The New York Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1864, Page 4

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In Mouday’s Heratp we announced the Gefeat and rout of the rebel Price’s army, on tho pre- ©oding day, on the western border of the Stato, five miles pouth of Kansas City, by Generals Curtis and Pleasanton. ‘The rebels were chased al! Sunday night, and constant Gigbting with their rear guard was kept up. At aytigut on Monday morning they made a stand, and Were again handsomely whipped. Price struck across from Missouri into the Stateof Kansas, our cavalry (ol- flowing closoly and relentlessly on the heels of his disor gawized army. Oo Tuesday avd Wednesday severai fights ee place, ia all of which he was badiy beaten On former day fifteen buutred prisoners and twelve pieces of cannon were ored. {rom bim. Major Gene. wal Marmaduke, Brigadicr Gcutral Cubel and several colonels are sald to be included among theso Prisoners. On Wednesday tho r were driven fla great confusion in a southeasierly direction, and @t last .accounts the shattered and routed rem tants of them were over twenty-five miles beyond Fort Boott, Kansas. On that day Price burned two hundred Of bis wagons to prevent their capture. Of yesterday's ‘Operations we have no report, except that our forces are Gti in vigcrous pursuit, nor have wo received apy Statement of the losses on either side; bat there can be mo doubt that Price is most effectually used up. Bis grand expedition for pillage, robbery and the ipetallation of a secession goveroor in Minsouri bas come to most bumiliating grief. General Steele, with a large Union force, is said to be at Fort Smith, to contest bis return to Arkansas, Murders and the most atrocious outrages by guerillas in Kansas are reported. About one hundred of them 00 Sunday ight last waylaid and murdered four Union colone’s and burved a number of houses near Fort Scott, Bo confident do the people of Western Missouri and Kavsas fee! that ali danger from Price bas passed that martial law bas been abolished, and most of the Kansas mail It is eaid that the rebels bave stilia considerable force to the Shenandoab valley, which is being reorgan- @ Lave gone home, led It Bas beon for come time koown that they have a largo body of cavairy in the Luray valley, od to ascortain the precise strength of this force ® reocnnoitering party of three buvdred of cur Cavalry, under Major Gibson, was sent out on the 24th fust. They came upon the rebels, why, though immensely euperior in numbers, fled before our troopers after firiag ove yottey, Our meu pursued them for @ considerable istance, capturing a battle flag and several prisoners, till the rebels reached their fortifications. Not having the hecesuary force to make ao attack on theso, after Gaining the d@ired Information, Major Gibson returned Balely On Wednesday cannonading was beard at Winchester in the direction of Front Royal. Wooetber or not a fight was going on in that vicinity bas pot boon ascertaincd, The guerilias who on Wednes Gay captured Genoral Duiie, between Winchester and Martinsburg, on the same day attacked a very valuable train ou ite way to the front, but were soon driven off, ‘Tho absolute quiet which has settled down on the hos- tile hosts eurrounding Ricbmowd and Petersburg, ani which bas been for days gradually becoming more and More extreme, till mow scarcely the gun of @ single Picket disturbs the stillvess along the whole immense ©xLent of the Lines, 18 ominous of important and stirring @vorts soon to occur, On the side of General Grant we Koow that this cessation in the sterner operations of ‘War ts bol unimproved, and that the rebels are Gorrospodingly active and watchful there is rea- fon to believe, left, in front bf the Fifth corps, they are said to be largely massed, ip Aoticipation of an effort of the Lion forces to gain por Bossion of tho Southside Raiiroad, that important artery @f wupplios for Lee's army beiweon Lynchburg ana Potersburg. From the left to the extreme right, in {rout plaho Tenth corps, where the opposing lines are only Dfty rods apart, mo picket Oring occurs, and no inter. Change of civ ilisiss or newspapers is allowed by the revel ors, eliher from fears of the desertion of thelr men for the purpose of concesiing come projected move. Moot We he otbiog inter from General Shermao. We fotrn, from ao officer recently advised from bigh mili tary authority, tbat the report of the critical situation of “man’s army iv Georgia, for want of commissary eup “unfounded. At the time of Hood’s movement ‘here were at Atlanta twenty day's supplies ‘or ‘Varmy. The departure of the larger por “Wood leaves nearly three moath’s sup- in the town, There is « scarcily of the majority of the animals Suflcleucy for those that DEA BO, 4 lag Wels to camp. On the extreme supplied. The base of Sherman's present operations ts at Chattanooga, at which point there is an abundance of stores om band, besides which it has unieterrupted railroad communication with Nashville, and the roads are busy, night and day, forwarding additional supplies. For the present all anxiety iy reiation lo Sbormaa’s sale- ty im without 9 cause. From the Upper Missouri it is stated that General sully, commanding in the expedition against the Northwestern Indians, has gove into winter quarters at Fort Sully. In Wednesday's Hematp we apnounced the escape of the rebel privateers Tallahassee and Edith from Wil- mington, N. C., and their departure on another piratical cruise. Our Fortress Monroe despatch states that Admiral Porter, commanding the North Atlantic squadron, has received positive intelligence to the same effect, as regards the Taliahassee, and is making all (he arrange- ments possible to trap hor. Our Fortress Monroe correspondent informs us that the Anglo-rebe! blockade runner Hope, whose capture by the gunboat Holus was noticed iv yesterday's HxrAtp, was taken off Wilmington’ on the 22d ivst., after a con- siderable chase. Her cargo consists of machioery of all kinds for boats and the manufacture of arms. One hundred prisonera captured on blockade runnere during this month arrived at Fortress Monroe from off Wilmington on the 26th inst. A valuable rebel mail was captured a few days ago by scouts sent out from Norfolk by Geveral Shepley. The yellow fever at Newbern, N. C., and other places along tho const has Much abated, At Newbern, on the 12th inst., tbe num. ber of deaths bad reached over fifty a aay: but about that time slight frosts occurred, and immediately put a stop to Its furtber spread. The counsel for the United States government havo been given the choice of proceeding wiih tho trial of the Ss. Albans raiders at St. Jobs, Cauada, or trausferring iL to Montreal, 3 s00n as a decision ts come to the case will probably be proceeded with; but until this question is settiod of course pd progress cnn be “mado, Our cor. little town of Nowport, on Lake Memphramagog, Vermont, shows bow effectually the people of the porthera part of tho Green Mountain red up by this revel foray on St. respondent at the State baye been st Albans. caltivated, and doticd with thriving towns and villages, ‘That portion of the country is very rich, highly each of which took alarm from the endden piraticat do- Scent on their sister community, and set about making such‘preparation for defence as was within its power, the inhebitants expecting theira to be the uext place attacked. The Canadians on the bordar in that vicivity Appear to sympathize with the Vermonters, and to be ready to render them ail tue bel) they consistently can. The Ricbmond newspaper extracts which we give this morning will be found very ivtoresting. Their wails over Early’s defeat im the Sbevaodosh valley and their severe striciures on their cavalry show a very Pitiable condition of the rebel odifortal mind. Early’s supereedure by Joo Jobnston is demanded in strong terms by the Znguirer, which mournfully ex- claims:—“ What humiliation has attended our cause in that valley made gloriously historical by the lamented Jackson!” The rebel Secretary of State Bevjimin has issued a circularon the finances of the United States, which is designed to convince European capitalists that our national securities are the worst of investments. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship Canada, from Queenstown om the 16th of October, arrived at Halifax yeserday, on ker voyage to Boston, and our European tiles vy tt the Belgian reached this city from Quebec. ‘The news by the Canada is two days ister. The American advices taken out by the Persie, from New York, October 6, were regarded as less favorable to the cause of the Union, and a decided improvement took place in the prices of the rebel cotton loau. Mr. Gladstone, Chancclior of the Fnglieh Exchequer, in speech in Lancashire, expressed bis regret at the con- tinuance «f the American war, and said that he was in favor of the Americans being left to settle their own affairs, but expressed a doubt of the ability of the North to subjugate the South. The Sfanish steamer Iately seized by the Niagara was discharged on the English coast and procecded on her voyage. It was said that she was bouad to Mate- moros. It was denied that Captain Semmes bad gone to sea, ‘The owner of the steamer Laurei ridicules tbe idea of his tuking out a sms] vessel like the Rao, 6 & privateer. ‘Ihe United States steamer Sacramento was moving and signalling on service off New Huveo, England. The-privateer Florida was spoken in latitude 44 north, longitude 24 west, on the 2d of September. The London Zimes favors the Canadian confederation on account of the “powerful military State’? which the American Union has become, Fi Financial affairs were still groatiy disturbed in Bog laud, There was an active demand for discount. Over half a doreo new failures and suspeosions are reported. A. Droster, a London corn merchaat, committed suicide in consequence of his embarrassments. The Germans and Denmark were about to coucludea treaty of pace, ° Joe Coburn made a formal demand for the atakes in the Mace affair, The stwkelolder said that Joe bad vo cinim, the referee question baving been left undecided. Unloas come agreement ts come to the mateli ts decided a‘ draw.” Ooburo expressed bis desire to fight in Ire laud or Cavacda, ‘The Liverpool cotton market was quict, with quota tions unchanged on the 15th of October. A better tone prevailed in the market. Breadetuils were qoiet and provisions dull. Consols closed io Leadon ou the 16tb inst. at 8555 a 8824 for mo MISCELLANEQUS NEWS. Confirmation of the report that the Mexican General Cortina had forsaken the republican cause anc cons over to the imperialists ts furnished by the arrival bere yesterday of the steamship Havana, from Havana on the 22d natant, That blustering ex-patriot is enjd to have surrendered himself, bis troops and the town of Mata moros to Mejia on the 26th ult., aud swore fealty to Maximilian, General Canales, another of the repablican officers, refused to give in bis adbesiog to the empire, but crossed over from Matamoros to Brownsville, Texas, with about three hundred men, and surrendered to Coluro! Ford, the rebel commander at the iatter place, Since the occupation of Matamoros by tho imperialists busines on the Rio Grande ts represouted to have vory much Im proved, The blockade runving steamer Zephyr, formerly the Frances, arrived at Ravana from Galveston, Toxas on the 15th nt, with over @ thousand baios of cotton. Her officers reported that vo United States vessel was seen on the passage, It ts mated that the engiucer of the Zepbyr was arrested on the charge of having pur posely disarranged her machinery, 60 as to lessen her speed, There was much speculation among the Havana people relative to the steamébip Roancke, her fate not having yot been icarned there, From St, Domingo there ie no news; but the silence of the Cuban press and off. cials on the subject of the reported overtures of the Do- minicans for peace leads to the suapicion that those peo- ple are not #0 tired of the contest with the Spaniards as th ler have represented them, ‘The Board of Aldermen uneble te muster @ quorum yesterday, apd adjourned until Mouday aext, without trausacting any busiaess. The Municipal Reformers’ Acgociation of this city have addrossed @ communication to Mr, Reaben & Fenton, the republican candidate for Governor, askisg bim whether, in the event of bis election, ne will give bis official influ. towards a reduction of the present exorbitant taxcs 8 City, and ip opperition to the reckiess granting of charters for raiiroads through our streets, to which Mr Fenton replies that he will take pleasure, if be should be chosed Governor, In co-operating for the peeded rq- forms, The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and trans. acted » good desl of routine businsst, The communics tion from 1 jayor te the Common Counct!, setting forth the reasons why be suspended City inspector Brow (which bas already beom published) was rred we & special commiitee. A resolution authorizing Comp. troller to sue bonds for $234,000 for ibe further im. provement of the Park was lost for want of @ constita- tional vote, and, on motion, was taid over. Ab ordinance was adopted empowering the Mayor, with the cossent of the Board of Aldermen, to appoint superintendent of veingrapes, to tebe obarge of Ol! the Lines CORMeGHed WILD ey. ‘the bell towers and engine bouses tn the city, at eealary Of $3,000 per annum. A communication was reecived from the Cemptrolier recommending the amendment of the ordinsnce for the annual appropriations for 1864. He States that it was found impossible to make @ contract for cleaving the atreets within the liaiits presoribod by the Legisiaturo; that.20 payments oouid legally be made, ard consequeatiy the Supervisors, ta levying the taxes, deducted the sum of $300,000 from the levy, but iacluded in it the amount incurred im cleaning the streots, for which judgments bad been obtained, The Comptroller suggests that the item be atruck out which compels the contractor to give bonds iv $500,000 for the performance of the contract. The paper was laid over, Toe Customs Department in Washington has just’ is- ued instructions to the Collector at this port, speci- fying thet bonds required om goods shipped to tbe ports from which the rebels are or baye beeo io tbe receipt of supplies may be caucoled. Tho taking of theao bonds has been left by law to the discretion of the Collector, and on the expiration of yoar from the dato of their execution they may be oan- celled under certain reatrictions, Tho question of the in. tesrity of shipment is always to be loft with the Col- lector. Tue proceedings of the American Biblo Union yoster- day were interesting, The Rey. Dr. Westoott road the Teport of the Committee on English Scriptures, after which the Rev. A. A, Gilbert addressod the assembly, or rather read am addreas, which be said bo was obliged to write out owing to the fact that be bad been stumping New York and, Connecticut in the interest of Abrabam Lincoln, The rst annual meeting of the New York Women's Infirmary Association was held yosterdey at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, There was @ large attendance of ladies. The principal businosa transacted was tho election of officers for the ensuing year and the reading of tho apnval reports, which show avery Gourigbing condition of the association. Archbishop MoOloskey visited our various charitable fnatitutions on Rand: end Blackwell's Islands yester- day by invitation of the Commissioners of Charitios aud Correction. The Fifty-second New York Volunteers, who have re- ceptiy returned to the city, having concluded their three yoars tert of service, bad a public reception yesterday, and marched through Broadway and otber vireets, cs- corted by the Fifth regiment of the National Guarda. Ex-Mayor Opdyke entered a complaint at the office of Mayor Gunther yesterday agaivst the hugo advertising Vans pow co plentiful 1a our streets, and which obstruct logitimate trayol. Tho driver of one of these perambu- lating establishments was subsequently arreated, and all bis paraphernalia of monster sigu boards conveyed to the City Hall, An inquost was hold yesterday on the body of a woman named Mury Gallic, sixty-four years of age, who was eul- focated by smoke from ar accidental fire ia tho room *nich she occupied alone in the basement of 225 West Twenty fifth street. A map named Joba Carpenter wag arrested yesterday on tho complaint of James Riley, who alleges that white ho was rowing ina match ow the Fast rivor Carpentor and two other men, named Hennessy, rowed across (nc ow of bis boat aud threatened bim witn personal vio lence, thus detaining him go long that bo lost the race. The jury im the Desisies seduction case, before Judge Barbour, having failed to agree yesterday afternoon, the Court ordered them to be locked up over night, A largo and enthusiastic republican meeting was held euing at the Cooper Lustitute, under the by Governor Brough, of Obio, and Charles S Spencer, Faq, , of thiscity, anda fino band and a glee club oliyened the proceedings with music, ‘The Fropeh republicans of this city met in large num- bers last evening at Hope Chapel ¢> express their views ou the coming election, After organizing, M. Pelletier was appointed chairman, aud M. Foeder secretary. There was a large number of well dressed ladies present, The burden of all the speeches was (he necessity of re-clecting Mr. Lincola, as between him aud General McCieilan there te no other choice left to Frenchmen. The meeting was a very barntonious one, and separated at a late bour. A female debutante and candidate for lecture honors appeared at the Brooklyn Atheueum tast evening in the person of Miss Cordelia Phillips. The weather, whose inconsistencies have baffled and disappointed higher wrought expectations than could have attached to the fair lecturer, last evening intorpoced to render ber audi- dory on the occasion very slim imdeed, and when she made her appearance on the-platform the prospect was anything but encouraging. This, however, did not deter ber from delivering her lecture in praise of Abe and Andy, for which she deserves the thankg pf those candi- dates for Presidential honors. The leovate was fairly written ann pretty effectively delivered. Tne stock market showed a tendency towards further improvement yesterday morning, and quotations ad- vanced during the day for most of the railroads. Goid was steady, and, alter opening at 216% and rising to 216 5Z, closed at the opening price. Government securi- ties wore stronger, and advanced a fraction. Quietude was the prevailing feature io commercial cir clos yesterday, The firmpess of gold inspires no confi- ie acd the merchants are ‘‘eailing a8 near the wind’ will assume a more defluite shape. was about at astand, and domestic produce was but lit- tle bettor. Cotton, groceries, &c., were quiet. Petro- Jeum was quiet, but refined was held higher. On ’Change flour advapeed 10c, a 15c., with a fair demand. Wheat was in tair speculative demand and scarce, and 3c. a 4c. higher. Corn opened Ic. better, but closed in favor of buyers, Oats were dull and heavy. Pork opened dull and decidedly lower, but closed Grmer and more active. Pest was steady and active. Lerd was less active. Whiskey was quiet and unchanged. Freights dull. How the Country May be Pacified and Redcemed—What the Presidential Electors Might Do. Both Lincoln and McClellan ha ve slipped off their party platforms, and are running on their owa legs slong the Presidential track. They have cut loose from the train. To the last resolution adopted at Baltimore—viz: that the Monroe doctrine must be maintainod (for this 1s the eubstance of it), the President bas in no way satisfactorily replied, though there is no ove question, next to the maintenance of the Union, which is so important to this country as “the attempt of any European Power to over- throw by force or to supplant by fraud the in- stitutions of any republican government on the Western Continent.” These are the very words of the resolution referred to. So far, then, the Baltimore platform is ignored by its candidate. On the other band, General McClellan has repudiated the principal doc- trines of the Chicago platform, which demands “a cessation of hostilities,” or, ia other words, a disgraceful surrender to the rebels. Now, as both these candidates have jumped off the platforms on which they were to be run on the Presidential track, they may both be very casily disposed of, and in this way: what- ever electoral ticket in any State is chosen may consistently and constitutionally oxercise the right of selecting some one else for Presi- dent than either of the two persons who have been named by their partisans. All the electors have to do is “to meet in their respective States and vote by ballot for two porsons,” naming in their ballots the per- eon voted for as President and Vice President, and the persons having the highest number of votes, being a majority of the whole, shall be euch President and Vice President. The twelfth articie of the constitution, under and by virtue of which the eleotion is made, does not require ihe colleges to vote in conformity with any previous understanding, convention nomlna- tion or any party pledges whatever. They are free constitutional agents (0 perform 4 certain great and ‘solemn duty, and this alone; they are, in fagt, bond to perform it without regard to any Other consideration than that of selecting the best men for these high offices. Is not the time come, therefore, for the eleo- toral colleges to take this course, and liberate the country from the government of factions forever? Would they not be fully justified by the maghitude of the crisis in which we are free from ali eelfsh and corrupting fn- fluences? Gould they not ensily sclect two eminent, trastworthy, patriotic and disiate- rested men to fill these high offices? Would not the people heartily approve of such a pro- cedure? Would it not at once overthrow the existing corrupt factions, raise up a new and great party of patriotic citizens, and, at the same time, by the noble sacrifice of party ties, draw back to the Union the great body of the eorrowful people of the South? And now if any authority is necessary to be cited in support of our proposition, we can give it im the words of the immortal Jackson in his message to Congress in 1829, and let the electors read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them:—“In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no man has any more intrinsic right to official atation than another. Offices were not established to give support to particwlar men at the public ex- peose. No individual wrong is therefore done by removal, since neither appointment to, nor continuance in office, is matter of right.” The electoral colleges may therefore safely act on our suggestion. Beyond all question the electoral oolleges have a perfect right to eelect their candidates without reference to any caucuses or conven- tions. The nomination of the New Yors Heratp—viz: General Grant—is of more weight and value, and really more to be re- spected than either those made at Baltimore or Chicago, and would be more satisfactory to the people. His unanimous choice by the clec- toral colleges would be ono of the greatest aud most pleasing evonts in our bistory. Southera Governors tn Oouncli=The Rebel Situation, Six Southern governors recently met at Augusta, Georgia, and condoled with one another over the melancholy. prospects of tho rebel cause. They constituted a very harmless party these six functionaries. They gathered about the bubbling cauldron of rebeilion and mumbled their toothless jargon over it, juat as their kindred old women did in Macbeth, ‘to make the mixture stronger.” They added, a0 far as they were able, some new ingredients to “the charm of powerful trouble.’’ They put into it allsthe niggers and all the State rights. They gave up officially and formally for the Benefit of the rebellion all of those pretended rights in defence of which the Southern States made war on the Union; and they also gave up that real cause of the war—negro slavery. These six governors tell Davis that there aball be no more slavory if the niggers are necessary for the army and can be made to Gight; and that there shall be no more State rights, or even States, if States or State rights stand ever 80 little in the way of Southern success. They* have given the last man and the last dollar, and now they give up the original cause of war. Slavery and State rights were the South- ern cries. Each of these bas been by turns the Sbibboleth of the South, and the Southern ar- mies were rallied for their defence and for no other purpose whatever. Now the six South- ern governors aro abolitionists and advocates of federalism and centralization. Can it be wondered that twe-thirds of the men of the Southern armies bave gone home “without leave,” when the Southern governors now oc- cupy a position identical ¥en the position the Southern men have always hated and that Southern roen made wur upon in 1861f What, then, does this council of six gover- nors indicate? First, that the South has abso- lutely lost the cause for which it fought, and now formally gives it up. It abdicates the position that hundreds of thousands of South- erners bave died in battle for. Slavery can- not longer be defended, except with the assist- ance of the niggers; and the fact that the niggers are called upon to defend slavery puts slavery out of existence. State rights weaken the common defence, and so State rights must be abandoned for the sake of existence, which is more important than all rights. Thus the Southern governors furnish a most practical answer to Southern theorists in relation to State rights. But this council indicates a loss that the practical Southern politicians look upon as much more serious than a mere moral losa of their cause. They can invent another cause any day, but how can they get over the fact that a council of Southern governors numbers but six. The Southern coniedecracy claimed at the commencement thirteen States; now it can only claim a foothold in six States—and its foot- hold is precarious in some of these. The aix governors even urge the legislatures of the States to seize every man and send him to the army, because the little territory that the con- federacy holds in these six States is in such des perate danger. It is true that these governors deay the danger in one minute, while they recognize it in the next. They will not leave 8 man at his home to plant corn, because there is such a nced for men in the army; every one must go; they sweep all so indiscriminately that the robbery of the cradle and the grave is hardly a hyperbole. And even while they thus ruthlessly hurry every decrepid and frightened wretch into the ranks, they turn round with a smile, and rub their hands smoothly, and assure the Southern people that they certainly do not think the case is so very bad. Bat we have a better authority on the rebel situation than these goveraors are, es- pecially on the situation in the West. General Beauregard, who has just assumed command of the rebel Military Division of the West, speaks of the present as a “critical hour.” He knows where Hood is and where Sherman is, and also where Price is, and yet he talks of a critical juncture in the fate of “his country,” and calls for assistance upon the women. Buta little while ago General Heod was sent out, as a sort of Jack the Giant Killer, to annihilate Sher- man. Davis made a speech about it in Geor- gia, in which he promised his hearers that the horrors of Sherman’s retreat from Atlanta should equal the horrors of the retreat from Moscow. He was 60 bewildered with the trou- bles of his confederacy that he could not see the difference between Russia and the Southern States—his “sunny South.” Another redoubta- blo Southern hero was to annihilate us in Mis- souri. Price, our readers may remember, weat to Missouri “to stay;” and now Price has gone to Kansas in hurry, with Rosecrass at his heels; and Hood is badly used up, and eager only to get away from that Sherman whom he was to annihilate. Hood and Price-and Early were ali seat North to affect the elections, and there is no doubt that they hare done it; and Hood, Price, Barly, Beauregerd, Davis, the Governors of Virginia, North and South Caro- lina, Georgia, Alabama ood Mississippi, and all the Southern papers, axe joining in e universal appeal for the poor cripples of the South te tura gut and fight. Such ia the condition of te 8 Buss, bes - West, Panure on ria Raurics—Tas Last or ram Moaroaxe.—Wendell Phillips, the great Rodman gun of the radical abolition war faction, has just been discharging the solid shot vials of his wrath in a thousand pound shell egainet Abraham Lincoln, from the Cooper Institute. It beats any copperhead explosion that we--have ever heard against Old Abe. The main accusation of this terrible Phillippic | of Phillips is President Lincoln’s injustice to the negro. He has aot fought the war upon the Phillips platform of negro equality, but has tried to dodge it in every way. Besides, he has played the tyrant beyond all endurance. “He has been decisive and vigorous everywhere except on the slave question.” So, in spite of all that has been done in the prosecation of the ‘war, Phillips declares “the war is a failure.” Thus, too, from the extreme copperhead, seces- sion, pro-slavery side, and from the fanatical abolition side, from Vallandigham, at Chicago, and from Wendell Phillips, at the Cooper Insti- tute, comes the same cry—‘“the war is a fail- ure,” Lincola ig a failure, McClellan is a fail- ure, everything is a failure except the almighty negro and Jeff. Davis. But tt is Hobson’s ochoico now with Phillips and Vallandigham and all the sorebcads ou both sides. They were so numerous last spring in the republican camp that if the democratic managers bad been possessed of common sense they could have bad.the whole game in their hands by this time. First, there was Fre- miont, with his Fremont radical abolition le- gion; then there was Secretary Chase, with the “greenback” aristocracy of the administration party at his side; and there was a majority of this party in both houses of Congress against their own President, including the Hon. Ben. Wade and the How. Winter Davis. Among them al, from tho Pomeroy-Chase circular down to the Wade and Davis manifesto, they tore Honest Old Abe all to flinders. Thea was the opportunity for the democrats, on a broad Union platform, to bring out General Grant or General Sherman, and sweep the field. But they mado a botch of it at Chicago, and so all these republican soreheads and their followers, after all thete terrible blow- ing and threateniug, have caved in and sing the songs of Lincoln. Wendell Phillips alone remains out in the cold; but as he has never had a taste of the spoils, and never expecta a sop among the fat things of the kitchen, he can be exposed. He stands out among the sordid politicians of the day in bold relief, still faith- ful to his idol—the almighty nigger—when the great herd of reformers, to the right or the left, are led off by visions of the almighty dollar. Imeorranr To Resxn Deserters—Sprscrar. Orper ov GeneraL Gnrant.—lIn tho latter part of the month of August of the present year Lieutenant General Grant issued tho following most importaht “special order,” from. the headquarters of the Army of the United States in Virginia:— SPECIAL ORDERS—NO, 62. He ApQuakreks, ARMIES OF THE UNIIRD feet In Tux Finep, Vinainra, August 25, 1364. (Extract.) Hereafter deserters from the Confederate army, who deliver themselves up to the United States forces will, ou toking an oath that thoy will not agaia take up arms duriug the prescnt rebellion, be furnished subsistence and (rev transportation to their homes, tf the same are within the lines of federal occupation. If their homes are not within such lines, they will be furnished subsistence and free transportation to aay poitt ‘tn the North rn Sates. All desertors who take the oath of allegiance will, if they desire it, be given employment in the quartermas. ter’s and other depa tments the army, and the same remuneration paid them as is given to civilian employes for similar services. Forced military duty, or service endangering them to cap- ture by the Confederale forces, will mot be exacted from such as give themselves up io the United States miliary au- thorities. By command of tenant Goneral GRANT. T. S. Bownrs, Assistant Adjutant Gen This document was evidently intended for the benefit of the brave but misguided men who, by force and compulsion, still serve in the rebel armies; but who, wearied of the grind- ing despotism of the confederacy, would be but too glad to get back under the friendly folds of the old flag? If widely circulated among the rebel soldiers, this order would be almost as destructive as an invading army. The rebel authorities know this too well, and therefore they strictly avoid giving it any pub- licity whatever. Their newspapers, so glib!y talkative on every conceivable subject, are on this order as dumb as dead men. But it is to our interest, as well as to the’advautage of the poor misled rebel soldier himself, that it should be known and read wherever there may be any armed forces of the rebellion. For this reason wo republish it in this prominent form, and have no doubt that it will find its way into the rebel ranks, and thus help-along the good work of undeceiving the misguided people of the South and putting down the rebelliou. Etecrioxcerinc Roonsacks.—Iu every Presi- dential campaign the unscrupulous politicians on evory side bring to light the most startling revelatious of briberies and corruptions, ruffian- ism and ballot-box stuffing, plots and conspi- racies, and despotio designs on the part of their opponents. We see that in these things this campaiga ‘s not to be au exception to the general rule. Oa the costrary, according to the party journals of the “day, we have now on both sides more rascally doings, more Giabolical plots and more tyrannioal schemes on foot than ever before. Thus, according to the World, ballot-box stuffing carried the recent elections against the democrats; a sweeping draft, if Lincoln shall be elected, will be the first thing in order after the election, and then the war isto be made a permanent inati- tution, until all the blacks of the South are used up, and all the whites of the South exter- minated. On the other side, it is charged that the managers of the Northern democracy are in secret correspondence with Joff. David; that the Southern rebel armies and North- era democratic committees are work- ing under common understanding ; that, having been discovered and exposed in @ grand conspiracy to carry the Presiden- tial election by a revolutionary appeal to arms, the democratic managers are working to oarry it by a grand system of fraudulent votes. Ac- cording to the Tribune, a conspiracy to this end has just been laid bare by Judge Advocate General Holt, almost as diabolical as that mys- tical brotherhood of copperheads, the “Sons of Liberty.” Thus it had been arranged, as it appears from the Tribune, to carry the State of New York in November by fraudulent soldiers’ votes—great dry goods boxes full of such votes having already been sent up to Albany to be putin on election day. Thus goes the fight of the fishwomen among the politicians. It is the old story of the kettle ogiiing the pet nigger, when kettle and We await for | seein fn all sob ‘pot are of the same color. cases before some competent tribunal, In the meantime. between te mosita af the two oandl Soneeeten esa dates and the poh‘cy of the two parties before the people, the Pr. sidential contest must be decided. — Tax Vretation or B,8ivata Rigat.--In that one of the resolutions of the Chicago platform which Vallandigham tells. us he wrote he refers in a very lachrymose mann °t to the fact that Public liberty and “private \"ight” have been Slike trodden down during thy’ four years of thiswar. He does not in this ra"er to the out- rages committed by Jeff. Davis om, liberty, pub- lie or private, nor to the fact that that worthy has endeavored to establish a desp'otiom in thirteen States of this Union and te hangevery one who opposed him. Such violations of pub- lic Mberty and private right are too large to be seen, by Vallandigham’s little eyes. What he does refer to is the fact that in the confusion of this great struggle for national life Old Abe, or some one of his agents, once trod on Vallan- digham’s toes, That is what Vallandigham means by hisreference to private right. Many denunciations of the United States have been made for the same kind of violations. “One of these was made by a British subject. He was imprisoned in this country. It was a dreadful piece of business and threatened the peace of the world. The British subject wrote all the way to England about it to the Queen’e minis- ter, ad the Queen’s minister wrote to Lord Lyons, and Lord Lyons went to see Mr. Seward, aud Mr. Seward wrote nearly fitty letters to soothe Harl Russell. It was very awful. The British lion got excited and roared with “thick carnivorous passion,” and seventeen hundred and seven British newspapers assured the Brit- ish public that the honor of Great Britain bad been outraged by the Americans, All this happened because @ man who was really a British subject had been imprisoned in the United States. It was a case of violation of private rigut. But upon full investigation it turned out that this British subject was in prison for burglary. He had broken into some one’s house and committed a robbery. And it will be found upon inquiry that evory one of the violations of private right that Vallandig- ham had ia his mind when he wrote his resolu. tton are just like the violation of the United tates against this English thief. Our Harsor Derexces And our Great Guns.—The biggest gun in the world was tested on Wednesday at Fort Hamilton, whero it bas been recently mounted. The capacity of thia monstrous weapon is such that no object susceptible of damage by round shot oan possi- bly escape when the gun is fairly brought to bear upon it. A Monitor with revolving tur- rets, or built on the principle of angles, might perchance cvade the force of the gun by the pe- culiarity of construction; but should the fa— mous English iron-clad Warrior, or the French monster La Gloire come within range, they would have to succumb to a dead ‘certainty. The final experiment was made with a hun- dred pounds of powder and asolid shot weigh- ing @ thousand and eighty pounds, and it fell into the water a distance of four miles from the fort. Nothing that floats could withstand the blow of this mass of iron if it struck the hull. It would erack the largest iron-clad like anegg. The heaviest calibre of any other gun is that of tie English Armstrong, which throws ashot weighing six hundred pounds, and the experiments made with it in England were not regarded as a success. But here is our twenty- inch Rodman throwing a shot four hundred and eighty pounds heavier and proving @ thorough success, It is ascertained that it can carry the same shot nearly six miles with one hundred and twenty-five pounds of powder. Three or four of these guns, at the entranoe of each of our har- bors, would render the whole coast impregna- ble, and might defy the iron-clads of the entire world. Truly this war has taught us many useful things, and none more so than the gt- gantio appliances of ordnance to the protection of our coasts from fereign foas. Ovr Unueautay Crrr Sswers—Weo 1s to Buame?—For some time past the inhabitants of the lower districts of the city, and more especially about the region of this oflice, have been suffering from the periodical escape of noxious gases, evidently emanat- ing from the public sewers. On ono or two occasions when the nuisance became iutolerable, so far as this office is concerned, we have promptly abated it by having our sewer thoroughly drenched and purified. Having thus satisfied ourselves of thacanse of the evil, we drew the attention of she Croton Aqueduct Board to the fact, and urged them te take measures to remove it altogother, It now appears that the Croton Board has acted in the matter, having caused the necessary surveys to be made for a proper system of sewerage for the district lying between Eighth avenue and the Hudson river, and extending from Fifty-ninth to Kighty-first street. They are also busy preparing plans for sewerage for other districts. It is believed that the adop- tionof the plans of the Croton Board will effectually remedy the evil complained of, aud, with a proper system of sewerage, insure health to the people. These plans, drawings, surveys, &., have been sent in to the Common Council, and all that is now needed is the authority of that body for the commencement of the work. It is the duty of the Common Council to attend to this matter immediately, and the Croton. Commis aioners should keep the matter before the Cor- poration. Before our sewerage system fell into. the bands of the Croton Board it was managed by politicians who had no engineering skill nor talent, and the result was that they shamefully impesed upon the public. Their only alm was to get large sums of money, and to do o0 they dishonestly built sewers. through which it is next to impossible for the washings of the city: to reach the rivers. The Croton Board now pro- pose to give usa elean oity if the Common CouncH will let them. If not, the people wilk know who is to. blame. Tne Erineuio of Fine.—Great, calamities, like great crimos, appear to be epidemic. The come, as swallows do with the summer, In fo: At one time suicide'ls the popular mania, they, again a euccession of burglaries or assassity a. tions, of startle the public Acar. We have just gone through with a ‘nories of serious railroad accidents. ReconUly we eoom te have been visited with ‘an opl- demic of great fires, come of them, wo fear, of an ieendiary character. Ia the month of Septeraber alone there were no logs than-thirty destructive fires throughout ortbern and ‘Western States, an average of aday. The total loss ascertained amounted te more than two millions and « quarter, without {reluding at all the result of the noch ton tition Bichmand, whlod domtrared three millions