The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1863, Page 6

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Nows and eaarsaatenis erat in upon us to such an extent that we shall be compelled to pub- ‘ Triple Sheets every day this week. Adver- ers will aid us very much during this pressure pon our columns if they will have their business notices sent to the office before nine o’clock in the evening. Our circulation increases so rapidly that it is almost impossible for the mechanical genius of the country to furnish us the necessary machinery to accomplish, in the short space of time nightly allotted to us, all that is expected of an enterprising metropolitan newspaper. News comes in at all times. We can have no control over the events of the day or the time of their occurrence; but with advertisements the case is different. The public can be of great service to our readers and ourselves by sending in their notices at an early hour, and thus give us the hours after nine o'clock in the evening exclusively for the regulation of the news of the day. New bocaieall Ta ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. advertisements for the Wexxir Heratp must be hand. ed in before ton o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its circulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, morobants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- sorted in the Wxexty Henan will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United dStates. THE SITUATION. The details of the advance, the fight, and the victory of Gen. Pleasanton’s cavalry—under Gens. Buford, Kilpatrick and Gregg—st Culpepper, on Sunday, show that it was not only s brilliant but an important affair, and may probably be regard- ed as the advance movement of Gen. Meade’s army. The cavalry crossed the Rappahannock and reached the banks of the Rapidan; came into collision with Stuart's cavalry, and the light artillery of the enemy, and, alter a series of skirmishes, drove them from point to point, until they reached Culpepper, through which town they charged, driving the rebels before them, and capturing over one hun- dred prisoners and three guns, two twelve-pound- ers and one six-pounder. A large quantity of ordnance stores were found in the railroad depot at Culpepper, the guns being of English make, with sabre bayonets attached. General Buford’s division followed up the enemy beyond Cedar Mountain, and encamped on the banks of the Ra- pidan, The latest news from Charleston which we are in receipt of to-day consists of the rebel accounts of late events there, and they do not materially differ. The Charleston Mercury describes the evacuation of Batteries Wagner and Gregg by the enemy, and says that both places were mined to give our troops a hot reception. The slow match was applied at Wagner by Captain Hugenine and at Gregg by Captain Lesesne, but owing to some defect in the fuses no explosion took place. The Richmond Examiner affects to regard the loss of Morris Island as of very slight consequence, ond says that the fortification of Charleston is stronger now than when the first shot was fired on the island, which was never the key to Charleston; and that bat- ‘eves have since been erected which supersede the utility of Wagner, Major General Jeremy F. Gilmer, of North Carolina, has been appointed second in com/nand to Beauregard, It is stared chat a special mossage was recently forwarded to Washington by General Gillmore, asking lor instructions as to the shelling of Char- lestou, and that he was ordered to continue the bombardment until the city surrendered. Gen. Gitlmore has been promoted to the rank of Major t eneral of Volunteers. the -ummary of news from rebel sources which publish to-day presents a comprehensive apter in the current history of the rebellion, most every subject of interest in the South is cated of. We commend it to the attention of A despatch from Jackson to Atlanta, ted the 7th, among other things, makes the mys- ows announcement that ‘the federal trans- si#sippi expedition bas all been worsted. Gen. ith has whipped them at Monroe, Louisiana.” A despatch from Memphis says that a fearfal riot occurred in Mobile on the 4th instant. A party of soldiers’ wives, to the number of six hundred, paraded the city, with exciting mottoes on their banners, auch as “Bread or Pen The soldiers oered no opposition to the display, but in some instan e ar reasers. ” the citizens attempted to arrest the progress «© procession. Intense excite. went preva | We bev orien by the arrt oF the oa - A other NEW YOLK atid th campaign was in preparation, and tt we Miramon waa to command a division. The | Viau Minister had been ordered by General Forey | to leave the country for having written a letter to | President Juares. EUROPEAN NEWS. teamship Arabia, from Queenstown on the nt, paased Cape Race last Sunday bound for Halifax and Boston. The steamship Hansa, | from Southampton 24 instant, reached this port yesterday afternoon, The ne wea by these arrivals * | is three days later. The Paris correspondent of the London Glove | states that the publication of M. Chevalier’s re- cent pamphlet heralds ‘“anmistakably’’ a prompt if not ‘immediate’ recognition of the rebel con- federacy by Napoleon. The Paris Pays denies that the paper has any official character. The Paris Moniteur defends the admission of the privateer Florida to the dockyard at Brest to re- pair damages to her sailing power, but not to ship material to enable her to fight. The Emperor having recognized the Confederates aa bellige- rents, her reception for repairs is ‘‘according to the ordinary principles of international law.’ Earl Russell had replied to the memorial of the Emancipation Society praying for the detention of the rebel rams at Liverpool under the Foreign Enlistment act. He says that the subject of the building of these vessels had long engaged the at- tention of the government, but in order to detain them under the act ministers must have proof “both of equipment and the intention’ to make war on a friendly Power. The memorialists do not offer to give any proof, but merely say they are “informed of s0 and so,” and ‘believe so and so.” Under British law prosecutions cannot be undertaken without “affidavits of creditable wit- nesses, as in cases of misdemeanor and crimes.” The London Times, Manchester Eraminer, Bir- mingham Poss, Southeastern Gazetie, with other English newspapers, express their serious alarm at the prospect of government permitting the rams to put to sea. The Paris journals deny that the French govern- ment has any interest in the rams. The vessels are tobe paid for out of the rebel cotton loan, and M. Langier, a French banker and agent of the loan, is responsible to Laird for their cost. Lan- gier has a mortgage on the vessels, and if they are not got off for the rebels he may sell them to any Power for coast defence purposes, for which they are splendidly adapted. They are described as worthless for privateering purposes. The leading journals of Vienna were taking a strong position against the acceptance of the throne of Mexico by the Archduke Maximilian. Tho Vienna Presse says Napoleon never would have proposed a throne but that he believed in the triamph of the Southern rebels, and now when “the overthrow of secession is as good as decid- ed,” he wishes to plant some prince on it, then withdraw the French ‘army and leave kim to his fate. Consols closed in London on the 4th inst. at 9354 a 9334 for money. The Stock Exchange was closed on Saturday, the 5th inst., so that consols were not quoted, nor was the effect of the news by the China upon American securities developed. The report of the bombardment of Charleston depressed the rebel cotton loan still further. There was nothing doing in it, but it was nominal- ly quoted at from thirty-five to thirty per cent discount. The Paris Bourse way very firm on the 6th inst. The Liverpool cotton market was buoyant on the 5th instant, and holders demanded an advance. On the 4th instant the market was quiet. Bread- stuffs were firmer. Provisions were steady. The prize fight between Jem Mace and Joe Goss came off on the Ist instant. The first ring was broken up by the police, so the parties had to form anew one in the evening at another place. The affair was decided in favor of Mace in eighteen rounds, he having knocked Goss senseless on the last one. The fighting occupied two hours and ten seconds. A full gnd spirited report of the en- counter is published in our columns to-day. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Ocean Queen, Captain Wilson, from Aspinwall, 6th inst., arrived at this port yes- terday, with the Pacific mails, passengers and $193,584 in treasure. The news from Central America is interesting. Advices from Guatemala say that the foreign ministers have solicited Carrera to treat with Barrios for a peaceable settlement of the present difficulties. Dates from Salvador to Angust 24 say that Barrios still holds out. His army is daily increasing, his troops are regularly paid and keep in good spirits, and he is represented as much more hopeful than at last advices, although Carrera had advanced within two leagues of his capital. The intelligence from the South Pacific States is unimportant. From Buenos Ayres we have an interesting let- ter from our correspondent, dated on the 28th of July. The number of immigrants from the United States was on the increase, and the emigration from Europe was large. The tariff of the State was revised lately, but made to press very heavily on the industrial interests of the country. Heavy charges are made on imports of iron, lam- ber, coal, printing materials, and so forth, while the duty on silks and other articles of luxury is lowered, Great liberality has been shown to the railroad interests, and railroad works were consegently being developed largely. ‘The Indians of the southwest had made a very destructive raid on the people of the province of Balta. Ac- tive efforts were being made to establish regular communication by steam with New York. A bi- monthly line of steamers is to ply between Liver- pool and Buenos Ayres. The first vessel was to sail from Liverpool in August. The ‘‘ dry winter’’ was very disastrous to the sheep flocks, and the export of wool would be diminished. Arrangements had been made for the importation of a colony of Welchmen tothe southern part of the province. The Board of Aldermen, at their meeting yes- terday, resolved to test the legality of the injunction issued by the Attorney General respecting their action on the $3,000,000 ap- propriation, A resolution from the Board of Health was presented, recommending an issue ef bonds to replenish the exhausted funds of the City Inspector's Department for street olean- ing purposes, and was referred to the Committee on Finance. The Board adjourned to Thursday next; but before they left the enchanted halis of municipal attraction a call was made for a special meeting this day, at one o'clock. The Councilmen held their frst regular meeting, after the summer recess, at four o'clock yesterday, The session was a long one, and the business transacted mostly of a routine nature. A resolu. tion, offered by Mr. Gross, directing the Stroct Commissioner to report by whose authority the squares and parks of the city were occupied by the military forces of the United States, was adopted. Mr. O'Brien offered a resolution that the Counsel to the Corporation take immediate steps to have the injunction vacated which had been taken out to restrain the Mayor and Comp- troller from acting on the Common Council Con- scription ordinance. The resolution was laid on the table, and on motion of Mr. Gross the action taken by the Board of Aldermen on that subject was concurred in. From a report submitted by the Comptroller it appears that during the fort- night ending on the 5th instant the sum of $57,388 of the Volunteer Family Aid Fand was expended in affording relief to 30,597 persons. The balance of the fund remaining unexpended at that date wa, $25,198 86. Tue Comptroller also presented HERALD, TURSDAY, his usne! mozthly statement of the couc™ion of the city finances, ft which it appears that on the Ist inst. a bal 163 $3 remained in ; the city treweury, After transacting @ large | Amount of rontine business the Board sdjourned until Thursday evening n In the Court of General fore He at four o'clock ions yesterday, be- Joln H, MeCunn, City Judge, Mary Mil- n servant girl, waa teied an! viet ment which charged her with hav ing stolen money and clothing to the amount of lotte Reges, of 270 Third avenue, on the 25th of April last. Mary was eentenced to the State prison for two years. Henry Giraud, also & German, pleaded guilty of an attempt as grand larceny, on an indictment for burglary in the third degree, which charged him with having broken into the clothing store No. 1 Bleecker sirect, on the 26th of June last, from which he etole cight coats, seven pairs of pants and twelve vests, valued at about one hundred dollars, He was remanded for sentence. George Smith, a steam- boat hand, thirty-six years of age, ploaded guilty of grand larceny, on an indictment for burglary in the first degree, which charged him with having broken into the premises No, 225 Weat lorty- eighth street, on the 31st ult., and stolen money and jewelry to the value of $176 30, the property of Mr. Joseph Stiebler. He -was sentenced to the State prison for two years, The Court adjourned until this morning, at eleven o'clock. John Benson, a sailor, from Nassau, New Provi- dence, was robbed of two hundred doliara in gold on Saturday night, while on a visit to a house of ill repute in James street. The proprietor of the place was arrested yesterday and committed to the Tombs for examination. The Abbe McMasters, of this city, is stumping Ohio in favor of Vallandigham. The United States Convention of Univeraaliats will be held to-day, at Portland, Maine. Six thousand dollars are now offered for substi- tutes, in Richmond, over forty-five years of age. The City Inspector's report states that there were 487 deaths in the city during the past week—a de- crease of 78 as compared with the previous week, a still further decrease of 136 from the mortality of the week preceding, and 42 less than ocourred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 7 deaths of alcoholism, 2 of diseases of the bones, joints, &c.; 83 of the brain and nerves, 6 of the generative organs, 14 of the heart and blood vessels, 113 of the lungs, throat, &c., 6 of old age, 11 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 4 premature births, 175 of dis- eases of stomach, bowels and other digestive or- gans, 38 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 5 diseases of the urinary organs, and 21 from violent causes. There were 322 natives of the United States, 101 of Ireland, 30 of Ger- many, 16 of England, 6 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries. Dr. Cyrus Ramsay, Registrar of Records, &c., in a note to City Inspector Boole, says:—‘‘In classifying the diseases and making up your weekly report of deaths for the week ending September 14, I find 78% decrease from the previous week, and 42 when compared with the corresponding period of 1862, also 35 leas than the annual average fer the last ten years. So great a reduction in the weekly mortality rarely occurs, and proves beyond a doubt that the excess in July and August was due to the condition of the atmosphere, and not to epi- demic influences.” ‘The stock market opened with considerable strength yesterday morning, and after several sudden finctuations up and down, finally closed at about Saturday’s prices. Gold opened at 130%{, rose to 123, and closed at 122%/. Exchange was 14434 0 145 in the morning; in the after- ‘noon bankers declined to name a rate. Momey was easy atGaTpercont, The bank statement reflects the recent negotiation with government. The loans show an iu- crease of $21,551,943, and the deposits of $20,427,935. ‘The specie and circulation columns show uo material change. Cotton was quiet yesterday, and prices were irregular. ‘There was decidedly more doing in breadstuffs, and at, in the main, better prices. Coffee, gugars and whiskey wero more sought after, and were firm. Provisions were essentially unaltered in value, but transactions wore restricted. The inquiry for hay, hides, leather, tallow ‘and tobacco was good, and for hops, rice, seeds, frait and metals rather moderate. Liberal movements were re- ported in meal, dry goods, and boots and shoes. Very limited freight engagements wore effected. The receipts of domestic produce, particularity Lreadstufls, were more extensive. The Army of the Potomac in Motion—A Cavalry Fight and Untom Victory at Culpepper. We have the intelligence of a dashing cavalry fight, and a handsome and substantial little vic- tory over the oft-defeated Stuart by the bold riders and excellent fighters of General Plea- santon’s corps, at Culpepper Court House. From the facts before us we conclude that the bulk of Stuart's reported force of six thou- sand cavalry and artillerymen were engaged in this collision; that he was acting as the rear- guard of the retreating rebel army, and that he was too far bebind it to bring up any rein- forcements to his assistance; and that accord- ingly,,on discovering his dangerous position; he scampered off as soon a8 possible. The fact is thus established that Lee’s army is falling back towards Richmond. What for? ‘The impression seems to prevail at Washington that he has sent off the whole corps of Long- street—some thirty thousand men of all arms— to the relief of Beauregard at Charleston and Bragg in Georgia: but chiefly to Bragg, to prevent Rosecrans and Burnside from cutting the confederacy in twain at Atlanta; and that, with his army thus reduced, Lee is seeking the shelter of his Richmoad fortifications, This is a plausible theory ; but we incline to the opinion that Lee's army haa not been weak- ened to strengthen soy of his confederates elsewhere; that he is retreating in full strength in order to widen the distance between General Meade and his base of supplies, and to weaken his advancing columns by the increasing de- mands of every day’s march for troops to pro- tect his lines of communication, In other words, from the aggressive Lee has fallen back to a purely defensive system of warfare, and calculates, no doubt, in this retrograde movement, Te entice General Meade into « snare, in which hé way be defeated and driven back with disastrous y over an exhausted country to Washington. y event, if too woak to risk a battle on be way, Lee can now retire under the shelter of the dstences of Richmoad. f But wo have great faith in the sagacity, sk!U and prudence of General Meade, aad in bis positive knowledge of the enemy’s strength, movements and designs. We believe that General Meade is advancing with bis heroic Army of the Potomac to the closing scenes of the rebellion. We are thus content to awa the derelopments of the day. SEPTEMBER lL) seven hundred and sixty dollars from Mra. Char- | 1808. TRIPLE SHERT. ' Preserve slavery or to destroy ae mf accomplish this there ia much work to be done; but it is now progressing nobly and ofectnally. The poople are grappling with niggerheadisin and copperheadisin at the polls, sod our soldiers are annihilating rebellion on the battle field. The reeeut elections in the New England States, in Kentucky and in Cali- fornia, were protests of the people against the copperheads. The elections in New York and the other Central States last year were protests Whee Marte © Miesiiancntans of a Crushing O: cat of the Copperhrads | Tharetnrns which we have received of the Maine election are «irk 4 te warrant the | conclusion tha the republicans have swept tho State. Assuming, from the reported gains of tbo | republican ticket, that tho popular tide | borne them on to viotory, there is @ very simple sashes asap — os The Milftary Arrests in Baltimore, Wo publish in auother coluinn @ statement of the facta connected with te suppression of the Baltimore 2epublican and the arrest of its edi- tors and publishers. We also give the silly piece of doggere! the publication of which ia stated to have led to this by! The best commentary, perhups, that can be offered upon it is the placing in juxtap on with it Greeley’s famous ode wpon the Ameri- can flag. Our readers wil ate, from & com- -handed measure, his solution for tho defeat of the democracy. TY | of the people against the niggerdeads. Our | parison of both, that the firhts of poetic fancy will owe their misfortane to the same faction | politicians begin to understand this, and | which are deomed unworthy of notice in New whioh broke them down in New Hampshire and | the conservative action of our State | York are visitod with all the penalties of trea- conventions anf the altered tone of the radical preas are striking indications of the rapid rise of the popular feeling. In spite of every effort the copperheads could muster only one vote in the Democratic Gonvention. Tbe Republican Convention flatly refused to endorse the pet projects of the niggerheads. The defeated copperheads, as we have often predicted, are now glad to do service in the conservative ranks for a emall share of the spoils. The discomfited niggerheads, alarmed prospect before them, hasten to evade ponsibility of their transgressions, and, eacherous foe, hang out the Union ‘trap the unwary. Let the loyal people @ of this sham, and heartily push on the Od work at the approaching election. This the mode by which patriots at home may aid T patriotic soldiers in the field. Mr. Seward’s Review of the Last Twelve Months of the War. We publish to-day Mr. Seward’s diplomatic “Circular, No. 39,” issued from the Depart- ment of State on the 12th of August leat. As a careful official recapitulation of the great events of the war since the battlea of August 1862, this document will doubtless be as accept- able to the general reader as to the military historian. The special object of the Secretary of State is, through our diplomatic agents, to con- vince the leading Powers of Europe that the vic- tories achieved by the arms of the Union leave the rebellion without a hope of success, except through foreign sasistance, and that all that is required to secure’® ly peace—in the com- pfete triumph tional oanse—is an honest neutrality of foreign States. In view of cular, wi son in Maryland. We thought that the government had wot into discredit enongh throuch its politi- cal arrests to teach it prudence in its manner of dealing with constructive of- fences of thiapiind. Since the war broke out some three thousand persons have been seized and imprisoned by the military autho- rities in different parts of the country, the ma- jority on charges so frivolous that they would not bear investigation. To this day hundreds of the persons thus arbitrarily deprived of their liberty -have not been able even to ascertain the grounds of their arrest. And these stretches of military authority become the more ob- noxious and indefensible when we ffd the same alleged offences assuming different com- plexions in different parts of the loyal States. What is there in the present condition of Mary- land, for instance, which should render matter published there more dangerous than the same matter published in New York? Of the two Maryland is to-day, perhaps, the least liable te disturbance from inflammatory political appeals of any kind. The real mischief in poetical effusions such as those to which we refer lies in the notice taken of them. Let alone, they fall still-born. Prosecuted, they sting. To impose fetters on the free expression of opinion is always bad, but to seek to trammel poetical enthusiasm is worse. It is the habit of inter- ference with such matters that has led to half the political revolutions abroad. Nothing could have better served the pur- poses of the disloyal than the perpetration of foolish excess of authority on the part of neral Schenck. It is indefensible on any ground of principle or political necessity. If it had been devised by the enemies of the gov- ernment to weaken the prestige gained by it from its recent military successes it could not have been better adapted to the purpose. Ar- bitrary and unreasoning as the conduct of the War Department has been, we cannot believe that General Schenck owed his inspiration to it in this matter. @t is too much in character with the onslaughts upon the press by which the military career of this officer has been dis- tinguished to leave any doubt as to its having originated with his own fanatical zeal and dis- like of journalists. He has done, however, a very bad thing for the government, and a still worse thing for his party. The sooner his acts are disavowed the better it will be for both. The Administration and the Coming Campaiga. During the past two years the administration has in its war policy exhibited and illustrated all the degrees of incompetency. Blunders worse than crimes are innumerable in the record of every transaction into which it has had its unfortunate fingers. Campaigns from which the country expected the grandest re- sults have come to naught, or have ended in miserable disasters, solely through administra- tive interference. For the gratification of the personal aims or the idle prejudices of those who constitute our so-called government, they have prolonged a war that ought to have ended & year ago, and, at the very least, two hundred thousand more Northern families are desolate to-day than need to have been if the men in power at Washington bad only done their duty. Never for a day have they given their while hearts to the cause that the whole country has at heart. But, while in every direction men have given up all that they had previously striven for—business, home, family, the most sacred ties—and offered posh lives for the cause, while the have everywher= been made, eat spirit of devotion has animated the peso country, only at Washington have we seen contemptible trivial- ities and pitiful aims of person or party pre- ferred before the popular cause and taking its place. But this must come to an end sooner or later, and there can be no time like the pre- sent for the administration to mend its ways. To do what It should have done a year ago, and to retrieve ite many errors in come , is now within {ts power. With events it in every direction the Southern confederacy is to-day at the very crisis of its existence, and is ready to totter into rain. It is only necessary for the administration to take the full advan- tage of the position in which affairs now are to secure a triumph the most complete and satis- factory that we could desire. Already the Confederate attempt to concentrate in Virginia for another advance against the North baa ended in failure. Enough men could not be gotten together to give any promise of success, and the Southern government has relinquished the project. Beauregard calls for more men at Charleston, and Bragg for more in Alabama. Here are the three poidts in which the war concentrates, and the enemy's weak- ness appears in each. Every day’s news tells of the progress of our army in the Southwest, until it seems as if the enemy were not disposed to give battle there at all. And so every arrival from Charleston gives us fuller con- fidence that it must ultimately be ours. In Virginia Lee retires toward Richmond, aud is found to be very busy with the despised spade. Doubtless the greater part ofdis army is alrea- dy on its way to help oppose the victorious march of Rosecrans or the steady encroach- ments of Gillmore. But Rosecrans and Gillmore can be as easily reinforced and to « greater ex- tent, Itisfor the administration to see that this be done if necessary. Let there be no blunders now. Proper measures taken by the administration at —— ensure that the confederacy shall never another victory. But, now that they become desperate and are aompelied to the last attempt, a blunder for us will be @ victory for them, and 8 vic- socy fe them at this time may cost us another of war and another five hun- dred millions. And there is one simple way to provide against a Confederate victory. It is to pin our well tried generals in the field all that they require, and then leave them alone. We have the President's acknowledgment that - the sneceas of the campaign against Vicksburg ta the fact that the chronic blunderers Rhode Island last spring—the silly and imprac- ticable copperheads. Bion Bradbury, the demo- cratio candidate for Governor, was set up not only a4 a capperhead of the peace pattern of Seymour, of Comecticut, but as a model statesman, who, if elected Goveraor, would follow ia the footsteps of Seymour, of New York. It will be wonderful indeed, if, saddled with those two Seymours, Bradbury has not been complotoly distanced in the race. - From the returns before ua the pro the copperheads in Maine look Wue. Wo conclude that. they. feated; but had they cut loosé frame 2 of Connecticut, and said nothing abd 5 3 mour, of New York, while adopting the con- servative, anti-copperhoad and anti-niggerhead war platform upon which he was elected, the result might have been another great conserva- tive democratic triumph. We shali have some- thing more to say upon this subject to-morrow. The Conservative Semtimemt of the People—Anti-Niggerhena and Anti- Copperhead. It is both amusing and instructive to observe the complete change of tactics on the part of the republican party in regard to the ap- proaching election in this State. Last year the radical journals and orators frothed with in- sane abuse. They called the conservative party disloyal. They stigmatized the conser- vative candidates as traitors. They proposed to hang the conservative nominees and the con- servative voters. Now, on the contrary, the radicals appear to recognize the truth that such curses only injure those who utter them. | They speak of the conservative t¢ reluctant but remarkable fairne even sometimes moved to praise the ticians whom they so ferociously attaci ashort time ago. They reserve such as “traitor” almost exclusively for Jeff. D How thorough this reformation is and ho long it will continue are matters of doubt; but the fact is evident, and its causes are equally obvious. The people of this country have been grow- ing more and more conservative ever dince this war began. The.rebellion has taught them, as nothing else could have done, the inestimable value of the Union, the constitution aad our republican form of government. It is a trite saying that blessings brighten as they take their flight; but the saying is not less true than trite, and it is applicable to the present crisis of the country. When the Union was appa- rently destroyed the masses began to realize how valuable it had been to them. The Union had given them peace, Disunion brought them war. The Union had protected their lives and property. Disunion imperilled both. The Union had secured to them prosperity and plenty. Disunion involved immense. taxation and inter- fered with our commerce, trade and manu- factures. The Union had guarded us from foreign Powers. Disunion revealed to us the latent hostility of France and England, and subjected us to insult, annoyance and direct injury from those who had hitherto hypocriti- cally pretended to be our friends. The Union had preserved the just baldnce betwoen the government and the people. Disunion doomed the people of the South to the tyranny of Jeff. Davis, and the people of the North to the tyranny of a set of radical fanat- ics who sought to oppress them by all kinds of odious and intolerable measures. In a word, the Union was peace, Power and happiness; while disunion is war, Weakness and despotism. It is not wonderful, therefore, that the Union sentiment pf the American people has been gradually growing stronger and stronger under the terrible teachings of this rebellion. All parties acknowledge this to be true of the North, and we have no doubt that it will be found equally true of the South when the re- turn of peace cleats up all mysteries and re- moves all disguises. We know it to be true in Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, Missour!, North Carolina and Northern Alabama, where the slavery question ia not of such vital importance as in the cotton States, and we know that it would have been so even ip the ggtton 3 mpted to soe the pub- 1@ leading agi ents of au say, however, that in his historical facts Mr. Seward f half, Compared with the co) cing exposition which the ‘ @ circular is exceedingly flatand tonous. It skims too light- ly and quietly over the ground. It is like an extensive view Of a magnificent blending of rocks, forests, mountains, lakes and valleys, from a point so far off that nothing in it can be baad seon, although the general picture is pl ig and beautiful. It does not begin to compare with Senator Sumner’s bold, em- phatic aud scorching exposition of English perfidy and French hostility to the cause of the Union, leaving out his useless, rabid denunciations of Southern slavery. But when we consider the extent of Mr. Seward’s diplomatic correspondence of the last two years we cannot be surprised to find it at last diluted to the condition of one part milk to three parts water. He has gone over the ground so often that in going over it again he goes without spirit or energy, and, with his eyes half closed, loses half the attractions of the journey. For example, in reference to Vicksburg, Mr. Seward, after detailing the approaches and the investment by General Grant, says that the place was surrendered, “with thirty thousand men, two hundred pieces of artillery, seventy thousand small arms, and ammunition sufficient for a six years’ defence;” and that “this capture was as remarkable as the famous one made by Napoleon at Ulm;” but here he stops.” He gmits to‘say that, in connection with this campaign, before and after the surrender of Vicksburg, the additional loases of the rebels in the Immense amounts of their military stores destroyed or captured at various places, and in the destruction of sixty or seventy steamers, and numerous factories, foundries and mills on the Yazoo and else- where, and in the destruction of scores of locomotives and hundreds of railway cars at Grenada, and in the losses of slaves, cotton, corn, live stock, &c., would make an aggregate of perhaps not less than three hundred millions of dollars in Confederate scrip. And so on, throughout his narrative, Mr. Seward permits many of the heaviest losses of the rebellion to escape his notice. But, notwithstanding these deficiencies, we accept this diplomatic exposition of Mr. Sew- ard a6 a seasonable document, which, in con- necflon with the late trenchant speech of Sena- tor Sumner (barring his abolition nonsense) on Sit f relations, will produce the convic- tion in England and Fratt¢e that “their quick- est and shortest way” to a “ronewal of eom- mercial prosperity, through the restoration of peace in America, is to withdraw support and favor from the insurgents, and to leave the adjustment of our domestic controversies ex- clusively with the people of the United States.” sane bad not the administration al together slavery and the Union, and to confound antipathy to the one with loyalty to the other. K the administration had pursued a strictly con- stitutional course in regard to slavery, and at the same time had prosecuted the war vigor- ously and efficiently, the South would have been disgusted with disunion ina year. As it was, by first threatening and then adopting the emancipation and confiscation schemes of the radicals, the administration united the South, diminished the value of the Union in the es- timation of the Southern people, and practically strengthened the rebel cause and assisted the rebel leaders. To this transcendant folly the administration also added the Conscription and Indemnity acts, which dispirited and discour- aged the North in the same proportion that the Emancipation and Confiscation acts imspirited and encouraged the conspirators at the South. But, 98 persecution makes proselytes toe good cause, so the odious measures of the ra- dicals have resulted in a more fervent devotion of the masses to that old Union and that old constitution under which such outrages would have been impossible. Thus came that steady increase in the conservative sentiment of the people which has been distinctly marked at every election during the past year. Tho Henavy has constantly fostered and directed this sentiment, and we now havo our reward In the assurance of speedy termi- nation of our national troubles. The rebellion has @iscevered to the people not only the trlessings of the Union shd the dangers of dis- union, but also the two great enemies which they touat conquer before the republio will be entirely saved. These enemies are secession- fam at the South and abolitionism at tho North, ‘This war must kill them both. When peace is wccirex to diepowe oft declared there must exist no faction insane the \ enough to wish to destroy the Vaion, either to wey ' Hal eo AytrFrexco Feeitvo wy Sovra AMertoa— The invasion and conquest of Mexico by the French have naturally excited great alarm and indignation among all the populations of Spanish America, and already a defensive league and alliance of all the Central and South American States is being agitated. We see by the last French papers received that this feeling has been recently manifested in Tacna, one of the most considerable towns of Peru, by a popular demonstration which had for its watch- word “Death to the French,” and in which a French subject, Doctor Lavenne, was assailed, and might bave been killed but for the timely assistance of a company of his countrymen who had armed themselves for mutual defence. The French residents, to the number of sixty-seven, drew up ® protest against the outrage, and it waa reported that M. de Lesseps, Charge @’ Affaires to Peru, bad demanded bis rts. It is believed, however, that this last statement ‘was not correct. The French journals advo- onte the sending of two or three war vessels into the Peruvian waters. All this is the natural result of the attempt to establish French inflaence by force of arms on this continent, and it must eventually lead to a closer union of all the American republics to resist such encroachments, if, indeed, the United | States do not in the meantime take summary rogement of not eve we are