The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1863, Page 6

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CURISTY'S MINSTRELS. 585 Broadway.—Bus- tuaquus, Songs, Dances, &0.—How Ane You, Gauay- maoust AMERICAN THEA’ No. 444 —) aaa ein Fe as seapeiirsimaetc MRVING HALL, Irving place —Hiawarma. —_ HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUS! kiya. pores, Dixces, Braresauss, do” Peokly®.—Bxmrorsan TRIPLE SHEET. jw York, Tuesday, November 3, 1863. ae ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisements for the Wxaxiy Hsravp must be band- €6 in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Ite circulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, morchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- eorted ia the Wenxry Heratp will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United Btates. «SSRIs, Feat Ne: caer THE SITUATION. Sumter has been undergoing a terrible bom- bardment from tae Unjon batteries. The latest mows we have from Charleston is taken from the Richmond Whig of the 3lst ult.—three days later than we have had before. It states that the bom- bardment of Fort Sumter on the previous day was the heaviest that has yet taken place. From sun- down on Wednesday until sundown on Thursday one thousand two hundred shots from fifteen-inch morters and three hundred pounder Parrotts have been thrown against thé fort. The rebel loss is seven wounded. On. the evening of thé 30th General Gillmore’s foroes opened fire from the mortar battery atCum- mings’ Point upon the northeast angle of the fort. The batteries engaged were those at Gregg and Wagoner, the. centr® battery and Cummings’ Point battery, with the addition of three Monitors. “The bombardment of Fort Sumter,” says the Whig, ‘still goes on; but the fire ismach slacker. Our batteries fire slowly and deliberately. Tho enemy at present pays no attention to them.” All is quiet in the Army of the Potomac. Tho damaged railroads are completed. The weather fs fine. Mosby’s guerillas are still dashing around everywhere. The capture of our two cor, fospondents—Messrs. Hendrick and Hart—took placo at a house in Auburn, where they were pass, ing Saturday night. Their horses and valuables were all seized by Mosby's men, who made a sudden descent upon the house. General Thomas, in his official report of General Joo Hooker’s recent affair with the rebels, says that General Hooker took many prisoners, among whom were four officers and one hundred and three men. He also captured nearly a thousand Bafield rifles. His loss was three hundred and fifty officers and men, killed and wounded. The enemy had made no demonstration since the 2th alt. A despatch from Louisville yesterday tates that the rebel Generals Lee, Rhoddy, Whooler and Forrest were then in the neighbor- hood of Decatur, Courtland and Tascumbis, south of the Tennessee river, with a combined force of fteca thousand cavalry, prepared to operate on the line of General Grant's communications. It was reported and generally believed in Wash- fagtoa yesterday that the new command allotted to General B. F. Butler isto comprise the districts of Genorals Foster and Schenck, both of whom are relieved from duty. Preparations were made in Washington for the reception of General Foster end his staff. Farther details of the conspiracy in Ohio and the arrest of the alleged ringleaders are given in @nother column. Quite a number of individuals appear to be involved in the mischief, ranking from the State School Commissioner of Ohio Gown to the washer woman of the United tates barracks at Newport, wiver from Cincinnati. Axes and chloroform— ®@ curloos combination of hostile weapons— @eem to have been the destructive ele- monte designed by the conspirators for the re- Seane of the prisoners at Camp Chase and the demolition of the penitentiary. It is said that the plan was to have been carried out a week ago, but miscarried, which no doubt gave the engacious de- teotives who discovered the conspiracy an oppor- tunity to complete their plans. THIOPIAN Riven. across the EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamships Germania and City of Washing- ton, from Southampton and Queenstown respeo- tively, reached this port yesterday morning, bring- (ng our Evropean files to the 21st of October, with wery interesting and important letters from our Special correspondents in Paris and St. Peters- The ateamship China, from Queenstown on the ‘25th ult., passed Cape Race last Sat en hor voyage to New York. She our agent at the Cape, aud ber new which is three days later, telegraphed from Newfound. land —is published in the Hewatn this mor Our correspondent in St. Petersburg furnishes & Vory interesting letter, under date of October 13, He atates that the movement of the Rassian war voasels to New York was decided on after con fultation between Prince Gortschakoff and Mr the United Stgtes Minister to Russia, apd abded aga political event of importance, A very interesting sketch of the life and services of Admiral Lessofiskoi, the commander of the t, is contained in the letter rom Poris we learn that the Mexican question -the -Brazilian* government has withdrawn the NSW: ORK HERALD, TUESDAY, was offft tho cause of considerable execetive anxiety. Napotoon had received the Mexican deputation and congratu ‘ed the mombers on their euccess. It is euggested that the Paria press will soon, under imperial inspiration, broach the idea of the annexation of Mexico to France ander a French prince. Napoleon attended at the latest ascent of Na- dar's great balloon from Paris, Our Paris corres- Pondent states that the Emperor showed evident signs of physical decay and mental anxiety, his appearance denoting that his sudden death would not aurprise any person. Mr. Mason, the ex-rebel Commissioner, was still im London after his second visit, looking, it was said, for a passage to the Southern States. Henry Ward Beecher delivered a lecture on the American question at Exeter Hall, London, on the 20th of October. The hall was crammed to over- flowing, and outside meetings were extemporized. Mr. Beecher was carried into the hall on the shoulders of policemen, being totally unable to make his way through the crowd. His speech against elavery—containing his ideas of the Union before and after the war—is given at length in the Heracp to-day. The London Army and Wavy Gazette regards the cause of the rebels as very hopeful in the field, snd expresses tee opinion that an armistice lead- ing to 8 peacé. may be obtained by the rebel leaders after New Year. Mr. Laird had detivered e-speeoh at Birkenhead, defending his course im regard to the Alabams and iron rems. _ 3 F ‘The London Times of the 24th ult. says that the English people will support the government ip the matter of the seizure of the rams. Our files from the Cape of Good Hope, dated to the middle of September, contain some very into- reating reports of the movements of the rebel pri- vateer fleet in Simon’s Bay and off the coast. The ‘Vanderbilt having reached Simon's Bay, Captain Semmes evidently took off his cruisers to avoid her. After this the American traders commenced to move about more freely; still keeping near to shore, however. The South African pilot who took the Alabama into port disputed with Semmes on the question of his remuneration, and formed a very poor opinion of the liberality, or honesty, of the rebel commander in consequence. The wri- ters at the Cape describe the Alabama as in excel- lent trim. The Vanderbilt towed a distressed Dutch vessel into port, and Captain Baldwin gene- rously refused the salvage, an act which pleased the people highly. “ ‘St. Helena advices of the 27th of September give the reports of quite a number of vessels ar- rived at the island from the Cape which had been board-d and overhauled by rebel privateers. Some of the rovers gave names not heard of here- tofore in the rebel fleet. The English troop ship Silver Eagle, from Shang- hae for Woolwich, was boarded by an unknown privateer near St. Helena. The rebel offfeer de- manded to see the ship’s papers. Captain Long- man, of the Silver Eagle, refused to show them, and suddenly pointing to two hundred British ma- rines, who were armed and drawn up for the occa- sion, told the rebel officer to help himself if he wanted/aaything; He went down the side of the Silver Eggle very quickly, and without giving -his pame, - The proceediuge relative to the towing of the bark Gracie—s suspected privateer, from Rio Ja- neivo—to sea, the pursuit of the United Staten steamer Mobican, and the return of the Gracie to port, are given in the Hgmaxp. It is stated that clearance papers.of the vessel, andtherefore she ‘will not be able to leave the port of Rio. The latest reports from St. Petersburg state the situation between Russia and Turkey was threaten- ing, and the probability was that the Czar will have a diplomatic rupture with the great Western Powers before Christmas. The London Times of the 24th ult. reflects in a sorrowing tone on the serious war aspect existing all over the world, and calla on England to use all her power as a peacemaker. The last portion of the great telegraph cable which is to connect England with every corner of her Indian empire had been shipped from Ply- mouth. A number of vessels are engaged in the service of taking it out, and will be employed in depositing it. A large and efficient staff of elec- tricians and operators sailed in the vessels. M. Rouher had succeeded M. Rillault in the legis- lative service of Napoleon. Madame de Bazaine, wife of the commander of the Fsench army in Mexico, is dead. The Liverpool cotton market closed quiet on the 2th of October, with prices unchanged from the advance experienced in the sales of the week. Breadatuffé were mote steady. Provisions were quiet and steady. Consols closed in London on the 24th ultimo at 93 a 931¢ formoney. The sales of American securities were small at nominal prices. The news from Poland by the China is unim- portant. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We publish to-day a graphic report of a terrible prize fight in California. Itis putdown by those most competent to judge as one of the most des- perately contested battles ever fought in this country. The contest extended over two whole days, and finally resulted in the defeat of Walker. The report, which we take from a California paper of the 8th inst., is of much interest. The Board of Aldermen did not organize yester- day, for want of a quorum. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, and completed the appointment of canvaseers and in- spectors of election. The law courta were opened yesterday, but no business of importance was transacted, and they were adjourned over to Wednesday. Last night a stable and barn were burned in Ninety-fifth street, near Eleventh avenue. Loss about $1,000. The money market yesterday was tighter than it has been for some time past. Seven per cent, and in many instances something additional, was paid by the brokers for call loans, Gold was comparatively steady and closed at 1464. ‘The stock market was affected by the strin- gency of money and declined throughout the day. general remark, was dull yesterday. On lo. a 2c., while corn, rye and barley were mantained at previons figures, Pork was 123¢c. & 25¢. down, while other provisions were steady, Cotton, under advices of heavy receipts at New Orleans, was depressed and very doll, Petroleam was also dull and lower. Imported mer- chandise moved slow, the market generally being unset- ted with regard to values. Freights were a littie stronger thongh the offerings were so light that the business was extremely limited. What fow engagements there were neutral vessels obtained. NaroLEon asp Maxittiay.—The intrigues of the Emperor of the French in the Mexican ques- tion are not successful. Even the young prince whom he thought to make a tool of has proved too cunning for the wily sovereign of France. Prince Maximilian has bad an angry oorres- pondence with the French government, because | the latter will not guarantee the proposed Mexi- | can loan; and the next thing we shall probably | hear will be thatthe Austrian utterly renounces | all idea of throne on which, should it ever be | erected, be would have but an wend sent, | That France should refuse to guarantee the loan | Shpws bow little confidence ghe in the whole | affair, and is a promonitory pum hag of the bursting of that great bubble, “ the regenera- tion of the Mexioan people under a new govern- menk” ‘The Administration aud the Hext Presi- domey. President Lincoln's settlement of the Mis- souri-Kanses imbrogtio has sorely disappointed and perplexed the abolition radicals. This is especially the case in the Northwest, where the leaders of this domineering faction had deluded themselves with the idea that they were the masters of the administration. Had not the President adopted the whole programme of the radicals? Had be not ‘thade thelr schemes of confiscation, conscription, emancipation, c., the leading measures of his ‘war policy? How, then, could he resist their demands for the ro- moval of General Schofield from the Depart- ment of Missouri and Kansas, the snubbing of Governor Gamble and the Missouri conserva- tives, and the establishment of a radical general and a radical abolition policy over this depart- ment? The Jim Lane committee of seventy proceeded to Washington certain of success; they returned each with a fea in his ear. But, instead of accepting their rebuff like men of sense, resolved to make the moat of = bad bar- gain, they threaten the removal of the Presi- dont himself if he shall continue to stand in thelr way. . We are gratified, bowever, that in this matter ‘these abolition destruotives have ran‘to the end allowed # margin: of discretion as to whether this proposition, that or the other, in his oon- duct of public affairs, shall be adopted or discarded. Nor is this all. The day is ap- proaching, and may be near at hand, when the President will be required to make knewn his policy in regard to the restoration of the rebel- lious States to the Union. Senator Sumner would reduce them to the condition of Terri- tories, or to so much wild land, without local institutions or boundaries of any kind; and from this wild land he would carve out new States, and new institutions for them, based upon the eternal expulsion of African slavery. But Mr. Secretary Chase and the bulk of the radical faction do not care to go- quite so far. They will be satisfied with the practical aboli- tion of slavery in each of the rebellious States as the condition precedent to its readmission into the Union. This is their sine gua non and their ultimatum, upon which they have resolved to rule or ruin the administration. This is the main issue, too, which was covered up in this Missouri-Kansas muddle. In thevettlement of this question, therefore, we think it may be safely assumed that Presi- dent Lincoln has broken ground for the next Presidency, and has very broadly intimated that his platform will be that of the conserva- tives ; that his policy will be the restoration of the seceded States as soon as any or all of them thay chodse to return, and with thelr local in- stitutions, including slavery, just as the war may practically have left them. In other words, we adbere to the opinion that .the~ Secretary of State spoke by -authority in his létter to the French government suggesting that the return to “both houses of the federal Congress: will be regarded as sufficient for the rebabili- tation of such State, with all its old constitu- tional rights, as one of the United States in good standing. This is the position which the President’s seftl t' of, Missouri-Kansas difficulty foreshadows as position for the Presidential succession. We have some strong circumstantial evidence in support of this comprehensive view of the subject. For example, some time in advance of Mr. Lincoln’s official rebuke to the Missouri radicals, the Postmaster General, Mr. Mont- gomery Blajr, in a public sj ryla denounced the reconstruction policy of Mr. Se- cretary Chase and his followers, and proclaimed the conservative policy we have indicated ‘as the President’s plan of restoring the Union. About the.same time Gen. Francis P. Blair, Jr., out in Missouri, was actively engaged in a stump campaign against Mr. Chase. The sub- sequent letter of the President on this Missouri question shows that the Blair in Missouri and the Blair in Maryland bad been speaking by_ the book; that they knew what was Goming, and hence their bold and unreserved state- ments concerning the views and the pur- poses of the responsible head of the adminis- tration. But how were these Blair brothers thus post- ed up in advance of the radicals?’ We think it not unlikely that they received their cue from the head of the family, the veteran Jacksonian Francis P. Blair, of Silver Spring. Our old po- litical readers will remember that when Gene- ral Jackson went en to Washington to assume j the duties of the Presidency he took with him two of the most prominent and powerful Kentucky politicians of that day—Francis P. Blair, Sen., and Amos Kendall—the one as the editor of the administration organ, the Globe, the other as an anditor of the Treasury, subse- quently promoted to the office of Postmaster General by President Van Buren. These two men—Blair and Kendall—were the special con- fidential advisers of Old Hickory; and it was to Blair's sagacity as a politician that Old Hickory was chiefly indebted for the brilliant idea of making ® war upon the United States Bank the controlling question upon which he was clected for a second term. We now suspect that this veteran politician of Silver Spring has become the special confidential adviser of President Lincoln, and that the President, satisfied that the counsels of the veteran Blair are wise, sound and infallible, has concluded to try the experl- ment of a re-election, and upon a platform which will command the conservative masses of the country of all parties, against all the dis- organizing factions of the day. And why not? The abolition radicals, from New York to Illinoir, were sternly rebuked in our Northern State elections last year; the copperheads have been and will be as sternly rebuked in the elections of this year. The people insist that all secondary issues and dis- organizing factions shall give way to the imme- diate work in hand, the suppression of the armed forces of the rebellion. This work can and should be completely done within the next six months. Assuming that it will be done within this limit, the question of reconatraction will then become the immediate and all-ab! sorbing problem before the country. In antlet pation of this thing, we doubt not that Presi- dent Lincoln has virtually settled upon the olicy he will pursue; and we are sanguine that it will be a satisfactory conservative olicy. We are entirely convinced that Mr. ard and the Postmaster General are on the right track; and if the President would com tinue to be, as he is now, the master of the situation and of the suootasion, he bas only (9 in responsible for the acts and measures of dis |. administration, and that therefore he must be |. follow the course foreshadowed by his letter to the Missouri radicals. ‘Tho broad and liberal polloy of reconstrac- tion of the Union thus hinted at will, however, necessarily involve a reconstruction of the Cabinet, dispensing with such radicals as Mesars. Chase, Stanton and Welles, and substituting men whose views are more in acoord with those of the bead of the Cabinet. Stanton and Welles may safely be set aside on other grounds; and, whatever may be the pretensions of Mr. Chase in his department, the Treasury would be quite as eafe in other hands, susteined as it has been, is and will be, by all the flaancial and business interests of the country. Ina word, we oon- sider President Lincoln in the field for the suc- cession, we consider him master of the situa- tion, and that, having indicated his policy of reconstruction, we shall probably with the meeting of Congress begin to realize its develop- met, first, in a conservative Speaker, and next in an uproar among the radicals which will end in a reformation of the Cabinet, outting them adrift and clearing the track for the Presidential campaign. * seymour aud Raymend Upon the Governor’s quibbles, and pettifogging in reply. to the Governor’s pettifogging. From the speeches of these two men we may form a tolerably correct idea of the present state of American stump speaking and of the decline and decadence of that once mighty institution. Governor Seymour made a very long speech at the Cooper Institute last Saturday evening, and his admirers claim that it was about as able as any he ever delivered. Evem the Cheva- lier Raymond, who is devoting his atten- tion to an endeavor to answer it, and who has printed the rough notes of his future speech in the Times every morning since Saturday, can- didly acknowledges that this discourse of the Governor is more to his taste than any pre- vious oration. Now, what did Governor Sey- mour gay at the Cooper Institute? Well, he declared that he was in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war. He declared this several times. He appeared to like-the phrase, and reiterated it. But he was always careful, after every iteration, to take back all that he bad said. He was evidently afraid that -he had gone too far. He was troubled lest somebody might think he meant something. Of course he was in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war; ‘but then,” ‘4f it were,” “notwithstand- ing thip,” “on the contrary,” “nevertheless,” and so forth. That was the sum and substaace of the Governor's vigor. We have known men who had spirit enough to say a good thing, but net courage enough to do it; but Governor Seymour's backbone is not strong enough to keep him upright until ‘the end of bis speech. Bu norte wiliale, barulnor len He I delighted when he can find petty fiutts in great men or petty flaws in great works. ‘To bea great man, to daa great deed, or to appreciate either the hero or the.heroic achievement, are equally beyond his stestgtb. The Chevalier Raymond is the same sort of & man, with another set of opinions and another suit of clothes. Indeed, his opinions, like his clothes, are not original with him. He has picked them up somewhere. Perhaps he pur- chased them, perhaps they were presented to him. He dresses himself up in them to make a , and-can -at-angedime put them aside and don a new set, if comfort, convenience or interest demands it. There the comparison must cease; for his clothes are generally well made and his opinions are not. His mental tailor isnot as good a workman as bis physical. It takes nine tailors, they aay, to make a man, and Raymond never employs more than one at a time for hismind. His stump speeches and his Times articles, therefore, lack eight-ninths of being manly. There is nothing more curious, ‘and amusing than to hear him review Governor Seymour. It is a pigmy reviewing a lili- putian. It is Commodore Nutt quarrelling with General Tom Thumb. It is insignificarice criticizing’ littleness. If Governor Seymour's utterances may be said to amouat to nothing, the utterances of the Chevalier Raymond amonnt to less. And yet, singularly enough, Seymour honestly believes that the country would go to ruin if he did not make “a apeech now and then, and Raymond is jnst as honcstly convinced that Scymour will wreck us all by these speeches if they are not immediately an- swered by the editor of the Times. This re- minds us of a crazy fellow, in the village where ‘we were born, who used to go to a certain post and wind up the sun every day, under the im- pression that the world would stop moving if this ceremony were omitted. However, we had but one such crazy man in our village, and we have at least two in New York. Now the fuss and flurry of the election is very nearly over. Seymour and Raymond bave both delivered themselves of their puny speeches, and are as wellas can be expected. We beg of them to carefully watch the result. Without risking our reputation as a prophet, by predicting who will be elected and who de- feated, we will venture to play the oracle so far as to say that the world will not come to an end, or the war be concluded, or the Union be lost, if either the democrats or the republicans aweep the field. Should this prove trne, we re- commend Messrs. Seymour and Raymond to read over their speeches carefully in this new light, and see if they are not alittle ashamed of half they have said. Then let them go to work to originate or crib a few grand, compreben- sive, national ideas, so that, when they again mount the stump, they may have something to say worth uttering and hearing. During this interval, which may be extremely protracted, and in order to afford these gentuees full time to incubate, Providence pill try to take care of events and Satan of politics, and we will assist the former and annoy and hinder the latter asnuch as ia possible under the cir- cumstances. Srint, Axoruen Fries tv Naronron’s Ean.— In the French Legislative body there is forming, beside the regular opposition, a party semi- independent, whose votes the government will not be able to count upon. The importance of this fact will not escape the notice of those who are aware that during this session Napoleon the Third is to meet such opposition as he has never had to encounter since bis advent to tha throne of France, Tribune, one would suppose that this conapi- racy, 60 bitterly denounced, had for its object some plan to aid and comfort the rebels. On the contrary, according to the statements of the correspondent himself, the only aim of these so-called conspirators fs to begin the restora- tion of the Union by bringing back Louisiana toher old allegiance to the federal govern. ment. One would suppose that the men who favor this scheme must be rebels and traitors, or the professedly loyal Tribune would not at- tack and revile them. On the contrary, they are such truly loyal gentlemen as Mr. Seward, is that the mask often falls from radical faces, and reveals the monstrous, revolutionary, fa- natical and Jacobia spirit which those abolition politicians who recognize John Brown a their god and the Tribune as their Bible. referred, that, certain citizens of Now | the Union, and that they.imtond to de thie fa the manner polated out by Secretary Seward in -} his famous reply to. the interveation despatch of M. Drouyn de Lhuys. That is to say, they intend to set the State government in motion, elect members of the Legislature, and send loyal representatives to Congress. These gen- tlemen assert—and the Tribune does not deny— that Mr. Seward and Mr. Bates endorse this idea, and that Mr. Etheridge, as Clerk of tle House of Representatives, has consented to receive the loyal members from Louisi- ana, upon their own credentials, until the House is organized. They also say—and the Tribune does not deny—that Mr. Ethe- ridge has a perfect right to do this upon the precedent established by the Broad Seal controversy, some twenty years ago. Under these circumstances, the Union men propose to hold an election for five members of Congress— ove from each district and one on the general ticket—and also for members of the State Sen- ate and Assembly. “They are anxious,” says the Tribune correspondent, “ that Louisiana shall take the lead in this matter, and there is no doubt but Mississtppi and the other States will, in due time, follow.” So far, the patriotic reader will search in vain for any objection toa plan which promises so much good for the Union, and will be at a loss to know upon what grounds the Tribune can oppose it” with any ‘show af loyalty. “ibe ‘But a little consideration will enable: us:to understand why the radicale are as ‘anxious as. the rebels ‘to prevent the .restoration of. the ‘Union in this way. In the first place, they fear “that Louisiane: will retarn with bet slaves,-end’ this they“cannot permit. The Tribune. repre that “they are the onty unoonditienal Villon men, they are willing to accept the Union with slavery.” ‘There ls a great teal of trattin this sarcastic remark. ditional Union men, because they are not wil? ling to accept the Union unless slavery be abol- ished. An “unless,” or “if,” or “with this con- dition,” or “upon these terms,” is fatal to true loyalty. The Union, with or without slavery, as the chances of war may dictate, but the Union above everything, is the only platform of a really Union nian. The abolitionists, theréfore, as we have often charged, and as the more honest ef them have often admitted, are not lovers of the Union. They are simply haters of slavery. They dg not support the war for the sake of restoring the Union, but for the sake of destroying slavery. Now;*in this view of the case, we bold that there is no diffe- rence whatever between the disloyalty of a man who is for the Union if slavery be pre- served and that of a man who is for the Union if slavery be destroyed. Copperheads and nig- gerheads are upon the same outside platform in this respect, antare alike public enemies: This {8 the broad, general reason for the radical op- position to the Louisiana scheme. There is, however, another more particular and more partisan reason for this opposition. Congress is now pretty equally divided be- tween the conservatives and the radicals. If five new members were elected by the people of Louisiana their votes would go against both copperheads and radicals and with the con- servatives upon the Speakership question. This would elect General Frank Blair and give the conservatives full control of the organization. The radicals miist prevent this at any cost— even at the cost of keeping out of the Union a State which is anxious to return. That is the secret of the Tribune's course, and we trust that President Lincoln will understand and defeat it. The recent letter of the President to the border ruffians of Missouri was a step in the right direction. He can take another step in this matter of Louisiana. Committees of blustering radicals will be sent on from New Orleans, as they were from Missouri, and they ought to meet with the same reception. The President cares nothing about the Speakersbip. He knows that a comserva- tive like Frank Blair will do more to support the administration than a radical like Thad. Stevens. Neither is he the man, if weare not mistaken In him, to allow so confparatively tr:- fling a matter as a contest for the Speakership to interfere with his decision upon an important constitutional issue. In the despatch of Secre- tary Seward, to which we have already alluded, the President pledged himself to restore the Union by admitting duly elected loyal repre- sentatives from the seceded States to their seats in Congress. Under this pledge Louisiana is ig to come back. The redicals are con- spiring to keep her out. Let President Lincola break up this radical conspiracy, apd he may be assured that “Mississippi and. the other States” will soon follow Louisiana, and he will have the glory of restoring, as Washington had the glory of creating, the American Union. Tue Rev. Bexcesn in Exataxn.—We admire pluck under all cireumstatces. Therefore we award our meed of praise to the Rev. Beecher for his spirited conduct while delivering a dis- course upon American affairs in Liverpool, He was yelled at, hooted, interrupted, questioned and annoyed; but above all the tumult and uproar he caused his goice to be heard, as he pitched into Joba Byll for bis conduct in this affair, and detmstrated in forcible terms that Bog!srd Soul never aid the South. We priby 1 {igh In another part of this journal Mr. Beegher's { discourse. It is well worth perusal. ‘The radicals are not uncon- |: fo, Mlsconducl of é * Gea. Rosecrans was romoved after the battld of Chickamauga, not because of the loss of thed battle, but because the removal of a general immediately after the loss of a iietil : i E E Pee e 2 | ‘opinion on a purely uifitary question, and management of our armies. Alter that could be no response; but the was then made that he should be the first good opportunity, and that came with the lost battle. | reached Chattanooga before Bragg’s reinforce ments came up, and thus got possession of that strong position witbout a battle. Had he re traced his way to join Buraside it would daally have required for the capture of Chattanooga almost as long 4 time as General Halleck tools for the captare of Corinth. But General Halleck would not order the junction of the two columus in any other way; and yet, when Rosecrans was in Chattanooga, Halleck gave the positive order, through Dana, that Rosecrans should move forward and compel Bragg te fight at once. Thus it happened that we fought Bragg on the Chickamauga with an insufficient force, while at that very time we had forty thousand men comparatively idle » hundred miles away. And in the perpetration of this game criminal blunder the administration, like Prince Hal, has ‘damnable iteration;” for it re- peats it everywhere. Just as Burnside stood at Ki , With a force that, if added te the under Roseorads, would have enal- hilated! the rebel army, do Pattetson stood fite~ | * ‘ ‘onthe: *ppet Potomac while MoDowell waa beaten at Bull run; so MoDewell stood idle at Frederickeburg whilé McClelied oa the peniny _‘ sala called in vain for men; the Department in June ‘sent on A up the peninsula a body of mea that, if” the. war by the captire of every. the Potomac with Lee. It is time that the President looked. like this honestly in the face, and took steps to prevent a further repetition military crimes; for they are no less. Now the country supports him with ite voloe, that our finances are a miracle of President can, by proper attention to duct of the war, finish it in six months; if he does not do so his will be sunken out of sight ia age oemeeaee Secretary Sewawo—Tue Exection ano StENTIAL Issve.—Secretary Seward has / the example of Secretary Chase, and pays & visit to his native State on the eve of the tion. Since Secretary Chase took that occasion’ to deliver a speech or two and spread beforé the people his views of the issues of the times, we have no doubt that Secretary Sewar€ will also favor us with a speech before he the State, and further develop the contest is noy going on in the Cabinet in reference to J% the succession: ‘The bold movement inauguc © > rated by the Blairs in their speeches, by the letter of the President in, reference to ‘ far more important than anything that ss t transpired. It is not at all improbable this is the commencement of a movement for a new issue before the people; and we presume that Mr. Seward, occupying the important posl- tion that he does, will consider it his duty plant himself on one side or the other at outset. He will haye no more favorable oppor- tunity than during his present visit home. ' Fine Arts. ‘The cold weather has brought back to town tbe straggling artists who had rematued out sketching, now all is activity in the studios. The landscape painters, fresh from the study of nature, are already busy tranee ferring to canvass the contents of their portfolios, while@ the figure painters are grouping together their summes reveries in the form of historical or other compositions. Leutz bas retarned from bis Europeaa trip, and is at- ready engaged on anotber large picture. Church bas left his couatry seat on the Hudson, and tg again at his easel. Gignoux has been to; the British proviness, and brings home a large collection of sketehes, principally of coast ecenery. Kevsett has been spending a good deal of time at News port, and his next pictures will be mostly patated from the scenery of that neighborhood. De Haas and Hazeltine have been to Cushing's Island, off Portiand. Durand has been sketching the scenery of Lake George, and William Hart the upper part of the Hudeon. Habbard and Gifford have bees to the Adirondecks, where they mot only passed their time pleasantly ia the way of «port, bat profitably, es regarde their professional acquisitions. Huntington bas been to the White Mountaios, and bes also brought home some fine studies. Elliott bas been working during the summer ie Broete- lyn, for the accommodation of his pumerous patross there ve been passing the summer on Long Island, and bia b is somewhat improved. His physicians, however, advise him not to (ace the cold weather here, ‘and he will soon leave for Cuba or some other of the Weag India islands, where be means to spend the winter. Fi has just completed a beautiful cetling ia oils for the man- il I E E Hh i FE bE eho arases Senay The Sales of Government Bonds. . Puraperema, Nov. 2, 1868. The sales of government bonds to day amounted te $3,160,000. Parties wanting bonda dated November g° oan obtain them by paying back loterest in con, 6r ita, equivalent. Deliveries of bonds under $1.0", are mada, on payment of subscriptions.