The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. 2aMBS GURDON BESNETR . BOIIOR AND PROPRIETOR errion . CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. xxx = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUBIC, Irving place, -Paxsesta tion Oowoset NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadwar.—Lsau. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway,—Suxr Sroors 10 Conquar. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Bverrsopr’s Friexp— ‘Toop.as. are THEATRE, Broadway.—Manrin Cuvesce- - ERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pout abt Dour tune Tews. slot BOWERY THEATRE. Bow ~Kn: = Late Data Fucrtrves—Lo tiness ). ee ee BROADWAY THEATRE, 45 Prorue’s LawrEa. BABNUM'’S MUSEUM. Broadway,—Tox Tacme— ants, Two Dwarrs, &c.. at ali hours New Year's ALLS—SiGNET OF Kine SOLOMON—Psorins’ |. DEOHALAMEUx—Day aud Kvening, Broadway. —Victin— BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Nechavics’ Hall. 472 Broad way.—Bisiorian Songs, Dances, Buruxsquss, 20.— nai ~ Dane. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 5ii Broadway.—Rrmortam Songs, Dancss, &0.—Tax Kacrs. CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 199 and 20) Bowery.—Vantep anp Bxoirxe Maanau or Etuioriax Oppities, @ALLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Rosyrr Hrives AMERICAN THBATRB, No itt Broadwar.—Baciers, Pariowsmes, Buairsevrs, &¢.—Sautvas anv Browns. SEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 615 Broadway. Conosirims any Lecronss, trom 94. M. tll UP. My BOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSS, Boras, Dances, Burtasques, _—S— Brooklyo.—Memrortaw New York, Friday, Sept. 30, 1864. NOTICE TO NAVAL CORRESPONDENTS. Parties having communications to forward to this jour- mal in connection with naval maiters should be particular fm addressing them to Mr. Benuett only, Letters on @uoh subjects otherwise superscribed will recsive no =" = a THE SITUATION. The direct advance om Ricnimond bas commenced. Generals Birney and Ord opened the movem@bt oniWed- wesday. Geveral Grant, in an official despatch, says that General Ord’s corps carried the very strong fortification ‘and long line of intrenchments below Chapin’s farm, and captured some fifteen pieces Of artillery and from two to Chree huadred prisoners. General Birney advanced at the same time from Deep Bottom, and carried the New Market road intrenghinents, and coattered the enemy in every @irection. He is now marching on towards Richmond, and has reached within eight miles of 4t, 1 loft General Biraey, says General Grant, where the Mill road intersects the New Market and Richmond road. ‘This whole covntry is filled with field fortiticationa thus fer. General Ord is slightly wounded. We give a map fo-day of the scene of these gallant operatious. The Jatest information of Sheridan’s movements, which comes from the Richmond papers, report tbat our cav - airy entered Stdunton on Monday evening; that our forces wore also at Waynesboro; that no damage had been dove ‘up to four P. M., but that emoke indicated that they were ‘Durning the raliroad track between Christian creek and ‘Staunton. No direct communication has been nad with General Sheridan since Sunday, Couriers to and from hhim are known to have been captured by the querillas who infest the country in bis rear. Kariy’s army is said to be terribly despocdent ard de- moralized since the fight at Fisber’s Hiil. From General Sherman's department there is official ews that the rebels did not attack at Puleski, bat took the pike towards Fayetteville, and was pursued about nine miles by our cavalry. Genoral Rousseau is returning with bis infantry to Nashville, Forrest having withdrawn bis whole force in the night from Pulaski. Desperate efforts will be made by the enemy to force Sherman from Atlanta by destroying his communications. No important movements bad taken place up to a late bour on Wednesday night. All was quiet then, General Rosecrans has already organized a force of twelve thousand militia for the defence of Missouri. We give some exceedingly interesting news from the South, brought by the steamer Fulton, from Hilton Head, yesterday. The dates of the Southern journais are of the 27th. They comment freely upon the operations is the Shenandoah valley. The Richmond Enquirer says that rumors were afloat that Staunton was to be evacuated on Sunday. Tt te abandoned now, as we have seen, and occupied by our troops. The Fulton bed an exciting chase after fan Anglo-rebel blockade runner, but failed to capture her. Our Wasbington despatches furnish more information concerning the poace propositions in Georgia. Tt is sald that Jof. Davis’ visit to Macon bas been made with a ‘view t prevent Governor Brown from proceeding with the negotiations. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The steamship Bremen, from Bremen and Southamp- ton, reached this port last night. Later European news than that brought by the Bremen bas been received by steamers which arrived previsusly. ‘The Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon, and transacted a large amount of business. The Mayor sent fa a oumber of vetoes, among which was one disapprov ing of the plan of illuminating the public buildings io honor of the late national victories. His Honor took the Ground that there was no reltance to be placed in the Published accounts of these Union victories, and that, ad. milting the accounts to be true, the victories were no- thiag but emancipation raids, which would tend to de Stroy the Union rather than perpetuate it. ‘The Board of Councilmen met yesterday, aod after reeciving a few routine papers adjourned to meet at two @’clock this (Friday) afternoon. The Protestant Episeopal Convention, mMenoed its eighteenth annua! seasion at St. which com- M. Divine service was performed, and, is the absence ‘of Bishop Potter, Rev. Dr. Price occupied the chair. The fommittes appointed at the inst annua! convention to Prepare & new edition of the canons of the diocese, hay- Ang completed their labors, presented the volume for ds. livery. A great portion of the morning was consumed io ‘@xamining croaentials of lay delegates who failed to report @l the opening of the Convention on Wednesday, after svaieb Bishop Potter read his annual address, which ‘qvag listened to with great interest by tho Convention. From the Bishop's report it appears that during She last ton years of his episcopate 126 candidates have Poen admitted to the denconate, 112 deacons bave been advanced to the prictthoo!, sod seventy-two churches Dave beem consecrated. The clergy of the diocese have fnoreased from 304 to about 300, the churches and chapels from 256 to 208, Daring the same period about 27,140 pereons bave been confirmed, which gives an average of Q;700 each year. When the Bishop finished nis address ‘Mev. Dr. Price took the chaiz, and the election of stan. ding committees for the ensuing year wae proceeded with, @nd at three o’clog the Convention adjourned. The business of the present Sdjourned session will be eon. Pluded to. ‘when the Convention will adjourn. jury of Orange county, im session last week , found bills of indictment against Dr. Boyd, amining surgeon in the Provost Marsbal’s beed- for the branding of Frederick Busing and Thos. ‘Andree, recruits for the army. The sufferers alse pro- pose to prosecute the surgeon ip # civil #ult for the re oovery of damages, Ip ® politions fight between republican and democratic rowdles, © which Srearms wore freely ased by both par- Gion, @t Cigole All, Oo calurday evening last, a Woman res rbot 64 testen ly Kiled Hen eas WM Sy ermine, Or mM, * flour and feed) boots, shoes, bats, caps, ke—wore de- stroyea by fre at Weodetook, Canada, on Monday morn- img inst. Loss. $100,900. ; ‘There was a (riglifab accident om the railcoad befweoe Atchison and Leavenworth, Kansas, on the 2048 mst. The axle of one of the Porward cars gave way, and two @f tho passenger cars were thrown from the track. ‘Twenty five persons were injured, five of the aumber seriously. = There was coms improvement ia busiveas yesierday, yet the markets were uppetticd and prices mostly pori nal, This was especially the case with forcign merchan- diso, Domestic produce generally sold lower after gold fell below 200 per cent; but there was more business transacted thau usuet, Cotton was dull and nominal Petroleum was comparatively steady, witn a fair busi- ness. Groveries were quiet, On ‘Change the flour mar ket was less active, and prices declined 10c. @ 200.; closing dull, Wheat was dull and Se. a 6¢. lower. Cora was firm, with a fair demand. Oats wore lower and in- active Pork was Grmer, afairdomand. Poot avd lard quiet, but frm, Wh firmer, and freights dull The Renewal of Active Operations on the North Side of James River. General Grant reports a successful advance of the Ninetecnth and- Tenth corps on the north side of the James, with the capture of fifteen guns and a few hundred prisoners. Generals Ord and Birney advanced simulta- neously—the former on the left to Chapin’s farm, and the latter from Deep Bottom against the large fort on New Market Hill that covers the New Market road near the point where the Varina road reaches it. Oa Chapin’s farm is the James river exiremity of that line of rebel defences that encircles Richmond on the east and north, and runs as far as the New Bridge road. General Ord carried the enemy’s posi- tion at Chapin’s farm, and appareutly cap tured all the guns ia it. Gereral Birney did equally well at New Market Hill, and at ten A. M. yesterday was on his way to Richmond, and only about cight miles distant from it: Thus the attention of the country is once more drawn, with intense interest, to tie theatre of war under the immodiate eye of the Lieutenant General. Whatever may be Gene rai Grant's real object, it is certainly quite within the range of possibility that the capture of Richmond -may crown his latest movement on the north side of the river. Our readers cannot have forgotten the former operations in the samo district, and how Lee was kept onthe move to and fro across the James, and how on one occasion especially, but for a great blunder, such an operation would have given us a very decided advantage in the struggle. Latterly, however, Grant seemed to have relinquished all attempts on the north side of the river, and to be in- tent only on the Southern railroads. Hence the danger to Richmond appeared to be great- est on those roads, and out of the necessities of the case the larger part of Lee’s forcd was drawn that way. Lee has had very good and almost impera- tive reasons for a concentration of troops on his own right—Grant’s extreme left. His con- stant desire and hope to regain the Weldon road was one. His fear that Grant would-ad- vance toward the Southside railroad was another. His drawing supplies from the lower end of the Weldon road by wagons also made itnecessary to have a considerable force of infantry near ‘o prevent the total loss of that means of supply by the operations of our cavalry. Grant bad thus forced Lee to concentrate a very large, perhaps the greater, part of his troops at a point where they could not be readily available for operations on the north side of the river. And for the defences on the north side Lee could only spare an in- considerable force. Sheridan’s eperations may have also compelled Lee to send to Early some portion even of that force, and thus almost de- nuded the defences of the rebel capital. Such are some of the circumstances whicb, to say the least, render it not impossible that the city may fall into the hands of Birney. But even if the capture of Richmond be not intend- ed or hoped for, there are other very important objects to be gained by the movement. Grant, we nust remember, is now in communication with Sheridan, and the movement may be in- tended for Sheridan's berefit. If Lee has not already reinforced Early it will delay such a reinforcement atill longer, and thus give Sheri- dan full time to do what may remain to be done against Early, as well as full time for the com- plete and positive destruction between Staunton and Charlottesville of the important Virginia Central Railroad. We incline to the opiaion that co-operation with Sheridan is the real dig- nificance of the movement; yet a lucky accidént might change its character. Ocrosrr Evecrions 1 Tag Oswrrat Srares.— The Tribune and the republican organs throughout the country are laboring hard to prove to their readers that the results of the October elections no longer afford any crite- rion of the general result in November. They evidently have made up their minds that the State eloctions in Pennsylvania and Indiana are going against them, and are preparing the minds of their partisans for the result to keep up their courage. The supposition upon which they base their arguments we consider fyila- cious. We might review the result in Pennsyl- vania at the October elections just previous to the Presidential elections for a long period back, and prove that as went Pennsylvania in October so went a majority of the votes in the Union in November. But this is unneces- sary. The naked fact that the Contral States elect this or that ticket would not be of itsolf of 20 much importance were it not for the fact of their position, which enables them to reflect to a great extent the public opinion in other States. Important changes revealed by the votes in those States in October show the drift of public opinion in all the other States. Placing the fact of this change in sentiment officially on record one month previous to the Presidential election encourages the wavering and doubtfnl, and causes them to take sides, It also strengthens those who have made up their minds to vote otherwise than as they did at the last election. It is this indication of a revolution in public sentiment which makes the result of the October elections important. There is, however, ne State ticket to be elected in Penssylvania this year, which may make it difficult to ascertain the real change, if any, in the vote. It is true that members of Congress are to be chosen; but it is well known that local complications, local issues and local prejudices between counties which make up Congressional districts often affect the result, and are more likely to do so than on a Stato ticket. An approximate result may, however, be reached on the aggregate vote of all the @istricts. 1! this reveals any marked change it may be taken os a forerunner of the Novem- ber eleg@on in all the principal States. Tho effort, therefore, made just now by the repub- lican press, from tho Atiantio to the Roeky Mountalgs, 0 prove tas ey oan dy without NEW YORK HE ting the election of the hero of Anticlam. -. eeeuce © 0 2 eS os Pennsylvania, thus showing that Missatacks tos eer eh Lads oo admit- 5 The Batetinore and Chase tions and Their impudent Pretences, Of all the swindling impostures of the pres- ent day that of a gathering of irresponsible politicians, in to speak the will of the people and to dictate the'fyture policy of the government, is: the- most impudent and intolera- bie. 1a this category we place the Baltimore Sboddy Convention, whieh nominated Presi- dent Lincoln, and the Chicago Mosaic Shent- per-Shent Convention, which prociaimed Geno- ral MoUlellan its candidate, for the succession. A brief examination of the pretensions of cach of these delectable assemblages of political adventurers and interlopers will serve to dis- close their rel value. The ruling spirits of the Baltimore Shoddy Convention were the leaders or agents of the, radical abolition faction, whose ultimatum of peace is the extirpation of Africaa slavery by fire and sword, Union or no Union. These re- morseless fanatics had in many thiogs been the great stumbling block to’President Lincoln in his prosecution of the war; but in some import- ant things ke had taken his own course, aud had thus incurred the wrath and the direst threats of vengeance from Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas; fon. Ben Wade, of Ohio; Hon. Winter Davis, of Maryland; Greeley, of the New York Tribune; the poeta of the Dvening Post, and all tbe shoddy radicals adbering to Secretary Chase, together with the German red republicans adhering to General Fremont. All these Mverse radical elements were in harmony upon one thing— the overthrow of President Lincoln. They had failed absolutely to rule him, and they would turn him out. But they failed again. The prevailing sentiment of the republican party was too much for them, and so at Baltimore they were constrained to yield to the nomina- tion of Mr. Lincoln. But if they could not control the Convention in regard to the candidate they might still dic- tate his platform, They were allowed to do so. What has followed? Mr. Lincoln has accepted the Baltimore nomination, but has clearly given the defeated radicals to- under- stand that he considers their platform a mere matter of moonshine, or that at best it will be accepted or rejected, as circumstances may require. He substantially. says, “to whom it may concern,” that the Baltimore resolutions must be construed according to Abraham Lin- cola; and that he will not be tied down to that platform. He has mastered the radicals, They have surrendered—Chase, Fremont, Bon Wade, Winter Davis, Greeley, Bryant and all the rest—and their Baltimore platform goes for nothing but shoddy. The same explauation will apply to the plat- form of the Democratic, Mosaic, Shent-per- Shent Convention. The coppethead peace-at- any-price managers. of that concern had re- solved that General McClellan should not be the candidate of the democratic party. But the prevailing sentiment of the party was too strong for them. They were thus compelled to adopt McClellan. Like the abolition war faction at Baltimore, therefore, the cop- perhead peace faction were constrained to fall back from the candidate to the platform. They would bind the candidate to their purposes by 4 set of resolutions enforced in advance of his nomination, and, as an additional security, they would yoke him with a man of their own stripe. ‘This was done. But in casting aside this peace faction and their platform, and in declaring his plat- form to be the Union at all hazards, General McClellan washes his hands of the degrading capitulation to Jeff. Davis demanded by the shent-per-shent Chicago peace politicians. Yet Vallandigham puts f rd the impudent manifesto that the resolutions of a set of irre- sponsible interlopers bind McClellan and the democratic party. In other words, Vallan- digham supports McClellan upon the presump- tion that he will perjure himself to meet the requisitions of tH Obicago- platform. We know that he will do néthing of the kind; that he will stick to-his pledges to fhe country, and that upon this ground he is supportes by the masses of the democratic party. * The issue is between President Liocoln and General MoClellan, and not between the Balti- more and Chicago platforms, each of which is the work of aconclave of irresponsible, baf- fled and defeated fanatical politicians. Lin- coln’s nomination has upset the abolition-dis- unton war faction, and McClellan's acceptance bas upset the copperbead-disunion peace fac- tion. The only real diffloulty with McClellan is his associate candidate, Pendleton, and the terms upon which he accepts the Chicago nomi- nation. What are they? That is the question. Tus War ano Potitics—The people ex- hibit a curious apathy in regard to politics They do not talk politics or read the political. slanders in the partisan papers. They think only of the war, and know that the fate of the country rests, not with the politicians, but with such generals as Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, and such sea kings as Farragut. Platforms and parties cannot make peace. Our soldiers and sailors must do that. Lincoln and McClellan are both Union men; but the Union dees not depend upon the election of either one ef them. Our army and navy~will save the Union, let politicians say what they may. A Raw rrom Pawnsyivanta.—We have had several rebel raids into Pennsylvania, and now we are having @ political raid from Penusylva- nia. Colonel Forney is at the head of the rald- ers, and has established his headquarters at the Astor House. The last raid he made was in 1856, when he levied fifty thousand dollars to carry Pennsylvanis for Buchanan, Since then the price of the Keystone State has advanced, like everything else; for now he wants one hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars to carry the State for Lincoln. We hardly think that even that sam will be enough, when Oolenel For- ney’s commission comes to be deduoted. The democratic raiders have not been seen yet; but they are doubtless preparing to iavede us, Let them attack August Belmont first. He put his name to « draft for five million francs to establish Meximilian in Mexico, and certainly he cannot refase te subscribe oné miltion francs to establish MoOlellan in Pennsylvania, Then the petroleum aristocracy, and the shoddy aris” tocracy, and the shinplaster aristocracy, and the anthracite aristocracy, all leave plenty of money, and ought to be willing to contribute liberally. Of course the Pennsylvania election fs a mere question of money, and the party with the longest purse and la:zess portenon- nale will carry the Bate, guesses FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER. 30, TSB% they consider-| Generel Smermen's Platform—the Real | persist in continutng Leaders of the People and the Peliti- ead Pecten@ors,- , ; General Sherman Fe sa has written: receatly three. agent Oi o aubject that has received » great deal of populfr attention—the culistmant of aiggets Anotver waa to General Hood, in reply to a Pecksuiffian tirade on the @npleasantness of the wai—to those who get the worst of it. The tuird was addressed to. the Mayor of Attanta, and tivated upon the objects and isanes of the war, In thoge thiee letters. Genera! Sherman expressed sentiments that find an echo in every truly loyal-beart, and spoke as if in some more than natural way he had-been made the mouth- piece of the whole-American peoplo: His words- sound as. if they were distilled from the congre- gated “ytlerances of every bousehold: in .the land. With a force and directness that are American, bo bas expressed, better than any one else could do it, the very thoughts of the American people upon every subject of national interest, or that the people care a pin about.. Indeed General Sherman’s let ters are tho platform of the people; not a wrought out piece of political machinery that men may choose to go upon— as they may choose between Chicago and Bal- timore—but a platform that the people, when they recognize #, will place themselves upon by the inevitable instincts of their nationality and existence. Platforms aré “in season’? now, and every political clique has tried its band at the con- struction of one. Baltimore, Chicago and Cleveland conventions have given us their re- spective appreciations of the great facts and great necessities of the times, Each of these conventions has given us in its platform the mea- sure of its own littleness—of its narrow views, and its inability to cope with great events; and, while the lame, irrelevant and noosensical sen- tences of these political cliques fall coldly on the popular ear, a single man stands forth and awakens and startles the people with the utter- ance of their own thoughts. This fact puts in a stronger light what we have before said about the real leaders of a free peopje. Such leaders are not in general the preferred men of political parties. The fact that a man has made @ bargain with this or that clique, aud can, through its machinery, get more votes than one who has made a bargain with another political clique, may make him legally Presi- dent, and entitle him to sign the documents that require the President’s signature and draw the President’s pay} but it does not make him the natural head and leader of the people. The real leaders of the people are those men whose personality becomes, in a great crisis, ' clothed with the popular will, who are able to lead the people in war to that success that is necessary to a great popular purpose, and whose genius places them above all the other men of ao people, whetber by their achieve- ments or their utterances. Grant, Sherman and Sheridan are the men who answer this descrip- tion best at the present time; but they are not the men who are at all suitable to those ag- glomerations of popular enemies, the political parties. On the contrary, the political parties, with such men of immense genius as Grant and Sheryan before their faces, turn away and commend to the people two mere pretences— two utter and absolute fuilures—the two most positive failures in politics and war that bave darkened the annals of this century. Unques- tionably this is a great national misfortune. Every history shows and proves that that peo- ple will be best governed, most prosperous, most happy, the incidents of whose soctal life, whose institutions and customs are most in accordance with natural laws, and that the nation whose career defies and spuras natural laws cannot prosper and cannot live. In view of the fact that history teaches this, how do we gtand on this great question of the choice of a national ruler? Grant and Sherman are the Proven natural leaders of the people; and it is not even proposed to make them the formal leaders also, in order that our political acts may be consonant with those natural laws that have made them our real leaders. So far from its being proposed to do this, it is pro- posed to do the very contrary~“to place at the head of the people men who are proven not t be leadegs; to ignore success and great- ness; to push them aside pnd put in their places the very impersonations of weakness find failure. Antiquity did this whenever it had i chance, whenever great men would permit, aad the one progressive people of the ninéteenth century do it also, just as if there were no instruction in history. ® Geverit McCceutay Syuratmizes wrra 18 Army anp Tox Navy.—General McClellan is at Orange. The other day he made a neat little speech there, in which with proper sentiment he gracefully alluded to the achievements of our great military and naval herocs. He men- tloned by name Farragut, Sherman and Sheri- dan. Very well—grent heroes, every one. Did General McClellan ever hear of s man by the name of Grant—a general in our armies. There certainly is such a man, and he has fought some great battles and achieved great victorias, It would be well for General McClellan to study this subject and get posted by the time he makes another speech. He will then be able to use the names of some more of our heroes, and it will have a good effect; for they are names that the people like te hear. In Tae Wrona Posrrion.—In the report of the proceedings of the Board of Aldermen will be found set forth the very extraordinary gtounds on which Mayor Gunther has thought fit to veto the resolution of the Board in favor of an illumination of the public buildings in honor of our recent victories. The more decent course for Mr. Gunther to pursue would be to resign the Mayoralty of New York and take that of Richmond. He fs better fitted to be a mayor under Jeff Davis than to be the head of an enlightened and progressive com- munity like that of New York. Tar T, # on Ruiors.—Poor Greeley is terribly distressed at the treatment which a portion of the Linodin procession “received the other night after their insult to a McClellan banner. He has done bis best to incite a riot ever since the commencement of this campaiga by bis oalumnies and slanders tipon the op- posing candidate. Nor is this the firgt time that he has tried to got up riots. wag engaged in that work at the commencement of the war, filling the Thibune with his lies, instl- gating riotous prockediags. The cup which be wes then preparing for others is now coming home to bimsolf. We have time end tinte again warned the TWhune poople that thelr calumates were {nojting the people, If tee remarkable letters. One was to a Massachusetts | Oye@lty of Ameortosms t @nctr Tastita- ” Will be to blame if Greeley at ‘a rough time of it ttons—TRe Nowsense of ® + Gortiawwe at- oom Reveintion.”” Some wiseacres are talking mpi) ahoar the danger of # revolution in the Northwest in case of Mr. Lineoln’s re-election; but taeir tabic is mere wiud, and anrotnts to nothing We of the loyal States ave a law ‘abiding people, and will peacefully aupport any chief inagistrate elected in compliance with the forms of the constitution. A few addle pated or ambitions leaders in the West; such as Voorhees or Val- landigham, may seek to create trouble; but on the moment of their attempting to step outside the pale of legal and constitutional opposition to Mr. Lincolu’s acta they will find themselves alone. The people are true to our institutions and tothe Union, aid even the least intelligent amongst them must be able to foresee what Could not but be the result of any serious or widespread resistance to the constituted au- thorities in the loyal States. Insurrection at fhe North would insure the success of the re- bellion and the disintegration of our federal system: in other words, would be the utter rain of the entire country; and against any calamity of this kind the whole wisdom, pride, interests aud passions of our people stand irrevocably: arrayed. They may wrangle and threaten previous to every election; but the moment the votes are courted and the consti- tutional forms complied with they will submit in peace to the decision of the ballot box. So far is this revereuce for law carried amonget us that even in the worst supposable oase that could arise the people would submit to any President elected in accordance with constitutional forms. Suppose, for instance, that the contest between Mr. Lincoin and Gene- ral McClellan, which will certaialy be a very close due, should run so close that it could only be decided in Mr. Lincola’s favor by calling in and counting the votes of Tennessee and Louisiana; and suppose that the Senate — our oniy constitutional tribunal for this pur- pose—should decide on accepting and count- ing such votes, and thereupon declaring. Mr. Lincoln constitutionally re-elected, who that Xhdws adything of thé American peopie can doubt but that the Senate's decision would be accepted peacefully ond. acquiesced in obe- diently by nine-tenths of the loyal people? The supreme evil threatening us is the success of the rebellion. The supreme pas- slon and interest of our country are the resto- ration and integrity of the Union. Insurrec- tion or attempted revolution at the North would inevitably turn the scale in favor of the now waning and paling fortunes of the Southern confederacy; and for this reason every minor evil will be endured peacefully rather than give to Mr. Jefferson Davis and his fellows the crowning benefit of. internal discord at the North. The Brothers Ben and Fernando Wood arrayed themselves against the Union; and see what is their fate. ‘Brother Ben does not dare propose himself asa candidate for-re-election in hia own district, while Brother Fernando roams desolately around Manhattan Island, kvocking and begging for admission at the door of every petty political organization that can give him the slightest prospect of a re- newed Congressional existence. : =e ee Provipentian Ais To THE Cavak OF THE Uston—Prrroiecam.—The attentive observer of passing events cannot but be strack with the singular helps and aids the cause of the Union has received from time to time by the opera- tion of causes the wisest could not foresee. Thus the discovery of gold ia California, which has worked almost exclusively in favor of the North, gave us a basis for an inevitable extended currency and material for foreign shipments on the most enormous stale during the continuance of the war. When we chased the enemy by a succession of viotories from the banks of the Mississippi and its upper tributa- ries, and whea Farragut entered and took possession of New Orleans, the rebels loudly boasted that the yellow fover would degtroy the captogg and make gur_ succasg fenitless. Singular to notice Te the fact that since that city has been {n our possession yellow fever bas departed, and Providence has signall, preserved our noble soldiers stationod there from the pestilence which for so many years wasted at noonday that disloyal town. Again, with the loss of cotton a3 a material of export, petroleum has suddenly poured forth its wonderful illuminating streams in such quantities as almost to repair the los. Thousands of wells are getting into full opera- tion—the proprietors becoming rish. and the world tributary, Our exports of this article are every day increasing. Not only to Europe are they being made in enormous quantities, but soarcely @ vessel goos from this port to South America without carrying petroleum as apartof her cargo. Colombia is almost en- tirely lighted with our petroleum. With it go hundreds and thousands of lamps and glasses desigaed for burning it, benefiting a numerous class of our manufacturers. So large and profitable has the trade become that a petroleum exchange bas been established in this city, and will soon go into opera- tlon. In the free towns in Germany it is ao article in such demand that the daily quota- tions are a source of as much interest as thore of gold have been in Wall street. In short, everything that can help our cause, within the gift of nature, seems to be offered us. Let us, then, be true to ourselves, and we shall come out of this conflict as bright as gold and as smooth aa oil. Canvipatas ror Cononess.—The Daily News, the organ of Ben and Fernando Wood, is a more efficient advocate of the rebellion than any paper published in Dixie. Now Ben and Fernando propose to run for Congress (on this side the lines); and, as they are good democrats, and stand #0 straight on the Chicago platform that they bend over backwards, they expect that the Tammany Hall democracy will hold them up and earry them through in the old democratic way. We should like to see the Tammany democracy do it. The Tart, POSTPONEMENT OF THE BUDSOW COUNTY RACING meetive. The second day’s racing meeting was to have teken piace yesterday; but, owing to the rain storm of the early morning, whioh rendered the track totally anfit for reeing ite Tay meeting was postponed, whether patil to-day or day next week, we are at this writ- upaware, ag Bo members Of the associgtion were Pome ae com ry on ead @ourtesy al Concmat, —S}gnor by many valcuied Oatley, =| cheering Rousseau hes dofewted Forrest, and chocke Achat rdid upow | 40 . a the neighborhood of Ricumond, : Arava! Announces a grand concert at Itving fist, 06 “sturdas Sveming, Ootoder a, assiated Ew WASHINGTON, |. * wasaaianpe, Sept. 39, Lass. SITWATION, ~~, fon Y from all quuriers it tf ‘ { i a The andatary intelligetion oy wtiong, Sborldan ig Stil pursuing Karly,’ and hag deivou AA, through Stay tom and occupted tbat place, giving Xt Bo Oppen, tunity to avail: himself of aay n‘lnforgemenr~ onst of Lynohburg, and Grant ie compelling, Loe © shorten his line of defence by driving in bie outer ithe add tukeing possession of his field, works, gus, TRS GEORGIA PBACH PROPOSITIONS. The presence of Jeff, Davis at Macoa ia construed here us indicative of an effort on his part to provent the consummation of Goveraor Brown's efforts to take Georgia out of tho Southern confederacy and back into the Union. At is known that before tho ovacuation of Atlanta Browa declared thut if General Hood could not dofend that cltyr bo would ralso the Stars and Stripes. The subscquens withdrawal of the.Georgia militte from Hood’s army was: the first step in the direction of retrocession. ‘An officer in one Gf the regiuients in Sherman’s army. who has arrived here, etates thet peace. negotiation bave for some time been in progress between Geoeral Bhorman and Governor Browa; that peace com- missioners from Georgia will som visit tho North under tho protection of Sherman. Une of the points of agree ment between Sherman and the Georgia peaco men, Ory tered into some woeks sinco, preparatory to their visit by Wasbington, was im effect that Governor Brown should withdraw tho militia -of Georgia from General Hooda army. General Shormaa made this polot essential as the first step in the negotiation. Here, then, will be found the sequel of Governor Brown's orders in regard to the militia of that State, @od his communication wittr “| the robel authorities on the same subject. The pones commissioners will soon be bere under the authority of General Sherman, unless they are stopped by the administration, Tho submission td this goverement of propositions a’? retrocession will, it is believed, command better terms and more serious consideration just now than at a later period. The matter has been kept quict for fear the radicals: would immediately pile themselves into the Cabinot kttction and upset the whole kettle of peses broth uploss they are allowed to boil the pot their own way. Matters are understood, however, to have alreagy progrossed go far that the ultra republican meddiers wi be obliged either to take them as they @ind them or accepe the responsibility of thrusting Georgia back tuto the confederacy. ‘The opinion is expressed to-night that there is mere than a simple foterferecce with Governor Browa’s gecession movements, and is is euspected that tt te the beginning of the evacuation of the rebel capital. DEPARTURE OF GENERAL HOOKER FOR THE WR8P. General Hooker siarted this afternoon to assume com- mand of the Western Department, to which he has bees assigned, io the place of General Heintzelman. FARGAGUT TO COMMAND THE NORTH ATLAMRE! SQUADRON. Tt is believed that Admire! Fetragut will be diately transferred from the command of the West Guill to the North Atlantic blockading service, and thas ad mirai Lee will take command of the fleet in Mobile Bay. RESIGNATION, Major William Richardson, of Albaby, Paymaster Coited States Army resigued to-day. TU DEPABTMENT OLERES eid THR POLITIOAL OAM » PAIGN. Mach comment is oocasioned here by the exodus @ clerks from the departments to Indiana.and Peansylvas nia, for the purpose of participating tthe approaching Btato elections, particularly eg pone but those who pledge themselves to the republican ticket are allowed to gm ‘The clerks ia the varions departments of government are grumbling extensively at the imposition of the election tax by the committee appointed te raise funds in of Mr. Lincoin’s re-election, The tax is heavy , and, tothe increased income tax now being collected, drate deeply the pockets of the faithful, who have the 68 alteruatives—vote and help pay for Mr. Lincoln’s stecwi sion, or seek employment elsewhere. UNION. PRISONERS AT LYNCHBURG. The following is a list of Union prisoners of war Gngf aj Lynchburg, Va., on September 14 C4 tonant Colouel Chities H, Tey, Temth New Jersey Votaet Captains 3. M, Gaul, Fourth Jersey Vols.; Wm. Snowden, Tenth Now Jersey Vols. ; George W. Bi ‘ ‘Tenth New Jersey Vols.; Wm. Todd, Testh New 8 Yols.; Harry Sawyer, Fourth New York cavalry; Jom B, Hartmann, Third New Jersey cavalry; First Liectim ants GC. V. ©. Murphy, Tenth New Jersey Vols. 4. Steinmetz, Tenth New Jersey Vols.; J. F. Pepper, Tey New Versey Vois.; R. F. Russeil, Tenth New Jere Vols, ; R. 1. Satly, H. W. Cletch, Fourth Néw York eng alry,; H. B. Younger, Cole’s Maryiand car Phillips Dwyer, Fifth Umlted States cavalry ; See ond Lieutenants James s Donnelly, Fifteenth New Jorsey Volunteers; A. 1. MeMilian,; Battery Q ‘Those officers are confined separately frou the for somo special reason not yet ascertained. They captured from Hunter's army upon its rotreat (rom neighborhood of Lynchburg. H i surinieed beld undor civii charges for partic!pation teas tho house of Join Letober. TH SaNttaiy comureetow, 6. C. Harris, a relief agent of the United States tar, Commigsion, who was capt in the Shenai valley, wh the discharge of bis duty in June Jaae, roturnod from Richmond on Tuesday. «The agents of tly commission, it is representg®, souke It their business be present on every fleld of battle, and personally at! 10 bho wants of tho wounded, xf , THT POSTAL MONST ORDER SYSTEM. * In cousequouc’ of unavoidable delay in privting agg numbering money offer binnks, the spstem cannot 88 put {ato operation befdré the middie of next month.; THE UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL MATL ABRVIOR. The time for roeviving for mail steamship service between the United States and Brazi!, w extended ntti the afternoon of the 10th of October, THE PAY OF PRISONERS OF WAR. Tt may not be gecerslly known that pay our soldiers in Southern prisons can be wives on the prosontation by the latter of the proper vouchers to the Pay Department im thiswity. Olympte Theatre. Tho very pleasing adaptation of Dickens’ story of Man tin Chuzzlewit, which bas been on the stage at the Ctym- pic theatre for the past few nights, centinues to draw good houses and to call out unm staketle manifestations: of satisfaction from the audiences. To compress intog dramatic form the story of Martin Chusslewit, one ef Dickens’ best vieborated and perbaps best conceived works, is a labor not easy of accomplishment. To pertregl Pecksaltf, with his hypoorisy and hie ‘‘iambe;" the deri and mysterious crimes of Jonas; the selfishness of tha Didalertem of Montague 7 to the ratisfection of ‘a task. The