The New York Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1863, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD.| JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPIEOR OPFOR H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAT STS: TERMS cash 10 aavance yoovy semi ny weir will ii Tiak oF the ender Nove bus vark dilis current io “New York taxon YE DAILY GERALD Tunas coe oF 0107 Velame XXVIII PY ENING. AMUSEMENTS THIS NEBLO'R GARDEN, Broan —Na WINTEB GARDBN, Broadway THEATRE. NEW ROWFRY Bowery. —Tneaxsy— Butan Boru: ime Down Grit oF Cxxoa—Art Tae Wonsn's a Wrage S BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery —Misieroe Boven—Mo- aun GOOk—MARY Price BRYANT'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Mall, 472 Broad. AN SONGS, Dances, HuRLasques. 4c —BLack WOOD'S MINSTREL BALL. 514 Broadwar.—rmorian tows, Dani as, &o.— tuk Guose AMBRICAN THEATRE. No. 444 Broadwa Pamownss, Boureseuss, &6.—Srevmr or W NEW YORK THEATRE, 486 Broadway. —Tas Stare Mao Taumrer. IRVING HALL. Irving place —Tne Srereorricox. NBW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, (18 Broadway.— Cumosrrigs anv Lycrorss, from 9 a. M. till 10 P.M. HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Etmiorian NGS, Dances, BuRiesgues, &¢. New York, Saturday, Sept. 19, 1863. ROSECRANS’ OPERATIONS IN GEORGIA. It has been reported from Memphis that General Rosecrans’ army had been driven back by the rebel forces under Bragg, assisted by reinforce- ments from Joe Johnston, whose cavalry was said to be destroying Rosecrans’ communications. There can scarcely be a shadow of truth in the above report, and as the despatch was dated on the 16th inst., the repulse was reported to have taken place previous to that date, after two days’ fighting. Through rebel sources we have direct intelligence from General Johnston to the 15th, on which day he was at Atlanta, Ga., and nothing is said about a battle. The Richmond despatch from Atlanta gives accounts of skir- | mishing along the front, and acknowledges | } | the steady advance of the Union forces. A | skirmish is reported to have taken place on the 12th, near Lafayette, in which the enemy | (rebels) were driven back. Lafayette is in Walk- er county, in the northwest corner of Georgia, and is about one hundred miles north of Atlanta snd eight or ten miles from the Tennessee line. Xt would appear by this that a portion at least of General Rosecrans’ forces have penetrated the State of Georgia. A. P. Hill's rebel corps is reported to have | joined their commander in the Southwest, and are now under the chief command of Gen. Bragg. Gen. Longstreet, with 20,000 men, was reported to have NEW YORK eral Sivele’s official report, ‘The arrival of G | dated from tattle Rock, September 10, coufrms | the previous reports of the capture of that city by the Umon forces, Martini law ta in futare to be rigidly enforced theonghout re Department of the Miasourt. Oar apoorst correspondent from Mlomda gives as a detailed account of a boat expedition ap the St, Johas river, the resuth of which waa the capture of five rebel signaimen, with their fags, vifles and and the deateuction of theie station the rebet troops at that post had been ordered to Richmond, which order waa the cause of great dissatisfaction aad some amount of threata from the men, | The steamer Geoege Cromwell, from New Or- | leans, brings us dates to the 12th instant. The | ews of importance ia the sale of the first | bale of cotton of the preseat year's production, and which realized the high price of 67% cents Thia ia the first bale of cotton raised | in Lonisiana undec General Banks’ free labor ays- i apparatus, near Jacksonville, | per pound tem that has been brought into the market. EUROPEAN NEWS. | The bark Jeff. Davis, belouging to what is known in England as the ‘Dixie Line,’ was launched lately at Liverpool for the rebel service. She isa consert of the Virginia and Richmond lately com- pleted for the Confederate government. A de- scription of the build and rig of these vessels, which are peculiar, is published in the Hxnadp to- day. It is probable that there will be a ‘‘scrab race” for the crown of Mexico. As it is very likely that the Archduke Maximilian will decline the proffered honor, the names of Prince Murat, of France, and M. Patterson Bonaparte, of the United States, are now mentioned in connection with the position. M. Pattersor Bonaparte is said to be the favorite of the Emperor Napoleon. The deputation despatched by the Council of Notables of Mexico to Nurope, in order to formally tender the new crown to the Austrian Archduke, was daily looked for in Paria when the Arabia sa) This body consists of eight persons, and to them Maxim must give a decisive reply. Ia France, of Paris, says that it is of very great importance that his final answer should be known before next New Year's day. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. After the Democratic State Convention of Ohio } had made their nomination for Governor, the cop- perheads brought out a campaign pamphlet, entitled ‘ Vallandigham's Record,” which they distributed pretty freel, but, finding that the ‘Record’? was damaging their prospects, they last week suppressed the document, and called in all the floating copies. The opposite party then took it up, and now the ‘‘ Record”’ is advertised in all the republican papers for one dollar per hun- dred copies. We have now another State government to add to the itinerancy—that of Arkansas—which has heen driven out of Little Rock, the cay 1. We shall await with some anxiety the intelligence in- forming us where (overnor Flannegan, with the archives, has lo iB We learn fron San Francisco paper that Pre- sident Lincoln wax once a Catholic. According to thie authority he was received, with his fami- ly, into the Catholic church, in the year 1852, at La. Salle, 1. Rev. Father Raho, now pastor of a con- gregation at Los Angeles, California, administered | to him the sacrament of baptism. The Detroit Free Press of the 16th inst. says that the health of Gen. Cass was improving, and arrived at Resaca. The Mobile Register states that rebel troops are hurrying to Atlanta, Ga., from all directions. General Rosecrans’ forces are ready for action, and the lines of the contestants are very close to each other. The comprehensive map which we publish on oor first page is drawn on an extra large | scale, so that our readers may readily follow the | armies in all their movements through Georgia. Tt embraces the present and prospective scat of war from the line immediately above Knoxville on the north, the line a few miles beyond Chatta- nooga on the west, the cities of Macon and } Milledgeville on the south, the mountanious regions | ‘of Tennessee and North Carolina, the western part | of South Carolina and the Savannah river, &c., on the east. By studying the map our readers can | ensily locate the contending armies, and calculate the rapidity of their marches, as the map ia accom- panied by a correct scale of miles. THE SITUATION. The intelligence from the Army of the Potomac received at headquarters in Washington states that the position of the troops along the Rapidan remained unchanged. The rebel army in Virginia is now said to*number only sixty thousand men, and to have fallen back to the defences of Rich- mond. At Fortress Monroe it is stated that the whole of Lee's army were about to evacuate the State of Virginia, even if they had not already done so. If the Mobile General Lee has been removed from the com- mand of the Army of Virginia and General Jobn- ston put in his place. phia received in this city yesterday relative to the fight at Raccoon Ford, and the operations of Meade's army, wax merely a repetition of our special despatches published in the Heratp dur- ing the past few days, with an additional state- Register speaks truly, ment that one hundred and fifty men from a New | York cavalry regiment had been captured by the rebels, This reported capture we do not credit, nor do we think there is any likelihood of troth in the statement. The arrival of the Merrimac from Charleston harbor brings us dates to the 15th instant. The only point of interest in her news was that Gill- | more’s forces were shelling Moultrie from Battery Gregg. General Steve: sengers by the Merrimac. «ame region, received by way of Fortress Monroe, on was among the pas The ramore from the are that Charleston bad been destroyed after three days’ bombardment. The romor ie doubtless pre amature, A small scouting party of Unionists was captured by the rebels on the Savanush Railroad, below the city of Charleston, ou Saturday last. General Longatreet’s forces are reported to have left Virginia for Charleston on Monday last. An increased rebel force is reported to have ap- peared in North Carolina, in front of the Union lines, aud the object of their presence is variously sarmised, Doubtiess the movement was made by the rebels to disguise the passage of troops through the State to other parta of Rebeldom. Gen. Sam. Joes is said to have command of the rebel forces in Western Virginia, consisting of about 8,000 men, divided into two brigades. He is assisted by Gen. Imboden's cavalry, 1,500 strong, A raid by these forces ie expected shortly to take glaye. The news from Philadel. | he was considered out. of danger. General Cass is now eighty-one years old, having been born in 1782. In that year were alao born John C, Cal- houn, Thomax M. Benton, Daniel Webster and Martin Van Buren--all dead. The case of Col. Geo, W. Jones againat Secre- | tary William H. Seward—anaction for false im- prisonment in Fort Lafayette—is on the calendar of the Supreme Court, and set down for Tuesday | next. Mesers, James T. Brady and W. C. Trapha- gen appear as counsel for the government—i. ¢., the United States defend the action of the Secre- tary of Btate. Messrs. John McKeon, Frederick Smyth and KE. R. Meade (a relative of the Gene- ral) are counsel for the incarcerated Colonely In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, be- fore Hon. John H. McCunn, City Judge, Bridget Heffern, convicted on Thuraday last of an attempt at arson, was sentenced to the State Prison for two years, The prisoner, when brought up for sentence, strongly asserted her innocence, and it is understood that an effort will be made to induce the Governor to pardon her, when she will be supplied with fands to enable her to return to Ire- | land. Rosanna Quinlan, who was convicted of | grand larceny some months since, was sentenced to the State Prison for two years, and a stay of | proceedings granted, to enable the defence to carry op & question of law arising in the case to the Supreme Court. No cases being ready for | trial, the Court adjourned until Monday morning at eleveno’clock The atock market was duli yesterday, but prices were generally better, and in the afternoon the market as | firm, Money was easy; call loans six per cent. Gold | rose to 183% @ 134, avd exchange to 14614 a 147 Cotton was in good demand yesterday and advancing in price, Flonr aod wheat were actively sought after at higher prices. There was more doing in corn, which was | steady: ax also in barley and barley malt. Oate were | lower and less inquired for. A fair business was reported in pork, lard, butter, cheese, sugars, bay, fruit, seeds. hops, wool and the principal kinds of metals at, in the mar, invorm prices, Tob: and black teas were in ac- | tive demand, and tending upward. Whiskey was steady, } but in lees request. Tallow sold freely and wae firm | Heavier freight engagements were effected, and rates were firmer, ‘The week's imports of foreign dry goods were to the | value of $1,231,680, including $1,080,067 in direct en triew, and only $161,022 in entries for warehousing. The | neaviest items i the imports were woollens, amounting to $506,257, ike, reaching $819,259. The total im ports during the corresponding week of last year were to the value of $1,507,622. The amount of foreign goods actually marketed daring the week was $1}624,416, Against $1,475,409 same week last year. A fair inquiry | prevailed throughout the week in private trade and in | the auction rooms for all seasonable styles of imported fabrics, especially dress goode, which were in light sup. ply and very firrn in price. In domestic goods the move mente, though not extensive as those reported a week ago, Were nevertheless on & liberal ecale, particularly io | eheetingr, ginghame, flianvels, shawls and printed de. | laines, which were generally beld firmly. There was de. cidediy lene doing Jo stripes, ticks, denims, prints, cassl | meres. doeaking, eatinete and cottowader, and there was | some depression in the market. Army kerseys were aboncant and quite heavy, with a very limited”inquiry. | Dravren Mes Evtirney ro Bovsty. It is net generally known that @rafted men are entitled to and receive precisely the same bounty as volunteers, Section 11 of the act approved Mareh %. 1885, “for enrolling and calling ont the national forces and for other purposes,” provides that all drafied men, “ when called into service, shall be placed on the same foot- | ine. m all respects, as volunteers for three | years or during the war, including advance | pay and bonnty, as now provided by law.” | This provision war donbtless inserted on the | iden that all our soldiers, whether drafted men or original volunteers, mnst be considered as volunteers from the very nature of our govern. rent, the draft itself having been the voluntary f the Toun voting population in Congress assem- wet Amer blew j ntatives of all classes of the HERALD, SATURDAY, | Active Operations of Our Acmirs Bust and West The whole army of the Potomac ia in motion, and from the sharp preliminary ¢kirmisbings be- twoon ita advanced cavalry and the rear guard | of the enemy it in evident that the whole rebel army of Virginia is in motien also, and that there is a probability that at any moment we may bear of a general engagement on the aowth branch of the Rappahannock, known aa the Rapidaa river. We auapect, how- ever,aa the rebela appear to depend more upon the atrength of their posttion on the Rapidan than upon their numbers, that a flank move- ment on the part of Gen. Meade wil! dislodge them and send them 8 day’s journey farther on the road to Richmoed without much additionat Gighting. It is difficutt to determine, from the conilict- ing reports apon the subject, whether the army of Lee has been depleted or atrengthened. We incline to the opinion that he has sent off aome of his veteran regiments to the assistance of Beauregard, Johnston and Bragg; but we dare say that their placos have been partly filled by now conscripts, who, in the veteran army of Lee, will soon be as efficient as old soldiers. Our acceuats from Fortress Monroe, New- bern, Richmond, Chattanooga and Obaries- ton indicate that Yarge bodies of rebels have left Virginia for North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, and per- haps East Tennessee. We adhere to the opinion that Lee has adopted the policy of fighting and falling back, in the hope of draw- ing Gen. Meade into a anare in which his army may be flanked and cut. off from his supplies, or demolished in detail by the concentration of an overwhelming force in succession against its detached columns. But Gettysburg has shown that General Meade is not the man to be caught by such tactics. In this present advance we are confident that he fully comprehends his situation and that of the enemy, the impediments before him, and the will and the capacities of his army to over- come them. His advance is also well timed; for it will compel General Lee to bring for- ward to his own support all those accessible outlying rebel detachments around Richmond. which otherwise might be hurried off to swell the armies of Beauregard and Bragg. The magnitude of the danger to the rebel capital itself from the advance of General Rosecrans into Georgia is thoroughly appre- ciated by the rebel leaders at Richmond. Their anxiety about Charleston is settling down into the resignation of despair; but they cannot yet venture even a hint of the possibility of being cut off from the last remaining railway line which connects them with Georgia, Ala- | bama and Mississippi. And yet it is upon this slender thread that their failing confedera- cy, “whose sands of life are nearly run out,” now depends. We must not, therefore, expect too much of General Rosecrans. From the pa- roled regiments of Pemberton’s late Vicksburg army, and from the odds and ends that Joe Johnston has picked up in Mississippi, Alaba- ma and Georgia, the army of Bragg may per- haps be increased to an army of a hundred thousand men. Even suchan army, considering the discordant and crude materials of which it must be composed, cannot stand a day before the disciplined and victorious legions of Rose- ¢rans; but in the heart of the enemy’s country he must establish, from point to point. some secure base of supplies as he advances, or he may be cut off from his stores of sitbsistence. ‘The rumor that be has met with a repulse reste, we presume, upon no better basis than some desultory skirmishing between an advanced detachment of his forces with some squad of the rear guard of Bragg. As we understand it, the advance of Rosecrans and the advance of Meade must go on together; for each depends to a great extent for its complete success upon the other. From the west side of the Mississippi we have at length the positive information of the occu- pation of Little Rock, the State capital of Arkansas, by the “old flag.” This settles the question for Arkansas. The expelled rebel forces of Price and bis associates, in their re- treat, will probably get down into Texas just in time to be gobbled up or disbanded by the liberating army of Gen. Banks. From the Rap- pahannock to the Arkansas the army and the navy of the Union have the best organ- ized armies and fragments of armies of the rebellion ingloriously retreating, or vainly struggling in their strongholds to hold their ground. We have yet, however, only two months of the year left us upon which we can rely for military operations in Virginia, North Carolina or Georgia. Within this interval, if we dispose of the army of Lee and the army of Bragg, we shall end the rebellion; but if we fail, Jeff. Davis may thereby secure a new term of three or even six months grace, during which we know not what may be the developments of eur foreign relations. We must, therefore, again admonish the administration to make its hay while the sun sbines, and to hurry up the work. War with England and France. The probability of a war with England, or with France, or witb both of these Powers combined, is now the general and absorbing topic of conversation, and even exercises a considerable influence upon the speculations in Wall street. But those persons who talk so glibly of a foreign war forget a few very im- portant facts, Which, we think, somewhat re- meve the possibility of any such a contest at this period. These facts are extremely signifi- cant, and may be very briefly stated. We are conducting our civil war with means and appliances unparalleled in the history of the world. We have an army larger than could be raised by any European Power, with the single exception, perbaps, of Russia. This army is splendidly disciplined and equipped, and is armed with the best and moat effective weapons, It hae seen service during several campaigns, and has fought and won battles compared to which Austerlitz, Waterloo, Sol- ferino and Sebastopol were mere child’s play. We have a cavairy force of one hundred thou- sand men in course of organisation, led by gene- rales who have accomplisbed the most brilliant feats of modern warfare. We have a navy of thirty thousand seamen, who have already proven that Britannia no longer rules the wave, and whose exploits at Hilton Head, New Or- leans, Port Hudson and other now historical localities have thrown the battle of the Nile and the defeat of the Spanish Armada complete- ly into the shade. But, besides all this, and more than all this, | we have an iron-clad fleet and ordnance sur- pasting any yet invented, and a aystem of | harbor defences impregnable to any forces wrel Europe coald sead against us Our SEPTEMBER 19, 1863.—TRIPLE SHEET. e already demonstrated their tre mendons capabilities, and we are now build- ing other tron--lads, like the Puritan, Dictator and Duaderberg, whch will be able to sink such shetle aa the Exg‘twh Warrior and the French La Gloire at a single broadside, and bombard all the towas and cities on tho English and French coasts, These vesaela will be supplied with our beaviest cannon, which can throw immense abella five or aix miles. In {861 Admiral Dablgren declared in & private letter that we had oo gun which Could throw a ball from Fort Sumter to Charles- ton effectively. All experienced ordnance officers would have agreed with Dahlgren at that time. But aow Admiral Dahigrea baa lived to ace General Gillmore throw shells over Fort Sumter and iuto Charleston from batteries five miles distant, and Gilimore gaye that his guns will easily throw shot another mile. The Eng- lish have no cannon of this description. They agent their finest Blakeley guns to the rebols, and, when one of them was recently tried at long range, it burst at the Grst discharge, the elevation required beiag too great for the re- sisting powers of the gun motal.’ Now, in this hasty and incomplete array of well authenticated facta, we see the most potential reasons why there wit! be no war made upon us by France or England. When the news from Charleston and the future news from Mobile and other rebel strongholds shall reach Europe, the rulers and the people will he first astonished and then dismayed at our achievements and resources. As, marvel by marvel, we develop the miraculous atrength with which we are endowed, and send out Dictators, and invent still more effective cannon, and build iron-clad forts, and eclipse ourselves by new wonders, we shall find no Power ready to go to war with us. Im two yearswe have revolutionized the modern sys- tem of warfare, and in two years more we shall revolutionize our revolution. Their is but one limit to our development, and that is necessity. In other words, we shall only stop improving and inventing when no more improvements and inventions are required to enable us to pre- serve an honorable peace with all mankind. The European Powers will appreciate these truths, and will be fearful lest, in the event of a foreign war, we may devise some contrivance to blow up the British isles, or to drop down from a balloon and annihilate Paris. Setting aside, therefore, all political, diplomatic, com- mercial and pecuniary considerations, we have in our martial and maritime superiority a suffi- cient bond that England and France will keep the peace towards us as long as possible. The Ha’ Corpus Prociamation. The President's proclamation suspending the writ of habeas corpus in all cases arising in connection with the military and naval branches of the public service is pretty much another “Pope’s bull against the comet,” but more inexpedient in its results, say some of the timid sort, than was that sacerdotal fulmina- tion. The document from the cbair of St. Peter was intended to allay public excitement, and go doubt accomplished its object, while the last brutum fulmen over the signature of our il- lustrious President, though perhaps made ne- cessary by the blunders of Stanton, Wilson and the otber radical managers, can only tend, if it have any effect at all, to re-entangle those com- plex and knotty questions which were in course of being quietly solved by the liberal and loyal moderation of our judiciary on the one band, and the wise concessions made to public senti- ment hy department commanders of the ex- perience and approved character of General Dix. Amongst other evil effects to result from it not the least will be the pretext it furnishes to orators and journals of the copperhead Sey- mour type for backing out from their oft re- | peated and absurd boast that they would “test the constitutionality of the draft in our courts of law.” We say “pretext;” for it will be no more, as the questton of constitutionality can just as well be raised by application to our Assistant Provost Marshal General! from taking any man whose name has been drawn from the draft wheel. Such an application will just as effectually ‘raise the question” en which Go professed his willingness to stand or fall, as if a writ of habeas corpus were sued out. But the inability imposed upon them by the Presi- dent's proclamation to pursue this course will , be seized with avidity by the copperhead | leaders as an excuse for avoiding an issue | which, if fairly tried, they well know | must be instantly settled against them. Of the ! constitutionality of the draft, and of the Presi- | dent's power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in time of rebellion, there can be no | shadow of doubt,as was very clearly proved | in our article on this subject published yester- a for the gross and criminal blunders of | the abolition fanatics in the early management | of the war the draft would have been unneces- sary: and, even in view of all the copperhead opposition to its enforcenfent, we think the | President's last proclamation inexpedient and | unwise. Sagacious rulers will avoid as much | as possible any appearance of invading the | | rights of the citizen, as guaranteed by the con- j stitution and ourcourts of law; and, while of the perfect constitutional right of the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus there can be no rational or legal question, we hold that policy should prohibit the exercise of a right so nearly allied to despotic power, except as a last resort and after all other agencies for the main- tenance of national authority bad been tried and found wanting. So far as New York is cen- | cerned, no plea of military necessity can be ad- vanced in justification of the measure; for, by the good temper, firmness and moderation of General Dix, a perfeet understanding had been obtained with the judiciary—tbe military autho- rities agreeing to use forbenrance on all points not essential to the main discharge of their du- ties, and our State judges wisely resolving to raise no factions opposition to the due enforce- ment of the laws. It is understood that the President's action in this matter was based on the pressing advice of Secretary Stanton and the apparent neces- sities of the service in Pennsylvania, where the copperheads had collected large sums of money and employed lawyers of their own stripe in every district to suc out writs of habeas corpus and raise vexatious and dilatory proceedings in the case of every man who was drafted. They went further; and its well known that certain copperhead sheriffs ware o1 izing armed posses to resist the draft and take forcible pos- session of any men held to military service under its provisions. Even this state of facts, we think, could have been counteracted without the } { State courts for an injunetion to restrain the | vernor Seymour, for bimself and “friends,” | proclamation, just as well as with it, by large | ik Never was the horee so highly valued as reinforcements to the provost guards throagh- out Pennsylvania. But, be this as it may, there ia neither atatesmansbip nor wisdom in placing the whole coumtry under ban because of a merely topical irritation in one of ita mombers.. As well might @ dootor cut off & man’s head because he bed an ugly and painful ulcer on one of his limbs. If Pennsylvania erra let Pennsylvania suffer; but Mr. Stanton and his radical advisers seem in favor of administering the doses made neces- @ary by her diseased condition to all the healthy States of the Union. Lot Mr. Linooln only rid himself of the abolition fanatics in his counoil who have been the authors of all the misfor- tunes of our arms since the commencement of the war, and we abalt need no draft to reinforce our brave soldiors ia the field, and no suspen- sion of the writ of babeas corpus to enforce the draft. The Complic: in Hurope—Recon- atruction There and Here. We published in yesterday's journal the re- ,] forma proposed for adoption by the German Bund. Count Rechberg, the Austrian Minister of State, bas presided with great akill and tact over the deliborations of his colleagues:who formed the project of reform, and it eooms likely that asa result of bis diplomacy Austria will take the lead in the Germanio Confederation. Although Prussia will use every effort to pre- vent such aconsummation, the chances certainly seem in favor of Austria, and that her govern- ment thinks ao is ovident from the fact that they have cooled off in their late entente cordiale with Napoleon the Third, and that now Prince Maxi- milian is told to refuse the throne of Mexico. This course proves that Austria has not forgot- ten her grudge against France, and that ehe will, the moment she has secured her position as the leader of the German States, assume a rivalry to France which her future power will render most formidable. Napoleon will doubtless endeavor to work upon her fears as regards Hungary and Venetia; but Austria would pay no attention to threats she has had an opportunity of becoming familiar with, and then, as a last resort, Napoleon would seek to make an ally of Russia; and perhaps, by abandoning Poland to her fate, he might suc- ceed in this. Prussia would be inolined to ally herself with France should she lose her position as the leader of the German Powers, and then we should sce France, Russia and Prussia pitted against Austria and England; for if Napoleon succeeds in making such an alliance he would be sure of the still more bit- ter enmity of the latter. Quarrels, and no doubt wars, would ensue which would entail the reconstruction of Europe; so that while we were just recovering from our internal troubles, with a reconstituted Union, we should behold Wurope in all the throes of a revolution more universal than ours. It is plain that the new order of things arising in Europe must have an influence against the recognition of the Davis govern- ment by the great Powers. One and all are aware that a time of great trouble is brewing for them, and all will desire to avoid compli- cations which might find them unprepared for the coming struggle. Napoleon will undoubt- edly hesitate to embroil France with this coun- try should his recent enemy, Austria, obtain the powerful position she ambitions. He may ev- deavor to place a priuce upon the Mexican throne, and cause that new empire, when it shall have become one, te recognize the con- federacy. But that were a pitiful farce, a mean- ingless juggle, and in material sid would amount to naught. Of eourse more or less time would have to elapse ere even that boot- lesa step could be taken by Napoleon, and long ere that we shall lave crushed the rebellion, and in all our power and unity have demanded from France her withdrawal from this continent. Sbe will, we venture to predict. accede to the re quest when we make it, as we shall back our gentle bint witha million of veteran troops and five hundred vessels-of-war. England is getting scared at the aspect of af- fairs on this side of the water. The reported fall } of ours, and that most arrant of all jour- | nals, the London Times, now deprecates all | action on the part of the British government | which might entail a war with us. The people of England are beginning to understand that in the North is the real power of what were the United States, and they dread the retribution which they know they so well deserve at our hands. But this late conversion will not save them from the results of the hatred which the people of the loyal States entertain for those cowardly Powers who, in our hour of need, as- sailed in all covert ways our interests, To one and all we shal! make ample repayment; and @vanger things have happened than that in their time of trouble we, the reconstructed and pow- ertul United States, shall step forward and die- tate terms to Kurope. Be that as it may, on thie continent we shall rule supreme; from Mexico we shall drive the French, from Cuba | the Spanish, and from Canada the English. | Then we shall have paid off our debi, and shall bave asserted the majesty and power of the great American republic. ‘The Horse ® Lord Herbert, of Cherbury, objected to horses, and could not see what pleasure a brave man could take iu an animal whose chief use was toenable him to run away. Aside from this growl, Herbert was « sensible man, and he is the only sensible man of whom we ever read who did not take delight in horses. We all know how the ancients deified P. Apollo on account of the fancy team he drove. And who is more sensible than the ancients? Does not Hower tell how mueh Achilles thought of his horses and how little he respected their opinions? Augustus, Aurelian and Domitian, all first rate fellows, were fond of horses. What fact is better established in Roman bistory than that “the horse Aquilo, gotten by Aquilo, conqnered one hundred and thirty-seven times, won the seoond prize cighty-eight times, and the third thirty-seven times?” He is op a leve} with other Roman heroes. Does not thé Secre- tary of State for the United States keep his real Arabian, with the glory ef the East in bis tt head and the ficetness of the desert wind in bis dainty heels? And {a not the Secretary @ man of sense? Ask Earl Russell. Even the shoddy aristocrat has thie touch of nature that makes him kin to better men—he loves horses. When he has gotten the first fair instalment of bis bad gains, his first purchase is “the beat pair of horses that money%an buy.” Tniversal as the love of the horse bas ever been, the present time surpasses all others in Recent re and Herse of Sumter greatly exercised those dear cousing | Bow, or bred to the same oxtent. in Kugland this animal is almost the one idea of & large Claas of gentlemen. There is an arisiooracy whose claims to consideration depend upon the boraes they own, and two or throe times in @ year all England, high and tow, makes it a point to forget, completely and absolutely, that there is anything else in the world but horees. Taste takes the game direction in France, and the Eim- peror leads the way. On several different occasions we have enlarged upon the intel- leetual groatneas of Louisa Napoleon, and we may add now that he shows on this subject his usual grand discrimination and sagacity. He buys his horses in the United States. We breed the animal here im excellent variety, and adapt- ed to evory possible purpose. We carry oub the horse idea in the same extensive way that we do all others. Everywhere the destinies of the horse are essentially in the hands of aristocrats; but here there are more aristocrats than there are anywhere else. We are thirty millions of aristocrats, and we cau all ride and drive: Every one buys a horse as soon aa he has earned enough money. Lavish expenditure in this matter ia an amusement with our merchants, and many -a one of them driveg the value of « country town, puts a for- tune in harneas, and risks it on all the accidents that horaeflesh Is heir to, simply to gratify the horse passion to the utmoat and to have the best. This is the spirit in which we excel. Throughout the free States at almost overy country town—in this month and the next— horae owners will meet to compare their beat animals and compete for prizes. More good horses will be shown at these fairs collectively than have been geen since Joseph was a horse fancier, and gave his brethren bread for thelr favorite nags. For a great impulse has been given to the horse business by the demands the government has made for the supply of ite armies, This demand is without limit, present or prospective. It drains the country of every horse that can be had within certain prices, and, if one may judge by the horses that can be seen in the army, it will kill evory horse of worthless breed in the country, and give us an opportunity to start afresh with the best material. Admirers of the horse need not regret the great Southern races that the war has so completely broken up, for we are now in a truer way to develop the animal. Look at the exploits of our cavalry; look at the teams driven by private gentlemen, and at the demand for horses everywhere, and see in all these the indications that the people of the United States are to become the greatest nation of horsemen that the world ever saw. Unfortunately all our progress in the true development of the horse has to be made by the provincial parts of the country. New York city is cut off from any participation in it; for, though more money is spent bere for horses than anywhere else, the horse, where he comes clearly to the surface, is in bad hands, He ie in professional hands. He is associated with what is called “sport.” Sport means all kinds of knavery, and its votaries are the gambler, the prize fighter, the pickpocket, and kindred spirits of every stamp. Elsewhere a gentlo- Man may own a racehorse, and enter him in a race assured of fair treatment. Here he cannot do so; for if the gentleman will not submit toe fellowship that a gentleman must spurn hie horse will be beaten, in one way or another. And this is the simple reason why our races and our horse fairs are all alike, as far as the people are concerned, miserable failures. The French in Immediate Departere. The French government is evidently be- coming seriously alarmed concerning the ulti- mate fate of its Mexican expedition. Although the imperial army continues to occupy a few cities of the republic, the progress of its vio- tories since the fall of Puebla and of Mexico does not promise any very brilliant or astonish- ing result. Juarez, the legitimate ruler of the | Mexican people, still holds his own at San Luis Potosi, and it will be a long time before the newly decorated French marshal can strike him in this secure retreat. Surrounded, as he is, by numerous and constantly increasing friends, the constitutional President will doubt- less do everything in bis power to secure his | own government and to overthrow the violeat pretensions of bis invaders. The French have now penetrated into the interior of the coun- try; but they are from this very fact ia a far worse position than they were before. Despite of all the nonsense we every day Lear and read, we feel fully assured that the mass of the Mexican people bave no sympathy or affiliation with their invaders. It would be illogical and unreasonable to suppose that they could be the friends of their true enemies. Un- der the hard pressure of Freuch bayonets, and the tremendons arguments of supe- rior artillery, « part of Mexico, including her ancient capital, bas, indeed, been com- pelled to go down. But so far as the real con- quest of that republic is concerned France is now just as far from it as the deluded followers of Jeff. Davis from the establishment of their bogus rebel confederacy. In otber parts of to-day’s paper we give in- teresting news from Mexico. Our own cor- respondent in the capital sends us advices very nearly to the close of August. But in all this intelligence we see nothing of the promised improvement of that unfortunate land. The truth is, the French are powerless to regenerate Mexico. Some of the leading journals of the French empire, ineluding the Opinion Nationale, organ of Prince Napoleon, publicly denounce the scheme of a monarchy as impracticable and absurd. In fact, the paper last named openly and persistently counsels the Emperor to reconsider his acte and to withdraw his troops before a worse adventure befals them. Such journals as these have prophetic visions; they rise above the ignoble spirit of party which rules the hour, and they distinctly see the gathering dangers which threaten their country. Indeed, as the Opinion says, “What good reason can be given for replacing the ancient friend ship of America to France by anew and lasting eamity!” Let the enemies of both France and America reply. There is no doubt that this Mexican question is every day becoming a more and more im- portant one. Next to the proposed indepen- denee of the Seuth—s thing not to be admitted for a second—it is the duty of the United States government vigorously 10 oppose the erection of either @ monarchy or se empire in our sister republic. All the pretences of France about debts and outrages concern us not, Mexioo can be made to do justice by moral force; bat there is no need of invading her sell, robbing her mines gnd degrading her sone and dangh- tera. This is @ role which is @ disgrace tg