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

4 NEW YORK HKRALD, ZW YORK HERALD. 4AMES GORDON BENNETY, EDITOR AND PHOPUKIOR N OFFION MN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 878. Volume XXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway —Bevtus. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Last, Broadway.—Tave to tx | WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Lapy Avpuer’s Skcret REW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Tevrest—ALL tux WORLD'S 4 STAGH—BUICKL AYERS OF LameerH. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Miststoe Bouca—Mo- tuxk Goose—Carratx Kyp, NUM’S AMERICAN NUSEUM, Broadway —Tae —iNDIAN Cuikes, WARTIORS AND Squaws, 40. ab Buonaiipa. Afternoon and Kvening. BRYANTS MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall. 472 Broad way.—Eruiortan Songs, Daxcns, BuRLESQUKS, &0.—BLack Buicape. | WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL. 51 Broadway.--Ermiorray foncs, Dances, &o,— Tuk Guost AMERICAN THEATRE. No. 444 Broadway.—Baccers, Pantomimes, Boriesques, &0.—A Pieasant Neigusor. NEW YORK THEATRE, 435 Broadway.—Vivanoigae— Raovn, IRVING HALL. Irving place —Taw Stergorricos. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Cuntositixs any Lucrorys, from 9A. M, ‘till 10 P.M. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.— ‘Boxas, Dances, Burcesques, &c. ipa New York, Monday, September 14, 1863. THE SITUATION. | We are in possession of one day’s later news from Charleston—namely to the 11th inst. (Friday)—but it comes from rebel sources. The Richmond Sen- nel of Saturday says that the rebels kept up a constant fire on Morris Island during Thursday night, which was not responded to by ~ur guns, It says that the Ironsides and Monitors were ap- parently taking in ammunition, and that, although very little firing took place on Saturday, one of the rebel shells from James Island caused an ex- plosion in the magazine of Battery Gregg, where the federal troops had just mounted two heavy guns bearing on Sullivan's Island. It now appears that many of the boats engaged in the assault on Fort Sumter got aground on the shoals, and that only a few reached the land, The expedition numbered only three hundred and fifty ‘men in all. There is not*much of importance to report from General Meade’s army beyond the advance of General Pleasanton three miles beyond Culpepper yesterday. He did some skirmishing by the way, taking about forty prisoners and three guns. The Second army corps is now in Culpepper. ®ho guerillas of Mosby continue to scour the country about Fairfax, under command of a mam named Williams, a notorious desperado. Information has been received froma lady just arrived from Richmond to the effect that quite a large number of General Lee’s forces were pass- ing through there going southward to join Bragg’s and Beauregard’s armies. If this be true the ra- as being strengthened by rein- forcements from General Bragg’s army must be mors that Lee erroneous. Our news from Tennessee is important. De- spatches from Chattanooga, dated Saturday, say that Bragg is retreating slowly and that deserters in large numbers were falling off from his army, 300 of one Tennessee regiment having come over ina body. No details of Gen. Negley’s engage- ment at Duy Gap haa been received, but the casualties were small. Bragg’s main army was at New Lafayette, four miles off during the battle. Gen, Negly returned to the foot of Lookout Moun- tain, three miles distant from the gap. It was re- ported that Gen. Crittenden occupied Lafayette, and that the army is again concentrated. Our correspondent's despatch from General Foster's department in North Carolina will show how rapidly the Union sentiments of the people © been held in different ‘port of the Raleigh inions have provoked the recent attack of the rebel soldiers. are growing. Meetings } parts of the State Standard, whose !oy Information was received at the Navy Depart- meut yesterday of the capture, by the steamer Cayuga, of the achooner Wave, which had ran the blockade at San Louis Pass, near Galveston, bound for Vera Cruz with eighty bales of cotton. She carried the flag of the Swiss Con/uderation, and is owned by the Swiss Consul «+ Galveston. The Caynga also captured off the Rio Grande the schooner J. T, Davis, with ninoty-seven bates of cotton, from Galveston. Both vessels were sent to New Orleans. Some of the Paria jonrnala recommend the French government to seize the privateer Florida at Brest, on account of damage doue to French property, and “‘for repeated violations of the lawa,"? Mr. Nassau W. Senior writes a very interesting letter to the London Times—which we publish to- | day—in which he details almost rerbatim a con- versation he had some months since with Mr. Day- ‘ton, the United States Minister in Paris, on the subject of our relations with England, and the probabilities of a war between the two countries. Mr. Dayton assured Mr. “ foreign force '’ would never put an end to the war for the Union, that a comb could not affect as, and that the chances of a war with England rested entirely on the manner in which the government of that country deal with Senior that ion of the great Powers the rebel iron-clads and rams-—if unfairly to- wards the Union ‘the American people might b-come uugovernable.”” MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The City of Manchester, off Cape Race, reports that consels rated in London, on the morning of the 3d instant, at 9324 0 9534. The annual State election will take place to-day’ in Maine, It will be very important in its results, as foreshadowing toa certain extent the issues of the great contests which are to come off in this and other States in the middle of October and dur- ing the first week in November. The parties fora couple of yearg past have been pretty equally balanced; oe i to splits in the democracy, the republicans gained easy victeries. This year, however, the democrats settled their difficulties and united upon one State ticket, which they have great hopes of pushing to anc The canvass haa been unusually animated, and the State has | being cast for Mr. Douglas in 1860. | citizens of Kansas,’’ been well supplied with parts of the country, e candidates for Gover- nor are Bion Bradbury, democrat, and Samuel Cony, democratic republican. Mr. Bradbury ran last year as the copperhead candidate, against the nominee of the war democracy and the republi- can ticket. The vote then was as follows: Abner Coburn, republican Bion Bradbury, copperhead....... Charles D. Jameson, war democrat Jndge Cony, the republican candidate, says that bis first vote was cast for Gen. Jackson for Presi- dent, in 1832, and that he has voted for every re- gular democratic candidate for President from that time to the present, his last Presidential vote He also states that he has voted for every democratic nominee for Governor since he became a voter, and that in 1861 and 1862 he voted for General Jameson. Mr. Jameson was the candidate of the war demo- crats for Governor at the last election. The colored population of Kansas are holding a State Convention at Leavenworth, ‘for the pur- pose of taking into consideration their political, educational, moral and social condition as nominal As near as we can under- stand it, this means simply negro equality. Members of Congress will find great difficulty in procuring suitable apartments for themselves and families in Washington this winter. Every desirable location has been secured, and nothing, it is said, remains but a few negro huts on the out- skirts of the capital. The anniversary of the battle of North Point, Maryland, was celebrated in Baltimore on Satur- day. The operations of our armies during the past two weeks furnish a most glorious record, and bring the rebels down to a very small compass for futare operations, as the following items for histo- ry will show: — Captore of Fort Wagner and Rattery Gregg, with twen- ty three guns, and the whole of Morris Island. Charleston, South Carolina, withia range of our guns. Fort Sumter demolished. Capture of Weexville Capture of Chattanooga, Filgbt of Brage’s Army. Capture of Cumberiand Gap, with two thousand rebel prisoners: ‘Tennesace restored to the Union Capture of Fort Smith Rebel evacuation of Little Rock, tho capital of Ar- Kaugas, The stock market opened weak, and fell off on Saturday morning, but rallied afterwards, and at one P. M. was quite streng atan advance. Later in the afternoon it was easier, and prices 34 a 3 lower. Money was abundant at 6 aT percent on call. Gold ralifed to 130 and exchange to 14254. The gold export of the week was $789,008. Cotton was dull and unsettled on Satu . Avery moderate inquiry prevailed for broadstuffs and the cipal kinds of provisions at declining prices. Whiskey was in less request, and cheaper toward the close. Gro- ceries were in limited demand, though generally rm. Hay was saleable and steady. Fish attracted more at- tention. Hides and Ieatber were inquired for at uniform rates. Petroleum was less active, and tending down ward. Wool was selling freely, and was on the adv ance. Freights were dult and rates declining. The President, the Republican Party the Next Presidency. The managers of the republican party have all along been acting under the remarkable delusion that, in summing up their candidates for the Presidential succession, Abraham Lin- coln might be safely counted out. But in this they have been “counting without their host.” From certain recent developments it is mani- fest that Mr. Lincoln expects not only to.be counted ja, but that he-is, and intends-to . con- tinue, the master of the situation. The late significant leading article which we have published from one of our morning con- temporaries, evidently from the pen of Mr. Seward, lifts the veil from the administra- tion in regard to this important matter of the. succession. Wendell Phillips was unquestion- ably correct in defining the Cabinet as no- thing more nor less than’ a committee for the manvyement of the Presidential elec- tion, Nor Gi we imagine that our gniet but shrewd and observing President has needed this broad hint from Phillips in order to understand the proper line of action. It is true that the expertment of taking into his Cabinet Messrs. Seward, Chase, Careron and Bates, his rivals for the Chicago nomination, was somewhat hazardous, whotber considered in reference to the unity of the administration or the harmony of the party. But of these four val Cabinet candidates only two now seem in the way—Mr. Seward and Mr. Chase; and these two appear to have pretty effectually neutralized each other. If Mr. Chase has killed off the Premier among the radicals of Now England, the conservative Premier, at onr @ Repub- lican State Convention, has blocked the game of Mr. Chase in the great leading C eatral State of New York. The intelligent reader is aware that for some time past the Cabinet has been divided into two parties in relation to the time and manner in which the rebellious States shall be restored to the Union—that Mr. Seward represents the con- ‘servative division, in favor, as soon and as far as practicable, of restoring “the Union as it was,” or the seceded States as they were} and that Mr. Chase, on the other hand, advocates the treatment of the rebellious States, in behalf of the abolition of African slavery, as provinces wrested from a foreign Power by force of arms, and as being completely at the mercy of the general government—local institutions, State boundaries and all. It is also well known that between these two radically opposed party leaders in the Cabinet the President has not indicated the policy which he intends to pursue. Tn thus keeping his own counsels upon the great issue involved, he is acting with the sa- gacity of a Talleyrand; for he thus holds the whip hand and the balance of power over both divisions of bis party. B And, to show that his design in this matter is to hold the vantage ground which he now commands, a single fact will be sufficient. We understand that President Lincoln, in a recent | conversation with an active pipelayer of the Seward wing of the republican church, de- clared very positively tbat at the proper time his policy tonching the restoration of the re- bellious States would be determined according | to his own judgment whatever might be the prevailing opinions of his Cabinet. This is a very suggestive declaration. It warrants the conclusion that, whether Mr. Lincoln has or has | not determined to enter the field for another | term, he does not intend to be victimized by the jugglers of the radical faction. | We have soid that he is the master of the situation, and we think that a very few words ill suffice to confirm the reader in this opinion. Suppose, for example, that it is the desire of President L'ncoln to secure the republican no- ' mination for the succession; but suppose that ' the radicals, dissatisfied with his conservative inclinations, and with his objectiona and draw- backs to their revolutionary programme of re- construction, set him aside with some “glitter- ing generalities” in the way of an endorsement of his administration, and nominate Mr. as their cham ton and standard bearer, 0 it not probab the objections of the President to the extr volu ionary programme of the radicals will be intensified. » being re- mp speakers from all | moved by this nominatio: Shase | 2 We thiak it alto gether probabie that to save the Union he would cooperate with the conservative op- position party against the radicals and their candidate. Tn adopting this course, all that would be required to defeat. the radical revolutionary | abolition ticket and programme would be the readmission of the seceded States to the bene fits of the Unien, aceording to the method sug- gested by Mr. Seward in his correspondence on the subject with the French government. Thus | the conservative Northern States and border slave States, with the restored cotton States, would unquestionably prove too strong for the abolition States, and the conservative opposi- tion candidate would be elected. To secure the support of the President against the radi- cals, should the contingency indicated be brought about, we conclude that the conserva- tive elements of the country will substantially adopt the original Union policy of Mr. Lincoln; and they may proceed even farther. The stone which the radical builders will have rejected the conservative Union party may make the head of the corner. Why may not euch an event occur? Who would have believed, when Martin Van Buren stood before the country as the anointed favorite of the Southern pro-slavery demo- cracy, that he would live to be the abolition candidate for the Presidency? At all events, President Lincoln holds the inside track for the Presidential succession, and, instead of fol- lowing the radicals any longer, it is clearly his intention that they shall follow him. Great Men North and South. Southern names used to preponderate very greatly in our history, and the British news- papers satisfied themselves long ago that all the American statesmen and Americans of abili- ty generally were from the Southern States. When we had fought the South for six months, or even a year, appearances seemed to Indicate that it was to be the same in war as it had been in some other matters, and the South seemed to be clearly abead of us in the fitness for command of the great mass of the officers in. its armies, as well as in the possession of generals of distinguished abilities. Homilies from Europe on this single theme came by every steamer. Beauregard had then battered Anderson out of Fort Sumter and won the battle of Bull run. He was a Southerner and @ very great hero. He was contrasted against McDowell on our side. Joe Jobnston had manceuvred himself out of Patterson’s reach, and come up in time for the same battle. He was contrasted with Patterson, and that was against us. He was a Southerner and a bril- liant strategist. Sydney Johnston was another instance, and he was lauded, not for any achievement of bis own, but upon a tradition of bis abilities that existed in the old army. In those days Magruder, Bragg. Twiggs, Van Dorn, Gustavus Smith, Lovell and others of about the same calibre were regarded as men of; great promise—the best mate- rial of the old army—and were cited as part of the brilliant array of Southern ability against which the North bad compara- tively little to oppose. Later Lee, Longstreet, the Hills and Stonewall Jackson became pro- minent names, and the comparison looked no better for us. But, now that we are in the third year of the war—now that the showy talents of all the Southern first rates have been fairly tried against previously unknown Northern men— we have all reasons to look upon the compari- son of achievements with pride in our owa men; and this comparison should settle for- ever the miserable notion that there is some peculiarity in Southern institutions or educa- tion that produces better men and betterminds than grow in our free Northern air. Grant, Rosecrans, Meade, McClellan, Gillmore, Banks— these are our men, and these will enable us to draw not only a good contrast for the North against the South, but also a most advan- tageous one for the North against the world at large. Grant and Rosecrans are soldiers of un- qualified greatness. We stand at present too near to them to appreciate their just proportions. Posterity will know them better. Belmont, Fort Henry, Shiloh and Vicksburg will speak to the future for one, and Corinth and Murfrees- boro for the other. They will need no other praise than the statement that they gave the country those victories. Meade is above alla ready man. He assumed command of the Army of the Potomac on Sunday night, June 28. Then that army was in Maryland, on the way from Edwards’ Ferry to Frederick. He had it all in motion on Monday at eight A. M., with bad weather at that. On Wednestlay two corps encountered the enemy in Pennsylvania, and on Thursday—the fourth day of his com- mand—he had his whole army concentrated and fought the second of the Gettysburg bat- tles, and on the next day the third, with at least twenty thousand less men than the enemy had. In those two days he changed the whole complexion of this great contest, and his vie- tory will be ranked as one of the decisive ones in the world’s history. McClellan’s bold march to Antietam and his concentration there form another of the instances in which our generals have taken ‘the initiative, and his victory was not less important than that of Gene- tal Meade. Banks’ retreat from Winchester, his defeat of Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain, and hia late campaign in Louisiana, with the capture of Port Hudson, establish bis reputation and place it very high. Gillmore is at the commencement of bis career, and his greatness is already as clearly marked as was that of Napoleon Bonaparte after the siege of Toulon; and, by comparison with what Gill- | more has already done at Charleston, what Na- | poleon did at Toulon was child’s play. Here | we have in two years a development of mili- tary ability equal to what appears in two hundred years in Europe, England, out of ber “great rebellion,” got for her history one great soldier. justavus, Charles, Frederick, Tu- renne, Marlborough, Prince Eugene--each of these is the one great soldier of bis nation and his time. And in the same period that it takes to develop one in Europe we develop six. And against these six what men can be named to sustain the comparison for the South. There , is no one bnt Lee. All others now alive Johnston, Beauregard, Bragg, Pemberton— | have been proved to be miserable mediocrities. | The only man with whom the Southern ad- ministration dare entrust a great army for agtive | operations is Lee, and he was fairly beaten out , | of Western Virginia by Rosecrans, was beaten at Atitietam by McClellan, and beaten terribly | | at Gettysburg by Meade; bas been beaten by | three of the six, and the others have never had j a chance at him. So much for the preaent com- parison of m ditary ability MONDAY, SEPT Amateur Diplomats in Europe—Thuriow Weed and Colorado Jewett. Very few of our people are aware of thé important services rendered to the couniry ia these latter days by two private citizens— | neither, indeed, “to fortune and to fame un- known’’—through the means of amateur diplo- macy in Evrope; and yet we owe it to Thurlow Weed, of Albany, that France did not, more than a year ago, take a decided stand against our government on the occasion of the stone blockade of Charleston, and to the Chevalier Jewett, of Colorado, that the European Powers have never meditated more than a peaceful intervention in our affairs, How the Albany diplomat carried his point, ia it not written in the report of his mission furnished by him to one of the republican organs of this city, and published a few days ago? and are not the pilgrimages of the Colorado philosopher to every court in Europe enshrined in the grateful memory of an admiring people * But, lest Thurlow Weed’s romance may not have reached the eyes of more than a few hun- dreds of his countrymen, we must briefly state the points.pf it. The distingu ished lobbyist, it seems, found himself in London in the winter of 1861, just on the eve of the annual assem- bling of the French legislative body. Our re- gularly accredited Minister to France, simple Mr. Dayton, had discovered that the message prepared by the Emperor to be presented to that body contained a paragraph of a menacing or unfriendly character in relation to the stone blockade. Recognizing his own inability to cope with the situation, and aware of the supe- rior manipulating powers of Thurlow, Dayton telegraphed to him to London, imploring him to cross the channel instantly and come to his relief. That same night Weed started for Paria. In the words of the great Roman, he came, he saw, he conquered. He came to Day- ton’s office, saw De Morny, and conquered Na- poleon. The plan of operations was to find a prece- dent in history for our Charleston proceedings which France could not ignore. Who could be supposed to be so well versed in European his- tory as a New York politician? The treaty of Utrecht, madea century and a half ago, con- tained a paragraph by which the French gov- eroment bound itself to seal up and destroy per- manently the harbor of Dunkirk, then the second best in the kingdom, for the reason that the other contracting parties, the Dutch and the British, deemed it injurious to their mari- time interests and @ constant threat against their coasta. Here, then, was a precedent for a nation destroying one of its own harbors, not even as a presumed necessity of war, but as the stipulation of a solemn treaty. The Empe- ror could never have read that page of French history, or else he would not have ventured upon any unfriendly criticism of our ridiculous at- tempt to seal up Charleston. It could not have occurred to Count De Morny, although he was President ot the Legislative Corps. It re- mained for Thurlow Weed to disinter it, and to exhibit the ghost in the most delicate manner to the perceptive organs of the Count. His report tells how dexterously he managed this. The interview between himself and De Morny reads like a highly wrought chapter from one of Dumas’ novels. The Yankee, after vague hints, feigned a delicate consideration for the feelings of the Frenchman and a dislike to bring up an unpleasant reminiscence. De Morny’s curiosity became excited. He paced the room, we are told, with fingers locked be. hind his back and twitching nervously, vainly ransacking his memory. At last he appealed to Weed as his “good friend” to keep him no longer in suspense as to what he was driving at, but to make a clean breast of it. Still the “subtle angler of men’’—as be describes himself in this report of his mission—-played with his victim until the latter gasped out:— No—no; spare me nothing. Punish my memory for ita default by telling me all our humiliation; for to this, I | see, though you would avoid it, you must come. It was only after this appeal—couched in very good English for a Frenchman who pro- bably knows nothing of the language—tbat the cunning Yankee ventured to pronounce the word “Utrecht,” and to give to the Minister, in small doses, the nauseating physic which the treaty in question contains. De Morny made wry faces at it, but thanked his physician nevertheless; acknowledged his forgetfulness ‘that the prescription could be found in the national pharmacoperis, and hinted that he would go forthwith and ad- minister the same physic to the Emperor. He did so. The country was safe. The objec- tionable paragraph was struck out of the mes- sage to the Corps Legislatif, and, aa a conse- quence, we are still at peace with France. And all this we owe, as we are assured by bim- self, to this “unaccredited but all powerful re- presentative of our Department of State.” The Chevalier Jewett has not yet prepared a full report of how he has executed his mission as a self-appointed amateur diplomatist. It will come, no doubt, in due time, and will throw even the romanoe of Thurlow into the sbade. He has preached his gospel of peace in most of the courts of Europe, and the history of bis ad- ventures must be highly interesting. We bave now before us a printed pamphlet centaining his “Mediation Addresa to England,” a com- munication to him from Count Recbberg on be- half of the Congress of Princes at Frankfort, an address to President Lincoln, and an appeal to the French Emperor, In toe first mentioned document he declares that the triends of thé South in Europe are on the same platform with “the noble and true hearted Horace Greeley, the leader of the abolition party.” His address to Mr. Lincoln is somewhat peculiar. It com- mences with— President Lincoln, Satan must control you, or your reason has departed,” and ends with the admonition—* Rise from your sleep of judgment, and likewise 40 pro- claim.” We submit to the administration and to the people whether this pai of amateur diplo- matista do not deserve well of their country, aud whether they ought to be left any longer in the category of “ unaceredited representa tives.” Mr. Weed, we are convinced, could be | prevailed upon to take the place of Mr. Dayton in the French Embassy; and as for his co- worker, Chevalier Jewett, be might be sené as envoy extraordinary to all the courts of Europe. Will Mr. Seward please attend to this lite mat- ter, and bave both commissions made out forsh- with? Scrrims vor tHe Anwr Berore Caartrston-— A Hint To Tas Sasrrany Commiasion.—The Sani- tary Commission has done a good work in for- warding supplies of ice and vegetables for the use of our troops on Morris Island, and General Gilmore bas paid to their efforts @ merited tribute in general orders. The Commission | could do more good, however, by sending EMBER 14, 1863, their stores in veasels of lighter draaght. Trans- — Umion Manivestations in Norra Carouwa.— sbipment at Stono Inlet and Hilton Head is | A very refreshing piece of intelligence from ,Slow, while waste and decay are rapid, and vasetables and ice are consequently scarce, Smax! schooners, drawing six or seven feet of water,@pan be taken directly to Morris Island, and are whe best vessels for the Commission to employ. Tux IxcriMse ov Ovr Iroy-Crap Navy.— Another iron-Slad was launched on Saturday, and in the course of a few weeks half a dozen more will be put afloat. it is not three years since iron-clad ships were introduced into this country, and already our iron-clad navy is numbered by scores; and, although crude in their early stages of con- struction, we have advanced so far with the necessary improvements that our new ships are destined ere long to rank the first in the world. Europe has hung back amazed, feeling that we were rushing headlong into a vortex which would in time engulph us. While she has been looking on we have been at work, and, now that there are signs of trouble between us and other naval Powers, she wakes up to find that we have already completed a large number of invulnerable vessels, and that we have a atill larger number in process of construction, which, in the event of a foreiga war, could soon be made available. To Captain Ericsson are we indebted for much of our success in naval operations. The Hampton Roads affair is not forgotten, nor is the capture of the Atlanta unremembered; and, furthermore, had it not been for the presence of our iron-clads our blockading | squadrons would have been annoyed, from time to time, with but little hopes of our pre- venting it. In many inatances the public have not given the iron-clads their just dues, nor do they at all times appreciate them. The truth is, we owe much of our safety to the knowl- edge other naval Powers have of our strength in this particular branch of our naval service. The small amount of wisdom possessed by the Navy Department is pardonable in some respects by their ordering so many of these useful vessels. We need more, and the probability is that before two years roll away we will have over one hundred of them ; and then we shall be doubly prepared to meet any demonstration the com- bined Powers of Europe may attempt to make against us. We do not pretend to say that even now they are perfect ; but the Monitors of to-day are fifty per cent better than those of twelve months ago. We have better material, the facilities for better workmanship and for constructing them with more rapidity. and our information in respect to their merits and weak points has been obtained by the best of experi- ments, which have been conducted under the terrible fire of an enemy. England aad France, with a double purpose of conducting these experiments at a small cost to themselves, and at the same time to aid the rebels, have furnished their best guns and pro- jectiles to enable their friends to destroy our invulnerable vessels. It has been folly; for, although subjected to the most terrific tests, they are all of them afloat as monuments of American skill and endurance. We have many things to be proud of, but none more so than the success of our iron-clad fleet. In a few weeks we will have afloat some of our ocean-iron-clads, and then we can stand out boldlyto sea and bid defiance to the world. Even now we are feared, or else long ago the rebel sympathizers would have been on our shores, endeavoning to break up the finest government on the face of the globe. Tax Question or War wira Exorann—Im- Portant DecraRations BY Mr. Daytox.—We publish to-day a remarkable communication which appeared recently in the colums of the London Times on the subject of the rebel iron- clads that are being got ready in the Clyde and in the Mersey to be sent ont on their mission of destruction of American commerce. The writer, an Englishman, impressed with the cor- viction that the fact of the English governmen! permitting the departure of these vessels would inevitably lead to a war with the United Statos, fortifies his own opinions with a memorandum of a conversation which be had in May last with Mr. Dayton, the American Minister at Paria. There are several points in the account of the interview that are caiculated to att): attention. Mr. Dayton, for instance, s+ sponse to the suggestion of French and Enz! interference in the present struggle, says, with equal force and correctness:—"“Of one thing T am certain: that if you think that any inter- ference on your part will stop the war you are wrong. Not England, and France and Russia— not all Europe—could influence us.” Again he says, speaking of the likelihood of a war between England and the United States:— “My expectation of peace between you and us depends much on the manner in which you deal with the ironsides which the Confederates are now building in England and Scotland. * * © If, in consequence of your negligence or of your self-inflicted impotence, these iron- sides escape and plunder us, the American people, irritated enough already, will be un- governable. They will be quite ready to ruin themselves in order to ruin you.” The force of these arguments and the cor- rectness of these conclusions, as set forth in this document, are not to be denied or ques- tioned. And that conviction seems to bave impressed itself slowly, but surely, on the Eng- lish understanding. England at length fully recognizes the fact that war with the United States is to be the sure and immediate result of # further perseverance in the rebel pirate busi- ness; so that if the Iron-clads now getting ready for that service are permitted to go to sea we must only interpret that fact o* a challenge to war; and the challenge will not be declined on our part. War or peace lies, therefore, in the decision of the British Ministry. Let them choore. a ne Mason Anpxrson’s Fort Scwrer Fiag— A Renet Fatsenoon Naiien. Beanregard, though # second class engineer, rates A No, 1 aaa falsifier. A mean and petty untruth never trips or stumbles over his tongue. Prevarica- tion Is bis habit, and therefore we are not sur- prised to catch bim at fibbing in his latest published despatches to the rebel General Cooper. Beauregard unblushingly informs that official that he has captured “the original flag of Fort Sumter which Major Anderson was compelled to lower, and which Admiral Dabl- gren bad hoped to replace.” This is untrue. The “original flag” which Major Anderson brought away with him is an army‘flag, and has never been loaned to the navy for any purpose whatever. It is still in loy tined sooner or later to wave triumphantly over the city of Charlestes. hands, and des- | Mie Somertold, rt the rebel capital of North Carolina is yublished by the Richmond Enquirer of the 11th inst. It seems $hat the office of the Raleigh Siandart— a journa! which has taken a bold and fearless stand in fisyor of a reconstruction of the Union—was v%eited recently by a party of rebel soldiers of Georgia, who set to work and de- stroyed the estabNshment, type and presses, Thereupon, as if to yrove that the Standard had only expressed the popular sentiment, “the citizens” —as we are infor’ by the Richmond Enquirer—assembled and destroyed the office of the State Journal, paper wirich bad done its best to uphold the rebellion. No more significant manifestation of loyalty to the republic could have been made than this popular uprising of the citizena of Raleigh te exact retribution in kind fer the destruction of @ newspaper which advocated the cause of the Union by the demolition of one which took opposite grounds, The confederacy will wake up some fine morning, before long, to Gnd that the Old North State has repented of its here- sies and reseceded back to the Union. Tas Examination or Drarrep Men.—It is cer- tainly the duty of our officials to see that all persons presenting their claims for exemption be treated with due courtesy and attention, and that all facilities be afforded them whereby they may get through their business as soon as possible. We have heard of several inetances where aliens have been subjected to unneces- sary expense and loss of time "because there were no blanks for them to tll and swear to. They were sent to distant parts of the city to procure the necessary papers from agents who were prosecuting a purely personal speculation, and levying fees which in no manner benefited the government. This is wrong, and should be at once obviated by’the appointment of a regular agent, who, upon the receipt of the Consular certificate, would furnish a blank to the applicant, and, when he filled it, receive his oath. A small fee might be exacted, and as the whole affair would then pass off quickly, no complaint would be made. As it is at present, time and money are wasted in the endeavor to procure alien ex- emptions. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. ‘Wasmixaron, Sept. 13, 1868. ANOTHER CABINET IMBROGLIO. It is stated in political circles that some trouble existal in the Cabinet, growing out of a recent effort of the President to ignore tho State Department in an official] communication to Minister Adams. Jt seems that upo| the last outward trip of the steamer Scotia a Mr. Oakford was sent as special bearer of despatches trom Mr. Lincola to Mr. Adams, which were nover submitted to the Pre-| mier, It is also said that in order more effectually to! conceal {rom Mr. Seward the fact of this special mission, Bo demand was made upon tho state Nepartment for, the money to defray expenses, but it was obtained upon a temporary Ioan at'Roston. Since the roturn of the| Scotia the facts have leaked out, and naturally excite) much indignation in tho State Department. It ts proba- bie, however, that the President will be able to show te the Premier sufficient and satisfactory reasons for the pro-| ceeding. THE REBRL PRISONERS ON DAVID'S ISLAND. The Commissary General of Prisoners desires that the impression croated by the statement in a recent number of the Hwraxo in rearrd to the treatmont of tho rebel pri soners on David’s Island, in New York harbor, ehould be corrected, He states that the intention is tv furnish the prisoners with all that is attually necessary for thot: comfort; but of course the government cannot be ex pected to furnish them with a complete outfit, so thal when they aro released and returped to tho rebel liner they shall be prepared with a first rate outft for anothe: campaiga, thus affording, in view of the very istge uum bers of prisoners captured, an ee assistance to the rebel government to recinth iy th. vob diers of their army. As it iv the governs mons, from mo tives of common humanity, is obliged sapaly the pri soners with great quantities of clothing, *a0es, &c. and large proportion of them whea released aro {> much better condition in this respect than when captur ed. Orders bave been given to supply the prisoners wit! whatever is actually necessary for their comfort, or re quired by the dictates of humanity, and it is believe that there will be mo occasion for reasouable complain hereafter if there has been horetofore. DESPATCHES FROM ADMIRAL DAHLOREN. Captain Rnind arrived to-day with despatches to tb Navy Department from Admiral Dahigren. It is unde: stood they are generally of a business character. ANOTHER QUIRT SABBATH. Thia bas been a very quiet Sabbatn, and there lec news stirring, Theatrical. ‘The new Park theatre, Brooklyn, will open this ever ing, under the management of Mr. Gabriel Harrison. M B. A. Baker is stage manager. The company is vor woll selected. The plays to-night are “Married Life’’ a: “The Loan of a Lover.” Of course all Brooklya w assist at the performance. ‘The original ghost at Wallack’s will bo withdrawn: Wodnesday evening next, very much to the regret of t public and Manager Moss, Mr. Wallack’s regular seas will begin shortly. The company engaged wiil be cali together on Wednesday. We hear of no now namese cept that Mr. Molinewux takes Mr. Stoepei's baton leader of the orchestra. The bouse will be repaivted a redecorated Mr Yorrest plays Brutus this eveni at Nibir Gardeu, vot im Shakspere’s “Julius Caesar,’ but in Jo Howard Payne's tragedy, “The Fall of Tarquin.” T cast is admirable throughout. This is the last week the engagement of Mrs. D. P. Bowers at the Wint Garden. It is said that this talented little lady will pi! Juliet for ber benefit on Friday, with Mrs, Conway Romeo. Mrs. Bowers’ ongagement might be proftat prolonged, Mr. Parpom begins bie fall season at the Americ Museum to-day. The company is very nearly the sa: an last year. Mr. F. F. Taylor is stage manager. now drop curtain has been painted by fetlge The gb will sppear io a play called “Wake Not the Dead.’ pew farce, called “Marriage at Any Price,” will also performed, Mr. Barnum retains bis immense stock Curiosities, including the awful Indiaus and the dreav python. The exbibition of wax figures is a nuisa which should be removed. At the New Bowery the ghost will appear to-night “The Vempest,”” with Mr. Eddy as Caliban, At the Bowery Mr. Fox will exhibit his ghost in ‘Thy th Bough,’ and will also revive his clever pantomime ca “Mother Goone."’ Momiger Butler, of the Ameri theatre, has also secured « ghost, and will bring it this evening in a play called “The Spectre of Witeble This establishment is always crowded. ‘‘Jocko’’ “The Belle of Madrid’ 6 the atiractions at the > York theatre. Mesers. J. W. Wallack, Jr., and FE. £. Davenport peared before a large and brilliant audience at the Lire lyn Academy on Saturday evening. Mra. Farren pie Hortense. Mr. Watlack’s Leon is an sdmirable rende of a very dificult rove. There artists gv to Baltimore Washington this week, in charge of that clever mar Mr. H.C. Jarrett. Mise Laura Keeve begins a sbort at the Prooklyn Academy next Monday with a new medy. Edwin Booth aod George Jamieson appen Tweddle Hall, Albany, (nis week, under the managen of Mr. Joba J. Raymond, who is enyaged to go to Png this winter. By telegraph from Philadelphia we Jearn that Mrs. / Drew's Arch street theatre opened with great cio ' Satarday evening. The theatre has been entirely modelled. The play wee “ The Rivals.” dra John it Golivered an Mins E. Price, Mra.