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

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New York, Saturday, October 17, 1862. *" TO THE PUBLIC. All advertisements, in order to save time’ and seoure proper classification, should be sent to the office before nino o'clock in the evening. THE SITUATION. No general engagement took place between the armios of Gencrals Meade and Lee yesterday, but on the sfternoon of Thursday some skirmishing took place near Bull Run. It was thought thet A. P. Hill's rebel corps had moved from our front to- wards Leesburg. A general movement of the rebel cavalry towards the Potomac was looked for, and provisions were taken to prevent another raid. An attempt of the rebels to flank the amny of General Meade, by making @ push for Washington, was regarded as quite probable, that is, if General Lee's forces are strong enough to make the etfort. On Thursday night the Second army corps was in line of battle, its left resting on Pull ran. The baggage and transportation trains had been sent to the rear, and the sutlers were ordered to Alexandria, and they were pouring in ay in a perfect torrent. The from the front yoster rebels opened fire from a battery at long range and without effect upon the supply traina of the corps. Their battery was specily silenced, and a fively infantry 6) two hours, Cen h ensued, continuing some Webb's und General Hayes’ ng the principal fire of the enc- my, with a loss of fire slightly wounded in the former, and two only in the latter division, At ais o'clock in the evening ail was quiet. The wmoke of the rebel camp fires indicated that they had fallen back to Manassas, in the im- mediate vicinity of the brick houge where General Beauregard had his heaynartors before the rat Buli run battic. Civisions suet Despatches from Chattanoora to the 10th state that no attack had been made by thé enemy since the 7th Instant, and that their batteries on Look- out Mountain had been removed, and General Freagg was then at Missionary Ridge. Rumors were adoat that @ conflict had taken pluce in Goncrai Braggz’s camp between a Georgia militia er having re t from ra, the an ord partinent Generals McCook ! relioved from their tenden ave and ordered to Indianapolis to repor fant General. Acoust of i investigate the conduct of ¢ late hates of Chattanooga. We have tato newe to-day from New Orleans by the steamer Co ia, with dates to the 10th, Our correspon describe the state of afuirs on the Rio Grande, Matamoros is stili held by | the French, and it sthat the citizens ox hibit no desire t e them. The popular fovling in Texas is decidedly against the Confedo- rate draft, Galveston is deseribed os help very strongly fortified, and is now the stro pid of the NEW YORK from the Bahamas, showing the sympathy of the | People there for the South. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A large Union ratification meeting was held last evening at the Cooper Institute, at which | Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, made @ lengthy | address. Other speakers also addressed the meet- ing, which was well attended despite the wet weather, A report will be found elsewhere. The Board of Aldermen held a special meeting yesterday, President Walsh in the chair. The Committee on Railroads presented a repert in favor of rescinding the resclutions adopted some time ago, giving the New York and Harlem Railroad and thence down Broadway. The report was laid over. A resolution in favor of increasing the sala- ries of the bell ringegs and telegraph operators to $1,000 per annum was Jaid on the table. The re- solution instructing the Corporation Counsel to take measures to have the injunction removed restraining the Common Council from taking fur- ther action on the “ Draft Exemption Ordinance” was taken up and adopted, notwfthstanding the veto of the Mayor. The Board then adjourned to Monday. ; In the Surrogate’s Court yesterday, argument was heard by the Surrogate on the disputed ac- counts of the estate of John O'Toole. The chief item in dispute is one of $1,000, for which amount Mr. Charles Devlin claims repsyment, as being money lent by him to deceased. On the other hand, it is insisted that this money was Corpora- tion funds advanced by Devlin, then Street Com- missioner, to O'Toole, who was Supérintendent of Roads, for the payment of Corporation employes, and so used by him. The Surrogate reserved his de- cision. The E. P. Christy will case was then resum- ed, and s@ditional medical testimony taken. The accounts of the estates of John Randell, Abm. V. Williams, Claus Hallencrutz, Henry Loerzing, Jo- seph Nicholl and Eric Newman were finally settled and decrees of distribution made. The will of Greene C. Bronson has been admitted to probate without contest. Governor Gamble, of Missouri, has issued a pro- clamation defending himself against the charge of disloyalty, which the radical abolitionists have made against him, and warning them that if any movement is made on their part to disturb the peace or interfere with the elections he will main- tain his authority and sustain the laws by force. Prairie chickens are so plenty out West that they run through the streets of St. Paul. Our correspondent in Toronto, Canada, writing on the 8th of October, gives an animated descrip- tion of a very fine military review which took place near that city on the same day. There were twenty thousand troops, regulars and volunteers, under arms. The evolutions were splendidly exe- cuted by the former, and though the number of men on the ground was small in the eyes of tho American people, they made a very fine appear- ance. The writer states that the inhabitants of the province are very well disposed towards our institutions. A number of prisoners captured by our block- aders were given into the custody of the United States Marshal in this city yesterday, and\com- mitted to the county jail. They will be examined by the Marshal to-day. In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, Judge Barnard presiding, after a large number of persons had been arraigned to plead, the Grand Jury entered, and were discharged with the thanks of the Court. Four of the Mississippi steamboat incendiaries have been arrested at Momphis. One of them was caught while attempting to fire the steamboat Continental, which was full of passengers, while on her way from New Orleans to St. Louis. Governor Curtin’s majority in Philadelphia is about seven thousand five hundred, which is one thousand more than was first announced. Dayton, Ohio, the home of Vallandigham, gave two hundred and seventy majority against him. ‘Tho demand for money was active yesterday. Goid opened lower, say at 1645¢, advanced to 1553/, and closed at 15134. The stock market was dull and lower at tho first board, remained inactive at one P. M., but was firmer at the second board, and iater ia the afternoon looked like = return to further activity. The cotton market was firm yesterday, with @ mode- rate business, The demand for flour and wheat was less active at casier prices. Corn advanced materially, tnflu- enced by heavy speculative purchases. The main busi- ness in provisions was transacted in mew mess pork, which was bigher. There was more doing in olls, spices, salt, teas and Rio coffee at rising prices. The demand for bay, hops, hides, leather, seeds and tobacco was good. Whiskey was tuactive. Freights were doing bettor. The War in the Cabinet—Secretary Chase on the Presidential Stump. The war in tho Cabinet is developing itself finely. Alarmed at the simultaneons attacks upon his flank and rear made by two leading members of the great Blair family, Secretary Chase recently adopted the tactics of Rosecrans and Meade and joll, back from his position at Washington to a rather stronger position in Obio. At last acoounts our enterprising friend, the Secretary of the Treasury, was on the Pre- sidential stump at Cincinnati. We published a couple of his speeches yesterday, and wo must say that the one delivered before the elcotion does him great credit, while the other little speech is not to be sneered at by any means. Iu the former and longer speech to which we have referred, Secretary Chase gives his ideas about the war, slavery, politics, the Union, England, Franee, Mexico and _ reconstruc- tion, All these important eubjects are keenly and comprehensively treated in less than two columns of matter. There is an example for verbose political orators and long-worded let- ter writers, With the exception of bis radical views in regard to slavery, every portion of this speech ix most statesmanlike, and, taken as a whole, it is really masterly. Its perfect sim- f style and diction reminds us of Presi- in’s happiest efforts, and will make it pass current among the plain people of the country as readily as one of the national green- backs. Its logic is closer and its rhetoric neat- er than could have been expected from the President's bookkeeper, and would do credit to Secretary Seword Limself, Mr. Chase has evi dently stepped upon the Presidential stump deliberately and after mature preparation, and when he speaks his utterances are well con sidered, his blows weil aimed and his defence well managed. We verily believe that by thia single speceb, followed up, as it was, by the overwhelming defoat of Vallandigham, Chase staken the wind out of the sails of Lincoln, Seward, Blair and all the rest of the administra. tioa, and gained a good distance in the race for | | the next Presidential nomination. But, to pass from generalities to particulars, | | we admire the coolness and dignity with which Mr. Chase totally ignores Mr. Blair’s recent | speech, while he quietly replies to all Mr. | Mair’s arguments, This shows a voneciousness of superior power which is not bo disturbed by any but the strongest possible attack, Rich- rebols in Texas. The United States supply steomer Union, which | arrived here yesterday from the Bast Gulf equad- ron, reports that she captured on the th {nst, | the rebel blockade romney Spaulding, with a valu able carco from Nassau, bound to Wilmington, ard, the Lion Heart, scornfally refused to wield’) his battleaxe againet the common roldiers when he saw that he had a chance to fight with Sa- latin himself; and so Mr, Ohase pushes aside _ HERALD, SATURDAY, | Who is battling uper Chase’s side, is rudely inferior combatants in order to stand foe to face with Seward, tho champion. It is upon this same priceiplo that even Senator Sumoer, wad OCTOBER 117, iniyTas re va forced out of the way, and is not even honored with nod of recognition. Sumner’s latest plan of reconstruction inelades the idea of getting rid of slavery, and so does the plan of Mr. Chase. But Sumner proposes to get rid of slavery by reducing the seceded States to Ter- Titories, while Secretary Chase, more wise and more practical, intends to do away with slavery by operating upon the individual slaveholder. The results are the same; but Mr. Chase's plan is infinitely the more feasible and the more expedient. Clearly, Sumner is no statesman at all. He is the John Brown of politics. He runs ahead of the radi- cals, strikes the first blow for them, and is al- ways hnng up for his pains.- Chase regards bim in this light, and not as a rival; and Chase is right, as usual. Indeed, we can gee, at pre- sent, no fair rival for Secretary Chase. Presi- dent Lincoln once compared Chase’s Presiden- tial aspirations to a large horsefly, which stung the Secretary and made him work; but the fly is now becoming as large as the horse, and if Mr. Lincoln is going to drive it off he had bet- ter make haste, or he will be too late. The defence of the conduct of the war which Secretary Chase volunteers for his accomplice, Secretary Stanton, is extremely ingenious, and it is much more plausible, because much more apologetic, than any with which we have been previously favored. From the War Depart- ment to the,State Department, is but a short step, and accordingly Secretary.Chase publishes his views of the foreign policy of the government. We decidedly approve of these views. They are our own, Secretary Chase must have read the Hxeraxn very attentively to imbibe so much of its spirit and its language. Then, leaving the State Department, our comprehensive orator speaks of himself, and bis currency, and his financial system, and makes it all very nice and very plain. This brilliant feat concludes the main speech, and the appeal for votes against Vallandigham forma the peroration. We are glad to add that this appeal was successful, and that Mr. Chase, unlike Messra. Sumner and Blair, can claim a substantial victory as the result of his raid. The whole affair recalls to our mind the occasion when Mr. Chase came on to New York, at the beginning of the war. hooked all our financiers with his financial schemes, and oarried one hundred and fifty millions of booty to the national Treasury: He got the start of Seward then, and he has kept it ever since: Now he has gone off among the politicians, and he will hook them, just as he did the financiers. Thus he proves himself to be not only the Premier of the Onbinet, as his friends claim, but also the Premier of the administration and the Premier among Presi- dential candidates. We shall await with the ‘most anxious inte- rest the next move of Lincoln or Seward to head off this medern combination of Mephis- topheles, Mazarin and Machiavelli. Perhaps we ball have it in the President’s forthcoming let- ter to the Missouri delegation. Perhaps Secre- tary Seward will mount the stump in person. Perhaps, after all, we had better not speculate any more about it, but patiently wait and sce what we shall see. City Politica—Threatened Revolution. The results of the October elections are now before us, and from every State where an elec- tion has been held the evil result of the democ- racy affiliating with the copperheads has been marked, decisive and undeviating. The recent elections tell a tale in this respect that can re- ceive but one interpretation. The well known copperhead sentiments of Vallandigham have 80 effectually settled his case at the ballot box that he has not capital enongh left to take an appeal at some future day. In Pennsylvania, where the democrats ran one of their most re- liable citizens, who, if he had run in ordinary times, when the test would have been as to the abilities and sterling worth of the two candidates, would have defeated the republican candidate by a majority numbered almost by a hundred thousand, he is now defeated by the mere sus- picion of the people that he is in some way identified with the copperhead faction. This re- sult will no doubt have more or less effect on the election in this State. Fortunately the election in this State, if we except the Legisla- ture, is of little or no importance. It is merely the election of minor State officers, that carries no particular weight with it whatever. The only thing for us to do is to keep the gity intact. As we turn to this conservative stronghold we find that the most barefaced, shameful and unscru- pulous bargaining has been going on ever known in our history. A Tammany and a Mo- zart committee met together and openly bar- gained away this office and that office as coolly and unconcernedly as a parcel of boys would trade jackknives, As nlight have been expect- ed, this has aroused @ bitter feeling in this city. We have all along urged and advised Tam- many Hall to stand by the only principle that she could in these times. We have shown that by maintaining her stand on the war platform, and going before the people on the issue of a vigorous prosecution of the war, regardless of all other issues, she would be successful. On that issue she would have forever closed and sealed the doors of the bogus Mozart faction, and secured « better and purer state of affairs in this city. But, instead of following our advice, she has gone into a trading specula- tion with Mozurt, bartered away her prin- ciples for a fow petty offices, and now stands before the peopla in about the same light as Mozart. The result of all this cannot fail to prove injurious to all concerned. How much longer will it take these manipu- Inting politicians te learn that there is but one issue before the people. We are engaged ina monster civil war. The only issue fs, “Shall we put down the rebellion or allow the rebel- lion to put us down?” This is the issue that the people go to the polls to vote upoa. The party managers aro only left to choose between these two alternatives. Tommany, in trading and bartering, bos shirked the issue, and must abide the vordict of the people. This shameful transaction is disgraceful, to say the least, and should by all means be de- feated. There is in this city a conservative strength, properly managed, that will carry this city by over forty thousand majority over both the niggorhead and copperhead factions. Is there not strength enough left in this to unite fh solid column and deal such an overwhelming blow at the ballot box oa will forever put the quietus on the niggerheads, copperheads and ofice traders? Something should be done to place this groat conservative motropolis ia ite | true position. How Is it to be done? Poor Fouxry- sat a dust we kick ap!” | anys the fly to the wheel in going ovet a dusty road. | written on its back? 1863,—TRIPLE SHEET. The Park and Civilization. For some months past the Park has become & most fashionable rendezvous. Just as the gamin or swell of Paris must never miss his afternoon drive in the Bois de Boulogne, or the Regent street exquisite his daily appearance at Hyde Park, so is it at preeent incumbent upon the fashion of New York to be seen at the Park, more especially upon those afternoons when the band discourses such delicious music. On these occasions the broad avenues of oar beautiful rendezvous are crowded—we should say overcrowded—with brilliant equipages, while thousands upon thousands of pedestrians swarm around the pagoda which contains the- musicians, There are many equestrians also, and we notice with pleasure that each succeed- ing Saturday the number increases. We are vastly fond of seeing the fair young ladies of Gotham, attired in neat riding habits and natty hats, managing with skill their gay steeds at the Park. These cavalcades vary the prospect and add infinite animation to it. The Park when 80 crowded is indeed moat beantiful. On all sides stirring, activ —o all seeming bappy— life lends to the scone that finish which it needs and for which it bas been created. The bridges are crowded with people; the lakes swarm with boats; the rocks are covered with pletnresque groups; the avenues are blocked, jammed with carriages and horses; all is bright, gay, cheer- fal—the scene becomes one of enchantment. Thus far all ie will, Altus! that there should bea flaw upon the surface of this great jewel; but there is a speck, and it is of this drawback we wish tospeak. It isa noticeable fact that each weok the number of carriages increases at the Park. It is also most noticeable that these carriages are driven by people who, from some unexplained cause, all desire to be at the same time in the very same spot. Now the laws of natural philosophy oppose themselves most stubbornly to any such consummation, and the consequences are that a most unpleasant state of crowding, of anarchy and confusion ensues. Carriages and horses become entangled in inex- tricable confusion, and the poor policemen, in their rebel uniforms, become lost to view in the melee, and only come out in time to rush at some unoffending, quiet person, whom they frighten almost out of his senses by vague and dire threats of fines and other dreadful punish- ment. We are sory to add that in many, too many, cases the magnificent occupants of tho most gorgeous and remarkable of the equi- pages do not behave as handsomely as they look. They swear at times, and the ladies get angry and toss their heads and wag their tongues in the most distressing manner. Allu- sions to punched heads and broken necks are far too frequent in these skirmishes. In fact, we regrot to state that, the more brilliant be- comes the display at the Park of vehicles and toilettes, the more shameful is the’ display of bad manners on the part of many of the ex- tremely fine looking people who ride in the carriages and wear the fino dresses. We must add here that tho pedestrians always behave welt. Now this will not do. Wecannot allow a continuance of such atate of things; and, fur- ther, we shall state what measures we have taken to “reform it altogether.” We make at the Park as great a display of wealth as may be seen either in London, Paris or Vienna; but in those cities the people are well behaved, orderly, dignified. Here the shoddyites—the great mushroom growth of the past two years— imitate the show, the pomp, the glitter of Furo- pean society. But its politeness, ils refinement, its.extreme decoram, our newborn great people have no conception of; and this is not to be wondered at. See that unusually fine carriage, with horses covered almost from sight with rich trappings, the servants attired in bright, too bright, liveries. Who is the lady occupant of that splendid turnout? Mrs. X., whose hus- band was a nobody last year, but who obtained @ contract since then. Now ho is a millionairo; ‘and #0 on through the great array of carriages at the Park. Shoddy, shoddy, shoddy. The French call such people parvenues; the Eng- lish, upstarts. We, with our usual originality, have coined our own term, and have added to our vocabulary the word shoddy. Now we shall proceed to divulge to the public the means we have decided upon to put an end to all the confusion and bad conduct at the Park. We have selected the most desperate and venturesome of our army correspondents— men inured to’ all the chances and horrors of deadly strife—and shall send them on Saturday afternoons tothe Park. They will fearlessly mingle in the turmoil and crowd, the pushing, the jamming, the quarrelling, the fearful cursing, and they will with accuracy note and mark down those who transcend the boundaries of good breeding, They will then, without a par- ticle of pity or compunction, expose the delin- quents to the notice of the Park Commissioners. These worthy gentiomen will adopt some fearful means of retributien. It must be borne ia mind of what stuff they are made, these Com- missioners. Think of what they have done at the Park—of the difficulties, the dreadful obata- cles, overcome there—and then, oh, too irre- pressible shoddy people, you will at once amend your ways! We know that the course we have determined to pursue in this matter may seom cruel; but in the cause of morality we are inflexible. There must be order at the Park. Gnreetey on Gow Conwreacra.— Hore. Greeley announced in yesterday's Tribune that he has had nothing to do with government contracts, Has Greeley forgotten the leiter of its corres- pondent at Washington declaring that the Tri- bune contract bureau Jwas closed at Washing- ton, and that enough business had been done | there to enable him to retire? Greeley never had anything to do with government contracts! Is it possible that he will make this assertion in the face of the official facts that -have from time to time been laid before the public? Did not « gun contract to the Tribune party turn up in an official report, with the word Tribune These and numerous other facts the public, are too familiar with for Hore. Greeley to expect the people to put any faith in bis denials at this latehour. Tt may do for him to make that announcement to the people of China, but not in Uncle Sam’s domin- | ions. This dodge to plead poverty, so as to got another contract from the administration, will not go down, Mr. Greeley. ADay Arran tar Fai.—The Wall sirect newspaper combination, Alpbabot Barlow, with the World and Argus, throw Vallandig- ham overboard, now that he ts defenied. But when Vallandigham was making his silly speeches last summer they applauded and en- dorsed him to such an extent that silly Gover- aoe Seymour cried out ditto to Mr. Burko, The Military Bianders at Wasek- — | Menge ington. Penneytvania aad Onio, whieh have between them sent over three hundred thousand men into the field, stil sustain the administration decidedly and entirely. All over the country it is the same; and this result of the elections is the most generous tribute that » generous people ever offered to its government. Despite the way im which the war has beea carried en, and the cruel sacrifices of life that have been mado; despite the millions that have been uselessly squandered, and the time thet has bees crimi- nally lost to our cause, the people new say to the administration:—“We are with yeu yet; we give you omr confidence; we will give you all that you ean require. Go on; sustain the Union and finish the war.” How will this generous approval affect the administration? It is given honestty, and in the face ef the most misehievous mismanage- ment of the military affairs of the mation that the world ever saw. From the disaster of Wilgon’s creek, in Missouri, and the sacrifice of the able and gallant Lyon, caused directly by the action of the War Department, down to the pitiful blunder at Sabine Pass—from Bull run te the battie of Chattanooga—the administra- tion has blundered on with a persistency thas, in view of its consequences, is the sublimity of evil. Wilson’s creek and Bull run were caused by the appointment of men to high positions, not for their fitnees anid ability, but solely beeause they were the favorites of men in power. This is areproduction of the fatuity of the ancien regime. Sabine Pass was tho result of that corruption that gives us old bulks instead of good boats, 80° that contractors may make money; and Chattanooga was the result of interference from Washington, and of the imposition upon Gen. Rosecrans of Gen. Halleck’s plans. Here is an epitome of the military history of the last three years. It falls naturally under these three heads: partisan favoritism, corruption and the interference and dictation of the Washington blunderers; and every disaster of the war may be traced to one or the other of these causes. General Pope was appointed to hig command in Virginia because he left Springfield in the President’s train when that gentleman started to take his position at the national capital, and his impotent campaign, from the consequences of which the country was only saved by the battle of Antietam, did not teach the War Department the impropriety of such a choice. General Hooker was appointed to the command of the Army of the Potomac through the most violent partisan advocacy, though his habits were noto- rious. Thence came the greatest of our disas- ters—the murder of the gallant men who fell at Chancellorsville, on Marie’s Hill and at Salom Heights—and a moral result worse than the loss of those men; for when, in any cause in which men take up arms, one hundred and twenty thousand fail to overcome sixty thousand, the cause in which the sixty thousand fight inevitably becomes hallowed in popular estimation with the appearance of divine sup- pert. General McClollan projected # campaign against Richmond which, if not interfered with at every step, would have given us the rebel capital over a year ago, and perhaps have ended the war by this time. General Grant succeeded on the Mississippi only because the meu at Washington, though they suggested an interference, ‘did not press it.” And, notwithstanding these experiences, the men at Washington now interfere with generals in the field more actively than ever. For the result at Chattanooga the War Department is clearly and directly responsible, and for the failure to annihilate Lee after the Pennsylvania campaign, and for his sale teturn to Richmond and present appear- ance at Bealton, not less so. History is said to be a reservoir of examples; but we do not believe that in all its immense extent there can be found any example to equal the su- preme impudence that the creatures of the War Department daily pract’s.. General Hal- leck, a man who never fought a battle, and who cannot be chronicled as the hero of any achievement in our history, sits in his closet at Georgetown, and, without a knowledge of the ground in any one theatre of war, dictates what shall be done by Grant, Rosecrans and Meade on the Mississippi, on the Tennessee and on the Potomac. He who never fought a bat- tle dictates about battles to the heroes of Shi- Joh and Gettysburg, of Corinth and Stone river. Shall we have a continuance of this, or will the President,-now that the people everywhere give to his honesty and good intentions the moed of their approval, at once “whistle down the wind’’ the whole crew of incompetent and im- becile men who thus sport with the destinies of the country? 3 Tux Missocrt Muppix Aoam.—We publish in another columa this morning a statement of the demands made by the committee of Mis- souri radicals, now in Washington, to which we also append the reply of Messrs. Rollins and Gibson, in the form of a letter to President Lincoln, and the recent specches of General Biair and Jim Lane. Messrs. Rollins and Gibson complotely rid- dle the radicals. They show that to grant Jim Lane and Company’s preposterous, in- solent and absurd desires would be to dis- band the'militia of Missouri, to weaken our armies in the field in order to bring federal troops into Missouri, and to supersede Governor Gemble, who has been legally elected, and who has done nothing in violation of the laws of the United States for which he can legally be removed. General Disir’s speech is a tromendous phi- lipic against Secretary Chase, Jim Lane and the radicals generally. Jim Lane’s reply is, like himself, bombastic, brutal, whiniag and | bullying. He says that he ‘deems it cruel that the raw-head-and-bloody-bones speeches made by him should be quoted to bis prejudice,” for he didn’t mean them. They wore only for the purpose of “soaring bushwhackers.” Perbaps the Missouri radicals doa’t mean thelr demands either, but only want to “scare bushwhackers’”’ also. It really seems to us thatthe President wastes too much valuable time over this Missouri muddle. He cannot submit to any such demands as those made by the radical jay- hawkers, and he ought to tell them so at once, | Our Washington correspondent says that Presi- ! dent Lincoln compares Jim Lane and the other border ruffians to some very large stumps in @ corner ofa very fine field which he once owned. The stumps were too ficm to pull out and too wet to burn out, and so he had to plough around them. Well, if the President has deter- mined to “plough around” Jim Lane and the _ other stamps, let him select General Butler or some othor ploughboy and go to work at it. and Rosecrans require attention, aad the President must get this Missouri muddle off ble hands without further deley. Bat still we think it would be # muck shorter and easier way for Mr. Lincoln to take a kick or two at these Missouri stumps. He would then find that they were very rotten, and would readil fall to pieces at the blow. — i ‘The Late Elections and the Party Prees— The People Versus the Politicians. The late elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio, as compared with those of last ycar in the same States; are somowhat perplexing to the Presidential tirRering politicians and their party organs om both sides. The New York Tribune and the Times, for instance, do wot fly off into any extvavagant rhapsodies: of exulta- tion over the overwhelming defeat of the cop- perheads in Obie, and the decisive reaction againat the demecratic party in Pennsy?vania; while our copperhead organs, and especially the Hon. Bon Wood, of the Daily News, seem tebe completely bewildered and stupefied by these astounding results." ‘The republican journals, whether in the in- terest of Mr. Secretary Chase or Mr. Seward, apparently appreciate, to aome extent, the real meaning of these elections; for they do not dis- cuss them as hadowing the drift of the popular vote in the Presidential contest of next year. In both Ohio and Pennsylvania the republican party waa merged into @ liberal Union organization, upon the com- mon platform of the suppressign of the rebel- lion by force of arms, and a generons support of the administration, aside fromell- mere partisan issnes,in the great work of push- ing on the war. Upon this paramount issue the elections of the present year, from Maine to Ca- \ifornia, have reaulted in favor of the aduinistra- tion. The necessity of supporting it has been recognized by the people, in order to secure victory to our arms and success ta the Union cause. The final judgment of the loyal-States upon the merits and demerits of the administra- tion is reserved for next year, when the ques- tion ofa new administration will come legiti- mately before the country. It is a question which was absolutely ignored by the people ia these late elections; for they regard the salva- tion of the country, in the suppression of the rebellion, as the all-absorbing question of the present day. ‘ uv All this appears to be apprehended by the organs of the republican party, and henc®. the comparative moderation exhibited in their pre- sent rejoicings, In the very fact that » whole tier of States which experienced a popular revolution one way last year have developed a revolution the other way this year there is too much uncertainty in reference to next year to trust to these results in the Presidential calcule- tions of either party. The people, tanght by the impressive lessons of this terrible war, have cut loose from the leading strings of party and partisan jourvalism, and it is only the inde- pendent press that can truly represen! the movements of public opinion and the uses by which these movements are controlled The newspaper party organs of the day are int the relics of a past age. The Hon. Ben Wood, never dreaming of this, is naturally sheked, astounded and disgusted with these late elec-, tions. He sees no alternative for himsd but the death of a martyr to the constitutionalrights of American citizens, such as the frecom of speech, freedom of the press and our pesonat liberties in general. And yet it appears from the Daily News, that he enjoys an ampldmar- ’ gin of all those freedoms; and he can,if he wishes, in the teeth of the law, enjoy thiddi- tional liberty of selling bis lottery tikets, singly or by the package, without stinteven next door to the office of a provost marsal. The jeremiads of Hon. Ben Wood afi all* such false prophets may be ranked withthose of the Prophet Miller. But atill thes late elections involve a warning as wellas @ voice of encouragement to the adminisation. The people have declared, from t] At lantic to the Pacific, and with an anmiakable emphasis, in favor of supporting the gminis- - tration in the prosecution of the wa The staggering blows to the rebellion of I¢ July have satisfied the country that one or tw mor® such victories will secure the triumphif the Union. But let President Lincoln bear | mind that, while this year’s elections have ted in his favor upon the single issue of the ‘ar, the popular verdict of the Northern elecbns of last autumn against all the violent, mitrary and unconstitutional exercises of the splition faction remuine unrepealed. Let himemem- ber that the people expect the war to h prose- cuted for the subjugation of therebel artes, and not for the destruction of the rebelliouStates; and let him not forget that, with ample sources in men, money, materials and means { every ' kind at his command, the people expe them to be energetically employed against the re- maining armies of the rebellion. Faing to meet these just and reasonable of the country, his administration in 1864iM be signally rebuked and repudiated by a indig- nant people. In the meantime, from the affiliation of the democracy here with the copperhenis, and from the miserable failure of Mr. Seynoer, as our Governor, we suspect that New York will follow in the wake of Pennsylvania ani Obio io our coming November. election, and that thus the administration will be left withoat on { excuse for a failiire to bring this war spedily to an end, backed, as Prosident Lincoln, wii be, by the solid vote of the loyal States fey th prosecution of the war to the suppression o the last armed detachment of the rebeiliga. Creare Toe Deoxs vor 1864.—The rewlt the recent elections is neither a victory of republicans nor a defeat of the democrats. is merely a vote of confidence in Preside: LineqJa for another year, to give him a cban to do better. It sweeps away Vallaniighas Woodward, Seymour and all snch rubbieh, a: clears the decks for aotion in 1864, Wuere Ig Seorstary Sxwanv?—Is it no about time for Secretary Seward to make visit to New York before election, and meke| epeech to counteract the work of Segreta Chase in regard to the Cabinet in Obio? Wh is Weed about? Mar ov Tum Battin or Grrrranvec.—-We have -reces a copy of a well drawn and handscmely printed the battle fleld of Genoral Moade's great victory. it propared by Captain W. H, Wilcox, on Major Gei Reynolds’ staff, Topographically this map is an adm: bie one, and in that point of view it is a very valu addition to the materials for a future bistory of ihe General Diz at Boston, Bonrea, Get. 16, ‘The steamer Henry Barden, from Now Podford, General Dix and staf on board, arrived today. Goneral comes to lepect tho harbor dovonces,