facts to the advantage of Joff. Davis, although he is known in certain English rebel shipbuilding establishments as the Emperor of China, or the Emperor of Ja- pan, as the occasion may require. The Mikado, or Spiritual Emperor of Japan (whose temporal power over the different islands of his empire may be compared to that of the Pope of Rome over the nations of Eu- rope five hundred years ago), has, it appears, resolved to “wipe out the seven nations” or provinces under his supreme control, and to “expel all outside barbarians.” He has com- menced this comprehensive game. He has thrown down the gauntlet to the Americans and the English, and they have taken it up, and have “moved upon the enemy’s works,” the Americans’ leading the way. One of the inevitable results will be the opening of all the Japanese islands to foreign trade and social intercourse; and we rely upon our government to see to it that in these matters its interests are not neglected. Tux Anmy anp Navy at CHARLEstoy.— We publish a letter from the city of Wash- ington, purporting to be a reply to two letters from the national capital which ro- o appeared in our columns. The present srt Uical ve Sataies tk be is infallible and knows everything, while our previous corres- pondent was in blessed and complete ignorance concerning what he wrote. Our opinion is, simply that the former knew well all that h4 , and that the present writer knows nothing at all. The evident desire of the Seoretary of the Navy is to remove, good and reliable men from the service ty make way for others who, though they may be well enough in some respects, are not qualified by experience and sound sagacity. Men who will to the wish of the country—to follow up end improve the brilliant euccess of the official quarters. Yt is necessary that the two brauches of the service ahould ‘co-operate the one with the other; and to insure decided suc- cess, one should be just as full of pluck, Courage and determination as the other. This is the only way in which we can succeed. The New York Herai@ Among the Mon- archies of Berope. The Western European governments are sadly flustered by the attitude of the New Yor« Hxnap, They find great difficalty in sccopt- ing our views of the resulte certain to accrue from their villanous and underhanded course of policy towards this country, and so they make violent efforts to decry the position and in- fluence of the Herat both at home and abroad. The journals of France and England’ have received. instructions to attack the Hera» with their utmost corcentration of venom, and‘ they have followed out the course marked for them to the best of their abilities. We are mt astonished to find the London Times and Post assail the Hera.p, nor are we astonished at the abuse heaped upon this journal ‘by the official and semi-official organs at Paris; but we are somewhat amused by the attacks of the Journal Des Debats, known to be the organ of the Or- leans party in France, and hitherto dis- tinguished as the advocate of the North. We . think, however, that the matter may be ex: plained. Some year or two since the Emperor Napoleon ordered a frien of his to purchase ® number of shares in the Debats, which were for sale, and this person did so, obtaining thereby an influence in the direction of the journal. This influence it was no doubt that produced the attacks upon the Henatp which have appeared in the Debats. We are charged by that journal, which echoes the com- plaint made against us by the London papers, with being “a sensational journal, and by ne means official or officious.” If by these terms the Debats means that we are not the organ of the administration or of any party it is quite right. We are the organ of the people, above all, and in that light may be regarded as the only true and reliable official organ in the United States. Sensational we certainly are, as we represent the real state of miad of the American public; and may. well create a sensa- tion when we predict to the despots and rotten aristocracies of Europe what the people of this country will do if further molested by their underhanded enemies. ‘That our statements are believed and feared in Europe is proved by the effect they- produce, and by the unceasing endeavors of the government organs to decry and be- little the position and influence of the Henan. Tf, as they assert, we are so utterly without power, and go totally misrepresent the real state of the public mind in America, why do these journals evince ao much fear of ust Why do they assert and reassert to their readers, “Place no reliance in' the New Yorx Hunata, it is not to be belleved; it is not official; it does not represent the people of the North ?” While thus endeavoring to mislead the English and French public these journals do believe our statements and fear them, too. They are perfectly aware that our fearless and outspoken comments upon the vile conduct of the Western European governments towards this republio must have their effeot, and they hate us for our unceasing watchfulneas and for the boldness of our course towards the enemies of our country. We repeat to these governments that they are playing a dangerous game when they trample upon the susceptibilities of the American peo- ple. We repeat to them, that & day of reckon- ing will come when we shall call to @ strict account those who ia our hour of internal strife dared to insult the majesty of our government, The resources and power of the North are as yet wholly untried. Our States swarm with men, and yet we have nearly a million of troops under arms. We could cover the seas with our vessels of war and privateers, were we attacked by foreign Powers. The of Europe must not imagine that they know the strength and resources of the people of the loyal States. We tell them that even here the immensity of our power is scarely appre- ciated. The French republic successfully com-* batted the coalition Europe made against her. We can beat back the combined efforts of all our enemies with still more marked success, for we are infinitely more powerful than France ever could be. Let the Powers of Europe placa reliance upon these assertions, else they will soon painfully awaken to their entire truth. As the official organ of the American people— the sensational journal, if it pl our Eu- ropean contemporaries—we warn them that» stop must take place in their inimical proceed- ings against this government, else a fearful reckoning will be demanded by the people of this country. Ere many months have elapsed we shall have crushed the rebellion and re- stored in all its power and influence our glo- rious republic, and then we shall repay with interest the debts contracted towards England and France. Our detractors across the oceas may, if they please, bear this in mind as 8 pre- diction of that “sensational journal,” the New Yorn Herat. Generat Crooxe anp Our Weattray Man cuaNTs.—We published on Saturday last » capl- tal order from Brigadier General Crooke, of the New York State Militia. General Crooke Mya that among the militia on duty in Brooklyn are many merchants’ clerks, dependent upoa their salaries for support, and that the em- ployers of some of these clerks have notified them that they must either return to business or give up their situations. With this text General Crooke reads our wealthy merchants e severe lecture, and winds up by declaring thet, if any employers “discharge clerks. for the reason of their absence on military duty,” he will “in every case hand in the name of the employer to the civil authorities of the county wherein he resides, to be summoned as a spe- cial peace officer to preserve good order therein.” This is very just and sensible. Mer- chants ought to kfow that their clerks cannot leteve their regiments and retarn to business without being arrested as deserters, As General Grooke says, somebody must be on guard to protect our property—for the United States troops only protect United States property— nd if the merchants are not willing to allow their clerks to serve they must serve themselves as special constables. We hope thet this order will be rigidly enforced. owon.—Joha Englis & Son will launch from their ra. foot of Tenth street, East river, this afternoon, at five o’clook, for P. L. Everett, Keq., of Boston, the steam. ship Surco Nada. Her dimensions are as follows: Langth, 266 feet; breadth of beam, 36 feet; depth of hold, 21 feet, Engines to be put in by the Neptane Iroe ‘Works:—T8 inch ¢ylinder, 12 foot stroke; 2,18@ tons bur. armr—do not soom tq be over popular in | ian. Sho ie intended for the Chine trade.