The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1863, Page 6

i a ee % NEW YORK HERALD, THURSBAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863.—TRIPLE SHEST. \ a NEW YORK HERALD. |™ ‘orumon enon ates SS OF fea A te te c's | THO’ Mine Eiscenon—Coppernenas and'| buntrede of meh Gompovitg the crows of the | The Pecutinr Bate of arom {ts rs % ‘ "7 See wEWs. Croguaad ive tomes mar moe mare Additional teres from the chetie'tv Maine Moncey be gene ooo Since Op petemmeennet te ‘Delllon the furnish further proof of the utter rowt of the copperheads in that State, It is another warm ing to “peace at any term” politicians thas the people do not approve ef any such politi- cal heresy. It is a declaragion that the loyal Richmond, Auanta end Charieston—7 he ‘teat Powers of Eurepe have been m ore or leas Sgitated and disturbed by it. Engi snd, who has colonies which che would disi& ¢ to see imitating the example of the Southera ' States, have hundreds of dollass due them on thei ac- counts. The crew of the’ Browklyn, whoare awaiting the repairs to thelr ahip, are roammg around the streets without money in their The details of the European news, compiled from ounsiles dated to the 3d instant, are published in the Hxgavp thia morning. The report is both in- teresting and important. - Captain Grant, the African explorer, appeared The retrograde movement of tho rebel army of Virginia towards Richmond, and the preci- —— " : ocketa, while: i the:| 'ias not dared to openty espouse the oa use of Wolame XXVIII ...... ss++1-We, 258 | at 8 meeting of theBritish Association, and deli- | Pitate flight of Bragg from Chattanooga iato | masses of the North wil not be'diverted efter hae for pith, pate ) sc 4s the | the Davis government, een she has done aK poireopeta et oh vered a very interesting narrative of the travels | the heart of Georgia, show that the retreating | to the right or left from the vigcrous prosecu> enpture of the Magnolia. all that underhanded salts and enmity @0uld and experiences of Captain Speke and himself to- wards the source of the river Nile, which we pub- lish in our paper to-day. The explorers found slavery existing in almoat every kingdom in the interior of Africa. Captain Maury, of the Confe- derate Navy, made some remarks on the subject of Africa and its products, , 3 The emigrant exodus from Liverpool in August Py) Ba rer Rosai was larger by 1,788 than in July, whilst, compared RNUM’S AMERICAN NUSEUM, Broadway —Tax with the corresponding mouth of last year, there iris a ES manors axe Rovaws, &. # | isan increase of 4,397, the regpective numbers fs being:—1862, 5,493; 1863, 9,890, The total nam- ber of passengers which left the Mersey during the month of August the present year are 93,904, the majority of whom came to the American States. The arrival of the steamship Kagle at this port yesterday from Havana places us in possession of three days later news from that city. Nothing of importance had transpired since the sailing of the last steamer. Troops in large numbers are leaving for St. Domingo, A war with Hayti is considered not improbable. Several fires have oc- curred in Havana, but none of any magnitude. The steamship Locust Point will leave picr 9 North river at twelve M. to-morrow, with the mails for New Orleans. The following silly report about the movements of the United States steamer Michigan appears in some of the Western copperhead journals:— ‘Tho United States steamer Michigan is lying in the river opposite Detroit, with steam u Mr, Vallandigham’s movements, to prevent, if posstble, his making his appearance in thé United States. Sue has already ove hauled several auspected craft, among which was the steamer Morning Star, a few miles below the city, on her way to Cleveland. V: igham considers himself a martyr, out of which his friends are making political capital, and nothing could induce him to change his location until a he Ohio election; and we are inclined to the opinion that the government does not now care a button whether he remains where he is or returns to his home. Mr. Vallandigham has re- turned to Windsor, Canada, and on the 12th inst. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway —Ba grus. WINTER GARDBN, Broadway.—Lapy Avpver's Sronut BEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowers.—Tewrest—Hun- Awan Curkr—Our On 4 SPRe RYANT'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. = “—braioriAN SONGS, Daxcns, BURLESQUES, &¢.—BLAcK RIGADE. pi WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 5i4 Broadwar.—Etmiorian Foncr, Dancns, &c,—Tue Quost, AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 44 Broadway.—Baccrrs, P.riomimazs, Bumsxsoves, senotax oO WitoHLiy. NEW YORK THEATRE, roadway.—Consouirt. IRVING HALL. Irving place. —Taz Stureorricon. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Comostiss awp Leorunxs. trom 9A, M,"tll 10. Ml HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Etmoriax Boxes, Dances, Buriusquns, TRIPLE SHEE +; New York, Thursday, Sept. 17, 1863. ‘atching THE SITUATION. ‘The despatch steamer Mary Sanford, which ar- rived at this port yesterday from Charleston, brings news to Saturday night, the 12th inst, Gencral Gillmore was then erecting new batteries bn Morris {sland. The guns of the rebel batteries @t Forts Moultrie and Johnson were firing heavily bpon Morris Island. The report that Fort Moul- trie had surrendered, which originated from the he wps aachndgedh sable offs seanad: Btatements of the commanders of the Cosmopoli- | pendicton Murrah is the successful candidate for {an and Nellie Pentz that a white flag was flying | Governor of Texas. Mr. Murrahis a young man, 104 ‘over the ramparts, proves to be just what we said | having graduated at Browm University in 1948. bf the rebel battle flag to a flag of truce. Moul- NS Gcane nb ei aetahd pose Far bees, trie is still in the hands of the enemy, and is nected. He displayed more than ,average ability Our special correspondent gives a very minute in his collegiate career. One of the candidates pecount of all the circumstances attending the Inte | Wi, was a representative in the Thirty-fourth Congress from California, and while in Washing- ihe failure appears to be attributable to a mis- Jake as to the condition of the debris, as the fort | at one of the hotels. There have recently been some additions to the phore. The gorge wall, instead of sloping gradu- | which now, together with the wandering execu- pily from the parapet to the water's cdge, as was | tives and itinerant State governments, would . ;. | the names and present locations of these migra- gaieiastnsd Uisad be Aba o tise Woe tise tory journals:—Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal, at At- cade, which the rebels piled up to protect the b Ry . P ee wall against our breaching batteries. This wall | Ga.; Knoxville (Tenn.) Register, at Cleveland, Ga.; bf sandbags was at least twelve fect hich, and | Huntaville (Ala.) Confederacy, at Marietta, Ga. 7 rancy, and probably locate at Columbia, ihe possibly reach its top. This fact was not discov- capital of South Carolina, pred until the attempt to scale the wall had been in 1860 was 14,030. This year it will probably tention was (o asaail the fort on three sides. One | Teach about 10,000. party was to land on the gorge wall and attempt been found guilty of treason in that city, and sen- tenced to be confined at Fort Warren, in Boston ond was to attempt to gain entrance through the fower embrasures, aud a third was to act asa The draft in Albany will commence on Monday. , ply a quota of eleven hundred and thirty-four. About one hundred and fifty sailors and marines Widows with “only sons” and “aged and infirm p to the parapet of the gorge wall, they found a | county, Mass., as the following from the report f rpendioular range of masonry which the rebels pt te Exempted as the only sons of widows. The rebels had manned the parapet with infantry, GovernorSeymour has goue to Utica, per slope of thg debris. Three of the boats were | que Board of Supervisors met yesterday born to pieces by hand grenades or shells from the | afternoon. The Riot Claim and Relief Com- rapidly out off. It was at this juncture that the and papers, which was granted to both. The passed upon four hundred claims; that they had Bnd oanister upon the boats. Under these cir- | objected to paying claims for loss of wages, for Cumstances retreat became a necessity. truction of property. The report winds up with Palclaenene epee pay shat cus OF :the eotel MAS the cluima reported on by the committee, amount- ing to $12,000. The claims not allowed amount to anda lieutenant and six men were killed. They | $2,500. The committeee allow the actual value state further that our forces are perfecting ar- | of property at the time of its destruction, and not is kel Gane Mashed dalamea ah a Board to extend the time for presenting claims be- tia Island, erecting lines elegrap! long the adopted. ® poworful work. The Board of Education met yesterday after- baie x caswabaitunaten eoccnd Matin (he asked authority to establiah a primary school in Pleasanton, in his recent brilliar® advance move- | opposition a motion was made to authorize the es- inoe Sunday he picked up a hundred and fifty, | Chemistry and Physiology in the Free Academy, 0 give oar rears ow alan of the tl sent in his resignation from Cambridge, Mass. It was entirely of a routine character. bobels were receiving reinforcements by railroad tion, Judge Clerke, in the Supreme Court, yester- y speaks of the affir at Culpepper and Rapidan day discharged two writs of habeas corpus, and tion ag having no result, and indicates that | Betts, in the United States District Court, holds Several blockade runners, with property amount. | Points raised by Mr. N. P. Waring, that, as the relator was in the honds of the authorities before arr ns ep ote by our cruisers and | fected by ite dictum, and that it was not retro- rou to Point kout, Maryland. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, be- prrtoa that Genorals Johnson atid Forrest had a | (Fe City Judge MoCuvn, the trial of Bridget Hef- leat; ta which Geaoral F quence of the indisposition of the prosecuting ay ec! moral Forrest wap wounded, in the seme day General Wheeler had an en- | The Grand Jury handed in a Jarge oumber of indictments, and, after receiving the thanks of the res m back. The despatch says that it is then adjourned until this morning at eleven acorang at Chattanooga. ‘The stock market was very buoyant yesterday morn- ‘The robel guerillas on the Mississippi, as will he | 8: Aid Prices wore all 1 & 256 per cent higher thaw on Part of the morning's advance was lost. Gold opened at frre oxceedingly active and troublesome, keeping ‘was bid for bonkers’ bille. Money was at 6 per cent, Jo sooner are these hordes driven back than they | day, with liberal sales; privately and at auction, The Feiurn again to renew their assaults, The whole | 4¢msed for four and wheat was animated advance og is swarming with them. They are chiefly | Gorn fell off tc. per bushel, and closed by pened Shalmera and Ri ‘daon. transacted In Cha! d Richardson. We give a map to-day v dealt in, ond beet was quiet At un x Bre conducted. was In briek demand and a triné’ » The mata bnel. neas in groceries was transacted in sugars and tear, esterday, a mistake, arising from the similitude He is a native of Alubama, He was a of the Baptist church, with which he was con- working away with two fifteen-inch guns. elected to the rebel Congress is Philip T. Herbert, assault on Fort Sumter by our sailors and marines. ton made himself noted by killing an Irish waiter’| pras observed through glasses from the fleet and nomber of travelling: newspapert’ in the Bouth pupposed, was found to slope only from the | make a respectable oaravan. The following are Tanta, G Shattanooga (Tenn.) Rebel, at Marietta, Without the aid of scaling ladders no one could | The Charleston papers will uext join the itine- The democratic vote for Governor of Vermont ade, and then it was under a heavy fire. The Mr. Samuel! Sterrett, a citizen of Baltimore, has & ascend the debris and gain the parapet; a sec- harbor, during the war. = Seventeen hundred names are to be drawn to sup- | onerve. fs t ashore, and instead of finding a slope of debris | parents'’ appear to be very plenty in Bristol of the Board of Enrolment in that district will had constructed mecting them full in the face. Oaly sons of aged and infirm parents. nd were also Gring through loopholes in the up- the State Fair. Gintant rebel batterios, and retreat was being | mittees asked for power to send for persons Jommittee on Riot Claims reported that they had rebel ram came down and opened fire with grape ep etn cae oa closing stores during the riots, or of rent for des- \ Telegraphic despatches from Charleston to the a resolution authorizing the Comptroller to pay wines on James Island was exploded on Monday, rangoments for the permanent occupation of Mor- im Guam aloe, |, Tbe commis: sequens te yond three months indefinitely. The report was whole island and converting Battery Wagner into noon. The trustees of the Seventeenth ward Rapidan remained unchanged yesterday. General | pweifth street, near avenue D, After considerable iment, has taken a large number of prisoners, | tablisliment of the school. Dr. Gibbs, Professor of was accepted. The other business which came up jays’ fighttng, with a list of the casualties. The In pursuance of the President’s new proclama- pn Tucsday. The Richmond Dispatch of yester- remanded the enlisted parties for service. Judge Penoral Meade’s army contemplates an advance, | another application over for consideaation on the Veg to thirty thonsand doltars, wire captured | the proclamation was issued, he could not be af- spective. A despatch from Atlanta, ated ou Monday, irmish with the fedoral troops near Dalton on Fri- fern, indicted for arson, was postponed, in conse- officer, Assistant District Attorney 0. L. Stuart. agemont with the rebels near Lafayette, M “f a Court, were discharged for the term. The Court ad that Genoral Buroside has joined General | o'¢lock. Tuesday. In the afternoon there was @ reaction, peen by our correspondent’s letter from Corinth, “ br \ 181 and closed at 182%¢. Exchange was inactive: 146 four troops tn @ constant state of watchfulnesss | Te cotton mart igi dih Wiles tal Acwee polar, Of 60. © 100, on the former and to. a 2c. ie latter, ndor the command of three leaders—Roddy, | the pressure of ecelpts. A fair bi Pane ee od tho region of country in which their operations rates, eave for prime pork, which was oheaper, Latd which were tending upward. Common Rockland lime, A «peoial translation of (he protest of President sioned by the late heavy disasters inflicted upon the rebel armies East and West, is demanded from the vital importance of Richmond, Atlanta and Charleston to the rebel cause. With the loss of Richmond, granted that Davis, with bis Cabinet and Congress, may move off to some other place, with their government archivesand Confederate scrip in their carpet bags, the cf- fect, with the news, will bo the immediate col- lapse of the Davis confederacy at bome and abroad. At this stage of the game it needs no statistics of the supreme importance of Rich- mond to satisfy the intelligent reader that with its fail the whole Ci ofederate fabric, military, political and Qnancial, wili tumble to the ground. On the other hand, the occupation of Atlanta by General Rosecrans, together with his ocerpation of Chattanooga, will cut off all “the confederacy” south and west of those points from Richmond, North aud South Carolina; and thus, while it leaves all that section complete!y atthe mercy of Grant and Banks, Farragut and Porter, it leaves South and North Garolina at the discretion of Rosecrans. atrong position af Charleston is quite as import- ant as Atlania. The loss of either of these three vilal points of defence places the other two in jeopardy; but Richmond is the most im- pertant of all. maiutained between Richmond and Washing- ton. We apprehend, too, that as Lee is their only general who still commands the confi- dence of the rebel soldiery and the péople of the rebellious States, his army has not been, and will not be, materially diminished notil ‘there is a finui settlement between it and the Atmwy-of the Potomac. We p . ther General Meade nor the adi ‘be led astray by. reports of the depletion of Lee's army to strengthen Bragg or Beauregard, without positive proof of the truth’ of such reports. We set them down asa weak device of the enemy for strategical purposes, involving offensive as well as defensive tactics, rotwith- standing the retreat of Lee. Much more now. than at any time heretofore, the main defence of the rebellion is Lee, with the army under defensive system, the last resort of @ beaton and broken army, haa, together with the gueri!la | system, become the general war programme of the rebellion The little irlangle of “the confederacy” en closed in the lines from Richmond to Atlanta, in Georgia, and thoace across to Charlestoa, is the contracted ficld selected for the dperations of the remaining regular robe! avmies eaat of the Mississippi. At the northeastern peint of this triangle is the army of General Lee; at the southwestern point isthe army of Bragg, and at the southeastern are the army and the de- fences of Beauregard at Charlesion., Ontside of this little triangular fragment of the dimiuish- ed kingdom of the rebel King Cotton it ap- pears to be the purpose of Jeff. Davis to rely for the time being on guerillas and busk- whackers. ‘The adoption of this plaa of operations, ocea- Ta this view the Hence the great rebel army which is still ume that nei- ‘isteation will his command. We have indicated the defensive character of the present war programme of the rebel lead- ers. They have, since the beginning -of the war, tried four other different general plans of operation, and, all having failed, the fifth will probably finish them. Inu the outset they es- tablished a defensive boundary, running from Manassas to the head of the Potomac river, and thonce across Western Virginia into Keatuoky, and through the heart of that State to the Mis- sissippi river at Columbus, a few miles below the junction of the Ohio, and so qn. They held this line through the whole year of 1861; but by the middle of March, 1862, our armies had moved it down to some distance below Nash- ville in the West and to Richmond in the East. Jeff. Davis publicly confessed to his chopfallen ruling confederates that they had attempted too much, that a defensive boundary was not thd thing, but that great movable armies, near interior lines, for concentration, would do the work. This plan was accordingly next tried, and, though it failed at Shiloh, it partially sue- ceeded dn the Richmond peninsula and in the campaign against General Pope. Next, partly from necessity and partly from inflated ideas of the invincibility of Southern chivalry, the third general plan of “Con- federate’’ operations was resolved upoa— to wit, a general invasion of the North. Lee, by way of Maryland and Washington, in pur- suanoe of this plan, took up bis line of march for Philadelphia and New York; Bragg, pre- ceded by John Morgan and his guerillas, ad- vanced through Kentucky for the liberation of Obio and the Northwest, while from the depths of Arkansas “Old Daddy Price,” Hindman, Van Dorn and othere, with a considerable army, pushed forward to “sweep the damned Dutch and Yankees” out of Missouri. This plan was bold, grand and comprehensive: but from Antietam to Missouri it proved a disastrous failure. ‘The fourth general plan of the enemy was then adopted, embracing powerfi fortresses and strongly intrenched armies of observation along their frontiers, and co-operating movable ar- mies inside these lines and clouds of scouting guerillas outside. This formidable plan has proved more disastrous to its inventors than any of the other three orall of them combined, aa Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Jackson, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Helena, Fort Smith, &o., will testify. Davis has now.fallen back upon adefensive plan involving the defensive and of- fensive tactics of Napoleon, in his desperate struggles to save his sinking ewipire in his re- treat from his terrible defeat at Leipsic. in. 1814, to Paris. This isthe outting in and cut tir i$ bting while retrea frok a ee. 4 aii enveloping pag But, as those tactics fulled to save Napoleon, they will fail to save Jeff. Davis. We shall not much longer have to watch the tightening con- vuleions of the anaconda, which has already compressed this monster rebellion from the im- of elephant to the con- Fab hab Benetton 3 a ethos The decisive struggle of the war iy reserved for the Army of the Potomac. Let this inct be borne in mind at Washington, and all existing fears of European intervention and warlike | “peace, at any terms.” tion of the war until the fire-eatora’ Southern rebellion ia crushed. This verdict is in perfeet’ accord with the conservative trismphs tha swept through the Oeatral States lat antumn, and with the elections in Gonnecticut and Rhode Isiand last spring, and addx another chapter to the important lessons taught by all of tose elocti Atthough these treths are 60 plain that “he ho rua may read,” yet the peace men do not seem to comprehend titem. The universal disgust with the mismenage- ment of the war and the blunders of the ad- ministration that existed in the public mind one year ago commenced the popular political revolution which first mnie ils appearance in the October elections, and imoreased in power at every subsequent election, until the public saw’ that the copperheads were claiming those ver- dicts aa being in opposition (a the war and for There was nothing in the issues presented: im the Central States last * ‘autumu, or in the result of the clectiona, that would give the copperheads the slightest ex- cwse“for any such interpretation. The public saw that he vast resources of the North were being frittered away by the imbecility and blundevs of the officials at Washington. They also saw in the intrigues of the radicals, who were all powerful in administration circics, the danger that the war for the-restoration of the Union would be diverted. fram ils legitimate object aad turned into. a war-of subjugation. This, with the system of arbitrary arrests, aud other silly acts of the administration, aroused the conservative masses, and they in an em- phatic manner recorded their repudiation at the badlot box. The Central aud portions of the Westerm States wueeled into lime and united in thein protest against tho official blundering and mismanagement that had:characterized the Cabinet efficials, and alao added to that protest an utter gout of the radical abolitionists, their candidates and their issues. Tn that. verdict the publle recognized an overwhelming repudiation of the radicals and their doctrines, and rejoiced and took courage over the result. It was, however, very far from being an endorsement of the other extreme, or an expression in opposition te the prosecution of the war. But no soomer was the re- ault made. known and. promulgated to the world than the peace men claimed it as a triumph of their doetrines. They im- mediately commenced their harangues, and with the alr of conquerors proctaimed their pretended victory and poticy throughout the land. A few months rotted around, and -the! canvass was. commenced in Connecticut. The copperheads and peace men, by their bluster and noisy speeches, gave the impression that the democracy had run wild on the peace doctrines. The demoeracy of that State trotted out their candidates on an anti-war and peace platform. The leading peace orators of the North stumped the State, and were bolder than ever be- fore in their opposition to the war. Election day came, and with it as complete repudiation of the copperbeads and radical democracy as the radical republicans had received in the Central States afew mouths before. Rhode Island and Providence Plantation followed in the same strain soon after, the masses showing to the world that, while they agreed with the Central States in their repudiation of the abolitionists, they also had a supreme disgust for the peace men, and still maintained their ground for the war until this unholy rebellion is crushed. The copperheads failed to take warning from this result, or to profit by the lessons that it taught. Peace meetings were held in this city and other places to organize an anti-war party, and the public mind was kept fomented with their doings. The canvass opened in Maine by the nomination of their former anti-war candidate, and Vallandigham, another copperhead apos- tle, was nominated amid a wild furor in Ohio. The republicans in Maine brought forward an old Jacksonian war democrat. The result is one of the most disastrous routs of the copper- head tribe ever kaown to any party, which is likely to be foilowed by the repu- diation of Vallandigham in Ohio. This result will run through the Central States in the coming October and November elections, unleas the democracy profit by these historical lessons and repudiate the heresies of the cop- perheads. The democracy of this State, at the recent Albany Convention, showed their wis- dom by repudiating this dangerous faction. The peace men were defeated in all their schemes, and left without « plank to stand upon or a candidate to lean against. But had they followed in the footsteps of the democracy of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine, their ticket would have fallen stillborn, and the people on election day would have recorded an emphatic repudiation. The people are de- termined that this rebellion shall be crushed, and ruin will follow any party, faction, official or politician who attempts to divert them from that object or stand in their way. Our Sattors axp Toem Prize Monwy.—It has been generally supposed that no difficulty ex- isted in relation to the seamen of our navy ob- taining the prize money which was due them; but we find that the Secretary of the Navy has decided, under the act approved March 23, 1863, relative to prize money, that seamen shall be credited on their accounts with the amount of prize money due, and, though standing on the books of their paymastera, they cannot actually receive it until their term of service has ex- pired. The sailor is thus debarred of the use of bis money without interest, when be could devote it to a variety of purposes. His family may be in need; but he cannot on any piea what- ever obtain it. Mr. Welles or somebody else ets the use of the money, and makes as snug fee by the opefation. ft isd fatlerjob than any one we can think of. Morgan's ship buying was nothing to it. The Fourth Auditor and Comptroller have both decided that the seaman entitled to prize money may give a power of attorney to his wife, mother or friend; but Mr. Welles bas or. dered that n0 power of attorney will be received, which is in direct contradiction to the act ap- proved February 26, 1963, which provided for the form and execution of powors of attorney. It is to be hoped:that in our vext Congress something may be dono to remedy some of the ¢vide which now exist in relation to: om navy. | This matter of prize money is an: important ; be, and should Gimned early atention. The Secretary of the Newy veeds stirring up with a short pole Abraham Colt: sm amatéc Crisie— The Latest end Greatest of Shakspore’s Commentators. Mr. Lincoln's goniem ie wonderfully versa- tile No department of human kcowledge seems to be unexplored by him. He és equally at home whether Ciscuasing divinity with political preacher, debating plane of campaigns with military heroes, Mlustrating the’Pope’s bell against tho comet to a pleasure party from Chicago, arguiag questions of con- stitutional law with Vallandigbam sympathizers, regulating political parties im Missouri, defend- ing his pelicy before party conventions, or im diting letters te the philosopher in chief of the Tritame aoadewy. In all these, and in the dic- position of the countless i have come up-for bie decision during the last two years and'a half, be has displayed a variety of attainments, a depth of knowledge, a fund of anei & power of analysis aad a correctness of j ent thaéstamp him asthe most remark- able man-of the age. It only remained for him to cap-the olimax of popular satonishment and admiration by showing himself to bea dramatic critic of: the Grst order, and the greatest and most profound of the army of BShaksperean commentators, And this-be.has mow done. The Falstaff of oor stage hasbeen honored with an autograph letter from the American autocrat, just as Shakspere himself was honored with an amica- ble letter from King James the First, and which, we are. told, “that most learned prince and great patron of learning was pleased with hie own band to write.” We have obtained a copy of the President's letter, and deem it of sufficient interest and importance to print it in this connection. Et reads as follows:— LETTER PROM PRESIDENT LINCOLN TO MB. HACKETT. Mr Dra 6in—Months ago f should bavo acknowledged the roceipt-of pour book and accompanying kind aote, and faow hava-to beg your pardon for not having done #0. For ono. of my age I have cen very little of the drama. ‘Tho firet-presontation eof Wulstaf’ I eyer saw was yours bers last winter or spring. Perhaps the best compliment Lean pay.is tosay, ast truly.can,f em very anxious to sco it again. eC Shakepere's plays | bave never .fead, whtist others Ihave gone over perhaps ag frequently #8 any unprefessional reader. Among tho latter are | {*Loar,"” “(Richard Third,” “flonry Eighth,’ ‘Haatet,!* aodespecially “Macbetn.”” I think noue equals “diac both.” K is wonderful. Unlike you geutiomon of the profession, } Vaink (he soliloquy in “Flamer,” commencing 40, ny offoace is rank,’ surpasses that commencing ‘To be or not tobe > Bat pardon this ema attempt at criti cism. #ehould like to hoar you pronounce tho opening epcech of Richard the Third.” Will you not soon visit Washington again? If you do, please call and let me make your personal acquaintance. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN. Janes H. Haceerr, Esq. If Mr. Lincoln had had time to dilate upon the subject of his letter und to analyze the plays and passages to which be tig refers, we would have had an article upon Shakspere which would doubtless have consigned to merited dust and oblivion the thousands of tomes that have been printed on that subject, and would have been accepted as the standard authority henceforth. New editions of Shaks- pere’s plays, instead of having a long preface about what was thought and said of them by Bishop Warburton, Dr. Johnson, Stevens, Ma- lone, Ben Jonson, Lord Shaftesbury, Goldsmith, Goethe, Voltaire and others, would simply cou- tain Abraham Lincoln's commentary. Perhaps, after be retires to the shades of private life at Springfield, he may devote a few of his leisure moments to this pleasing task. Goethe was struck with the fact that in the literary circles of England the subject was Shakspere und keine ende—nothing but him, no end of Shaks- pere. Mr. Lincoln’s criticism will preclude any such complaint in future. That will finish up the subject, and there will be nothing more to be said. Voltaire described the great dra- matist as a savage who had some imagination; but that desperately profane Frenchman would not have hesitated, If he were still in the flesh, to have applied the same remark to our ac- complished President. Mr. Lincoln does not seem to be a passionate admirer of that soliloquy of Hamlet’s,“‘To be or not to be,” which schoolboys are so fond of deciaiming, and which actors generally make such a bad mess of. There, again, he is right. It was Oliver Goldsmith, we believe, who took it to pieces and showed what arrant nonsense it was made up of. Mr. Lincoln has probably never read the criticism, and yet he has arrived at the same conclusion. Henceforth the role of Claudius, King of Demmark, will be sought after by accomplished actors, instead of being remitted to the greatest stick in the company; for Mr. Lincoln has discovered and made known the surpassing beauty of the King’s eoliloquy commencing O, my offence is rank; it smelis to heaven. We suppose he has sometimes applied to bis own case the lines in it— Like a man to double business bound, I stand io pause where | shall (iret begin, And both neglect . But, terse, forcible and elegant as is what Mr. Lincoln modestly styles “this small attempt at oriticism,” the brightest jewel in it is the sentence, “I should like to hear you pronounce the opening speech of Richard the Third.” How delicately and dexterously the grave cares of his official position are combined with literary tastes. The sentiment is apparent. It is not that he cares to hear Mr. Hackett, or any other actor, declaim— _ Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer— but it is that the poet’s dream should be realized by ourselves, and that the time would soon arrive when we might truly and happily “Sem visag'd war hath smoothed bis wrinkled front, We regard the short letter of Mr. Lincoln as by far the best of all his epistolary produo- tions, and we expect it to enjoy that immortali- ty assured to the works of his favorite author. “Tear Down tar Fiauntivg Le.”—The Tribune tries to make out that papers which republish and condemn the Tribune's accomplish in its favor, Austria, Pruseig 80d Spain have’ also provinces or colonies wa ch might at any moment revolt, and these Powa {re careful not to openly avow their sympa’ ¥ with the reBellion. Russia, from the fact tha t like ourselves. eho is straggling against anim Surrection, naturaliy sympathize> with our gov- erument, and trom her the rebels ean never ex- Pest ald or recognition. France stands forth in opposition to the Unitet States, whose power and influence she wishes to a¥ate. The Emperoe Napoleon Stated’ to’ Judge’ Rost, the rebel commis- sioner, that he foresaw a too groat extonsiom® of the naval power of this country, which would* thus obtain an influence likely to preponderate’ in the world to the jeopardy of those Powers now considered the most influential and mighty. . In his letter- to General Forey, the invader of Mexioo, Napoleon openty asserts that he intends to atay the progross~ and> rapidly inoronsing- bower of this government, and that for that pur- pose had he-undertakenthe Mexican expedition. All this France may attémpt, because she has no large colonies to lose; and has no provinces which may be tempted 'to rebellion by the~ example of a successful Séuthern insurrection, and because her present government but lives» upon the prestige of military success. England and Spain, however, are certainly pursuing a strange course in this affair, as they must understaud that the power of this govern- ment is the countorbalance torthat too aspiring nation of Europe which evinces « desjre to rule the world. Should they aid Napoleon im destroying the unity and strength of this coun- try they must be aware that his next care would be to lessen their influence, and by so doing increase his own. A sue! termina- tion of his Mexican expedition vont him a renewed hold upon his subjects and gteatly advance his. position throughout all Europe, and no Power would have more to dread from suoh @ consummation than England. Austria and Prussia would: also-come:in for their share of the grudge which France entertains for their coalition against her during the first empire. ‘There are traditions ia France which Napoleon cannot ignore, and one of these is revenge againat the enemics of the great Emperor, the first of the name. England's government and her aristocracy hate us we well know; but just now they fear France more, and that they should-shew any desire to aid | hee in her. attempt to obtain. power and prestige at our expense is a strange and most peculiar attitude on the part ofa nation usually very shrewd. We: are inotin naught save their firm hi of Napoleon the Third as. it may, it is vory , with the single- exception of Ruasia, this government has no, well wisher among the great Powers of Europe, All of them fear the result of a successful ter- mination of our struggle and the consequent reconstruction of the Union. They are well aware that when the war is ended we shalt have become a great military Power, and that, having that advantage, we shall more than likely not be stow to make use of it. Besides they dread the offect upon their subjects of the success of the American republic, | aud would gladly see it crushed, even wero the instrument to be used for that purpese Napo- leon the Third, whom they also fear i tle. like. Perplexed by these conflicting feelings, the Powers of Europe are cautious in their movements, and we shall see none of them coming out openly in favor of tho South until France has drawn upon herself the onus of the affair by precedence. It remains to be seen whether France will dave to, run the risk. Goaded on by the necessitiés of her position in, Mexico, she may be tempted to do that which, will irretrievably ruin the power and influence of Napoleon and destroy hia dynasty. Teavs wire Sovrusry SxaTes.—In our yo terday’s issne we published a digest of the re- vised regulations for “commercial intercourse with and in States declared in insurrection.” By these regulations the parts of the Southorn States with which trade is permitted are erected into trade districts, and called special agencies. Special agents, assisted by subordiantes, govern each dis- trict under this code of rules. No. trade is permitted except under proper permits, which the surveyors and collectors of customs ia several cities are entitled to grant. In addi- tion to the regular trade districts there may from time to time be erected within the lines of our armies “supply districts?’ where, though no regular trade is permitted, the necessaries of life may be sold to the people. “Persons of well ascertained loyalty” may establish stores in the various districts, as the regulations pro- vide. Persons in the supply districts can purchase at the stores only for their own or family use. Where there is a probability that goods will fall into the hands of the enemy th- owners must give bonds that,they shall not, or the special agent must take possession of the goods. Such is the skeleton of the aystem of trade now in existence between the Northern cities and certain districts of the Southern States. Some such plan is necessary to accom- modate the present and prospective necessitios ~ of this case, and the plan of which we have given the outline seems sufficiently compre. hensive and simple to meet every requirement. Gradually, as more and more of the territory hitherto given up to rebellion shall come under our sway, new districts will of course be necessary, new relationships will be estab- lished between the people of the two sections of the country, Southern men will once moro know of the North through the beneficent influences of trade, and many delicate qnes- tions will arise. And, to be equal toali the cases that will arise under it, to accommodate trade properly, to make easy all that trade re- quires, and to make difficult all beside, the system will need to be @ good one. By some liberality in these matters towards the Southern peop!e much good may be dono at the prasoat time. IC it shell be found that the intention of the system shall be perverted and abused, let danrer, of Mexioo, addressed to foreign govern: | tinseed of! and tallow were higher in " i 7, 3 more request, | complications with England and France witl ; the sallor fs thus kept out of his | disloyal gde to the American flag are as trea- | the it punish stringently those who snouts, against the aew aystem of rule which is | Hay, wool, dsb and payne a (ale demand, Hops soon vanish with the capture ef Richmond. — | nae some one is renin the interest | sonable ss the Tribune itself. Upoa Peg same | are guilty, 94 keop the trade aystom liboral. powit torbe imposed on the Mexican people py | Std Boney were more song! + Whiskey was tiem | calles Rane th i ad upoa the of who ad- “ome Pie DY | and more active, At the auction wales of dry goods thore | Bex. Woon's Porrricat, Loveeey.—The cop- | on a large amount of money, for which he | principle, we suppose, the man who exposes ¢ | Muoh will iP Pepolvom, Pyearh 9 QU COLUM IA Yala merning, | was good attendance of gity and country Yuyers gaa | porheadg of Maine draw a blauic. ‘uss not We qlightent quikecity. These ace : crime lo ag bad o0 the ociminel, wialater Wag axiom, Aaoce wilh