The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1863, Page 6

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NCES, BURLESQUES, &c.—HioH BALL. 61 Broadway.<Kraiorias ne Guest, 44 Broadway.—Bateera, lux Vision or Death. » 486 Broadway. —Macto Taum- NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANAT MR, 61: me Cemionrins AND License. om Ye Ne nis Sel NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1863.—TRIPLE SHEET. Buch an event would be popular, he says, with the classes of Haglichmen who look for trade gains only. The London Times sys that the fanatic radical ‘Abolitionists of America are driving President Lin- coln into the attitude of an “exterminator of the whites,"’ without his having any possible chance of benefiting the blacks by emancipation or the practical working out of the “man and a brother’ theory of Wilberforce, Buxton and Clarkson. The Richmond correspondent of the London Times gives a glowing account of the present army power and general war resources of the rebels, Jefferson Davis having demanded that the Euro- pean Powors declare the Union blockade ineffec- tual, the London Times states that the question is full of serious difficulty. If the request is denied rebel privateers, under a ‘belligerent’ commis- sion, may overhaul and seize British vessels carry- ing war contrabands to federal ports. The Cape of Good Hope mails contain some very important information relative to the work of the privateers Alabama, Georgia and Tuscaloosa— formerly the bark Conrad, just converted into a rebel war vessel—in and off Table Bay, Simon's Bay and other parts of the coast. The Alabama captured the Union bark Sea Bride within sight of thousands of the colonists as she was running iato Table Bay. The United States Consul protested against the seizure as having beon niade within cannon shot of the shore. He also olaimed the restitution of the Tuscaloosa, as agent for her ownerg, on the ground that not hav- ing been condemned by the prize court of any re- cognized country her entry into a British port was @ violation of the Queen's proclamation. The Governor decided against both these demands, whereupon the Consul protested in the name of his government, and pointed out that the original cargo of the Tuscaloosa had been sold to mer- chants at Cape Town, and that the cargo of the Bea Bride would be similarly disposed of. The Alabama and Georgia reported-a great many cap- tures and very profitable trips. The captains of the American ships Express and Anne F. Schmidt had been brought to England by the Irish vessel Star of Erin. Their reports of the capture of their vessels by the Alabama are pub- lished in the Hemaxp to-day. The United States steamer Vanderbilt had left St. Helena to look for the privateers. The London journals confess that the Czar of Rnssia stands in a “defiant” position towards the Western Powers since his late reply to their Polish notes. Considerable excitement prevailed on the subject both in London and Paris, and the London Times says there is only one appeal left— thatto ‘brute force.’ The Russian Minister had left Paris, and the French Minister had removed from St. Petersburg. The journey is said to be ‘on leaye’’ in each case; but it was thought very likely that events would lead soon to a great extension of the leave. Prince Napoleon and Baron Gros wee in Lon- don, It is said that the affairs of Poland engaged all their attention. La France, of Paris, announces that the Rus- sian Admiralty was making experiments with ves- sels destined, in the event of war, to be sunk in the channels of Cronatadt. oa An attempt had been made in Warsawo asagg- sinate the Russian General Berg by means of ‘an Orsini bomb. The retaliatory measures adopted by the milftary against the citizens are described PARK THBATRE, Brookisn.—P: ne Hal pokisn. ‘Bing OF THe Marxet— HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, — ence 2 Brooklyn.—Etmorray TR SHEET. LE IP THE SITUATION. Despatohes from Charleston to the 3d instant have boon received from Admiral Dahlgren at the \WMevy Department in Washington. A portion of our lron-clads were then engaged with the rebel betterics, Oer batteries on Morris Island were alao engaged. ‘The latest from Chattanooga is to the 29th ulti- mo, @ud represents the position of General Rose- orann, €6 we have before reported it, completely Impreguable, anc s!i his communications still open. No actiwe operations are transpiring in Gene- val Meade's army. The Shenandofh valley is clear of rebels. Drafted mem are arriving dally at the damp. { AQespatch from Baltimore denies the truth of ‘the atatement in the Richmond papers of the $4 net, that General Imboden made a descent on ‘the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The connection on thet rod is preserved unbroken. , Imigsmuation Was received at Chicago yesterday from parties who arrived there from New Orleans, to tho effect that Pranklin’s corps was repulsed in an attack upon the rebels at Brashesr City, and that Ord’s Thirteenth army corps shortly after ame up and completely defoated the rebels. No ‘ticulara or dates are given; but the news is said to have been officially communicated to General Hherman at Memphis. to ‘SYROPEAN NEws. The steamship Persia, from Queenstown on the 9th of September, arrived at this port yesterday thorning. Her news is three doys later than the advices hy the City of London. Mr. Mason, the rebel envoy, anavanced his in- tention to feave London, in @ letter addressed to Marl Russell, which we publish to-day. With this paper he enclosed extracts from the instructions of Jefferson Davis, directing him to remove from 9 Wnglish capital. It thus appears that Da- ig convinced that the Palmerston Cabinet fotormined to dean the overtures made through Mason for establishing friendly relations with the Confederates, and therefore thinks the fonger stay of that individual in London would 0 neither “conducive to the interests nor con- sistent with the digmity’’ of the Richmond govern- aes London Indez, a rebel foreign organ, speak- Mason's retirement, saye:—‘‘Barl Russell hae qrdogeded in ostablishing absolute non-inter- Ogu Wivs <> Confederate States, because we —_ w three British Consuls who remained in the piers Aiater. Mr. Bunch, at Charleston, and . MeGeo Mobile, were recalled by this pone and Mr. Moore, at Richmond, was jismianed by the Confederate government for con- tamacy."’ Mr. Mason had retired to Paris, Oar special correspondent in london furnishes an important letter, in whieb he alludes to Mason's Joorney to’ France, which, takeo in connextion with trustworthy information which be had re- seived, teada him to believe that Napoleon medi- tates come sadden and powerful biow against both the integrity of the Union and the independence of Maaioo, provided be becomes oonrinced that peopie of both count r ta effectual delivery. The samo weiter eays:—-Yet the Bnglish goverp- ment was becoming more gad tore fully cone winced of the actos! strength and great resources of (ha United Btates every day, at hence would be very cautions of andertaking » hostile demon- } siration agafnat us. 4 wer between France and | the Called States waa regerded ae rery probable Lis Une Bawagie! ind commercial sirclos of Be ad, as Frightgul.” The address delivered by the Emperor of Russia atthe opening of the Diet of Finland, which we publish to day, is remarked on rather unfavorably by the Paris journals. The Polish insurgents are said to have been de- feated, with heavy loss, at a place in the govern- ment of Plock. Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, dnring a speech at Hitchin, England, ridiculed the idea of Canada seeking a union with the United States. The Swedish government has addressed a note to its ambassadors in London and Paris on the Schleswig-Molstein question, The cause ef dis- pute between Denmark and Germany is cited, and the possibility and consequences of a rupture alluded to as the “subjugation of Denmark would endanger the interests of Sweden.” The progress of the match between Heenan and King, the foreign fashiona for winter, and an inter- esting argument between the patentees of the- atrival ghosts, before the Lord Chancellor ot Eng- land, are reported in our columns. It is said that the steamship Great Mastern will be sold at auction. The Liverpool cotton imarket was firmer on the 27th ult., but the quotations were unaltered from a rather drooping tendency of the day previous. Breadstuffs were dull aud provisions steady. Con- sole closed in London on the 27th of September at 933; a 93% for money. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the arrival at this port yesterday afternoon of the steamship Eagle, from Havana, we have advices from that place to the 3d instant and from the island of St. Domingo to the 26th ultimo. Fears were entertained in Havana of an insurrec-, tion of the free negroes, owing to the garrison being so much reduced to strengthen the armics operating in the neighboring island against the insurgents. However, it was thought that, even sbonld they attempt an outbreak, tlrey could make headway, if at all, for only a very short time. In St. Domingo the natives were still giving unintermitting employment to the Spaniards, who, trom all accounts, seem to be making but poor progress in the work of subduing them. The Pacific Steam Navigation Company are svon to increase the number of trips of their steamships, inorder to have weekly communica- tion between Callao and Panama. There is neither pause nor lull in the tide of emigration, which still continues to pour in from Europe. The number of emigrants lauded here last week was 2,638, making the total since Janu- ary 1 119,512, against 61,465 in the corresponding time last year. The commutation balauce now amounte to $40,858 69. The Executive Committee of the Nations] Siip Canal Convention held a meeting at the St. Nicho- las Hotel yesterday afternoon, and adopted @ vo- luminous memorial to President Lincoln and Con- gress. A committee of five is to be named by the chairman of the committee to present this me- morial to the President, In the Board of Education, last evening, the school officers of the Twelfth ward asked $4,000 to purchase a site in the Third avenne for anew school house. Referred. The school officers of the Sixteenth ward asked for an appropriation of $22,000 for s similar purpose. This application was also referred. The reat of the business which came up wees exclusively routine. Hightéen of the colored waiters of the Delavah House, in Albany, were drafted. Sixteen of them took the skedaddlers’ railroad for Canada, and the other two have exemption marks, In the Untted States District Court, before Jndge Betts, yesterday, orders for attachments were issued against the prize schooner Joha Y, } Perris and the steamboat R. L. Maybee. The trial of Dr. Edward M. Browne, the alleged abortioniet, was brought to o close about eight o'clock last evening, in the Court of General Ses sions, before Recorder Hofman, when the jury, after an absence of about twanty minutes, render- }ed o verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the | fourth degree. The extreme penalty to which he | is Hable is two years’ confinement in the Stato prison. He was remanded for seatenos, In the Surrogate’s Court, before Surrogate Tucker, yesterday, the will of the late Abraham R. Lawrence, bequesthing an estate of $300,000, on for twial, but was postponed fn comae- came quence of the precedence given to the Hopper Will, which is still before the Court. The Surro- Gate delivered his decision on the application of Mra. Ellen M. Waiton for her ghare of the estate of the late John Walton, who was mardered in this city in 1860, as will be remembered by our readers, Walton's excoutors denied the validity of Mrs. Walton’s marriage with the deceased, and insisted that she had at the time two other living husbands. The Surrogate, however, holds that she was at that time, in contemplation of law, & single woman, and"is entitled to her share as Wal- ton’s widow, The Surrogate also admitted to probate the will of Frederick Miles. ‘Tho stock market was strong yesterday, and there was @genoral advance in almost all descriptions, with eon- siderable activity, especially in the lower priced ftocks. Gold fluctuated between 1455{ and 147, lowing at 1463<. Exchange fluctuated between 160 and 161}. Money ‘was casy—call loaus 6." T per cont, Cotton was in notive request aud firmer tn price yes- terday, ‘Thoro was less doing in flour and wheat, which were cheaper, and in oats, which were held firm- ly. The demand for corn was animated nnd prices were higher. Barloy was quite active. There waa a better inquiry for sugars, tallow, whiskey and provisions, at Advancing rates. Coffee, tons, rice, hops, hides, akias and spices wore moderately inquired for, An active business was reported in hay, wool and tobacco, which were buoyant, The freight market was moderately ac- tive, Highly Important from Washi; a. Peace Propos! Before the Cabinet— President Lincoln's Position. We are in possession of the very important intelligence from Washington, and through 5 careful correspondent who has never deceived us in his information of passing events, that within the last few days propositions of peace have been introduced to the consideration of the Cabinet. What these propositions are we are not yet permitted to know, nor whence they come. The only fact in the premises communi- cated is that peace propositions have been brought before the Cabinet; but from this single fact, in connection with the present re- duced and hopeless condition of the rebellion, we are encouraged to anticipate the happiest and the most glorious results, If these peace overtures come from the rebel leaders at Richmond we may rest assured that, despairing of a Southern confederacy, they are casting about for an amnesty and terms of restoration. If some secret organization of the Southern people, from the terrible despotism of Davis, have appealed to the justice and the magnanimity of the federal government, in view of a restoration, we may safely conclude that a good word from Wash- ington to the suffering péople of the rebellious States will, through their assistance, speedily put an end to the war. If,on the other band, some member of the Cabinet, believing the time to be propitious, has introduced a propo- te. ERR peo oetttererere resent irr sition embracing a generous amnesty and libe- ral terms of restoration to the masses of the Southern people involved in the rebellion, we cannot doubt that he has acted upon evidence and intelligence of a highly satisfactory cha- racter, In any event, the introdugtion of these peace propositions in Cabinet Council indicates that, in the opinion of at least a portion of the Cabinet, we have arrived at the stage of the war in which, from the overwhelming ascen- dancy and power of the one party and the weakened and hopeles3 condition of the other, we may proceed to the consideration of terms of esis ‘ We know that the Cabinet is divided upon this question of reconstruction; that Mr. Chase, for example, advocates the programme of Sena- tor Sumner—-the absolute extinction of the State organization and local institutions of every State concerned in the rebellion, and the reduction of all of them to the condition of Territories, subject to the supreme will of Congress; and we know that Mr. Seward, on the other hand, in his officlal correspondence with the French government, has broadly suggested that the re- turn of representatives to the federal Congress from any rebellious State will be accepted by the administration as covering all esential re- quirements of the restoration of any such State to the Union. Mr. Montgomery Blair, another member of the Cabinet, in a recent speech to the people of Rockville, Maryland, with great ability and minuteness exhibited the true character of each of these two methods of settlement. He truly says of the Sumner programme—which is the plan of the whole abolition faction—that “the assumption that certain States of the South are extinct, annihilated by the rebellion, and that a Congress, composed of, representatives from the States in which the rebellion does not exist, has the right to consider the sister repub- lics where the insurrection for the mo- ment prevails as -dead bodies, to be disposed of as they please when they get possession, is abhorrent to every principle on which the Union is founded.” Of the other method of settlement he eays:—“I turn from the abolition programme to that which is pre- sented by President Lincoln. The issue is made. We must choose one or the other. His plan is simple. He would dishabilitate the rebels and their usurpation called a ¢onfede- racy of States, and rehabilitate the loyal men and their States and republican governments. To do this he must break the power of the con- spirators, crush or expel them from the region of the insurrection;” and this done, Mr. Blair contends, the States concerned, in loyal hands, reassume their functions under the general gov- ernment. This is President Lincoln’s plan, according to this public declaration of his Postmaster General, Mr. Blair. We accept this distin- |. guished witness and his testimony as rightly defining the position of President Lincoln. We cannot for a moment imagine that Mr. Blair, a3 a member of the administration, would, for the information of a public assem- bluge, and in the immediate neighborhood of Washington, place the head of the administra tion In a false position before the country. The position of the President, then, boing thus satisfactorily reaffirmed to the people by a responsible member of his Cabinet, our only soriows apprehensions of s protracted war are at once removed, and onr hopes of an early peage are largely increased. In this connec- tion these peace propositions before the Cabi- net, whatever they may be, and from whatever quarter they have emanated, are full of oncour- agement. Reagsured that Mr. Lincoln is still prosecuting the war for the Union, and not as a0 abolition crusade; that African slavery ig stil! with him only an incidental and secondary fesne, we consider that the const is cloar for the work of peace and restoration, whether the ground Is first broken for peace at Richmond or Washington or by the Union reactionists of the rebellious States, Tho paramount conclusions justitied from Mr. Blair's exposition of the platform of the Presi- deat are these: that the abolitien faction and thelr dostrustive programme are to be set of the readiost means and the simplest method for the restoration of peace and the Union; and that the radical abolition wing of the adminis- tration and of its party, in the solution of this peace question in the Cabinet, will surely go to the wall. We shall not be surprised if, before the lapse of another month, in a public procla- mation, or with the reassembling of Congress, President Lincoln, in his annual message, shall tise before the American people the recognized master of the situation, and as our great paci- ficator and tho saviour of the Union. In another viow of the subject we hail this news from Wasbington with more than or- dinary satisfaction. The French imbroglio in Mexico and the portentous propor- tions which the Polish question is as- suming in Europe invite our loyal and re- bollious States to peace and reunion, and to the practical enforcement of the Monroe doc- trine in reference to the domestic affairs of thd States of this continent. Thus the reunited American people may become the masters of this hemisphere, and “with ample scope and verge enough for all.” Let the rebel oligarchy at Richmond, snubbed fn England, cajoled by France and disappointed in @very way, think of these things; and if they are not the authors of these peace propositions let them prepare for 4 treaty of peace whioh will blend their destiny with the loyal North and the grand and glo- rious future which thus invites their submission and co-operation. A New Era Dawning in HBurope aad Amorica, When Napoleon the Third first usurped the throne of France he hastened to announce publicly that the new empire should be one of peace. In all his tours through the French “provinces Napoleon assured bis subjects that his only care should ‘be the prosperity of France; that he should avoid war and its con- sequences, and should cultivate peace. Hi: words were eagerly listened to by Europe, and one by one the great Powers, reassured as to the intentions of the usurper, recognized his new government. But a few years elapsed, however, ere it became evident that Napo- leon’s reign was net to be one of peace and security; but that, likes the great Napoleon, who upon the ruins of a republic erected an empire which was all for wary the imi- tator of a bad precedent was to attaok one after the other the Powers of Europe. As, during the first empire, Napoleon the First kept his hold upon the people of France by pandering to their taste for military glory, so has this last Napoleon endeavored to do. The schemes for conquest which the present Emperor of the French has, entertained are now, however, unmasked, and a new era dawns upon the Old and the New World. It was the invasion of Russia which brought about the ruin of Napoleon the Great; the invasien of this continent will prove as fatal to the nephew of the founder of the Napoleonic dynasty. Now that all appreciate the intrigues of France at their just worth—now that the designs of Napo- Jeon are unveiled—they will not succeed, and the people of Europe and of this country have escaped thereby a great danger. The plans of Napofeon were magnificent could he but have carried them out. He evidently intended to cause wars and dissensions, which should weaken the great Powers, while he skilfully augmented and husbanded the resonrces of his own empire, that he might be prepared at any moment to benefit from the weakness of his neighbors. He encouraged revolutions on all sides, and was fast bringing on in Ewrope a state of anarchy and confusion. Had Napoleon been content to confine his operations to Europe he might have succeeded in hie schemes; but he unwittingly andertook too much. He invaded this continent, and from that moment began his troubles. Wily old Palmerston, England’s Premier, as astate as Napoleon, has more experience than the Frenchman, and he divined the deep plots of the latter. To eircumvent them he withdrew from the Mexiean expedition, and Napo- leon at once found himself much em- barrassed. His plans to plunge all Europe’ into. turmoil have failed be- cause this Mexican qffair isin his way. Now tbat he should be free to act against Russia, he cannot; to assault her while he is attacking Mexico is impoesible,.and thus he is. forced to see his European plans fall to the ground, while: he subdmits.to be snubbed—a fact which will eost him his prestige tin Europe. The other Powers will find that Russia’s example may safely be followed, owing to the Mexican im- broglio; and It may fairly be said that in Europe @ new era has dawned, that fear of Napoleon is on the wane, and that consequently a more peacefiel state of affairs may be hoped for. In this country the same feeling’ is gainiag ground. We understand that France is too much embarrassed by all she has undertaken. to succeed, and we are aware that her enmity. can accomplish but little against us. We are likely now to end the rebellion in a short time, and then we shall cause Napoleon tbe Third to understand that the Monroe doctrine is a most respectgble one, and that our people are not to be i ted with impunity. The Mexican ex- pedition is certain to prove disastrons to Na- poleon. After bavingSinvolved him in difficulties which have defeated bis ambitious policy ‘it will entail wpon him his own ruin and that: of nO A Tue Preswent anv Tas Missour: Dateoa- mions—Poor Greeley begins to be very badly frightened in regard to the mission of the Mis- souri delegation. He came out in a long leader yesterday, insisting that Governor Gamble is .all wrong and Jim Lane all right, and that the President ought to grant all the demands of the delegation at once. This is poor Greeley’s favorite and characteristic plan of whistling to keep his courage up, and bragging most loudly when he is afraid that he is about to lose. Against this Tribune article we set the recent speech of Secretary Blair, who opealy declares that the President is decidedly epposed to the revolutionary, ultra abolition policy of the radical destructives. If Secretary Blair be correct~-and his opportunities for acquiring ia- formation are very good—ihe Presidem wil! probably make aa example of this biustering. | organs present ;getic and independent pre bragging, insubordinate and riotons Missouri Sporting om the Prairies and tn Poti tles—A Brace of Birds at Every Shet- At this season of the yaar plovers and prairie chickens are most plentiful, and the sportsman has only to level his gun and fire, and down comes a brace of birds. At this soason, also, Politicians are as abundant as plovors, and the political sportsman finds it oasy to bag his game. Let him discharge bis fowling piece at whatever quarter of the heavens he may please, and, simultanconsly with the report, the air is darkened with falling foathors and dead bodios. A fow days ago, for example, we saw a small flock of democratic cocks and bens hovering about the World office, and we blazed away at them. Down came John Anderson, whom wo hung up in our columns yesterday, and now plump Hiram Cranston drops heavily to the ground and completes tho brace. We havo received the fotlowing neat little note from Mr. Cranaton, of the New York Hotel, and we recommend it to the attention of our readers. Mr. Cranston knows how to keep a hotel and how to write a good letter. We prefer his epistle to Mr. Anderson’s, because it is more witty and more to the point. Mr. Anderson understends the to- bacco business very well; but that does not re- quire es much talent ag the hotel business. There i#s great difference between managing aaogar store and conducting such a spi¢hdid caravansarie as the New York. There is also 8 great difference between keeping a hotel sad editing a newspapor, as Mr. Cranston has dis- covered to his cost. He relates his experience and its results eo frankly, however, that we shall spare him the pain of those comparisons, which are always odious, especially between friends, and give his letter withou! any further iy parties, 1 80ld out, in hash wi reat a Hi , I eold out, in last, my tn! ry irapaper stockholder only 20 tor the Hematp . _ Very respecttully, HIRAM CRANSTON, your obedient, New Yorx Horur, Oct. 6, 1863. It appears, therefore, as we stated the other day, that Fernando Wood, Judge Barnard, Hi- ram Cranston, John Anderson and Alphabet Barlow took possession of the Worldin 1862. They found that newspaper drifting about like a deserted ship at sea. Captain Alexander Cummings and his crew (including our friend and fellow sufferér, General Webb, who com- manded the marines,) had left her, after feast- ing for awhile upon army ale, porter, crackers and cheese; and even the rats had also aban- doned the sinking hulk. She had started os a regular religious trader; but the repubHican pi- rateshad captured her and used her for all sorts of contraband traffic. Then these repub- licans discovered her to be worthless and clear- ed out; so that when Feraando Wood and Company came across her she lay at the mercy of the winds and waves, with her abolition en- sign at halfmast as a signal of distress and her lockers a8 empty as poor Greeley’s head. Mr. Wood ang his companions put this rotten vessel on the stocks, corked up her leaks with green- backs, armed her with several Parrott ‘guns, and fitted her out as a democratie privateer. She was officered by the gentlemen named above and manned by a crew of lwndlubbers, who knew as little about the points of the com- pass as they did about punctuation points. When she set sail the object of her voyage was ‘understood to be the capture of several Tich prizes. Unfortunately, however, she turned out as slow as ene of Secretary Welles’ old tubs, and almost all the intended prizes es- caped. a ‘ Fergando Wood was very desirous of ovér- hauling a Senatorship; but his craft wae not fast enough, and he had to be contented with a seat in the lower House of Congress. Disgusted with this#ailure, he at once sold out his inter- est’ in the vessel and retired to the shades of Bloomingdale. There he is now rusticating, preparing himself for a brilliant career in the next Congress; and we are reliably informed that he has withdrawn from local polities alto- gether, and intends to exercise his great and varied talents in a larger sphere of usefulness. John Anderson wanted to secure a good cargo of tobacco and the Mayoralty. He succeeded, we believe, in the former object; but he soon saw that he had no chance of the latter. There- fore he also sold out, or gave out, and: left Cranston, Barnard and Barlow to steer the ship the best way they could. Cranston, who is a sharp sailor as well as an excellent steward, at once observed that the World was making more leeway than headway, and that she would probably go on the breakers. In bis own words, he “lost faith in all parties, and sold out in May last.” Barnacd and Barlow are, conse- quently, the only captains, chief cooks and bottle washers remaining on board. Barlow has an idea that he can privateer some one of his friends into the next Presi- dential nomination, and Barnard is still afloat, because be bopes tv do something with the judiciary nominations. We ad- vise these twin rovers to dispose of their ves- sei as soon as possible, however, for we are’ building an ironclad ram which will sink her lower than Davy Jones if she continues to.haunt the political seas, like a Flying Dutchman, longer than December of this year. But, to drop ovr sporting and nautical meta- phors, let us seriously ask this question: how much more must potiticians suffer before they will be convinced that a broken dowa news- paper is no help to their cause, and that it does not pay either to bay up auch an affair or to start it again after it has once failed’ The mishaps and misadventures of the politicians who sought to control the democratic party through the World ought to. teach them a lesson they should never forget. The age of political journalism is past. To be successful a paper must now be independent of all parties, using them, if necessary, for the good of the country, but never allowing them to abuse sad prostitute it to their own purposes. The ony two purely political jonenals of any note at presentare Ben. | | very smoothly, grinding outs union between Wood's Deily News and poor Greeley’s Trilnme: and what a pitiable contrast these partisan to the enterprising,” { It ts like ener | tos fow political writers in his employ untif the November election is over. After that be will probably shut up shopand devote himself entirely to his lotteries. Poor Greeley taxea the Triiune shareholders in order to maintain that paper just long enough to gratify his per- sonal malice by insuring the conservative wing of his party ad brilliant a failure as tne radical wing has made When that has been achieved he will probably peddle prize pencils or culti-. vate prize atrawberries for the rest of his days. Such will he the fate of the two remaining re- presentatives of partisan journalism; and we can only add that it is better than they deserve. Financial Ruin at the South and Pros . portty at the North. Upon that disastrous retroat that » distin- guished member of the Bonaparte family once made from a Russian city some complaint waa uttered by a corps commander ia the French army againat the gallant Nansouty because “the cayalry charges were without vigor or spirit.” Nansouty, the Pleasanton of those days, replied brusquely that “the soldiers would fight with- out bread, but that the horses had no patriot- ism, and would not Sghwithout oats.” f Down ia the Southern confederacy they bid fair to learn how much truth there isin Nan- souty’s dictum about bread, and they also be- gin to leara, a3 Nansouty did, that bread may not be the most absolute want of a nation $n- gaged in war. Some good military authorities maintain-that soldiers are all the better if kept at the very verge of want; and while that ia to any extent true the Southern armies need not failin efficiency. Corn meal, the occasional plece of bacon and cold water can always be had; and these, it seems, with the mistaken pa- triotism, wi keep the Southern army together. So the Sonth will not fail in that respect. But it is hardly possible to see at present how it can avoid failure and absolute collapse in every other respect but that of bread alone. 3 Throughout the confederacy there is no element of value. Negroes, who .once repre- sented in the Southern States a value that ran into hundreds of millions, represent it 20 longer. They have taken themselves out ef the market. They have fallen into line under the Stars and Stripes—are teamsters and ser- vants in our armies—scattered everywhere; and when they are knocked down in future it will require a heavier implement than the hammer of an auotioneor. With them they have taken the value that their labor gave to the land they have left. And in these two losses the South—a purély agrioultural coun- try—suffera almost all that an agricultural country can. Such few negroes as are “left sell for two and three thousand dojlars, whem they are sold at all, and this in the rebel currency. These prices exhibit at the same time the insecurity of this cherished property aud the worthlessness of the Southern curren- cy. C~mpletely drained of gold and silver, the whole South is filled with a so-called “money” that, most unlike the money apostrophized by the hero of Shrewsbury and Gadshill, has positively no “purchase” in it. In Riehmond city you cannot buy a box of matches for a rebel dollar bill. Notes on which the Southern gov- ernment has pledged its faith to pay one dollar pass current fora less value than our postal currency notes of ten cents—so low de the Southern people rate the faith of thelr gov- erament or so high do they rate the few pum chasable commodities they have left; for the people of the South have now been living more than twe years upon their accumulated stool of manufactured’ articles and imported of all kinds. In that time no supplies of thie kind have gone into Southern ports, save the oceasional cargoes ef blockade runners—so few in number that they have served not to supply popular wants, but merely to keep im the remembrance of the Southerners that there were other things in the world besides hog an@ hominy—served, like the }ittle light that Luel- fer found in Hell, to make darkness visible, This explains the ribbon riote that they have in Richmond and elsewhere. Women tura out furiously under the ory of “Bread” and rob the millinery shops. But the South was not rich enough to pay for even the few goods that came in by way of the blockade, and that business bas been nearly given up; nor have the many captures of the Southerm privateers enric South in any degree. They have resul ply in the destruction of property, and they represent to the South- ern government only a debt. It owes wages to the sailers of its “navy,” and they claim prize money on every ship burned, although the ships did make such brilliant fires at sea, and did light up Southern vengeance so pretti- ly. Those fellows have no patriotism, and of course want oata. And’ now the Richmond papers announce that the soldiers in the Southern armies must fight without pay. Cer- tainly in that oase the South has need of all its “chivalry.” If Burke was right, chivalry is “the cheap defence of nations,” and that, therefore, is jst what the confederacy wants at the present time. and the cheaper it is the beiter. With this condition of the Southern people — without all that sustains. civilized life, except the bare bread they eat, and bankrupt in every Tespect —coatrast the present rich aad proa perous condition of the Northern people. Manufactures are more brisk than ever; our imports are very large despite the pirates, every article that makes life comfortable aud pleasant is plentifal, and the people have plenty of money. We give every soldier who enters our armies a bounty large enough to enable bim.to buy asmall farm, aad we pay onr soldiers better than soldiers were eyer pald before. Such are s@me few of the differenees between a free people, who live happily uader a good government, and the miserable one driven by ambitious loaders into the “base and abject. routs” of rebellion. ‘Tammany and Sezart—lion, Bea. Weed and the Albany Platform. The machinery that has beem runing aloog Tanunany and Mozart on one ticket for the comiug elections, appears to baveall of a sudden come upon ® saug, The Hon. Ben. Waod has delegation by way of “patting his foot down” | comparing the dark ages to the nineteenth cen- | throwa « copperhead viper among the cog- for the fulure. He could do nothing more just | tury or the slow stage coach to the locomotive. | and more popular, Such en action would be | Nor ie it the least noticsable feature ia regard | } to these two party hacks that they & better emancipation prociaruation than the one he formerly issued; for it would proclaim his emancipation from the thraldom of the radi cals. The Zyivune really has not the slightest influence at present upon the conduct of the administration, and the sooner the President gaged, not in supportin stroy. the respective part long. As poor Gresley hat more Sw venom and tact tban Ben. Wood, we think be will better succeed in this laudable effort. Ben. demonsirates this fact still more emphatically | Wood keeps the Daty News going in order to than by his late Biair manifesto the better it aside; that tho administration will avaji iteolf ! wil be for all partion conceracd. take ore of his owa private luterests and to afford hin qn gxquae for paying araall aalartos | he finds wheels and brought the conc@rn to s standstill, and is now Wying to pace Hie responsibility om a “few mischievous persons fo Tammany.” He is evidently ‘iarmed at the condition wel! ‘fm, and is anxious to shirk the responsil He, however, comes oat in hia private organ aid declares that “under no direnmstences will the war resolutions be ao aquiesced in by Mozart Hail.” So much the bettor. ht Movart stand by. Boo. Wogg in this fwertion aad ail will be well Gr Tammany OE —