The New York Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, aaurs corpoy BEVNETER EDITOR 4ND PROPAIBTOR CPFION N. W. COLNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XNIX.... sete enee es AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ACADEMAMR MUSIC, Irving place —Iraviay Oruma— Te Poniro, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Tu. Cricene WALLAOK'S THEATES, Brosdway.—Tix Couraot, NTKR GARDSN, Bi way—Sonoo. or Ruroaa— Lori in Liviu _ohrmrre THEATRE, Brosdway.—Manrix Cnuerie- NEW BOWERE THEATRE, Bowery.—Cosyic quis—Harry aN—HaG OF Tuk Tomes. vena BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery. —Lys:iu—Sorn Love—Mtuumens’ Houipar, Tt SoLbian rom pengnn ey? THEATRS, 485 n Vict ne Broadway. —Victiw: MAPPOTHEATRON, Fourteuth street. —Keressi GyunasTic AMD ACROBATIC ENTERTAINN” Rtonmenlty BARNUM'S MUSEUM. Brosdway.—Tox Tavus—Twe Dwaars, 40, at all hours one OF PELL oY THe BaseMENT—Paui's EeTURN vening, BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, " Mechanics’ wey.—Breiorian Sones. Foot Fatis ox pe Kanenr. woon's MINSTREL BALL, Py Bread —Eraiort. tence, Danes, ac. —Pamrokwine Dos 4 CAMPRELL MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery, — anp Exciting Muiaxcu or Eruioriay Opvities Se ™® SALLE DIABOLIQUB, 585 Broadway.—Rouuar Bruise DODWORTH H. i ,DOPWORTH HALL, O05 Broadway.—Aurewos Wann AMERICAN THEATRE. No. 444 Broadway,—Bas1. anvouines, BURLERGURS, &C—Houncus OF ine HEtens Hall, 672 Brot Dances, Buaunsgces, &0.— BOPE ORAPEL. a et wHOPE ORAPEE, 720 Broatway.—Woonsorrr's Roux SEW YORE MUSEUM. or ANATO! Cuniosrne amp Lacronzs. hon 84, Fah ina BOOLEY'S lg ee Lh eROM RS OrERA HOUS s Brooklyn. —Brmortas THE SITUATION. ‘We published in tho second edition of the Hxraun yes- terday morning 8:me very im;ortant and most cheering news from Missouri. Qu Saturday last throe diferent detachments of the Union troops appaar to have engaccd portions of Price’s rebel army. Geueral Curtis, after fighting the rebels in frovt nearly all day, at night foll back to Kanras City, on the western border of the State; General Pleasanton fought with their rear guard during the latter part of the day, pressing them heavily, while some Kansas &nd Colorado scldiers seem to have been engaged ‘with another force of the erf®my in the vicinity of Wést. port, which is ta Jackson county, Missouri,and on the Une between that State and Kansas. The resirits ef all those affairs, however, were indeeisive. Baton Sunday morving the diferent detachments of our forces, as well as we can understand from the somewhat foggy telegraphic report, were united, ané « line of battle formed on the Westport road, five miler south of Kansas city. After skirmishing with the enemy for ® considerable time, the whole Union army adranced, @aud the Agbting became heavy; but the revels svon com- menoed to give way, and were gradually forced back by the tnfautry aod artillery for over ten miles, when Plea- Santon came in with his cavalry, s grand charge was mado, and Price's army was routed and driven southward. Our caval joseiy and ‘urlousiy pursued, while our infantry followed up a No Ostimate of the casualties has yet been given. The rebels loft a large number of dead aud wounded “on the fetd. The Union loss was not beary. fast ae yx A courier from the front who arrived at Kansas City yesterday reports that eben be loft Price wes ic full retrest, with gur force: epon him, twenty miles beyoud the Sin § groaud. Farly’s defeat by She in the great battle fought at Cedar creek on the 19th Inet. is acknowledged by the rebel press, as well as by Early bimseif, who admite that be lost thirty pieces of artillery, but ciajms that the : ‘ close Onion purruit of kim did not amount to much, as only cavalry were engaged in it, he says, sulfered moat “badly demoralized’’ Richmond that ‘fall of the equipage captured in the morning was retaken by the evemy,”’ end that at Strasburg the captured artillery, beco ur infantry, reverely, The camp who, being too to follow. Enquirer ways < mixed up in the street with some of thelr own, throngh the ‘‘demoralization of the drive “By night,” the same paper says, “our army was in New Market, worn ont with fatigue and perplexed anc was aber ont mortified with the results ef the day’s operation ” Ooly one thousand iu killed and wounded and » smal! nu mber of men captured ie the estimate of rebel casualties by this voracious sheet Intelligence from Hilton Head, $. € fhe neighborhood of Charleston to the Drought by the steamship yesterday. and our forces iu 21st instant, wes Arago, which arrived here The city of Charleston wae still being « daya The Oa Morris Island have beou removed from their cu rebel prisoners recentiy kept under fire Comfortable position by General Foster, be having been tmformed that the Unien pritouars under fire ic Charies- The yellow fever is Ati! prevailing i tue cily of Charleston; but rot a case 8f 16 hae occurred within the ‘hat place. General Harder, bas proposed to General Fo Overs captured in shelr ri Proposition has been reforred by the latier officer to the Buthoritics at Washington, Pigdtly to come inte our lines, and bring Df desttiution and demoratization in Dixie From to front of Rothiog to reier ¢ Fences of picket firing and occnsiona! shelling ‘We are stil with ton had boon similarly relieved Tu.on lines er feet b cotmmanding at Charleston, Yau exchange of ai! pris ve copartmentr, and the Rebel esorters stil! cn the ul bmond end Petersburg there is eyood the usun! every day oocur- ob intel igence from General Sher pan; Dut we eball doubtices beve geod news from kim before many deye Forres ) the Tensetsee river, belo yory apparent, from the movements [rom (0° latest & porate effort is bemg made by the com of the clty’@ Atlanta, and thor delay least, Any Columbur, + hove bad im contemplation. < exehuted with such skiti'as Indicates Chas another again reparted croezing w Florence, Alabama, 10 I 8 which we get of IH e that a des uthern papers 8 to regal pos for the wate ib campaign against Macon, By & rapid move an Tlood’s directs the armies of the rebels iv the bas changed his base to a point eo far north of , , and in such close proximity (o the railroad by ’ Sberinau’s troops were supplied, ag bo require tbe an's army to at once hold Atlanta and ¥ 4 bis !ime Of supplies, At Cedar Biuts, on the Coosa eopplies about equi distant irom hy man’s line of soppiicr at the important points of 1) (geport, on the Tewncesoe river, and Reseacem, on the anaula, A campaign apeinet bin eppaare to be neces bey, and isin fact Pevescdle lt, Ceneral Sherman appears to have been com: polled to leave one corps io Bale of lege wt Atlante, while be mover agaioast Hcod we te mainder, Tt ia pow apparcet that te Dare we roo, ta heir cota wnition, tot io fon of Shy tf) Hood har a bave ¢ dy in operation, In order to sholied by our two bundred-pounders, and. it would seem, with @uch effect, as no less than five large fires in it } tien” wi Bad been viribie on Morrie deland wishin eight | will newtralige the Momroe doctrine from the Lakes to = 288% for money. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER ‘25, 1864. sigerajan. only the corpa of Stewart, Ice and Chestbam, but a corps under Dick Taylor, whose move meots in North Misste'age Indicacc that be is reimforcing Bood, while the reporta® crossing of the Mississippi by Goneral J. G. Walker with ais division of the Truns-Mis- Sismppi Army would lead us to suppose that @ great force ia Delag concentrated agsiast Sherman. At Cedar BiUNé Hood is near the lower terminus of Lookent Mountain range, In a movemerit against Bridgeport his army or ‘Taylor's would heve tis great range upon their right Sank, Aud in a movement against Roasacca npon the left dank, thus folly guarding the tank, From tha extracts which We publish this morning from the rebel papers nearest the scone of action, it is ver upparcat that the enemy is suxious to got tmto Attauta, and bave detached a brigade of cavalry under young lvorson, of Georgia, and the Cee wilitia, to occupy the city ae soo as the Twentieth corps ts starved out, Binall bodies of rebeis are sitll scattered around ut various points ia Kentucky. Four regiments are satd to be at Centreville, in Jickman county; but to whose command they belens 1s not known, Banda of marau- ders were «t Owensboro and Henderson on i riday last, ‘The number of guerillas scattered along the Ohio tr the mouth of Salt river to opposite lvavaville, Ind., js estimated at two thousand. By advices from Permuda to the {7th inst, we learn that the pirate Braine and his confedersice have beep arrested and heid for trial for seizing and burniog the steamship Roanoke, The court refused to bail them, Our usual daily supply of Southern vewepaper ex- facts contains many items of interest. An order has boop issued from the War Ofice in Rich- mond piscing {n the army one-fifth of ali the employes inthe Ordnance end Nitre bureaus. This will add, it is thought, over four thousand ¢o the military forcoy ‘These persous entered the service of these bureaus under a distinct promige from the rebel War Department that they would be exempted from military vervice, Their impressment now iz another evidence of the desperate etraits o: Jeff, Davis for want of men; still another is furnishod in the assignment of the North Caroling junior reserves, amounting to one regiment and one battalion, who by law cannot be ordorat out of the State, te the works defending Riclhmond,and Petersburg, “during the Present emergonoy.’’ The Moatgomory (Ale.) Advertigy is disgusted with Jeff. Dar ‘Bue and cry rained after every disaster for more mn,” aud says that “it every day becomes more obvious that they (the rebels} are the victims of persistent mismanagement.” A recent de- monstratton of at least one thourand Yankee infantry from Suffolk towards Weldon, N. ©, i# mentees, by the Goldsboro Juurnat. We gave a few days ago extracts trom. Richmond papers of the 17th instact aiating cut whe United States gunboat Niphon was blown up and sunk below Wilming ton, N. C., by a rebel shot from Fort Fisber, Thie can- not be true, as Admiral Porter telegraphed to the Navy Department yesterday that he had rcoeived letters frum officers on board the Niphon dated the istn. Mosdy’s and White's guerilias are again prowling through Fairfax and Loudon count): Vite On Sun- day & pumber of thom appeared withia eighteen miles of Washington, and two of them were caytured. General Custer, in couzideration of bis distingutshed services in the Shenandoah valley, hae been promoted by the President so the rank of major genoral of yolun. teers. EUROPEAN NEWS The steamship Deigiam, from Londonderry on the 14th of October, patsed Father Point yesterday on her voyage © Quebec. ton on the 12th of October, arrived at this port ye ‘The steamship New York, from Southanp- day. Our news report from both sources lr tye dayr inte The London Piner. confesses that war policy is the only the United States cat now adopt towards the ret In thelr canvass of the probable {ssue of tial election the English journal to the optnion that Mr, I incoln wi! be re« A correspondent of the London Cimes wr ting treal, furnishor importanypaformation reeyecting position of she rebel ‘exiles up Canada towards @ peace, While some of them are “atill for war, that the coufeteracy can lgbt for fifty yeare, and 20 forth, others ‘high tn the confidence” of the Richmond government confers that a day may come when the South, from luck of men and supplies, will be aos make a peace ‘compromise’ eitker with | McClellan. The plen of arrangement to.be an independ. ent Southern exec sive und defensive, based op thé Monroe doctrine, thie Wawn- tugton Cabinet to decide her it be Srst enfor Mexico or Canads, and u free tariit moder whic England States would bave a oecided preference over England and France in the cotton trade. ‘The Brasil Moti into stuat many waaithy Sonth ern slaveboldarg bad ‘alread io the South American repub The repor: Joneral Sberidun® operations exercised infivence on the Loudon Sivek Kuchange, rigate Niagaes had selved s veewe! under Spandsh fuspected Of being a biocknée runner, ‘The privateer Florida cap! the utp Rights, of Ricvmend, Me., and reiested ber under bonds, Capiain Semmer left Liverpool on tue 18th of October, with eight od one hundred of the Alabama, to take command of the privateer Ranger at Madeira It iw expected that @ powerful “ Britist American na \ apring from che Canadian Confederation which ance, of Southern Vancouve Rogeta appr men vestion The insurrection against the Frebch im Algeria was extending and axeuroing the complexion of a ho'y war, A Cabinet criviz imminent ia Vieuns, Couus Reed berg being unable to solve the foréign complications of Austria. The Dano-German Conference delegates i» Vicana bad Jed che Givancial arrangements between the Ge: ané Denmark, Some minor details were also and & treaty of peace wae abort to be a wark, 1s war anid, would pot lore se moch territory as was xt frot supposed. ‘Toe King of Prossia and wroley om the Ro. 0 of Najoleon's wperor of Muesta ware to ‘There wag riill much depression ip commeretal cirolen Dusinere commected with the cotton trade was at a staud sill Three new failure—one af them {n £20,000 steriing-—are reported. The fonds were more steady ip London, and the tone of the mone: ket was improved op the 14(n Inst ‘The price of the rebel cotton loan experi but went down 1 np England. All slight Lovdow and ad in Liverpool, Man beater. Console closed in London op the 14th of October at 985¢ The Liverpool cotten tosrket wae dull and irregular dering the week, and the prices re- coded curing the five days two pence per pound on Ama On the J4ib tust, the market closed dull at noms were dull and downward. riear atione. Broadstulir Trovieions were dull. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The British bark Voyagor, from Moutewideo, arrived Sho Drings little or no pews. The revo lution in the Pande Oriental atill continued when she walled, with Dns little prospect of abatement. On the } 20th of Angunt General Flores wae reported to be within sit miles of Montevideo, i} rmen yesterday @ spicy commun!+ cation wae rocelead from City Tnepector Boole, rindicat: ing bimseit from (he charger preferred against him by here yontorday. th the Roard of Alde the Mayor at the former meeting of the Board, Soon afterwards » moweage from MayotGunther was read, re- moving Mr, Boule (row office. Both papera were referred to the epectal commitioe having this matter in charge, A committee of five was appointed to maice arrangements for the tameral of ox Alderman I'eter Mitebell, after whieh the Board adjourned uot Thursday afternoon ‘The Board of Councilmen met yesterday afternoon, and, after concurring with the Aldermen in resolutions rela- tive to the death of ex- Alderman Mitoholl, they adjourned out of reepect for the memory of the deceased. ily Inenector Boole wos reatandar served with Marae the div. | i ane say | nded es em grant planters | Gevther's order removing bim from office. Mr. Boole Fefuses to recoguize the Mayor's power to remove bim, and bolds on to the oftive How Georse H, Pendieton, the Gemocratio o ndidae for Vieo President, was ereoaded last cight at the New York Ho:el by the McCisfiau Legion, A large aasemblace WRs collected in front of the building, and during a pause im the music Mr. Vendieton was iatroduced and made an ediiress to the poopie ‘The opponents of the (see State conatitation of Mary taod yesterday mado application im the Superiar Court ta Pali gore for an order compeiling Governor Bradford to exoude the voles of soldiers outside the State. The ap: Wi fon was refused by the court, andan appeai (rem fie oe Soon wag taken, and the matter witt be argued bo- | foe > Court @f Apyeals by counsel of dinginguished fates) co noth widen. ‘sat oy eooarred yesterday eveningin front of the Fin » Hotel between two Kentuckians, brothers. ty aw, ocucd Jamew S, Phelps and William A. Giasa, in Wiooh the former received some severe cuts on the hoad from « quae {n the hands of th@latter, and in which ajso pum ber of piste! shots were recklossly fired by both {odividvais, without, singularly enough, doing any Wwjury to either or to tho\crowd In frout of tho hotel. The cause of the encounter is said to be the suspicion of Giass, whe was the assatlant, and who was some time ago sent to Fort Lafayetic, that Pheips had givea the ivformation which ted to bis incarceration by the government, Both fon were taken to the Twerty-ninth precinct station house, and will be brought up for examination thie m.ra- lng at the Jofferson Market Potice Court. To the Cora Hal divorea case 4 motion was made yesterday by the de.endant’s counsel for alimony, wbich ‘was oppored by Mr. Hatch, on the ground that his wife ‘was better able to get along in the world than he was, It was claimed that Cora was a public lecturer, and as such was io ibe receipt of Ave or six thousand dollars per annum. Judge Leonard {ook the papers and roserved his dectsion. . The case of Robbins and Mawyer vs. Hoary Demat, fo the Superior Court, before Judge McC unn, yesterday, atiracted considerable attention smoug dry goods mor- chants. Tho defendant recommended the plaintits to soli $1,265 worth of dry coods to a merchaut mamed J W. C, Anderson, representing that he was solyeut, and doing an excellent business. goods were sold on six mouths timo, us suggested; but before the note matured Avderaop made an assignment for the benefit of his cred- itors, appointing Demarest bis assigneo, and making him a preferred creditor. The plaintifis held that they wore, deceived by the ropreventatious of Demarest ag to the solvency of Anderson, and clsimed darnages to the amount of $1,500, The Court decided that Demarest wi not responsible for the payment of the debt, amd dis- misied the complaint, A large roxas mocting of German republicaus was heid last evening at the Cooper Institute. Dr. Karl Kessmane presided, and stirriag speechss, in the German language, wore made by ox-Governor Suiomon, of Wiseonsin; Hon. ¥, Haasareux, Meister to Contral America, aud others. Governor Salomon criticised in severe terms the course pursued dy Vresideat Ruchanaa in the early days of secession, and likewise referred ubfavorably to the poll- tical course of Stephen A. Douglas, on the Kansas Ne. braska bit, and other leadiog democratic measures ad- vooated by Mr. Dougias ‘The inquest {nto the cause of the accident on the Har- Jom Railroad, near Seventy-seventh street, was continued at St Luke's Hospital yestorday. A number of witnesses, mostly employes of the company, wero examined, and kuve covtragictory testimony as to the rate of speed at which the train was ronning before the occurrence of the accident, They te that the track and rails were good to exterior appearance; but a piece of the broken The examloation in the case of Mr, Maaniag, broker, of Wall stroet, charged with Raving in his possession and Passing some of the Treasury notes @olen in Auguat last from the Boston firm of Brewster, Swé¥s & Go, , was com- mencet yesterday in the Tombs Police Court. Two of three witnesses were examined, who disclosed little in addition to what bas been already published, and tbe cage wae adjourned till this afternoon. A mau oumed Thomen b. Boyd was yesterday arrested and committed to the Tombs, in default of twenty-five hondved dollare bail,on snepicion of being the person who,on Sunday last, attempted to burn tbe building as } the corner of Duane street aud West Rroadway. Boyd occupied apartments on the premises containing prop- erty which he bad ineured } Joh Lazarus, som of Izzy Lazarus, of prize ring fame, | was verterday arceetad and required to give five hundred dollars bail to keep the pence for twetve months, on the complaint of tts mother, who arid that be was about to j lawve for Capada to engoge in a prive fight. +} A collision occurred between 4 passenger and a stock | { tesin on the Balkimore and Ohio Railroad early yesterday | morning, by which the (rains were very much smashed | ap and three porgone iuetant!y killed and twelveor Sfteea revernly wounted The Seventh regiment, National Guard, bad their regu. Inr fall inspection yesterday afternoon, They were in. | | epected at Lata: by Major Herriot, | ment numbered some pine bundrat mer | markably weil Accordisg t The reste | and loomed re- the Cisy Inspector's report there were | aes deaths 1a the city during the week ending on the 24th | of October—a decrease of 42 a5 compared witb tl tality of the week and 74 less than « uring the corresponding week last year. | The stock market was firmat the opening yesterd: | avd afterwards tmp wroved, The gold market was | firm, and the price varied from 212% to 21634, the istter being the closing quotation. Governments ware dul! bi Tha rive in gold erday had the effect to ren- er holders of merchandise tenacious of higher prices; bat, im the abrence demand deyoné the exigencies of the mom there were but few changes im prices, Yoreign nude rma ery quiet, and except th isolated cage, scarcely any businees wxs done, Momentic prodace wan generally ) firmer. and prices were bigher for almort orerrthiog. } Petroleum war decidedly firmer. Qn ‘Change the four market aivanest lhc a ‘4 w better demaod Wheat was lous active, bud bo. higher, Corn was scarce, rer, Oats were iru. Pork opened firmer; and heavy. Hoel was more active and | m, with a moderate demaud. Whiskey { was firmer, while freights coptioned duit Prestecntlat Susccesion wins Untom Qucation—The Herald Platrorm. We have very little faith io party platforma. They are the work of irresponsible politicians, and are expressly contrived to chest the people. Poor Plerce, for instance. in 1352 was brought out and triumphantly elected upon the popular Union platform of Henry Clay's great peace measures of 1550—and what fol- lowed’ The deltberate violation in 1864, by poor Plerce ond hie party. of the pledges upon which they came into power. iu that disastrous; revolationary act the repeal ef tbe Missour compromise, which was a part of Mr. Clay's adjustment. What next? Io 1856 the demo- Sratic nominee declared that he was vo longer James Buchanan, but the Cimcinnati platform, which was the Union first and let. Yet before the close of *his administration Mr. Buchanan practically recognlved the rightof any State to break up the Union, in quietly permitting the organization and arming of a Southern re- hbellious confederacy against the Union The: ses of poor Pierce and poor old Ba- chanan have chown us that there is no reliance to be placedin party platforma, And why ehould there be! Did the late shoddy Convention at | Baltimore, or the more recent shent-per-shent Convention at Chicago, possess any authority to bind any party to its platform? Not a parti- cle. The selfconstituted law makers of the republican party from sheer necessity renomi- nated Mr. Lincoln; but, as if to show his con- tempt of their assumed authority, iv accepting the honor conferred he flatly told thom that he would oonstrue their platform to please him- self. The managing copperheads of the Chi- cago Convention nominated eh MeOley- lan, not from choice, but from compiision; and he, #00, in accepting the nomination flatly in- formed his would-be masters that he had @ platform of his own by which he should be guided, Anticipating trouble of some sort from their revolutionary declaration of princi- plos, the managing copperhegds at Chicago Syrther declared that Copvepyed © permanoat jth j dens or gri body, subject to the call of Mr. Belmont and his Nationa! Committee. We understand, how- ever, that in view of anotber meeting of the Convention, Mr. Belmont has been vainly en- deavoring to get up a meeting of his commit- tee, from which we conclude that the above Chicago concern has fallen to pieces beyond the power of resurrection. ‘The simple truth is, we have at last arrived at that important period in our national poli- ties when eaob Presidential tab must stand upon its own bottom. ‘The reiga of these irrosponsi- ble, juggling and humbugging national party conventions is practically over. Their plat- forms buve been productive of nothing but mischief, and they now go for nothing. The people have learned to look to the respective candidates in the field as the embodiment of the policy which this or that man will pursue if elected. So we now look to Prosident Lincoln and General McClellan. In the next place, as an organ of the independent, thinking masses of the American people, as a permanent inatitu- tion, reflecting the movements of public opinion with the great évents of the age, the New Yorx Hxaavn, in behalf of the people at large, may claim a right, superior to that of any convention of juggling politicians, to Set up @ platform for the Presidential candtdates in the field. This is what we now propose to do. That our piat- form is for the comple! re-establishment of the Union in its territorial integrity and national dignity we have already declared; but for the special information of President Lincoln and General McClellan we will here reproduce it. We hold-— 1. That our only road to peace lies through the destruction or dispersion and dissolution of the armies of the rebellion by force of arms. We have had of late, on numerous occasions, and from various authoritative rebel leaders, including Jeff. Davis and his associate, Vice President Stephens, a sufficient amount of tes- timony to show that they will have no peace, no armistice, no convention of all the States, which does not recognize in the very outset the rebellious usurpation 6f Davis as an indepen- dent governient,’ or the dissolution of the Unioa into as many separate nations as there are States and’ Territories North and South. We have, then, no alternative but the oft re- peated ultimatum of Jeff, Davis, which is to fight this war through until the armed forces oa the one side or the other are demolished This is our ultimatum, our platform, as the. first essential to peace. We stand by General Grant and the armies of the Union, negroes and all; and by Admiral Farragut and the navy of the Union, and we are for aiding them in every way to scattor the armed forces of Jeff. Davis to the winds, and to drive him and his despotic rating junta from the couatry, as the shortest and only road to peace. 2. With the accomplishment of this glorions result our platform of reconstruction is that which was submitted some two years ago by our Secretary of Statd, Mr. Seward, to the French government; the simple plan of declar- ing the vacant seats in both houses of Congress ready for the return of all the representatives due from the unrepresented States. With the armies of Davis dispersed, and witl the arch- traitor himself buried in his “last ditch,” or in ignominious exile, there meed be no fear that any of his associate conspirators ef 1860-61 will be returned to Congress. Good Union men will take their places. As for the rem- nants that may still exist of slavery and the “slave power,” they may be left to die a patural death. They wre already out of the category of living issnes. Next, with thie reorganization of the Union in both uouses of Congress, we shall have a “convention of all the States,” authorized by the censtitution and competent to settle all outstanding bur- ances of any State, or section, or class of individuals, resulting from the legir- lative measures adopted to carry on this war. 3. In the rectification of our foreign affairs, the next thing in order, we hold, will bea special ambassador to England with a de- mand for indemuity for her piratical spolia- tions upon our commerce during this rebellion, and for a substantial treaty of security for the future. At the same time, a special ambas- sador to, or call upon Vrance. will be required by the general voice of the conntry, dersanding of Louis Napoleon the withdrawal of bis mock- heroic imperial establishment from Mexico and the reeogaition of the Mexican republic. In thie connection the Monroe doctrine, we contend, must be revived, and declared as ex- tending to all the independent nations of this continent. In the settlement of these questions, and others comuected with them, naval and commercial, it may become advisable to sub- mit them to the consideration of a European Congress af the great Powers, includ ng the new kingdom of Italy, for the purpose of some common agreement; but, in any case, Leuis Napoleon sonst vacate Mexico, and England must foot the bills arising against her for the depredatious of her Anglo-rebel piratical cruisers. This. is the Hyeatp platform for peaca and the restoration of the Union. The three pro- positions of which it consid we respectfally and in good faith submit to the consideration of President Lincoln and General McClellan, in hebalf of the great body of the American people. As ¢andidates for the Presidency we thus desire Mr. Lincoln and General Mc€lellan, specifically and serio to detine each his posi- tion upon each of these aforesaid propositions. Considering the brief interval to the national election, we moy suggest the propriety of an early answer. As the contest stands between Lincoln and McCletlan--although the Hrnatn brought,them, both into the field--we must have a little more light, or, #0 faras this journal is concerned, the election will probably go by default. Is it not perfectly fair and proper that we should make our choice the candidate who stands upoe our etna Tnx Oryney ue Por: ittes.—A republican jonr- nal Inye much stress upon and makes some boast about the fact thet a large number of the clergy are publicly desecrating their sacred desks by intermeddling with politics because they happen to be on the side of the candidate which that journal favors, Now a more unfor- tnnate cirenmstance for the destiny of the country could not occur than this aame inter ference of the clergy in secular and political affaire. All the facts of history, in every part and in covery period of the world, show that the darkest, bloodiest and most disastrous times were when the government was under the dominion of the clergy. {t was so in Spain when tho Inquisition ruled by its cowled and mereiless masters, and tho shadow of » living death was over all the land. In France, whon religious fury begat a St. Bartholomew on the ne band and a erce Huguenot persecution | 6 Rea cee nee an SSRIS DRESDNER, SENOORNUEUONOINLSSONNCORCESSIGEEE ST Te ne asamapandamtpibaetaliisesiiie YP rama emanapesempecen-rsnuttten spre ramren--rmamcuee’ |B 5S TPE aegis on the other. In Eagland, when the vigor of SAD UTA Daw Ue nO Hunan ar fou Gaetan, | Gyoiners orcs omovirg im from ce” ar woe | body, mubject tothe call of Mr. elmont and | on th other. In Bogland, when the vigor of | Hs Men! Opening of the Sensen—ue the saints during the Oromwellian republic, and preceding it, laid the basis of retaliation which burned savagely in the fires of Smith- field in the days of James and Mary. In Germany, during the bloody ware which succeeded the Reformation. In our own land to-day we can trace the cause of this fratricidal strife—the evil passions which have made men even as tigers—maialy to the clergymen of New England, to their public de- clamation from the pulpit upon questions purely political, and the ander current of in- fluence which they exercise in private. Piety and polities have no affinity. Look at the piety of Jeff. Davis and the piety of Abra- ham Lincoln; both of whom call Almighty God to witness that they are shedding the blood of thoir fellow creatures for His glory. It is not ® subject for boasting, but for sorrow and shame, that so many of the clergy are meddling in politics, The gafety of tho country never can bo secured until they are compelled to remain in-their proper sphere, which is to take care of the eternal welfare of their flocks and to preach peace an@ good will to men. Measures Resolved Upon. It will be seen by a telegraphic despatch in another column that there is no truth ip the rumor of a difference of opinion existing among the heads of departments at Washington in re- gard to the manner in. whichthe rebel forays from Canada are to be dealt with. Not only will the raiders be followed up wherever thoy are to be found, but the most vigorous mea- sures will be taken to prevent a repetition of these acts of rapine and murder. We are rejoiced that the administration has come to this conclusion. Were it to hesitate or diplomatize about the matter it would exhibit aspectacie of timidity that would disgrace it in the eyes of the world. We have been made to feel sorely the cénsequonces of its truckling to the British government in the affair of the Trent. Joc {t shown a firm bearing on that occasion we would have been spared much of the hostility that bas proved of such invaluable assistance to the rebels. The sympathy of the British aristocracy for the South was kept within bounds until that act of weakness taught them that they were safe in giving it practical effect. Were we to confine ourselves now to such dilatory redress for the vielation of our frontier and the massacre of our peaceahle citizens as the authorities of the British provinces may eboose to accord us, we would find the rebellion assuming fresh pots of aggressive strength. In ail such cases there is but one law--which must override all otkers—that of self-defence. Men cannot sit down and debate about points of international delicacy while their homes are in flames and the blood of their kindred ensanguines their hearthstones. There is the less reason for our being overscrupalous fa this regard from the refusal of! the British government to take precautionary measurea to guard against what has occurred. When the insurrection of the Canadian patriots—a movement in which so many of oum people sympathized— broke ont in 1837, and threatened to assume the proportions of a successful revolution, our Congress passed alaw to maintain neutrality op our borders, and sent Ggperal Scott to the frontier to see that it was enforced. That was the act of an administration determined te prove to the world that its sense of duty and fair dealing was not to be controlled by its inte- rests. When our own troubles come upon ue we had a right (o expect from the British gov- ernment similar Weatment. On the breaking out of the rebellion Mr. Seward, anticipating the exposure of this couytry to a border war, applied to it to pass a law analogous to the one enneied by Congress, and to adopt such other measures as might be necessary to main- tain peace on the frontier. I: wonld be sup- posed that after the example we had set it tbe government of Great Dritain would bave made no difficulty about acceding to #9 prudent and reasonable a request. Forgetful of the past, and speculating probably on the advan- tages that might accrue to it from the condi- tion of things which we were endeavoring to provide against, it returned us @ flat refusi Uaving done everything in our power to avoid the difficulties which these raids may produce between the two governments, we have no al- ternative left us than to fall back upon the doc- trine laid down im Mr. Fox's repiy to Mr. For- syth in the afair of the Caroline, quoted by us yesterday. ‘The further repetition of these out- rages will prove to ue that the British pro- vineial autherities are either unable or unwill- ing to prevent them, and we shall thus be in the position of right claimed by Mr. Fox, sad can follow - ad puuish the marauders wherever weme, i them. This is identically the po- sition as+\raed by General Dix, and the govera- ment wonld have failed in ite duty hed it not endorsed it. Ja driving us to such an ex!:eme course, however, it mutt be added that the British government has neither manifested a regard for good faith nor for ite own interests. Its course in respect to it is of apiece with the one-sided neutrality which has marked its conduct thronghout. It knows well, as was shown in the affair of the Chesapeake, that we have nothing to hope for in the way of redress from the decisions of the provincial judges. The refusal, therefore, to provide, by the pas- sage of a law, against such occurrences, looks very like @ disposition to encourage them. Such, certainly, has been the effect. We need soarcely say that nothing ean be more foolish or suicidal as regsids the interests of the provinces. Theve forays are intolerable, and will lead, if continued, to a high state of exas- peration among our people. The British gov- ; ernment must be laboring uader ® strange in- fatmation not to appreciate the consequences of them. Ji does not seem to be aware that the United States are eager for an early end of the war, not for the suppression af the rebellion merely, but for the opportunity which it will afford them of settling thee, with other fereign accounts of long standing, lw the meaawhile @ Congress will assomble that will be leas dis pored than any of its predecessors to take such things tamely. One of the fret of its dutice will be to decide whether the reciprocity treaty shall be renewod or wboljshed. How can the United Siates be expected to divide their trade with the British provinces if the British gor- ernment continues to allow the shores of the Lakes and the Weet India Islands to remain the bases of the operatiotis of the pirates and fili- bastors who are robbing and murdering our le? The people of the Britich provinces woutd do well to teke, this question inte cony Caat of Orittictsm. Donizetti's magaificeat opera, I! Poliuto, will be repeated at the Academy to-night, with Ca rovzi Zucchi and Massimiliani in their greet roles. Wo expect that the opora season will really open in epleadid style this evening, Hitherto, for one cause and another, some ef our fashionables have neglected to attend, ab though the general public has crowded the heuse, The artiste, too, bave feit strange aad timid. Massimiliani, who can act as well as ke oan sing, haa been hampered by an excess of medesty—a rare and pardonable fault--end has not developed his best powers. Last fel day, however, in this same opera, both he and Zucchi .achieved a splendid artistic succesm This shows that the ice ia broken—that the feel: ing of strangeness is beginning to wear off— and undoubtedly we sball have even a grandez performance to-night. Let ua regard the past representations, then, as mere public reheare- als, and begin the season auew and with eolak The singers and the audience are now well a quainted; the opera of Poliuto is one of the finest that Donizetti ever wrote; the city is fall of wealthy aristocrats from Petrolia and the provinces; our own aristocrats canuot afford te allow the opera to succeed without them; the election interregnum, when the Academy will be closed, is close at hand; the fall fashions are all decided, or ought to be, if we are to have any fall fashions whatever—and, in a word everything conspires to convince us that this evening will be the real opening of the seasom There is no earthly reason why the operatie season, thus inaugurated, should not ran along brilliantly until Christmas. Maretzek kindly suspends operations during election week, im order to give his artists and his patrons @ chance to vole; but after that there will ba nothing to hinder or interrupt his success Thauks to an overruling Provideuce, the Hiracp and McClellan’s letter, the country id sure to be saved wuichever Presidentis! oandis date is elected, and so we need no longer trouble ourselves about that, Tonest Old Abe is for the Union, and Little Mac is for “the Vaion at ell hazards,” and consequently the Union wili be preserved no matter which of them enters the White House next March. Imy deed, Grant, Sucrman, Sheridan, Farragut aad Port will take care of the Union, and the people will take care of them, all tho polft& cians to the contrary notwithstanding. But m& order to getile the question beyond a perad& venture, we lay dowo our platform—the people's platform—the “true national. plak form—the American plalform—in snotheq column this morning, and according as the candidates accept or reject this platform the issue will bo decided at the polls. The members of the, best society may therefore rest oasy. We are not going to wreck and ruin yet awhile. As the French say, there are politicivns and politicians; but behind the poiilicians are ¢he Amorfoaa re and they have made up their not te consent to destruction durlog this gener ation at least, There is too much money, toe much petroleum, too muck good wine, tee much good music, too much sunshine, and toe much happiness generally in this great country for any considerable number of people to be willing to give up the national ghost for the sake of any candidate or any convention. Leg our fashionables eat, drink, be merry, buy righ dresses and go to the Operas. The Hrrarp wit manage the election for them. Untli the trq candidates resolve whether they will stand em or off our platform there will be a lull iq politics, whic the public may improve by bearing l’oliuto sung by two of the best artists we have had in New York since Grisi and Marie, Afier the candidates announce their intentiong the election will be #0 simplified that it can be settled in a day’s voting without any further bother. This election aside, the musical critics esq greatly to blame for the backwardness whiod we havq previously noticed as a characteristie of (be season. Zuechi, Massimiliani and the New York public were strangers to each other, and it deyolved upon tbe critics to introduce them. If we had a few genuine operatic oritien among us this would have been done long age But the New York musical critics either have fish of their own to fry, or are so technical ag to be anintelligible, or so silly as to be unread able. They write but seldom, and when they do write their readers wish that the criticisms had been crowded out. If by some chance @ quarter of a column is devoted to the Opera, the principal artists are dismissed in a few lines, and the remainder of the space is frit» tered away in foolish notices of, operatic no~ bedies. Now, the leading artists are the Opera, just as the leading generals are practi- cally the army. Grisi and Mario sung all over Europe for years; but who knows or cares whe sang with them’ When we talk of Julius Cwesar, we never stop to think who were his subordinates. When we mention “The People’s Lawyer,” we recollect no one bat Solon Shingle, Sheridaa has proven that he is the Army of the Shenandoah. Pecksniff and Jofterson Brick are “Martin Chuzzlewit.’ Napoleon was France. Edwin Forrest is all of “Metamora.” Why should we waste time and space with tm ferior personages in criticism any more than ip history? If Zucchi ond Massimiliani succeed the operatic season is a success. If Grant ang Sherman fail the military campaign ia @ failure, We are surprised, therefore, that the critics should deprive great artists of their laurels ia order to adorn Httle people with cabbage Jeaves. We are still more surprised that they should make thetr articles so intolerably dul, Ap operatic criticism ought to be as brilliané us the performance. The lights, the ladies, the dismonds, the silks, the music, the covtumes, should flash aud delight in the orlt{cism as wel? asin the Academy. The prevalent impression in the provinces, where people read the crith cisms, but have uo opera, is that the opera im New York is as solemn ass church, and tha the fashionables attend it as they attend @ faneral, because it iso duty. Kven here ous critics deter many persons from attending, They are too solemn; they put crape on theig pone; they write as if an opera were a dirge Wo have always labored to reform this style and chall bestow even more attention upon it in futnre. Doll criticisms injure the prospecta of the Opera quite as greatly as anxietios aboas the election. Now that we have setilod tha election business, and Zucchi and Magstmitland hove introduced themselves, the eritios have only to do thelr duty, and the present sérsou will surpass the most | brilliagt on record. Bas, Woon m Grinr—THlon, Ben, Wood is tx distress, Ho is fuming, fretting and ddgeting, and all about nothing. Ho wants very badis to go to Congress, and ho thinks that we aro ae obstruction ia Bia wars Web Op Ja vase mead —_—