The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1864, Page 4

4 —— NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OPFiCS N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXIX.... - AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Coxstz Soocas. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Love Cass. Pala GARDEN, Broadway.—Ticxer or Leave as. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway —A Bout wx 4 Caixa Bu0r—Covsin Carry. J BOWERY THEATRE. NEW Bowery.—Mazsrra— Feton's Deatm—Toxn Him Ovr. BOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rac Wowax anv Her | Dogs—Buace Brep 8usax—Banvit Host. BARNUM'S MUSEUM. Broadway.—Frexca Giang, | Guaxt Gini, Grant Box, Linuirean Kuno, Gee, Grant ee ‘all Bours. Ticker oF Leave Max. At Sand 73g peers, ar eeran crs es | * i AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 446 at. Lath Pa Bursxsguss, &c.—Hovse Tear Pg { NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY .14,. 1864. tions at the county seata was introduced and ro- | Seainat the other prisoners, and discharged them | to steal fs oply to invite tho rebponad al ferred to the Military Copumijjoe. ‘The Military | *la0. Cominitiee dere instructed to inquire into the ex- | In the Court of General Sessions yesterday pediency of changing the term of military service Patrick Ryan Was convicted of passing a counter- from three years to one year. A report from the | feit five dollar bill on Henry D. Barto's’Bank o* Committee on Printing, in favor of printing ten Trumansburg, N. Y., and was remanded for sen- thousand extra copies of the reports of Paced tence. The trial of Mathew T. Sennett, for steal McClellan and Grant, was agreed to. resolu- | ing $711 from Jacob L. Phillips, of Catharine tion directing inquiry as to the expedienoy of ex- ajrect, was commenced, and will probably be con- tending the time for Statea aad Territories to ac- cluded to-day. cept the Agricultural College land grants was | Surrogate Tucker has rejected the will of Peter offered and referred to the Territories Qqm- | Darmen, both attesting witnesses to the instrument mittee. Tye bill to enable the Presi- | being dead, and the signature of only one of them dent to carry into effect his emancipa- | being proven. Letters of administration on the tion proclamation was reported back from | estate of Epenetus Wood, which had been granted the Judiciary Committee. The Naval Committee | to Juliet Wood, claiming to be the widow of de- reported back the bill calling on the Secretary of | ceased, were yesterday revoked by the Surrogate, the Navy for certain reports in reference to | it now appearing that she was never the wife of the efficiency of iron-clad war vessels. A bill | Mr. Wood, The trial of Thomas Kelly's wili was those who follow Buchanan’s example mux't share his reward We commend these re- fieotions to the editors of the Post, one of whom is said to hold a position in connection with the Custom House, and must therefore feel a personal interest in the Palmer investi- gations. Such an fnterest could alone explain the warmth and vigor of the Post's defence of the administration; for'the administration is 80 notoriously corrupt that to become its apologist is dangerous, if not fatal, to the reputatton of -any respectable man. Men without characters, like the editor of the Tribune, may safely ven- ture to assume such a dubious position; but wo hope for better things from William Cullen Bryant and his coadjutora of the Post. Lot for the establishment of an emancipation bureau was reported, and its consideration appointed for Wednesday of next week. A report in reference | to the prevalence of smallpox in Washington waa made, showing that the statements have been ex- aggerated. In Committee of the Whole the Presi- dent’s Message was taken op, and Mr. Yeaman, of , addressed the House. A motion was Means to inquire into the expedionsy.of repea! from the Military Committee for pr u ‘ay A’ Se ee eee: HOPE CB. i aa a. a AY.—TRE STERKOBCOPTICAN | bs Ok yeeree ae } BEW YORE NUSEUN GF ANATOMY, 013 Broadway. | AC omosrtias ax URES. from 9 A. M. thlOP. Mi. bf OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—! | ones, Dances, ‘Burtasctse, be a Sa call ‘thursday, January 14, 1864. | THE SITUATION. Notwithstanding the rumors of some movements in the Third army corps,-the Potomac army re- mains perfectly quiet. It is reported that Generals ae t ‘efficiency of. mechanical enginesté.. asked by Mr. Holman, but not granted, to offer a preamble and resolution for au investigation into army contract ‘frauds. Without transacting fur- ther business, the House adjourned. THE LEGISLA‘ j fh the State Senate yesterday a bili was noticed to reimburse regiments of the State National | Guard for clothing, equipments and camp éqdipage lost or destroyed in the service of the United States, and also one to legalize the acts of Boardd of Supervisors in raising money to pay bounties. A resolution was introduced and iaid on the table empowering the Committee on Cities and Villages to inquire into the practicability of consolidating Kentucky, agreed to instruetiig the Committee on. Ways and i | the import duty on paper. A bill was vepérted } continued. ‘The stock market was mora quiet yeatorday; but tho ‘business traneacted was again large, ‘at a small reduction {a the prices of most of the shares, which seemed to be caused by the angisty of soliors to dispose of portions of their surpias for casn. Goid was a fraction down from the quotations of the previous day. The monoy market eased up a tittioon account of tho banks loaning freely ‘the interest bearing Treasury notes. Government atocks wore frm at-provicus quotations. far as prices were concerned, t activity, thougt buainess.was fair. Groceries wore quict, Petroieug) continued very dull, wa3Gnn. Froighta were quict, at about Tuesday’s rates. The Uaparaticloa Corraptions of the Administration. Every day brings us some new dovelop- ment of the unparalleled corruptions of the present administration. The frauds, pooula- tious and embezzlements of the federal offictals are so flagrant that it requires no investigations to bring them to light. Like dirt and death, they reveal themselves and force thomselves upon the public attention. Witb the exception Cadwalader, Hunter and Wadsworth have been | ‘8¢ Several departments of the New York city-| of President Lincolo, who is personally honest appointed a commission to proceed to Chatta- nooga and investigate the causes of the defeat of our army at the battle of Chickamauga. Despatches from Chattanooga report a cavalry fight near Strawberry Plains on Sunday, in which the rebels were repulsed. General Longstreet is said to have been rejpforced from the armies of Lee and Jobnston. General Grant at last accounts was making a tour through his department. , His army is in fine condition." We regret that we have not space to-day for » some most interesting extracts from General Me- Clellan’s report, showing his plan of the cam- paign, as laid down by him in 1861, when he entered upon the command of the army. It is enough to “say that they” mani- “fest, in a remarkable manner, his fore- sight and wisdom ‘as a commander-in-chief, and “embrace not only the exigencies and diffi- culties which met him in Virginia after the disas- trous battle of Bull ryn, but foreshadow: much of ‘what has since been ghe result of the campaigns government and reducing the expenses thereof. It the Assembly a statement was presented from the Hanover Bank, of this city, relative to unclaimed dividends, and also the Auditor's re- port on the canals. Bills were noticed to increase the tax on dogs, to suppréss immoral adertise- ments in newspapers, to incorporate the Metro- politan Market Company, to amend the charter of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, to pro- hipit the of suspension or chain bridges at ferries. to facilitate the construction of a railroad from Jamaica to Rockaway, to amend the act taxing banks and other moneyed corporations, to regulate the rate of fare on the New Haven Railroad, and in relation to the Newtown and Grand Street Railroad, Brooklyn. Bills were in- troduced probibiting non-residents: from holding stands in markets in this citygto amend the Metro- politan Police act, and to amend the Revised Statutes in relation to partnerships. Resolutions were introduced condemning con¢ert saloons, and for the apfointment of a committee te investigate the same, which were laid over. A resolution wad also introdaced and referred to the appropriate committee that the Nationa! Guard shall not be subjected to the United States mititary service as individuals, but should be ordered out by organized corps when needed. The resolutions compliment: in the West and South, in his advice to the Presi dentand Secretary of War, and in his instructions to his corps commanders. 5 Our correspondents in British Honduras, dating at Belize on the 26th of December, furnish the im- Portant intelligence tBat the American schooner Joseph L. Gerety, Captain Nichols, from Matamo- os for Havana, with one hundred and twenty-two ary to General Grant, thanking him for his recent victories in Tennessee, were unanimously adopted. MISCEBLANEOUS NEWS. The Cunard steamship Scotia, from Queenstown onthe 3d of January, is due at this port to-day. Should the Scotia arrive before. the veasels named in the Hgnaup yesterday morning the news will be one week later than the advices by the Africa. The report which has been just originated in because he is too imbecile to be otherwise, no taint of guilt. There is corruption in the War Department; there is gross corruption in the Navy Department; the Treasury Department is corrupt from top to bottom; even the State Department, which has very little to do with jobs and contracts, has not escaped calumny. President Lincoln, who presides over all these departments, and who must be aware of tbe frauds perpetrated in them. cannot avoid the responsibility of the evils which he permits aad takes no measures to correct. The copperhead—or, as they cali themselves, democratic—jqurnals are making a great deal of capital out of the corruptions of the adminis- tration. Nobody can-blame them for so doing, although most people believe that the copper- heads would be just as corrupt as the nigger- heads if they only had the chance. Neverthe- less, such an administration as this is fair game for even its worst oppenents. When nearly every contract made by the War Department is 8 swindle, and witnesses are exiled by Seoreta- ry Stanton lest these swindles should be ex- posed; when the Navy Department employs a two and a-half per cent Morgan, and refuses to buy ships except through such agents, and charters vessels at higher prices than are de- manded for their purchase; while Secretary Welles winks at these abuses instead of reform- iog them; and when the Treasury Department illegally employs persons like Jay Cooke to sell United. States bonds on percentage, and bales of cotton on board, had been seized the city to the effect that the Suffragan bishops of | allows its employes to pocket the bills they by rebel passengers, and run into ~Belize unr the British flag. It appears that . the Gerety hed taken six rebels on board at Matamoros for conveyance to Havana, and the archdiocese of New York thet in council im- mediately after the faneral services had been performed towards Archbishop Hughes, and se- lected, according to the rule of the Catholic Church, three names to be forwarded to Rome, from which the Pope would choose ene as the are erdered to bura, and transforms the Cus- tom House into a rebel depot for blockade runners, while Secretary Chase busios himself -with laying pipe for the next Presidency— certainly the copperhead or democratic that these passengers, when at sea, suddenly | guocessor of the deceased prelate, is not at all | journals are fully justified ia everthing overpowered the captain and crew, set them adrift ina boat and then painted off the proper mame of the vessel, ohanging it tothe Eureka—a rebel schooner. It is also said that they killed the steward of the Gerety, who resisted them. Being already furnished with a register corre- sponding with the tonnage and quantity of cotton by tae rebel Collector in the port of Brownsville, they steered for Belize, and entered ,under the British ensign, "the authorities refusing to re- ognize the rebel flag, which they first displayed. Bere the cotton was immediately sold to a mer- chant, the parties receiving seven thousand dol- mews of the piracy, when the captors of the Gerety decamped suddenly. ‘The British authorities offer a reward of five hundred | venerable bishop. It is not peremptory either on Jers on account. Aa arrival from Sisal brought | the Holy Father or Sgcred College to appoint any correct. The report says that the names stood on the list thus:—Bishop Bayley, of Newark, digrios; Bishop Timon, of Buffalo, dignior, and Bishop McCloskey, of Albany, dignissinus. As there has been no selection made, of course the above names have not been transmitted. When the bishops and clergy meet in what is termed the ‘Month's Mind'’—to offer masses and prayers for the repose of the soul of Archbishop Hughes—and when this solemn duty has been dis- charged, the Episcopal Council will assemble and vote the names to be sent to the Pope and the Sacred College in the Eternal City. It is not probable that the name of Bishop Timon will ap- pear on the list, owing to the advanced age of the one of the persons némed at the election of the bit here, as head of the cherch may traypl ont of the li J appoint some ecciesias- tic hever thought of by the people. Ia any case they may choose to say against the admlnistra- tion, and independent journals like the Hzracp cannot avoid joining them in the attack. Of course such revelations are very unfortunate for the republicans, especially upon the eve of a Presidential election; but robbery, like murder, “will out,” and the republicans must make the best of it. In fact, they are trying very bard to make the best of it, as an attentive perusal of the higgerhead or republican organs will show. These organs appear to be a little bewildered as yet, and adopt two different lines of defence. The Evening Post leads off by declaring that all the corruptions of this administration are merely the second crop of the bad seeds plant- ed by Buochanaa. The Tritune, which lacks. the brains and the impudence of the Post, whiningly acknowledge: that the republican Aollars for the arrest of the leaders, named | tha congregations, are always content in their | underlings aro guilty of frauds, but claims that Mogg end Brown respectively. on its way to England; the schooner is safe at Belize, and the remainder of the money will be handed over to the proper owners. Five cotton | with the United States authorities. sobooners had arrived in Belize from rebel ports within a ehort time, and were preparing to ran fhrough the blockade on their return. CONGRESS. The cotton ia | f in the wisdom of the apostelio decision. Ait is found thatAhe responsibility for the condi- tion of the Park/ Barracks does not rost with the general commending the department, nor wholly ‘The barracks belong to the city, and are under the charge of a superintendent appointed by Governor Seymour, The prisoners confined there are under the ex- elusive control of the Provost Marshal's Depart- ment, which is entirely independent of General The proceedings of Congress yeaterday were } Dix’s orders. highly interesting. In the Senate a resolution was adopted for the arrangement of a Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, to consist of three members of each body. Mr. Lano, of Kansas, presented his bill te prohibit sales of gold at prices Governor Parker, of New Jersey, tranamitied bis annual message to the Legislature of that State, assembled in Trenton, yesterday morning. The Governor recommends the restoration of the old constitution and the reconstruction of the Union on its old basis as the only objects worth higher than those pafd in this city for United | fighting for. He says that a conciliatory policy Btates aix per cent gold interest bonds, except for exportation to pay debts. It was read twice, should be pursued towards the rebels, with the view of a national pacification. The emancipa- referred to the Finance Committee, and ordered | tion proclamation is, in bis opinion,a standing ‘to be printed. Mr. Wilson's resolution for the ex- pulsion of Senator Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, ‘was then taken up, and Mr. Wilson proceeded to ‘support his proposition at Considergble length, ‘torging that certein resolutions recently laid before | may have been prejudicial to the general good, it is not less false, than the Senate by Mr. Davis were as treasonable in spirit as anything that had emanated from the weoession leaders. Mr. Davis made along speech ip reply #8 Mr. Wilson, and in defence of himself ‘and his résolutions. The debate was very intercst- Sng. Without reaching a vote on the question the Benate adjourned. In the House of Representatives a resolution to admit Mr. William Jane as Delegate from Dakota Territory was introduced and laid over. The Hoe took up the joint resolution from the Ju- mittee, reported on Monday, for an amendment to the joint resolution approved July, 1862, in explanation of the provision of the con- Btitation in reference to estates forfeited by trea- gon. The resolution introduced yesterday pro- poses to submit to the courts whether the intent of the constitution is that such forfeitures shall be n fee simple or merely continue during the life of the persons attainted. After considerable without final action, it was lajd dyor. whe 6 alta Yor § ; ' tepelling rebel itvasion cdmiap fp, a fr. ‘was adopted that the Second Anditor be toreport the ae ibe Foamy and, fa the mosntime, the fyrther deration of oe chains was postponed till Tuosday next. Abii 40 compel provost marshals ty bold thelr examina: obstacle in the way towards these results. Ho the heads of department caanot be held re- spoustble, since Secretary Ohare has been ia- vestigating these frauds for more than-a year past. This claim put forward by poor Greeley, himself a partner in a gun con- tract, bas been received with a gene- ral guffaw. Greeley clies the Custom House frauds as an example of Seoretary Chase's investigations; but when, pray, ald Marshal Murray receive instructions from Secretary Chase to iavestigate Palmer's case? No, no, Mr. Greeley, that dodge is too flimsy to deceive anybody. Secretary Chase have hushed up the Palmer bustoess if be could, just as he has hushed up half a dosen-other cases of corruption; and he would have con- {llegatly continues to pay Mr. Jay Cooke for disposing of United States bonds. It would be far better for the Tribune to fall back upon the condemns the amnesty manifesto, and expresses | defence of the, Hvening Post. and be content to the opinion that the many acts of the federal imitate, when ft cannot originate, sophistry and member of the administration is free from the’ tinued to keep Palmer in office, just as he Mr. Bryant, who wrote his best poem at the age of nineteen, strive to eclipse that precocious productlon by a lyric about General Grant, and dovote his paper to urging the unanimous election of that great aud brave man. This will satisfy he country that at least e-portion: of the niggerheads do repent of the crimes of thelr party; for in General Grant we shall havea ia bis army, and who will restore the govera- ment to its ancient purity, power aad respect. | ‘The @llitary Situation. According to the news from. East Tea- nessee new complications are likely to arise fn respect to that very hard customer, General Longstreet. He is reported to be ina position admirable for defence, in the hills on the upper part of the Holston, and to have been reinforced from the armies of Johnston and Lee; and this story of reinforcement, un- like very many ether stories on that subject, is probably true. Upon his failure at Knoxville it was necessary that Longstreet should either leave Tennessee, or that he should have a large force to.enable him to save the force he had. Winter came suddenly and he could not leave, and ao the reinforcemen!s were sent. And now the question that ought to arise is, a ques- tion whether or no they will ever get away again. As they are out West, and in Goneral Grant’s department, we predict that they wil! not. Gur war against the rebellion is divided into two grand series of operations by the line of the Alleghany Mountains. West of those mouatains our operations have been conuduct- ed by military men who have governed their movements mainly by military reasons, and who have bad almost uniform success. Our successes began in Western Virginia, and have been continued in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Koutucky, Tennessee and Alabama; and we haye recorded for our soldiers-in the West the triumpbs at Belmont. Forts Henry and Donelson, Vicksburg and Port Hudson, Shiloh, Corinth, I-u-k-a, Pea Ridge. New Orleans, Jackson City, Mfirfrees- boro, Chattanooga. Rioggold aad Knoxvilic. And as the reenit of all these the rebellion is prostrate ia the West, except for this late ap- parition in Tennessee. East of the Alleghanies we have fought maainly with one army, but with one that both our own soldiers in the West and our enomies belleve tobe our bost army. While General McClellan was Commander-in-Chief this Enst- ern army did but little. He bad a compre- hensive idea of the war, and kept the Westera armies active, with a view, apparently, to exhaust the enemy on that field and strike the final blow with tho Army of the Potomac. But, deposed from the gone ral command of all our forces, he was sont into the field with the army that had been trained directly under his eye, and, though thwarted in every way, conducted admirably a series of arduous operations in a horrible coun- try andfought some brilliant battles. Never before did a soldier keep an army together through such a series of battles as those of the sevén days were. Soon after General McCle!- lan had given this evidence of his ability he was removed from the command of the Army of the Potomao, and the command of that army and the direction of all our military affairs in the East was assumed by Mr. Lincoln, who has retained it nearly ever since. He has had the advice and assistance of a staff composed of Messrs. Stanton, Chase and Halleck. Under the direction of Mr. Lincoln we had the so-called campaign of General Pope—dis- astrous beyond description, and marked by the first advance -of a rebel army toour ter- titory. ‘These disasters only ended when the wave-of rebellion rolled up to the feet of an army commanded ‘by General McClellan ot Antietam. Next we had the murderous campaign of Burnside, and agein that of Hooker; and for every disaster of those three campaigns Mr. Lincola ts direct- ly and beyond all péradventure responsible. Another rebel advance followed, and before Mr. Lincoln and his atrategists know it the Southern army was in a Northorn State. Our army was brought face to face with that of the enemy, and under circumstances where strategy and tactics amounted to marvellously little. A soldier's battle was fought, and the Southern army was beaten; and now, when strategy might have destroyed ‘the beaten army, it failed to do it. So the great victory of Gettyaburg merely turned the tide, thanks to Mr. Lincoln. Other imbecilities followed; and now the Northern and Southera armies in tho East are in the positions that they occupied upon the commencement of the great career of Pope, and when Mr. Lincoln assumed the direction. government of which he disapproves, or which Due credit fer sagacity must be given to the Southern leaders; for they saw bow this mat- ter stood at a very carly day, and had the isoretion to make their granddst attempts in tho field where they were likely to be ‘opposed lies. The Post's theory is more plausible, but poor Greeley’s. Bu- chanan has a very bad reputation, and it is a good idea to attempt to make bim the scape- goat for all the sins of Lincoln's admintstration will be obliterated or remedf@d by the batlots of the people. ’ The new Board of Education met last evening ized by the election of Ji M. Mel. . for president aad Thos, Boewe for cleric ‘The | 08 well as for those of bis ewn, Sl] {tmust 4 by politicians rather than by soldiers. ‘They names of the Finance Committee and the Com- | be remembered that Buchanan's onused | are likely to be governed by the same {dea in the future; and therefore we may soon expect the war to reopen upon a grand scale jn t! country directly under the military Sipervision of the President. In the Southwest, opposed by Grant, the rebollion has but little chance to make an impression; but if yet uadia- the ruin of bis party, and we believe that Lincoln's sins will have the same result. The corruptions of Van Buren’s administra- sek rah eg, ahurrab. The cor- captions of Buchanan’s ad mittee on the Free Academy elected for the cur- rent year will be found with our report in another column, The scandal case in the Thirteenth ward came before the Board, and was referred too special committee. The Emigration Commissionera met yesterday; but no business of public interest came uy Mr, esate stored Casserly, the general agent of the Board, com- to clest Honest Old Ahe— o is ts Sou hero ooifta ihe pass plains of the frauds now being practised apon in bis name and his personal charactor, since | of so many battles apd push ‘ emigrants to an alarming extent, Upon tanding | be bas proved to be the most dishonest poll- | for a bundcog or 60, he would gala but Util, He would roocoupy a barren oodntry, x @ Wauld slill be on what ts claimed as . Bo they will merely finke sett ih i bela ant Toone coard ott the men, he alleges, are druggedand taken to the provost marshals’ and other recruiting offices and | cares no more for h enlisted, and defrauded out of the greater part of the bounty by a awarm of landsharks ad Qn ait Tor Them. The ’Mhlgration con- tician who ever wont to Washington, and Political nromtsea Dangeaet tor bs pEBise, to Bale \dministration, whose onormotté nana es f throw the comparativoly trifiin PI and meantime try the chances of pan aE Yh 7 iintes ra the selsoi. Since Janoary 1 the | of van Buren and eatanan po A toto ao | Gomiyenomtnin inepes ta war ue ou, 0 sdutne Pn j | shade, expect gay hotter than defeat ‘at General Lee has numborless squads in tho conn of tho charge of marder on the high Fd Sat an ‘3 7 la It a0, Me. | of mh in every part of Western seas, before Commissioner Osborn, in which two | / aad visors. must all the | Now and then wo of @ raid out thore, and of the acoused wore 04 on Tuesday, the | teaoblogs of the To thomecives | think it a email affair. Those raids are mado Caimissioner decided that thore was no evidence | by pleading that Buchanan faaiht them how | to cover the com obiegt, which iq to recougolice vauce into Pennsylvania, or to the Ohio; further | select the right man to atand at tho front in wat than the Shenandoah valley. If it shoula’ | next, we shall oortainly drift into a oonditipa be 60 wr west a8 to give Lee a range of moun- tains on hig right fldnk, with gaps easy to hold and debouch on tlie jongabela, within oasy reach of Pittsburg, he wilt pe in o country where he will not care muoh for lines of com- manication, and will give us more trowbl‘than he has done yet, and if it should be ao far west astogive Ohio, or any of the Northwestern States a taste of the war, that will exactly ac- cord with the hatred that the southern leaders feel against the States that would aot be bribed by the offer of the freedom of the Mississippi river. Doubtless it is thought in Richmond that the troops accumulated un- der Longstreet will be ‘eandy in cither event. Wo cannot dad in the history of Mr. Lincoln's direction of our military affatrs Fs son to hopd that such an advance can be cut short in any other way than by a sangulaary hatte such 48 we have seen at Gettysburg and at Antietam; and, though we have beaten Loe at the end of two advances, it is well enongh to remomber that the third victory may be his. PS RE PIERRE res Ae PaO ‘Tee Iavasion of Moxtco~@thne Buty of ~_ France anf of America. ‘The latest aows from Mexico, by way of California, is. very important. It. may be un-\ reliable In some minor pojats, as former tele- gtams from San-Fraavisco have been; ‘but ia the main we have no doubt that the inteili- gence is correct. It is pleasing to aee by these accounts that the national ‘spirit of the Mexi- cans is not so dead as their enemies have represented. The assault ef General Uraga, with his flve thousand Mexicans, on the ia- trenched positions of the French at Morelia, although resulting In disaster and repulse to the assailants, speaks well for their courage required no small degree of firmness and reso lution on the part of the commander of a force confessedly inferior in arms aud discipline to attaok French veterans in thelr defensive works. But that the Mexicans did so, and lost no loss than two thousand men in the attempt, out of a total force of five thousand, affords evidence that there is stil! some grit teft in Mexican soldiers and their commanders. Our advices do not aay anything about the losses of the French in the engagemeat; but we may be assured, from the fact of their superior artil- ‘lery and covered position. that they suffered much le3s than their antagonists. Pre- vious to this battle General Uraga had suc- ceeded in inflicting serious damage on the French by interruptiag their communications and capturing or destroying their supplies; while a large force of the allies of the invaders, namberiog three thousand men, uoder the traitor Tobar, was completely routed and put to flight by an equal force under another Suarist commander. In addition to this we perceive that Generai Doblado, whea he found that he cowld ao longer hold Guanajuate, de- liberately destroyed the aqueduct, reservoirs, mining works, agricultural! implements and growing crops, leaving the whole country a barren waste, to be occupied by the enemy. Hethen retreated to Zacatecas, whore it was expected that Jesus Ortega—the gallant de- foader of Puebla—would unite with him. and there give battle to the Freach, who wero steadily marching in that direction. Now, whatever may bo the ultimate resalt of tke French crusade against the neighboring republic. the intelligence just received from that country does not indicate that the Moexi- cans are yet prepared to abandon their liberty and national Independence. L’resident Juarez ferankiy admits, what everybody knows, that the French ara superior soldiers, better armed, disciplined aad command- ed than his raw Mexicans levies cait possibly be. French science and artillery would inevitably decide any pitched battle between the Freach aad Mexicans ia favor of the former. The advantage would favariably be on thepstronger side. But the Mexican commanders do uot appear to he such fools as to give this advantage to thelr enemies. Suarez deciares that they do not intend to carry on more than what is classed as a guerilla warfare. “We are,” he says, “not ia a position to wait for an attack on any of our points by their system of artillery warfare;” but adds that, “by harassing and destroying their com- munications, and carrying on aroviag system of warfare like that which the French once ex- perienced ia Spain, they perhaps will@et con- sider Mexico an easy empire to govera.” The abandonment of the principal cities of the re- public to the enemy he explains on similar grounds, the idea being to draw them as far away as-possible from their base and into the interior of the country. This seems to be the wisest course that the Mexicans can adopt in the pre’ent condition of their country and the limited means at their command; but how long they will be able ‘to sustain even this ir- regular kind of warfare is one of the difficult questions of the future. In the meantime the Emperor of the French should open his eyes to the dangers by which he is surrounded, and the folly of any longer wasting the wealth, energies and brave soldiers of France in the vain attempt to establish an empire en this continent. It is bis duty to withdraw his troops while there ts yet time to do #0.-The sentiment of the American as well as of tho Mexican people is Oppesed to the presence of his armies here; and nothing ie more certain than that @ monaroby of any kind will never be permitted to exist at the very gates of the Amerioan republic. The joint resolutions of Sénator McDougall presented to Congress show how strong are our sympathies with the struggling Moxicans. Although we know that these resolutions will not pass, we cannot vit regard them a an indication ot populét feol- ing qo the tavasion of Mexico. If the Mexioans could holy ee ied rebellion al te 06 doubt (hat Fe moyld thee alarge atmy into Mexico and spd Kat to expel thor French invaders, But at the pre- sent time it would be inopportune and impro- por to ombroil ottreel ves phys Kurd f, t for the a causes. OBE Ras a pO Go fae ae tlons against the cobale Sp Foesle . Let poserstrc io ata r all fis atro and ¢ 19 Adopted to com- plétely orush out the rebelliod. If we would flot s6e out own country falling foto the sam condition as that of Mexlod we must vo Tow with true patriotism, vigor and re@olution. We must rid ourselves of all tho politi. we soe el ea ol tear Yo place to place of our affairs, It is ovidont tat the war will not bo brought tp an gud gados very similar indeed, but far more terrible, tDat ot unfortunate Mexico at the present day. Commisstoners—The PartY o.“eelers at Albany. In bis late ra.0V@l of the old Poliog Com- missioners Govern, * Seymour committed » stupid blunder, Neither’ te publio Interest nor party policy called for th,’ Provecding after the patriotic and invaluable sa .i0es rondo to the community of this metropoh,' by the Board and the existing police torte {0 the guppression the July riots. But pro n08 Seymour and his party advisers havity resolved to try the experiment of re: organizing the Board to servé thelr party purposes, all the little “rings” and cliques of the Legislature and the lobby are at work and determine to have a finger in this delicious pie. The consequence is a charming state of con- fusion at Albany, from whioh we hope some publio good may result, upou the idea that “when rogues fall out honest nem aco the n bustness are niggerheads and the copper- bende. he geand chjeot of te algepetsods ia worklog up the July rigts was to pat dowa andkeep down the everwhelaring démocratio elements of this city by'the strong arm of martial law, and the purpose, we dare say, is still adhered to; for why should not the bayo- net, which has produced such a wondorfal revolution in Baltimore, do as much for the city of New York? That something besides lew and order is contemplated by the niggerbeads may be safely inferred from the fact that ia their propositions for @ compromise Police Board we hear nothing of Commissioner Actoa' Why do they leave him out? The property holders of this city, en masse, recognize him as the man of all men who has earned the right to be continued in his office. In any groat city in Europe, for similar services, his rewards and honors would be almost unlimited. The trouble, we fear, with Commissioner Acton is that he is not the convenient party tool the aiggerhead managers desire in his place. The objections of the copperheads to Com- missioner Acton are easily understood. Their game in the July riots, we have reasons to be- lieve, was aimply the scizire of the city and the appropriation of the property of its citt- vens according to the copperhead doctrine of equat .rights. Why, asks the copperhead, should one maa own twenty milfions aud auother man mot have even a sixpence in his pocket under our institutions of demo- 2) % The Por. cratic The New York copper- head is a peace men, with a yreser- vation or two. Hoe goes for peace with the Southern rebels because he eympa- thizes with them and géts nothing of the apoile end plunder of this war. He goos for civil war in New York eity because in euch a war he would have litéle or nothing ‘to lose, enfl might become rich in @ day from the spoiis of Wall street, Brondway aad Fifth avenue. This was the besutifut game which Commissioner Acton did ‘so muoh last July tonip in ite de- velopment. Of course Mr. Actom would not be touched with a ten foot pole by the dis- can have their own way in this business of a new Police Board, they are trying a Cconmpro- mise, the frst essential of which, oa both.sides, appears to be the removal of Me. Acton; for he has offended both sides. Had he not bees quite 80 active in putting dowa the July riete they might have ripened into revoll, whic in requiring a government of martial law, w probably have resulted in the bloody exter- mination or expulsion of the peace demooracy; or, bad he been less efficient in the protection of property, the movable wealth of the city might have been more equally divided its iababitants than it is to-day, or is likely te be hereafter, short of a Jacobin revolution. fa bebalf of our law-abiding and property- holding fellow citizens we suggest a special committee to Albany, to see to it that their interests are not entirely negl fa this business of patching up a new Pt Board among the juggling cliques and tradieg poll- ticians conoerned. Exrenston or Tax Eiaura Avesus Rane Roap.—We congratulate the citizens of Man- least twelve months ago. The road ought to fhe aay of oo Foust oh Se Etoy ot eo One of our city contemporaries also publishes Tees and April néxt 9 little re aotivity in General Butler's might result in soni very important "Nartovat, Demooratio Cowvawrion.—From tho official report of the aut Nattonat Committee, which wo rasta he wocuing it will be soon Presidential Convention of the demo, will spoot at Chioage on the Ky J ppb boty a and hoalges, by w: ‘ kgow, “something may toga ye.” Ta tosh soe eeoxending of A ea | a Ghloty Ad toda: practeaale Tine of ad- { the prosoot edumiaisteation,- aad; ualend wo