The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1863, Page 6

, 6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1663—TRIPLE® SHEET, Banks is superintending the campaign in person. The full ocoupation of the frontier line of the Rio Grande is contemplated by the expedition, The French are said to be encamped within thirty miles of Matamoros. A despatch from the army OPFION MX. W. CORNER OF FULTON AMD MASSAU 8TS. | in Western Louisiana states that General Wash- ' ¢PERMS cash in advance, Money sent by mail will be ‘at the risk of the sender. None but bank bills current in New York taken. , THE DAILY HERALD, Turse cents per copy. By THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five conts per copy. Annual subscription price:-— One Copy... - 92 Taree Copies. Five Copies ‘Ten Copies. . iad { Pestage five cents per oopy for three months. | Amy larger number, addressed to namos of subscribers, @2 BO cncn. An ox burne’s advance of the Thirteenth army corps was driven in by the rebels upon the main body on the $d inst., but that the enemy were subse- quently driven back with @ loss of over two hun- dred killed and wounded, and two hundred taken prisoners. We have copious news from the rebel journals to ++ 8 | the 11th inst. They are greatly exercised about the recent elections at the North. The late dis- missal of the English’Consuls by Jeff. Davis is also commented upon strongly, and the pursuance of ‘tra copy will be sent to every club of | & similar course to the French and other European ‘een, ‘Tweaty copies, to one address, one year, $95, and representatives is urged, upon the ground that as ‘any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be European governments do not recognize the con- Peat to clubs of twenty. These rales make the Wauctr | federacy their representatives should not be re- Hiwratp the cheapest publication in the country. ( qhe Eusorsax Eprnion, every Wednesday, at Frvs conte per copy; $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or @6 to any pert of the Continent, both to include postage. { ‘The Causrorma Eprriom, om the 3d, 13th and 23d of eash ‘month, at Stx cents per copy, or $3 per annum. | NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We do not return rejected communications. Wodume XXVIII ...00......cececreeees MOP SIS AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. “ ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Place.—Tus Orans— Jupirs. BIBLO'S_ GARDEN, Broadway.—Lvcia vt Lamuxre moon—La Favosira. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Rosapace. WINTER GARDEN. “Broadway. —Katacesn Mavour- wass—Turics Mannimd. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Dvuxs's Morro— ‘Tusen's No Sucu Worn 4s Fatt. . BBW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowory—Afternoon—Mi- werra—Lorm ano Liveay. Bvening—-MasErra—Otsxon at Naw Yore—Pacua's |'zrs. BOWERY THBATRE, Bowery.—Giizs Scrocotras’ most—Sxow Bino—Faion's Daxam—How to Avoin RARTING. BARNUM'S MUSEUM, Broadway.—Tnex Movina War mms, Giant Boy, Littroriax Kina, &0. UNMILDA—CHILD OF Tux Reciuxnr. veming. BRYANTS MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. way.—Braiortan Sones, Dancus, Buatxsquuas, 40.—Tus Horn in Bau WOOD's MINSTREL HALL, 516 Broadway.—Ermiortan | (a8, Dances. 4c.—Bixp HU NTKRS. GRO, curisrr's MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Bun- uxsques, Songs, Dances, 4c.—Hicu Dappr. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Bauters, | Pawtomimxs, Buriesquas, &c.—Harny Mas, HOPE OHAPEL, 713 Broad Tam Srerxoscortican IRVING HALL, Irving piace<—Musicat. MativEs. EW YORK MUSEUM ‘OF ANATOMY, 018 Breae (Cumosrres and Lxcrones, trom 9a. M.U10P. Me SHOOLETS OPERA House, Brooklyn.—Ermorian | Qn, Dances, BURLESQURS, A TRIPLE SHEET. | Row Mbt Weiha, Watalhays Wevemede 14, 1863. | THE! SITUATION. All continues quiet in front of the Potomac Army. The headquarters of the Commissary De- partment are now at Warrenton Junction, from ; which immense supplies of rations are daily for- warded. The demoralization in the rebel army i Teported to be on the increase. A deserter from { the Ninth Alabama (Ewell’s corps) states that the whole regiment has laid down its arms and refused to fight any longer. Upon an attempt to put them under guard they dispersed through the coun- try, with the intention of joining the Union army. The despondency of the rebel soldiers generally ia said to be very great. A report was prevalent yesterday that a large force of the rebels shelled General Kilpatrick's camp, near Stevensburg, on Thursday morning, proving that the enemy are stillin strength at this side of the Rapidan. Very important despatches from the diplomatic agents of the rebels in Europe to the rebel government were recently found in the capture of the blockade runners Robert E. Lee, Cornubia and others, showing that the rebel agents entirely despair of any assistance either from England or France. that Louis Napoleon has no intention of afford- ing the South any aid except what the gov- ernment of England may be disposed to give, and that while he is amusing them with the hope of an alliance with Mexico, they have nothing of a substantial character to hope from him. These statements present the rebel cause in Europe in » vory diamal condition. Several prisoners taken off the R. E. Lee and other blockade runners were brought to this city by the steamer Newbern yesterday. Among them ~ at ail hours. | Afternoon snd | They state | cognized. en EUROPEAN NEWS The steamship Asia, from Queenstown on the Lst of November, arrived at Halifax early yesterday morning on her voyage to Boston. Her news is ,| two days later than the telegraphic report of the Bohemian published in the Hepaup yesterday. Among the passengers by the Asia are the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Colonel Lamar, of the rebel army—one of the emissaries of Jeff. Davis to Europe. Mr. Beecher was entertained at a farewell breakfast by the Emancipation Society of Liver- pool. He made a speech full of friendship for England. The steamer Braganza, while on a voyage from Livempool to Lisbon, was boarded in the Bay of Biscay by the privateer Georgia. The rebel sea- men inquired for newspapers and shipping intel- ligence. The Georgia had put into Cherbourg to revictual and coal. The British iron-clad frigate Prince Consort was very badly damaged when steaming from Plymouth for Liverpool to look after the Laird rams. of water and leaking badly. A party of English marines had possession of the iron rams; all work on the vessels was sus- pended, and two gunboats kept watch on Laird’a yard. George N. Sanders and Mr. Lindsay, M. P., figured in the columns of the London Tiznes in op- position to the legal arguments of its correspon- dent ‘‘Historicus’’ on the duty of neutrals. The news of General Rosecrans’ removal excited much surprise in commercial circles in Liverpool. ‘The National Steamship Company of England proposes to raise a capital of two millions of pounds sterling and run a fleet of power‘ul steam vessels for passengers between London and Liv- erpool and New York. The Londen Times maintains that England is ; not behind France or the United Sop in. her iron-clad fleet. Z. C. Pearson, the English shipobes who fur- nished the most famous steam blockade runners, was still in bankruptcy. In his statement of as- | sets he claims as due to him £87,000 from the Union government for illegul captures, and £93,000 yby the Davis government for breaches of contracis. The Mexican Consuls in’ Paris; Bordeaux and \ Havre had been compelled to cease the discharge | of their duties. The Consuls for Guatemela act for them in the meantime. Prince Napoleon Bonaparte writes a letter in ; Which he expresses the hope that “France will not ow Poland to be annihilated.” ‘he rule of the Russians in Warsaw was stiil ex- ceedingly severe. ‘The liberal party in Prussia had gained con- siderably in Parliamentary strength by the recent elections. Earl Russell had proposed a basia of negotiation between Germany and Denmark on the Holstein quesiion. The Austrian government proposed to expend twenty millions of florins in relieving the distress of the people of Hungary. Furious gales prevailed around the English coast. There are no shipping disasters reported. ‘The returns of the English Board of Trade indi- cate a year of the ‘greatest commercial pros- perity’’ for great Britain. The London Herald publishes a correspondence on the state of affairs in Japan, in which the Eng- lish government is blamed for its ‘‘severity”’ to the Japanese. Consols closed in London on the 3ist ult. at 93 for money. The Bank of Frankfort and the Bank of Holland bad advanced the rate of discount. It was thought that the Bank of France would order a further increase in the rate of discount, owing to the continued drain of bullion. The bullion in the Bank of England had increased. The Liverpool cotton market was firm and the rates unchanged. Breadstuffs were quiet and steady. Provisions were dull and tending down- ward. The Asia sailed from Halifax for Boston at one o’clock yesterday afternoon. A slight snow storm prevailed at the time. A call has been issued for a special meeting of the Board of Councilmen, to be held at two i Wore two British army officers and the Belgian | o'clock to-day, for the purpose of considering the Consul. Genera! Butler has arrived at Fortress Monroe and assumed the command of his new department, subject of making an additional appropriation for the City Inspector's Department. The French gunbest Panema, with General Forey on board, sailed yesterday morning. She General Foster, upon leaving, issued a farewell | received and replied to salutes from the other order to his troops. A larg> quantity of provisions, consisting of pork, beel, sugar, rice, potatoes, coffee and bread were shipped from Fortress Monroe on Tharsday by the Commissary of Subsistence to the unfortunate starving Union prisoners at Rich- mond. Twenty-tive thousand rations in all were forwarded, and it remains to be seen whether the Prisoners will receive them. Official despatches from General Thomas, at Chattanoogs, and General Burnside, in East Ten- | nessce, were received at the War Department ! yesterday, dated om the previous ovening, and state that all is quiet in front of their meapective | armies, The despatch from General Burnside is | seid to set all anxiety at rest as to the safety of his position. Deserters to our lines at Chattanooga report terrible disaffection in IPagg's army, the troops laying down the!r arms and refusing to continge men-of-war in the harbor. Forty-three of the prisoners captared violating the blockade on the prise steamer Margaret and Jessie were discharged.from the county jail yes- terday by United States Marshal Murray, they be- ing all aliens. There are only a few of the prison- era now remaining, and their cases will be dis- posed of in a few days. Inthe Surrogate’s Court yesterday further tes- timony was taken in the matter of Sophia Day- ton’s two wills. The administrator of Martin Thompson was directed to pay certain judgments, amounting to $10,000. The éxecutor of Martin Martin’s estate was directed to pay a legacy of $500, About thirty rebe} prisoners, lately captured by General Averill, arrived in Wheeling on the morn- ing of the 10th inst., and were committed to the | Atheneum. The retnrns from sixty-two counties in Illinois give @ Union majority of 21,789. ‘They are digging for coal in Onondaga county, New York. In settling up accounts between the government and the State of New Hampshire lately it was longer in the rebel service, Bragg's army is said to be sixty thousand strong. There is no later development concerning the Johnson's Isiand affair, except that a large force of infantry, cavalry and artillery has been sent there to defend the place. It is said that Hon, Preston King has been sent to Canada by our go- vornment to investigate the plot. Heavy batteries are erected to command the harbor of Sandusky, and the United States steamer Michigan is lying off Johnson's Island, ready for action. Our correspondencé from New Orleans by the steamer Yazoo yesterday reveals the progress of the Toxas expédition to the 3d inst. General discovered that the State has been owing Uncle Sam $10,000 since the war of 1812. Rich gold mines are said to have been discover- ed near Coaticook, Canada East, and miners are averaging from twenty to forty dollars pet day. There wan a fair degree of activity at tho various con. trea of trade yesterday, though sundry ar- Actos was restricted by the changes tn golé and sterling exchange, or by the apathy of dealers, At the Produce Exchange * good business was done in all the leading ar- ticles, provisions incinded. The speculation in pork’con tinned, and prices wore stil! higher, The specalation ta Petroleum continued, and the sales were again heavy. Freighta were dull; but rates were unchanged. There was but litte going forward, barely enough to make « market, and quotations were nominal. The excess of toa- Bage in port ie es marked as ever, and so long as this continues there ls little bope of any improvement, She put into Kingstown harbor half full | The Administration and the Proionge* toa of the War. Does the administration comprebend tho dangers which are threatened to itself and to the country from a feeble and indecisive prose- cution of the wart We fear that it does not. We are apprehensive that the Cabinet, relieved of the late menacing dangers of foreign inter- vention, satisfied that we have the rebellion upon the hip, and deluded with the idea of a boundless financial prosperity, is relapsing into @ deceitful slumber. The abolition idea is that, while the prolonga- tion of the war will inevitably destroy the institu- tion of Southern slavery, an early peace may re- establish some remnants of the system under the protection of the Union and the federal consti- tution. Hence we may logically assume, that the game of the abolition faction bas been, and is, to prolong the war, in order to seoure the complete destruction of slavery, whatever may be the consequences to the government and the country at large. We know, too, that this abo- lition faction bas exercised, unfortunately for us, @ controlling voice in the councils of the administration in the management of the war, from the first battle of Bull run to the late defeat of General Rosecrans on the Georgia border. We know, on the other hand, that the policy of President Lincoln has been to put down the armed forces of the.re- bellion, and to “let Southern slavery take its chances in the restoration of the: rebellious States. We believe that this is still the policy of the President, and that if he is now slacken- ing the reins a little in the matter of active mili- tary o erations it ig under the impression that if our armies Can bold their ground through the winter the rebellion will die from exhaustion in the spring. We incline, aleo, to this opinion; but the dangers to ® stationary army in the beart of the enemy’s country ae that fis communica- tions may be broken, and its supplies cut off, and that it may bo flanked and defeated by su- yer‘or numbers, or be compelled by forced marches to abandon a region of country which it haa required the strategy and engineering, the manifold labors and many severe battles of a whole year’s campa'gning to conquer. Such are the dangers to which Gen. Grant’s armies and the army of Gen. Mcade are now liable from a policy of masterly inactivity. {t is probable that the weather and the roads in Eastern Vir- ginia will be favorable for active military ope- rations till the middie of December; but from and after that time till the return of spring Gen. Meade, if caught on the Rappabannock, will be beld fast in the mud. If, therefore, he cannot now undertake to. carry the obstruc- tions before him on the Rapidan, why not try some other route to Richmond? We believe that it je still within the power of the Army of the Potemac to bring this war substantially to an end in a decisive movoment against Rich- mond ‘before the ond of December, and that by either of the two great navigable rivers of the peninsula now In our possession this thing may be done. ’ Time is precious. Every day gained now in the work of bringing this war to a satisfactory conclusion is, beyond the daily expenses of the war, cqual to the saving of millions of dollars. The difference in. value between the paper money of the government and gold is begin- ning to tell in all our business and industrial af- fairs. Provisions, groceries, dry goods, and every- thing that is bought and sold, command from week to week higher and still advancing prices. The atrikes of tie mechanical and laboring classes are the unavoidable consequences of this general increase of the cost of living. Prolong the war another year, and it may take twovor three dollars in greenbacks to buy as mucb of bread, clothing or labor as one dollar will now procure. Thus the cost of subsist- | ing our urmies will be doubled, aud a financial revulsion will next follow compared with which that terrible paper money collapse of 1837 will be accounted a mere bagatelle. The banks, the capitalists, the merchants, manu- facturers, farmers, &c., of the loyal States are all committed to the maintenance of the federal Treasury; but there is a limit even to thoir capacities, wonderful as they are. Give us a decisive victory, satisfy the coun- try that we are near the end of the war, and gold, from 147, will speedily decline to where it fell to last July; but if, Mr. President, you keep the people waiting and still waiting, from month te month, into another year, for some decisive steps towards av early peace, gold will continue steadily to creep upward, until the problem of maintaining the Treasury will be our greatest diffloulty and our greatest danger. The negro question bus ruled the administration in its conduct of the war long enough. The money question now demands # vigorotis prosecution of the war. But to secure this object we think that the first essential is | reconstruction of the Cabinet, involving the removal of Secretary Stanton and his chief adviser, General Halleck. The war might have been ended in thirty days | after the capture of Vicksburg and Pert Hud- son by simply reinforcing Rosecrans with fifty thousand mea from the armies of Grant and Banke, But instead of this the War Office acat- tered the forces of Grant and Banks in a number of secondary expeditions on the west side of the Misslestppl, atill adhering to the extremities when it might have struck through the heart of the rebellion. Again, when General Meade held the defeated rebel army of Virginia within; the grasp of bis band on the bank of the flooded Potomac, the decision of the War Office delayed the assault until it was a day too late. These, together with all the other costly Janders;of the War Office, have left the coun- doubtful of vigorous or successful war under i = and Halleck. In any éven BES ents on, couipletely overshadowing the negro question, now de- mands that the war shall not flag nor “drag its slow length along,” but shall be prosecuted, as it can be and ought to be, to the speedy and complete prostration of a rebellion so nearly exhausted that its only hope of escape depends upon our inactivity. Gexerat Scorr axp Genenat. Forer—A Tovcursa Scext.—We understand that on Thursday Inst, the day before he set sail for France, General Forey, the French conqueror of Mexico, called upon General Scott, the Ame- rican conqueror of Mexico, at his headquarters in this city, in the way of a professional compll- ment. We are farther informed that the meet- ing between these two distinguished successors of Cortes, the fret conqueror of Mexico, was a very interesting and affecting one ; 80 very af. fecting, indeed, that In comparing their respeo- tive notes of the conquest of Mexico they were doth affected to tears, and parted weeping like never meet in thie world again. This touching incident, when reported to Louis Napoleon by General Forey, will doubtless have @ good effect upon the mind of the Emperor touching his true polioy in reference to Mexioo. In fact, if, with the return of General Forey to France, we bear of the abandonment of the Mexican empire of Maximilian, we shall attribute this proceeding in no small degree to this remark- able meeting between the American and the French conqueror of Mexico. The Present Attitude of France and Eng- land Towards this Gevornment. The English government has taken alarm at our display of immense power, and bas wisely altered its policy towards this country, whereas atone time the sympathies of Great Britain were clearly in favor of the Davis government. At present the latter are snubbed by John Bull, who detains the rebel rams in the Mersey. In this course of action England is influenced by the fear that, should the occasion present itself in the future, we might grant aid and sympathy to her enemies, and also because we have as- serted, with every show of earcest intention, our determination that she shall pay the dam- ages incurred by us through the Anglo-rebel privateers which have preyed upon our com- merce. When it was seen in Europe that the people.of the North were determined to crush the rebellion, and that they would, for the at- tainment of that object, sustain the government loyally, the Western Powers of Europe began to appreciate the dangers of any hostile de- monstrations against us, and Engtand, with her usual tact, made a virtue of necessity, and whirled to the right about with commendable celerity. We see by the latest advices from Europe that the British authorities will vet bd | rams from ce force if peeds be. courso this isa hint to Davis that be can no longer count upon. England as a friend, and no doubt the fact will produce a due amount of consternation and anger in the minds of the sorely tried and sadly deluded followers of the arch traitor. France has followed the.example of Eng- land in the matter of rebel rams, and has given to our Minister in Paristhe assurance that the rebel vessels in course of construction at different French seaports shculd at once be stopped. ‘This will be a still more severe blow to the South, who bas Jooked upon France as a secure ally. There are manifold reasons why Napoleon should have acted thus. In the first place, and most important, were he to favor the rebels by furnishing them with rams and vessels-of-war, we should of course return the compliment in favor of the Mexicans. We would send them iron-clads, arms and muai- tions of war, and thus enable them to succeas- fully contend against their invaders. This danger Napoleon could not incur with impuni- ty, and so he has ordered the stoppage of the rebel rams. In this much his attitude towards this country is changed.. It must be noticed, too, that we see no more diatribes in the official and semi-official. French journals ‘apropos of recognition or intervention; and we may .thus safely conciude that the great Western Powers of Europe will pay no more attention to Davis and his good or had fortunes, and that we shall be left undisturbed to end the rebellion. Napoleon is now making a grand effort to place bimself in such a position that he may abandon the ill-fated “Mexican ex- pedition and prepare for as grand move in t'e spring in favor of Poland: He is well aware-that herein he could count upon the support of his subjects and the sym- pathy of all the world, and he will thus regain the prestige he bas lost by the Mexican expe dition. His Empress is now travelling through Spain with the evident purpose of creating a fecling of. good will towards France prior to some proposal on the part of Napoleon where- in he needs the aid of the Spanish government. Rumor has it that he wishes to withdraw from Rome, and that Spain will be requested to send to that city a garrison of ten thousand troops in place of the French soldiers to be with- drawn. This step would release Napoleon from one unpleasant predicament, and he would then only have to withdraw from Mexi- co to be entirely free. That he will soon do this we are inclined to believe, as he must now comprehend that in @ reasonable time we shell be at liberty to give our undivided attention to tbat country, and that it will notgo well thep, with intruders, France has been affected, no doubt, by our great evidences of power and determination; and has evidently concluded to avoid all inter- ference with us. To add to the strength of this conclusivn, the arrival of the Russian fleet in our harbor undoubtedly had its effect. But France need meke no bugbear of the reported alliance between this country and Russia. We need no such assistance, and shall ever find {it quite in ‘our power to defend ourselves without the aid of a Rus- gian fleet. These barbarians have no idea of naval matters. We should indeed be in a sore pase were we forced to call upon them for assist- ance. We are capable of all deferice, and this Is the fact which France and England are be- ginning to understand. They remember now that'the great French republic, unaided, held 41 Europe at bay for years, and they oan but {nstitute a comparison between France as she then was and us in the senith of our untold re- sources and strength. Wo predict, then, that England and Fran will totally abandon Davis and his compeers, and that Napoleon will at once begin big, pre. parations for s grand campaign in the — Russie. He will.gall upon his to: blow for poor, suffering Poland, ot: a cose shout will be beard thronghout his empire. In this country, where the names of | Kosoiusko and Pulaski are clorely connected’ with the words liberty and independence, the sympathies < ‘of our.people will be with France in the impending struggle. Cayrrat. Rattroap Directors axp THR Spocxsossixa Newsrarxrs.—The annual elec- tion of the directors of the Central Railroad takes place on ith of December next. The contest this year is an unusual one, and is specially watched by the bulls and bears of Wall street. There has been considerable talk going on. At the same time the Jeromes bav heavy interest in the Hudson River Railroad, and are looking out in'that quarter also. It is well understood that the Zimes is the organ of the Jeromes in all their stockjobbing affairs, and that the World represents the Central Railroad jobbing politicians. It is therefore impossible for either to remain silent when there is such an excellent opportunity to bull and bear railroad stocks. True to the spirit of those papers, the Times opened out on the Central Railroad for a change of directors, in order to help the Wall street managers of that sheet, and the World followed yesterday in behalf of the Albany clique. Thus the stook- jobbing now goes, and will no doubt grow more and more interesting uatil the election of Central Railroad directors on the 8th of next month, The Suburbs of Large Cities. The most attractive features of European cities are unquestionably their eueroundings. Rich as they are in palaces, monuments and galleries, they do not possess for the American visitor half the charms which their suburbs offer to him. The habits of a people are not to be judged of by metropolitan evidences. The characteristics of large cities are nearly every- where the same. It is only by quitting the crowded streets and wandering through the semi-rural habitations which crep out from every European capital that the stranger can obtain a glimpse of the inner life of the people. And, independent of this consideration, how attractive in themselves.are these suburban districts, Fringed with glorious old trees, the growth of centuries, their avenues in general follow the natural configuration of the soil. On each side are to be seen mansions, villas and bumble gottages, surrounded by a Ei gardens, at tet & Frobably remal ned generations in the same family. Here no levelling policy running in advance of the ne- cessities of population ventures to invade the rights of property or the suggestions of good taste. There is not a hill, or even an eminence, in which the whole neighborhood does not feel an interest amounting almost to a sense of ownership, and the authorities dare not meddle with it until it is clearly demonstrated by the voice of the community that the public conve- nience demands its removal. It is the respect thus engendered for local attachments which has preserved to the Euro- pean cities their most enviable features. What would smoke-begrimed London be without the natural beauties and favilities for healthful en- joyment by which it is surrounded? Take from it Hempstead, Sydenham, Richmond and the Surrey Hills, and it would be one of the least enjoyable spots in the world. Paris, which contains within its walls more social and intel- lectnal resources than any other European me- tropolis,, would lose a large portion of its attractions were it cut off from Belleville, Meudon, Sevres, St. Germain, St. Cloud and Versailles. The sane may- be said of the suburbs of Florence, Naples, Vienna, and most other European cities. The municipalities of all those places, alive to the fact. that it is only by preserving intact the natural beauties of their environs they can render their olties per- manently attractive, resolutely set their faces againat all schemes that may in any way de- tract from them. There is not a new highway proposed that savors of a job which is not ob- atinately resisted, and evoa when necessity re- commends it it clicits a multitude of regrets at the removal of old landmarks. The same feeling once existed im our own community; but, with the thirst for speculation and spirit of jobbing which have infected all olasses, it has rapidly disappeared. Not only have we learned to disregard the principles which should guide us in laying out our streets and thoroughfares, but even the rights of property itself. Under the pretence of providing for the wants of rapidly growing population, we are running aboad of its necessities at least half a century. It will take fully that time to populate the new- ly graded sireets and avenues for which the community are so heavily taxed. And all this is done at the expense of good taste and in de- fiance of the rights of those whose property is cut up and sacrificed to suit the views of greédy speculators. A more shameless ing joe of this disregard of the patil area ‘feeling ‘Ts not to be foun in what is projected to be done with the beautiful region lying between the Kingsbridge road and the Hudson river. Hero it is proposed to lay out four great avenues, making altogether six roads, including the rail- read, within that comparatively confined apace. The effect of thie will be to destroy.all the natu- ral beauties of s suburb which is at once one of the attractions and necessities of New York. And what for? Merely to enrich = few speou- lators, by enabling them te cut up their proper- ties into village lots. If there were any ques- tion of public convenience involved in this project it would be abundantly provided for by constructing « single sdditional avenue parallel with the railroad and running round nA Spayten Duyvil to Harlem. This, and widening of the Kingsbridge road os a passion fae, sel jualin 8 om tah would amply meet all the necessities of our city population for another belf century, without encroaching upon its present sources of enjoyment. When the Park was being planned great importance was attached to the Preservation of the natural configuration of its gurtace. On what ground can it be urged that the principle then contended for should be wan- tonly violated in the case of the Washington Heights? There is not inthe world » more deauflfal rogion, and to level it and parcel it out to building speculators would be to destroy all its nataral advantages, without securing ary compensating benefit to the city. Tus Disrvrnpaxces iN THE Price or Lapon axp Tuxm Cavsx.—Last night there was a large meeting in this city of the machinists—a very considerable, intelligent, and just now a par- ticularly Important, body of men. It ought to be clearly understood that these present strikes are very different in their na- ture from those ordinary ones caused by local difficulties in trade. They are one of the re- sults of the war. Within « very short period there has been a general and almost complete change of currency throughout the United States. Gold and silver have disappeared; the promises to pay of the countless banks all over the country are almost as little seen—all “pashed from their stools” by Uncle Sam’s paper. Upon this change and substitution in the whole currency of the country there has naturally followed an extensive disturbance in prices. All necessary articles of consumption felt the effect of thls qhange mepths ago, and now labor begins to feel it, or begins to widely manifest the change for some time felt. Hence there isa demand for higher rates, and con- sequent strikes in every direction. Though strikes. are at any time a positive evil, ag they interrupt the whole movement of industry, those at present in progress will per- haps be accommodated without serious detri- ment to the public welfare. But we are only in the third year of the war, and these troubles may recur; and if they do it will be in a fright- ful ratio with the lapse of time. And here we eee one more urgent reason why the govera- ment should act vigorously and finish the war. Enough men have been in the field to have ended it a year ago; and had it been ended then we should not have had these troubles. But if we have the same mismanagement for another year,and the war drawn out in the same lame way as it has been, incalculable evils to society will ensue from the greater dis- turbances in labor that we shall then have. Good Out of Canada for Once. The Governor General of Canada has done us a eervice by informing Lord Lyons, and re- questing him to notify this government, of the rebel plot to seize some of our cities upon the Canadian border. It is so sel@m: that any good comes out of Canada that we hasten to make this acknowledgment of the favor sho has rendered us. Bat, at the same time, wo are not so carried away by gratitude that we can- not perceive that there was a selfish feeling at the bottom of this friendly act. Indeed, all Englishmen are.simply jacarnations of selfish- ness, and the Canadians are only provincial Englishmen. Canada exposed this rebel. plot for the same reason that Englagd stopped the rebel rams, Tk was hor interest to do 0, She could not do olberwise with safety. We do net know what Secretary Seward bas been writing to Earl Rus- eeH for the past six months, and we sin- cerely hope that we shall never be called upon to read any more of his voluminous correspondence; but we do know that if Eng- land had allowed,those rams to get to sea we should have declared war against her at once. So, upon the same principle, if the Governor General of Canada had kept this rebel cen- spiracy a secret, and permitted it to be carried into effect, we sbould have first recaptured the rebel prisoners and imprisoned the rebel refu- gees who were going to undertake. the raid, and then we should have turned our attention to the Canadians, and flogged them out of their boots off-hand. The Northern border States could raise a hundred thousand volunteers— half of them veterans—in less than three weeks for such an expedition; and where would the Kanucks and Biuenoses be thent Thousands of our fighting men are already very anxious to twist the neck of the British lion; .and what would they have cared fore little tussle with one of her puny whelps? Still, while we perceive the selfish mo tives which have actuated the Canadians in their kind deed, we do not the less appreciate the deed itself. General Dix has gone to Buffalo, and will see to it that affairs there are in a state of preparation against any surprise. We thank the Canadians, then, for their friendly warning, and assure them that if, at some future period, they shall desire to drop into our delightful family party of States, and share with us the privileges an@ blessings of a republican form of government, they will be all the more welcome on account of their present neighborly conduct. In conolu- sion, we have only to say that Vallandigham and the Chevalier Jewett have lost a magnif- cent opportunity in this matter. They are both in Canada, and if they are as clever as they pro- fess to be they both knew all about this rebel plot. Had they revealed it to our government, they would bave been invited to return here im triumph and honor, to be feasted and feted oon- stantly and gloriously. As it is, we must either set them down as too ignorant to know about the plot or suspect them of complicity in it The ancient geese saved Rome; but these two geese made no effort to save America. Whata splendid opening for a historical parallel and & historical immortality have Vallandigham and Jewett wilfully neglected. Muste: “La SONNAMBULA’ AT THE ACADEMY OF MUBIO. As one turns from the aspect of Niagara to gave with feolings of pleasure, if not relief, upon the smooth, Placid bosom of some beautiful, quict Bo do those pera henselae th and por ored peor ‘ment of & ted he ps3 ry Soa Sie. tise tie aca melodies, The ear te at rest, and a sense of quiet enjoyment takes the pisce of the rapt attention which the majestic works of Verdi demand. We admit that here in New York Verdi reigns Supreme. Still that Donizetti and Melliet Rave their ad- mirers here also is proved by the immense audiences they draw. “La Bonnambula’”’ te perfectly familiar to all opera goers. It ebounds in melodies which bare been taken possession of by orgaa grinders end. itinerant musicians; 20 that at all times we have our ear¥ offended witn tor. tured semblances of these tunes. Still they are so sweet, oo attractive, that but, let the music be rendered by com- Potent artiste and erchesira, we at gace are pleased, en traaced, aad listea with renewed pleasure to music wo Geomed ourselves satiated with. As oung last night by the Marctsek troupe, the opera myle. Her pare, fresh voloe Gade ia Beilisi’s music a Sold sacoess. She appears to advantage not oaly tm acting the role. Hor execution of per me serene’ was really mod “Ab nom Gtunge’’ was brilliantly sung. Signor Lotti, whe sang the role of Elvino for the ares (irre, was epplacded. His voice, though sot powerful, fe very sweet, andewore be to throw a little moro satma- {ioe into bis acting jseneceed beyond bis hopes. ‘There seems to be an evident desire on the part of the public to encourage this rising artist. Signor Biach: wes a grand Rodolfo. flis splendid votes wes beard to greet advantage Io all the concerted musie We have but space to add that the opera was @ great sue. Coen ‘To-pight Port's grand opera, “Judith,”,will be sung of the Academy of Music. NIBLO’S GARDEN. Mr. Grau will (ie eveping present to the public Bip prime donna, Mile. Castri, in the “Locia” time. Vero Lorini Will also sing the last act of “La Favorita.”’ CONCEXTS. ‘To-night the grand promenade concert of the Sevent® regiment will take place at their armory. ‘The popular matinee, under the direction of Mr. Thee dore Thomas, will take place today at Irving Hall. Ma. Srarnay Masserr’s Naw #unr0 Coxrc Leorrna —The Rew production of Mr, Massett's original mind, entitied “Drifting About,” was received © few evenings ago im Princeton, New Jersey, with well merited appreciation Dy 0 large and Intellectual andience. The comicaliies of “+Joemen Pipes, of Pipesville,”” bave always been proveg cative of a hearty laugh; but ft appoars that this new leo eee ceuk tp coimaias eanetan combos Tee which he changes his voice, the contortinas of bie countenance, his exceedingly clever imitation of Bawin Forrest, the Englishman in California, Re., were excellent. Mr. Massett will short,7 repeat ine lecture New York,