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HOOLEY'S OPERA HOU: Boreas, Darces, Buxiesquns, » Brooklyn.—£tntorias Sow York, Wednesday, Nevember 71, 1869 ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisements for the W-cxiy Heraip must bo baad- din before ton o'clock every Wednesday evening. Ite cfrculation among the enterprising mochanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly, Advertisements in- serted in the Waray Hxratp will thus beseen by a large portion of the active and cnergotic poople of the United States. THE SITUATION. The latest news from General Meado’s army re- ports no fighting going on yesterday. Between rixand seven hunlvel of the enemy were cap- tured near Culpep) Our pickets near Warren- toa Junction were in sight of Mosby's pickets all day yesterday, but no collision took place. General Baford’a cavalry had a skirmish with the enemy near Culpepper on Monday, and after a brief ight and charge through the town drove them before him. They finally retired beyond the Rapidan. Our lines now extend from Culpepper to the Rapidan. Offictal despatches recouuting the late victory of Generals Averill and Duffie at Lewisburg, West- orn Virginia, have been received from Brigadier General Kelley. Despatches from Leavenworth, Kansas, yester- day, Gay that the rebels under Ceoper and Shelby, having eacaped from our troops, crossed the Ar- kansas river with a force of nine thousand men, and were then marching ov Generel Blunt, wo had only a force of one thousand eight hundred cevalry, who were acting as an escort to a heavy supply train bound for Fort Smith. General Blunt had reduced the number of his train, and es putting his force in position to resist the onemy. The expression of opinion elicited at the Union meeting held in Little Rock, Arkansas, on the 30th alt., was unmistakably in favor of the cordial support of the United States government, the sapremacy of which the resolutions adopted there pledged the people of Arkansas to uphold. Our correspondents at Chattanooga furnish yome very interesting details to-day of ‘the late bettles in that vicinity, together with an official list of the casualties. Tho defences of Chattanooga are now perfect, and its vast importance as a aflitery position ia more manife.i than ever. A dcepatch from Chattanooga yesterday aayn that refugoes from the rebel army report Gencral Bragg tO be evacuating his position in front of Chattanooge and falling buck ta Rome or Atlanta. Qenersl Longstreet was said to be organizing a force for @ ¥aidon our line of communication at eCPM STECELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Adriatic, from Galway on the 87th of October, by way of St. Johns, Newfound- (and, and Halifax, N Ncotis, arrived at this port yesterday aftern She brought six hun- dred and ninggy-nine passongers, A Paris paper publishes a siutement to the effect that at a banquet given to the cavalry officers. in Versailles, where Marshal Magnan was present, one of the colonels delivered a speech in which, referring to Poland, he expreseed a belief that, at no distant day, the Ewperor would summon them lo meanure swords with the oppressors of a people sympathetic with France, The accession of General Burgevine, with lils American legion, to the cause of the Chinese rebel leader, is treated by the London Times as an event franght with serious consequences to the cause of the Experor and the future government of the eimpire, Mr. Beecher de sted & speech to & numerous party of friends in Manchester, England—the very capital of King Cotton.’ The Loudon Post as- gerta in an editorial that Mr, Beecher has a en- tanio commission, and is very diligent in its oxecu- tion, , M. Nadar’a valloon party had arrived in Paris, Some of the voyagers were very mach injured in the deacent, near Hanover. * Papers from Rangoon, India, dated on the 28th of Av cust, state that two overland expeditions were to start from Rangoop towards the south. western front!.r of China at the commencement of the dry beason. Number one is to be headed by Dr. Menfels, © Gerinah, dnd Bamber tO bp WG. #iaby, 09 Amwestan missionary. ‘The Grst will way, and thence on by tho Shan caravan route into the Shan States, where it is thought it will be overtaken by the second party, which will atart from Toungoo in noarly the same direction. Actounte from Hakodadi, Japan, to the 6th ult., State that the Chief Minister of State, and three other Cabinet officers, had been dismiased because they were in favor of peace with Christian -na- tions, Ali foreigners were ordered to leave Na- gasaki, but refused to do a0, whereupon the ‘‘Ja- panese government resigned." The United States steam transport Fairhaven, Captain Potter, from Port Royal 5th inst., arrived at this port yesterday, She brings no news re- specting the military operations in Charleston harbor. On the 9th inst., at six A. M., twenty miles east-northeast from Barnegat, the Fair- haven came in collision with pilotboat Mary Tay- lor No, 5, striking her on the port bow, causing her to sink in about half an hour, The pilots on board the Mary Taylor an! her crow, six in all, were reacued, and nearly all thelr effects saved, It is stated that the blockade of Wilmington is 80 inefficient that only one steamer is lost by the lockade runners in every twenty-five trips; yet Wtton is selling there at three and a half centaa pound in gold, whilo at Bermuda, where it is taken from Wilmington, it is worth sixty-two cents. Yesterday had all tho appearances of a regular winter's day. The air was quite frosty and boisterous, and tho firat snowflakes of the season made their appearance. The snow, however, was of an evanescent character, and disappeared al- most on tonching the ground. The Board of County Canvassers (Supervisors) met yesterday at noon, and were engaged several hours canvassing the election, They will meet daily till the work is completed. Governor Seymour has appointed the 26th inst. to be observed as a day of thanksgiving and prayer for the blessings we enjoy in the midst of the calami- ty brought upon us by the wickedness, folly and crimes of men. The folowing is the democratic vote for Gover nor of Ohio inthe years enumerated:— + 1853 133,000 131,000 169,000 171,000 e 150,000 Vallandigham. 187,000 The Constitutional da Tor- ritory, organized at Carson City, has chosen the California constitution for the basis, and appor- tioned it among the appropriate committees. The indications are that there will be « short session, followed by an carly clection of members of the Legislature, with a view of choosing United States Senators to present a constitution to Congress at the ensuing session, and ask for the admission of the State of Washoe into the Union, A fire at Nevada Cily on Monday destroyed four churches, the theatre, courthouse, gas works, ex- press and telegraph offices, and several stores and dwellings, involving a loss of $200,000. The New Hampshire Gazetle, claiming to be the oldest newspaper in America, corapleted its one hundred and seventh year on the Ist of October. In spite of the frost, the Kentucky tobacco crop will foot up something like 100,000 hogsheads. The Surr:gate has admitted to probate the con- tested will of John A. Morris, a Swedish seaman, who committed suicide at the Sailors’ Home last winter. The will leaves part of his savings in bank to the, Port Society and to the Mariners’ Church. The Surrogate refused permission to is- sue execution upon judgments against Caleb Kir- by's estate. Further examination of the execu- trix of A.M. L. Scott's estate was ordered, and further testimony was taken in the Dayton will case, a4 to the sanity of Mrs. Dayton. ‘The volume of business yesterday waz about as large ae usual, aud there is no particularly new feature noticeatie. ‘The speculative movomont in breadstutfs, provisier sugars, &c., continued, although it was not so marked last week, owing, probably, to the pressure on the money warket. With Increasing receipts, flour, oata and wheat were lowor, while pork and corn favored the pur- chasor and were a trifle off. Groceries were without im- portant change. Speculators have run the price of sugare up 0 high as to check the demand for consamp- tion, and if the plach in money continues a reaction may be looked for, Petroleum was very fiat, and the recent docline, tt is said, has weakened several parties vory sen- aibly. tu froights b General Meade’ prehensive Game Involved in It. From the present forward movement of the Army of the Potomao we anticipate the most important results, even assuming that it has no greater object in view than the detention of the opposing rebel army for the defence of Rich- mond; for, if the object be achieved, Richmond and the State of Virginia will soon be rendered untenable to the enemy, with or without a gene- ral battle between Meade and Lee. Mr. Secretary Seward, in a recent public apeech, puts the armed forces of the rebellion now in the fleld at an aggregate of two hundred thousand men. He probably speaks from offl- clal information. We think him below the mark, but that he would not be far short of it fn placing the armies of Davis east of the Missia- alppi st the figure indicated. The distribution of this force may be roughly estimated as fol- lowa:~ Bragg’a arroy and auxili ley 5 Lee's mes Beaurogard's force at C Peauregard’s force nt Ravannal..., Various rebel detachmenta tn North Carolina, In Southwestorn Virgiata. Around Richmond and Po Ab MODIIO. «ss 0 0. ce In Central Missisaippl “ 10,000 Along Alabama and Missiseipp!, northern border, 16,000 Total.s.ssseeeee . 295,000 ‘Thue it will be seen that the strength, the hopes and the fortunes of the rebellion are now centred in the army of Bragg and the army of Lee. On. the Union side, while the several armies under General Grant are superior to the forces of Bragg, we have no doubi that the army of General Meade is in every respect de- cidedly stronger than that of Lee, But, unless vc find employment for the enomy on the James river and in North Carolina, Lee, from those quarters, may be reinforced to the extent of twenty thousand men; and unless we keep close upon tho heels of Lee he may still smuggle off twenty or thirty thousand men to the support of Bragg. We have no doubt that Lee, iu his late attempts to flank and get in between the army of Meade and Washington, expected to realize the spoils and plunder of bis campaign of 1862 against the inferior army of General Pope. Failing in this expectation, the rebel , ja pushing our army back to the ‘ights of Centreville, still calculated upon de- « it in repairing the railroad to the Rap- pahannock until the rains and mud of a Vir- giuia winter would compel General Meade to look about for winter quarters convenient to Washington, and thus leave Jeff. Davis secure at Richmond, and at liberty to send by rail the bulk of Lee's army to Bragg. This is tho very design which Meade’s rapid facing about and | return to the Rappahannock has so far defeated; and wo recogulse in this movement the Import- ant fact that the War Office has learned some- thing of profitable Instruction from the severe lessons of Bull run and the Richmond peninsula. After Beauregard’s evacuation of Copioth we bad o hundred fet whos Hh ile nothing to do, while the rebels cides Were Goageateailag their forces go up the Irrawaddy as far as a town called Mag: the matter worse, we had at the samo time ‘some fifty or eixty thousand men scattered about from Frederioksburg to the Shenandoah valley, when, with half this force advanced to the pen- insula, in June, MoClelian would have cele- brated the Fourth of July; 1862, in the rebel capital. We are glad to believe that the oon- sequences which followed the opposite policy have taught the War Office that Fredericksburg, Winchester, Harper's Ferry and other eecond- ary places amount to nothing, and that the main rebel army, upon which the loss or gain of all these places depends, is everything. And yet there is geome danger that General Halleck’s system of scattering his forces at this point, that point and the other, may result in some misfortunes which will involve the sacrifice of another general or two. We have some appre- hensions, for example, that General Burnside, at Knoxville, is in a position which is not re- lieved of positive danger. For the purposes of the present campaign we may consider the army of General Moade in Virginia, the army of General Burnside in East Tennessee, and the army of General Thomas, over a hundred miles farther west, asthe three grand divisions of one great army—Thomas holding the right wing, Meade the left, and Burnside the centre. Here, while the two wings are doubtless strong enough for all con- tingencies, the centre is supposed to be so weak as to invite a movoment against it from both Bragg and Lee. The safety of Burnside de- pends upon the activity of Thomas and Meade. We conclude that this fact is thoroughly com- prehended at Washington, and that accordingly neither Bragg nor Lee will be permitted to in- dulge in any such pastime as the “gobbling up” of Burnside and the spoliation of the loyal farmers of East Tennessee. The rebels have given sufficient warning of this design, and the removal of halfa dozen generals will not avail to save the administration from the righteous judgment of the eountry should this transpa- rent purpose of the enemy be carried out. They have told us that the provisions of East Tennessee are indispensable to the sub- sistence of Bragg’s army; that he must have them, and will recover them at any cost. We have great faith in the skill, activity and vigi- lunce of General Grant; but we suspect that General Burnside owes his present position to the peculiar military combinations of General Halleck, and that some special authority will be needed from President Lincoln to rectify them. The overthrow of the army of Lee er that of Bragg will settle the whole question. A de- cisive defeat of either of these armies at this juncture of exhaustion and impending famine in the rebellions States will assuredly be fatul to the Davis confederacy. The right properly belongs to the Army of the Potomac to admin- ister this finishing blow, and, if simultaneously supported by active operations against the enemy at all other points, East and West, we may reasonably expect that General Meade and his brave soldiers will achieve the gloriona distinction which it is their ambition to win, A Change in the Policy of Engiand and France Towards this Goveorament. England has deomed it best to stop the rams which the Tairds were building for the rebel service. Earl Rutscll announced the fact in such terme as admitted of no dowht that in this affair the British government was in earnest. We are now assured by our Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, that France, upon the firm repre- sentation of our Minister at Paris, bas ordered the stoppage of the six rebel rams which were being constructed at Nantes. This step on the part of Napotcon will take the Southern con- federacy by surprise, and will no doubt create | a panic among those misguided classes in Se- ceasia who atill cling to the hope of forcign in tervention or recognition. Fra:tee, in thus following the example set ‘by England, proves that had the latter government acted with less precipitancy in reeognizing the rebels as belligerents out civil war would long since have terminated. Fogland extended favor to the rebellion, and France hastencd to follow her example, as also did Spain, Thus buoyed up, Davis and his fol- lowers have struggled on agains! » good cause and fearful odds, hecause they were sanguine that, sooner or later, Magiand, France and Spain would recognize them. But we havo, forti- nately, had such men as McClellan to win at Antietam, Meade at Gettysburg, Grant and } Rosecrans in the Southwest, and Gillmore at | Charleston, who added their weight to the in- fluence we brought to bear upon our eri! wishers in Europe; and, with “swamp angels” and fron-clads thrown into the balance, up went the cause of Davis into vapory uncertainty. Long ago would he have abandoned a hopeless atrifo had England and France acted at first as they now seem disposed to act. These Enropean nations have at last ascertained that the real power and strength of the American republic are in the loyal States of the North and ‘Woat, and they will abandon the South because it is weak and unable much longer to rosist the legitimate influence and autbority of the United States government. The people in France, who have all slong been averse to any course on the part of their government which might bring about « war be- tween us, will be all the more indisposed to any such policy from the failure of the Mexican expedition. This affair, a9 viewed in all its as- pects, must be considered a failure, and ite difficulties will but emhance in popular estima. tion in France the perils of a war with this coun- try. An enterprise has just been started in that empire which will have @ vast influence upon the American question. We refer to a pro- jected line of steamships between this country and Brest, hitherto @ military port in France, but which it is proposed to render & commercial port also. Brest has the finest harbor on the French coast. Vessels can enter it at all times. It isco deep that the tide does not affect the | ingress or egress of the port. The trip across | the Atlantic would be shortened from eighteen to twenty hours by making Brest the port of | landing; and as this ploce is connected with Paris by rail there would soon be an immense amount of business transacted there. The in- fluential classes conpected with this enterpri 0 will of gourse be averse to all teqogalidea st thé South and consequent quarrel with us, and we shall see that Napoleon will be swayed by the influence of these parties. Decidedly, tho star of Davis and his compeers is declining. We would by all means advise } proper, humane and Christian. | superiority, but to reform the rebels. them to leaye the South to ite manifest destiny— Union—and at once take up thelr march to Mexico, drive the French from there, J tender that » ay at PSwarhl govettadAt, in at- Hance with the United States. Sugh ascheme is Sauth is, ep the centtary, absurd, impossible. a’ very j fexgiblo, Their present idea of dd independent | ‘nna the Rebel Ohivairy. Tt is @ singular feot that le this wicked world those who profess the most perform the least. Wo had illustrations of thisin the bogus neutrality of England and in her remarkable assumption of sympathy for suffering humanity. Wo bave ano less shining illustration in the ohivalrous talk and the infamous conduct of the rebels now in arms againat this government. If we were to credit the hypooritical protes- tations of the English press we could never believe that the British had employed savages during our Revolutionary war, or confined our patriot prisoners in tho Now York Sugar House and the Jersey prison ship, or blown Sepoys from the mouths of cannon, or connived at rape, rapine and murder in China, or sent out pirate vessels manned by pirate crews to prey upon the commerce of a friendly Powor. Still less, if we wore to believe what the rebela gay of themselves, could we realize that the gentlemen, the aristocracy, the chivalry of the South, had so foully and brutally ill-treated their prisoners of war that the horrors of the Jersey prison sship and the New York Sugar House are eckipsed by the greater horrors of Castle Thunder and the Libby. When the history of this war comes to be fairly, fully and impartially written, the historian will sicken at the record he is com- pelled to make of outrages and enermities com- mitted by rebels—who claim to be men—upon the Union prisoners whom the chances of battle have placed in their power, and civilization will blush to know that such monstrous cruelty could have been permitted in this enlightened century. We have now four correspondents—Mr. 8. T, Bulkley, Mr. L. A. Hendrick, Mr. George H. Hart ond Mr. Finley Andersoa—in rebel prisons. We believe that one of the most stringent reasons why these gentlemen are not released is the fear that they would reveal to the world the secrets of their prison houses and of the interior life of the rebels, and startle hu- manity by this infernal blazon. But, though our correspondenta are kept in durance vile, the statements of escaped officers and sol- diers, of deserters, and of exchanged prisoners, give ua 4 tolerably correct idea of the Black Holes of the confederacy. From them we know how our prisoners are dragged along on foot for weary miles, refused a moment’s pause for rest, or even for a drink of water, until the designated prison is reached. There they are, shut up together, hundreds in a room, and until they die or are exchanged they are nover permitted to leave this room for a moment for any purposes whatever. Half starved, knee deep ia filth, covered with vermin, their clothes stolen, the money sent to them by friends stop- ped and appropriated by rebel officials, their letters opened and generally destroyed, sufter- ing, perhaps, from wounds or from disease, in- aulted and sometimes struck by brutal sen- tiuels, shot down upon the smallest provoca- tion or without any provocation whatever—: thus our Union heroes live in rebel prisons, and none so well as they can bear testimony to the quality of the chivalry of the so-called Gon- federato States. Contrast with this the condition of those re- bela who have the good fortune to be prisoners atthe North. Our government supplies them with clothes, with plenty of provislona, with comfortable beds and blankets, and with ac- commodations of the neatest and most conve- nient description. It is pretty certain that they have all the necessaries of life; for they are continually grumbling for the luxuries. Gene- ral Jeff, Thompson whines for whiskey and for “little dribs” of money, and gets them. Rebct prisonera out West were furnished with com- pletely new suita of clothes at government ex- pense, and were soon after captured in those same clothes, fighting against the Union. The rebet prisoners on David's Island, in this har- bor, think it exceedingly hard because they are not favored in the samme way. Presents of food, money, clothing and all sorte of little dainties are sent to these prisoners every day, snd what- ever money they receive they are allowed to retain or to expend a4 they think proper. This is the style in which the “accursed Yankees,” the “Northern barbarians,” the “minions of that ape, Lincoln,” treat their pris- oners of war. We do it because we deein it If it be 40, what is the style of the rebel chivalry? We draw this conirasé not to boast of our We are not fond of washing onr national dirty linen in public. If we had ever felt disposed to reveal our weakuesses to Europe, and to create as | bitler a feeling at the North against the South as there is said to be at the South against the North, we could have accomplished it long ago by the simple recital of some of the most pro- minent of rebel atrocities. Hitherto we have left this work to the abolition press, and have kept steadily in view the fact that, as the Union muat uitimately be restored, sectional animosities and revengeful feelings bad better be mollified instead of strengthened. It would have been far worse for the rebels, both in the past and the future, if the Northern people had been stimulated to hatred and retaliation during this war. Whetber or not our present humane polley shali be persisted in depends much upon the rebels themselves. We hope that we shall remain Christiana in spite of every provoca- tion; but we know that human nature is weak and that forbearance sometimes ceases to be popularly regarded as a virtue NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBEE U, 1863—TRIPLE SHERT: mond to crush the army of MoOlellan, Tomake | The Trontment of the Union Prisoners by | What the War Fiaé Done for the Coun | with thotpemior member omitted, amonnt to \ ' > try. Groat wate are great phases of development; and, though in all the sorrows that thelr occur- renoe entails they appear as the misfortunes and Scourges of @ people, yet in another and a larger view they should be regarded os at once the causes and the evidences ef national Stimulated by those exalted sentiments that impel men to struggle for their homes, for froe- dom, for right, and even for conquest, the naked wretches of ancient India saved themselves from the utter oblivion of time; an obscure band of Italian ruffians became the great Roman people; the miserable Tartar of the steppes arose {nto the tenacious Russian and the gal- lant Magyar; the dwarfisk byperborean of antiquity grew. into the northorn battle god of the Thirty Years’ War, and the nations of Western Europe fought their way literally to their present high position in the scale of national grandeur and civilina- tion, War supplies great impulses and great obstacles. The obstacles develop the power by which they are to be overcome, and when they are overcome the power remaing; so that, though it may seem a paradox, it is a practical truth of history that a nation that has lost one hundred thousand men by battle is stronger by the value of one hundred thousand men in the development of its war power; and every pa- triot who gives his life to his country gives it in a double sense, the strength that was his be- coming, as it were, part of the general mass. Such is the general law of national develop- ment by war; and in our own case—in this, our first great struggle—the operation of this law is perfectly clear. Within the past two years the two sections of the United States have spent in war twenty-seven hundred millions of dollars, and have lost by battle and disease half a million of tho best portion of the population—the brave and active mon. Yet to-day the United States stands immeasurably higher as @ military Power than it stood beforo this war began. Great Britain and France, two unwilling witnesses, testify to this. Then, at the very outset, they gave us a gratuitous in- sult in the recognition of the Southern States; in their wholo intercourse with us they'were arrogant, aupercilious and flippant; for we were anation without an army--s third or fourth rate military Power already at war—and thoy would fight us if we chose. But that is done with. Our remonstrances now are heard with reapect and attended to; for we have fought great batiles, and every item of thoir carnage haa spoken for us {n Europe. We have built ships that are at once impenetrable and sea- worthy, and we have made “Swamp Angels.”’ Sufficient woight bas not been given to the dipio- matic abilities of the first “Swamp Angel.” From its marshy neighborhood ia Charleston harbor that. bold speaker cast a flood of light upon our relations with Wagland and France. Five miles was thought to be a good range for can- non; but here is a piece that has annihilated balf a dozon rebel rams in the rivers of Europe at adistance of three thousand miles, Good practice, that. And it may be naturally thought that we ought to make more “Angels.” One is now in the course of coustruction at the Fort Pitt Works whose length is twenty-four feet, thickness through the breech five feet eight inches, and bore twenty inches: Ita rough weight will be one hundred and five tons, and, finished, sixty-eight tons. From the same place one fifteon-inch gun is turned out every two days, and of mortars and guns of smaller size they finish forty per weok. We shall have guns enough at that rate. In an evil hour for the preponderance of the Southern politicians, they arrayed one section of thia country in arms against the remainder of it. As became Americans and freemen, the people of the South, though deluded, fought the battle bravely; but their attempt is now well nigh over, and the immense rebellion is in its last days. It has accomplished a greater end than was maried ont for it. It hes given us the one great want of the great republic— fall trial and development of our resources and practice in war, Thus teated and trained, who doubia that we siall be the Letter able to cope with foreign foes, and to go forward all the stronger to accomplish our destiny ia the great events of the future? The Henry B. Stanton Lapse, The New York Custom House and other like communities have been thrown into some de- gree of commotion latterly fa consequence of the lapse attributed to Henry 8. Staaton, the Deputy Collector and Mr. Chavo’s candidate for the office of the Surveyor of the port of New York. The accuaation has been made that Mr. Stanton was privy to the abstraction of certain bonds placed in his charge by merchants, or shippers of goods to neutral porta, as guarantee that such goods should not be used for the benefit of the rebels or be transhipped to rebet ports. By the disappear- ance of these bonds the shippers can send their goods into Dixie, most generally by way of Nassau and Bermuda to Wilmington, N. C., and Uncle Sam may whistle for indemnification if he should ever demand any. Mr. Stanton is out in his own defence in @ long communica- tion, in whioh he clearly exonerates himse'f, but, um-Roman like, casts the biamo and the diegrace upon his own son. Hence there is great moral row and the ebullition of any amount of virtuous indignation, ali of which ia poured upon both the father and son, the Cus- Srwann’s Avacrn Sreccn Raven Onace- | tom House, Secretary Chase, and the whole Lar—Waar Doxs Tr Mrant—A good many p ple and presses are puzzled in regard to some oracular outgivings tn Secretary Seward’s Au- burn speech on election eve. | government fabric at Washington. And what does it all amount to? It is but a fleabite as compared with frauds of They want to | stupendous extent, of emberzlements, swind- know what the Premier means when be says | lings, bribings, corruptions snd all otber nan- that “it is Injustice and downright robbery of | ner of infquities which are known to abound in Abraham Lincoln to refuse him the full enjoy- mont of the suthority conferred upon him” in the election of 1860, particularly when coupled with the dictum that “there can be no the country among all army coutraetors, in- cluding beef and pork contractors, forage oon- tractors, clothing contractors, steamboat con- tractors, whiskey contractors, and noarly every peace and quiet uatil Abrabam Lincoln fs Pre- | other sort of contractor ‘lo has a chance to aident, under that election, of the whole United | take an official grab into the public treasury, States.” If, for instance, the rebellion should not be put down before March, 1865, fa Mr, Lincoln to continue holding the reins of gov- ernment on the grouag that be bad not got the fall advantage of his election in 1860, as he had been ps kept ot of a part of the United States—Loulslata, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and othor Gulf States?” ‘That is the interpretation given by some people to this part of the Aubiirn speech. We do not say that it is properly sysceptible of that con- struction; but there ts soine little oe ts the public mind thi sypject, and people ped to ki oj we what Mr, Seward actually did sagen, fighle curlosity? But little notice {s taken of these big svonn- eae s whou compaupd with euch splendid swindtiog Operations as axe ocourring every day under the very nose of the government in end other sham contracts? We warrent that there is an amount of daity swindling in the quality of the article of whiskey alone, furnished and paid for by the government at the very highest rates, to be used particularly for sanitary purposes in the army and the navy, that would gover the en! amount lost by the abstractioff of all of bonds, allowing that they should ever be re- quired to satisfy the demands of the United States for a violation of the revenue rogala- tions, These and other swindlers on a large scale are the leeches who exhaust the blood im the veins of the public treasury. They, we eay, in too many oases, are suffered to pass without punishment, and elmost without notica in some instances, while some poor devil of an assistant quartermaster or commis- sary is punished by dismissal from the serviog or in some ignominious manner, because hé fails to make return of ten dollars’ worth of manure, which he may have sold instead of paying for having carted out ‘from publi¢ stables. But ali wars lead to corruption, and opporta- nities constantly ocour during their existence to enable any person of ordinary aocoume- lative talents to cheat the government. If we would stop corruption among contractors and government officials, if we would stop cheat ing the government, the government must stop the war by “crushing the rebellion,” or, what perhaps would be a better thing, bang a score or so of the contrectors most interested im having tho bloody contest continue. ' Tux Dau.y News Deroana Bsn Woon’s Da- mooracy.—The organ of the Hon. Ben Woot publishes, with approving comments, an artlole from a Western paper defning four different Classos or species of the genus democrat. The fourth and lowest of the species is thus de- scribed:—“Fourth, the policy democrat [4, 11, 44 understood], who shifts, turns, rolls, wig- glee, changes hands and jumps high and wide for the top of whatever plank may come up. * © We don’t like such men. Thero is n@ dependence to be placed in them. They will betray and sell their best friends.” Itis curi- ous that the Hon. Ben Wood should thus de- scribe his own wing of the party with so muck fidelity. They are clearly “policy” democrats. Not Bap vor vax Monrrors.—Moat of our , shortcomings at Charleston have been set down to the account of tho Ericsson fron-clads. Like oharity, they have been made to cover a mul- titude of sins. Those serviceable little vessels are vindicating their own reputation. We find it stated in the Charleston Mercury that on the Slat, out of eighty-six shots fired by tho.Moni- tors, not one missed the mark, This is pretty good for vessela which were considered so un- reliable. Wuat trax Carronep Corrxsponpents Coutp Do.—There are now eight army correspondenta of loyal papers confined in rebel prisons. Seven of them are In Castle Thunder, Richmond. Four of these are correspondents of the HeraLy. If theee active, intelligent men could start @ paper in Richmond, and have a fair chance to toll the truth, they would overthrow tho milita- ry despotism of Jeff. Devis in less thea ole months. How ro Coarm Aocnes wits Am—The Richmend Ezaminor says that a apocoh ts “at this time eminently needed” ia the rebel capital. So iturges the people to go to the railroad depot on Davis’ arrival from Chatte- nooga, eacort him homo, and thon hoar what he has to say. Davis’ rhetoric is @ fine article, and flour ranges from ninety to one bundred dollars per barrel Provognp Removar or ram Parx Bannaces.— Ono of the reforms suggested by General Hays since his assumption of the duties of Provost Marshal is the removal of the Park Barracks tothe Battery. Theidea is an excellent one, and should beimme listely acted upon, It will conduce not only to the physical health of the soldiers, but to the moral health of the oity. Exatsat Buockapx Runviva.—There is am old but true adage that “honesty is the beat policy.” When the profit and loss account of the English firms engagefl in blockade running comes to be made up we suspect the majority of them will appreciate the truth of the maxim. ' A Berree Porrricat. Misstovany THAN Basow- rr—The address of the rebel Brigadier Gene- ral Gantt to the people of Arkansas. For the one convert the Brooklyn parson makes abroad Gautt will make fifty. Datos have bean recotved from Hakodad!, Japan, we, October 6. ‘The Prince of Nagesak! had issued orders that Aalegy Hooo, a Japacese, formerly of San Vranciaco, and * yg Japaneas piicts who conducted the Wyoming to Simer should be killed, Ono of these pilots was murda? 4 goog afterwards. . The Chief Minister and three other mem sry of une Cabinet tad been dismissed because thoy * vere in faved of peace with the Christian nations. Tho suthgrities ordered all fOrol@Ue to ioave Mage sau!; the foreigners refused, and the govern ment resigned _ ‘The Mikedo bad issued an order Purchase any foroign vessel. Muey THE MARBUT arenes Tonight Peri’a qroat Dib! oq) opera, ‘‘Sudtb,” qill be given at our Academy Of * susig THE ¢ may rRovrR. het GON Fg, «La Favorite’? will bo given tay ‘9 Gard? in, by Mr, Grau's artiste, News/trom Fortress Monroe, FoutRa® Mownon, Nov. 0, 1863. About twarhyy Ave refugees, mon, women and ebiidrem, mostly Richmond, arrived here last evening. They hat no Damo should Doulretts night at NI drele, They are, in too many cases, cither a | came into Sur lines at Portenouth and bad been several lowed to go scot free, if found out, or, if they | days apap have given sureties for the honest discbr.p46 of | their duties, their bondemen are sehdo-ig pressed to Uquidato, or, If they aro prow og, quently prove mgg of straw, »” 14 the lig mands consequently romp” unsatiafi pds § In some 0a809, too, t 6 enown that a splendid dofaulter, say for ®%aitiioh or million end o half, oan afford © | iqdexjaffy his sureties tn full, with a bonus", pot, 0 long as he is allowed to escape,” “ith the bull of hie plun ter, to some foreigg “country, where be lives to dissipation, he be kind enough te | amid luxury and magnifcence, until his ovil ‘agther opportunity tor satisfying ‘Is | g*’iton moans are exhausted. r Journey, having left Richmond on Tuse lest. propellét Joby Rice, Captain Beaston, bas arrived from Morspoad City. flor captain roporta that white they fr0- | casting Frise Capo, twenty mileg gouth of Capo Hoary, Nov. 5, discovéred # schooner of about two huadsed tone ft anchor, discharging freight aud landing it In small boats, On discovering the propelier they hove up anchor and prooseded about four miles south, diopped anchor again, and at once recommenced Labeling (reight, It wae pearly dark and sho was oat sight of. The British oorvette Greyhound hoisted the United Riates flag this morning and} Grea a saints, whick wag immediately answered by tho water baviery Of the for George Vandal! and James Wales, of (be Bighth Goo- necticat Volunteore, were exequted at olevea o'alocy tia ‘What does tho Llttle Lape of Stanton and 902, ' qorming for desertion near Rertemouth, VA, ,