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

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THE SITUATION. ‘A large number of men, charged with being members Of the Order of American Knights, and with having com- Pleted arrangements for carrying out a grand syetem of wourder, plunder and burning in Chicago to day during the election, were arrested jn that eity yesterday morn- ing. Among them are Colonel Marmaduke, brother of he rebel general of that name (now a prisot¥r on John- ‘tton’s Island, Lake Erie), Charles Walsh, doorkeeper Of the House of Representatives; Colonel St. Leger Greenfield, Adjutant General on the staff of General Mor- a0, and Captain Cantrell, of Morgan's command. Two hun- dred stand of arms, two carloads of revolvers, a large quantity of ammunition and several men who are said to have been engaged in casting bullets for the consgira- tors were found in Walsh's house. The release of the rebel prisoners confined at Camp Douglas is also said to have been part of the programme of the arrested persons. at hotels the police seized forty aileged Dushwhackers, armed to the teeth, and two large boxes of loaded guns. It is stated that Of the raiders who were ona train bound for Chicago on Suaday, learning of preparations for their capture, es: caped from the cars at the city limits, About one hun- red suspected persons who arrived from Canada on board of a steamer were being closely watched two @ number by the police: Tho Democratic Committee of Chicago bave issued an address in regard to the matter yesterday, in which they admit that different bands of strangers, all uniformly dressed fo the butternut costume, have arrived in the city within @ few days, but demy that the democrats know anything of the designs of these persons or the causes of their coming, and assert that they positively believe their presence to be only part of a cunningly devised trick of the republicans to afford an excuse for placing the polls ‘under the control of the military. ‘There was considerabie artillery firing at the front of the Army of the Potemac, on the Jerusalem plank road, 00 Saturday last, without loss on the Union side. At @dout eleven o'clock that night the rebels attempted an @dvance in that vicinity, to recover some ground taken from them a few days before, but were completely foiled. For over an hour the fighting was severe, and the ex- change of shots between the opposing pickets ‘was sbarply continued throughout the night. There is a report that the rebels are mining Grant’s works before Petersburg; but it does not receive much credence. An expedition which went out into Charles City and Henrico coucties, Virginia, last week, from the Tenth corps, broke up an organized gang of rebel spies and scouts who haa ‘been for some time a serious annoyance, by furnishing the evemy with information of intended movements io the Union armies, The expeditionary force captured a num ‘Der of prisoners and secured some valuable supplies. Genera! Hancock bas issued an official order congratulating the soldiers of the Second corps on their conduct during the grand reconnoissance and engagement on the Bosdton plank rood on the 27tb ult, We gave some facts yesterday relative to recent impor- tant movements of General Sherman, Other important operations of bis armies are in process of execution, of ‘the most complete success of which no doubts are enter- tained. General Sherman is said to be equal ised ‘with his own and Hood’s position. There report bat Johnsonville, on the Tennessee river, was evacuated ‘by the Union forces on Saturday last, after they had de- stroyed the boats im the vicinity, to prevent them falling into the bands of the rebels, A corres- pondent of the Selma (Ala.) Reporter gives an ac- count of a “happy time” in Hood’s army just before it marched faom Gadsden, Alabama. Boauregard, Hood, Chextham, Cleburne and other generals made speeches to the rebel troops, the burden of the remarks of all of them ‘Deing that Sherman's army is to be “wiped out.” Hood’s army, the robels gay, is bound for Middle Tennessee, and Will go there in rpite of ali opposition. It ie now said that Gevera! Dick Tay'or is not with Hood. A despatob has bocu received from General Diont giy- ing some further particulars of bis deveat of Price on the 25th ult., at Newtouia, ip Southwestern Missouri. The Gxuting, which was sevore, lasted between three and four bourse, wheo the rebels wore driven from the field in confusion, with & joss of two bundred. The Union loss was and twenty. The evomy retreated towards There are reports, which one bundre: € iNle, closely pursued, Gre considered doubeful, that Price still has with Bim considerabie tra and ten thousand unarmed conreripls, Over eix bundred prisoners captured from Dim arrived et St. Louls yesterday, and there are more to come. We have accounts of further work of the rebel priva fwors. The bork ch arrived at Philadel- pia yorvorday, was! the 24 jost., in north ene e ° Chickamen peedwell, wh: rded © NEW YORK HERALD, TURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 I85r ga, and bonded for eightern thousand dollars. ‘The British dark Victoria, which also arrived at Philadelphia yesterday, reports that on (the evening of the Sist ult. she saw an American vessel of about three hundred tons on fro at sea. Nehu- man being was seen on or near tho burning vessel, and when the Victoria loft hor she was consumed to the water's edge. The sehooner Otter, from Bangor for Georgetown, was destroyed by the Ubickamauga about the last of Ooc- tober, and ber captain and crow arrived at Philadelphia yesterday, on board the Speedwell. A despatch was received in Chicago yesterday stating that the Canadian steamer Georgiana has bees fitied out 88.8 rebel pirate, and is now on Lake Huron, ‘The blockade running steamers Aunie, captured on the Sist ult. by the United States steamers Wilderness and Niphon, avd the Lucy, seized by the Santiago de Cuba on the: 2d inet., ‘aro both fast and valuable Foglish built fron vessels, The Annie had on board five hundred bales of cotton and thirty tons of tobacco, and the Lucy over four hundred bales of cotton and twenty-five tons of tobacco. By way of Havana ywe bave some news from Nassau, N. P., relative to the robel blockade runners, The Banshee No. 2 had arrived at the latter place from Wilmington, N.C., in forty-eight hours, The block- ade running steamers Florie and A. EK Fry got ashore outside of Chariestor, S. C., and the Talisman and Wando, which left there on the 20th ult., had mot since been board of in West India Secessia, All desired information in reference to the latter vessel can be fur- nished by the gallant men of our blockaders, ag she was captured by them, and haggince arrived in @ Northera port, The Virginia and Lucy Armstrong had arrived at Nassau in safety. The steamship Ariel, with New Orleans dates to tho 30th ult., bas arrived bere, but brings Mitle ad ditional pews. It ts reported that the rebels recently succeeded tm crossing a second drove of fourteen hundred cattle from the west to tho east side of the Mississippi river, Ono of tho New Orleans banks bad refused, in accordance with mili- tary orders, an app'ication by tho Finance Bureau of the Logisiature for a loan of one hundred thousand dollars. ‘Simmsport and Morgan’s ferry, La., are now held by tho Union troops, Major General Dix’s order assiguing Geperal Butler to the command of the troops in this State, for the purpose of meeting existing emergoncies, is published. Unas- signed staf! and company officers now in this city are di- rected by Geporal Dix to report to General Butterfeld, at ‘the headquarters uf the Department of the East, for tem- porary duty. We give this moroing our usual daily instalment of in- teresting rebel newspaper extracts. EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The steamships Pennsylvania and City of Baltimore reached this port from Queenstown yesterday evening, with European advices to the 27th of October—one day ps special correspondence and telegraphic despatches furnish very interesting details of the news by the America, with the latest reports to the 27th ultimo. Diplomatic relations between Spaia and Peru are sus- pended. The tenor, Brignoli, did not enjoy a very flattering reception at the italian Opera House, in Madrid, altheugh the royal family of Spain were present at his first ap- pearance. The Liverprol cotton market closed buoyant, at @ trifling advance, on the 27th of October, Breadstufls were steady. Provisions quiet and steady. There was a continued improvement in commercial and financial circies. Money was easier in London, but failures were still announced. Consols closed in London at 89%, a 8934 for money on October 27. ‘Mme. Friauger, daughter of Jobn Slidell, Jeff. Davia’ representative in Paris, has announced her intention of getting up a bazaar in the French capital for the benefit of Southern rebei soldiers wounded in battle. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamzhip Exgle arrived here late on Sunday night from Havana, having left that port on the 2d inst. The advices from Mexico state that numbers of the influential Juarez ieaders have given in their adhesion to the empire of Maximilian, and that the republican troops are laying down their arms and giving up tbe struggie. Lines of telegraph are to be established between all the Jeading Mexican cities, and telegraphic communication with the United States, through Texas, is to be perfected. Import ant railread projects are also about to be executed in the Emperor's dominions. In the States of Yucatan and Cam- peachy revolutions and Indian outrages were completely unsettling society, If it could be said to have previously had any basis of stability. We are informed that Maxi- milian will soon announce his future programme in a pro- clamation. Our correspondence furnishes additional parti- culars of the late earthquake In Mexico, From Cuba there is a rumor that another cargo of eight hundred negroes :-had been landed near Cienfuegos. It is understood that Dulce ig to continue te be Cuban Captain General, From St, Domingo, instead of news regarding the progress of hos- tilities between the Spaniards and natives, Havana was recelving only sick and wounded Spanish soldiers, who continued to arrive in large numbers by every steamer. The newspapers of Nassau, in the Babamas, are in favor of making that place a free port. The Aldermen were unable to muster a quorum yester- y, andthe members present at the hour for meoting ‘Sdjourned the Board until Thursgay. “SNo session of the Councilmen was held yesterday. Ry order of the Clerk, the Board stands adjourned til! Thurs. day of this week. Policeman Joeeph Nullet, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, was shot in the head, between threo and four o'clock yesterday morning, in West Twenty-pinth street, by a man whom be was conveying to the station house, and died soon afterwards from the effects of the wound. The murderer and a companion were found by officer Nullet, shortly before the tragic occurrence, endeavoring to break into a disreputable house in Twenty-fourth street. ‘The former was arrested, and had been conveyed towards the station house as far as in front of No. 20 West ‘Twenty-ninth street, when he suddenly drew a pistol , fired the fatal shot, and then escaped. Both he and his companion are still unarrested. A coroner's investiga- tion yesterday failed to discover the namo, whereabouts or identity of either of the guilty men, though several witnesses were examined; but the police, who are on their track, will no doubt soon succeed Im arresting them. . We bave received further particulars of the terrible ac- cident on the Erie Railroad, near Callicoon station, on Sanday morning. There wero six cars ko the ill-fated train, containing about one hundred and fifty passengers, several of whom were killed'aod & number of others ‘were mere or less seriously injured. On aceount of the near approach of the election but little business was transacted in our law courts yeeter- day. There will be no courts open to-day. The busincas set down for to-day in the United States District Court, before Judge Betts, will be proceeded with at eleven o'clock to-morrow. . In the case of Charles Walters, who was convicted of the murder of bis mistress, the Supreme Court, goneral term, yesterday, affirmed the judgment of the lower court. Wal- ters will now bave to undergo the extreme penalty of the law, unless the Court of Appeals interferes in his bebalf. The November term of the General Sessions was to have commenced yesterday; but, in consequence of the pending election and the excitement which pervades the fninds of all classes, it was deemed advisable to tal recess till next Monday. Judge Russel was ou the bi yesterday at the appointed hour, and discharged those jurore who were in attondance till the 14th inktant. General Sheridan and several staf officers were poi- soned a few days ago at Winchorter by eome corrosive substance which, in a supposed accidental manner, got mixed with their food. They all suffered sovere pains trom the effecte of the polson but {t did not prove fatal to any of them. Hovernor Seymour has iaeued a proclamation directing 188 election to-day of a Congressman in the First district Of this State, to fill the vacancy for the remaining session of the Thirty-eighth Congress occasioned by the resigna- tion of Hon. Henry G. Stebbins. According to the City Inspector's report there were 417 deaths m the city during the week ending on the 7th of Noyember—a decrease of 8 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 11 lem than oc- curred during the corresponding week last year. ‘Tho stock market was dull and dresping yesterday, Sherman's Victory on the Tennmesseo— Hoed’s Complete Failure. The telegraph gives us the meagre anneunce- ment from Nashville of the defeat of Hood, with considerable loss, in the attempt to cross the Tennessee river on the 3d instant. In this instance the telegraph has for once under- stated a fact, and given less than its natural and proper importance to a great event. For even if the fight thus announced was not in reality the great battle—if it was merely a collision of Sherman’s advance with Hood’s advance—the fact that there was a battle at all under the circumstances stated, proves incontestibly that Sherman is the master of the game, and gives the assurance that Hood’s attempt must end in & great disaster to the rebel arotx The fact that @ battle was fought ia which Sherman contested the passage of the Tennessee with Hood, proves that Sherman is as usual where he ought to be—that Hood’s whole plan of campaign has failed absolutely—and proves the truth of the military judgment that con- sidered the possession of the line to Atlanta a8 equivalent to the possession of the whole country south and west of that line. Hood and Davis projected this last cam- paign to carry the war enee more into Tennes- see and to force Sherman from Georgia, the whole northern part of which he bad so mag- nificently won. They began their campaign by denying the existence of their enemy. Davis and Hood declared ao positively and so fre- quently that Sherman had only thirty-five thousand men, that they seem finally to have persuaded even themselves that the statement was true, They accordingly made their calcu- lations to combat an army of that size, and thus the very basis of their plan was a fatal error. Hood, with commendable energy, moved in a very short time after the loss of Atlaata. Hood knew the value of Atlanta to Sherman rather better than certain copperhead editors do, He knew that with Sherman in possession of Atlanta, and of the lines of rail- road that lead to it, any movement of an army on a parallel line into, Tennessee was perilous if not impossible. This consideration divided his campaign into two parts—the first part of which was such a destruction of Sher- man’s railroads as would cripple Sherman's army in movement and supplies. To cripple the movement of Sherman’s army was thus a necessary preliminary to the second part of Hood’s plan—the advance into Tennessee. We need hardly tell our readers how signally the first part of Hood’s planfailed. Notwithstand- ing the destruction of so many miles of rail- road and so many bridges, the road was re- paired and ia running order before Sherman felt its loss. Hood thus went on to accomplish the second part of his plan without having ac- complished the firat part, though he had him- self thought the accomplishment of that first part an absolute essential to success. Hood’s preliminary operation—the crippling of Sherman—occupied all the time from his first passage of the Coosa until about the 20th of October. At that time he had the various parts of his army that had been at Allatoona, Reasacca and elsewhere on the railroad, massed near to the Tennessee river, and ready to cross it. He probably did not know how ineffectu- ally the work of crippling Sherman had been done. He supposed that he had Sherman at his heels, and that he would cross the Ten- nessea, and leave Sherman with the Union arty in a _ wilderness, without supplies, and that the Union army would then be compelled to retrace its steps to Dalton to get rations; but that at Dalton it would still be without supplies and also without a railroad to facilitate its movements—and that then it must retreat into Tennessee and hurry to throw it- self between bim and Nashville. How different from all this.were the real facts.° Four or five days before Hood was ready to cross the river Sherman relinquished the direct pursuit, moved back te the line of the railroad, and then, by means of the railroad, moved bis army around on the other side of the river and stood on the north bank, ready to dispute the pas- soge when astonished Hood was ready to make it. @jged’s defeat under these circum- stances, in ever so small or bloodless a battle, will well nighgdestrey his army. His Ten- nesseans, Kentuckians, Alabamians and Georgians have been kept together only by the hope that one more effort would destroy Sherman. Seeing new the shipwreck of that hope they will disperse. The Tennesseans, who went forward with light hearts “to press the soil of Tennessee,” will not retrgat with Hood; they will set the example of "desertion that will leave him without an army, and thus Sherman’s present eperations on the Ten- nessee will definitely close up the account of tbe rebellion in that quarter. ‘and a general decline took place from Saturday’s prices, ‘The gold market was unsettled, and the price, after opoa- ing at 244%, declined to 2383¢, and closed at 245%. The rain storm and the Sactuations in gold exercised some influexce in commercial circles yesterday; but the volume of trade was unusually light. The election was the all-engressing topic, and business was of minor im- port. The markets were very quiet, and prices of noarly all kinds of merchand'se were nominally the same as on Saturday. Some commodities were rather higher, bow- ever, iu eympathy with gold, On ’Change the flour mar- ket was less active, but rather firmor, Whoat was ia moderate demand and rather firmer, Corn was lo. dourer, with @ limited demand, Oats were firm. Pork was dui lecidediy lower, Boot was firm, witb a fair demand, Lard was firmer, with a moderate demand. Whiskey was dull, Freights wore inactive, but rates were higher, vy Blection—Th. and the Policy o: fal Party. This is the great day of our national elec- tion. With the setting of the sun this day the people of the loyal States will have chosen Abraham Lincoln or George B. McClellan President of the United States for the next four years, from and after the 4th of March next. The argument is closed on both sides, the mind.of every voter is doubtless made up; and we dare say, rain or shine, in every State participating in the election, from Maine to California, « larger aggregate vote will be polled than at any past election in the annals of “the great republic.” We expect an orderly election here, and throughout the country a tremendous popular vote, and the acquiescence of all parties in the general result. We have no fears of the ruin of the ceuntry with the defeat of either Lincoln or McClellan. On the contrary, with the success of either, we believe the country will be saved. The fixed purposes ef the great mass of the people of both parties are that the rebellion shall be put down, and that the Union, in its territorial and Political integrity, shall be maintained, Lin- coln or McClellan. After nearly four years of the most gigantic and terrible civil war in the history of mankind, we have the rebellion 80 far swbdued that the people of the loyal States will not permit a single step backward. We have, therefore, no fears that, with the re-elec- tion of Mr. Lincoln, the war will flag or be di- verted inte an abolition crusade. We have got far beyond anything of that sort. Nor baye we any apprehensions that, with McClellan’s success, the African element in our armies will be withdrawn and immediate Steps taken for a “cessation of hostilities.” The employment of colored soldiers in the Union service has ceased to be a debatable question, and if any doubts on the subject still existed down to the agitation of the proposi- tion at Richmond for the arming of three hum dred thousand slaves in the service of Jeff. Davis, the earnest advocacy of that schemo ameng the rebels has finally settled the ques- tion. With McClellan’s election, as with Lin coln’s, the war will go on to the final triumph of the Union. It-is the will of the people of the loyat Siates. They will have accepted General McClellan, if elected, upon this under- standing, and with this overwhelming popular sentiment bebind him, backed by a heavy ma- jority in both houses of Congress, a vigorous prosecution of the War will be the only course he can pursue. The little ‘disturbing clique of copperheads will be speedily silenced. They will be as powerless to divert McClellan from his true course asin these latter days have been the radicaf™ abolition fanatics in control- ling the policy of the present administration. Satisfied, therefore, that, whether Lincoln or McClellan shall be the choice of the people, tke rebellion will be put down, the question of the restoration of the Union and the harmonizing of the two sections next comes before us. To ‘this end, whether the republican or democratic ticket is successfuk with the settlement of this exciting and embittered party contest, sound policy would first suggest to all parties cons cerned a cordial sapport of the administration to the end of the rebellion. There will be time enough two or three years hence to begin the electioneering work of the outside party for the campaign of 1868. With the subjugation of Jeff. Davis and the reclamation of the rebellious States, the task of harmonizing the Northern and Southern people under the Union will be the next thing in order. We think, too, there is an easy way whereby this desirable object may be gained. We know that, with the restoration of the rebellious States, the bitter sectional animosi- ties, and the keen remembrances of the cruel retaliations, injuries and outrages of this dread- ful war, will not be soon reconciled or_oblit- erated. We know tbat the disbandment ®f the armies on both sides will tend, at least for a time, rather to aggravate than to settle these violent sectional antipathies. But in fusing the two sections ina common cause against a foreign enemy we may at once bring about a complete family reconciliation. For example, there is the French usurpation of Mexieo; and there are our numerous heavy outstanding balances against England on account of her perfidions neutrality in this war. Here we have a foreign enemy in Louis Napoleon, and another in England, against whom the North and the South could be readily harmonized in the common cause of “indemnity for the past and security for the future.” This infallible method of reconciliog domes- tic differences, in a common cause against a foreign enemy, is as old as the hills, We find numerous examples of this sort in the history of the Jews, of ancient Greece and Rome, of modern England and France, and every ether nation, past and present, in civilized or savage life, in both hemispberes. With the suppression of the rebellion, therefore, the government at Washingten, Lincoln or McClellan, will only be required to make a common cause, North and South, against England and France, peace or war, in order to secure a perfect reconcilia- tion upon owe domestic differences. Accord- ingly, with the subjugation of Jef, Davis, we would urge upon the administration an imme diate requisition upon BE i for the indem- nification of our losses from her piratical cruisers, built for and employed in the service of Davis, and a demand upon Louis Napoleon for the immediate removal of his protege, Maxi- milian, bag and baggage, from the republic of Mexico. There would probably be no war in consequence of these demands; but in the very amalgamation of Northern and Southern vete- ran soldiers for the contingency of a foreign war the two sections would be brought into “a happy accord” under the “old flag” of the Union. Willof the the Success- Tae Caxapa Rawws.—We trust that the authorities and people of Canada are fully sensible of the consequences of a failure of jus- ‘tice in the case of the men who are now under examination for the late murderous raid into St. Albans. It is said that in the event of the decision of the Canadian tribunals being ad- verse to them, they will have it taken before the English Court of Appeals. With » daily increasing force of rebel cutthroats on our border, openly menacing our peaceful towns and villages, our people will hardly stand this. The delay interposed by such a concession on the part of the Canadian judges, and the small chance of an English tribunal, composed of such rebel sympathizers as Chief Baron Pollock, doing them justice, will set them to act for themeelves. Once it is made clear to ‘them that this is the course to be pursued, the next repetition of the offence will be followed by an invasien of the Canadian territory and the in- fliction of summary justiceson the offenders. We are openly told that this is what the rebels are aiming at, oa it is their only hope of creat- ing an embroilment betweea our government and that of Great Britain. It is for the people of the provinces to decide for themselves who would ve likely to suffer most from such a state of things. Ifthey are really actuated by honorable feclings towards us, and have any regard for their own interests, they will en- deavor to avert it by at ouce giving up these men. Tie Raw axn tax Miection.—In old times a rainy election day used to give the democrats a victory over the whigs. The “silk stocking, goatry,” as the whigs wore called, could nest stand cold water, If it should rain to-day this will have much more influence upon the ¢jeo- tion than the “ reign of terror” about which so much is said. But when overshoes aad um- brellas are #0 cheap we advise no one, to stay away from the pells. Our soldiers, endure storms of bullets for their country’s, sake, and’ in these stormy political times we ‘ehquid aot be daunted by a little wotting, : Tar Monat Prixcrere at Wonk.—Since the arrival of General Butler was announced the World and News have been very dull and decen@ This is the effect of the moral prin- ciple, as opposed to the Guangial priaciple of Mr, Belmons " The Moral and Financial Princtples— Batier and Belmont. Eyery four years, on the eve of our Presi- dential elections, this country developes some very curious political phenomens. Partisan orators and journalists then exhibit their worst characteristics. Falsehoods, slanders, libels, equivocations, roorbachs, insinuations, frauds, inventions, misrepresentations, calumuies, for- geries and all sorts of rascalities and scoun- drelisms are as plentiful as roses in June or mosquitoes in August. This year has been no exception to this invariable rule. Omitting a few bright spirits, like Coddington on the one side and Jobn Van Buren on the other, we find both the democratic and republican orators equally blamable. As for the partisan jour- nals, they have surpassed themselves in calum- nies. The democratic papers have gone so far as to slander the ladies in the White House. The republican journals began with the libel that McClellan is a personal coward, and then ran up and down the gamut of falsehood. Satan must have kept all his clerks busy during the past few weeks, recording these offences against the moral law, in preparation for the final casting up of accounts on the day of judgment. But this year a very peculiar phenomenon has been added to the usual phenomena of our elections. Philosophers tell us that when two great winds rush together the result is a calm, and that when two great bodies oppose each other the result is inertia. That which is true of wrial and material forces is also true of great principlos, For example, the electioneor- ing extravagances of the democratic oraters and journals in this city are said to have been caused by the application of the financial prin- ciple, as represented by Mr. August Belmont, the financial agent of Louis Napoleon in the Mexican business. For some time past. Mr. Belmont has taken charge of the democratic party, holding very heavy mortgages upon it, manipulating it at Chieago and play- ing the heavy father to it generally. Under his direction the democratic ora- tors and organs became so violent that one of the orators even threatened the assassination of a certain general if he should dare to walk Broadway, while one of the organs denounced the President of the United States as a petty swindler. Here we see the influence of the financial principle, as embodied in Mr. Bel- mont, and no one can deny that it is certainly very powerful. Suddenly, however, and in the very fuss and fury of this vituperation, there comes a dead oratorical calm—a remarkable newspaper iner- tia. Wehear no more threats of assassina- tion. Nobody ventures to insinuate slan- ders upon the President’s wife or his honesty. The democratic orators roar as gently as sucking doves. The democratic newspapers are both dull and decent. Aston- ished at this transformation, we eagerly iaquire the cause, and discover that another great prin- ciple—the moral principle—has been brought into operation. This principle is represented by General Butler, whose unexpected arrival in New York has occasioned the calm and the inertia we have noticed. Thus Providence kindly supplies the antidote as well as the bane. Thus @ modern miracle has been effected. Thus the great moral principle— such as it is—has met and overcome the great financial principle—such as it ia; and to the opposition of these twe powerful forces we ewe the political quiet which has prevailed here during the past few days. Butler and Belmont are both very good men in their way; but they are very much in each other’s way. Butler has no particular affection for Belmont, and Belmont is by no means over fond of But- ler. Representing different principles, there is, of course, an irrepressible conflict between them. We might vary the old song and ex- claim, “How unbappy could we be with either;” but taken together they make us very comfortable. Thus the gases which compose the air we breathe are poisonous when inhaled separately; but when appropriately mingled by the sublime chemistry of nature they sup- port life and make everything pleasant. Now, if General Butler will so far extend his moral principle as to reform the republican orators and journals—and they need correction quite as much as the democratic—he will still further oblige the good people of this loyal and law- abiding city. Insecurity or Rarroap Traveutina.—We yesterday gave an account ef a frightful acci- dent on the Erie Railroad, near Callicoon sta- tion, and this morning furnish further partiou- lars ef the melancholy event. It seems, from the best information we can obtain, that the accident was the result either of the grossest carelessness on the part of employes of the road or of a wanton and criminal disregard of the safety of the lives of passengers on the part of the railroad company itself. At the point where the accident occurred are four great dangers of railway travelling—viz: a single track, a steep embankment or precipice, a sudden curve anda switch. On this lamenta- ble occasion it appears that the switch was turned the wrong way and locked; that no switch tender was in attendance, and never is et this point, and that two trains were behind their regular time—one twenty-fofr and the otber two hours. The twenty-four hour train backed on a side track to allow the express train to pass, and the switch was neglected to be properly adjusted. The express came dashing aleng at tremendous speed, there is no flagman te warn it of danger, the engineer cannot see the position of the switch on ac- count of a curve in the rond, and headlong go the locomotive and some half dozen cars, pell- mell, one over the other, down precipice forty or fifty feet deep, and a part of the train into a creek. There is, of couree, an over- whelming crash, penetrating cries of anguish and suffering rise from the ruins, and a soeve of bloody slaughter, mangled beads and limbs and lifeless corpses is soon exposed. Here is a clear case where life bas been sacrificed by the carelessness of railroad officiale or the cul- pable indifference of a railroad company to care for the safety of its passengers. How long are such things to last? How much longer are the lives and limbs of the travelling com- munity to be placed at the mercy of reckloss railroad officers and managers? From various parts of the country we hear complalats of the utter want of attention to the comfort and se- curity of passengers travelling on railroad cars. In many cases, like these which are con- tinually occurring on the Camden and Amboy Railroad, betweon this city and Philadelphia, the number of cars placed at the service of the passengers is utterly inadequate to accommo- date passengers; and when conductors are re- monstrated with because n0 seats are furn'“hed to invalids, cripples or ladies, they reply, very properly, “that they should not be blamed for what the agents at either end fail to do.” Our entire railroad system requires overhauling. If States do not pass the requisite laws to se cure the safety of railway passengers, the na- tional government, through Congress, should adopt the necessary measures to attain that end at the earliest practical period. Muyrary Exranpirores oF THe Eororraw Governments.—Tbe English and French jour- nals are constantly predicting the bankruptcy of our government from our large military and naval expenditures. When we look at their — peace expenditure, however, we feel somewhat consoled at the prospect. The expenditure of Great Britain for the current year for her army alone will be $75,000,000; while for her navy, which ehe is reerganizing anew, she will pro- bably expend an equal sam. Were she dragged into another European war her ex- penses, according to this ratio, would very soon run up to an equal if not larger amount than our own. The annual expenditure of France during the last three years has bees incalculably heavier than that of England. It has thyeatened such embarrassments that i¢ has compelled Napoleon to fix a term for the withdrawal of his troops from both Mexico and Rome. And now we see Spain rushing wildly into the Eure pean markets to try and borrow money on her treasury bonds at a rate which will involve an annual sacrifice of at least fourteen per ceat merely to carry out her schemes against the independenee of St. Domingo and Peru; Austria, Russia, Prussia, Italy and Germany have also this year been again compelled to put their military establishments on a war foot- ing, although the difficulties with Denmark were in themselves a matter of small account. It suffices, in fact, for a mere speck of wur to make its appearance in any part of Europe te entail at once upon its governments an enor- mous increase in their military establishments. And to maintain these their resources are 60 limited that they are afrad to run the risk of commencing hostilities even for the purpose of resenting an injury or of aiding a weak Power unfairly assailed. How different is our position? The expenditure wo are at present incurring places us in the foremost rank of military nations, and secures us forever against the {| interference or encroachments of any European Power. This is why the European journals express such a lively concern for our financial prospects. They may spare us their sympathy. We can afford to double our present debt, and yet be in a position to make head financially as well as physically against any combination that their rulers may enter into against us. Nuivra Conaresstonat, Disrrict.—The coa- test in this district appears to have setiled down between Fernando Wood and William A. Darling. Wood bas traded away bis own or- ganization everywhere tosecure his re-election to Congress, and it is a life and death struggle with him. The very men who bave heretofore opposed him are now lending him s helping hand. The Tammany Hall politicians, in order to secure a little strength in some of the other districts and wards for Congress and members of Assembly, have been aiding Wood in his election. They have shown themselves very poor politicians, to say the least. They had an opportunity to lay Wood upon the shelf, but, instead of finally disposing of him, are indirectly assisting his election. A Vore a Minuts.—To get all the registered votes of this city into the ballot boxes to-day it is necessary that we shall poll a vote a minute. Let there be no delay, then, and as Tittle challenging as possible. The soldiers’ votes ought to be presented between eight and ten o’clock A. M., or between two and three e’clock P. M., when the votes usually fall off, The polls open at thirty-eight minutes after six A. M. and close at ten minutes before five P. M. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON, , Wasuinetor, Noy. 7, 1866. BUSINESS SUSPENDED UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION. There is nothing of interest In Washington. All are intereeted in the rosult of the election. Nine tenths ef the population bave gone off to vote All the expectants of favors in all the departments are anxious about the election, since nothing eda be done im: their cases until the resnit shal! be ascertained. The whole government Policy is in abeyance votil it is defuitely determined: is elected, Washington is peeultarly quiet to-night; even the usoal noises are heard upon the streeta, The absence of both military sad goreromeat clerks is the reason. The election i@ the great absorbing question to-night. Already erowds are- gathering to know how tho election is going in advance of to-morrow night, It is estimated that during the last week over fifty thousand persons, soldiers and civilians, have left Washin, by railroad for their homes to vote ut the Presidential election. GENERAL SLOUGH’S NRW COMMAND. General Slough, Military Governor at Alexandria, has. received orders to take charge of the troops on the ling. of the Orange and Alexandria and Mapassas Gap Rail- roads. Colonel Welles, the presest Povost Marshal Gea- eral of Aloxandria, has been designated to fill bis place. ‘as Military Governor during his absence in the fle!4.. SHENANDOAH. Mr. N. David Despatch. Mannnenona, Va., Nov. 6, 1866 GENERAL SHERIDAN AND ‘OTHERS POISONED. General Sheridan, acoompanicd by Colonel Comstock, of General Grant’s stat, Captain T. W. Moore, and othere of the staif, came down to Winchester on a visit to Cok. Edwards, commandant of that post, with whom thoy par. took of luncheon preparatory to @ ride dowa to the rail way. Daring the excursion General Sheridar, Colonel Com. stock and Captain Moore? all began to exhibit violent symptoms of corrostve poison, which continued to im. crease until it became necessary to procure a conveyance for the purpose of removing the Captain Back to Colonel Edwards’ quarters, Genoral Sheridan continued on borse back for two or three miles furtber, though te much distress, and being obliged to frequent. ly dismouat, Aa ambulance then met the party and transported them to Winchester, The white of eggs and other aptidotes to corrosive eublimate were freely administered, and with the beat effect. Retehing, ‘vomiting and purging Coptinued until Inte in the evem- ing, when the General and Colonel Comstock began te improve, but ta Captai® Moore’s care they cantinued all t. The two former rested woll, and were quite bright and lively, On Saturday morning, Colonel Comstock rode {0 this place aud proveeded by tire soon train to Wash. ington, Captain Moore, whose oxse was for some time considered doubtful, is doing weil, It i eupposed that these symptoms were oorasioned by something which accidestally got into the composition Of the cheese, of which all partook freely, Tortions of the cheese will be analyzed and the whole subject under. go & thorough investigation, Several of the mom bers of Goreral Torbert’s staf ate of the same cheese on the evening provious, wore similarly af- focted, but did not then attribute it to the ehieeso, it te said that no bleme is attached so avy of the membors of Col, Rdwards’ culinary department, nor tn fact to any one olse by design, Death of Colonci Samuel Medary, Ciwemmant, Nov. 7, 1864 trie ema! Madery died at Columbus to-day,