The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1864, Page 4

dotweea He Gays that esl t dim (hrough @ private messenger to visit Atiantea and confer in reference tothe withdrawal of Georgia from the confederacy, bat Ghat the offer was rejected, and the reply returned that the fatth of Georgia is pledged to her Southern sister States, and that she wil! not act in such an affair without concert with them. & mass meeting of the Union prisoners cenfined at Savan- nah, Georgia, is represented to have beem held on the ‘28th ult., at which a series of resolations wore adopted, appealing to the Bresident to take moasures for their re- lease. ‘There is no change to notice in the postition of affairs before Richmond and Petersburg; but General Grant and his brave soldiers are not idle. Most important work is being dome, however quietly it may be performed. The despatches of oyr correspondents published to-day briag thetr doetalied statements down @ the Oth inst. No Civilians are now allowed to pass towards the front be- yond Fortress Monroe. General Sheridan, at the date of latest advices, was still at Harrisonburg. Als supply trains reach him (a g004 order and season, with only occasional interruptions from guerillas, the gole rebel forces in his rear, As our readers wil! see, General Early, In his offioial deapatcues, boasts that he has checked the progress ef Sheridan up the valley. No roiiance whatever should be placed by the peopie of the North ia these etatements, as we know, from information we bave received, that there is ne trata io them. ‘The guerilia robbers still tofest the Virginia, border counties around Washington, On Thursday night a gaog croased the Potomac into Maryland, and at Sandy Spring, only thirteen miles frem the capital, stole about a theu- sand doliars worth of property. They were pursued, and thoir plunder recaptured, and a robe! meall and one of their number were also taken by their pursuers. Mosby fs said to be again in the saddic; but owing to the sever- ity of bis wound it isnot thougnt he will be able to act with anything approaching his former ficiency A despatch from St. Louis says that the rebel Brice, with bis main force, attempted to cross the Osage river, at Castle Rock;on Thursday; but beimg opposed by a force of Union troops on the opposite side, a fight took Place, the resuft of which ts not known. General Mower, with bis force, fs in a convenient place (which {4 1s not deemed prudent to make public) to serloualy interfere with the euocess of Price's plans, and it is expected that he will soon be heard from. « The Evoning Star arrived bere yesterday from New Orleans; but she brings no report of any military move- ments in the Department of the Gulf. The despatches of Our correspondents in New Orleans are interesting, but Telate principally to trade regulations and elvii and po- litical matters. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘We have received the important {otelligence that the Emperor of Brazil has announced to the government of the republic of Uruguay that the diplomatic re!ations be- tween the two countrios aro at an end, the Oriental Exeo- uilve having failed to sattsly various reclamations made aginst it by bés Majesty, The fact was communicated by @ special war commissioner from Brazil. ‘The repub lic offered to submit all matters in dispute to the arbi tration of a foreign Power; but the proposal was rejected ns vory summary maoner, This diMculty, urged on at 8 moment when Uraguay is struggling for her existence against a Serco rebellion, may lead ‘totbe most serious results, Perhaps the Emperor of Brazil favors the plan of the restoration ofgmonarchical rule all over South America. We have flies from British Guiana dated at Demarara on the 16th of September. The papers contain nothing except unimportant local items. Nothing bas yet been heard of the stearaship Roanoke, which left Havana for this port on the 20th ult,, and fears of the capture of which by rebel pirates wore moticed in yesterday morning’s Haratp, The Ronuck® was @ fine side-wheel steamship of one thousand aod Seventy-one tons register, rating AZ at the American Lioyds, built iz New Yorke tn ‘1, constructed of the best materials. newly motalied to January, 1864, and tu firet rate condition. She was propelled by « pair of engines familiarly known ag the ‘‘ walking beem,”’ the cylinders being of forty-two inches diameter with ten feet etroke of piston, two hundred and sixty horse power, and was furnished with new boilers in 1869; She was schooner rigged, with @ ond draft of about ten fest of water, end a fair average speed, say ten knots per hour. She be. longed to the jw York and Virginia Steamship Comps. ny, and, with ber sister ship, the Yorktown, plied be- twoon New York and Norfolk prior to the breaking out of tbe rebellion, since which period she has bees employed Dotween New York, Havana and New Orieans, and has always been a popular vessel with the travelling commu- nity. The Yorktowa was seired by the rebels aud trans- formed into a guoboat. HH. Dodd, ‘Grand Commander of the Sons of Liber ty,’’ recently on trial before a military commission at Indisnapolts, Ind., for couspiracy against the goverament, escaped early yesterday moraing from the third story of the jail im which he was confined, by means of a rope fur- ished Uy friends outside. Several other persons of pro minence tm lodianapotis have recen'ty been arrested on the ch Of being Implicated with Rodd. Two prize fights took place on Thursday of this week at Edge Ili!l, Montgomery county, Pa., between New York pugiliste, The firet wae between Mike Dorsoy and Mike Nunen, for $500 a side—the iatter boing deciared the winner after seventy-six rounds bad been fought. The second was between the feather weights MoManus and Borry, and ended, after seven rounds, in @ sort of gorim- mage, without either man beimg conceded to be the victor. in the United States District Court yesterday, the United States District Attorney filed a I'bei against thirty. five bales of cotton, picked up on the 26th uit., in the Atlantic Ocean, off New Inlet, N.C., by Upted States steamers Niphou and Goveroor Bucking. bam. The cotton had been thrown qyerboard by we steamer Iynx, which bad been dri ashore and (de stroyed by the blockading feet the night previous, while attempting to ron (he Wiockade, The cotter ar- rived here yesterday, fn the United States supply steamer Newbern, fa charge of Prize Master Sitas A. Tabe: Denis Coyne, a stage driver in (he Brondway and Wall street Mne, was yesterday brought before United states Commissioner Osbern , on a charge of refusing to return a passenger bis legal fare of two conts, offering instead a check of the company. Jhe accused is held to answer, bail being granted in $506: The case of Stephen T. Clark ve, James and Frastus Brooke, of the Hxprem, was commenced'yesterday in the Court of Common Pieas, befor culty was experieeced in em, members having been obtained when the pann: ao. nounved as having been exhausted. The Court ordered a fresb pannel of Jurors, and then adjourned the case unttl Mond@ay morning, at eleven o'clock. In the Mbel suit of George Opdyke against Manton Mar- ble and others, of the World newepaper, where the coun. se) for the plaintiff moved for the discovery of the booxs and papers of the World ostablishment, with the view of ascertaining who the real proprietors were, so that they might be jolmed aq defendants im the suit, Judge Leonard yesterday denied the motion, with costs, The appit- cation of the counsel for the to strike ont @ por- tion of the affidarit of ome of Piaintif’s witnesses, as acendalous and irrelevant, was granted, with costs e Court of General Sossions yesterday, Wilkam Brown, charged with being one of a party who, om the 10th ult., robbed Owen Ossey dior, of G70, after getting hin Grumk; Mary @mith, a ‘pretty waiter girl,’’ for stealing $2890 from Mary Monteith on the 10tb ult., and Matthew Manning, charged with stealing a wates and chain, worth §200, from John Lee, on the corner of Greed and Tilcadeth streets, on the 4th ull., were oom Victe@ and remanded for sentence, A youth seamed Jemee MoUnbe was convinted of stealing @ @ rf 4 wlver ware from Wie residenes of Mr, ‘eat “nl, ‘Tweoty-sicth treet, ow the 14rn fenced to the Pepitentary for two years, £1 for attempting to sell a horse and carriage which he had hired fregn Wye, A. JALLelL of Brooklye, was pamy to Penlidutiary for dhe year, F a Pach Diack, for breaking ato the premises of Jqkn Baldwin, 26 Morris street, and stealing $26 worth of cotton, on Beptember 20, was convicted of burglary ie the third degres, and sent to the House of Refage, to remain untit NEW YORK HERALD. ney Sages Sa gg OFFICE HM. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. TERMS cash in advance, Money seut by mail will be wt the risk Of the sender, None but bank bills ourrent io Sow York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, Kove cents peroopy. Annual @ubsoription price G14 , THE WEBKLY HERALD, every Satarday, at Fivs cents per copy. Annual subsoription price:— Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers, @1 GO cach. Am extra copy will be sent to every clab @f toa. Twonty copies, to one address, one year, $25, pad asy larger number af sam? price, AD extra copy Will be seat to clubs of twenty. Theo rates make the ‘Wramait Husa the cheapest publication in the country. 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Baicurs, Parrommes, Bomexequas, &.—Burizy ALivE, BOPS CHAPEL. 720 Broadway. —Bourmiay Trovre or Giase BLowina SEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. @vniosrizs any Lucroxes. trom 9a. M, till 10P. = foxcs, Danoas, Boruasqums, &c. ——=__—_—_——_———— New York, Saturday, October == TRE LIST OF LETTERS. Printed lists of the uncalled for letters at the Post Office up to Saturday morning last, may be found posted at the usual places at the Post Office od upon the Hekaup bulletin boards. BOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Kemortas a1 THE: SITUATION. Soorotary Gtanton furnishes a statement of affairs in General Sherman's military div!sion, covering operations Gown to the night of the day before yesterday, and show. fag that good headway is being made against Forrest's (atorferenee with bis railway communications and sup- plies. Forces under Major General George H. Thomas pave moved southward from Louisville and Nashville, pad aro now driving the raiders before them, while the ition of General Sherman is directed to the fieaia rebel army in the vicinity of Atlanta. On 4th inet. the rebels captarei Big Shanty, Ga., but ya the Gib, after a severe engagement, were driven from i+ General French, leaving their dead and wounded be- Ging. The force of thom which made the attack on Alla- one, Ga, were driven from there on the evening of the Gh instant, after a severe battle of #ix hours, also Seaving their dead and wonndied, numbering about a Wrousand, on the ground, the Union loss being about foe heodred willed and two hundred wounded, (ewe party of rebels retreated towards Dallas, » With our men, it is wunderstood, cloee in if fear. At the date of the latest accounts Porrest ‘a person, with the force under bis immediate @ommand, was represented to be at some point on the fenncesee river, in Northern Alsbame, desirocs o! taking bis escepe across it southward, which be was to do, threatened as he was, in front by our guo- on the river, and closely pressed in the rear by Gen. Gorgan, who bad captured bis transportation, and had a Prospect of capturing Forrest bimeclf and bis men. The Polograpd was working tbrough from Nashville to Allatoo- Oa, only about forty miles north of AUanta, on Thursday, nd the raliroad trains, Geveral Thomas enid, woukl be _ to run lo the same’ place yesterday, Our own cor- espoadeace which we publish to-day gives interesting Gotalis of affairs in General Sherman's Cepartmens. Very interesting news ts furnished from Charleston, 6. 6., aad vicinity by the arrival bere yesterday of the Btoamsbip Arago, from Hilton Head. On Sunday evening fast Colonel Stewart 1. Woodford, Union fiag of truce @lcor, on board the Canonicus, again met the rebel fxg Pt truce boat in Charleston harbor, when another ex- Peange of oMicers took place, and seventy packages of feoney, Mity packages of express matior and fiwo thousand suits 0° clothing were delivered the rébels to be distributed among the Es priscsers who bave recently been removed Prom Andersonvitie, Ge., to the vicinity ef Charleston— (About ton thousand im ali, Some clothing for the rebel , prisoners on Morris Island, contributed by tbe Jestonians, was brought back by Colonel Woodford. ie said that some 6ight hundred of the Union prison: wing to misropresentations made to them vy the febels, have, after enduring eighteon months of @eptiviiy, takem the oath of allegiance to the el. Davis government, and beon liberated. About (hair of the number have been put to work in @te shops of (Charleston, and the other balf are laboring on Sullivan's Upland, It was reported at Hilton Head that ten thou. and invalid robvel prisoners wore to arrive there shortly be exchanged for a like numbor of our men. Desert- from Charteston represent the Southern people as discourage’ by the Union victor#e. Almost as uch interest is manifested tuere in our Presidential Potion as at the North, Yellow fever ts very prevalent Wp the oity of Charleston. * Another meteiment of very interesting extracts (rom fede! jounnals ts farntsbed to the readers of the Hixnaso & day, among which are Jef, Davis’ speeches at Salis. err, ".C.; Montgomery, Als. end Auguste and Macon, In the latter effort be became quite furious, slash. right aad left, on the one bend predicting that Sber- Ya army will soon be so completely cut up that he ill esoape with only @ body guard, and on the other the Governor of Georgia a gooundrel, At oes he said that two-thirds of the rebei were absent from the field, most of them it feave, The Augusta (G,) Consiilutionalia ome further tuformation in reference to the Of position ef Hood's army. The movement om the 19th alt., and Hood's forces are said be mow intrenched on the Macon and West Point Raii- crm vweaty or twenty-te milon from shots for. | "Oi Coromer'e Sos commit. tate tee ervemebentes Keeation near Foncsboro, Governor Brown, of Geor- | senaing the Of Mitkas! MoGatre, by officer Hall, has suate 0 hasomens reasrdion ibe riperled ream | of tbe Greens, 9 Ue gaener Dicks Sherman. | frst streot and First avenue, on last Tuseday events, Gonerel Sherman gent @ propo conginded yesterday. The testimony was very 00m Gicuag, one portion of it representing shat MoGuire, 08 the might of the shooting, was tm a state of madness from the effects of drink, and is his fury beat his wife, at- tempted personal vicleves en other inmates of the house and drew a pistol te shoot the officer, who was too quick for him, and shot bim befere he had time to exeoute his Purpose. The friends of MoGuire denied that he made aa attempt to shoot the officer. Owing to the great vari: ance of the evidence the jury could pot agree, and brought in two verdicts, one of which justified the shoot- ing; but, ag the other did not, the Coroner officer Hall to give $2,000 bail to await the action of the Grand dary. A mar aamed Daniel MoUarty was yesterday committed to the Tombs on the charge of knookiog down and robbing ‘Thomas Costello, of 272 Water street, to whom, as al- leged, he represented himself as a provost marshal’s oMcer, and whom he charged with being a deserter. Sixteen wills have been admitted to probate this week dy Surrogate Tucker. Those of Anna A. Hart and Eltsa Balb are among the aumber, These make bequests for various réligious and benevelent purposes. ‘The Central Committee of the New York state Antl- Prohibitionists, or Liquor Dealers’ Assootation, bold a meeting at the St, Nicholas Hotel on Thursday of this week, and adopted and tesued to the members an address Feoommending Governor Seymour to their sapport for re-election, aad admpatehing particular care on their part to vote for no candidase for Congress of the Legisistore who will be ifkely to afvoonte mongures of iaterforence with their business. ‘The stock market opened buoyant yesterday morning, ‘tnd at the first board quotations advanced rapidiy. But afterwards the improvement was lost, and in the after- noon there was a general decline, under large sales on sellers’ opttoas. The gold market was active aud more or feaw excited all day, Tho market opened at 108, a4 vanced to 206, @nd then deolined to 10944, elosing, how- ever, at 201. Governments were stronger, The jump fa gold quotations (rom 198 to 206 occasioned some little stir in commercial circles yeater- day evening, but the impression prevailed that it was only a temporary spirt, occasioned mainly by the des- porate efforts of speculators in merchanaise, who have large atocks, and who resorted to the expedient of buying Gold in the effort to keep prices up until they could dés. pose of Moir goods, Bome kinds of morchandiee wore the turn better, but there was mo general advance even when gold was at the highest point, aad after the races sion everything settled down to about Thuraday’s prices, and was dull at that Speech—His Plans Spoiled Sherman. Jeff. Davis has at length lost bia balance, betrayed himself in his weakest points, and rained his cause among his friends and fol- lowers. His speeches, lately delivered at Macon, Georgia, and Montgomery, Alabama, show that his recent disasters bave thrown him into a atate of fury and desperation wholly inconsistent with any further hope of auccess. Misfortunes, which invariably devclop the best or the worst points of a man’s character, have, in this case of Davis, brought out his worst pe culiarities ia bold relief. Old Abe will chuckle over this Macon apecch as something more re- freshing than a joke, and Grant and Sherman will find iu it more useful information than could be gathered by all the scouts of the Union armies in a month. Davis opens his case to the peopie of Macon aocording to the lamentations of Jeremiah He gays that friends are brought together by adversity, and that he could not forget the State of Georgiain her peril. He promises that Sherman’s army shall be harassed, till driven out and destroyed like thai of Napoleon from Moscow. To do this, however, the ab- sentees from Hood’s army must be returned te duty. And here follows s revelation which will carry the satisfaction of a great victory to every friend of the Union oause. Davis says:— “Two-thirds of our men (bis fighting men) are absent; some sick, some wounded, but moat of them absent without leave.” A more satis- factory confession of the demoralization of his armies could not be desired. These absentees are stragglers and deserters, considerable num- bers of whom for some time bave been nassing, and daily continue to pass, in twos and threes, and tens and twenties, through the lines of Sher- man and Grant northward. Yet the only re- serves left to “the confederacy” are these atrag- glers and deserters. Two-thirds of its aghtiog men absent in the hour of its extreme peril i Clearly they are demoralized—-sick of the war, of Davis, his confederacy and all concerned But, again, says Davis:—“I have been asked to send reinforcements from Virginia to Geor- gia. In Virginia the disparity io numbers is just as great aa it is in Georgia.” Of course it follows that Georgia must help herself; for while she is crying for assistance the same pitiful cry comes from Virginia. Thus, pleads the Richmond FKramincr, “Let troops be brought to Virginla without delay, from any- where, for Virginia is the pillar of the confed- eracy. At present the lines (around Richmond and Petersburg) are secure; but their safety cannot be fairly left to Loe’s present army, which has too great @ load on it already. An accession to eur forces from some quarter is the sore need of the hour—the hour of final trial, which is close at hand.” No idle bragga- docio here. No more vainglorious boasting, but a cry as from the very depths of despafr. In fact, we doubt not that Davis feels a great deal safer in Georgia than he did just before leaving Richmond. Bis temper, bowover, has been sadly ra Med. He faxgets his dignity, as the so-called Prosi- dent Sf the so-called Confederate States, and his piety as a church member in goed slaading, and scolds and frets in a terribly vulgar way. In the common slang of his newspapers, be calls General Butler, “Butler, the Beast,” and saye that, in the matter of an exchange of prisoners, Butler has been making an ‘effort to get himself whitewashed by holding inter- course with gentlemen” Bab! And yet again, referring to the removal of General Joe Johnston at Atlanta, Davis says:—‘‘I then puia man io command who I knew would strike a manly blow for the city, and many a“Wmkeo’s bloed was made to nourish the soil before the prize was won.” This “manly blow” is a mest ungrateful and unmaaly blow by Davis at one of the very best and most faithful of his ge erals—a general who would bave had the sagacity fo avold the heavy disasters resulting from the incapacity of both Hogd and Davis. But hear the rebel highfchief again:—“It has been said that I abandoned Georgia to her fate. Shame upon such falsehood.” “Misec- able man. The man who uttered this was a scoundre!”—n compliment which falls upon Governor Brown, of Georgia. There's a specl- men of dignity and refinement from his Beene Highness of the Sopthern confederacy for the aha Bull. It is vehuabte’ mirming ail that hae and by Davis iim- tla, Bet jon, Drive: po 4 Gar E Gooeren, 02 dlgaite, he world's opinion to © redkless adventurer? Me acleston, in porasiag these Macon 01 of reader oo ageiaen fren “Goat ‘ba acon speeches of Davis, the Giscover that they ore mainly Sherman a fatorview with the Emperor, to be peo elther ¢o reside there of gé abroad, ae as he might clect after eecing bis This is a considerable modification of the story thet the republican general had sold himself, body and boots, to the new gov eroment, and it will probably turn out that & requires to be still further toned down to come man's rear have boon tried and have nice sig- nally failed; that General Frenok has given 6 wholesome chastisomeat to @ columa from Hood's army, and that Forrest has been pushed into @ very uncomfortable position, Taken all Abe, and out the ac. quaintance of the greasy company he is now together, Ia these speeches of Jeff. Davis, the neer the fruth. consternation ef the Georgians and Alaba- bbe a —_ of this tile a In pat gr condition of no news re mians, the cries of distress from Richmond, nelinations and sympathies are colved from French, Spanish or Moxloas other way, the safd editor of the World makes that paper pull very well ia the harness of the Chicago shent-per-shent down-on-your-knees- to-Joff.-Davis-demooraey. very day, end in thelr articles on all subjects, the World an@ Nowd give all the evidence in their power that they ought to be printed im Rioh- mond rather than in this city. By every means within the reach of bonest ‘or dishonest jour- nalists the conductors of those papers endeavor to prop up the hopeless experiment of a South- ero confederacy, and to break down that pub- Ilo eonfidence in the leaders of our armies, and that unity of purpose op the part of oar peo- ple, that are even yet very necessary for the euceess of our cause. One point apon which these journals spend mrach of their effort in this direction. is the de- Preciation of General Grant, and the deprecia- tion of these grand victories that our several armies have lately won. On this polat they Speals foelingly. Butler has told us truly that and the merelless pressure of Grant's com- binations, we have a dissolving view of the mook heroic Southern confederacy at once grotesque, magnificent and sublime. The Bpidemto of Orime—Demorallzation Of Seolety. A atudy of the history of great crimes io large commuatties will develop the fact that they come like epidemics, with the same violence of character and of the same contagious type. At one time suicide by some particular method, some new poi- aon; or ene time by Growalng, anvther time by hengiag, or, egaia, by the pls tol, prevails. At proscat in and@bout this city the ruling mania appears te be bloodshed by the reckless use of the revolver. the past seven days no less than six oases of this crime, some of them ending fatally, have been reported. Standiog oa the oars in Chat- ham street, one man is fired upon by a fellow passenger, without any apparent cause, and dangerously wounded. In another part of the city two men get into a wordy quarre} on the sidewalk, aud one shoots the other {n the head. Again, a drugken diffioulty acours In a saloon between three or four men; they adjoura to the crowded atreat, revolvers are drawo and one man ia shot twice. On the same day a rowdy is pursned by a polieeman; be draws arevolver on bim; the officer, being the quickest with tke weapon, shoots him dowa. In Brooklyn the other night, at a political moeting, a ruffian draws a pistol and fires two or threa times upon a man fer no ascertained reason, wound- ing him severely, and when followed by the police he turns upon them and shoots % worthy and faith'ut officer to death. When arrested he proves to be a notorious burglar, half mad with drink, and cau give oo reason for hia bloody work. This is not balf the stony. [f we were to go back a few weeks we could enumerate many auch acts in all quarters of the oi some‘of which policemen in the discharge of their duty were the victims, Thia puaaion for violence, this wanton use of firearms, whereby the safety of every individual is imperilled, just at this time, can only be accounted for by the disordered condition of the country, the famillacity with bloodshed which a great civil war always engenders in the masses, partially perhaps to the excitement consequent mpon the approaching election, hut, above all, to the de- moratized condition of society—a condition, we regret to say, prodwoed ia a measure by the writlogs in partisan journais Hike the Tri- bune, the World, the Times and the News, which. foment hatred and ill will, nurse the worst paasious of our nature, and {n many caaen Incite to riot and bloodabed. Reoently the Trilnme haa become frightened and drawn in ite horas, Visions of tarbulent mobs and whia- perings of a /a lanterns to the eye and «ar of Greeley bave been useful warnings. The state of aociety by all these agencies bas become thorough!y demoralized. We are walking in a wandering patb, The times are out of joint. Shoddyism among a large olass of the peopte, corruption in official stations, an absorbing passion for aking money and an insatiable de- sire for spending it, are the prevailing charao- teristics of the day. These are not the bases upon which to build public virtne or roatore to bonor and respect a great nation When an epidemio afflicts a poople the phy alciana go vigilantly to work to arrest its pro- gress. The cure for our present apidemio of erime ts amore active police avd a more re- apectable atyle of writing in the partisan news- papers. aources can be looked upom as reliable. The organs of these several intercsts vie with enol other in lying, caring little about the fact that events will soon falsify thelr assertions. All that is certain {s thet Moexioo, under the new regime, is in just es distracted and miserable @ condition as it was befere its advent, the Froneh belag unable to afford the protection whioh they” Promised its population against thelr eppree> sers. The fatreduction of a foreign element has only served to render stili mone perplexing their embarrasements. The only issue from this unhappy state of things that they can see is im the speedy termination of our ows troubles; Alt patriotic an@ tatelligent Mexioans admit that to this government alone must they look for the protection of the instite tions te which they have manifested so steady en attachment. The Union once restored, it i not to be doubted:that one of the first duties which it it will propose to itself will beto-drive these Frenoh and Spanish invaders from every foot of soil which they occupy on this continent, Hion Priogs om tau Crry.—tIt is really sur- prising that so large @ number of the retedh dealers in this city oontinue to demand the same prices for their goods that they did whem gold brought oighty per cont more in currenog than it now does. Can they not see that there’ No rogue o’er fois the haitor draw, With good opinton of the faw. And as the rogue hates the law, in virtue of which he is hanged, and but for whioh he might ateal at his ease, so the World and the News vaturally bate the heroes whose glorious efforta | have brought to the verge of ruia the troagon- | able cause that they have labored in. How can | - a the admirers of ee Davis and of Vallandig- \ - w falling off in the demaad See and thet ham— men who afacerely desire Southera auo- | is pete a ania Li th “es hstad ceas—oonsiatently admire General Grant and | bis encanta ssidhic meanest bbe General Shorman, those two great mea who | Do they not perceive that the wholesale dealers are identified with the failure of the rebellion, | a Neorg mate peat yes bap eee who have killed the cebollfon, and but for | * ine: Sa: Ro. Lemgee anyon Secon for gold to be sent abroad, because our exports whom the Southern confederacy would ore * this have achieved its indepndeaca, and now exceed our imports by many millions, aad would to-day have held up its “aati Oonsequently it is not wanted for the purpose edd: aa: one) of. the. natiech Of iaceackh? of remittance or the payment of customs dues. Hatred of these great soldiers for their very Bente tiie the. large Secgge hore on stocks by sagactous oapitaliats in Germany fe anocess Inspires all those diatribes of the News 2 x oo | turning exchange against Europe, aad those and the World on the failure of our military who now ship specie or sell exchange at 108 SPREAD HEP WO ERI DR tee) ErOMtOnS emOONEE a 109 are doing so at a- practical loss. And against the rebellion ia, in the opinion of the yet. the avaricious and stupid. people whe aie bid eis csieydhorgs pape oleae aires hold on to their old prices do not and will not greatest idiot; and the only soldier thac thay ad- aee the abyss before them. A widespread re- mire aud declare to be agreat man ix the soldier 1. i ceca and all ‘toad wwhe,shul shele who never gained any great success at all. eyen to its eaneaaae! will be engulfed. A The nee pith: whlch’ Giey “ecgae: thes heavy fall on most artioles of merohandise bas Spi SS Oe te OG ae already commenced. We hear the first mut id’ nee ieee Ate nie a ae i eben’ terings of the storm from Chicago; we perceive anybody Dub Sherman; that Sheridau 1 8 tong astablished houses falling. to: pieces, even Sherman for a while was—‘juat where the enemy | futhis city,end @ atringent money market fm want him to be; that Grant i: # ivadmaa, aod England is the siklibw of the cameerelt-whish _ snobs ea port Ass less tcp) in to take place here. The rebellion is: orum- ia worthy of avy one of che Richmond bling papers. But in another view, bevides waraent- ws iigo-thoso; therefore, who wish t9-dave ok ee aint moet war di ts themselves to dell thetr gold for what tt wilt " oumes set wearyeaee z 3 Kichmond bring; the prompt payment of all debts by mavens Depat Cech cee moe “ those who can command greenbacks, before 1 ee oe Sey Roe er nal ee they become so-scarce as to command « pre- the historian will find that che armies had: two | mium, and our retallers to mark down thele Giatinot sete of officers. One. net is made up of a : goods at least fifty per cent, and get rid of the offlaent.who commannded the semicon’ at the | oo as soonne possible, Now or never. commencement of the war, aad the other of those who commanded at the olose of it. The | first were already {m command w «n the war began, or they were sagerly «¢ ad by inexperi- ence for the reputation they poxseaned for cour- age and ability, Inall instancss the drstact are | men of respactable taloata, with a kaowiedge of ; taotios, and with infuantiat friends ; but they | faces gave way to smiling vieages at every coe. are never men of genina, At the time when | ner. People whe had owned unproductive wars commence the men of genius ara fa ob- | property in the oil district, and had had thelr soure poste, in the ranks, or not in the army | deeds filed away among musty documents, at all. They come later; they ralse by thelr overhauled them and brought to light papers individual power, and thoy push the first set, that may prove of incalowtable value to thels from their stools and take their places. They | pessessors. Everything in the way of petre are the second set of officers, and from the hour } loum is going up, especially excitement ang of thelr accession the war goss on as wars ought | speculation. We sball not be muoh surpriseé to go on, This was the history of the French | to soe the couatry soon swarming with a popw Revolution, when the Cessican lieutensat dis- | lation as promiscuous as that of California te placed the modioorities who bad fought for | its early days. Then look out for gamblers of Louls KV., or whom the Direotory bad putin | all sorts, fa stecks as well as faro, in bogud place before it found the Corsican. This was | companies as well as in roulette; and thea pre the history of the English Parliamentary wars, | pare for a crash, a vigilance committee and the when the thitherto obscure Cromwell! upset the | mischief to play generally. Then new “il nonentities and ‘great captains” who had frit- | dorados” will be disoovered—some ia New tered away the power of the Parliament to no | York State, some in Groene county, southwest purpose. And this is our own history in the! erly part of Pennsylvania; in the Kanawha present war, Our type of military geeatness | valley, in Wirt and Calhoun counties, West was Gen. Scott. He had preferred certain ef | Virgiaia, and in other parts of the country our army officers, and that accident made them | where oil fever has already begun to show it- great; that accident and a hasty choice gave } self, At all events, there is a gay timein prow us our firat commanders, under whom we had } pect this fall and next winter for the new and only disaster. But finally the real mea have | brilliant petroleum aristocracy. Vive la baga- been found out, and the work goes on glorious- | tele. ly under those real mea—Grant, Shormaa and Shoridan. Mediocrity, {ncompotence, wil! nat- Tue Coat, Questiox.—The high price of coat urally complain of this and raise {ts yoice to | Which bas ruled here for a long time past has declare that these great mea are fools; but | beem far in advance of {te value, and the spew what thon? History will not believe it, neither wistors have made the, publis believe thet it will the American peopie. must necessarily increase to an exorbitant an rate as the season advanced. In June an@ July coal created quite a panic, and many pee ple were induced to put in their wia- ter stock at an absurd figure—$1% and $14 ® ton. Now, however, it has fallen, with everything else, to at least a moderate pricey but it is not yot as low as it should be, com sidering all the tances. The freight and toll on barges from the mines to New York is $5 16. The cost of the article at the mines, allowing for the increased ex; fa working and shipping it, even at double former expenses, would be about $5 a ton; thus cost ing to the vender in this city a little over $1@ & gross ton. But the cost of mining and ship. ping hes not advanced a hundred per cent, 4 nor anything like it; therefore coal of @ be delivered to families at $10 60 and $42 aton, and leave an honest margin of pr fit, We understand that several colliers ‘Asve stopped mining for the purpose me P big Ag up the price of coal again. Specifktor ar’, never satiefied with a fair profit. They must be rob- bing the publio or their ecoupation Js gene. But we caution the people not to ber deceived again by any excitement about a rein coal, They are paying the full value of /it now, and there is no legitimate reason ‘why the old swindling rates should be reste sea. four Sraep oy Our Naval VrAunis.—We seo i stated that « trial of sp took place the other day between two our steam revenue cutters, The Navy acteates is very fond of Gmilar amateur cont deta, It is pot many weeks ince it sought to Zot up a race between one of {te gew double-snders and a private vesssl— the cours selected, however, being smooth jw, trlel trips of this eort are all A, 6 effeeding gh odaatwintie Cox 4 Tax Perroueom Eyorrement Revivan.—Ow account of the condition of things In the Pennsylvania oll region yesterday awakened @ moat extraordinary exoltement on ‘Change. The despondency weighing upon the steel’ market for some days was relieved, and leag Ownmes Troxer Swvre—Tuw Caeon- We have repeatedly drawn attention to (he new abuse fo the management of toe omnibus linea—-the issue of tloketa in making change—-whiok has been aggravated by the insolence with which the drivers force thia worthless currency upon passengers. Not only are people compelled to recoive these tickets in return for the national currenoy, although in many cases they are of no possible value to the recipient, but they bave to submit to all kinda of abuse if they remonstrate upon the injustice of the system, or the fraud——for {t de- serves no other name. We are glad to learn, hevever, that the cheok-string has been pulled to some purpose upon one of these insolent drivers. A gentleman, who was insulted in the usual fashion yesterday in one of the Broadway stages, reported the fact at once to the United States authorities. Upon the return of the stage the driver was arrested; a charge of ultering base currency was preferred against him, and he was held to bail in $500 to answer for the same. Thore fa no necessity of resorting to the {saue of this class of tickets. Fractional currency of the government, two cent and one cent pleces for making change are abundant. Therefore it 1s a swindle for the omnibus pro- prietors, or the railroad and ferry companies, to issue them, and it is time that the public should protest against the abuse. However, the arrest of a driver will not remedy the evil, unless measures are carried out to visit punishment ‘apon the offenders. A short time ago a rail- road conductor was held to ball on a simitar charge, and we have heard nothing of the oase since. We hope the propor authorities will not let the matter drop. Tw Sre @ Putsen. Tax News raom Maxico.—Mexican nows ta of as shifting and changeable a character aa the glass fragments of the kulefdoscope. Tura them a little, and you can Lave any form or color that you desire. Thus, in our issue of Thursday morning, we published a statement received by way of the Rio Grande, announcing that Miramon had is- sued a pronunciamdento against Maximilian, and that during the absence of the latter in the provinces be had succeeded in getting posses- sion of the greater part of the oity of Mexico. It was further added that bis proceedings were endorsed by the Archbishop and the Mexican clergy. TheJinference from this would be that the affairs of the imperial régine ware in a very deaperate condition. The acqouts revolved subsequently from Havana impart a very different color to them. ore we find it stated that not only was the Emperor being wel- conga most cordially by the Maxivan poprila- tion on bis tour, but thet his arms were every- where galaing substential advantages. in ad- ition to the confirmation of the ocoapation of Monterey by French troops, we have {t af- firmed that there had been wholesale desertions from the oamp of Artege at Gundslajara and from that of Porfrlo Diss at Oajaca. The troops which were with Janree at Mon- torey and Saltilio are stated to have retired ia @ northerly direction. Taken altogether, the repedlican forces, according to eur Havana cor- respondent, do not equal ia numbers & battered brigade of t's army. If this be so It says vory little for the e the Froneh com: masters. In roferense reported adhesion of General Doblede to the imperial government tt le now assorted that he hed asked for @ cate ee tt Axorsen Pustic Noiwance.— Within the last fortnight the atmosphere of both the upper and lower parts of the city bas been poisoned by an odor strongly that of escaped gas, but which He aia to belleve comes from the public sewers. Towards seven o’Aook in the evening it becomes everpower- ing, onusing sickeens with many, In the lower parte ofBrooklyn, adjacent to the fiver, the same noxious faofluences are felt, some people attribpting them there to the storing of petro- leu fg the borhood. They are due, weare convificed, to neglected condition of the sewers in beth oltles, the experience of the at- of ourown offce warranting that conclusion. For some time past we have oz0n- onally been annoyed by similar odor; but by having the strech sewer Gronohod out we bave been enabled to get rid of f. The aa- thorities should have some Corrective applied, for if Chis vitleted condiilon of the atmosphere permitted to consaue { will reed a penti: