The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1863, Page 2

he ae os NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, which have provailed ia ths other slavo States of the berder, it was but a fow weeks ago that we were wit messes to the spectacle of Mr. Lincoln's resideut military commander im tho State of Kentucky offering himself as a candidate for Congress iu one of the Congres- sional distric's of that State, in opposition to a candidate rauning upoo the Union platiom, On the ground that raid candidate was too ‘radical upon the slavery questi In Maryland, wo have seen statements which leave ti doudt in our mind that the tiluence of the federal gov ernment is shared quite as largely by those tavoring We institution of slavery as by those opposing it. At the same time no one, we presume, seriously questions (bat Mr. Lincoln is @ sincere @nti-siavery map, and bus boca, perhaps, favorabte to the adoption of a border sla State policy, recognizing a discrimination in behalf of thogo coinciding with his anti-slavery views. Lincoln's fair fame as & true man we must believe this to be the caso. Why heshould have s0 remarkably failed in giving bis idea Buccesaful practical operation, 1s certainly & natural as it is an important inquiry ; fr wo ontertain but littie doubt that if the exact bs iance were struck the preponderance of the President's in 2 iu the border slave States, ao far ag his course bas related especially to them, would be found in favor of siavory’s perpetuation rather than fegainat it. One main reason for the fact just stated doubtless ts, that the President, being engaged in the work of prosecut- ing a great war, has given the affairs of tho States alluded to but an inadequate share of his personal attention, Ho has provably left them in great measnre to the manage- ment of tbose advisers whom he had selected more especi: Ly to represent the intorests of the States in question. While by no means are willing to admit that the fact exoue. ites the President from responsibility and biamo, are willing to attribute much of the antagonism observa- bie betwoon the general policy of the admisistration and that which bas provailed in the border Slave States, to the influence of the Cabinet officers from those States. At was at the outset of the present administration @ matter of the very first importance that the Cabinet ieee sty tn nee aes rmRNeSs, Unquestionable soundness 90 far 98 ouncerned the princtpies upon which the adminis. Gration was expected to be conducted, ¥in his selections of constitutional advisers from the slave States, Mr. Lincoln was not fortunate. ‘Two were chosen, neither of whom were men of really first élasa ability.’ Neither of them could justly be called 8! men. One of them bud oat rc of his id the other could t be described as a “politician” jn the more common and less complimentary signification of the term. But these things would not have proven of so much real con- wequence, had the men beyond all question been reliable upon the great questions of the erisis—the greatest of which, #0 far ag they were concerned, was that involving the duration of slavery. Our principal reason for questioning their soundnoss upon the slavery issue is, of cours, the manner in which thoi influence has been exerted in the slave States iu reference to it. We do not believe that hundreds of aj pointments, for which they are responsible, would have been made had they been truly and heartily anti-slavery. Antecedents tell something, and in the cases of these par ties, certainly thoy are not such as to give us the highest endorsement of their anti-slaveryism. ‘Tho fact is not generally known tbat Edward Bates, Attornoy General of the United States, is probably more than any other man in Missouri responsible for its be- coming and continuing a slave State. Such, nevertheless, is the case. In the great struggle which determined whother Missouri was to come into the Union slavehold- ing or free be was one of the leading and most influential champions of slavery. In a well known book published by Richard Edwards, devoted mainly toa history of St. Louis, entitled *« wards’ Great West,” page 322, we find the following pas- age of history in reference to the contest upon the slavery question when @ convention was chosen to frame tho first constitution of Missouri. In St. Louis, from its being the largest town tn the Stat and consequently the main stage where the political dran would be piayed, the inhabitants divided themselves into t great factlons—cne in opposiiion to slavery. and the o:her ‘advocating it. Both parties aclected thelr most influential mombers io form a Ucket to be eleeted by the people 10 represent St. Louis county inthe convention that was to form ‘he constitution of the State. The following named gentlomen were announced ay candidates representing St, ule county, and were for the admission of Missouri as & Glave State:— T. F. Reddick. Colonel Alex. McNair, Jobo C. Sullivan. Wilson P. Hunt. Mathias MoGirk. General Wilitam Rector. David Barton. jtuart. CNDEPENDENT TICKET, OPPOSED 10 THE FORTHER INTRO- DUCHION OF SLAVES IN MISSOURI, For Couvention—8: john B. ©. Lucas, Rufus Petti- bone, Abranawn Peck, Jc bb, Robert Simpson, > Bowles, William Long, John Brown. The ticket elected July 19, 1820, to represent St. Louis county, were all strong pro-slavery men. Not one of the anti slavery candidates was elected. ° To represent St. Louis county. wlien the convention was called to form the conatt. tution. the cl the le real upon the jo win men, vis —Bdwerd Bates, Colonel SteNaire john 0, Sullivan, Pierre Chouteau, Jr. Bernard Prats and Thomas E. Riddick; and in the framing of the consti tution, all power was taken from the Legislature te abolii slavery, unless with the consent of the slavebolding citi- or a full remuneration for the slave rhat Edward vates, belore gol Mr. YLincoin’s Cabinet, éver, by avy published declaration, put himself fairly upon the of the republidan party, we are aot aware, In view of being a candidate for the Presi- dential nomination of that party, be wrote a letter look. ing ia that direction, but which we know was far from office he held thi gh all the Kansas troubies, for some time during "8 term: When Lin- ected, Mr. Blair was a resident of the District lumbia, but being designated for a Cabinet position yy the “influence to which he held a close relation, and which had contributed considerably to Mr. Lincoin’s nomination, be removed to Baltimore, and so became 4*the gentleman from Maryiand."” ‘These facts may aid somewhat in clearing up the mys- tery which hangs over the President’s border slave atate PONCY- rom the St. Louis Democrat, Nov. 3.) Should the unconditional Union and emancipation ticket—commonly called the radical ticket—be defeated dn Missouri to day, a result we do not anticipate, it is right that the country should understand the cause That result will*be traceable directly to Washingtop—to the action of President Lincoln. No one in or out of Missourt disputes that if only loyal men were to vote that ticket ‘would be triumphantly elected. The leaders of the oppo aition—commoniy called the conservatives—frankly admit ‘this fact. Hence they appeal unreservedly to rebels to come up to the polls and help them. Heuco, in all caloulations, their only expressed hopes of success are based upon heavy majorities in the disloyal districts of the State. Another thing is equally cortain, viz: that if only a reasonable eilurt is made to keep the polls free from 11 gal voting by reason of disloyalty, a radical success is sured, because whon this was done last fall, under tl Administration of General Curtis, with much fewer facili- ties than the prosent departmont commander possesses tho radical Union party succeeded, and no one in Missow questions that since that time radicalism bas outgrown conservatism. The influence of the government oxerted now as it was one year ago could not fail to secure @ like Fosult, aud in an increased degree. Hut, unfortunately, as we believe, the policyfot the na- tional’ administration ts not new in Missouri what it waa ‘ono year ago. Scarcely bad the result of last fall's elec tion been published—a result at which the President is faid to have expressed marked grati(ication—thn at the Solicitation of the leaders of the defeated party he changed the commander in this State. Instead of having Goueral Curtis to counteract to some extent the machinations of Goversor Gamble, recognized by the President himself as the hoad of the conservative pro-slavory faction, and thus securing the radicals fair play—and more than that they wever had nor asked—they now have General Schofield who throws the weight of his official character into the scale with that of Governor Gambie. Nor is this the only $238) a ition from the President they have to contend with Ho has rocently given out an oficial exposition upon Missouri affairs, in the form of a reply to the petition of the radical men of this State, which apparently gives so much satisfaction t) none as to rebels, In proof ot this we have the tact that, being printed in pamphlet, to- gether with appesls to rebels to vote at the coming election, it bas been distributed by the conservative poli. (iolans broacast over the State, and nowhere so industri ously aa in the disloyal counties. We bave heard of a dangerous bushwhacker being caught upon whom this bo oy and @ rebel recruiting commission were found jor are the instances we have mentioned the cnly Proofs of an vafavorable, if not an unfriendly, local policy whiob tho President has pursued towards the Missouri Yadicals, notwithstanding they alone have saved the State 40 the Union, and they alone in Missouri have guatained, ‘and now sustain, tbe proclamation and other measures of bis grperal policy—notwithstanding four-fifths, at loast, of the Missourians now in the Meld fighting for the Union and the administration aro radicals. Io allof his later appototments tn this state radicals have been dis carded, even where favors have been conterred upon men of doubtful loyalty. Not only have radicats been ignored in the exercise of the ap- yimting power, but the axe has been called into requim fon + them, and their heads have been carried ‘upon laid at the feet of exultant conserva. ‘tem. So manifest have been the frowns of tle President Cowards the radicals, and his smiles towards their oppo- mouts, that all oflcehoiders Pee ee Topote in this State have felt tween their principles and their places, and we o hat in seve prominent instances the latter have proven the more potential. Hence the singular apectacie we have witnessed hore, of the officeholders growing more pr Ne ‘While the masses have been growing aero ible course om the part ‘the reault of this Moet Pemarkal tho Promident has been to divide the Union men of Missouri into two hostile parties, or rather to carry © Poet bd them over to the rebel or copperhead party. dipahcs ian Govaerts ° fand aa would be the case. were out afaira left ition to give it their support and couttenance, and into its lap ero thrown neariy all the rich emoluments which go to make a party strong and successful. Hencd ft is abun. daotly supplied with the material means OF propaga. “le. :7~ A Mews. - diam. Its chief hope of success cons! to tte abitng: to bring out the full rebel vote, which stknows witi be cust for its copdidales, if cast at all, thousands of dotiars fof federal money «re known to bave been contributed by the possession Of officas and contracts for the with the party of conserva'ive loyalty, to imperti the suc coss of the only Ex whieh is all over and ali through for the Union. But for this the Union men of Misurt to day would be mainly consolidated, and able te present such @ front to the enemies of th. government as would reoder Success absolutely certain. If the radical Union party is, therefore, beaten tbis fall in Missouri, that re- ‘sult will be alone ‘owing to that division among Union men which owes its existence almost exclusively to the cause we have assigned. After its success one year ago, under Circumstances generally much less propitious, no otber reason can be given. The President will hay turned thewcale againat his friends, From the Missouri Neue Zeit, Oct. 23.) Now, since the President has taken his position ia re- gard to Missouri and Kangss, and deceived both States most bitterly, it is time that the radicals also take up their position in the next Congress against him. ‘Tho star ot the administration, which began to sink, disappear in public opinion a long time ago, is also faded away in the estimation of the world, tho proverbial “honesty” of the President begias to veut Bone considerable hamwainy od prineipalty object seems at present to ocou attention of the President; we allude tothe election of “administration Speaker” for the House of Representati At che next meeting of Congress. ** Administration Speaker” (s almost as servile and stupid an expression as that well known English Loe ong Majesty's oppositien.” For Congress stands higher than the administration aad con- trois it, and ought, therefore, at all times to tho feast possible attention to the notions of Mr. Lincoln, especially as he is ar napeny Bap omen ner for roots “ consequently use the important cy isposal of the Speaker for private punposes, we, therefore, bave a war majority in the House over the ‘peaco-mad. half rebel o} ition, the President must gurely. not be made to believe that this majority belongs to bim, Abra- ham Lincoln, t be the ‘case, For ho has told a re- t Presentative, who mentioned to him; in demanding re- dress for grievances, that one good tura imight deserve another—you must vote (or my ian anyhow; just ab he ow i told 5 our angst depatation shortly Tolar buoy ‘wojl that T cat Tadicals, and on them alone.’’. ‘This is certainly very cool, when he was resolved to Prove, the very next day, in his letter of instructions to Schofield, that the radicals have absolutely nothing to expect from him, but must recognize in him, if not the bitlerest, at Least the most dangerous enemy. But what is to be done under such circumstances? Will the radicals really have to carry orders to Mr. Lin coin, and wiil they doit? Mr. Lincoln may have mis. calculated, to the groat damage of his renomination. There aro’ very earnest and resolute mon amongst tho radicals, whose shoe strings he is not personally worthy of touching. It is woll known that a caucus of the dominant party is always beld for the purpose of nominating @ Speaker. And this party. the republicans, bave bero tofore hela to the uw: of choosing always a radical man like Banks, Sherman and hope that it will not depart from this me, and fear it 80 much the 108s since the radical w: go that party is at present decidedly prepon- derating. But evidently the fadministration will turn a very cold shoulder on this radical wing, avd we should ‘not wond it were to break its own administration majority rather than go hand in hand with it; just as was done at Jefferson City in the case of Gratz Brown. This would certainly be unheard of even in the history of the nation—a minority of administration frien stroying the majority in the House, in order to make common Cause with the opponents of the administration principles and policy. And yet nothing ts impossible with Lincoln; and, indeed, indications have already ap- peared, Colfax seemed to have been generally recognized as the one who had the best claims to be elected Speaker. Suddenly the nawes of FE. B. Wasbburne and Frank P. Blair appear. Washburne evidently as the candidate who might possibly and probably receive the caucus nomina tion, and Plair as the reserve candidate, who is to be put ‘up and elected if the caucus bursts up by a coalition with the demoorats. This appears to us to throw much light on the duty of tho radicals, They must not give their votes to any ad- nistration candidat ; against in’s own is. less elected in the caucus the ia indeed different. and the radicals bave no other choice than to support him, as the least of two evils, un- less bis name fs Hiair and be ts not a turacoat, And Blair can now and hever more receive the republican nomina- tion, in spite of all the exortious of Lincoln, Seward, ) M. Blair, &c., &c. Thus tarithe conservative plot bas not yet proxi As for the rest, it must 8 easy to’ find out who fs the candidate of Mr. Lincoln. We don’t believe that ao libe- ral a man und clear a mind as Colfax -can have been won in Livooln’s favor. closely. Thi bh election in the Firat Missouri district, and about the ma- jority of the Missouri del Which might “possibly give Lincoln the vote of Miagourl. But, Hoaven forbid such an occurrence! It would bean infamy, if Li wore to receive the vote of that Missourl which be has betrayed. And if Blair could kick Barrett out of tho Houso, he deserves much more to be himself kicked out by Knox. Hence no administration Spoakor! That would be another blow against Missouri, {From the Cincinnati Gazette, Uct. 26. Saturde, Wo published on iy the President's reply to the Missouri Union delegation, and we give in auothor part Of this paper the address of Mr. Ivrako, chairman of the delegation , to the Union men of Missouri, being a review ir to the President's answer. ese docu ments enable our readers to form their own conclusions. 1¢’s mind seems to have been pied ia ‘Mr, Bates, brother in4aw of Governor Gam- Biair, brother of Not as agitators; whereas, tho Of Missouri realize is between loyalty and rebollion Detween protection and destruction; while slave ry and emancipation are only incidents—signs and emblems that mark the difference between secession and loyalty. The President appears to think the curious, gradual emancipation stratagem, with emancipation left out, a settlement of affairs in Missouri, ‘and to make adhesion to that the test. The Union men find outside a virulunt secession enemy, dragging the State through anarchy and civil war into the confede- racy. They find every socessionist a partisan of the gra- dual emancipation deception, which the President makes ‘@ qualification for the exercise of power in Missouri. But even if it were an abstract issue of gradual or immediate emancipation, we sui {tis a State affair, which the people of Missourl have the right to settle in their own ‘way subject to the constitution, [From the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal, Oct. 24.) It does not seem to us that Mr. Linooin ts exactly cor. Tect in bis estimate of the condition of affairs in Missour! or of thone who are really bis friends and the friends of the government, nor of who pretend to be. That he is perfectly right in authorizing General Schofield to prevent a goveral raid from Kansas into Missouri, we pre- sumo that there are few who will doubt. But there are some positions taken by Mr. Lincoln that are open to vory Forious objections. Tne affairs in that State aro anoma- lous and require very peculiar treatmont. It looks at present as though the sideat was in antagonism with his very best friends—with those who sustain him tho most cordially—and when we eee General Schofiold daily Jauded by Buch papers as the Chicago Times, and the lisgouri dolegation most bitterly assailed by the same vers, one uaturally hesitates to fully believe that Mr. ingoln is not mistaken. We trust he in right. Wo have no doubt but that he intends to be, yet we confess we cannot goo it The Great Door at the Capitol in Wash- ington. (From the Republican, Nov. 5.) ‘That splendid work of art, concerning which the public have been (ed to form such high anticipations, has been received and set up, though it is not yet perfectly ad- Justed to ite bearings. In that rospect, howover, it will ‘g000 be Compiote, und open to examination, It stands at ‘the entrance of the corridor loading from the old hall of the House to the new. The door is of bronze, The design was by Mr. Ran- dolph Rogers, an American artist working at ie, The founder was Mr. Frederico Von Muller, of Munich, Bava- ria, It iw eaid to be the only work of the kind in tho world, Its woight is 20,000 pounds, To this date there has been paid opon it $28,429. There are some outstand- ing bills, and some additional expense is now tncurring. ‘When it is completo and ready for use, tho total expeuse will be just about exactly $30,000. 1@ leading sub ect of ita embellishments ts the history ef ‘oumbus. It bas two valves, with four pancis on and one somi circular panel over the transom. The first panel (beginning at the bottom of the left hand Valve) contains @ scone representing Columbus before the competi of Salamanca, the second ponel, his lea convent of La Kobida. the third panel; Ferawand and Isabella; the fourth pavel, bis de- the semi-circular panel over the Doola, lon "the seventh panet the sixth panel, bis triumphant entry into Barce- represents him @ prisoner in conta! scone represe toon small niches in the bordor or frame around the jo which are sixteen statuetts, representi hed contemporaries of — Columb: from a wiih Irving and of Columbus. The hietly emblematic of conquest and mavi. ino about the edgo four statuettes, Tepresemting the four great divisions t vwn to the present Prescot. Crowninj Ornaments All the figures and ornaments are very sharp and clear in ‘outline. and the mechanical execution ia almost wonder. ful in ths perfection. ; Parana. rma, Mov. @, 1863, Stocks dull, Ponnsyivania 6, 995° Resting Rail- road, 62%; Morris Caval, 14 Inland Railroad, 40; Peonsyivania Raliroad, 72, Gold, 14855. sight exchange op New York at par, Barrons, Now, 6,189. Flout quiet: Howard atreot, §* 37 firm and advancing: white, $2 02 « Whiskey steady, Coffee dull: Rio, 31340. @ 830. Wvato, Nov. 6, 1863, Flour steady. Wheat 1 anlea No. % Milwaukee club CHPORTANT FROM ST. DOMINGO, The Revolutionary War---Its Char- acter and Progress. Efforts of the Radical Atvlitionists of America to Initiate a War of Races. Anarchy, Devastation and Lowes om Both Bides the Result of tho Straggle. The Spanish ‘Blockade in Strict Operation, &e., &., Ge, ‘Tho annexed important eorrespoadence from St. Do-, mingo reached us by the steamship Tubal (ain ia addition to thatspublished in the Hanarp yeotorday morning. Our St. Deminge Correspondence. Gr. Domanao Crrz, Oct, 17, 1863. Infiuencing Danses of the Revilution--Neé-a@ War>of Reaces—Abelirienist Stories te the Negrow—Pay of Gene- ral Samana from &pain—The Destructive Tactics of Both Partia—Rumor of American by .Recogni- ion of the Reputhio—The Reward of the Coven ment-—The Weather, éc, : ‘The Spanish portion of St. Domingo isat the present writing the theatre of ono of the very fyaniest tevolu- tions of this age of topsy-turry revolutions. It is not a war of races. Remember that. I have been among these people long enough to know what I am saying, when I assure you that there is mot on this continent, nor any of the islands thoreof, a population more scientifically mixed up in color or more happily mollowed down toa con- tented spirit of fair play all round than the Dominicans, ‘The whites lift their eyebrows with » mild expression of contemptuous surprise when some daring Yankee emita the idea that it would bo a favor to everybody to bring the idle blacks into some system of industry. Thoy seo no reason why thoir lazy, laughing, thriftiess, accommo- dating darkey neighbors, who @ in their easy, irregu- lar way worked cheerfully and peaceably with them or for them for two gonorations, should be molested in their qittle ways. It is true they are not hagd and steady workers; but they are fed and paid accordingly; and it is the settled custom among Dominicans of all shades to take such things as they come. Still leas—if that is pos- sible— aro the black Dominicans jealous of, or in a burry to get rid of, the whites, They provide a groat deal of enay work and good eating for the poorer and moro igno- rant class om their plantations, in their mahogany ‘‘cuts;”” and, where a while man makes himself ‘no better than a nigger” by bis bad habits or incorrigible stupidity, he fares like biack niggors of the same grade. Some amiable foreign abolitionists of the Congo-Sumnor ‘schoo! tried to get up a war of races by furnishing arms to @ mob of savage negroes on the frontier of Hayti, and teacb- ing them how to take an undefended hospital and cut tbe throats of two or throe score of Spaniah soldiers. They ‘were also told that the murder of |white women and chil- Gren would be very agrecable to the «King of the United States,” whoever that potentate may be, and that ‘his Majesty would come with a groat army aud help the Diacks to drive out the Spaniards the very minute ho saw bis dear children—the real nogroes—had given him this proof that they were determined to have Bo more to do with the white race.” This abominable story, coming to them im company with the fact of several hundred fixe guns and pistola—all Gratis, free ‘love offerings—wherewith ¢o slaughter the ‘“erhite deviis” eo detested by tis King of-the United States,” had the effect of stimulating the border negroes | ‘tofrenzy aad some reveiting atrocities among the strag- gling, half savage towns along the frontiers of Hayti. ‘The objeot of the planner of this movement was to initiate ‘8 war of extermination by throwing away the scabbard when the awerd was drawn; but after the frat burst was over, and the masses of the Domimicans were lured into the conflict, there was no longer a question of races. It ig simply and entirely an uprising of the native Do- minicans against the Spanish military offcers. What is the basis of the difcylty? Of what do the Dominicans complain? you will oaturally ask. That it is tmpossible to say. Nobody knows what the fight i¢ about; and, what ia funnier stiM,mearty all the mischief done by ofther party is done to themselves, There is any amount of large talk about victories om both sides; but the fact is there have been no efeotive battios fought, except on Paper. Some contemptible skirmishing, in which cortain Spanish officers took commendable care that nobody should be burt, is ail that is doing bere, General Podrd‘Santana, the former President of the republic, and the man who made a present ‘is Anecountry to Spain, commands the Spanish forces, and be will do bis best to win the day for Spain, as be was made Marquis do las Caroras, with the comfortable pension of two thousand hard dotars every month of his natural life for the job. If any other Spanish Amerioan President bas a province to soll ho knows where to find @ market and bis foo. Isabeila pays like alady for that kind of merchanmdise—some say more than the article is worth. The Dominicans knew nothing of this transaction until the Spanish flag actually floated over thoir hoads; and thoy made no resistance to the act. Since then the want of tact on the part of a fow vain-giorious officials, who mado an insulting parade of their powers, and afew acts of {ll-timed military annoyance, which have been re- peated and magnified, and studiously circulated among tho masses, sowod mischief. Now almost the entire Do- minican hoart is saturated with foar and digtrust of the Spaniards as a nation, and the paltry outbreak on tho border, touching this propared material like a match to tindor, lighted up a rather extensive biazo, There are eight or ten thousand Domintcans in arms, oqually ready to sorve as guerillas apd take care of themselves in de- tached parties, or condense into brigades to oppose advauce of the Spanish troops into the interior. At Santiago—the loveliest city of the piain—the Domi. nicans burned up thoir beautiful town to dislodge the Spaniards; and at the seaport of Puerto Plata the Spaniards’ burned up their only showing for quarters to prevent the natives who wore unheused at La Voga coming there for refuge. Foreigners, meantime, do all the business for both sides, and are likely to be the only ones in the country who ‘will have much money to show when tho war is over. ‘How is all this turmoil to end?” asked one consul of another in my hearing this very moraing, “Neithor sido fights aa if it were in oar- eat.” «Tt will end in the Spaniards loaving the province in disgust The Dominicans will restore their old white fiag and their republican covstitution,”’ was the answer. It ta reported that the United States Consul has a docu- ment on band which will put a tall feathor im that bat- tered old cap of Uncle Sam's. That ia, it was so reported at the retired city of San Cristobal, whithor I made « pil- gtimago to seo how it looked after a ‘decisive military occupation,” officially announced. it there had been none. ‘The Spanish ‘occupying for: ‘that the enem: back. The beard on the road was ‘accumulating in front,’’ and turned omy at San Cristobal heard the Spaniards were “accumulating” to take them, and they turned back too, I board that the American Consul had received orders from his government to ize the revived Dominican ropublic forthwith, and obtain the cossion of a free port on the great bay of Samana, as the reward of a kind word of encouragement at the critical hour; and on thin I turned back like the rest. Not aind- begsurvaing 0%. Domingo to ify this tale of bold statesmanship (and whon did Washington red h aphonix like that?) I turned my face in the opposite direction in search of moro exciting signs of war. J sailed up the Ozama to tho wake of a little govern- ment steamer loaded with stores for Santana's affair is mall miniature edition of the Army of the Petomac, the cont 4 It on he t nd is al Shown by my by can’ 7? a ways bowling for ¢ jen." White ihere { heard ‘again thet the Usives soniae recognized the Dominican republic; but thie time the envoy was located at Santiago instead of St. Spain was to retain the ove of a great triumph," alway H i ? i i treaty aro now at the head of course, more anxious than ever to win the the Great Republic of the North om such ii HH ae ; j $1 20; No. 1 24 @ $1 25, Racine $1 22, wed It—thongh | tub, ito white Michigan, $1 63. Corn frm | and too feasible or Wa At Ode. 0 94. Btocks light ts steady and im fair port came up the river to the effect demand at 730, Barley quiet a 72. Rye sominal at jar steamer was actual! $107. Whiskey nominal. Canal freighta—200. on wheat, | high mission, and | started Le. on onts to Now York. importa—Flovr, 12,000 bbia.; | come novelty. Captaia 5 wheat, 260,000 bushels corn, 50,000 burhela; oats, 281,- | for fresh provisions and 000 bushels, Exporta—Piour, 4.000 bible. wheat, 156,000 | war vossel of any kind has bushels, Gorn, 6,000 dusts, uate, 4,009 Duslelay Woon arrived ‘Bqre the Untied = uatrola, onte, 4,000 busleia, tT «a ‘oe ie Hy E H li i i ; ee es i a 2 i Br. Doumgo Corr, Oot, 18, 1868. ‘The Spanish Blockade of the Ooast—What ts Required of ‘fraters—Lones of the Government of Quem Tsabella— Santana—What Wilt the Tesue be? de. ¢ ‘You have probably already repetved news of the bioek- ade Of the cosst of St. Domingo by Spain. This dove not apply to the city, which fs held by the forces of her Catholic Majesty. Vessels arriving hore will, hewover, be subject to a rigorous examiuation, and it will be well for all vessels clearing from New Yerk for this port to see that. thelr papers are correctly filled up-and properly ger- tified to by the Consul of Bpain. °° ‘The insurrection till appears to be making headway. ‘This lsowing, in part, to the Fabian policy pursues by | the Qaptain Genera}. His successor, General Vargas, is Gmily looked for, and then, it is aid, important move- monts may be expected. It is cortaim thit Spain can easily éxterminate tho bandful of marauders sow in arms against her sovereigaty here, if such is ber policy. It ts more than whispered that sho comtomplates retiring and letting the Dominicans severoly alone. She bas ex- pended milKons here upon these “ wayward children,” and with but small prospect of return. Last year the expenses of government hore, mot including the budget of internal improvements, amounted to one million eight hundred thousand dollars, while tho rovonues, all told, only reached four hundred thousand. On the, 11th inst. the garrison at Agua, fifteen hundred strong, wore withdrawn and brought by steamer to this city. All tho loyal portion of the inhabitants came up by the samo opportunity. On the evacuation tho in. surgents, some three hundred strong, marched in and declared for the republic. At San Oristoval, which ‘pronounced for the republic on tho 8th, it is said that there has been » counter pro. munciamiento. An expedition left here on the 15th for the latter place, under the command ‘of Generals Gaucha and Puelio, numbering three thousand mon. Thoy were obligea to tako the bighway through the interior, in consequence of the ferries on the const road being in the bands of the rebels. Wo are very anxious to bear the result of this movement, as the San Cristoval district contains supplies that we can ill aflord to, lose. Withia the last week the rebels havo been roported at Fort St. Geronimo, three miles distant from this city. Fatiguo parties and eonvicts are employed contioually in levelling the woods and houses within the military zone of three miles from the walla, that no harbor may be afforded to the enomy. Among other beautiful couutry seats which have felt the devastating axe is the Hsmo- ralds, the estate of General Cazneau, adjoining the city walls,which was the model residence of the neighbor- hood, and embellished. to an extent that years cunuot reproduce. ‘The families of the promivent officials are leaving for Cuba, Porto Rico and Curacoa. Yesterday the wife and children of the Captain Genoral embarked on the ‘‘San z m ho capital of Porto Rico, aud oday tbe fost india Comyany's Penis eftubal Gain" 108 away a distinguished oro General Be tcheessaine at Bap Pedro with two thou. sand Spantst ‘equal umber of bis faithful bo |, wud an “it'will be a ‘hard matter to-bring any wok the enemy wear Mouto Plata, and defeated bim with considerable toss. Communication remains open with Ayomante, the theatre of the American West India Company's cotton operations. and accounts. from there report, matters as beyond ox; Hons. alt succeed maiotaining ber foothold hero? first biush ope would say no. native jon ra bl} ‘roused. against ber, alt h on what grounds it is bard to say, and these natives aro a race to subdue. A regiment of Spaniards tm an open 1, a0 feuits of mother jpauiards cannot do this. They must take ies with them. As a French statesman of a former ago observed with regard to an invasion of ae ‘if & small (rce is sent there it will be defeated, if a large ono, it will starve.” Again, it will be urged that Spain cannot meet the expenses of « protracted war, to bold a country so id of industrial resources as St. Domingo; that already the state of thi there is afforting a bad example to the neigi Doring islanis of Cubs and Porto Rico, and unless the troops already withdrawn from those islands are speedily reatored, there wil! be uprisings in those pow dora portions of ber 'y’s domain. t this is a superficial view. Spain bas entered upon tho occupation of St. Domingo, not without mature dolibe ration, She rey ta progress and liberality. She bas conducted herself in such a manner since the annexation as will secure for her the respect and countenance of the Civilized Powers, Tbe Dominicans, on the other hand, are a di led. ignorant and decaying race. fat eighteen years of @ republic they could return to the mother country without a protest, is evidence of the low estate to which they bad fallen. Their policy was Ja- ‘ere | Foreiguers were looked upon with suspicion and ted with contempt aod perfidy. Spain throws open the gates of this beautiful garden to the world. She in- rites foreign enterprise, labor and capital, and is able to afford tion, The white race, under tho aus- pices: pain, is, in my humble judgment, destived to ocoupy This evergreen island of the tropics, euriching and gladdoning it with the triumphs of science, industry and art. THE AMERICAN REBELLION. Interesting Letter from General Thomas Francis Meaghe {From the Dublin Irishman, Oct. 17.) ‘We publish this week in full Geueral Moagher's impor- tantlotter. It eloquently expresses. views which we put forth at the very beginning of the American struggle, and which we bave seen as yet no reason to change Or essen. tially modify. Last woek we were enabled to give only the half of this letter, and in now publishing it in its en tirety we foo! sure that we mogt the wishos Of all readers of the /rishman — New Yorn, Sept. 6, 1863. Mr Dean Surra—-You wif readily acknowledge how difficult it was for me to write to you whilst | was in thé fold. Being constantly occupied with the duties of my OoMMMGG, i ind Hilile oF no time left mo for anything else. You, who have known me so long and intimately, and can make the fullest aliowances for what those who do not know me #0 well would ascrAe to thor and indifference, will generously forgive my 5 T einoerely assure you this silence was most painful to me, for I was extremely desirous of thanking you, in the name of my nobierittic brigade, and all true Irishmen tm and out of the army, for the energetic Adelity, and the strength of the arguments and illustrations, with which you vindicated the government of the.United ‘States in its great effort to put down the fosurrection of the slavebolding aristocracy of the South tty cheering indeed to find you foremost amongst few ‘ight mon, who in of the pational mand: it, grateful and ns toe and: r milltary proceedings it became necessary . That Conduct of others, who thought and acted otherwise, was a source of the deopest mortification, you will oasily com ’ sentiments and disposition of the Irish public—so far ae speeches and newspapers oan be taken to interpret them truthfully—in to that cause, and the action of our government, wore not such as the loyal citizens of this ibite bad reason to expect. the expression of them hurt us essentially or in any grievous measure it would, of course, be absurd of me tonay. roland, most unfort bas been 90 bumiliatingly redyced as a political power, that her sym- hether for good or evil, A more Jealouny, and rancor it excited, rignall the mection of any adminiatestion any etatesinw or politicean of tzod diaparagome: portte bonptte. Ca ith— ich a a er tet elation to the government countey , the dlavomastors of the South, will ‘doveton iteolt im the new argument i furnishes the bigots to whom I have referred, and whe revive with every incident or event which directly, or by eee, eovere 08 foundation for their charges of disaflect _ thousands of emigranta who make sai for tt im earch of (airer play for their industry, a friendlior seciety and a happier home. The identification of tho i Irish people at home with tho and tories of England ia thoir avowed sym; hy abt active connivance ‘with the rebols—tn aid of whom Birkenhead launch « ‘sbij ite of Gias- ring feet on the fin and condemn the action of the national government, and ap- Prove the inGdelity and usurpatiens of ite enomics. T am ready to for I feel convinced— that, in some instances, this opicion has been at fault, owing oon eee or misconception of the object aimod at by the \thern politicians and the forces they have organized. The generous heart of Ireland is ever prompt to sympathize with the efforts of a peopio in arms tostrike down an ive maatership eatablish for centuries with the hope ond attained ta and buried Madrid head from Andes, Hence its bonfires ‘end bymns of whon the workmoa and chi OUDK. fonts planted fey valrous stu once Bgai Of the rey Tiig'ob tho palaces ea well qs on the barri cades of Paris, and with sublime visions and aspirations dedicated France, for a third timo, to tho reign of the people and the service of humanity, Honco, to-day, tho agerpess with which the splendid heroism of Poland is followed from one field of battle to another, and the offer- ings which go forth ou the wings of a sister spirit to sustain the holy war agatnst the Muscovite. i fiue, the sympathy of Ireiand, in the‘instances I cepted, with the revolutionists of the South, strange identification with the misohievous and malignant sentiment and activity of England against the federal gov- ernment, of several honest men who hate the very name of England; and, if they could compass it by their deaths, would wrench lier, root and branch, from the seas, and froo the worid forever of her. uch instances, with such men, sympathy with tho yal States of the American Union ia who error of generout ures, inflamed with the love of liberty and ‘an intense hatred of oppression. A wfd error, truly, since tt confounds the conspiracy and outbreak of a law Jess ambition and lust of power, with tho struggles for ‘equal Inws, fair play, tho God-given rizhts of consciance, national life and position, an unfettered manhood, ao ample sphere in which to pursue the moat useful and brave carcer—io which struggles the oldest and most famous of the European wationalities have been, and still are, with varying fortunes, engaged. He who covfounds these two euterprises—tho one of Iawieas am- bition and lust of power with the one of the down-trodden against the despot and, conscievco against the per- secutor—would confound a mutiny and massacre on ship- board with the @delity and bravery that beats off tho pirate or sworves ber from the breakers. He would Plant tho statutes of Catalino aad Cicero om tho samo jestal in the Senate, and despatch tho faithrul and tho jalso in the one fiery chariot to Heaven together. It would be difficult, indeed, for the most eager or rockless partisan of the Southern insurrection to assim! lato it with aay one of those righteous and heroic uprisings t referred to, or idontity the former with tho latter, fa oy one instance or {a aay one eggential particular. Not one act of injustice justides i. Not one. Mr. Stophons, the Vice-Prosident of the confederacy, io that virtuous and glorious speech of bis, in which ho besought ‘and warnod his mative State of Georgia not to follow tho exampie of South Carolioa, which had just passed in Oon- vention the ordinance of secosmon, unequivocally and emphatically dovlarod that no wrong, tbreat, actual er probadie usurpation of the federal goverament and Con- gress could be invoked to syeelly, the withdrawal of the Slave States from the Union Toe Govornor of Fiorida, at tho same time, said the same thing. So did the Governor of Georxia, who presided at tho meeting at which Mr. Stephens spoke. ‘ho fact is, as you woll know, the vast majority of the ple, North and South, ever Baye most crupulously.ead seositively guarded the reserved and special rights of the south. They have doue - with the most sterling an@ stern fidelity, doing vio- Lave to their own great instinote, and in’ defiance of ‘the sarcasms and scurrility which theif rigid ouservance of good faith with ahe South drew down upon them from the hypocrites of Exoter Hall, and the reproaches of the honest aposties of human liberty in the more truthful and chivalrous parts of Europe. & word, woh meme rod wer of the North and West stood as a wall of granite etween the South and the Now England neophytes and crusaders of Exeter Hall, and thet wail was nevor stronger and loftier than the very day that Mr. Lincoln was elected President. A positive majority, pledged to sland by the South and repel every encroachment on its peculiar rights, was returned to Congress at tho same election. No apprebension, therefore, of injustice could be rationally entertained by the South, at that time, even for ® moment. ‘True it is, laws and resolutions in contradiction of the rights claimed by and guaranteed to the South undor the covstitution, bad been passed in tho jislatures of ‘Wisconsin ard Massachusotts, and docisions of the Su- eS Courts ot two or three of the Northern and estern States were in conflict with the obvious require- ments of certain special enactments of Fugitive Siave bill for example. But in all these in- st the authority of Congress overtopped tho au- thority of the States, and the resolutions, decisions and law in question, offensive and faithicss as they seemed to be to the South, bad no more offect than so many soap bubbles blown in tts face. in no instance, under no administration, whether whig or democrat,’ were the claims and rights 0! the South ovor compromised or over. borne. You remember the littie Yankee brig in which IcwmetoNew York to 1852, from Pernambuco’ The ear bofore she had brought back, to his master io Eveacch the romray sieve Simms, despite of all the rampant rhetoric of Wendell Phillips, and the seditious excitement be and others like bim bad kindle4 oa the occasion of the unfortunate slave being arrested ta Boston by the officers of the federal govorament. The plain truth of the matter is, fidelity to the South was @ more vehemont passion with the North than tho love of ain, the love of adventure, the love of liberty itself. ‘er the sake of maintaining the nations! unity, and the constitution in which it was framed, tus North became nothing leas than the obsequious vassal of the South, and ‘seemed to hold every intorest in the country subordinate (0 that of the plantations Hence, for fully half a con- tury and moro, it waa the South that held the White House, and controjied, if it did not monopolize, tho gov- ernment. Hence, in fine, tho irritability of the South when tho democratic party was ousted by the repubii- cans, and a uew order of men proceeded to take poases- sion of the capital ‘This trans‘er of power wastoo much for them to bear with nimity and tho cheerful rosignation of good citizens, They had boen the dominant party, and must remain #0—if bot ja the Union, spite of it, What! they, the iy lords of the rico swamps and cotton fields, the of the vlood of the Fiuguenots and Cavaltors, give way for four yoars to the lanky and marrowloss of those Deggarlx outcasts of Pilgrims! South Carol submit to that—sbe must set up for herself. Georgia ‘and Alabama agree with bor; and then the rust of them ‘that live, and grow ‘and hiughty on tno swoat of the black skin, and propagate their own rare blood for the auction bigek ‘the branding iron, the lash and all the nolsomencas ot a brutal bondage. sift it to tho bottom— sit and probe it in every direction—and you will find that the conspiracy avd outbreak of the South against the Union is the couspiracy and outbreak of insolent pre- tension, lawless ambition and lust of power, as I have al ready said, and nothing.more, if snyibing could be worse. Ad ancodote sometimes in wi ‘a volume of history Afd logic. Here te ono that dispiaya broadly, tn the clearest ight, the purpose and character of the Southern rebellion. ‘Tho month of August tmmodiately precoding the olso- tion of Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Toombs and Mr. Cobb, of Georgia—both well and widely known ,abroad as woll aa at home, as politicians of considerable influence and ability, and as accomplished gentiomon, occupying high social as well as high political position tn the South—paid a visit © New York. A day or two after their arrival they dined with a gentioman you are familiar with, and who wields extraordimary power, whilst occupying « singularly conspicuous position, a+ a, public man. cs te Gel ae ae dest Ge igh he told mo the circumstances { am eed without intimatmg in wont’? ontaaty” Mr..Toombe replied, ‘is what we'cannot afford to do, lt would be fatal to Hos Bouth, a8 & toa wwe recognise Mr. Liocolt aa ose President, and suffer bit ” the slave he would very tation ran Gate eeat have, of course, those elected him, Collectors of the house oMeera, district Lg United postmasters and mail agents, every onp of these officers would at once become republi- cane, If Before, end a multi tude of qwell the Met’ in 00 time, ‘Thue the political identity of the South would be destroy. 4, A party, more or less boatile to ', would grow Oty oer works, Ube ertetocenta @f (be South—the Ma- nted so unsafe and overshadowing & contrast to Poreditary ‘burthons, the stingy franchises, the ¢domias- tion of privileged classes, the monopoirzed lands, the sur- felted church establishment, and all the other aed bloated follies, nuisances, boasts and falsehoods over the Lion and the Unicorn rampantly keep guard. Thank God! there have been thousands of Irishmon im New York, in Massachusetts, in Onio, in Peansyivania, to Mlinois, Indiava, Vermont and Maine, to rescue tho Irish mame from the disgrace of being involved in the infamous echome to rend asunder, and roduce to the condition of ‘an unstable anil the proportions of an inferior Power, that great and beneficent nation which bas been for eighty ears and upwards, tho sanctuary and Tenova'ion of the impover: and oppressed of Europe. I say no! against the Irishmen who have fought under Lee Boauregard. It is herd for mon of goncrous and warm natures to break away from the asanciations in which ‘they fod themselves at such a crisis asa civil war. and sternty do their duty in spite of their social relations ‘and affections, and the influence which the choses ecene of their tabors, their home, their friends and their success naturally and powerfully exercise. But without writing one offensive or unkind. word ta allusion to thom—and I have never done #0 once ia aH [ havo written and about the war— I turn with pride and exultation to those of our race who efood truoto the government of the United States, and in the vindication of its honor and preroga- tives pledge the fire of their hearts and the vigor of their arms. If it was a noble exploit to plant and. consolidate this government, it ia,surely, an undertaking deserving of equal, if not greater, praise, applause and benediction, to defend and preserve it to the last. I shall not prolong this ietter to vindicate, op behalf of tho Irish soldiers tm the federal armies, & course of action which thetr im tial intelligence dictated, their gratitude prompted, their lovo of genuine liborty inspired, their clear sense of jus- tice sanctified, their oaths of citizenship enforced, Im the ored graves in which many ef them sleop to-day they ‘are not on trial for their loyalty and heroiem. Their ser- ‘vices and devotion, their willing salf srorifico and death it the blaze of battle. left them high above the arguments of theliving crowd, investing them with a glory which mo criticlam should be suffered to approach, and from which no criticism, however presumptuous, can detract. Bo- lieve mo tobe. with sincere regard. your faithful and affectionate friend THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER, To P. J. Suyta, Esq., Editor of the Jrishman, Dubiin. THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. ‘Dhe Stimers Court of Inquiry—Conditio: of the Monitors After the Fight tn April Last, d&e., &c. Now that the Stimors court of inquiry has been dis- solved and the accused acquitted of the charges, we ere enabled to publish Sir, Stimers’ de‘ence. The document is vory interesting, and shows facts which are of great importance. MR. STIMERS' NEFENCE. May it pleaso this bonorabio Court—The testimony ia- troduced by the Judge advocate togustain the charges made @ by Rear Admiral Dupont is now close@. . Acting in view of the proof thus placed before the court, I doom tt wholly unnecessary to offer evidence in reply. ‘The very foundation on which there charges must rest ig wanting, and hardly au attempt bas been mude to supply it. They were carelessly, if not recklcsaly, made by a high officer of the government, willing wo give them the sanction pf bis mame, apparontly without in- quiring whether they were canabic of proof or founded upon wortbless rumor. Much time has been usol spent io apparent efforts to prove them. but any one tentively reading tho evidence discovers tnat the real purpose has been. not to establish the charges in qves- tion, but to justify their author in failing ‘ofectively te use the formidable means for destroying the defences ot Charleston which our government in its confidence and hope had lavished upon him. That J am not unjust or obaritablo in making thissyecestion will be fest from an exarnination of Charges and proof wi I will now Proceed to make. TER CHARGES. First—The fret specification charges me with baving whilst on board the steamer Arago, on ber voyace from Charleston to New York. at table. in the presence of her officers and other persons, a number of whom were oor- Fey nny of the public press, (aisely asserted, knowing same to bo untre, that | was told by one or more of the com! rs of the iron envaged in the attack of Charleston that it ought te have been renewed—that the vessels wore in a fit condition to renew it—and tl feveral of the commanders had said tome that wore hot for renewing the engagement. TOR ANSWER TO THR FIRST SPECIFICATION, A person observant of Christian precepts—considerate reapect— before deliberately framingta Ces ulated to consign a to diagrace tnfe- my, have carefully into ite trath and the means ho would hardly have beep com- tent to make it before conversing personally with those capable of proving it,and then @ just man would have withhold the accusation, #0 painful for a gentiemas to his witnesses were entitied to full credit. The course which my accuser has seen ft to pursue presonts a wide departere irom the path thus indicated, The names of persons who were on buard the al during the voyage were appended to the charges ag witnesses, aod most of them re been ox- persons—all, no doubt, accessible to my sccuser or te those sooking to support these charges. If, therefore, I, during the voyage, used the language imputed to mo, it ‘was susceptible of easy proof. Not a particle of testimony to that offect has, however, been furnished, No one pre- tends I ever said that any commander of the iron cinds bad stated to me either that the attuck en Charleston ‘ought to have been revewed or that the iron-clads were ta fit condition to do 80, or that their commandera wera not for renewing the engagement. No languago bearing the lexst resembiancs to that charged 1s proven to have been uttered by me at any amo; and [am bound to assume that neither of the wit- oases named ever stated ommerwise than they have here aworn. If not, tben upon what information cond the charges in question have been framed? Was it bolioved they could bo proven? And if mot, were they wanty ir mado, #0 that upon pretence of sustaining them neva: inactivity painfal to a whole nation might be just.ded by proof quite irrelevant to the charges buing tried, and therefore quite likely to pags uncontradicted by me THE SROOND CHARGE. Secomd.—Tho necond chu: duct unbecoming an submance, that at the table of said steamer, where on board of her during the passage, crit condemned in terms unbecoming the circumstances tis professional conduct of Rear Admiral !rupout by statin: Uhat the Monitors were in as good condition ou the sth day of April, 1863, after they had undergone ome slight repairs, to renew the attack as Chay had been to commence it the day before; (hat they could go into Charieston in spite rped os and obstructions; but that admiral Dupont was too moet projudiced against the Monitors to give them = fair tris ANSWER TO THR BKOOND CHAKUH. Now, if under tue circumstances, I had «tated alt that is thus charged, it would, in my judgment, havo been @6 more than I was authorized to say. I had’ been charged by the government with ine important duty of inspecting the construction and armament of (home vessols whilst they were being mute. They wero gow in the bistery of tho world, but in the contest between the Monitor and the Merrimac— although the latter on the day previot« had detied a ‘lee of our largest frigates, cartying an armament Oty timer greater than the Monitor, destroying som and threaten tag all wi same fate—the Monitor, work ng her two eleven. jiths behind an jovulnerabie shield, ‘earaa puwors, ive and defensive, by 40 terrible an ordoal that {ntelligent and unprejudiced men here and tn Europe from that hour saw that naval supremacy must he maintained, if at all, by abandoning woo'en ahipe an€ adopting those which the genius, engineering skill and Tipe practical knowledge of their author had ‘au rht the world how to construct. My knowleaye of thie claw of war voascis had been acquired pot only by watchin: an€ fospectin s their construction, step by ste», hut under the enjoved tne good the conte: to which ich had vevoloped — tt to aumte's unharmed, the fire of heavy guns at short range, and ne See Rano ns ae wie ahip of.great power, beavily sheathed in tron = With an i i bs i nt Le 4 i Hi d i Es f E : i te gs § 7 i i it i ie i i i