The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1863, Page 6

. —— ae eer = eee ee NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash ig atvance. Money sent by mail will bo ‘af the risk of the seader. None but bank bills current tn New York taken. THE DAILY UERALD, Tange cents per copy. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We do not retura rejected communications. Volume XXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Place.—Inatian OrEaa.— Bigo.zrto. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. —Macoxra. WALLACK'S THEATRE, “WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Buutvs—Kataneine ano Puraveuto. /-—ROSmDALE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—BrotaeR anp Sis- vea—Mapnixy Davaurens. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Davit, mx THe Bowsur—Noxts Porx—Tux Busox TigKa, ry.—-Ja0K AND THE Bean. BOWERY THRATRE. Bo Mal Ouss—FaLan Covors. BtaLa—Guost oF THK BARNUM'S MUSEUM, iway.—INDIAN Car ‘Warmioas anv Squaw ¥, Prrwon. &¢.. at al hour MARVELLOUS. t, Epric axp Durcuman ut Dur vening. BRYANI'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall. 472 Broad- ore Songs, Dancms, BURLESQUES, 40—Hicn vr . . WOOD'S MINSTREL BALL 514 Broad |, ETHIOPIA! FONGE, Dancxs, de. tux Guost, a ig GEO. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Dvn- emsques, Sons, Dances, &c.—Puran Pirxs, IRVING HALL. Irving place —Daxrstee’s Mustoat Bureerarnment. AMBRICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Baitars, Pantowmnxs. Bomixscors, &6.—fux Vision or Dxata. NEW YORK THEATRE, 48 Broadway.—Sotpizx ron LormeLa SrLruipe. -* NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 418 Broadway.— <msosiTIES AND LucTURES. from ¥ A. M. till 10 P.M, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Etmioriun Boxgs, Dances, BORLEsauRs, 40. SHEET. TRIPLE Mew York, Friday, October 9, 1863. THE SITUATION. Despatches from Chattanooga up to the 7th do mot report any general engagement. Both armies were still fronting each other. Considerable desultory firing had been going on. The Rich- mond papérs of yesterday say that the rebels opened fire on Chattanooga on the 5th from Look- out Mountain, and the fire was answered from Moccasin Point. The Tennessee river had risen 60 rapidly that the pontoon bridge constructed by General Rosecrans was swept away. It is stated thaf General Bragg has been reinforced since the. battle of Chickamauga by one division from Rich- mond, commanded by General Arnold Elzy; one from Western Virginia, commanded by Géneral Sam. Jones; one from Petersburg and Weldon, commanded by General Ransom; three brigades from Florida, commanded by General Howell Cobb, and the three famous batteries from Lee’s army—Cutts’, Blodgett’s and Walton's. His whole force is now estimated at one hundred and weventy-five thousand men. Despatches from headquarters at Nashville on Wednesday evening say that there is no doubt that the enemy is being rapidly pursued by our forces, and that while ‘he may stop to do some damage to the railroad, he will have to retreat with rapidity. The latest from Charleston is to the 6th, and comes from Richmond. An attack was made by the rebels on that day on the frigate Ironsides, damaging her somewhat and alarming the fleet. News from General Meade's army yesterday states that indications of a collision were mani- feated during the past ‘twenty-four hours, but so far no general action had taken place, The report that a rebél brigade occupied a posi- tion north of the Rapidan river, neaf the railroad, is incorrect. Our forces picket the entire north bank of the river to its confluence with the Rap- pahavnock, and the presence there of a single rebel brigade or division would necessarily bring on a conflict. ‘The recent movement of General Burnside’s army upon Knoxville is finely described in our columns to-day from our special correspondent and the Knoxville papers. Our correspondence from General Foster's department represents the mysterious expedition which left Fortress Monroe on Sunday last as progressing favorably, with, the prospect of an immediate happy result. It will be seen by our despatches from Wash- ington that the question of a settlement of the difficulties between the Northern and Southern Btates without further bloodshed has been under consideration both there andin Richmond. At present the matter is veiled in mystery; but our correspondent assures us that before many days elapse it may be shown that the government has either accepted or rejected a plan proposed to try to bring the wer to a speedy and bloodless con- clusion, wit» :t dishonor to the North or humilia- tion to the Se The steamer Josie, which ‘cleared for Havana with on assorted cargo from this port yesterday,» toq during but fell under the suspicion of the Custom House authorities that she was a blockade rapner, has been detained under guard in the lower bay until her case ‘s investigated, » Some excitement exists in Leavenworth from a fear that the rebels meditate an attack wpon Fort scott and Kansas City. All the troops from Lea- venworth had been sent down, and the militia were about to be called out at last accouats. Ry the arrival at St. Johns, N. F., on Wednes- day night, of the steamer Columbia, from Liver- vol, we have three days’ later news frum Europe. ‘irl Russell made an important speech on the American question, at Blair Gowrie, in Seotland, in which he justified England in recognizing the Confederates as belligerents, and answered some of the imputations brought by the people of the North, particularly the speech of Senator Sumner. He 0 aaserted that, although self-interest demanded that England should break the blockade of Southern ports, she prefers the course of honor, as it would have been infamous to break %t. He showed that the government had not sufficient evidence against the Alabama to detain her until after NEW YORK the way of interference in such cases. He as serted that the British government was’ ready to do everything the duties of neutrality required and which is just to a friendly nation; but would hot yield one jot of right to the menace of foreign Powers. He complimented the federal govern- ment and Mr. Seward upon the fairness with which they have discussed the matters of difference; but said there were others, in- cluding Senator Sumner, who had acted differently. He denounced the efforts of those who sought to create trouble between Ame- rica and Europe, and with expressions of friend- ship toward America asserted that all his efforts would be to maintain peace. The London Times regards the withdrawal of Mr. Mason as an evidence that the Southern con- federacy now leans solely on Franee, and expects some immediate action in its behalf from that Power. It says that the French Emperor has taken a position on the American continent which actually enables ‘‘this poor, harassed, unreoog- nized confederacy to confer a favor onhim."’ \ MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Columbia, from Liverpool on the 29th ult., via Galway on the 80th, arrived at St. Johns, Newfoundland, on Wednesday evening, 7th inst. A telegraphic summary of the news, which is three days later, will be found in dur columns this morning. In London, on the 29th ult.,.consols for money closed at 9: 324. In the Liverpool markets cotton was firm and without change, breadstuffs were quiet and steady, provisions were more firm, and produce was quiet. General Wool was served at his residence yes- terday with notice of an action in the Supreme Court, at the instance of Mr. Goodman, a mer- chant, for illegal arrest and imprisonment in Fort Lafayette. The damages claimed are $50,000, The Richmond Sentinel contains the following recommendations to the rebel government and the people of the South:— WHAT THE GOVERNMENT MUST DO, ‘Tax an high as people can bear. Reduce the volume of the curreney by every posable means. ‘Suppreas bigh prices by law. WHAT THR PROPLE MUST DO. Pov taxes cheerfully. Sell to the government promptly and at fair prices. Be content with small profits. -Lend as much money as possible to the government. Hold property and personal service at the call or the need of the government. The border ruffians of Missouri and the jay- hawkers of Kansas are arming for a deadly con- flict. We expect soon to hear of desperate and bloody work out in that section, The name of the government gunboat that left Boston on her trial trip on Monday is ‘‘Sassa- cus.’ She was built at Portsmouth, N. H. Within the last two months Jeff. Davis’ rebel incendiaries have set on fire and destroyed fifteen first class Mississippi steamboats, valued at three- quarters of a million of dollars, and caused the loas of twenty-eight lives. House rent in Richmond, within the last eighteen months, has advanced over four hundred per cent, on an average. An old gentleman, we learn, with a large family, who rented a house for $480 a year, now pays $1,600, and a mechanic whe paid for apartments $150 per annum, was obliged to vacate on. account of his landlord demanding $950. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday a report was received from the Committee on Finance in favor of authorizing the Comptroller to make va- rious transfers from certain accounts to ‘‘city contingencies,” and for advertising for the depart- ments, Tue report was adopted. A resolution in favor of appropriating $10,000 to defray the ex- penses of entertaining the Russian naval officers, was presented. Alderman Jeremiah opposed the appropriation; he thought the friendly relations between this country and Russia might be main- tained without the expenditure of so much mo- ney. The paper was then laid over. The Finance Department reported that the fund for the relief of families of volunteers, now on hand, amounted to only $9,759 36. The ordinance appropriating the additional sum of five hundred thousand dollars for the relief of the families of those going as substitutes was called up. Alderman Hardy stated that, fo his knowledge, in the Eighth district the amount paid to substitutes did not average over $200 each. Alderman Mitchell said, in opposition, that he knew of hundreds of sub- stitutes who had received in cash more money than would be paid to the families of volunteers in four years. The ordinance, including the fami- lies of substitutes, was adopted. After disposing of a great deal of routine business the President declared the Board adjourned for want of a quo- rum. The Councilmen last evening concurred with the Board of Aldermen in adopting the sugges- tions submitted by the Comptroller in relation to transferring several amounts contained in the an- nual appropriation to other purposes, one of which is a transfer of ten thousand dollars to the fund for city contingencies to defray the expenses of the entertainment and reception of the Russian naval officers. The Board also concurred with the Aldermen in authorizing the Comptroller to issue bonds for an additional sum of $500,000 to pro- vide relief for the families of volunteers. The Board concurred in the resolution giving permis- sion to the Hudson River Railroad Company to ron dummy engines on their track below the up town acta, for which privilege they are to pay an annual sum Of $50 for each engine. A number of bills for funerals and public receptions, favora- bly reported on by thd (ommittee on National Affairs, were adopted. A FePort from the Com: mittee on Charities und Donations, in favor of do- nating the sum of $50 each to a number of blind people, was amended, on motien of the President, to donate the same sum to all blind and needy persons in the city of New York, and then adopt- ed. After transacting some business of a routine |*nature the Board adjourned until Monday evening next at four o'clock. | There are 6,360 persona in the public institu. | tiond pf the city at present. The number admit- it woek was 1,434, and the number who died, wore discharged or transferred to other institutions ws 1,623. Nothing of public inte- rest occurred at the meeting of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction yesterday. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, be- fofe Recorder Hoffmas, Adam Schloashaner, s German gardener, forty-cight years of age, pleaded puilty to an indictment .Wr riot and assault and battery, wlich charged h.'m with having teken part in the riots of July last. Peter McGeough, | an Irish pedier, twenty-two y ars of age, pleaded guilty of petit larceny on an i: dictment charging him with having extorted mone,¥ from Catherine nerwaid, of 326 Tenth avenue, on the 14th of | July last. Both prisoners were rem “nded for sen- | tence, and the Court adjourned until ‘his morning at eleven o'clock. | ‘The steck market was lower yesterday m oroing and | rather weak; in the afternoon there was a p Wtial re. c very. Gold fell to 145%, cloning at 146%. fx Change was 160.8 161, and very fluctuating. Monoy was <4)" Cali leave 6 a 7 per cont. ‘The cotton market was active, and prices were higher again yesterday, Plonr fell off 6c @ 10c. and wheat tc a 26., with limited transactions, while corn and oats were freely purchased, mainly by speculators, at a further ad- vence. There was increased activity im provisions, par. ticularly pork, which was dearer, Whiskey was up to Ove. a Ole, with a fair inquiry, partly speculative. Hay, Sugars aod tobacco were in good demand. Tallow was quite active. Fish olis were bigher and more sought after, The freight ongagementa wore restricted. There she sailed, and explained the difficultics in were uo remarkable alterations io other articles. (Tne Py met—Méesico—A) Rare Chance for Jett. | _BERALD, FRIDAY, OUTOLER 9, 1863s PKiPLE SHEET, ce Qucstion im the x bi- Davis. From the significant fact that peace propo- sitions have been introduced in Cabinet council at Washington, we are naturally drawn to the Conclusion that the administration is satisfied that the days of the rebellion are numbered, and that the end is near at hand. But between the radical wing of the Cabinet, headed by Mr. Chase, and the conservative wing, of which Mr. Seward is the leader, and for which Mr. Montgomery Blair is the fighting champion, there is “an irrepressible conflict,” the issue of which depends ypon the potential voice of President Lincola. In the next place, looking at the matter as a politician, the intel- ligent reader will discover that it ie not the policy of the President to pronounce judgment in advance of the approaching elections in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Now York. On the contrary, while each of the two factions of the administration party are encouraged to hope for the ascendancy, both may be expected to /do good eervice in the common cause of sustaining the administration. But after these elections in Obio, Pennsyl- vania aod New York, whatever may be the result, it is probable that this con- flict in the Cabinet will be brought to a solu- tion, and that in the President’s annual mes- sage to Congress we shall have s programme laid down for a reconstruction of the Union which will precipitate s reconstruction of the Cabinet and a terrible fermentation in Uon- gros and throughout the republican party. Tn the meantime the industrious concentra- tion of Union soldiers in the army of Rosecrans aod the desperate efforts of Jeff. Davis to strengthen the opposing army of Bragg, the close proximity of these two armies to each other, the daily skirmishings going on between their reconnoitring detachments, aad the ur- gent necessities of the rebellion, admonish us that a great battle at any moment may be opened on the frontiers of Georgia, the issue of which may be the end of the war. The rebel- lion has now staked its fortunes upon the army of Bragg, and with his overthrow i¢ falls to pieces. The administration has all the forces and tbe facilities at its command easential to se- cure this grand result; and surely it will abun- dantly provide this time, as was done at last at Vicksburg, for inevitable and complete success, But while.the administration is providing for and awaiting these approaching elections in the North and this impending decisive battle in the South, in order to have a clear field for its poli- cy of peace, we may, perbaps, profitably point out to Joff. Davis and his confederates the way by which they may surrender all the rebellious Southern States back to the Union, and still es- tablish themselves as the masters of a great Southern confederacy, and with the consent and co-operation of the United States. This can be readily done. Let Davis and his associate rulers at Richmond submit a proposition to the gov- ernment, 6mbracing their departure, with the collected fragments of their armies and all their faithful followers en masse, for. Mexico; and let it be understood that the objects of this mighty exodus of our rebellious South- ern brethren are the. expulsion of the French and the inauguration of an Anglo- American government on the aoil of the Mexi- can republic, and peace will surely follow. How can it be otherwise, when both sides will gain what they are respectively contending for— the one a restoration of the Union, and the other & magnificent Southern confederacy? We know that the Mexicans detest the wily Frenchman, his French protectorate, his German Emperor, and all his works. We know that when General Scott was in the city of Mexico be was offered, in behalf of the Mexioun people, the dictatorship of “the whole country, with a salary of a million of dollars a year. Ina thousand ways since that time the Mexicans have shown their partiality for the people and institutions of the United States and their desires for annexation. -We are sure that, as between the American, Jeff. Davis, and the Frenchman, Louis Napoleon, the great body of the Mexican nation, Indians, negroes and all, would accept the exile from Richmond as their deliverer. In any event, Jeff. Davis, with a Southern army of over two hundred, or even one hundred thousand men at his back, and five hundred thousand camp followers, in order to secure a Southern confederacy south of the Rio Grande, would only have to march into the country and take possession. If the peace propositions lately brought be- fore the Cabinet do not embrace some such grand scheme of" peace as this we would re- commend Mr. Seward to take it up-and push it through; for surely, with such liberal terms of life, liberty and dominion to Davis, his associate rebel chiefs and their followers, peace can be secured within less than ninety days. Tax ANNOCNOEMENT OY ANoTRER Drarr AND Irs Errzor vron tux Etecrions—The draft that has just taken place, in connection with the fact that a second draft is soon to be en- forced, must, to a great extent, affect the com- ing elections, especially in all the large towns and cities. It is plainly to be eeen that the administration will be compelled to soon raise more men in some form or other. The beg- garly number secured by the recent draft will not meet the requirements of our army. It has failed to obtain enough to place our armies on the footing necessary at this stage of the cam- paign, especially as long as the rebels do not yleid, which, from all accounts, they do not seom inclined to do, notwithstanding the rumors about peace in several quarters, including the family row in the President's “happy family” Cabinet. Nothing is more certain than that another call for men will beanade at no distant day. If the men required cannot be raised by enlistments « draft will be inevitable. This fact cannot fail to have its effect upon the elec- lions, especiaily in large cities. In the first place there are but few if any na- turalization papers being taken out in this city. Usu lly at this period, before elections, the poli- ticians on all sides are busy hurrying foreigners j up to the office and securing their papers for them to insure their votes on election day; but now nething of this kind is done. Those natu- ralized citizens who escaped the last draft will | hesitate in going to the polls for fear of the next draft, knowing very well that if they vote ( the provost marsbals will obtain their names ,fcom the poll lists, and thus render all ples of al. ‘enage futile. In addition to this, those who hay.‘ cleared themsetves this time on the plea of alic Gage Will not vote, for it will insure their immedi: Ve errest. In the rural districts, where there ie by Vt little if any of this element, it will no doubt p Toduce the opposite effect. Politi- cians, in mak.'¥g Up their canvans, will do well « to take notice o.” this fact, if thew do not desire to deceive themselves. That the goverument will be compelied to raise moré men is a fixed fact; aud every blunder of the War Bureau at Washington, like those of Sabine Puss and Ten- nessee, makes the fact that additional men will be required more certain. That this will upset the calculations of most of the politicians may be put down as equally sure, and leave many a candidate to dream over disappointed hepes and mourn over blighted expectations. vi The Cabinet war for the succession continues to make developments of far more interest than any we are likely to receive for some time from the more legitimate theatres of war. Tho last revelation of this internecine struggle is the publication in pamphlet form of the secret cor- reapondence and orders of Secretary Seward, General McClellan and General Banks relative to the coup d'etat in the September of 1861, by which the Legislature of the State of Maryland was seized while in session, and its members sent as prisoners to Forts MoHenry and Lafay- ette. A very full synopsis of this pamphlet was given yesterday in a letter from Washing- ton, and we do not hesitate to pronounce the disclosures thus boldly made from the seoret archives of the War Department as the most infteresting and astounding documents even of the extraordinary and revolutionary period in which we live. Horeafter Kinglake’s picture of Leuis Na- poleon’s coup d'etat will be more readily be- Heved, and its statements will pale their in- effectual fires when contrasted with the fierce flood of light thrown upon the Maryland trans-, action by this extraordinary publication. That the documents forming the pamphlet have been taken from the files of the War Department “there can be no doubt. They are'in their very nature of the most secret and confidential character; aud we can easily believe that Secretaries Chase and Stanton, in. firing off this terrible rejoinder to Mr. Montgomery Blair’s Rockville manifesto in behalf of the so-calletl conservatives of the Cabinet, were well satisfied that a period bas been reach- ed in this Cabinet war in which either they or the so-called conservatives must go under and go out. On what other hypothesis can we ex- plain the reckless tearing aside of the veil from the Mokanna of usurped authority which is here to be found? While Secretary Seward is laboring in these latter days to place himself before the country as the friend of the border States and the con- servative pillar of the Cabinet, out pops this flood of official documentary evidence from the secret archives of the War Department, show- ing that the conservative leader of the State Department was the organizer, more than two years ago, ef a Jacobin measure unsurpassed in, audacity, whereby the colonel of a Wisconsin regiment was made the instrament of seizing | and imprisoning the entire Legislature of a sovereign State while in session assembled, this colonel appearing with his armed retainors in both houses at the same moment, and having authority to use force without stint or mercy in case of the elightest resistance. i Here we have all the machinery of a regular French coup d'etat revealed in its exact propor- tions. Not cogwheel is wanting, not-a con- neoting link lost. The darkest features of con- spiracy are portrayed in the precise words of the conspirators themselves, and we are even fa- vored with some of the slang phrases by which men who are about todo a deed which they abhor avoid direct reference to their own acts in language. “The rations have gone” is the peripbrasis which announces to General Banks that the obnoxious members of the Legislature have been arrested and put upon their travels as prisoners. “Have you any more of your friends to send from Frederick to Annapolis?” is the question by which General McClellan ex- presses his desire to know if any additional members of this unfortunate Legislature have been apprehended. That General McClellan, however, only acted in this matter under direct orders from the then Secretary of War, Mr. Cameron, while General Banks only did his duty under General McClellan’s orders, are facta of which, even in this partisan and inimi- cal publication, we find abundant proof. Take it for all in all, no revelations of the war surpass in thrilling interest the facts brought to light in the dry pages of this official record, and we can estimate how intense must be the internecine strife of the Cabinet when documents of so damaging a character to all concerned can be allowed to see the light, of publicity. As to that part about one An- drews, of Virginia, whe is said to bave been “the editor of a religious paper in New York,” further light is demanded. The amalgamation- ist Andrews, who led our late anti-draft riots, ym Virginia, and was at about the time ref to one of the editors of the World, which was then a religious paper. Can this be tho same Andrews who is spoken of by the As- sistant Postmaster General as “a valued friend,” whose little privilege of running a rebel mail from Virginia into Maryland was not on any account to be interfered with? We aro in favor of all such disclosures as those made in the publication under notice, be- lieving thet the “association for the diffusion of sound political information” could make no better investment than in spreading this pamphlet broadcast over the land. These Cabinet squabbles only tend to strengthen pub- lic confidence in the wisdom, honesty and energy of Mr. Lincoln, while proving what poor sticks he has round him in the shape of advisers. The country is faster and faster coming to the conclusion that both the Chase and Seward factions are noisy and pestiferous puisaaces, who should be abated as speedily as City Inspector Boole has abated certain of the most prominent nuisances in our city. These angry Cabinet factionists thrown overboard, “Honest Abe” will have a clear track all to himeelf, and may be relied upon to make the best time recorded in the modern political racing calendar when he next runs for the office of President of the United States upon the national track and for the national swoop. stakes. Posruastae $Geverat Brare’s Roogvi.em Sreson—Tux Mystery Exrtatwen.—We were completely befogged the other day when, in reading the manuscript of Mr. Montgomery | Blair’s speech at Rockville, Maryland, we found him laying down principles which are only ad- voonted by the most ultra abolitionists of Now England. We knew there must be some mis- take about it; but we could not tell exactly where it was. It was evident that, as in the | charge at Balaklava, “some one had blundered,” lout whether Mr. Biair himself, or the reporter, ist, we could not undertake te decide; ~ve to the Postmaster General the Le, doubt. We now have the mys- tery oleard up #9 gur satisfaction. dig ghier tlonable pat was & quoter tte” t tion from the @bolition programme, a5 avons in an perey <Qur o Relations” ta the Atlantic Monshly, from the \»en of Charles Sumner. The was no skilfully in- troduced in the spéach, and there was nothing io the context to show what wae int ended. The conservative manifesto, of which Mr. Blair was the organ, stands out, the tofore, re lieved of this dark spot wpon it, ands 7 sgale call upon the Tribune to publish it m * the an- swer to the abolition programme whi cD &P- peared in its columns last week. The @ abinet war for the succession is one of the great e vents of the day, and the public has a right to 4 ave all the documenta. The Depredetions of the Southern B rates=Imbecility of the Navy Deparn ~ ment. Yesterday we published the details of the outrages committed upon our shipping by the rebel privateers in the vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope. It is evident that the intention of these marauders was to cripple our Hast Indian maritime commerce and cause its trans- fer fram, American ships to vessels belonging to England or other neutral Powers. The de- cline in our commerce is new se general as to induce the belief that it will become total unless our naval authorities wake up to the necessity of the occasion and make some effectual effort to put a stop to the depreda- tions of these rebel pirates. si With a glow of shame we are bound to con- fess that four veasels—not by any means as for- midable as many of the ships-of-war we pos- seas—-arevactually ruining our commerce and depriving us.of large revenues. The Ala- bama, the Florida, the Georgia and the Tusca- loosa, the ships in question, have for two years preyed upon us with impunity. Some of these vessels have been almost within gunshot of our harbor. At stated intervals they make out their reports as to the injuries done to the sbipping of the North, and we find once vessel alone olaiming that she has injured us to the amount of twelve millions of dollars. We may safely aver that the other ships, including the few we have captured, have destroyed over twenty millions of dollars worth of property be- longing to the Loyal States. This is a fearful record, and one calling forth from the people a demand that some means be devised, without loss of time, whereby our com- merce may be saved from utter ruin. Any further doluy will but add to the great respon- sibility already incurred by our Navy Depart- ment. We ta}k of an immense fleet, and -yet we are seemingly at the mercy of four, comparatively -epeaking, insignificant rebel veasels. Are there no means to enforce upon the proper parties the display of that energy: which will meet the emergency? Let any one scan the freight lists which the daily journals publish, and he will see that for months past there is scarce- ly any mention made of American vessels. Our merchants have in many instances been forced to transfer their ships to foreign owners — we have eaten the leek—and all because four vessels have been allowed, with an impunity which astonishes the world, to prey upon our commerce until they bave learned to despise us and jeer at us to their hearts’ content. Will not the President make some effort in this mat- ter? Will he not use the power vested in him by the constitution, and force the Navy Department to the accomplishment of its duty, or rid us of the imbeciles who are allow- ing us te become the laughing stock of the world? A tithe of theamount lost by the de- predations of the rebel vessels would have added to our naval force ships possessing great speed and most formidable in their armament. The ocean would have been rid by them of the scourges who still threaten our commerce, and wo should have been spared the bitter humilia- tion of our present position on the seas. What will become of our commerce should the rams built in England succeed in making thelr es. cape? Those formidable veasels would drive from the ocean the last vestige of our shipping, and, when joined by the war vessels being con- structed in France for the confederacy, might, to judge from mattergas they appear at pre- sent, bombard and sack half our seaports. The period for the endurance of the neglect of our Navy Department has passed; and in the name of the people, for the honor and safety of our nation, we demand from the bead of our government some sign of concern in this mat- ter—some show of sympathy for the undeserved obloquy to which we are now subjected through the neglect, the carelessness, the incompetency, the utter imbecility of the Navy Department. or 6o | but ae benefit af The Exhaustion of the People The European journals are at length com- pelled to admit that the rebellious South is nearly exhausted. They do this very unwill- ingly, however, and seek to sweeten the bitter pill by proving that the loyal North is ex- hausted also. If the assertions of these journals be true, then we of the North are the most sin- gular people upon the face of the earth. We are totally exhausted, and yet stronger than ever. We are suffering dreadfully, and yet manage to enjoy ourselves in an unprecedented wanner. We are very poor, and yet spend more money than ever before. We lack the necessaries of life, and yet revel in its choicest and costliest luxuries. We are most miserable, and yet most prosperous. To realize our ex- haustion and see how our people suffer let us consider the present condition of New York city. Last Saturday afternoon there were six thou- sond private equipages on the Drive of our beautiful Park. Our largest manafactu- rers of carriages are taxed to the utmost | to fill their orders, and have to refuse to take | any more work, A gentleman recently arriv- } ing in the city found it almost impossible to obtain room in any livery stable for his horses, as all the stalls had been engaged in advance, These are striking instances of our exhaustion. One of our war correspondents reached our office at about mMinight on Wednesday, and then went over to the Astor House to rest for the night. The proprietor could not accommo- date him with either aroom or a cot, but offered to hire him a chair a4 aspecial favor. For four hours our correspondent walked the streets trying to discover a hotel where he could sleep, but failed in the attempt. All the boarding houses in the city are equally full. During the ' Crystal Palace furore New York was pretty | well jammed; but still some sort of accommo. { ' ations could be provided for strangers. Now ‘th—How the : aS we Ne ag packed es an omnibus load, and thex? i no more room inside This is en ther proof of our exbhaus flon. The dry g00ds dealers. and. jewelry merchants are ‘oastantly they are doing too mice 2usingdé, du highest priced articles sell Arct Silks aré n much more common than calico aad diam: than pebbles. Our people must gomiane severely to indulge in euch extravag We ask for them the kind sympathy of all our dear European friends. Seventeen regular places of amusement are now open in this city, besides countless concert saloons and music halls, and every one of them is overcrowded nightly. This instance af ex- haustion is really dreadful; for it shows that the people rush to the theatres, at fifty cents and a dollar a head, in order to drown the re- collection of the troubles which afflict them. Broadway is thronged every morning with sands of elegantly dressed ladies and gentle men, whose attires rival the rainbow in gorgeous hues and the kaleidescope in variety. It grieves us sorely to record this; for undoubtedly i , will at once occur to our European well-wishers 4 at the people turn out Into the atreets because a ey bave no comfortable homes in which to v. Many splendid palaces of marble and brox 2 stone are in process of erection upos Fifth venue and other magnificent thorough fares,, %d those already erected are rented for enorme “3 8ums per annum. We can imagine the tears Which will bershed by our friends across the Water at this new development of our exhana, ‘ion. The officers of the Russian, — English and French fleets in our harbor are entertained @ "ey evening at private parties, and the expen, ° of these parties would have seemed fabulow, ‘i those good old dayt whea New York was v @TY Prosperous and not yet exhausted. A fen © ys ago, in reply to an in- vitation to accept & ‘¢ hospitalities of a neigh- boring city, the Ra ssian Admiral remarked that his officers would be happy to go if they were allowed a wee “6 notice in order te fulfl their present engng °™ents.. This reply is aa exponent of our shockh 18 ¢xhaustion and in- tense suffering. Admirals , perro Raynaud and Milne have been sojourm ‘8 With us for few days, and they can doubt ‘*8# sive a good account of our awful state, We refer the European journals to these distia, tuished per sonages: Let the Russian and Ga ‘man prese consult Admiral Losovski. Let the fra * ®2d inde- pendent press of France beg Admiral, Raynand for his experiences. Let Admiral Mi %¢ send his private log to the London Times. ‘We desire that Europeans sball be corn *Ctly informed in regard to our exhaustion, ou, Or ings and ruin; and we can anticipate the gua of gincere sorrow which will ensue at Paria and London when the journalists of those de- lightful cities obtain the true and authentic ae \ countg of the terrible miseries we are enduring in New York. ‘ British Progress in the Northwest. Month after month we struggle on, earnestly and grandly, in our fight for national existence and for the integrity of our soil, and the whole world watches us, intent on the problem whe ther a great nation shall stand or fall. Yet.it is but a shart time since that a Power, whose territory on this continent ranked in extent second only to that of the United States, passed entirely out of existence as quictty as the dead leaves fall to the earth. Not only was thie Power second to none other but us in the extent of its territory on this continent, but it was not far bebind us; for of the eight million equare miles that are called North Americs we bold but two million nine hundred thousand, ang that Power held two million four hundred thouw- | sand. It was only the extent of half a dozen European States bebind, and. if the State of Texas and the Territory of Nebraska were left out of our account, that Power would have bees absolute, almost despotic, over a greater extent of the earth’s surface than these great United States. But it has passed out of existence, as we have said, quietly, stealthily even. No earthquakes tolled belis is its whaken towers; there was no social convul- sion anywhere, and no “wail of nations o’er ite sacred wails.” It has gone out of existence, and its two millions and over of square miles have passed under the contro! of the Britiss government. Here is matter for the support ers of the Monroe doctrine to think over, Aid: ed to the four hundred thousand square miles that were before British territory, they consti- tute the present actual British North America; and leave the United States only one hundred thousand square miles ahead. This would be 8 piece of land only about the size of the Tér ritory of Kansas, or of England, Ireland, Soot land and Wales together. We allude to the Hudson’s Bay Company, one of those grand monopolies of the past age Belonging to a past age, it could not live te this. it died of the railroad and steamboat All ita extensive political power reverted te the British government, and ite other effects have fallen by purchase into the hands of s compasy whose wealth is said to have no limit, and who intend the develop ment to its full capacity of the whole country of Hudson’s Bey “and the land it drains.” Already we begin to see the change that has thus been wrought Emigre tion, settlement, development in every way, was discouraged by the Hudson’s Bay Company, which used its whole power to keep the lead in its primitive condition as an immense pre serve for the production of fur. Thus, white the United States, side by side with it, have grown to their present condition, that waole country has stood still. Now, however, diffe rent ideas prevail, and the movement of pro- gress that stirs everywere else in the world hae penetrated that remote region. Thrown com pletely open to emigration and settlemest—to all the various enterprises of capital and te the enlightenment of a semi-weekly mail—it promises to rival our own growth, and to give ‘us on the north, with British assistance, just such @ balance as France and Spain wish to establish at the other side of us. It may be part of a nice European scheme to thas effect; but there can be no doubt whatever: that this whole change in British North. America has been fostered, if not brought aboay by the intense desire of the British government to rival the development of this coantry. Great Britain, whose capital batlds Russian raflroads, Oriental packets, and even American locomotives, will spend its money freely in such cause a6 this, and has begun well. Scaroely has John Bull looked over this country and he projects # Pacific Raitroad. We have « railroad in progress thet is to rum from St. Paul, in Minnesota, to Pembfna, sorthwest from St. Paul, end almost on the British line English oapital contempjetes, our line with fa