The New York Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1864, Page 4

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NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, QOTOBER 26, 1864. on Monday on account of the absence of counsel for the defendants. Nothing of importance coanected with the case bas yet transpired. The person who is represented as the managing man for the rebels states that they belong to the “first families” of Kentucky, and formerly belongea to Johu Morgan’s force. This raid, he says, is only the beginning of @ series of plundering expeditions soon to -be carried out along our Northern border, The individual recognized as the leader of the gang, and who claims to hold a captain’s commission in the rebel servigg, says that he received tho orders for this raid from General Eariy. The United States steamer Neptune arrived here last night, from Key Weston the 19h instant. She brings no news of late military or saval movements of im- portance in that quarter. The yellow fever had dis- appeared. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Thestoamships Louisiana and Glasgow, from Queens- town on the 12th and 13th inst., respectively, arrived at this port last night, Tbeir news is not so late by one day as that brought by the Belgian to Father Point on Monday, a tefégrapic report of which was published ia yesterday's Heeacn, Hon. Henry G. Stebbins, representative in Congress from the First district of this State, has ‘resigued. He states that be was elected by a strict demooratic vote; but that during the session of the Thirty-eighth Congress which has. expired his labors were given to the sup- port of the government for a vigorous prosecution of the war until ite autnority shall be re-established over every portion of our territory, and that if he should retain his seat during the remaining sossion of the term for which he was: elected he should adhere to the same course, But, feeling that in this line of conduct he does not meet the approyal of a mojority of those who electec him, he deems it bis duty to give them an opportunity to choose some one who shall more correctly represent them. in tho Board of Supervisors yesterday Supervisor Purdy offered a resolution to invite certain members of the Citizens’ Association to confer with the Comptrolier and Committee op Anaual Taxes to ascertain what reduc- tious can be made in tbe tax Jevy, The resolution was laid over. Tho resolution to Jease an armory and drill room for the Ninety-third regiment was adopted over tho Mayor’s veto, Tho Bourd adjourned to Mouday next. A mass meeting of the various trades was held last evening in the Cooper Institute, under the auspices of the Citizen's Association, to further the movement now on foot to effectuate @ reforin in the city goverument. Mr. Thomas Whitebead presided. | Mr. Bartlett was the first speaner. After setting forth the objects ot the Associa- tion, he alluded to the extortion now practiced by the city railroads by increasing the fares. He condemued, in Severe terms, the injustice of the companies in rob- bing the working classes, and his remarks were loudly applauded. Mr. Fisher, of the Painters’ Association; Mr. P.C Baker, of the Printers’; Mr. Wittenberg, of the .Chairmakers’, and Mr. Stevens, of the Plumbers’, mado short and effective speeches, urging their jellow work- men to elect honest aud c.pable men at the cherter elec- Our correspondents with Sheridan’s army supply Curther interesting information relating to the battle und overthrow of Esrly’s army on the 19th instant, which ‘General Custer says was the most complete and decisive ‘defeat the rebels bave yet suffered in the Shenandoah valley, and which he thinks bas put an end to serious firhting there, as the Richmond authorities cannot afforg, sufficiently to reinforce their wasted, scattered and’ dis ‘Organized valley columns to enable them to again make ‘oy headway. * Affairs in Sheridan’s camp have Uherefore again settled down into comparative quiet, though parties of his cavairy are still out in various di- fections, picking up rebet stragglers. A letter from President Lincoln to General Sberidan, tendering to him and tis officers and men the thavks of the nation, was read on Monday im front of every regiment It is aid tbat Karly succeeded retaiuing but one piece of all nis artillery. Prisoners and persons living io in the valley assert that Eariy aud Longstreet have gone to Richmond, with as many meu of their corps as they saved after the defeat und rout, to reorganize and re equip, and that oaly Roszer’s division of cavalry, which ja in the vicinity of Mount Jackson, remains behind. Our total losses on the 19th, in killed, wounded aud mis Bing, are giveo by ove of our correspoudevts at a little over four thousaod) =A number ol the officers who dis- tinguished themselves in the battie have received pro- Motions (rom the President. Our latest despatches from Missourt represent that our cavalry wore still hanging on the rear of Prico’s army, doing bim much damage, Price has struck into Kansas, instead of moving directly south towards Arkangas but bis force is represented to be rapidly decreasing, trom desertions and the unappeasa- bie of Pleasanton’s troopers. The Union loss in Sunday's fight is aaid to have been only two bun. dred aud Ofty in killed and wounded, Between four and five bundrod of the rebels were captured. One of our St. Louis corr Fal Bun ~ondents-gives additional particulars of Gene- i ‘ted cavalry fight of Friday last Detween the Big aud Little Blue rivers. According t advices from Arkansas the rebels in the southern part of that State appggr to be abandoning {tgand marchjg towards Nortbern Louisiana, Marmady Geveral who recently had a force at Camden, bas leit there, marching rapidly towards the Red river, aud At is estimated thas only about two thousand rebels now Temain between Saline river and Camdea. Great activity prevacis iu all departments of the Union army, indicating Srraogements for intercepting Price somewhere 10 Northera Arkansas, on bis retreat from Missouri, uniess Geverals Rosecrans’ and Curtis’ forces should use bim up defore he gets out of the latter State, General Herroo, who ison an inspecting tour in General Canby’s West Mississippi Military Division, was at Littic Rock at latest dates. The armies betore Richmond and Pelersburg remain in their comparative quiet. The weather continues fine, the men are in the best of spirite,and everything is in eplondid condition. On the north side of the James the Dutcb Gap canal atill receives the enemy's occasional iron compliments, which are responded to from our side; but 09 the south sidoof the river even picket Gring is again suspended. We are yet without information regarding the late movements of Sherman and Hood. In regard to the raider Forrest, we have the statement of the Memphis Papers that he is concentrating a lafge rebel force at Jackaon, Tenn., and that he is enforcing a most merciless Conscription in the country adjacent to Memphis, We have some important intelligence from Bermuda, ‘Via Halifax, brought to the tatter port by the steamship Mavrocardatos, in regard to the rebel pirates and block- edo The Tallabassee and Faith lef Wiiming- too, N.C, 000 night rocentiy for a piratical raid. The Diockade runner Little Tuttle, which left the same Might, Iadoo with fix bondred bales of cotton, had Brrived at Bermuda, The Hope, with fifteen hundred Dales, and the Falcon, witb seven bundred, also from Wiimingtoo, bad arrived at Nassac. The new steel Plated steamer Colonel Lamb, fresh from a Beitish sbip- yard, and dosignod for blockade running, sailed from Halifax last evening for some Southern port. The passengers of the steamship Reanoke, captured od burned by the pirate Braine, have arrived at Halifax Trom Bermuda. Braine made a proposition to the captain ‘Of the Roanoke, after be had got possession of the vesse}, Bo bond ber for $60,000 in gold, which was rejected, ‘Wo bad adviose yesterday, by an arrival from Bermuda Ba tbe 17th inst., that Braine and all bis gang bad been pacrested and beld for trial in Bermuda, aod that bail io noir CASS WAS Telused. According to our despatch rom Halifax, he passengers of the Roanoke, also Bermuda oo the vu \ast., say that the pirates were hei: borates. The examination of the Bt Albans raidora was com: runners tion in December. Count Joannes has commenced a suit in the Superior Court agaiasyJames M. Nixon, the circus manager, to recover $1,500 for professional services rendered the de- fendant in a libel suit, wherein Henry G. Parker, of the Boston Courier, was plaintif, and Nixon and Edwin For- Test were defendants. A copy of the complaint was: served upon the defendant's attornoy yesterduy Senorita Eckhard, who was committed to the Tombs a few days ago on charge of abducting Muster George Winefred, a youthiul acrobat, and the adopted son of Francis Siegrist, was released yesterday by Judge (ardozo, oa a writ of habeas corpus. Imme diatejy afterwards application was made to judge eonard® in the Supreme Court, Chambers, for a writ of habeas corpus commanding Mrs, Eckhard to produce the cimid in court, The Senorita obeyed the mundate. andthen emsued a long discussion between the lawyers as to who'was the proper guardian of the subject in dispute. Judge Leouard said it would be necessary for both sides to produce testimony, and adjourped the further hearing of the case until this afternoon, In the Cora Hatch divorce case Judge Leonard issued an order yesterday allowing Cora five dollars per week alimony aad one bundred dollars for counsel fees. ‘William Martin, who has been separated from: his wife Mury, made application yesterday to Judge Leonard for the custody of his three children, who are now with their mother, The matter was under consideration when the court adjouroed for the day. . Some persons yesterday picked up on the shore near Fort Hamilton 8 wouden box, about a foot square; which indicates a recent heavy robbery of watches im some quarter, The box contained a large number of empty tortoise shell, mcrocco, wooden and pusteboard watch cases, which must origivalgy have contained watches worth several thousand dollars. ‘The Quebec Provincial Convention is still in session, but ts expected to acjourn to-morrow. It bas been for some days engaged over the financial plans for the pro- posed colonial confederation, A man named Charles O. Brockway was yesterday ar- rested and committed for trialen the charge of baving ‘stolen seventeen hundred dollars from Mr. John Bough- ton, of 306 Mott street, atj® Houston s§reect drinking place, after drugging him. None of the money was found on the prisoner, who said that he lost it by cam. ling. mae examination was bad yesterday morning at the Jefferson Market Police Court in the case of William A. S. Phelps, the men engaged in the Glass avd Jomes S. caning and shooting affray in front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Monday evening. Charges of felonious assault were preferred by both individuals, who were each re- quired by the magistrate to give bail of one thousand dollars to answer the complaint before the Court of General Sessious. f George T. Curtis delivered an address last evening be- fore the Young Men’s Democt Association, The cor- Tuptions of the present administration and their restric- tions on personal liberty, he said, were sufficient reasons for any one to labor for a change by the election of Gene- ral MeCieilan to the Presidency. The mention of MoClet- Jun’s namo elicited warm applause, The Commissioner of Internal Revenue bas ordered the suspenaicn of the suits brought against the Adams and American express Companies, for neglect to stamp their receipts, on satistactory explanation being made of the cavse of such mission. By a telegram received last evening from Washington we learn that Messrs. Simon, Frank & Co., accused of complicity in the jate transactions which caused the arrest of a number of merchants in Baltimore, have been discharged by the government, there being vo evidence to implicate them, The monster cannon, the largest in the world, will be tested at Fort Hamilton this morning, the arrangements for its trial on Monday last, as at first intended, not having been completed at that time. It is designed to fire ten shote, commencing about eleven o'clock. The ball used in this gun weighs about half a ton. ‘The Northwestern Sorg! Convention commences its sessions at Rockport, Iilinois, to-day, and will continue tor three days, The Western papers predict that it will Prove the largest and most successful demonstration of the sugar and syrup interest ever made in the Northwest. ‘The stock market yesterday morning was firm at the improvement of Monday; but later in the day it became heavy. The gold market was strong jm the morning, but tell off four per cent in the afternoop, The highest price was 218)j, and the closing one 214. Government fuecuritios were dull. ‘There was more buoyancy in commercial circles yes- terday, and as gold ruled frm ata pigh Ogure, and was pretty steady witbal, there was more disposition to efiect business transactions than was the case on Mon- day, and jp many articles there was a fair trade consum- mated. Still there was no general movement betoken ing & belief in @ permanent improvem: On Change the flour market opened at 15¢. @ 26c. higher, but closed rather heavy. Wheat opened gc. ® dc. higher, but closed at about yesterday's prices, Corm was in fair demand and 20." Sc. higher, Gate were lc. a 2c. higher, with a fair Dueiness colwg. Pork was Ormer, with an increased demand, Beef was steady and active. Lard was firm snd in improved demand, Whiskey opened firm, bat closed dull and drooping. Freights continue dull. Beef cattle were again in superabundant supply this week, and the market wos accordingly heavy and Ic. a 2c, lower. Poor stosk was very plenty, and full 20. low: er. Prices varied from Te. to 17}¢c,.@ 18¢., the latter an extrome rate, The mamket wan overstoeked and quite & bumber were leit over unsold. Milch cows were steady at (rom $25 to'$50 a $75. Venis wore in fair demand, but 8 shade lower; sales at 9c. a 180, Sheep and lambs wore also rather lower, varying from $4 to $7 @ $8. Hogs romain about the same; sales were at Ile. a 13c., witha fow sales at 130. The receipts were 6411 beoves, 113 cows, 1,018 veals, 20,840 sheep and lambs, aod 19,706 co 2 1 Bt, Joluns, Gnade, yorterder, being ovsipoued } bogs. ‘The Herald Platform—W hat Do the Cage @idates Bayt The platform which we submitted to President Lincoln, General McClellan, the people and the politicians, yesterday, is brief, comprehen- sive and emphatic. Unlike political platforms in general, it means something, and states what “it means very decidedly, Our platform has only three planks; but each of them is sound and staunch and strong. The first plank is the suppression of the rebellion by foree, as the surest and quickest mode of securing an hon- orable and permanent peace and a reunited nation, The second plank is a reconstruction of the Union, after the rebellion is suppressed, by the return to Congress of representatives from the seceded States, to be followed by a convention of all the States to seitle all un- settled questions. The third and last plank is the vindication of the Monroe doctrine, the expulsion of the French from Mexico, and the recovery from England of damages for the injuries she has inflicted upon us during this war, These three planks cover all the issues, and any candidate who stands upon this plat- form will stand side by side with the masses of thé Anierican people, and will assuredly be elected. We offer the Hzratp platform to Mr. Lin- coln and to General McClellan, and ask them what they have to say about it, and whether they are willing to accept it. To these plain questions we require plain answers. We do not want a joke or a story from Old Abe, or @ non-committal note from Little Mac. Let each of these candidates state his views fairly, fraukly aod explicitly, and we will give them immediate consideration. If Mr. Lincoln endorses our platform unequivo- cally, we will waive all past: errors and differ- ences, and promise him our support and that of the people whom we represent. If General MéClellan steps boldly upop our platform we will make him the same promise, the drivel of the Shent-per-sbent Convention to the contrary: notwithstanding. If both of the candidates agree to our pledge, we will at once decidé which of them is the more worthy of trust, and give him the benefit of our decision. These offers we make in perfect good faith, and they ought to be accepted in the same spirit. But it must be understood on bogh sides that we shall hold our "candidate to a strict acconnt- ability to the platform if he be elected. Wo deal, it will-be observed, not with the past, but with the present and the future. We re- cognize the fact, which the partisans seem to have forgotten, that we are about to elect a President for the four years to come, and not for the four years which have passed. Dead issues have ne attractions for us: we look at the issues of the present, and at those soon to be forced upon us by the inevitable logic of events. Who cares what Lincoln or McClellan did two or three years ago? The question that interests us all is, what do they pledge them- selves to do in the years to come? Ia order to obtain a definite answer to this question we have prepared our platform, and now we ask the Presidential candidates to respond to it immediately. We know, and Messrs. Lincofn and McClel- lan ought to have sense enough to know, that the Baltimore and Chicago platforms are not satisfactory to the people. How coud they be satisfactory? They were concocted by politi- cal conventions, and were intended to mean anything or nothing as the exigencies of a po- litical canvass might require. A political con- vention does not represent the people, and has no hold upon the sympathies of the people. It isa machine constructed by partisans to effect certain partisan objects. A, set of small, grog- drinking, ignorant, rascally politicians get to-’ gether in what are called primary meetings, and elect a set of larger politicians to what are called State conventions. These State con- ventions, thus constituted, appoint another set of still larger politicians--who drink wine in- stead of whiskey and steal thousands instead of hundreds—as delegates to what are called mational conventions. Then these national conventions, thus appointed, select the candi- dates and lay down the platforms, in accord- ance with instructions frem the party man- agers. Now, what have the people to do with all this? Just mothing. The politicians de- prive the people of all power in the premises except the power of voting; and that simply amounts, in most cases, to a choice between two evils. The Baltimore and Chicago Con- ventions were composed and conducted in the manner we have described. If the voice of the people had been regarded by either of them, General Grant would be the next Presi- dent of the United States beyond a doubt. But the old, bad order of things has prevailed, and itonly remains for us to make the best of it. Compelled to choose between Lincoln and McClellanf or to have no choice at all, we have bit upon a pepular and practical way by which these two candidates can put themselves squarely before the people upon the only issnes the people care any{bing about. Neither Mr. Lincoln nor General McClellan need be afraid to respond. If it be not beneath their dignity to reply to the address of a convention of professional politicians, surely they will not compromise themselves by replying to the Heravp, the organ of the people and the rep- resentative of that great, patriotic, natienal sentiment which politicians cannot appreciate, but which guides the destinies of the country in spite of them. very few days from this the most momentous election in our history will be held. We therefore appeal to Mr. Ljn- coln and General McClellan not to delay their replies to the Henato platform. Crry RaiLroaps anp Tax Governorsuir—A Catt vor INrorMaTion.--Ramog asserts, and with great circumstantiality, that there is a conspiracy on foot to raise the rates of fare on all city railroads to ten cents per passenger, by legislative enactment to be obtained next wine ter at Albany. Will not the “Citizens’ Asso- ciation” and all other semi-political or wholly political bodies, having, or pretending to have, the welfare of our citizens at heart, address a ciroular to all candidates in general, and to the two candidates for Governor in particular, ask- ing them how they stand upon this point, and whether they are in favor of allowing a grant for a Broadway railroad to pass into the hands of the Weed-Tammany managers, together with @ consolidation of all the existing lines of city railroads into one grand monopoly, on the same principle, or want of principle, that was illua- trated in the charter of the Consolidated Stage Company? The same question should be urged upon every candidate for Assembiy, 80 that the people may have, for once, the privilege of voting understandingly in this matter. Let the cirgulare be vrepared aad wont at once. Our MNitary Prospette—The Spictdel Policy of the Comfedecacy. Between the way in which the rebel States carry on the war and the way in which it is carried on by our government, there hae always been a great difference on many points; but this difference bas never been so great or 80 distinet as it is now. Hitherto the difference has been on minor points, and now it ison a vital one, and is, moreover, all in our favor. Within the past year we have learned to con- centrate; and we have by the concentration of troops into large masses delivered within that time those really effective blows that have put the rebellion where it {s; and the rebel goverament has within the same period prac- tised the wildest dispersion of its forces. For some months past we have lent all our energies and given our whole thought to the prosecution of the war at two great points. Grant has gone from the Rapidan to the rebel capital, and, according to the rebel papers, has been beaten at every step of the way. But he has not been gobbled up ‘or driven from bis position, and to-day he threatens the very ex- istence of the only army upon which the rebel government can place the least dependence. Since the Ist of May last the rebel General Lee has deliberately claimed to have gained at least twenty victories over General Grant; yet all these victories have not ena- bled him to get rid of General Grant and the army with which General Grant keeps him 80 inconveniently close in the fortifications of his capital. And what is the result? Lee’s twenty “victories” have exhausted Lee, Grant is as strong, as fresh, as Confident, as deter- mined as ever. Can Lee in the bour of ex- haustion have any hope to do what he could not do in the hour of his strength and vigor? No, his hope is past; he can never shake free from the fatal hold with which Gravt will, be- yond all possibility, s00n end the wonderful struggle in Virginia. That immense issue is safe in tbe hands of Grant, and it is the great and definitive one of this war. Sherman has pursued an equally grand ca- reer in the West. He has encountered less resistance than Grant, and has consequently had an earlier success. This success has given us possession of the only city that the cenfede- racy, in case of the loss of Richmond, could have rallied upon. Sherman’s capture of At- lata bas done fer the rebel confederacy just what one of the Kearsarge’s balls was said to have done for a rebel midshipman on the Alabama. It was reported that fn that vaval battle one of our shells hit a midship- man (Anderson), and it did not carry away Mr. Anderson’s head, hand or foot, nor his right arm, nor his left arm, nor his right leg or left leg; but it carried all the rest of Mr. Anderson except that. left leg, which remained on the deck, ready, it might be supposed, to do what duty it was fit for. And just thus Sherman has carried away all that was the rebel confederacy, except that one member on the James which still heroically boilds its place, but which must fall because it is not a nation any more than Mr. Anderson’s foot was aman. Hood bas recently made some queer movements near to Sherman, not to get into Tennessee, but to get into Atlanta. His efforts are, however, puerile and ridiculous, and will end either in Hood’s ruin or in nothing. While we have thus waged war with purpose and great effect on these two vital points, what have the rebels done? They have resisted us stubbornly on these two lines, but they have not resisted us so stubbornly as they might have done, because they have not resisted us oa these two lines with all their force. They have frittered their power a@ay in unimportant places; they have divided their energy and weakened it. They have pursued still that ignis fatuus of outside assistance, absurdly imagining that it was more important to make arguments for Northeran politicians and European agents than to overthrow our armies im battle. This policy tempted them to use men, with whom they might have delivered great blows at Grant, in vain advances down the valley and raids into Maryland and Pennsylvania. Such advances and such raids made arguments for the copperheads perbaps—and they enabled rebel agentg in Europe to say that the United States had made no progress in the war, and that the rebels were nearer Washiagton in 1864 than they were in 1861. In that way these rebel movements kept the rebel loan up, and kept the mepperhengs up; but they kept Grant up also. At the present time Breckinridge is in East Tennessee--probably with not less than ten thousand men. Price is in Missouri, with twenty thousand men. There may be filteon thousandin Dick Taylor’s army. Only a few days ago a rebel force threatened Memphis; there is a considerable force in Canada en- gaged in the organization of raids, and on the 18th inst. Early had twenty-five thousand men in the Shenandoah valley. - Here are from seventy to seventy-five thousand men. Had this force been added to Johnston’s army, Sherman could not have ‘taken Atlanta, and we should have been beaten in the West. But the rebel government relinquished ‘a great object like that merely to scatter the war over a wide territory in a vain attempt to flank us out of the fame of our great successes, and to affect the Northern elections. But Early has been annihilated in the valley; Price was badly beaten on Sunday last, and Taylor and Breckinridge, though they may be wise as serpents, are certainly harmless as doves. Thus.the last rebel dodge ends in a ‘miscfable failute. Jerr. Davis on toe Otnen Tack—Userct Inrormation From tae Eneuy:—When Jeff. Davis fade his melancholy speech at Macen, Georgia, he was “down in the dumps.’”’ The leading rebel journals lectured him roundly for it; and so, in a more recent specoh to the people of Augusta, he changes bis music. He fays, “we commenced the fight without an army, without a navy, without arsenals, with- out mechanics, without money and without credit. Four years we have stemmed the tide of invasion, and to-day are stronger than when the war began.” These are bold statements, and it mist be admitted that upon thelr crude resources and appliances the rebels have done wonders in this war. But if they had ns army in the out- set they bad halfe million of men skilled in the use of arms, and as horsemen. If they had no navy they found England ready to supply that deficiency, in her desire to break up this great republic; and they had stolen at least a balf dozeg government arsenals, well stocked with army Floyd; and they had any quan- tity of artillery and stores of powder, &., @oiaed with the pumecous United States — — forts and avy Yards sppropriated f°™ Norfolk to New Orleans. And they had some money, too, secured with their seizure of United States mints, custom houses; #e.; and various useful materials they had, whieh had been deliberately bought on credit ia the North to the extent of two or three hun- dred millions of dollars. But the 'codlest @e- claration of Davis at Augusta, With “the Yan- kees”’ in Atlanta, was the foolish assertion that his “confederacy” is stronger than when the war commenced. At this rate by the time he is cooped uf in South C&rolina he will be in- vincible. But Jeff. blows a little too mugh, and in do- ing so he gives some very usefd™ information to “the Yankees,” which will probably not be overlooked by General Sherman. To amuse the citizens of Augusta, Davis says:—“Once we had no arms, and could receive no soldiers but those who came to us armed. Now we bave arms for all, and are begging men to bear them. This city of Augusta alone produces more pow- der than the army can burn.”’ Here, then, is the great powder factory of the confederacy; and this, a5 much as anything else, may account for the desperate efforts of Davis to turn back the army of Sherman from the heart of Georgia. The October Micogions—Prospect in No- vember, Two weeks bave passed away since the State elections in the Central States—Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana—and we.are yet without the full official vote of either of those States. The probabilities are that it will not vary much from the reported majorities now sonar ne- cepted as the result. Taking these as the basis, wesfind cqpsiderabte reaction against Mr. Lin- coln since the vote by which he was elected in 1860. The total majority for Lincoln in 1860, in the three Central States which have recently held elections, was 78,340. The total republi- can majority, in the same Stites at the recent election, is 46,500; republican loss, 31,840. In this result@ve have a reaction of about forty thousand against Mr. Lincoln in those three im- portant States since his election in 1860. He then received fifty-nine thousand and six hundred ma- jority in Pennsylvania alone, or upwards of fil- teen thousand more than the present republican majorities in all three of those States combined. On the other hand, the majorities of the repub- lican party in Obio and Indiana combined have increased some twenty thousand over that given by those States for Mr. Lincoln in 1860. This presents a singular result: There is evi- dently, in the aggregate vote, an important reac- tion against Mr. Lincoln and loss of popularity since his election. This change mag prove large enough in some localities to affect the vote of the Electoral College this year, but it does not reveal in the detailed result sufficient reaction in itself to defeat Old Abe. What may be accomplished by the democracy in November, with the above result in October to work upon, remains yet to be seen. It will re- quire a much larger republican loss to defeat the re-election of Lincoln and insure the triumph of McClellan, and it must be more general throughout the loyal States. What then are the prospects for November? The result of the elections thus far plainly shows that the democratic party bes not in itself either the popularity or the strength to elect McClellan. If he finally succeeds it will be through his own popularity, drawing to him the support of the people sufficient to carry him over all obstacles—even over those placed in his way by the managers of the party which has nominated him. That thousands of the Citizens of the loyal States will vote for him who have no sympathy with the democratic party, as it bas been conducted during the last two yearsg appears from all accounts quite certain. But will this be sufficient to elect him? The imbecility of Old Abe, his mismanagement of the war and total incompetency exhibited at almost every stage of the present struggle with the rebellion, has alienated many whose sympathies are with the republican party, who may or may not Vote for Mr. Lincoln according to circumstances yet to be developed. Both McClellan and Pendle- ten are now equally on the Union platform. The copperheads have done Little Mac all the harm that it is within their power to do. They have expended their strength and are power- less for further evil. But there i yet consid- erable doubt about the niggerhead faction of the republican party. Their curses and de- nunciation of Lincoln have been loud and deep. The Wades, the Winter Davises, the Pomeroys and other niggerheads have been far more severe in their accnsations against@ Old Abe than the opposing party. It is true that they have in a measure eaten their own words; but recent developments show that it is somewhat donbt- ful whether their niggerhead followers will ac- complish the same feat. We therefore con- sider the result of the election on the 8th of November as quite doubtfal. It may yet prove that the soldiers hold the balance of power as in the recent election in Pennsylvania. The chances on the surface favor the re-election of Lincoln; but we are living in revolutionary times, and it is impossible to tell what upbeavings may take place in two weeks. In this condition events are fast drifting along, and the conflict thickens. The people ealize that our generals in the ficld have the rebel armies within their grasp, and place: implicit confidence in their early triumph. The candidates for President an@ Vice President of both parties are on the Union platform. Whatever, then, may be the result of the election, it cannot fail to be advantageous to the interests of the country, followed as it will be by Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan and Admirals Farragut and Porter routing and destroying, by their masterly skill, the rebel armies and navies. The country will then be placed upon a firmer and more en- during basis than ever; we shall then come out of this struggle with a better knowledge of our own power than we have heretofore pos- sessed, and, once more united, we shall startle the world with our rapid strides. Reser, Rerorrs or Tae Barrie or Orpar Creen—Somue Discrerancies.—The reports from the Richmond newspapers, which we published yesterday, of the battle of Cedar creek have probably satisfied the hitherto incredulous copperheads that the rebels om that occasion wore sent “whirling through Strasburg,” com- pletely whipped out and in a somewhat de- moralized condition. The Riehmond journals say that there are some discrepancies in the reports received of the artillery captured and the namber of pieces lost by Early, one ac- count puttiag his net Joss at twelve guns and another at twenty-three. All their reports, however, agree in saying that the guos cap- tured by Barly, 09 bia gugcenstul morniag eur: eT eee ‘| moralization, and in its losses in men, as im “ee prise, numbered eighteen, while General Shor idan says it was twenty-four. We guess that SnTidan is right, and that in the confusion of the batus x of bis pieces, left behind’and recovered in the afternoon, had not been dis- covered by the enemy. Thus we account for this diser?P8ncy- But there is anothef in these Richmond » ports which cannot be so easily explained, witout taking away their last drop of cold comfort, 12 one of these reports it is said that “the enemy '® infantry is reported te be yery badly sn ihe. ecan - pursue.” Another says, not attempt to follow whem Ur troops fell back.” Another says, “the ¢slemy’ ’s cavalry alone pursued over Cedar cree, fhoir infantry remaining behind.” In connectYon with these statements we are to}d that the revel “10088 in men was not heavy;” but then the, say “all the camp equipage captured on the creek in the morning was retaken by the enemy, end at Strasburg (three miles farther on) the cap- tured artillery becoming, by the demoralixw tion of the drivers, mixed up ig the street wit? some ten or twelve pieces of our own, the whole of it was abandoned. By night (the writer doubtless means the next day) ourarmy | was in New Market, worn with fatigue, and perplexed and mortified with the results of the day’s operations.” Now, the question hére recurs, how was if that, if the beaten rebel army was not pursued, it made the good time—infantry on foot—from the turning-point in the battle (after marching and fighting a whole‘day) to New Market, a dis- tance of thirty-six miles, by the next evening! Seldom bas a defeated army, when closely fol lowed up, made better time ‘than this; and if “the rebs” were not pursued they must cer tainly have believed that they weregtill they halted at New Market. They were in fact. pur- sued as far as Mount Jackson, over thirty miles from the turning point in the battles, where, a from sheer exhaustion on the part of the vice tors, the chase was abandoned. We dare say they have learned at Richmond, by this time, all about the battle; that Early’s soldiers fought well till the tide was turned egaingt them, when the retreat of his army, in its de gyerything else, was the most complete and disastrous rout of the war. Y § an@ ‘The British Secession Sympathise Goyermor Scymour. One of the most impudent documents that has ever emanated from any body of men is the address that has been recently forwarded to this country from England, cdlling upon us to stop the war and recognize the independ- ence of the South. It professes to be signed by a large number of the British aristocracy, hierachy and clergy. Now, when we consider that it is to this very class of Englishmen we owe al our troubles, we cannot help wonder ing at the effrontery which has prompted such @ recommendation. For upwards of thirty years they have zealously labored to break up.this Union. By the preachings and teachings of their abolition missions ries, their profuse expenditure of money te manufacture an anti-slavery sentiment at the North, and the moral blow which they struck at the institutions of the South in the emancipe tion of the slaves of their West Indian depends encies, they succeeded in creating that hostile feeling between the two sections of this coun- try which culminated in the present war. Let it not be pretended that our difficulties are merely the natural result of what British fanatics were at one time pleased to term @ great humanitarian mevement. The men wha took the lead in it had other objects than the emancipation of the negro or the gratification of the maudlin sensibilities of Exeter Hall audiences. ie know from the well au- thenticated declaration of Sir Robert Peel, when the bill for West Indian emancipation was passed, that “the measure would prove the death blow of the American Union.” Nor is it in declarations alone that we are enabled to trace the motive which has all along actuated the ruling classes of Great Britain in their crusade against slavery. After they forced us into a bloody and protracted war by their appeals to the fanaticism of a portion off our people, they turned upon the North, and not only denounced it for “its barbarity ia shedding the blood of their brethren for such a cause,” but lent all the aid tfley could afford to the slaveholders whom they had been im the habit of so bitterly assailing. Had it not been for the sympathy and assistance thas ren- dered, the rebellion would long since have been crushed out, and some compromise en- tered into which would have put an end, on just and equitable terms, to the institution of which ‘they, at one time, professed such ahorror. This was not their object, however. It was not slavery, but tbe Union and the growing ascendancy of a repyblican form, ef government that they sought to destroy. This they did everything that they could to accom- plish by unfair and underhand means. They built privateers and blockade runners for the rebels, furnished them ‘with gast quantities of @ar material and took theirloans. They acted in fact as if they themselves were at war with us, under pretences of neutrality that only served as a flimsy disguise to their hostile pre- ceedings. Now, finding that all their efforts to destroy us have proved vain, they have the im- pudence to ask us to.commit national suicide by yielding the South all that it bas ever demanded. ‘ q And through whom comes this modes? re- © ques! Through Horatio Seymour, the Gov- ernor of the State of New York, who is made their agent in this final effort to induce the |; people of the United States to overthrow their own government. And yet we, of New York, are asked to again elect this same Horatio Seymour as our Executive. Were we to do so we would be endorsing the sentiments of his English admirers, and surrendering the institations of our country in compliance with their audacious demands. This must not be. Let us begin to teach our politicians that they cannot be at once American statesmen and British tools. News from the Pacific Const. THR ARCTIC FLERT AT SAN FRANCISCO—TREASURD FROM OREGON—THR LEGISLATURE OF VANCOU- VER's ISLAND IN FAVOR OF A FROERAL UNIOW WITH BRITION COLUMBIA—REGULARITY OF THY = | REGO! }» BTC. Me been San Francisco, Oct. 24, 1864, Bix more of the Arctic whaling fleet have arrived. ‘Tho steamer Sierra Nevada, from Oregon and Britis® Columbia, brings nearly $300,000 in gold. ; ‘The Legislative Assembly of Vancouver's Island have panvod resolutions favoring a federal Union with Britis Columbia. ‘The news from the mines is generally favorebie. ‘The overiand mail is now coming regularly, We have Now York dates to September 28.( Tho Nicaraugua steamer America arrived yosterday PROCeUne wish onanonnne dank lad Mare, Kats Gant, 26, ;