The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1864, Page 4

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In a despatch dated balf past eight o'clock last evening Focrotary Stanton gives us some additional extracts from Gonerai Sheridan’s report of bis brilliant and summary settiement with the rebel Rossor’a cavalry in the valley oo Sunday last Gur own despatches algo show how complete was the work of Merrit’s and Custer’s men. General Sheridan says it was “a square cavalry fgit,’ fu which the rebels were routed beyond his power to ¢escribe, and he has seen nothing of them since. ‘Thoy lost everything on wheels which they bad, and when lest scom were “on the keen Tun,” pear New Market, twenty-six miles from the bat- tle Geld, to which distance the pursuit was kept up. The Cosuaitics On our side did not exceed sixty mev, The guerillas, whom, from their sneaking style-of warfare, it {= almost impossible to catch, still continue to waylay, rob aad murder individuals and small parties in the valley. Oo Tuesday morning last, not far from Stras barg, they attacked a party of about thirty of our officers and soldiers who wore en rouse to General aberidan’s beadquarters, killed four and woundea seven of them, ‘an{ captured all the remainder excepting four. Seoretary Stanton, in his @cspateh of Iact evening, sys that advicos were received yesterday (rom Gcne- «is Grant and Sherman, as well ag from Sheridan, bat hat they report no new military operations. Our owa slegrame allude to brisk fring om list fooday night 4a the centre of our lines in front of Petersburg, probably occasioned by a heavy movement of the cremy towards the left of the Army of the Potomac, which, ‘t im stated, was observed to be taking place, and which continued to de noticed on Tuesday. The object or result of this mancearre of the rebels has not yet been developed. The Army of the James remains im its strong position on the right, in (ront of Rieumond, which, according to one of the newspapers of that place, tt only three miles and a half from the city Limits. Ne new movoments fa that quarter are reported, the rebels showing to disposition to try ancther attack #1 .ce their disastrous repulse of Friday last. From New Orleans we aro in’ormed of an expedition which Cencral Asboth is reported to have ressnt!y made dato the terior of Florida, It is stated tuat oa the 234 of last month he reached Buches Anna Court House, in ‘Waltop county, which be captared, together with twenty Prisovers, i cl.cing @ colonel and lieutenant colonel, and ‘@largo pumber of horses, mules, cattleand boats. At last accovots Geveral Asboth was at Mariana, in Jackson ‘county, which js in the northern part of the State, and ‘Ddorders on both Georgia and Alabame. This story wea's a ratber doubtful aspect, as we have despatobes from Kiy ‘Wost, Fia., dated as lato as the 3d inst, which make no mention of an- such expedition. Qur corres- pondent at the latter place gives the particulars of the capture by the govermment craiser Proteus of the Auglo- rede! blockade running sobocper Anna Louisa, trom Ha. ~ran, ostensibly for Belize, adem wilh irce, coffee, co 1 4c. Someoft the Key Wisters have mrde «a go.d Jag by picking up f1 sting bales of cotton, supposed :0 #@ been throwm overboard ty the blockade runmer * agorde when chased by the Magnolia, $18,000 worth been securod. The yellow fever etlil provalied at Koy West. We have bat titel Sater inte'ligence of the progress of Offairs ta Missoeri, The rebsl P ice, at the date of latest accounts, wis in the vickMty of Booneville, and our forces were harassing his roar acd Gents. His marand- ors havo burned (he Lamine bridge, on the Pactfie Ratl- road, one hundred and seventy milea west of St. Lovie god near Sedalia. From Tennessee we learn that a force of ninety colored troops, under Colonel Weaver, wo were attacked on fussday, five miles below Fort Noison, by two bandred fobdls, defeated the latier, killing and wounding two of thoir ofcers and twenty-five men. The Union loss was bre licutenant and tures men killed, and nine men wounded, The rebet General Buford, with twelve hun. Gred mounted mem, ia reported to have crossed Cumber- lend river, at Barpath’s Sh als, on Tuesday night, the Tit tone | Io (te tnsue of the 10th inst., the Richmond IWhig, Arver Inboring to refute the statements that the price of Boutbors cotton is depreciating in the European markete, Bnd that evoots have created substantial rivels to it, pays that the gratification which the assumed truth of Vhese assertions gives in the North is difvult to recon- olle with any state of affairs based upon a restoration of Ve Union, to include the cotton States, oF witb that fra- Vernal fooling which i ts alleged impels Seward, Stan. foo, MeCietlan aod Horatio S.ymour to refuse separation vom the South. MISCELLANEOUS NEWs. The few addition! retarns reovived iset night from founsyivenia only served to throw more doubt upon the fesult of the home vote, and to render it quite certain Prat ihe vote of ihe soldiers will devide the question, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1564. eae RY Ts. SUG RPT Y The demoorate bave gained two membors of Congress as far as heard from, ta the Fifteenth and Twentieth dis- tricts, and lost ome, ia the Twenty-fourth Tho returns from Oh{o continous to show large republican majoritios and again of ten oF steven thembers of Cougross. I0- Giana bas gone beavily for ¢ne republicans, that party baving gained in thirty-one counties ninetecn thousand over the vote of 1863. As far as ascertained the follow- ing are tho changes in the Congressional delegations of each State:— ° Pennsylvania. Obio.... Indiana. Total Net republican gai ‘The vote in Maryland shows the probable adoption by the people of the new anti slavery constitution. Assalute of one bundred guns was fred in the Park about half-past six o'clock last night in honor of the republican election victories io Indiana and Ubio, Tho gunners banged away in the midst of @ rain storm, with some dozen bardy people as spectators and listeners Roger B, Taney, Chief Justice of the United Stites Sopreme Court, died in Washington at clever o’clock last night, after an iliness of only a few days duration. The steamships Edinbdarg aod Erto, from Queenstowa, arrived at this port yestorday. Oar European files by the Jara reached this city from Quebeo yesterday. Tho papers are dated to the 30th of September, and conteia details of tbe telegraphic uews report to that dey Jem Mace arrived in Dublin, Ireland, on the 29ih of ember, The fight with Joe Coburn was to tako place on Tues’ay, the 4th of October, Mace came from Wales, where he had becn ‘putting in the finishing touches” of ‘his training. A number of the colebritics of the prize fing bad reacbed Dublin, and complete arravgemects were made for reporting the battic. Six to four was giroo 09 Mace the day of his arrival. ‘The steamship Eagle, from Havena, bas brough! us ac counts {rom Vera Cruz to the Ist inatant,and from the city of hiexico to Boptomber 26, ia the mental digestion of which it will perhaps be prudent on the part of road ers to make allowance for their French and Spanish ool oring. A republican force of four thousand, under Octe- ga, Carva‘al, Negrete aud Satoni, is aid to have been defeated on tho 2ist ult., near Durango, by the veton ishing!y smali number of only six hundred imperialists. ‘The former are reported to have lost Give hundred killed aod wounded, ope hundred and thirty prisoners and over twenty cannon, while tho imperialiste only suffered to tho extent of fourteen killed and forty-four wounded. Other fights of smaller proportions, reaulting, of coarse, adversoly to the republicaa forces, are mentioned. Com- munication with the rronch expedition on the Pacific coast, It was expected, would soon be opened. It is said that psegengers’can now safely travel through from Vora Cruz to the capital. Generals Vidaurei and Quiroza have publicly gives their adbesion to the empire. Tacre are re- Ports that Maximilian, who had been making a tour of his dowipions, was assassinated; that Matamor.s bad been occupied by the Frenob, and that President Jusrer had abdicated in favor of Ortega. Pierre Soule arrived at Vera Cruz on the 22d of last month, We have news to the 8th fastaot from Havana, by the steamsbip Kegle, which arrived bere yesterday ‘The United States gunboat Shenandoah arrived there on the 29th ultimo, with, it is said, a request from our government for the delivery om board of Appleton Oaksmith, charged with being engaged io the slave trade, ‘ibe Cuban police were at once set to work, but failed to find the alleged criminal. A Mexican gentie- man is gaid to bavo recently arrived ia Havana, cn rowe to Now York, bearing from tbe Emperor Maximilian letters to the Mexican Genera! Dobiado, now to ibis city, guaranteeing him safe conduct to the Mexican capital, ‘There was very little fever in the harbor of Havana. No Ister news from St, Domingo ts furnishod by this arrival. Alt efforts for @ peaceful settlement of the dimicul. ties between the republic of Uruguay and the empire of Brazil having failed to reach @ satisfactory result, the envoy of the latter government bas given notice that its army and fleet are about to take satisfaotion for alleged wrongs saflered by Brazilian subjeota from reprisals on persons and property by citizens of the republic, ‘Tho next advices from South America may, therefore, contain news of another war between Spanish-American Power Nothing later bas yes been heard in this city of the steamer Roanoke, which sailed from Havana on the 2914 O; last month, The Eagle, which arrived here yester day, brought no lntelligenge of ee og veesel, The on'cers of the Eagle entertain the oploion that se bas deen captured by revel pirates who wore on board of bor as passengers. ._ —Qsar a hse . ibe TRIG Metionea {a jay's Mena se being se60 ashore op Sundey evening fast, near (a, © Lookout, on the North Carolina coast, by the officers of the trans. port Dudley Buck, proves to be ihe Aphrodite, from New York for New O-leans, with gcamen aed marines. Five men wore drowned. All the rest wore safoly landed on Cedar Island, Gftecn miles north of Cape Lookout, where, at last accounts, the vessel was ashore, Sbe and most of ber corgo will be lost. The Board of Supervisors mot yesterday, and appointed Registers of Election for alt the wards of the city but the Tweatieth, and then adjourned to Monday vext. ‘The two hundredth anniversary of tus surrender of this city and its surrounding province to tbe Engtish by the Dutch, aod the atteadant chan, former from Now Amsterdam aid the la Netherlands both to New York, was colebrated last Bight at Cooper lastitute; and, notwitbatanding tho rain, there was a large assemblage of cittveus. The most prominent feature in the exercises wat an intore:tiog paper read by Dr. Brodhead, giving a history of the tranefer (rom the ove Power to the othor, and of the coa- dition of the colony at that time. The public indignation in cousequence of the raise a eity car and stago fare continues to increase, some pas- sengers plumply refusing to pay the additions ceot de manced by the railroad companies. Two geatiemen wio yesterday paid it under protest alterwards made a state. meat of theit case to Mayor Gunther, who promised to bring (he subject to the attention of the Common Counc}! or the District Attorney. The Brening Expres case was resumed yesterday before Judge Daly. The plaintil, Mr. S. T. Clark, is stilt cm the stand, and iv undergoing a rigid crdha-exa: ion at tne bands of the counsel for the defence. It is not likely that the cause will be fioisbed much before Friday evening. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday ilester Cer- roll, a domestic in the employ of Mre. Finney, 16 Liv- ingston piece, charged wth stealing & pocketbook con. taining twenty-Ave doliers, on the 16th of June, pleaded guilty to potty larceny. As she confessed bor guilt and returaed the money, as that wes her first offence, judgment was Elia Soott pleaded gulity to an lodictment charging hey LS ica 4 Teceiving & som of money from Sherman recaRo , Sreeawicn street, on the 16th of September. The Court suspended sentence. Willem Kiem was placed on trial cbarged with feloniously receiving a quaatity of Giles chasged to have been stolen from the establishment of Mossrs. Natifusies & Os. by Robert Bubler, a carmad ig thoir employ: Some of the Slee were found im the prisoner's possession, but as they were not positively identified the Jury aoquitted the accused. AD {totereating and mnportant bank bill robbery case was yesterday brought before Police Justice Dowling. Ia April last the President and Cashier of tbe First Netioaal Bank of North Resaington, Vermont, came to tbis city, and pat ap at the Astor House, They bad with them & targe number of unsigned bills of their bank. One day, on going down to dinner, they left their door unlocked, and sheets of these unsigned bills iying om their table. On returoing they found thas $2,450 in partially signed notes had been abstracted. ‘The affair wae immediately put into the bands of two mombers of the detective police, who assiduously fol- lowed it ap, and the reealé was that therobbory was Ogally charged upos aman named Thomas Cummings, vio bas been a waiter ia the Astor House for fourtesa years, aod be was yesterday arrested. $1,600 of the Missiog money was found at his residence, 63 Gresee street, My 3 brought up before Justice Dowling, how. ever, that officer decide4 that Cummings could not be hold, as the stolen bills were signed only by the Presi tof the bank, whereas the law ef Coogress requires that, to constitute (bem logal money, they must be sigeed by the cashier also, The prisoner was therefore dis. barged; but 1t is sald that be has boon rearrested under orders from the United States Marshal. A large aumber of seamee for our national equadron in the Pacific will leave here to-day on board the steam- ship Coste Rice, for Aspinwall. ‘The fall opening of the exercises at Bellevue Medical College took place yesterday, in tbe presence of a large pumber of , among whom wore many of its members. As the Buprome Court of California, which bas decided that the act allowing ite soldiers Outside the limita of the Bate Lo vote Is uncomatatignal, etill adberes to inal def cision, a difference of about five thousand (a the estt- mated poli of that State will be made, ‘The continued firmsess tn the gold market begot a kin- dred feeling ix commeroial circles yesterday, and bold- ers of morchandise were generally Armor in their views than they havo boca for some time past. In some articles slight advance was established ; but there was no move- ‘ment of conse jucnce in any department. Cotton was de- Cidedly lower. Grocerios wore stil! nominal. Petroleum was Qrmor, but quiet. Oo ‘Change the flour market was 10c, @ I6c. higher, witha fair demand, Wheat advanced 2c. a 80., with a moderate demand. Corn was in fair de mand, and drmer. Oats wore in fair request, and firm. Pork was firmer, with @ good demand, Beef and lard active, andrather firmer. Whiskey was dull aod de . The hour of reaction and retribution conse quent upon the speedy collapse of the rebel- lion ia fast approaching. The effects will not be confined to thls countryalone. Europe will be involved also in the genoral crash. The moddlers there ate flading out that they canuot play with fire and go unharmed. They bave been encouraging the South in its intquity, and, with that self-sufficiency characteristic of the leading classes of England, they supposed that the side Upon which their favor was dispensed was sure to win. They therefore based their commer- cial operations for the past few years upon the calculation that the South would gain its inde- pendence; but now they are beginning to dis- cover that they started on a false basis, for they behold the rebellion crumbling, and all their hopes of a dismemberment of the republic likely to be transformed into # financial panic at home. The steamer which arrived here from Europe yesterday brings news of the commencement of this disaster. There have been several heavy failures in E1gland, and there is no doubt that pleaty more wiil follow. Thetreacherous con- duct of British statesmen towards this govern- ment during this war deserves retribution, and it will assuredly come bofore long. But the severest reaction will be felt here when the war is ovor. The philosophy of history teaches that the taws whioifgovern society differ little from those which govern nature, ia the rule that the storm follows the calm as surely aa the calm succeeds the storm. We enjoyed a quiet existence of three-quarters of a century; bat the storm broke out at last. It is nearly exhausted now, and then will come a calm, in which men’s minds will be eet to thinking about the canse of our calamity, and they will not fad {t diffloult to trace it to the two classes of men who have inflamed the popular mind until insurrection on the one side, and a gigantic effort to repress it on the other, became inevitable. The abolitionists of the North and the socession leaders of the South are roaponsible for this grievous misfor- tune. They excited the passions of the people in both sections of the country to a degree that harmony between thom gras an impossibility. They conjured up spirits of hatrod and malig- nity that noth:ng but blood conld allay. Fora period of three years and a half war has been desolating the land; but we are very near its tor- mination now. The broken, dispirited and de- pleted armies of the rebeltion give sigas of its approaching end; and as certain as the last blow is struek by the soldiers of Joff. Davis and peace is again reatored will there come a fear- ful roaction for the authors of the war, boty North and South. Such men as Wendell Phil- lips, Garrison, Beecher, Greeley and their con- federates of the abolition school, and Joff. Davis, Toombs, Cobb and the surviving tead- ers of the rebellion, will be made to feel the indignation of the people; and if they oscape the instant punishment of their crimes it wii] omy be to hurry into exile, for neither the North nor the Sonun Gill abide their presence. The history of all rovolutions coptains a warnicg to fanatics and extremists of this class. Rid'ng triumphantly, as they always do, upon the loftiest cloud, while the storm which they have raised is at its height—pitiless. exacting and cruel to all their adversaries—never con- tent with aoythiag less than the severest mea- sures, whea the caloi comes they are surely the first to suffer. It wasso when the fanaticism of the Puritans, fo the time of the First Charles, converted the cause of civil liberty into an excuse for excesses that brought bitter fraits to themselves afterwards, when the re- storation was accomplished and the day of vengeance had com>. The gibbet aad the stake were the doom of many of the most violent fanatics who had provoked the revolution, while the very graves of the regicides were robbed to furnish victims for the Nemesis of the new monarchy. The lesson of the French Rovolution ought not to have been lost upon the extremists of this country. They should have remembered that the most violent of the Jacobins, the men who arraigned the Glrondistsa—the conserva- tives of that time, men who desired more liberty but less blood—for thelr moderation, were the victims of the reaction; that while Dan- ton, Marat and Deamoulins, who had excited the passions of the populace and established the bloodthirsty club of the Cordeliers, de- manded the sacrifice of the Brissot aad Verng- niand and Gaudet, they wore themselves des- tined to the same fate. Marat, who clamored in the name of liberty, ia the columns of the Amt du Peuple, for « hol two bundred and sevéaly Chousand poe a Ape to the popular will by thy ds of @ repolute girl, thus surrendering a aia Ke a misery to himself and « oarse to France. Dos- moulins and Danton—the “Mirabeau of the mob,” as he was called—wore claimed by the guillotine; and who fell into con- cort with the bloody work of the exttemists, and became the bloodiest ef them all, sealed with death on tho soaffold the fate of the Reign of Terror. History repeats itself, Men cannot inflame the passions of a people and plunge a nation into war and bloodshed without retribution following aooner or later. It is easier to kin- dle « conflagration than to subdue it. Those who in this great disaster of ours have set the torch need not expect to come scatheless out of the fire when thie war is over. The fire- brands fo the North and fa the South alike will be the viotims of public reprobatien, and they may regard themeelves fortunate even if they escape personal punishment at the hands of the people. A Catnese Porzte.—The county and Con- gressions! tickets of this teland for our ap- proacbing elections. When they essume a definite shape the Intelligent voter concerned will do weil to look carefully over all the tickets of the competing factions, and to piok out the best men wherever he may happen to find them. At present the factions are in a atate of confusion which promises a good open- ing for many wholesome changos by the people among our legal pad Congrosplenal guardians, a tg tates Ssinsssansulons ripe gesting tenet teenager SSS ce eee ‘ Our Naval Heroes. In the reputations won during the present war there are none that shed more lustre upon the country, or that have gained it more sub- atantial advantages, than those of our naval chiefs. Dupont, Porter and Farragut constitute @ triad to whom no equals ean be found in the history of naval achievements. : When we oontrast with the deeds of these men the successes that obtained for Nelson, Sir Sidney Smith and Sir Charles Napler—the three greatest names for seamanship and daring that Great Britain can boast of—how the latter pale before them. Taking into account the differ- ence In the obstacles to be overcome, and the inferior quality ot the vessels and armaments they bad to contend with, the British oommand- ers had comparatively easy tasks to accomplish in thelr victories, The dispersion of a squad- roa, the sinking of a vessel by a raking fire or the breaching of a fort were mere questions of calculation, that could be reduced to almost mathematioal certalaty. There were in their day no problems to be solved, aa to how far iron plating could be made to resist fron or aleel projectiles of vastly increased momentum, or a8 to how long men could bear to be cooped up in the euffocating atmosphere of Mr. Krics- son's Monitors. Entering upon this new field of experiment, our naval commanders soon proved that not only were they men of far superior scientific qualifications, but “that they were men ready to peril more for great re- sults than any of their naval predecessors had ventured;—Dupont was the first to thus dis- tiogu’sh himself. His capture of Forts Beaure- gard and Walker, where he initiated the ays- tem of attack by circle sailing, was the firat great naval achievement of the war. At Vicksburg Porter won equally imperishable laurels by tho daring and efficient manner {a which he co- operated ia its capture. But at New Orleans and Mobile, the exploita of Dupont and Porter bril- liaut as they were, were cast into the shade by Farragut., Io the whole record of naval daring there never was attempted anything so bold and apparently desperate as the running of the gauntlet of the forts at New Orleans. Spectators of the scene describe the fire as the hottest ever known—hell itself seeming to have been let loose to overwhelm the assailants. At Mobile the hero of this achievement gave evon atill groater proofs of his genius and intropidity Everything that military science could sug- gest had been lavished on the defences of the harbor, and they woro deemed impregnable by the rebels. To a man like Sir Charles Napier, who shrunk from attacking those of Cronstadt, they would probably have been so; but Far- ragut was not to be daunted by obstacles of aoy kind. He soon reduced Forts Gaines and Powell, and then came that spectaolo the like of which has never bewa witnessed in any naval engagement. It was belleved that Fort Mor- gae,a sand work elaborately constructed and woll garrisoned and victualled, could not be reduced by any force we could bring against it. Nay more, {t was thought that no vesscls could live under its fire. Lashing his ships two by two, and tying timself in an exposed posi- tion to the rigging, so that he could command | a perfeot view of the scone and issue bis orders the, moro readily, the gallant old Viking ran them close under the fert, and, aftera sharp contest, soon silenced its guns by pourlag con- tinuous showers of grape and canister into its embrasures. Where ts the officer of any other navy who would bave perilled so much in view of the chanoes of almost cortain death and failure? Let it ugt be Imagtagd that the appreciation Thanllested by the Ballon of auc! RS nee confined to oursglves. We have geen letters from distinguished British and French aval officers, in which they speat of Farragut in terms of the most extravagant admiration, ovea going so far as to compare him to the demi- gods of Greece and Rome, others as the naval bero of the Nineteenth century. And when we recollect that to such tranacendant qualities there are united a modesty and simplicity of manner rarely to be met with, we may congra- tulate ourselves that evil as are our times they give promise of being fruitfal of those great characters, waich, baving created the republic, are now necessary to its salvation. Demonauization tn Tae Sovraxen Armies. — Gen. Hood, the Savannah Republican and the Richmond Enquirer have taken to telling tha truth, and their descriptions of the Southera soldiers will enlighten the world considerably as to the chivalrous material of which the Southern armies are made up. Gen. Hood says that his soldiers straggle horribly, and that the officers do not try to preventit. He says that they do not straggle from the line of mfrch because they are worn out, but because they want to pluader the houses of those high- spirited Southera farmers who made the war. The Savannah Republican says that Flood’s army was more dreaded by the Southern people than Sherman’s army. Is not this a very dangerous adm'ssion? Hitherto Southern journals have only declared that the South was a united people in arms against the Yankeos. will Kayope bow open its eyes to hear, ou Southern authority, that the people of a great Southern Sinte dread loss the presence of @ Northern army than of the army that is to wot them free from Yankes tule! Ate the Georgia farpers no longer ready to give the last dollar for the rebel cause? But worse than all is the blow levelled by the Richmond Mnquirer at the fallen rebel army of the valley The Enquirer sags that Sheridan owes his victories to the faot that the valley “is running with apple brandy.” All the rebel army was drunk—offlcers, men, “pioneers and all”"—“too drunk to command themselves, mauoh less an army, ® division, » brigade or « regiment.” This {ocludes Early, Gordon, Rhodes, Rossor, Ramseur—-everybody. Well, how long will it be now before this drunken crowd destroys Sheridant Will the Enquirer tell us? And will the Republican let us know on what day next week Hood’s mob of strag- glers is to annibilate Shermant Whore are the rebel armies? Ton BSramsn Desions ow Amnntoa.—Our readers are already informed of the decided ispodition of Peru to resist the aggressions of Spain, and to wage a determined war fer the of the Poruvian territory. Spain te not likely to find an easy prey in the South Amerioan republic, and anless she recedes from the position taken by the seisure-of the Chincha Islands she will bave « war on her hands that she cannot go through with glory or honor. Spain has not the powet to oarry on any but the vory feoblest struggle on this side the Atlantic, This bas been shown In the St Domingo war. However we may rato Spanish power fa Burope, Spaaish power in Amorion has boon proven. by cgmpactaon qith the powgs —Seaee ro a ~ 4 of the Domin\oans, to be contemptible. Spain, | quire a complete overhanling and cleansing. after much effort, has not been able to over. Come the resistance of these islanders to her dominion, and her inability to achieve that conquest is admitted in Spain. A Madrid paper urges the Spanish government to relin- quish the attempt, and to be content with hold- ing only the three towas—St. Domingo, Sama- na aod Puerto Plata. Already this little strug- gle has brought S; into debt, and ia likely to run her fur into debt; it has been no oredit to her armas, and now she is urged to re- linquish the attempt as hopeless. If Spain is thus urged to give up one small American war, what ministry will precipitate ber into a second and larger one? Honors ro Carrain Winstow.—The New York Chamber of Commerce has taken meas- ures to present Captain Winslow, and the offi- cers and crew of the Kearsarge, a fitting teste monial of approbation for their gallant oapture and destruction of the piratical Alabama. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is to be expended in the purchase of medals, or in some other way, for that purpose, and the largest part of the sum has been subscribed. While we would recommend the bestowal of medals upon the officers and crew in the oustomary manner, as tho most convenient, we enter- tain the belief that the purchase of a snug little estate {n some beautiful part of the country for Captain Winslow would be the best mothod of rewarding him. And for the reason that costly medals or ser- vices of plate are of no sort of use to any- body, and cannot be made even ornamental, except where they are displayed in a suitable residence with appropriate surroundings. They are, in fact, aoare anda trouble to any possessor having but limited means. Many who have received such testimonials have in after years been compelled to part with them; and again, the descendants of many a hero have boen actually pinched with poverty, whilethey still retained, and thought themselves obliged to retain, these useless gifts. We will give an itlusteation of our meaning which is tn point. It is well known that two magnificent silver. vases, worth many thousand dollars, were pre- sented by the merchants of New York to Do Witt Clinton. If he bad reseived the value in money, or in a suitable residence, it-would bave beens most timely and welcome assist- auce. The vases -were never of the alightest utility to bim when his fortune declined, aod have oever been of any use to his descendants. But when Commodore McDonough gained his splendid victory at Lake Champlain the people of Vermont presented him with a sing" farm in sight of the acene of his victory, atid it at once placed him in independent oircum- stances, and the estate is yet, we understand, in’ the possession of his familly. Houses bave been presented during the war to soms of our distinguished generals, and the practice is a sensible one. Those who are constantiy ox- posing their lives for their country should bo relieved from the anxiety which attends the bravest mao who has a family dependent upoa Lim for their support. Is ia “sweet and decorous to die for his country,” but aot so pleasant to loave bis children in distress. Let the gratitude of the New York merchants therefore, take this course, viz: to purchase a farm, with a auitable reai- dence and outbuildings, somewhere on the Hadson, tho bay or the Sound, where, secure from the vicissitudes of changing fortune, the gallant Winslow, in sight of the element on whigh be pas go greatly digtinguisbed bimselt aud honored bis Sountry, can plough bis owa Gietds as he ploughed the main. Tus Marriany Constitutionat, Execrton— Taz Apowrtion or Staveny.—Yeaterday the people of Maryland voted and will finish up the work to-day, by a two, days’ election, on the question of the ratification of their new State constitution, which declares slavery abol- ished within the limits of the commonwealth. A etringent oath of loyalty bas been provided for the occasion, and will be required of every voter; but, as that learned expounder of the law, the Hoo. Reverdy Jobnson, has given it x8 his opinion that this oath is not binding upon the conacience of the party taking it, we presume that a coasiderable poll in opposition to the new constitution will be brougbt out. It is generally believed, however, that this new con- titution will be adopted by a large majority. For many years past the people of Maryiand have been leaning to the emancipation of their slaves, andit ia probable that the State, as well as Virginia, Kentucky and other border slave States, would have provided for the re- moval of the “peculfar institution” a quarter of a century ago, had there been no interference from Northern abolitionists. The anti-slavery movement embraced in the new Maryland con- stitution is somewhat violent and summary; but the State has been so thoroughly turned upside down and shaken inside out by this ter- rible war that slave property is practically ~f no value to tho Maryland master. Thus, his would-be friends and proteotots, the leaderg of the rebellion, have done for him in ‘és— than four years wpat the Nogthera abolitionists had vataly labored through thirty years of eootionel agitation to acoomplish. Tae News Frou Mexioo.—We publish some further accounts, reeeived by way of Havana, of the progress of the new order of things in Mexico, Like everything emanating from Spanish or French sources, it gives » highly colored view of Maximitian’s prospects. VI- demcri joatated to bave returned to Mexloo and glvon, with bis friend Quirogs, bis ua- conditional adhesion to the empire. After the positive assertions to tho same effect made about General Doblado, and which have since been Gatly contradicted by him in a letter to this journal, we may fairly doubt the accuracy of the statement. It ts true that the alleged toxt of Vidsurrl’s lotter of adbeston is givon, but this does oot impart any greater dogree of vratsemblance te the story. Party organs in Moxico are not more scrupulous than they are here in rosorting to forgeries of this kind. It Is advisable to adopt the same rale of skepti- olsm in regard to the advantages to the im- perial arms fin these advices. Like the victories of lican generals, they must all be taken With « qualification. Tan Sawnracs Nuwanos.—The offensive and unhealthy odor from the sewors all over the olty dose not abate, With overy shower of rala It becomes almost intolerable, and If some moans are not taken to romove it the public health mast materially » The gas oom- panies declare that nothing from thoir ostablish- monts ts discharged Into the sewors which could croate the effluvinm. If this be so It is proba- big ‘eat the qowece are choked up, dad re This is the business of the Croton Aqueduet Board, and they should see to it at once, there be any suspicion that the mulsance pre- ceeds from the gas works, let the Croton Boaré investigate the matter and have the questiog settled. The atmosphere we live in, both oué of doors and in our dwellings and offices, absolutely pestilential. We call upon the Croton Aqueduct Department to relieve us. Tae Ivonxasap Fars on ram RAILROADS AMD Srages.—The advance in price which the olty failroad and stage companies have seen fit te make meets with decided objection from the people. The increase of stage fare, fromthe original price of six to ten cents, particularly, is viewed with indignation, and the c uence is that the travelling public are abandoning the stages and patronizing the cars wherever it ie possible. If the railroad companies had made an hbonegt avowal that they were com pelled to increase the fare on the cage to six cents because thelr roads were not profitable, or were losing in consequences of the advanced prices of stock and mm» torial, the people would not object to pay ing the additional penny—for it is but a trifle, after all; but it isa shabby pretext to assign as a cause the imposition of ¢he revenue tax of one-eighth per cent, while they tax passongers twenty per cent nominally to cover it. The advance is unquestionably most unpopular ew both lines of travel. The conductors on some of the roads, we perceive, do not insist upog the additional cent, no doubt because the direciors so instructed them; and the probes bility is that the measure will ultimately be abandoned. As for the demand of ten cents og the stages, we presume the public will resist # in the most effectual way—that ts, by permite ting these vebicles to go empty. Pierre Sours ix Mexico.—Waat Font—~ Our latest Mexican news reports the arrival of Pierre Soule at Vera Cruz on the 23q September. This conspicuous rebel, tt will be remembered, was formerly a Senates of the United States from Louisiana, and was, as poor Pierce’s mischief-making Minister te Spain, the principal contriver of the famous Ostend manifesto on the Cuba question. Sines the outbreak of the rebellion he has been it ting about from one side of the Atlantic to the other, like “the Flying Datchman,” as » sort of wandering ambassador of Jeff. Davis. Hla bas gone to Mexico at last, probsbly-.te to patoh up some sort of alliance, offensive defensive, between the “confederacy” and thd Emperor Maximilian, and in this capacity we may expect, before long, to hear of this myst tious Soule and his mysterious movements again. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wasematon, Oct. (2, 1608 1 ‘THB STATE ELECTIONS. ‘Thore ts a groat anxiety manifested by republicans and democrats to learn the result Of the‘lection in Poouayt venta, Both parties claim with great covfideace to havd carried the State on the home vote, and the repubiesms ay that in any event the soldiers’ vote will give them @ mejority, whioh will be tocreased in November, 38 auderstood that the soldiers’ vote from that State be much less than was anticipated, In comsequonce ef @ faiture to forward to them their tax receipts. ‘Tho domocrats are @ good deal disappointed at the fe sult of the election in [ndiana, and were not prepared fee 80 large @ loss of Congressmen in Onto; but conseia themecives by their gain on the popular vote In Penusyt vanis. Pending the elections thore ts an absolute deareh of news bere. Many of the officials are absent om political business, and the attention of ell classes & absorbed in the political events transpiring ia the Gates prolimioary to the Presidential eieotion. DEATH OF CHIRP JUSTION TANEY. Chief Justin Rogor B. Taney died here to-night a8 cloven o'clock, after a fow days illoess. THE QUOTA OF TH DISTRICT NOT YET PILLAR Tho quote of this District under the Last call (or troops stil! lacks considerable of being flied, ands s @uled at City Hallon Friday ovening next to make am rangemeals to supply the deficiency without (arther drafting. INDICTMENT FOR LIDBL, The Grand Jury of the District Court has indicted Thomas U. Waiter, architect of the Capitol dome, ang others, for libel publishod against C. F. Anderson, a Paper exhibited tos committes of the Houso of Repre @eatativos, befure which Mr. Anderson was @ potitioner, ANOTHER GUERILLA RAID INTO MARTLAMD. Oo Sanday the guerillas made enothér raid into Mary jand, aad attempted to carry off goods, but were drives, back across the river by the citizens without adoom- plishing their objoct. THE POLICR AND FIRE ALARM TRUEGRAPE. ‘The fire alarm and police telegraph bas at last become 000 of the tostitutions of Washington. Mossrs. Keanaeg & Co. have completed its construction, and now, with te ald of the government steam fire department, some security from disastrous fites may be enjoyed. SPRCIAL BUSINESS LICENSES UNDER TER (NTERNAR REY BNUB act. Tt will be recollected that tho ameoded Intereal Reve: mee Inw requires special licenses for carrying on af branches of business other than those specially desty Rated in the statute. Regulations om this subject were tssved from the Internal Revenue Barcau, and tn some portions of the country the tax was collected. But thems reguiations have lately been suspended, probably wit & view to revieion or to await the further action of Com< grea, as the clause tn question wae attended by ember reesmonts io its enforcement, wayay ATF A ~ sein ee |, bed ‘appotated an em sign (a tb8 hae AQ ordered to report to the frigate Gam SUBSORICTIONS TO TES GOVERNMENT LOAN. =~ ‘Tho sudsoriptions to the seves-thirty loan for the last two days, reported te the Trensary Department, amount to $869,000. Ye tL = in Te Opera, faa BALLO mH ® Fins So WO owe Ataboat the time last been fair the house would have bese part; for, as 4 was, © large and inthrested aadience wag prosaat, ‘The opera was Verdi's Ballo ia | pe to the fret time, with « cast aimoet a was (be Amelie, and sang the musio with fervor and expression. Beilint, es Rotobart, was even Detter than last season, while Massimiliani, as sang well, but had to contend with the recollection notable favorites in bis part, Brambilie gave sattefvetion as tho Page, singing the music with sweetness and purtig, her volce preseating the anomaly to whieh we have be i 5 4 i fore insafficiency of power in the solos, ang a clear Velling oflect in the higher music of the concerted Pieces. The now contralto, Frida do Gobete, made her debut fm a part but poorly calculated to enlist the sympathion af an audience, The witoh musie of Uirics cocurs satirety: fm the second act, and does not contain a singto pre we promineat and telliag; but la the solo strains ae evince the richness and sweetness of hor predecessors, TRO apper notes are of af aneven Dut the lower Geap end (all, A better part will gives Judging of the capabilities of this artiote. ‘The opera for Friday night will be Laoresta Borzta, production of Faust boing postponed til! next weet. Saturday there will bea matines performance of Miss Clare Loutes has Qoon added to Mr. , sok’s Dompany, and w ber exqutette Of Marguerite on Monday al ‘The sext agora will bo given on GavasQay ev QRingy.