The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1864, Page 4

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MY all hours, ArHko Bia. on Si ud 736 P.M, BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, chanics Hall, 472 Broad. way.—-Etgiorian S0NnGs, Dances. BORLESQUES, 40—Tan ING A BUTTERYLY, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway. —Eemoruax Foncs, Dances, Amariio is CaM iux, AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Batiera, Pantowiuss, BuRiKSguYs, d¢.—OLo Grassy GRumey. BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, 485 Broadway.—Gyu- TiC AND EQUESTRIAN PrRrONMANCRS Afternoon aud Evening. HOPE CHAPEL. 78 Bronwar.—Srerroscorricoe Minnor ov UnsivERse, aN TWesty-suventa Staxet Guome NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Comositins ano Lxctunrs, from 9 A, M. ttl 10 P.M, HOOLFY’S OPERA HO! Bors, Dancxs, Buruesqurs, with , Brooklyn. —Erurorian sUP PLEMENT. . New York, Thursday, March 31. 1862. THE SITUATION. Tho growing popularity of General Grant with the Soldiers of the Potomac Army is about the only news from that quarter. The Commander-in-Chicf appears to be winning golden opinions for his modesty and unpre- tentious demeanor. It is related that he has pronounced One coat in a railroad car to be quite as much as be can fill, and therefore declines the uve of special trains for bis individual transport tion. He gives seats in his cars to furlougned soldiers who are in a burry to join their | Commands, and thus, we are told, takes their bearts by | storm, &e. ‘The ‘copperheads’ who made an attack !n Charleston, Mo., bave iwtrenched themeelves at Gi!'ady’s Mills, ten puiles from the town. They ore led by the ShoriT A portion of the Fifty-fourth Iilinois, comprising four hun- Gred men, has gone out to aseail them. Another part of Bho regiment remains at Mattoon, Ili., that place also Deing threatened by the insurgents. Charleston 1s gu risoned meantime by the Invalid corps. Peace evidently dves not reign in Missouri, The partment of Missouri, suppressing the circulation of the N w cial order of General Rosecrans, from the De- ‘ork Metropolitan Recor? in his military command, h we before referred to, is published im full in our columns to-day, The articles in the ecpdemued paper ed byfieneral Iicsecrans as “of an incendi disloyal and traitorous character” The Gee are des: om: Plains thet, although it is called a Catholic newspaper, it fa: no “ecclesiastical eanction,” and denouoces its ar ticks aa «a libel on Catholics,” with other yery strong Inognage. Therefore the Provost Marshal is ordered to seize the paper, and punish the venders thereof. Numerous extracts {rom the rebe! Journals to the 25th inst: are given in our columna to-day, The movements of the rebe! troops in Florida, under Gen. Finnegsn, to re pel the operations of the Union forces at Jacksonville, are coferrod to in the Mehmond Lnywirer. Gea. Pillow has been assigned to the command of the cavairy in the Northern district of Alabana, Official information of the move- ments of the Union troops in North Carolina bad been received in Richmond, The Enquirer calls upon the benevolent in the city of Richmond to interest themselves for families of soldiers and the poor people, and Gays that pressing necessity exists for immodi- ate aid to prevent absolute suffering. The heaviest soow storm of the winter visited the vicinity of Richmond and Petersburg on the 24th instant. The snow lay twelve inches deep, and the jingle of sleigh bells was beard—at the mederate rate of twenty dojiars an hour—by those who choose to enjoy the delightful mode of locomotion fur gushed by 4 sleigh and two fast borses. EVROPEAN NEWS. The stoamship Africa, from Queevstown on the 20th of Mach, reached Halifax yesterday va ber voyage to Bos- too Hor nows ts threo days later ‘The Amorican ship North Atlantic, bound to Boston, was destroyed by fre at Calcutta, She was partly loaded. ‘The ship Gibraltar had sated trom England for New York ‘with one thonsand tous of coal, donated the Sanitary Fair by Mr. George Elliot, of London, Earl Russell claimed that tho prosecution of the men ‘who had enlisted on the United States steamer Kearsarge, at Cork, proved the vigilance of the English goveramont { watchins the proceedings of the federal agents in Ire- Jnnd. Ho added that the statenent of the commander of the Kearsarge relative to the affeir was satisfactory, The House of Lorde will give judgment im the Alexandra case Goon alter Faster, The London Post and Globe rerard the opening of the Apring compat.o in Atm rica sastrons 10 the Union Cause. iho! Whe mays that th» expeditions of Sherman and Kilpirick show that tie rebels are /weaker than they werss yost ago, the ¢ ny the Pampero cage will take place oni) 5: of May. The Stausfeld-Miar0) case of aiteged collusion with the Italians to take Nep wer «ews the sibject of two en\matod party debates Ir the totes of Commons Lara Patmoraton assumed al! the reeponsibility of Me Stang field's position asa Cabinet Miniter. believing bim in capable of entering into such & plot. On o division on the question the government sscayed defeat by a ma Jority of ton, the result eliciting loud ayprobatory dneors. Some of the London and Continental fournais eay thar Denmark bias aecepted the proposition for a confer. ence, op the basis Of the negotintion® of 1851-62, with wut @p armistice. Duppel was vigorously bombarded by the Bermaos, but without effect, Tho Prussians bad taken Gaver. oear West Duppel, with a loos of about one bun - NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 18654.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ‘The Treachery of Anti-Slavery Leaders | sented by the conduct of our peoplet While dred men. The Danes made some vigorous sorties. Five Danish steamers engaged two Prussian men.of-war and several gunbd ais off Rugen Island, The engagement was sharp and terminated in the withdrawal of the Prassian vessels. They were pursued by the Danes, but succeeded in reaching port. It ia said that tho Danish iron-clad Monitor Rolf-Krake was repulsed. She was defeated by the German batteries on the 17th of February, and bas probably suffered again, A very interosting descrip- tion of her performance and the injury she sustained is given in the Heratp to-day, Lord Palmeraton *+hoped’’ that Denmark would assent to the conference plan, The Danish batteries are armed with Frencb rifled guns. The Pope was seriously ill, Collisions between the French and Papal troops still continued in the streets of Rome, ‘The Liverpool cotton market was firm, with prices ua- changed, on the 19th of March, Breadstuifs were very dull, Provisions quiet and steady, Consols closed tu London, on the 19th of March, at 913¢ a 915 for money, After official hours the quotations were 91\ a 92. CONGRESS. Tn the Senate yesterday the House bill making appro. Priationa for the executive, legislative and judictal ex- penses of the government, was reported back by the Finance Committee. Resolutions of the Missouri Legisia- ture, adverse to a tax on the growth of tobacco, or tobac. co in the leaf, were referred to the Finance Committee, Tho House bill providing a Territorial government for Montana was called up, but no action was taken bn it, Several dnimportant matters being disposed of, Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, made a speech in opposition to the joint resolution amending the constitution so as to pro bibit slavery. After the conclusion of his remarks the Senate held an executive session and then adjourned, In the House of Representatives the claim of William Wheeler Hubbeil, for compensation for the uso of bis patent thunderbolt shell ana fuse, was referred to tho Couré of Cinims for settlement. The Military Committee were instructed to inquire into the practicability and utility of using the rafiroad between Henderson, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn., as a military highway. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the bill amendatory of the National Bank act. Several amend ments were agreed to and others wore rejected, and, on motion of Mr, Stevens, the committee rose in order to give the Committoa of Ways and Means time to consult and determine whether they wanted the bill to pass The House again went into Committee of the Whole, and Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, made a speech in favor of the bill providing for the reconstruction of the rebellious States. In the course of his remarks he said the proclamation of Genera! Banks, as to politics ia Louisiana, was an assump- tion of power and an outrage on civil Yberty. Upon the conclusion of Mr. Ashley’s speech the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. The Senate yesterday passed the bills rendering illegal bequests to charitable and religious institutions amount- ing to more than one-half the estate of the testator, and aigo declafivg them invalid unless made six months be fore death; incorporating the Grand and Central Park Hotel companies, in this city; for the payment of the in terest on the canal drafts, certificates, &c.; Incorporating the Natioual Savings Bink of this city, and a pumber of others of little Importance, The General Appropriation bill cime up for its third reading, but was recommitted, with instructions to the commit- tee to insert @ provision empowering the Comptroller to withhold, in certain contingencies, the ap priation for the Blind Asylum in this city, In connection with this subject a recolution was introduced, but finally, after debate, laid on the table, requiring the Committee oa Charitable Institutions to report forthwith on the charges of mismanagement in this institution, A long preamblo and resolutions were adopted requesting of the national government the payment of the one hundred dollars boun- ty to recruits in the two years’ regiments from this State who were honorably discbarged before having served out the two full years. ‘The Assembly did a large amount of work. Besides other business transacted, mo tess than fifty-eight bills were read the third tine, all but two of which were passed, and Senato amendments to seveg bills previously passed were concurred in. Among the bills passed were those making am appropriation of one hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars for the improvement of the channel of the Hudson river, for the establishment of the New York city inebriste asylum, and for tho erection and muivtenance of docks in the Nineteenth ward of Brooklyn, all of which have also been passed in the Senate. Among the bills reported from commitiors was that inereasing the salaries of the Metropolitan police, the items being the same as those given in the Haracy yesterday. Tie annual Supply bill was under consideration for some time; but no final disposition was made of it MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Senor Romero, the Mexican Minister from the Jaurez government to the United States;was entertained uta magnificent dinner on Tuesday evening at Delmonico’s, corner of Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street. The ailair altogether private, but was nevertheless taken ad- Me of by the gentlemen’ present to give expression to ti. American feeling of sympathy towards the popu- lar government of Mexico. Among those present were Senor Navarro, Mexican Consul; Senor Fuentes y Muniz, ex Mayor Opdyke, ex-Governor Hunt, Hon. George Ban- croft, David Dudley Field, President King, of Columbia College, and Mr. Frederick DePeyster. Senor Rot response to his health, delivered an interesting on the Mexicanstruggle, which was listened to with great pleasure. Over twenty-six thousand tons o! conl were sold at auc- tion yesterday, at the office of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, in William street. The descripti: ns sold were steamboat lump, grate, egg, stove and cbestuat, ali of which showed a considerable advanec over former pricos. Owing to the severe storm yesterday the submarine torpedo experiment was postponed until the first fair day. Due notice will be given of the time and place The mecting which was to bave been held yesterday afternoon at the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, 61 William street, to organize a committee to receive funds in aid of the suffering Union men of East Tennessee, was postponed in consequence of the inclemency of the wea. ther. The mecting will be beid this afternoon, at three o'clock. The Citizens’ Associations of the various wards of this city have appointed a committee to proceed to Albany to protest against the passage of the Tax biil now before the Legisiature. According to the provisions of this bill, the estimated expenses of the city government this year will be fifteen millions of dollars—an increase ef one per cent on last year’s budget. Senator Lane, of Kansas, delivered an address before the Lireoln Club at the Cooper Institute last evening. Although the weather was far from pleasant he hada g00d audience. We give a report elsewhere. Judge George G. Barnard took occasion yesterday, in open court, to denounce the article in. tho -Buening Post relative to the discharge of Cooke, the bounty broker, on & writ of habeas corpus, as false and malicious, end characterized the writer of the editorial as a man devoid of either principle or morality. The argument on the motion for the delivery of the books of the Buming Express, before Judge Daly, was postponed yesterday until Friday, at the request of the counsei for Brooks Brothers, who intend putting in an af- fidavit to show that during trial of the cause the r has bad one-sided reports of the case published fora cortain consideration. The name of the nowspaper did not transpire, but we suppose the whole matter will be thoroughly ventilated to-morrow. ‘The Northrup trespass case was resumed in the Su prome Court, before Judge Barnard, yesterday. The evi- dence elicited was principally as to the character of the plaintiff for truth and veracity. An interesting tilt oc- curred between the counsel during the examination, which called for the interference of the Court, and created much amusement. The American Telegraph Company have opened an of- fice at the St. James Hotel in thie city. The stock market was anim-ted yerterday, and prices took a favorable turn for sellers. Gold was inactive. The opening price was 165; but after the announcement that the gold certificates had been set at 164, the premium went down to 63%. Goverument securities remained firm, and there was a goo: demand. The fali in gold, combined with tho severe rain storm, interfered greatly with business operations yesterday; yet a fair aggregate trade was consummated. The steam- er's news had little or no influence on the market in gen oral. Cotton war steady. Petroleum was steddy, with a moderate demand. The announcement of the arrival of the Africa, the decline in gold and the prevailing storm, disposed #i} parties on ‘Change to hold off, and the vol- ume of business was very much ciroumseribed. Flour and wheat were somewhat lower, with but litte business. Corn and whiskey were without changs, Pork closed firm. Lard was a trifle off. Freights were nearly nog. lected, and the slim attendance of morchants wore dis- Dosed to talk about almost anvthing but business, om the Issue of Emancipation, Every few days.some new theory of emancl- pation is advanced by professed oati-dlavery leaders, and with every new theory the more apparent becomes their intention of sbirking the question altogether, or of so dragging it along as to make it furnish them with capital for agitation for many years to come. We have recently had several striking specimens of the treachery of these loud-voiced dema- gogues on the great queation of the day. In the Senate of the. United States on the 28th instant, two prominent anti-slavery cham- pions regaled the floor and the galleries with long harangyes on the subject. Senator Trum- bull, of Illinois, who is conceded to be the Senatorial mouthpiece of the Executive, while favoring amendments to the constitution abol- ishing slavery past and present, and probibit- ing it forever bereafter in the States and Terri- tories, made the acknowledgment that “it was not necessary to free slaves to raise armies or to’ carry on the war;” that “the adoption of the joint resolution to amend the constitution by two-thirds % each branch of Congress and its ratification by the people will not of itself Suppress the rebellion or restore peace to the country.” Here is a clear declaration that the oft-repeated averments of the anti-slavery demagogues, by which such a widespread and enthusiastic feeling in support of the vigorous prosecution of the war was excited among the anti-slavery population in the North, were im- postures, and that the emancipation of the slaves was not even a seconda- ry consideration in prosecuting the war. Mr. Trumbull failed to sustain with any degree of force or argument the only proper mpde— acknowledged as such by himself—of abolish- ing slavery; hesitated to denounce in proper terms the usurpations of the Executive and Congress in the matter of freeing slayes by wholesale, whether belonging to rebel or loyal masters, and, in short, as one of the great anti- slavery advocates of the West, failed utterly in carrying out the anti-slavery sentiments of his constituents. Then another roaring anti-slavery champion—one from New England (Senator® , Wilson) —made a tremendous forensic effort in favor of abolishing slavery, giving ital! sorts of hard names, filling up his declamatory and inflammatory speech with high sounding ex- pletives and “glittering gencralities,”’ but dodg- ing the grand issue as completely as if the sub- ject of abolishing slavery by constitutional amendment were unknown or impracticable. Why did not Senator Wilson take a bigh and consistent stand, and with firmness and dignity, and with his accustomed “eminent gravity,” support Senator Sumner’s plan of emancipation by logal amendments to the constitution? This would have appeared honest, or Mr. Wilson would have had the credit of assuming that virtue if he had it not politically, and would have satisfied his intensely abolition constitu- ency that he was sincere in his oft proclaimed abhorrence of slavery and in his desire to see it abotished forever. Instead of this Wilson be- trayed his anti-slavery supporters by failing to sustain @ movement by which emancipation can only be feasibly and legally secured, thus making it appearthat it is not the purpose of himself and other chronic abolition agi- tators to bave the question settled at all until they have secured a further lease of political power and a further gripe upon public plun- der. e Passing from the national we come to our own State Legislature; and we here witness, on the same day, another shirking of the great question—another betrayal of the anti-slavery sentiment among anti-slavery leacers. It will be remembered that some days ago Mr. Bryant, of this city, presented iu the As- sembly a resolution proposing a constitutional method of reaching emancipation. Mr. Bryant. not belonging to the regular abolition ring in the Legislature, could not be allowed to prose- cute his purpose without interference from the especial nigger-worshippers; and on Monday last Mr. Speaker Alvord, leaving the chair, presented a resolution as a substitute for Mr- Bryant’s, profusely puffing the unconstitutional proclamations of Lincoln, and slobbering over all his unlawful acts relative to emancipation. An examination of both propositions, and a pe- rusal of the remarks of both gentlemen in re- gard to the merits of each resolution, will show that, while Mr. Bryant’s proposition is high, statesmanlike, distinct and clearly constitu- tional, Mr. Alvord’s substitute isa miserable subterfuge, the low dodge of a politician, and unworthy serious consideration. Mr. Alvord, as an anti-slavery advocate of the very black republican school, has proved treacherous to his anti-slavery constituents by proposing a ridiculous and impracticable mode of abolish- ing slavery, and this in opposition to a well defined and proper constitutional plan aiming at the same end. Mr. Alvord certainly cannot help knowing that, no matter what resolutions the New York Legislature may adopt endorsing Presidential proclamations or acts of Congress abolishing slavery, they can have no more effect outside the boundaries of New York than the vaporings of the most insignificant dema- gogue inits Assembly. There is only one way of reaching a favorable issue of the emancipa- tion question, and that is the constitutional way. All State legislation on the subject of a different character will be pronounced by the Supreme Court inoperative and void. And Mr. Alverd cannot be ignorant of the fact that the more unconstitutional obstacles are thrown in the way the longer will emancipation be de- layed, and the longer will the sincere anti- slavery sentiment of the North fail of being justly represented. To fail to respond in a practical way to the demands of their consti- tuents the anti-slavery leaders in Congress and in our State Legislature prove treacherous to their old friends and recreant to the trast re- posed in them. What will be the next dodge proposed by these political traitors to keep in check the great emancipation movement in the North? Tae Sanrrany Fains—Parriorism of THE Nonra.— At the commencement of the rebel- lion the English and other European journals were constantly drawing comparisons between the feelings and motives that animated the two sections. In the South they contended that the population were moved by the most ardent patriotism, in the North by the most selfish and mercenary motives. Hence they predicted that, while the South would stand the test of any amount of suffering, the other would yiold as soon as it became convinced of the magnitude of the task it had before it. What is the fact? While the courage of the South is fast dying out, that of the North is every day increasing. And as to patriotic impulse, what more glori- ows spectacle does history afford than that ore- complying cheerfully with the heavy sacrifices which the government is daily calling upon them to make, the work of voluntary effort in aid of the cause is carried to a point of which there is no previous example. Let us take, for instance, the patriotic enterprises which under the title of fairs are furnishing the Sanitary Commission with the means of carrying on its benevolent labors in aid of our wounded gol- diers. The fair at Cincinaati produced two hundred and forty-five theusand dollars; at Chicago, eighty thousand dollars; at Cleve- land, sixty thousand dollars; at Buffalo, forty thousand dollars; at Boston, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; at Albany, thirty-two thousand dollars; at Brooklyn, close upon four hundred thousand dollars; and we are shortly to have the Great Mississippi Valley Fair and the New York Fair, which it is ex- pected will alone realize one million dollars, The contributors to this large amount will number among them our merchants, our dry goods men, our shipbuilders, our mechanics, and our tradesmen of every kind. They de- serve all the more credit for it, from the fact that the Fair will prove a serious inter- ference with their business. families will lay in at it a stock of goods sufficient to last them for the year. This is so much trade withdrawn from the regular channels, and so much less profit for our business men. And yet, not- withstanding the gertainty that it will damage their own trade, they are contributing largely both money and goods. If this be not patriot- ism we know not what is. At all events, it will compare favorably with the conduct of the people of Richmond, against whose selfish- ness and lukewarmness the rebel government, through their organs, utter so many re- proaches. The Danish War—The Decline of Eng- land, * Tt will be seen by the Africa’s advices from Europe that the German Allies are progressing in their onslaught upon the Danes. The latter meet with occasional defeats; but they fight bravely against large odds. Now the Ger- mans threaten to take possession of Copen- hagen, and there dictate a peace, if they do not go further, and altogether wipe out their enemy. There was at one time a prospect that England would aid the Danes. The British Parliament was loud in its denun- ciations of the course pursued by the Germans. Lord Palmerston assured the country that Eng- land would not allow the dismemberment of Denmark. He went so faras to be facetious on the subject, and say that by the temporary ocenpation of Schleswig and Holstein the Ger- mans meant they would keep those provinces for all time; but he made it be understood that such an intention was preposterous, and his official journals announced that a British fleet would at once sail for German waters. Time has rolled on, and with it the Germans have rapidly taken possession of Schleswig, Holsteia, Juttand, and now threaten to take the capital of Denmark. Still no fleet bas sailed under the English flag to German séas, and not one English red-coat has gone to the as- sistance of the poor Danes, who were en- couraged by the advice of England to make a bold defence. There seems now no chance for Denmark. The English journals advise her to’ accept the terms of Austria and Prussia, and congratulate the British government upon hav- ing escaped the entanglements of the Danish question, and thus avoided a war with united Germany. In all these articles the London papers harp upon the opportunity which Na- poleon has now to seize upon the Rhenisb provinces.. They comment upon this fact evi- dently with the purpose of making it a bait to induce France to become prematurely engaged in the war. But Napoleon is too wise a man to be caught with such chaff. He sees that Eng- land, after all her braggadocio, is humbled to the dust by the attitude of Germany, and he wili be the last to help her out of ber shameful dilemma. In the Polish question Russia struck the first blow at the influence of England. She defied her, and the latter was forced to submit to the humiliation, because she feared that Franco would abandon her in case she undertook a war with the Czar. She thought she would be sure of the support of France in this Danish im- broglio, because the interests of Napoleon were at stake; but here again she made a blunder. The Emperor of the French is a man who can bide his time. He knows that when he chooses he can obtain the Rhenish provinces, and now he keeps clear of the muddle, tells his marshals that this is no quarrel of theirs, and gazes eomplacently at England humiliated, browbeaten and obliged to submit. In the estimation of the world the glory and power of Great Britain have dwindled away, and she now takes her stand among the second rate Powers. She can rail and joke; but she dare not bite. All this she has been reduced to by fear of Napoleon; and he and France well know that at last Waterloo is bitterly avenged. For the future the Empe- ror will make use of England. For safety she will cling to his policy, and endeavor to fancy, while sharing his power, that she is still “Great Britain.” The nations of Europe will not be deecived, however, and will no longer submit to her rule as of yore. The lion has grown old and feeble, and must now beware of the ass. The results of the Danish war must as yet remain undecided. Until France acts in the matter it is impossible to tell what may occur. Napoleon can at any moment change the whole aspect of the question, and dictate what course the German Allies shall pursue. He holds the balance of power, and will doubtless come for- ward when it best suits his policy. Knowing this, we await with interest the development of the Danish question, which at the present time remains & matter of conjecture. Law.ey, Tan Lonpon Times Connesronp- ENT.—It was recently stated that this person, who has made himself so notorious by his lying letters from the South, was to be seen con- stantly passing between London and Paris, engaged in the fresh efforts being made to in- duce Napoleon to recognize the rebel confede- racy. This appeared to us doubtful, from the fact that no account had transpired of his ning the blockade. The statement is, however, how confirmed by @ paragraph in one of the Southern papers, which states that Lawley had safely crossed our lines to New York, and had sailed on the 27th of January, in the Scotia. This shows great laxity on the part of our authorities, both in Washington and here. There were grounds sufficient for the arrest and detention ef this emissary if they had choeen to lav hands upon him. A great many | The Fromemt Movement_A Great Scare at Washington—Queer Doings te Patoh Up a Compromise. ’ The Fremont movement begins to 1 ook equal- ly. There is a great commotion about it in the “happy family” at Washington, and a con- siderable scare in the White House. Accord- ing to the Tribune, Fremont was expected to re- Port to the President yesterday, in view of a consultation and a compromise. This tallies with our special advices received the day be- fore, and published in yesterday's Henatp, touching the very curious and comprehensive plan of reconciliation projected by the head of the Blair family—the old man Blair, of Silver Springs. . As the faithful henchman of Old Hickory, this veteran Presidential manager made the bair and feathers fly, and, by the terrors of the guil- lotine and the knout, cleared the track to his mas- ter fer asecond term. Adopted next as the squire of Old Abe, this terrible man Blair, as- sisted by his two sons, chips of the old block— not very “rum ’uns to look at, but good ’uns to go’”’—Blair the major general, and Blair the Postmaster General—began some two years ago their favorite sport of whipping in and whip- ping out. But they have made a sorry muddle of it in Missouri, and in whipping out Fremon they have caught a Tartar. He is not to be trifled with. He was too much for old Benton, and bas no fear of old Blair. What then? Ra- rey, the horse tamer, has taught the shrewd old man Blair another lesson. A wild colt that rebels against the lash may be so far subdued by gently handling, soft words and fair promises as to consent to lie down and be strapped, so that he cannot move till he is unbuckled. This trick of Rarey is now the role of the old man Blair with Fremont. The programme of conciliation agreed upon appears to be well adapted to embrace all the radical abolition elements that might other- wise fuse with the Fremont legion. Thus the radical friends of General Butler and the still intractable friends of Mr. Chase are to be ap- peased, a3 well as General Fremont himself and his political staff. The present Secretary of War, Stanton, as he bas no friends, can now, it is believed by the old man Blair, be sacri- ficed, not only without danger, but advanta- geously to the Lincoln cause, inasmuch as Stanton’s admiration of General Grant verges closely upon the Chevalier Forney’s “new form of treason.” Then, by putting Butler in Stanton’s place, that branch of the business willbe neatly done. But Greeley is growling; and when Greeley growls, as his unfortunate friend Seward discovered at Chicago, there is danger that he will bite right and left if not mollified by a marrow-bone. Blair, the Post- master General, however, by the advice of the old man, is disposed to give up that snug berth to Greeley in exchange for acomfortable judge- ship or foreign mission, This arrangement will secure Greeley and the Triiwne to the ad- ministration ticket as long as he holds the Post Office. He may be disinissed, however, with impunity, after the November election, Next, with regard to Fremont, old man Blair’s plan is to “put him in somo military hole,” and to put his leading friends in other holes. This work has already been commenced, by the appointment of General Sigol, the Ger- man hero par excellence, to the command of the Mountain Department of Western Virginia, in which he actively served in 1862 under General Fremont. We should not be surprised if Fre- mont himself were to be sent to the “military hole” of Charleston. Having lived there for many years, he must know all about the ap- proaches to the city by land or water, and all about the negroes in that quarter. Gillmore, we dare say, would not object to an active campaign under General Grant; so there would be no difficulty in the exchange. Above all, in that “military hole” in front of Charles- ton, what with the rebels and what with the negroes, General Fremont would have his hands too full, and would be too far out of the way, to dabble in Presidential politics again to the end of the war. , This is a splendid programme. But can it be carried out? That is the next question. As- suming that it is a compromise, whet then? How long will it last? Root and braneb, it may be torn to pieces before the summer, or before the spring, is over. Some crowning vic- tory or demoralizing disaster in the field may speedily bring about such political changes and combinations as will amount to a revolu- tion. Thus, Butler may lose the War Office, Greeley the Post Office Department, Mont- gomery Blair his judgeship and foreign mission, Fremont his “military hole’ at Charleston, and the old man Blair, and all the Blairs, with Old Abe, may be laid upon the,same political shelf with Fillmore, poor Pierce and poor old Buehanan; for these are the days of sudden and remarkable political revolutions. Tue New York Trane Sares—Transyorma- tion or Our Literatore.—The city is now filled ‘with booksellers and publishers from all parts of the country, who have assembled here to at- tend the annual trade sales of the New York Book Publishers’ Association. There appears to be a good demand for books, and the cata- logue is rather large. It is remarkable, in this connection, that the literature of the country ie undergoing a complete transformation. The literature of a nation, like its civilization, is produced and influenced by great wars. The great wars of Europe, frem the days of the Crusades down to the close of the Peninsular war, supplied Sir Walter Scott and other Eng- lish writers with greater beroes than fiction could create. Our own War of Independence provided Cooper with abundant materials for writing those graphic novels that have earned for him so brilliant a reputation. The present war will, no doubt, change the literature of the world, and become the basis for the introduction of war idea into all future novels. The rebel¥ion has already supplied novelists with innumerable incidents, and before the close of the war there will be. materials enough for the fiction of « century. Thus the centre of the world’s literature wit! be changed from Europe to America. The trade sales already indicate this. There are one or two houses that confine their business exclusively te the publication of books on military art, improvements in guns and gun- nery, treatises on new kinds of shot, shell and the other destructive agents of war; in fact, works treating of every branch of military science which the war is daily developing. Some of those works are got up in magnificent style. Congress fs also aiding in the tranefor- mation of literature to which we have alluded, by causing the reports of our military and naval commanders to be published, with maps and diagrams to illustrate them. Thus the war t creating «roat chances in the whole General, state of the nation, and it follows tsturally enough that its literature should partake of the Business for Roebuck—Irish Lads and Bagiioh Lasses. England is likely to have a new sensation. It ia about to witness a return to the times when every little free and easy throughout the country rang with the songs of .promise, whose burden was, “Westward, hol” songs of the land— J Where a man is # man, if he's willing to toll, ef And the bumbiest may guther the (ruits of the soll, —and when every social circle was charmed with the musical announcement made by boys and girls, men, maids and old women— To the t Ohio My love and me will go; And we'll sit along tue banks Of the pleasant Ohio, According to the news in another column, em “agent from America” has made his appgarance in the factory towns of England. This circum- stance is likely to “fright the isle from its pro- priety” more dreadfully than Otbello’s “dread- fal bell’ did an isle of smaller dimensions an@ less stamina. What does an agent from Ame- rica want in those happy factory towns of happy “Old England?” He wants girls! America is apparently a new Minotaur, and she requires that England shall furnish to her a tribute of buxom damsels. And a very singu- lar part of the business is that this “agent from America,” who goes to England and asks for girls to come to America, finds it very easy to get them. “Not less than two hundred blooming lasses,” says the Oldbam Chronicle, “left Newton and Failsworth on Monday, and « large concourse of friends and relatives were assembled on the roadside, watching the merry groups pass along to take their departure.” Here is depravity! All the world knows that England is the best governed country om earth; that its people are the happiest\people in existence, and that in its factory towns want and misery are unknown, d&c., &., &.; and yet here are two hundred girls willing to leave such a country and come to ‘‘base, cow- ardly and cruel” America to work in facto ries; and they are not only willing to leave England for this, but they are deliberately de- clared to be “merry” on the day of their de- parture. Worse even than that, more wanted to come than the agent could accept. “Large numbers of applicants were refused.” And thus is initiated a stampede of English women to the United States. Mr. Roebuck made a speech in the English House of Commons the other day which was intended to be very severe against the United States, and was horribly snubbed forit by Lord Palmerston. Otber secesh members of the House of Commons—who, though they stand in Parliament as the representatives of the Eng- lish people, are really the representatives of the confederacy, in the pay of Davia—have made the same speech before, Roebuck and his seces) colleagues pretend to be alarmed at the presence in Ireland of what they call re cruiting agents of the United States. Roebuck is compelled to admit that there is only a sus picion that the men who leave Ireland intend to enter our army, and that the whole matter upon which his speech was founded rested upon no better authority than the statement of the London Times; but he touches that lightly. Neither was it his cue to consider that the peo- ple of Ireland have beon oppressed, beater down and ground to bone dust under the heel of England, and that this has made them ready, man, woman and chiid, to seize the first goldem opportunity to better their condition in another country. Our war, that has taken a million men from the pursuits of civil life, has made places and ademand for almost that many men; and, in obedience to the inevitable laws of sup- ply and demand, men rush in from the over crowded countries of Europe to fill these places. We all know very well that nota mag of these emigrants can be put in our armies if it is not his choice to go in. We do notimpress men here, as bas always been done in England in cases of great necessity. Bunt it would not have answered the pur- pose of Roebuck to show all this. He wished to clamor against us in favor of the South, and did so. But what will he say now about these buxom lasses from Newton and Failaworth? Here is another case that evidently affects the position of England. These women, it is said, are for the American factories, and the men are anid to be for Ameri- can farms. May not both stories be false? Buxom damsels, from Belphcebe down to Vest. vali, fight terribly when their blood is up. England has paid pensions to English women for their achievements in the ranks, and per haps the United States would like todo the same. Or may not this be part of a deep schome of the War Department to fill up our armies. *Suppose they bring over fifty thou- sand English lasses, will not that absolutely in- sure an emigration of at least twenty thousand stout English lads in love? Are not lovers pro- verbially desperate, and will not the recruiting sergeant be handy to take advantage of any paroxyem of passion? This must be it, and Roebuck ought certainly to look after that “agent from America.” Tax Avato-Dantsh amp AMERICAN Mon> Tors.—The latest news from the seat of war ia Europe shows that the Monitor Rolf Krake, built in England for the Danish navy, has been again repulsed. This news is later in reference to the performances of this vessel, which was eo severely handled in the engagement by the Primsian batteries at Eckernforde on the 17th of February. It must be borne in mind that the guns operating upon the Anglo-Danish turreted vessel are inferior to those in this country, even such as are used by the rebels; and our Monitors are not able to withstand their com- centrated and enduring fire for any length of time. Hence we look upon the failure of the Danish Monitor to furnish us some precedent as to the powers of endurance claimed for the English tarreted vessels, ‘The Danish naval officers certainly would not have withdrawn their ship from action had they not been compelled to; and if the report of an officer on board, who has furnished somo very interesting statements in relation to the action of shot upon her in her second engagement, can be relied on, she is far benoath the standard of an armored war vessel. Our miser- able Monitors are bad enough; but as yet they have not reached such a low stage of vulnera- bility and unfitness fer offensive and defensive ‘The Monitor system has probably had its day, and but for the sole purpose of fighting ships in the quiet waters of harbors they are useless and comparatively harmless. Our operations at Fort McAllister and Fort Sumter have demonstrated beyond * doubt thet awell armed and constructed earthwork can Set ES Re a ee EL — Oe —_ =